That's really all Palin's got...she 'governs' a huge state, one which is so gi-normous that it doesn't even represent well in maps due to the projections of the globe in the Arctic area. It is a vast wasteland with all manner of wildlife and frozen tundra, but nary a person per square hectare. It resembles the asteroid base in the movie Outland with various and sundry rough, tough, and criminal-types but it's a profitable regime.

She aggressively pursued the Governorship and was successful and would have had a remarkable existence...quiet payoffs for deals, her husband acting as intercessor, low heat on the burner...everyone makes money...nobody cares.

But she threw it all away for a roll of the dice at the big table. And she may have crapped out. There will be constant surveillance of her actions forever. There will be Federal prosecutors someday who will be able to make a career out of bringing down the hot-shots in Anchorage and make a name for themselves in that fashion. The spotlights are now on the minutest of details and I seriously doubt whether she or her family or cronies or cronies who are family, will be able to withstand the scrutiny. My guess is that all the enemies she's made over the years by stabbing her buddies in the back will give people like Issikoff, who's bucking for a Pulitzer himself, plenty of information about her. The National Enquirer may discover something which makes all the rest of these things pale by comparison, and there aren't any folks to send any more anthrax to dissuade them.

Just one man's opinion, of course.