My answer to this would be, “It depends”. What does it depend on? Whether or not Palin is able to emerge from a court case in Alaska with a relatively clear slate or not.
Right now, the Palin administration is in court battling charges of abuse of power. This started long before she was tapped to be veep, I might note, so partisan politics has nothing to do with it. Or, I should say, didn’t have anything to do with it until the McCain team came to Alaska and pretty much tried to take over. This is where the Republicans have failed to understand Alaskans because if there’s one thing guaranteed to rile up Alaskans, it’s having “outsiders”, the term used here to describe non-Alaskans, come in and try to tell them what to do.
What was a pretty minor charge at the time, one that most of us could have shrugged away, has since evolved into something that has the potential to ruin lives and careers as more and more comes out, including a possible request to deny a workman’s comp request based on a personal vendetta. Some serious charges have been leveled at Palin. I won’t even try to explain it all, it has gotten quite confusing, but you can find info at www.adn.com Look for the section on TrooperGate or Palin Investigation, not quite sure what they’re calling it now. There is a report due out on Oct. 10th, one that the Republicans have tried almost desperately to stop or at least delay until after the national elections.
And, to think, I thought I was getting far away from the insanity of politics when I left Florida, where I learned the meaning of terms like “hanging chad” and even “pregnant chad”, to move to little ol’ Wasilla, Alaska.