There were a million things she could have done. She could have sued all of the liars who made up these stories about her for slander. She could have used her bully pulpit to tell the TRUTH about Obama. Instead, she was always on the defensive. She would have been demonized and vilified no matter what--why not be demonized for doing something useful? She is the one political leader who, more than any other, could have gotten away with telling the truth about Islam, blacks, immigration, crime, etc. She chose not to do that as soon as McCain shut her up last fall. Whether or not it's because she was cowardly or not smart enough to figure out that that was what was called for, I do not know. All I know is that she will go down now as probably the most spectacular American political failure of modern times, and will have earned that label, for once.
McCain should feel part responsible.
During the campaign, he allowed his campaign people to control her.
The media constantly takes one line out-of-context about a comment she said about Russia. They had Tina Fay portray Palin as an idiot. Obviously, people who knew nothing about Palin--and still are clueless and only believe the biased media-- thought she was the Tina Fay character who depicted Palin as an idiot.
Biden had said many more things during the campaign that made him sound bad but the media hardly reported about it.
After the election, Palin did an interview with Matt Lauer. He and NBC know she's not an idiot. But Andrea Mitchell and other biased people in the media keep trying to define Palin as the Tina Fay character.
A couple weeks ago, Palin did an interview again with Lauer. He asked her a question about something related to energy policy and she answered it well and showed she understood what she was talking about. He also asked her a question about Letterman.
Yet, when the news media would report about that interview, they would only mention the part about Letterman. They would refuse to show the part about her discussing a policy. The media selectively chooses what it reports about her. It's very biased in its reporting.