She set aside private concerns for the greater good, forgoing a focus on social issues to confront the great problem plaguing Alaska, its corrupt oil-and-gas politics. She did this in a way that seems wildly out of character today — by cooperating with Democrats and moderate Republicans to raise taxes on Big Business. And she succeeded to a remarkable extent in settling, at least for a time, what had seemed insoluble problems, in the process putting Alaska on a trajectory to financial well-being.
— Josh Green, writing in The Atlantic, suggesting that before Sarah Palin became “an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue,” she actually had a compelling record as Alaska’s governor.
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