7/9 Update: Actually, the more I read about this, the more sense it may make for her to break away from Alaska, where her negatives with Alaskans were rising. She can go out and make a ton of money, pay off her legal expenses, and still maintain some kind of presence at all of the fundraisers throughout the Lower 48. Whatever she does, and no matter what comes out of her mouth when she speaks, there will always be the hard core base of say 15% of the electorate that will love her forever.