Sarah Palin lost her defamation case against the New York Times — the latest chapter in a public life that has included failed elections, a lawsuit that dragged on for years and an administration she helped build that never once picked up the phone to offer her a role.
Most people would have gone quiet by now. Sarah Palin went on camera instead — and what she said about where she is today, about what she still wants and about the people who wrote her off carries the kind of calm certainty that only comes from someone who has already survived everything they were told would finish them.
