Given her own actions since then, though, I am undecided if her decisions were personal or morally motivated.

The people she has gone after were people she knew and had relationships with; the criticism she endured was from the good old boy (gender intentional) network who weren’t too keen on this woman coming in to play in their sandbox.

If she has only gone after people who have personally affronted her, that’s not reform–that’s GOP politics as usually.

What reform has she undertaken that did not fall into that category?

She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. Her criticism of an indicted congressman consists or wondering aloud if he ought to be more open. Opening ANWR is hardly reform–it’s GOP SOP. When a state board wanted to close an unprofitable dairy farm, she fired everyone on the board and appointed people who would keep it open even though it was costing the state to keep it alive…eventually closing it after drowining in red ink and then she couldn’t sell it (I guess it has since been sold to be used for some other purpose).

So far, in that category, the only thing she has going for her is raising taxes on the oil companies profits–ironically, a windfall profit tax that McCain has criticized Obama for.

I still don’t get this pick

I don’t doubt that Palin’s got reform on her mind – reverse Roe v Wade, outlaw abortion and promote creationism in the classroom. Not the kind of change I’m interested in, thanks.