The point is that she is a liar or at the very least extremely insincere, you cannot take what she says at face value.
She gave people the IMPRESSION that she was some kind of trend setter because she sold a large state asset on Ebay when in fact she didn't, it was sold thru convention means. Just as she says she's fiscally conservative because she told the Fed "no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere when in fact she had supported it, and wound up taking the money for it anyway, she decided against the bridge because it had become a political embarrassment- Ted Stevens brought home the pork and Palin ate it.
She also hired a lobbyist as mayor of Wasilla to help her pull in money from Washington- you know, in other words federal pork, she is a typical repub hypocrite.

In a few weeks when the novelty wears off, and as more dirt comes out about who this wacko is; I believe a lot of people who supported her are going to wonder what they were thinking.
She is a good sales person though.