For those who care: Three days after shocking the political world by resigning her position as Governor of Alaska — effective July 26 — former GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin is explaining her decision to step down.

“One term was enough,” Palin said on The TODAY Show Tuesday.

Once she entered the national spotlight as John McCain’s running mate in the 2009 presidential race, Palin says her administration was never the same.

“The choice I had to make was, how am I going to react to the circumstances, to the changed conditions? Am I just going to keep plugging away, keep my head down and not going to affect any more change, because every time we try to do something we get hit with an ethics-violation charge or a lawsuit, because that’s the political game that’s being played right now, even though we’ve won every one of them that’s been thrown our way.”