Palps played his cards perfectly at the exact time. I have thought about it, but you really can't blame her.
Imagine:
You are a fourteen year old Queen who's planet is under attack. You stand at the window in your chambers, watching a woman get shot down for protecting her child. In your mind you see all the children going about every day life, and battle droids start attacking. Your family is in detention camps starving to death, for food priveliges have been taken away. An old experienced senator that you have trusted for six months tells you the Republic is crumbling under the rule of Chancellor Valorum.
What would you do? After watching the corruption of senators and how the original Chancellor handled it, would you continue to allow him to rule. Don't forget that she didn't know that Palps would get nominated. In her journal she said she regretted it because she did not completely trust Palpatine.
((can you tell I know the character 😄 ))
Re: how padm'e led to the downfall of the republic
Originally posted by calvin44You can blame Padme for the vote... you can blame Jar-Jar for giving Palps emergency powers, which made the clone army legal.. you could blame Qui-Gon for dying and not training Anakin properly... you can blame Yoda for not seeing the sith, you can blame Mace Windu for not striking fast enough and not sensing anakin, you can blame Anakin for betraying the Jedi, you can blame Obi-wan for keeping him alive, you can blame Palpatine for masterminding the whole plot, you can blame ANYBODY and you don't sound any more intelligent. If Padme weren't around then someone else would've assisted him, and yes, there would've been a Star Wars as we know it.. she's not the end-all-and-be-all. The end.
if you think about it, she filed for "no trust" in chancelor velorean, thus causing palps to take his place, screwing everything up.