Palin’s support of McCain does not make her a RINO; it just makes her loyal. As to her ideals, I pay more attention to the life a candidate has lived than to what they claim to believe, and Palin has lived her principles. Because of the support of the Tea Party, she is despised by the RINO’s almost as much as by the left. That’s to her credit.
If the vice presidential candidate for John McCain and the the biggest GOP superstar since Reagan had not supported McCain for reelection for his Senate seat, then it would have meant the destruction of her image, and of the GOP image and it would have been the non stop political story of 2009 and 2010, the division between the ticket of the previous year would have made the Republicans appear broken and shattered and would even have led to a widespread reevaluation of the importance of a Democrat victory in 2008, because it would make the GOP ticket look like it had been a sham, it would have damaged and have prevented this incredible change in public opinion towards the entire republican brand that Palin has helped reshape during the last 17 months.
Palin would have looked cheap and shallow to the general public for turning on the man that 59,000,000 of them voted for, she would easily be painted as a radical and unstable person and a bitter, small timer to the general public.
There is a lot more going on with the national image of the republican/conservative movement here than what we McCain haters see in the Arizona Senate race, the general public does not share all of our perceptions and in depth view of the race between McCain and Hayworth. They would see the Presidential and the vice Presidential candidates of the Republican party at each others throats, clearly signaling that Obama and the Democrats represented stability and calm.
Palin’s image would have never survived, and the entire national, conservative movement would be weaker in reality and in the public’s eye.
Well, she’s loved by Ron and Rand Paul, and she endorsed the son.
Seems she is doubling down on “Stupid.”
Because of the support of the Tea Party, she is despised by the RINO’s almost as much as by the left.
Just talked to folks who went to Searchlight to see Palin. They said:
1. Lots and lots and lots of young people, 30 and younger.
2. Lots of people -- more than 10,000.
3. People of all colors and political stripes, from self-proclaimed liberals to self-proclaimed independents and beyond. It's a new Rebel's Brew.
4. Visit to the site next day found ZERO evidence that thousands had been there the day before.
5. She's an excellent speaker.