It was obvious, the Romney campaign made a conscious decision that they felt Palin would be a detriment to their campaign. They wanted her as far away from the campaign as possible. You never once heard Romney say her name much less ask her to appear with him.
The Palin and Paul people who were shoved away probably cost him the election.
He wanted the Palin vote but not what it represented. IE Conservative values.
They are not credibly reconcilable with gays in the military, his varying pro life positions and the rest. It was us or ‘them’ (indys) and he chose poorly.
Honestly, he never believed what we do. He wanted a moderated GOP, not a conservative one. He gambled that going mod would split off the indys and some dems. Just as McCain did when muzzling/hamstringing Palin.
So our dilema is do we continue helping people like that oe not?