Google can help you but right after the 2008 Presidential election, Rove and the GOP elites started bashing Palin. Then the news media jumped in and finally the Romney team.
IF you were paying attention at the time, Sarah Palin got ambushed from friend and foe alike.
Rove has been the one who has single handedly help destroy the GOP.
Right you are, sir.
Additionally, after watching the immunity that the RINO's and GOP-E had within the party for the next three years, Sarah knew she could not win 2012 because the RINO GOP-E traitors would sabotage her election.
Rove and the RINO GOP-E got the unconservative conservative Romney they wanted, and America got Obama.
Actually, Team Romney started sliding their daggers into Palin’s back in late August and early September 2008, even trying to get her to back out as VP candidate so that Romney could step up. We now know that Kevin McFadden was one of the original Romney hit men, but later Nicolle Wallace, Steve Schmidt, Rove and other GOP-E minions began calling up their LSM buddies Mike Allen, Jonathan Martin, and Dave Weigel and really poured it on her. And on November 5, 2008, the day after McCain lost, a concerted GOP-E effort began to pin the entire blame on Palin, which Romney has (finally) now exploded with his weak performance this past election
SO true. When someone is elected in the primary, he doesn't like he goes after them and ensures they lose. This happened with Christine O'Donnell. He went after her after she won the primary and basically said those that voted for her were nuts. He wasn't a gracious loser at all.
Maybe if he and the other Republican elites hadn't bashed her the way they did, she might have had a chance. We will never know. The same with Todd Akins. he said a stupid thing and apologized for it, but the Republican elites went after him tooth and nails. Dems don't eat their own, but Republicans do (if it is someone outside the Republican elitist circle).