Correct and the question is who stabbed who in the back.
The NeoCons brought Palin onto the national stage and invested heavily in her.
NeoCon Randy Schueneman was Palin's first advisor in the McCain campaign and he stayed with her after that. In 2010, Palins second NeoCon advisor(Michael Goldfarb) arrived.
Now the NeoCons gave Palin forgiveness over the Sharon Angle endorsement but Bill Kristol and Schueneman both told her not to endorse Christine O'Donnell, but she went rogue and did anyway. Then the NeoCons had to attack O'Donnell and a few of the NeoCons also began to attack Palin.
Then the next fight was spring 2011. The NeoCons had been very influential in getting Obama to intervene in Libya, but Palin was opposed to that, so she fired Schueneman and Goldfarb, and replaced them with the Realist Peter Schweitzer. After that, all the gloves came off, and that is really what ended her political career..
I understand the NeoCons. Palin and Beck were supposed to co-opt the Tea Party for the benefit of the NeoCons, but Palin and Beck co-opted the Tea Party for their own financial benefit.
Sarah does derive her happiness from money. The things she loves most are free.
It’s great that you think that her political career is over. By your logic, the neo-cons are in complete control of who can have a viable career. That’s more power than I’m willing to give them, but for now, it appears that they call all the shots.
(I will concede that their stranglehold on the media does allow them broad latitude in the way they promote those they want to promote, and to outright lie about those they wish to destroy. But that’s as much a criticism of the American people who stupidly allow themselves to be lied to again and again and again by the same people who we should have stopped listening to back when we first figured out that we cannot trust anything they say. In Palin’s case, they have been lying about her from the first weekend she was on the scene. This was done by those with a vested interest in Jeb, Hillary AND Obama, each for their own reasons. Palin never stood a chance against such a coordinated attack. Who would?)
But I must take issue with your cavalier dismissal of her, as though she simply was out-played by a group that was even more devious than she was. If Sarah Palin had gone along with the pathway to power that is standard in DC, she would have met with the so-called “Big Donors” and made sure that they were well taken care of. She’d have perfected the art of double-talk, where she tells one group what they want to hear, but then meets privately with those insiders and a whole new tone is heard. This has not happened with Sarah Palin.
She in fact met at Newsmax HQ in late 2010, and whatever happened in that meeting, the RINO establishment made clear that taking her down as soon as the 2010 mid-terms was over was job #1 for the GOP. Tucson was perfect, and she was left to be destroyed.
And in case you missed it, her speech at Indianola made it clear to anyone listening that she was not for sale. The very next business day, Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter went after her on the BOR show, which is really when it was obvious that she was “on the outs” with the GOP.
I haven’t written her off. Someday, it’s entirely possible that America will not be able to afford the crony-captalism that she detests. When that day comes, she will be well-positioned to show us a different brand of conservatism than the Fox News Boys have been selling us.
She was right about Libya, and she was right about Syria last fall when Obama wanted to drag us into that civil war, and on the side of Al-Qaeda no less! Read her Op-Ed “Let Allah Sort It Out” and you can see that she understood hat was at stake as well as anyone else in DC. I wasn’t willing to send our troops to fight for al-Qaeda’s takeover of Syria. If the neo-cons wanted that, then I’m glad she has nothing to do with them.