You obviously have a lot of emotion vested in Palin, let it go, it’s not mutual. I was young an on fire once. I loved Ronald Reagan as a president, but Ronald Reagan didn’t love me. He didn’t have my picture on his desk, he didn’t work for me in the hopes that he might shake my hand, he didn’t write me letters of support when I had to testify in court, he didn’t even know my name. As I got older, I realized that the relationship between a president and the citizens is a professional one, not a personal one. The go into office and make life better, worse, or fail to have an effect at all. Then they go home to their friends, and the people that they care about, and chances are you won’t be one of them. Save your emotional attachments for those who return them. Don’t idolize celebrities, political or otherwise. One can defend Reagan, Palin or some other politician and lose friends over it not because they idolize that politician.
It can be about defending truth, philosophy and freedom.
I don't know why you assume about the poster that it was about idolization.