“I am so sad this woman decided to sit out this election. So sad.....”
It kind of hits you over and over doesn’t it?......I feel a tremendous sense of loss for the country and bitterness towards not only the media but her own party who closed the door on her.....Watching her Fox special I kept thinking “What a waste”.....She did a great job but seemed out of place.....This woman is a leader, not a tv host......
I know what you mean by bitterness. Just this week, when the GOP seemed to go into ballistic-level defense of Ann Romney (which was an entirely good, commendable and proper course of action), I couldn’t help but contrast this to the way the GOP never came to the defense of Palin or her family throughout the most unprecedentedly outlandish attacks, from coordinated Dem attempts to bankrupt her and her family to the media trying to accuse her of complicity in the mass-murder in Tucson. Where the hell was her ‘own’ Party throughout this and beyond?
Sure makes it seem as though there is a different set of rules if one is part of the “elite” GOP-establishment crowd, versus a conservative/outsider/reformer... the latter gets treated like worthless trash. Really altered my entire view of the Republican Party, in a most negative way, after decades of voting exclusively GOP. Total watershed situation for me, these past four years.