Wonder if her decision to stay out had anything to do with her advisors seeing the PDS on sites like FR that should have been nearly monolithic (since we ‘supposedly’ agreed with her positions) and said to her “Your base can’t be trusted”.
Good call on their part.
Had I been Palin, and endured all what she did... slander, backstabbings, church-bombing, death-threats, family and children attacked, bogus lawsuits designed to bankrupt her, blood-libel via media accusations of complicity in mass-murder, endless lies and smears via poison-pen books and big-budget Hollywood production... and then to be again treated like TRASH by her own Party leadership,
Well, I’d personally give the entirity of America my middle-finger, and tell it to just go “burn in hell!” And frankly, that’s my view towards PDS-er’s as well.