[exist]

The most annoying part is: WHY ARE THEY EVEN THE PARTY? Why are they even Republicans, when they evidently have so much more in common with liberals than they do with conservatives (I’m talking Brooks, Frum, etc.)

[stevestras]

They left off one other very important reason:

Money given to Sarah won’t be going to their guys.

[cranked]

GOP elites against Palin...yeah, she should obviously stay under the GOP label and help rebuild the party....right.

I call for a civil war within the GOP and after the GOP, one against the current government system. Term limits should be demanded on and of our elected House and Senate members, etc., etc., etc.

[Trod Upon]

We have to work to systematically eject RINOs from the party, even if it means letting a Democrat take the office. Just having a guy with an (R) behind his name is meaningless if he votes like a (D).

[svcw]

Why?
Because she is a young, smart, principled, energetic, pro-life, conservative, attractive woman.

[mkcc30]

Those so called “elites” (yeah right , maybe in their own eyes) are cowards who are too pathetic to fight against the demoncraps! They are also composed of subversives who are knowingly and willingly trying to implode the party.

[McGruff]

It’s Sarah (the party outsider) and her supporters against the inside the Beltway Republican machine. It will be a EPIC battle if they want. The Republican Party may not survive it though.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

She will have to climb over the GOP establishment before she gets to the White House.

She won't be alone. We'll be with her, storming through the breach like Henry V's soldiers.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Resigning as governor of Alaska was not a smart political move.

Master politician Willie Brown says otherwise...

Sarah Palin, political genius

[DustyMoment]

Why the GOP elite despises Sarah Palin

It's very clear to me why . . . . she's the reflection of what they are supposed to be. They look in the mirror and see her looking back at them, asking what happened to their conservative values. Every bill they vote on to expand government and raise taxes, they see her looking back at them, wanting to know when they gave up on America and freedom. Every maxist scheme they approve that reduces the ability of businesses to operate in a free market, she is there, looking back at them asking when they abandoned the free market.

That's why they despise her. They can't stand the pressure of being Democrat lites when they are supposed to be small government conservatives.

[Pistolshot]

I think it's pretty clear that Sarah Palin doesn't really want to be president

Stopped reading right there.

[Diogenesis]

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

[stylin_geek]

Finally, an article that says what everyone forgets.

Sarah Palin is being judged by political standards.

However, Sarah Palin never was a professional politician.

Once you stop viewing the resignation of Governor Palin through the lens of politics, everything else makes sense.

[FreeReign]

Jane Chastain claims the elites of the Republican party are against Sarah, yet she names no names and only refers to political operatives of the other candidates such as Mitt and Huck.

The net effect is to try and chase Sarah and her supports into the wilderness of a third party because Mitt's operatives want it that way.

I would bet that Obama wants it that way too.

I don't think Sarah will fall for it. But I bet there will be a few boobs on this thread who do.

[Dutchboy88]

Sarah Palin is a wonderful person and represents the best of America. She will lose if she runs.

If we wish to take back America, let’s pay attention to lessons taught by the Communist left running the country. We first need,
1. Votes. Let’s raise lots of good kids that are taught discipline, hard work, independence. See #3.
2. Candidates. Ann Coulter says Sarah needs a few years of serious study of the founding fathers docs, seasoning her with a stronger legal & historical background. Like it or not, this world is more complex than just governorship work.
3. Control. Invade the big three - media, colleges, law. Ignore Hollyrot, although the arts tends to control an awful lot, right now. How many of us conservatives followed the M. Jackson stuff and cannot locate Afganistan on a map? We are way too much talk & not enough talk.

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

I have a problem with the author’s assertion that the reason McCain was the Republican nominee was because he had paid his dues and was the next in line...Balderdash. The reason McCain was the nominee was because Republicans don’t have the sense to close their winner-take-all primaries to Democrat voters...period.