Bob J — I bet that toxic smear PR campaign against Sarah must have cost many millions just in Alaska. Nationwide — many tens of millions. Vicious smear campaigns work ESPECIALLY well against the young and virtuous. It takes twenty solid years of somewhat famous public virtue to build up an immunity to them.
But part of it was also Sarah’s willingness to use up poll credits to get difficult initiatives underway.
“But part of it was also Sarah’s willingness to use up poll credits to get difficult initiatives underway.”
And what “difficult initiatives” were those?
Please, I want to be educated.
And is Palin’s endorsement and active campaigning and raising cash for McCain one of those “willingness to use up poll cedits” for the “fifficult initiative” of playing politics as usual to curry favor with the GOP elite and help her get the GOP nomination in ‘12?
Palin the “rogue” is now “Palin the business as usual” as long as it benefits her personally. People escuse this as “honoring her committment to McCain” and all I keep thinking to myself is why she isn’t honoring her committment to her supporters, her conservative ideology and even more important her public statements about cleaning congress of the RINO’s that are standing in the way?
Please explain to me, how is McCain any different than Scozzafava? I’ll tell you how, it was easy to throw Scozzfava under the bus because she was a lightweight and had nothing to offer Palin. McCain is powerful and important and she needs his support if she is to make a run at the presidency.
So Palin tosses her (and our) ideals under the bus because for Palin it’s all about Palin.