Re: Betrayal
The DC elite “consultant” class were so sensitive to what their cocktail party friends were saying about Sarah, that they did nothing to defend her, plus I believe that there was a lot of backstabbing going on.
She was/is a brilliant spokesman for conservative values, but she was painted as a ‘hick’ because her roots were in Alaska, she hunted with a Gun! and she was pro-life. Spineless Republicans (the ones who get invited on talk shows) did nothing to defend and support her.
It is our party’s and our country’s loss.
I am in total agreement with your post, nicely stated.
Pat Caddell had a brilliant speech a few moths ago at the Accuracy In Media Conference about the MSM and the DC consultants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brDZJA8j-8c
He speaks about people such as Steve Schmidt (McCain’s 2008 campaign manager) who are more concerned of their DC media connections than serving their client’s best interests.
In 2008, after Palin’s knock out speech at the RNC convention, Palin was walked into two ambush interviews (Couric/Gibson). Why? Because Schmidt wanted to keep his buddy-buddy relationships with the DC press circuit.
(starting at the 16:30 mark)
Post 2008, Schmidt (and his side-kick Wallace) engaged in a post election smear campaign on Palin by whispering falsehoods for HBO’s “Game Change”. HBO took unnamed negative sources rather than those who spoke openly (and positively) about Palin.
It is the Republican Party’s and the country’s loss. - The libs and “progressive commies” just spoke the name “Sarah Palin”; then snorted, so all the good little “progressives” just nodded and fell into line. - They did that to Reagan, too, to some extent. He just IGNORED them and fed them big old bowls of “KISS MY GRITS”, and kept on walking in those big old cowboy boots. Now, history defines him, and these same libs are just WHO DATS? and history also defines them. Just as “Katie” Couric will be defined by history as a nasty little snot who brown nosed Hussein Obama, who will, as was other wannabe dictators, be defined by history long after he and his worshippers are tossed on the “Ash Heap of History”.