I don’t think the “right” fell for anything.
They simply didn’t like her .. BECAUSE when she was Gov of Alaska, she cleaned house of the liberal “R” people, and really shook the place up.
As a result, she had a BIG RED X on her back everywhere she went. The right was damned if they were going to allow her to be President, and do the same thing to them that she did to Alaska’s R’s.
I have always believed that it was the R’s who put out the hit on her .. and the LEFT was happy to oblige.
I agree that many in her own party are afraid of her disrupting their gravy trains. For some reason I don’t think of them on the “right” however. To me they’re worse than the rats....Judas comes to mind.