Sarah Palin is a bell-weather conservative. You can tell how liberals feel about everything just by listening to them describe their feelings for her.
The Left loves to have “token conservatives” in their media organs. Far from being someone who sniffs the air and follows trends, Sarah Palin is someone with fixed values, who leads others she thinks are of similar intent. As usual, the Left and its wimpy running dogs can only understand things by projecting their own cynical motives on others.