If you can judge a person by their enemies, then Sarah Palin is doing pretty well.
We face the worst crisis since at least the Civil War. We need a fearless leader we can all rally around enthusiastically. She could have been the one. But the way she withdrew left a lot of scars on her supporters. My $100 advance copy of “The Undefeated” arrived a couple of days before she unceremoniously withdrew. So much for “UNdefeated”.
At least some of the smears that ultimately brought down Palin had Romney surrogates as the source. Romney has successfully smeared all comers, but his slimy tactics have alienated the base. He just can’t close the deal, and the wreckage he has left in his wake means he probably never will. He’s still the odds on favorite to win the nomination, but it won’t be a united party behind him.
That said, it’s interesting to see how the attacks on Palin have started back up. There is no need to attack someone who has already been destroyed. Perhaps the party elite are starting to worry a deadlocked convention might turn to her in spite of everything they have done to destroy her.
Outstanding post....Their was a post here about someone who sat behind someone at a basketball game and they noted he what Romney was. I think he is even more Nixonian that BHO, and I think I revile him more that Oboingo. He has left us with a scorched earth of win at all cost yuppie Rinoism that has us reaching for the barf bag as the GOP hand us this rotten Sandwich that is his candidacy.