It isn’t just Sarah Palin per se, but also the Tea Party itself, and the over all conservative moral, political and economic philosophy.
Honestly, I think it is because she embodies all of the above and they embody her, but she never had a political machine around her to sustain herself. Certainly no Party apparatus was ever in sight for her use, and her fans never had the numbers even in the Republican Party to make a machine for her.
The Left and their media paint all things conservative as Neanderthal thinkers, unsophisticated, uneducated and self-righteous boobs from Clampett country.
I don’t think with the high intellect, exclusive education and extraordinary background and accomplishment of Ted Cruz, they can pigeon hole him so easily, but they intend to try, and he better get a money hedge built around him soon. He needs a “war room”, before all the big money is vacuumed up.
Check out this thread and photos to see what they think is sophisticated, including inappropriate advances on small children.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3267376/posts
If that is sophistication, I think I’ll continue to live in the back-woods with my old pickup truck, and hound dogs.