The louder the RINOs and rats squeal, the more proof Sarah is “The ONE” to lead the conservative movement and clean-out the pubbie party...and they fear her.
Palin brought out the Republican base, but that’s simply not enough to win an election.
McCain/Palin got 6 million fewer votes this election than Bush/Cheney got in 2004...despite a 12% increase in the number of people who voted.
No matter how you spin it, McCain was a weak choice for president, and Palin was an even weaker choice for VP.
If there was so much concern about turning out the Republican base, then Duncan Hunter or Mike Pence would have been better choices. But McCain decided that he wanted a woman, and he wanted a “maverick”, and he took Palin. I won’t say that it cost him the election because I believe the election was “unwinnable” once the financial market crashed. But she certainly didn’t bring McCain 20 million votes that he wouldn’t have gotten with any of a number of other conservatives.
At least...probably even more.