You have good reason to be sorry, if what you say is true. The Republican party has proven for over 20 years that has no room for conservatives. Period. Until they revive their Contract with America, I will consider myself a conservative independent. If Sarah Palin has any of the smarts we endow her with, she will follow suit.
I am sorry that you know so little about Sarah Palin, she is a Republican, and is against a third party. Personally I am a conservative independent, and always have been. I have never been a Republican.