Funny, I've looked at all your recent posts and you seem to take ALL Sarah Palin criticism as 'hatred'. I agree there's a handful of insane Sarah Palin hating loons on FR, the funny thing I've been on the same endorsement threads as you and I've seen about 10X as many "I'm disappointed with Sarah's endorsement and don't know if she's presidential material" posts compared to "Sarah Palin is RINO scum and must be defeated at all costs" posts.
Are we viewing the same threads? Because while you cite a dozen or so fantantical Palin haters, I can probably cite hundreds of rational "I disagree with Sarah's endorsement" posts, such as my own response to Palin's Fiorina endorsement.
A few loudmouth nuts on FR does not mean the ENTIRE forum is overrun with "haters" and "purists" who call everyone on the planet a "RINO" Indeed, almost all the people I've meet who truly despise Sarah are Ron Paulites (and they're hated her since the day she arrived on the national scene)
There are plenty of people with a mostly conservative record who have been subject to as much or even more hostility as Sarah Palin on this forum. You should have seen the threads about "socialist" Mike Huckabee back in 2008. (Funny they didn't think he was a "socialist" four years earlier when he headlined the FR inaugural ball). Chris Christie is now the darling of FR, but just a few months ago was subject to far more "he's RINO scum" attacks than Palin ever was during his gubernatoral campaign, and 90% of it was entirely baseless if you went by "past record". Are you just waking up to the fact there are some "anyone who fails to agree with me 100% of the time deserves to be shot" posters on this forum?
The purist nuts are an annoyance on this forum, but IMO they're outnumbered the other extreme, the "anyone with an R next to their name deserves our support, even if they're more liberal than many Democrats" mindset. I'm surprised this mindset continues to permeate so many FR threads even after JimRob purged the Rudy Giuliani cheerleaders two years ago. Here in Illinois, we have a "Republican" nominee to the left of Hillary on abortion and to the left of Obama on the enviroment, and yet we're still outnumbered by the "you HAVE to vote for Kirk because Mark Kirk is with us when it counts and the best we can get in a blue state" cheerleaders on Mark Kirk threads.
Titan, you really need to grow a thicker skin if you've been on FR this whole time and never noticed there's a "people who agree with me 95% of the time should be lynched" mindset with some posters. Palin is hardly the first conservative to be subject to that abuse, and she certainly hasn't gotten the worst of it.
I criticized Palin for resigning. (I see the upside of it now but still think she would have been better served to finish the job in Alaska and run for reelection embarrassing the rats ala Jeb Bush in 2002)
Anyway since I didn’t immediately see how “wise” a decision it was (all I said was that I didn’t like it) 2 or 3 knuckleheads called me a “Mittbot” and wouldn’t back down despite proof to the contrary.
I say I’m leaning against voting for Mark Kirk and a couple geniuses called me a “purist”. (I’m not conformable with a less than 55/60 % or so “pure” Conservative, I can drink mud but not dirt)
I found both allegations highly curious. Some people.
To address this McClintock endorsement. If I lived in CA I’d also cast a vote for the one of the no-name no-money conservatives in the primary, I agree that the 2 frontrunners are not acceptable I couldn’t vote for either coming off of Ahnold. But 1 of them will sadly win the primary. Whitman is a least a little bity bit worse, so I can’t blame McClintock for endorsing Poinzer (who’s trying to pull a Romney “I’m conservative now (or always have been it was the wife’s idea to give to Gore”).
Maybe his "court-mandated" tax hike and his spending kick came after the ball. Or no one had taken notice before he ran for President.
I'll grant you he's a bit better than Mitt and McLame. Likely he would have been a reliable Senator. But as a Chief Exec I have to call fail. A bit hyperbolic to call him a 'socialist' I've done it myself I'm sure. But big government 'conservative', check.