What makes you think she is the maverick and outsider so many believe she is? What actions has she taken to show you she’s not a GOP insider?
“What makes you think she is the maverick and outsider so many believe she is?”
—First off, we need to retire the word “maverick”. It was a MSM term for McCain when he was stabbing Conservatives in the back. Palin taking on crony capitalism and corruption in her own party was an entirely different thing.
“What actions has she taken to show you she’s not a GOP insider?”
—Does her record as governor mean anything, or should we just cherry pick the “facts” and make dubious declarations?...
Sarah set at defiance the heavily consultative habits of GOP insiders when, e.g., she did the bus tour. With debates and straw polls looming, she blew off all the conventional event attendance, refused to say what her plans were, but went on a bus tour over Memorial Day and led the media around on a merry chase through several states as they hung around waiting for her to announce a presidential run.
She DID NOT "run it by Ronnie and bounce it off Boomer" in the Republican way before doing any of this stuff -- she went off on her own hook, she didn't ask anyone for supportive statements or endorsements, nothing. As if the RiNO's didn't exist -- and that is intolerable behavior to them.
She did NOT ask for big campaign donations from the Usual Suspects -- corporate CEO's, 527 and PAC money-runners and bundlers, RNC doyens and poohbahs. She didn't hire Usual Suspect campaign advisors and financiers, pollsters and strategists. She didn't ask for proposals for an ad campaign. Nothing from nobody. That's independence, and in the Old Line GOP, that's bad.