Your well-thought-out and logical theory also brings exquisite clarity to the left’s insane treatment of Sarah Palin.
I think their panic over Sarah wasn’t because she was on the ticket in ‘08 - they weren’t worried about losing in ‘08, because McCain was very efficiently being Obama’s running-mate.
The evisceration of Palin was to scare her away from running in 2012. She is obviously what true Republicans have been looking for: a genuine conservative. Of all the “candidates” - both in ‘08, and now - she who isn’t running is the only one who has been steadfast in her stance, the only one who is truly courageous in verbally challenging Obama, the only one who has brought a huge, joyful smile to the face of Netanyahu, the only one who has unflinchingly looked us straight in the eyes and given her word that she will not falter in her dedication to the Constitution, and to un-doing the hell Obama has wrought upon our precious nation.
I’ve no doubts that the only reason she won’t be our next president is because during the ‘08 campaign McCain threw her under the RINO bus. If he and the GOP powers-that-be had done their duty - their DUTY - to loudly and forcefully stand up for Palin and to be her advocate against the vileness of the opposition; if they had been HONORABLE - she would be our candidate today, and she would blow Obama out of the water come November.
Trouble is - as you suggest - they who should be staunch advocates of the Constitution, who should be OUR conservative advocates - are sleeping with the enemy.
I’ve come to believe that there is a screening process that goes on to filter through possible future leaders. It starts in HS with stuff like Girl’s State and Boy’s State. At the college level certain universities and certain majors within those universities are involved in the screening. The cream in HS get persuaded to go the College screening route, and from there they get to be easier to move along.
Sarah was on that path. Girl’s State then University of HI. But she left it for Todd. I don’t know if she had fully recognized the depths of the system before 2008, but I think she has now, and that is why she chose not to run. She knew her husband and children would pay the price. Buck the system at your own peril.
Notice the Bush’s hate Sarah. W has called her something to the equivalent of dumb.
She went cold when Laura Ingram and Ann Colter did their girl talk on Fox about her. That was the signal to Sarah. Ain’t gonna happen. Get out while you still have a life.
She did the right thing in my opinion.