Sadly, it wasn’t the Commie RATS who did in Sarah Palin - It was the good ol’ RINOs who didn’t want to see her succeed at the National level. She made her name in Alaska politics by refusing to go along with the corruption in her own party. If she started turning over rocks in DC, who knows what she might have found and the GOP establishment didn’t want anyone to upset their padded little nest eggs.
If the “leadership” of the Republican party (Bush, Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Rove, etc) would have come to her defense, most of these stories would have gone nowhere but I suspect that more than a few of them were planted by GOP operatives who wanted to make sure that Mitt “go-along-get-along” Romney had a clear path to the nomination, which they already know he will lose in the general election.
That is precisely why CC gets my eternal wrath via my tagline. While appearing on some late night disaster the host asked him about S. Palin and he rolled his eyes. CC is a cipher, and will be forgotten. S. Palin is an exclamation point. Need I say more?