The past three years tends to remind me of a recurring plotline found in many westerns: A town is totally beset by a gang of evil villains, running roughshod over the townsfolk. The townsfolk send for a talented gunslinger, begging him to battle the corrupt horde to save the town for decent folks. At great personal cost, through blood, sweat and tears, the gunslinger defeats them and drives them away. But now safe and secure, the townsfolk don’t invite the gunslinger into their homes, and don’t want him around. Snubs him. Regards him now as too ‘uncivilized’ for their company. And the town descends back into its petty corruptions.
Palin reminds me of the gunslinger who took on Obama and his agenda when it was most tough, and few others really did, and received nonstop, virtually unprecedented hellfire (from the media as well as supposed allies) for it. After the successes of the Tea Party and the 2010 election, she’s shoved aside by the feckless, cowardly town leaders of Rove/Romney and the GOP-e, who are only interested in restarting their old gravy-train back up, as they and their minions sneer down at the ones who liberated them.
Great analogy!