[ansel12]

Portman will pay almost no political price for this endorsement because the Republican leadership class agrees with him. Politico titled its story, “GOP elite embraces Portman gay marriage switch,” reporting: “The reality Portman’s flip-flop exposed is this: among the Republican political community, the people who actually run campaigns and operate super PACs

In 2010 Palin endorsed Joe Miller, won the Alaska Senate primary and Murkowski left the GOP and ran as an independent, the Senate republicans came out and announced that the people of Alaska would be forgiven if they backed Murkowski, she paid no price for leaving the party and running against it.

[JCBreckenridge]

And who endorsed Murkowski?

Gingrich.