Sarah is a fighter and we will keep on fighting, the GOP is a lost cause now anyway and I don't blame her for not wanting to waste resources on it.
I believe Sarah realizes that in order for a conservative to win POTUS (post Reagan), such a conservative will have to build up an infrastructure outside the GOPE network. 2012 was just too early considering how the battlefield was shaping up.
Reagan, who was on the crap list for supporting Goldwater in 1964, first ran for POTUS in 1968 and learned some hard lessons (not to mention the bitter fight in 1976). From 1968 to 1980, Reagan had to build up a coalition of sufficient gravitas to challenge the party leadership in an attempt to win by inertia, tactics and perseverance. Reagan did this in an era of a pre-cable, pre-internet, unfriendly MSM, GOP stonewalling, no tea party, no social media, no Fox News, no national talk radio, and on a slim budget. On its merits, a spectacular feat.
Post-Reagan, the GOPE decided that Reagan was a “fluke” never to happen again and systematically changed the standards/rules on POTUS elections (not to mention their influence on House/Senate races). Primaries got altered, delegates got changed, barriers were placed and a wall of “right wing intelligentsia” provided a buffer zone to push down insurgent candidates while puffing up establishment favorites. This is how we got Bush41, Dole, Bush43, and McCain. The “next in line” became the mantra and the standard. Anyone not in the clique (who wouldn’t sell out) got carpet bombed. It’s worked for 20 years and the GOPE has no intentions of changing.
Palin, or anyone of her conservative credentials who wishes to challenge the GOPE, must follow the Reagan model. How does one do this? Watch was is going on within the Tea Party and the internet. Sarah, and a host of conservative groups, are slowing picking off the establishment and changing the climate within the GOP structure.
Think of the victories in 2010. A big first strike by a small band of rebels. The Empire stuck back with a battle axe but the movement adapts, changes and grows.
Mourdock? A fluke to the GOPE.
Fischer? Hmmmmm, just bad luck to the GOPE
Missouri? Hmmmmmm, Steelman might pull it off.
Montana? Hey Tester might get the boot!
Texas? Ohhhh noooooze. Cruze might win!
Walker wins with a groundswell of inside and OUTSIDE support? Oh crap...someone is flexing their muscle!!!!
American Majority, Freedom Works, AFP, TPX, TPP, and the people attending the rallies have transformed themselves into precinct walkers and callers. Oh my, the GOPE has taken notice....better get on top of this and co-opted them. Yeah, right.
Talk radio, Facebook and Twitter acting as rally points? Gosh, the GOPE can’t seem to swat all those pesky flies!!!
Slowly, surely, the Tea Party rebels are changing the climate. Precinct by precinct, county by county, state rep by state rep, the GOP infrastructure gets challenged, changed and put on notice. In time, the political climate changes to where a conservative can have equal footing and marshal an army of support. What they don’t have in money (yet) they make up in ground game (ie: Deb Fischer’s win).
When the cards are right, the magic will commence. You’re already seeing a few glimpses already.
Ohhhh, the usual suspects (GOPE, MSM, and DNC) will have their “temper tantrums” and pull out the same old schtick, but the game is up. The rank-and-file sees this stuff for what it is.....BULLCRAP!!!
So to my GOPE, DNC and MSM enemies: Sleep tight, drink a warm glass of milk, have visions of sugar plumps dancing in your heads. Santa Sarah will be visiting your town soon! Merry Elections you miserable establishment beotches!!!!
If you saw Chrissy “Peace Corps” Matthews on Jeopardy, you know how ludicrous this headline is:
Matthews: Palin’s Briefing Papers “Have The Weight Of A Comic Book”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/22/chris_matthews_palins_briefing_papers_have_the_weight_of_a_comic_book.html