“What she’s proved is that she’s a very popular person, she’s an incredible political property, in the early stages as governor she made a real impression, she was a reformer, she was all of those things. But now she hasn’t followed through. Her pipeline project is up in the air, and it’s as if she dropped it to run after something else. But she hasn’t even made clear what it is she’s running after."
Sarah Palin is a verrrrry promising example of conservative leadership as Keene is not. So Keene tries to take her down a peg or three. Why would any actual conservative take Keene seriously on this sort of thing???
Palin is a populist and an effective one. Keene is neither. Conservatism was meant for far nobler causes than protecting David Keene and his income from taxation.
IIRC, the ACU under Keene even criticized the Iraq War from a paleopipsqueak point of view.
The major difference between Sarah Palin and David Keene is that her track record of principle has led to her being elected to major office while Keene has never been elected to any office of significance, though he has tried. As he has shown little passion for principle, Governor Palin has shown much. The public has reacted accordingly.
Finally, you have achieved the near impossible by giving me the opportunity to post that I agree far more with EEE's posts in this thread than I do with yours. You are beating on EEE for his virtues which is never a good idea.