“I’m proud to be part of the Tea Party movement. I’m wearing my Tea Party necklace today, even. I was proud to get to point out Tea Party movement participants in the crowd today. They’re here cheering on John McCain because they know, at the end of the day, we’re all fighting for the same thing. “
I don’t know if Palin is a rino, except for her misguided admiration of McCain, she comes off pretty solid. She’s either VERY confused, or not what she appears to be. She had no right to state that the Tea Partiers are behind McCain.
Seems she's angling to coopt the TEA party for McCain's benefit.
She can do what she wants, but it's costing her "political capital." Could be she's indifferent as to that in the next decade at least. She can milk a reality teevee gig, and whatever money might be obtainable from political endorsements, speeches, and so forth.
Tough telling what she's up to, but she's cost herself a substantial amount of my "benefit of the doubt," or trust.