I hate to say this, but I see a pattern here:
Rick Perry
John McCain
Carly Fiorina
Rick Perry
John McCain
Carly Fiorina
Lets say you are missing a bigger pattern.
Doug Hoffman
Michelle Bachmann
Sean Duffy (Who scared David Obey out of the race)
Adam Kinzinger (IL-11th)
Rand Paul
Tom Emmer - for Gov. Minnesota
Tim Burns - PA-12th
Maj. Vaughn Ward - Idaho 1st
Lt. Col. Allen West - FL-22nd
And more.. its not that bad a pattern.
One thing to note regarding Sarah Palin and this came out in her book is that her communications director and close aide Meghan Stapleton is an ex-Washington insider.
Stapleton worked at the RNC and worked for a Republican insider operative named Fred Malek.
There’s a picture in the book from 2008 showing Malek, Rick Perry and Sarah together on an airplane during the campaign.
I can understand why Sarah supported McCain. As a worried Texan I am glad she supported Perry. Republicans are hanging on by a thread and I would never vote for Perry if we had a decent conservative candidate but I certainly couldn’t support Medina or Kay Bailey and Perry is the only one who I feel has a chance to beat Bill White. White left Houston as a solid sanctuary city and in bad financial and infrastructure shape. If White is the next Governor, we will be in worse shape than California in pretty short order. Re California, The Democrat machine hasn’t even begun to get serious yet. I would venture that this is going to be one of the most expensive campaigns ever and it’s going to get ugly. Female gang members are said to be much more dangerous than their male counterparts. Let’s let these two women have at it and see who wins. DeVote is obviously the more Conservative ideal candidate but IMO, it’s going to take a whole lot more than that to win.
On the other hand, there is also:
Michelle Bachmann
Doug Hoffman
Marco Rubio
Allen West
Maybe Sarah believes that Chuck has no chance of winning and that of Fiorina and Campbell, the former is the more palatable.