“As to your attempt to drive a wedge between FR conservatives and a beloved historical leader of theirs in history, you are wasting your time.”
No one here is attacking Reagan. Many are however pointing out that the attacks on Palin over endorsements and other made up controversies are counter productive. No candidate agrees with us 100% and if that is our standard then Reagan, as has been pointed out by the author of this thread and others, would have been destroyed before he was given a chance to govern and move our country in the right direction. This is a cautionary tale of destroying our chance to once again have influence as we had under Reagan; attacking Sarah Palin (the attacks go beyond just policy disagreements or disagreements over decisions) because she sees the political opportunities differently than we do will ensure our defeat. Do I wish she would have opposed John McCain’s relection? Sure, but I can understand why she made her choice. I can also understand backing Fiorina to deny Campbell (a true RINO) the nomination and to ultimately have the best chance to defeat Boxer. Some here see those as unforgiveable: they are the same people who would have turned on Reagan simply because they could not understand his decisions at the time.
You can point out Palin’s folly all you want, it won’t change a thing by trying to say that attacking Palin is identical to attacking Reagan.
FioRINO would not be endorsed by Reagan in any sense. He was smart, owned up to his mistakes and adapted. He would not attack any RINO in particular but would define what the RINO phenomemon is and attack it generally. He would then withhold any endorsements of RINOs or packaged faux conservatives.
Palin on the other hand has not and cannot own up to her mistake because she has entered into personal territory, once a personal mistake is made it is not possible to backtrack, until after the election outcome, just as Gingrich apologized for his dumb endorsement of Scozzafava AFTER the election when it no longer mattered.
And yes my countering counterfactuals to the lame counterfactuals of the Palinistas here is apropro because Reaganites always eschewed the desperate hypotheticals posed by morons of the ‘gotcha’ games.