Devore couldn't win in Ca. Palin now has a voice in Carly's campaign and she has a favor form her in her pocket. If carly wins she will help Palin pass her agenda if Palin takes the whitehouse. even if Palin stays out of the race Carly still will owe her thus the conservative agenda. Backing Devore would have got Palin and the conservative agenda nothing. Palin advanced the conservative agenda by backing and helping Carly win the nomination. McCain's endorsement has always been more about loyalty than anything else. Still if McCian wins he will owe Palin. If he doesn't I'm sure Palin will back JD in the general. she has talked up McCain so far not talked down JD from everything I have seen.
the only way to advance the conservative agenda at the national level is to elect conservative leadership. the foot soldiers will follow the leadership. You want to concentrate on the foot soldiers and tear down the leadership. I think that is a failed effort.
I have to laugh at your suggestion that Palin would follow anyone's orders if she was in the WH. She is her own woman and takes her own consul.
I will repeat for the 100th time that the battle between McCain and JD is in my I DO NOT CARE box. whoever wins will be better than the Democrat. I just understand there isn't much difference between the two. there are many votes Jd made that enabled the growth of government under Bush. JD voted with Bush and his big government agenda the majority of time. Same as McCain. You will not change Washington by voting for the people that were part of the problem I wish there was a third choice in the election. There isn't.
Palin's endorsement of McCain was a matter of loyalty and a political calculation on who would help her push her conservative agenda more when in office. thinking any other tin foil hat reasons is stupid. If you want the conservative agenda to pass at the national level attacking the only conservative talking conservative ideas and policy at the national level is not the way to get it passed.