Thanks.
Funny thing is, even as a hard-core Palin supporter, in retrospect Santorum’s original comment which seems to have set off the media-augmented kerfuffel (your link is after all Polibtico) seems to have been spot on.
Palin may have deserved some criticism, then and now.
She folded. What her reasons were, is known only to her.
Santorum ran.
I’m going with Santorum on this one.
Sorry Palin.
I wasn’t criticizing either one-—after all, I may end up voting for Santorum. Just another interesting episode in this crazy election season that might be a factor in who Sarah ends up supporting.
I don’t think Palin ‘folded’. She was not a likely winner after 3 years of brutal attacks. Her negatives were way too high and her base support, while strong, was not wide enough. If you watched her numbers, they go worse and worse into 2011. She has great capabilities politically, but I am certain she saw it was a tall order to face the headwinds she did. Like many excellent conservatives, the insiders of both parties really damaged her.