GOP Elite... she plays the “common touch” card so that she can ride a bus across the country and appear on the TODAY! show. She is trying to “distance herself” from Washington, when she isn’t a political opponent to anyone seated in Washington. This “us vs. them” card that she plays is interesting when one remembers that she was a REPUBLICAN governor, a REPUBLICAN VP candidate and has declined to run again. She didn’t wrap herself in the Tea Party and run on that platform because it isn’t viable.
But she is going to be at the GOP Convention in Tampa, isn’t she? She’s even said she’d campaign for Romney should he be the GOP nominee. She hasn’t rejected the GOP, she just wants people to think she has.
She disappointed her followers when she refused to be that “fresh new face” that challenged political wisdom. Why anyone dreams about Palin’s political career rising this year or in 2016 is puzzling. That hasn’t been on her radar for a long, long time.
McCain knew he was reinforcing her loss on his ticket when he said that Romney should pick her. He broadcasted the message, “Vote for the loser, Palin!” And he laughed. Just like when he called himself and Huckabee “the losers” when they sat on the curvy couch on Fox and Friends together.
I always said that if someone really believes that she would beat Obama as she said she would on the cover of puff-piece Newsweek getting them and the MSM all worked up for nothing, then intellectual honesty would require that they also believe that she threw the race to Obama (if Romney loses) for personal reasons.
I never believed she would run, I always said she knew better, used to get cursed for speaking the truth on that too.