[SamAdams76]

Well I'm a fan of Sarah Palin as a politician but not so much as a Fox commentator. In my opinion, she never brought much to the table at FoxNews. I really wish she had done more to help the GOP in this election cycle. I thought she'd be a major factor in this election but she's pretty much been a non-factor.

Really wish she would get back into politics, even if it was running for senator or running a campaign for somebody who was.

[fatnotlazy]

I have the feeling the liberals in the Republican Party didn’t want Mrs. Palin around.

[hinckley buzzard]

I agree. I love Sarah but she's not enough to get me to watch Faux News reliably.

[Mikey_1962]

I don't think she was serious as a politician. If she were she would have gone back home finished her term and boned up on policy issues.

She could do stump speeches for candidates and get her act together.

Reagan did this for years and it paid off.

I think she just wanted to cash in.

[lentulusgracchus]

I really wish she had done more to help the GOP in this election cycle. ... I thought she'd be a major factor in this election but she's pretty much been a non-factor.

Answer: Karl Rove, operating at long distance using a lazy butler and two intermediary cut-outs. Karl does like to tie people up to take them out of the mix -- without their knowledge, preferably, but the fingerprints are usually there.

In 2000, Rove wanted to get Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition out of the way, because Rove was engineering a "reconciliation" between the GOP and tons of homosexual-lobby money (Log Cabins, other gays). So he arranged for oil/energy mogul (and future federal prisoner) Ken Lay to hire Reed as a political consultant/lobbyist at a lordly salary, and then bury him in a thorny power-development project in eastern Tennessee. That tied up Reed all through the political season -- he hasn't been heard from since. And this was a guy who once was a magazine cover at the height of his influence.

Karl Rove likes to divert the career trajectories of people he wants to disappear from Republican politics.

Sarah escaped the toils of the RatRoots and Ankle-Biters by leaving the governorship of Alaska, which had unusually powerful accountability laws that would have tied her up indefinitely and impoverished her.

Now she has to escape from her contract with Fox .... which, notice, expires in 2013. Don't expect that they'll offer her another contract. They only did this as a favor to Rove in the first place. The raison d'etre of her job is about dead already.

And yes, I wish things had turned out much differently.

[Kolath]

Fischer
Yoho
Cruz
Mourdock
Flake

and a few others....

RNC basically said to Palin “Be our lap dog, fix us a sandwich or get the F out.”