> Suffice it to say that there’s not a lot of love in Alaska Republican circles for Sarah Palin and the “true conservatives” that like her.
Well, since the RNC supported Arlen Specter, Dede Scozzafava, Mike Castle, Charlie Crist, and (based on your fulminations) and Murkowski, it’s questionable whether the RNC is a conservative of any sort, “true” or faux.
But the challenges against Republican incumbents from the Right had, really, little to do with winning elections. That we won a fair number of them is great. But the real reason is party discipline. The establishment GOP is always reminding conservatives that we’re a coalition and that we can’t always get what we want. Fair enough. But the establishment GOP needs to remember the same thing. They don’t throw us a bone once in a while, we get grumpy.
And times have changed. We could turn a blind eye in times past to Republican pork-barreling and snout-in-the-trough careerism, before our national debt was $16 trillion and counting. We now face an existential threat, and apparently this is news to the GOP.
