Sarah Palin didn’t actually say she was planning a departure from the Republican Party during a controversial weekend interview, but her hint that the GOP could lose future supporters over amnesty was more than enough to throw the political establishment into gossip frenzy.
“If the GOP continues to back away from the planks in our platform, from the principles that built this party of Lincoln and of Reagan, then yeah, more and more of us are gonna start saying you know, what’s wrong with being independent – kinda with that libertarian streak that much of us have, in other words we want government to back off and not infringe upon our rights,” Palin told FNC’s Uma Pemmaraju.
“I think there will be a lot of us who start saying, GOP if you abandon us, well, we have nowhere else to go except to become more independent and not enlisted in a one or the other of the private, majority parties that rule in our nation, either a Democrat or Republican. Remember these are private parties and, uh, no one forces us to enlist in either party.”
Just a day earlier, Palin had posted on Facebook a status update that “Folks like me are barely hanging on to our enlistment papers in any political party – and it’s precisely because flip-flopping political actions like amnesty force us to ask how much more bull from both the elephants in the Republican Party and the jackasses in the Democratic Party we have to swallow before these political machines totally abandon the average commonsense hardworking American” (sic).
The GOP establishment should take careful heed of these rebukes. Rather than listening to overpaid, gimmicky consultants and campaign managers, Republicans need to start listening to Palin.....
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