No she isn’t moving to the Left. She’s always held a more libertarian view on some of these matters. It’s just she’s been branded the ULTIMATE RIGHT WING EXTEMIST by the media so people unaware of her record prior to selection as McCain’s VEEP mate are surprised. It’s one of the reasons she’s never been fully embraced by the social conservative wing and why they have always favored Huckabee. Although I don’t know if his view is substantially different then hers, he does talk a better social conservative game.
It doesn’t affect my view of her since I knew this about her previously. Just as I knew her position on drugs. My issue with her statement is that CPAC should be a debating club with conservatives okay with entering hostile territory. I thought it was to be a likeminded re-affirmation of conservative values. She is 100% wrong on what it’s intended purpose was to be. That’s okay though, Keene has been running into the ground for several years and the exodus of conservative groups from the forum will evnentually collapse it’s import.
I posted Reply # 96 before I read your comments.
See # 96. It applies to your comments also.
This is the very first time anywhere I’ve read comments suggesting Palin may be a lib (libertarian).
Maybe it’s a knee-jerk reaction to this thread and her ‘soft’ answer to gays at CPAC.
Conservatives will (and should) throw her under the bus if she goes libertarian on us.