I don’t know of any conservative Republican who has been as harsh with Palin as she has been with fellow conservatives.
I don’t agree with her that Perry is a crony capitalist, Gingrich is a narrow minded machine goon or that Santorum is a Neanderthal.
And none of them have been that harsh with her.
That being said, I think she is doing a good job at what she does and I wish her success in it.
I don’t know why you’re so hung-up on the Santorum thing. It was a laughably minor dust-up. Santorum started it, and Palin’s response was pretty tongue-in-cheek. Within 24 hours, they’d both made peace via a phone call.
You like Bachman, yet you don’t find fault her for her wild, scathing attacks on Perry? Only Palin, due to her brief, one-time reference to his cronyism? And Perry, despite some solid qualities, has a history of crony deals. He’s my governor, and I’ve followed his doings for 14 years, and seen how he’s treated his big-money contributors (Butts, Perry, etc.), and how they’ve treated him. Rick Perry could be a decent and reasonably reliable conservative president, but he’s not and never has been a reformer who would tackle the corrupt political system.
And good grief, when in blazes did Palin call Gingrich a “narrow minded machine goon?” That’s certainly news to me. She supported him, observing him the most likely of the candidates to indeed shake up the corrupt DC class... despite his own background of occasionally wading in it, not to mention his odd bouts of statist solutions and musings (his academic/intellectual mindset veered him in some poor directions from time to time).
But I’d vote for Bachman, Gingrich, Perry, Santorum, all in a heartbeat. All decent conservatives. And Palin too. But Palin is the only one I’d truly have confidence in to tackle the ossified system of sleaze that runs DC.