“Yeah, if you’re not one of us, what the hell were you doing on our side, anyway?”
They were never on “our” side, that is why when McCain chose Palin it signaled that the conservatives owned the future of the party, meaning that the rinos had lost.
That is why they jumped ship.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus