[DeweyCA]

"It is an open secret that members of McCain’s campaign sought to sabotage Palin during the campaign, apparently preferring to lose rather than tolerate her views and her persona."

This is exactly what a lot of us sensed during the campaign. People like Steve Schmidt set her up to do the interview with Katie Couric and were constantly criticizing Palin during the campaign. McCain didn't really care that much about winning the election. He just wanted to have the nomination to boost his own ego and reputation. He only cares about himself, not about the Republican Party or the country, and certainly not about conservatives. He will NOT be missed.

[Tammy8]

I think it was all rigged all along for Obama to win, McCain was a token opposition so we the people would think there was a fair election. I think Palin was thrown out there as a bone for conservatives, but she was far more popular than they dreamed and gathering actual voters, so they had to squelch her as much as possible.

It was all a sham and there really is a unity party...the only real opposition is we the people. I don’t think this is the only election that was done with an agreement ahead of time by the swamp people as to whose turn it was to be in the oval office. I think there have been many.

The meltdown situation we have been in since Trump was elected is because the swamp people had an agreement it was Hillary’s turn. I think it was supposed to be Hillary against Jeb Bush, and we the people decided to finally stand up to the corruption and said NO early enough in the process to derail their plans. If Jeb had been the R nominee what could we have done at that point? I don’t think enough people would have been willing to vote for Jeb, and the votes were rigged...so we would now have Hillary.