Perhaps in the eyes of Palin backers, the 2008 election did not, in fact, clarify a trend that became evident even prior to the 2006 mid-terms when Democrats regained control of Congress. A trend that seemed to begin shortly after 2004, when the party's moderate, "compassionate conservative" segment, fed up with the Iraq war's "no end in sight" dimension, with scandals, rampant corruption and just the general "all hat and no cattle" hollowness of Bush-brand GOP neo-conservatism, began to waver from the Rush Limbaugh-inspired core which was basically defining the party's agenda. Soon after, even many dyed-in-the-wool "ditto-heads," taken aback by their party's fiscal irresponsibility followed suit as did many evangelicals who had become disillusioned by GOP and Bush administration faith-based double-speak.
By early 2007, the depths of overall voter disdain for the party could be clearly gauged by Bush and the GOP's horridly negative poll numbers. Of course the climax of these trends was the 2008 elections. Despite the clear economic concerns on the minds of voters, it seems clear -- based on their rejection of divisive negative campaigning -- that they were just as adamant at demonstrating their disdain for the type of hard-core conservative zealotry characterized by the folks now pushing Palin.
In fact, according to pollster Frank Luntz, the back-to-back electoral defeats the party suffered in 2006 and 2008 comprise the two worst consecutive election losses for the GOP since the early 1930s. Do these trends unsettle this shrinking party's growing pro-Palin segment? Apparently not. Perhaps as far as they're concerned, it’s the heck with the winds of change; just drill, baby, drill.
Whatever the case, this much is for darn sure; there's a sort of perverse guilt derived from observing or listening to delusive Palin boosters enjoying a field day delivering dead-pan euphemisms in their senseless build-up of the person they see as the savior of their party.
"I think Sarah Palin is awesome," proclaimed a Palin supporter who described herself as a "home-schooler."
"She's been a breath of fresh air," gushed another from Virginia during an interview with National Public Radio.
"I think Sarah is doing a fine job establishing herself as a political force in her own right," effused a Palin devotee who operates a draft Sarah Palin blog. "I might even be prouder of her now than I was during the VP run."
From yet another, this assertion: "Sarah's conservative credentials are the only thing that prevented a double-digit (McCain) loss."
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