The GOP did it to themselves. They knew damn well that Palin was a farce! As it was, they handled the entire 2008 GOP nominee selection ineptly, allowing a decrepit, out of touch, political warhorse to lead the charge in a progressive, modern global environment. This, while the country was still reeling from eight years of a devastating Republican administration headed by Dick Cheney as "W" sat symbolically at the helm. When the GOP first saw Palin, they fell in love with her classic "American Woman" look, however, she lacked the classic American woman intelligence. McCain's reason for choosing Palin was obvious, he's as dumb as a rock and he needed to find someone even dumber that he could keep in check and that wouldn't outshine him, yet give him that youth factor while appealing to women. Remember the whole "Mama Grizzlies" thing.
Well there you have it, the GOP didn't pay attention when they were kids and their mama told them NOT to feed the stray cat or it would keep coming back time and time again. Palin is that stray cat they took in, and those unintelligible meows she emits every time she opens her pie hole from a stage are simply screams for acceptance from a party that does not yet know how to put down that unwanted political animal.
Here is some of Palin's latest rant:
Things must change for our government. Look at it. It isn’t too big to fail. It’s too big to succeed! It's too big to succeed, so we can afford no retreads or nothing will change with the same people and same policies that got us into the status quo. Another Latin word, status quo, and it stands for, ‘Man, the middle-class everyday Americans are really gettin’ taken for a ride.’ That's status quo, and GOP leaders, by the way, y'know the man can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then the man can't ride ya, America won't be taken for a ride, because so much is at stake and we can't afford politicians playing games like nothing more is at stake than, oh, maybe just the next standing of theirs in the next election.