Sarah Palin´s decision not to run in 2012 is looking more and more prescient. I always suspected it was based mostly on subversion from the GOP atni-Tea Party establishment.

I´m not impressed with the way that Sarah speaks her mind sometimes. But she´s usually right in what she says. And she´s right this time.

For the last few years I´ve felt as though the leadership in my party were little more than the top dogs in a prison camp. I want out!

If Boehner can´t act like we won then he needs to lose.

Another great article from Matthew Boyle today...

And Sarah, as always, writing what needs to be said... “We send good conservatives to D.C. to fulfill the promises they made to the electorate, and yet when they stay true to their word the permanent political class in their own party punishes them" ...

Good heavens - this is not the time for threats. Do people realize the seriousness of the fiscal situation? We are honestly going to have to work with the democrats. The whole country is needed to solve the mess we are in!

#1, you mean you think she was coerced into not running in 2012? No, I believe she found it less sweaty to issue statements from Facebook instead of pitching her bonnet ringside, getting involved and working hard as the authentic candidates were doing.

How can the Republicans "work with the Democrats" when the Democrats won´t give an inch on spending or their demand for tax increases?

Governor Palin is correct. It won´t be forgotten, that said, we will remember but there is nothing we can do about it.

We´ve written, called, rallied and voted. No matter how long our memories are it matters not a wit.

The game is rigged against decent, law abiding, God fearing, constitution respecting Americans. The America we were born into is gone never to be seen again.

Unless some conservative with great ideas, lots of fellow patriotic minded staff and tons of money does something then nothing is going to change.

Good golly, the haters are back!

I agree totally with Miss M., as usual. I am sick and tired of the palin whining and trying to get in the mix. I do not care what she thinks or says. Making a bloody fool out of herself, shadowing Mitt around at his speeches while campaigning was not a sane act.

Heaven forbid there´s politickin goin on in Washington. Duh. Good catch Sarah. What´s she going to do come 2014? Boehner will win re-election and he´ll remain speaker. The GOP elevates those who belong to the Bob Michel ´Don´t rock the boat´ school to leadership positions. If she actually wanted to do something useful she´d speak out when the voting for leadership takes place.

Lawn chair John better enjoy his last two years in office. He really isn´t that much better then a real Democrat.

More evidence for those not yet convinced that we need a new party. Forget the finger-wagging and hand-wringing from the Establishment types. It´s time for conservatives to walk away.

Capitulation and compromise, while both beginning with the letter "c", are not synonymous. "Work with", implies give and take. What evidence have you seen from the current administration that this has been the case?

While I would like to believe Mrs. Palin is correct, evidence over the past 10 years lead me to believe otherwise. The sheep will follow the Republican elites like we always do. It is 3rd party time. I´d rather lose with dignity next time around.

Say what you will, Pelosi has more testosterone in her wizened little finger than Boehner has in his body.

Palin is right. However, why are Republicans engaging in this circular firing squad, a spectacle our enemies, particularly enemies in the media, love? This is not the time. Republicans should all shut up, lick their wounds, regroup and, when they have one, come out with a unified fighting message. What happened to Ronald Reagan´s 11th commandment, do not criticize other Republicans?

#5 and #14, I respectfully disagree. Palin is right and the animosity coming from some who claim to be conservative is disturbing.

#4 How do you work with the Democrats? It´s their way or the highway. This is just another version of the healthcare bill. It is getting bloated with spending, and the real issues are fading from the spotlight. How does taxation suddenly change to give Obama unlimited power to raise the debt ceiling?

The Dems are pros at putting crap into bills they want passed, remember the stimulus bill republicans were forced to pass because they added military spending, which really had nothing to do with bailouts, to it. It was designed to force Republicans hands, lest they be viewed as not supporting our military.

One thing the Dems don´t do is play fair. It´s becoming an Achille´s heel to the Republicans who keep trying to.

#16, surely you don´t mean a person cannot claim to be a conservative if that person isn´t a Palin fan, do you? That reasoning would sure shrink the ranks of folks who thought they were good conservatives all along.

The woman didn´t display much common sense but that does not excuse the bestial behavior of Islams finest.

Shrinking the ranks of Palins critics would be no big loss.

I trust Sarah over establishment Repugs any day of the week.

That being said, it may be too early to tell where this will lead.

If the deficit spending is not dealt with in a serious manner soon then the Repugs will be finished; they will have no moral foundation to govern, nor to expect people to continue to hold their noses and vote for them (or more likely against the Dimms -voting For someone is a bit cliche nowadays).

Republican Party = Whig Party circa 1850.

Lets start building our future with new political parties based upon honor, integrity, and power distributed back to the states.

# 5, 9, 14 & 18 - True to form! Even with holding our noses and voting for your Mittens he could not win. If he had played the game as aggressively during the campaign as he did against his peers in the primary, perhaps the results would have been better.
Oh yes, he kept his hands clean but certainly allowed his surrogates to attack Palin since before election day in 2008 -- Kevin Madden on C.N.N. prior to the election -- continuing thereafter. He didn´t have enough backbone to ask for her help.
Now, what comments are we hearing from Mittens? Oh, that was a pin that dropped!
Gov. Palin is saying what needs to be said.

@#2: Your first paragraph contradicts itself.

This would be a good time for Paul Ryan to stand up and quit his committee assignment in protest of Boehner`s purge. If Ryan has any future plans to be president or senator he needs to show his conservative bonafides or be relegated to the GOP ash heap of history - which is growing ever larger.

Some of us warned the Tea Party at least a year ago their grass roots only movement needed deeper roots to survive long term.
Once again grass roots are about 6 to 8 in deep and that is just not sustaining if the deep Tap Roots don´t follow.
Sarah learned better than to trust hard core conservatives who only paid attention when winning and their refusal to endorse a wider scope for the movement to include all anti-liberal factions.

Reading these comments I am heartened that perhaps there are more Patriot and intelligent Americans that the vote of 2012 suggests.
Given that between 10% to 20% of the "vote" was fraudlent I still thought reason and American Conservitism should have prevailed.
Term limits and recapturing the entire voting process from the dimfecals is a giant step towards sanity, but these rinos and sell outs must go.
Between the rnc and rinos cowardice, catering to lobbyist, and stupidity we have no choice but depose them.
I hope someday we can make it less attractive ( and lucrative) to vote themselves in to an aristocratic and autocratic class with undeserved retirement and other benefits.
Sic semper tyrannis
in the reactionaly sense
of down with the tyrants

The article states that some of the changes were requested by the Committee chairmen.
Palin´s threats and baseless comments about DC cocktail parties are just more conspiracy fodder.
Republicans lost 8 House seats this past election and their majority has shrunk.
If the Democrats pick up 17 seats in 2014 , they will control the House.
Boehner is the Majority Leader , Palin is not .
Instead of rants and threats from the sidelines ,which accomplish nothing, Palin should get out of her arm chair and run in 2014 for the House
seat presently held by Don Young.

I´d like to see some legitimate documentation that Romney sent his minions to attack Palin. And by legitimate documentation, I don´t mean a citation of some crackpot blogger.

If she was truly the only one who could save this country, she should have jumped into the 2012 race. And please, don´t tell me she didn´t because her life or the lives of her children were threatened. Every public figure gets death threats, particularly those in politics or law enforcement. If you´re really brave, you ignore the threats, take reasonable precautions, and forge ahead with your work.

Once again, conservatves have been sold out by the GOP leadership who are more comfortable being the "out" party than actually having to lead this country. It´s one election past time for a new conservative party and then let the GOP find out what it´s like to lose it´s physical and fiscal support.

Please, will someone here and now explain to me, had mccain and Palin won their elections, what would these pages be reflecting?

Would Sarah be @ Blair House sending these "tweets" to Breitbart,WAPO,on Greta?

Explain to me would mccain be leading the US Senate as he is,{as we speak} bound @ the waist with Sens. Levin,Reid,and a;; the Dems,voting the future of all Defence Programs? I was not aware Ms Palin has rwo separate and distinct paths to FISCAL SANITY. All her TEA Party Buddies are accepting fiscal logic fron that consummate paragon of virtue,the would-be President mccain.

Just more proof the republicans are no different than the democrats. Nothing but a bunch of arrogant, self serving, fops.

She´s a private citizen.

As a musician, I have a problem with her voice but her star power and common touch rank among the most potent weapons available to the right if and when......used properly.

Let not the perfect become the enemy of the good.

I enjoy watching the GOP/RNC Establishment pom-pom squad high kicking to their anti-Palin cheers. These are the exact same group of Republican flying monkeys who slapped you in the face, demanded you toe the party line and vote for Romney because he was super electable.

Now that they have blown another election cycle, they slap you in the face blaming you for the loss because you werent enthusiastic enough. Once you realize that you are not dealing with reasonable people, but a small cabal of GOP/RNC fan club members, it all makes sense.

Half of them wear Team Boehner t-shirts and the other half would be flinging their panties at the man like rock star groupies.

And thats just the guys.....

I´ll take Palin´s word any day over Boehner´s. Sad excuse for a leader. A leader in secret...hmnn didn´t take him long to turn into a DC dem....

Much of the provided entourage, the "Handlers" for Palin came from Romney´s 2008 campaign. And those were second and third tier Bush loyalists. Devotees of such winners as Nicolle Wallace, they weren´t exactly shy about bragging about how much they hated Palin, and still do, for reasons that have to do more with the fact that she didn´t appreciate the Beltway table manners and inside baseball knowledge of the beltway than any ideology ( which they lack). Examine the threads here and you will find that the loudest and most persistent antiPalinistas are also those who spent the past two years ramping up for Romney, providing any and all negative articles about Romney opponents. Romney´s negative operations is probably the highlight of his campaign, and Palin and Thompson, just like Cain, Bauman, Gingrich, Perry, Christie and Santorum, were just reputations in the way of Mitt´s inevitable greatness.
Palin didn´t sit in her armchair during the 2010 elections, as did Mitt. She didn´t come running to be seen with winners after the fact.
And if she drives you crazy, you are in fact part of the problem.

AMEN!! #32 and 34 is right on the mark! I am so sick of the Mitt fans STILL bashing those who say anything kind about Sarah Palin. They are NOT conservatives, they are more to the left -like their man Mitt!! The same ones who told us over and over that ONLY John McCain COULD win, were the same ones who told us ONLY Mitt could win...at least... if Sarah had run against the Hoax in the WH she would have wiped the floor with him in the debates..we could have had THAT much.

#32 you are priceless! and together with #33 and 334 you have said it all - thank you - it is time for common sense to take over from these wheezy old rino´s here that pushed Romney at us so hard. I did vote - against Obama.Just one more time [the other was for Ronald Reagan] before I go to meet my Maker I would like to think my vote actually counted and I voted for a winner- Go Sarah!

#4, for democrats, it´s their way or the highway. You should know by now there is no compromise with democrats. Even if Boehner folds and taxes are increased on the so called rich, they will be back to the table in six months demanding taxes be raised on the next group of income earners. That would be every body else. In the meanwhile, they will not offer ANYTHING to help reduce the debt.

To make matters worse, come 2014, the democrats will blame republicans for raising taxes in 2012 and making their lives hell. Remember Bush I. Anyone that thinks BO is not pining for disaster is an idiot.

I have always thought all along that what the American people crave is an anti-corruption party. We all know that both parties are loaded up with corrupt career politicians who once they get in office their sole goal in life is to get re-elected and they are willing to compromise everything else to do that. The very act of being a career politician is corrupt in itself. Look at Obama for example. His performance as President was dismal, yet once he got in the White House, his sole goal in life was to get re-elected. He spent nearly every walking hour of his life campaigning to get re-elected. Just about everything that is wrong with our government today consists of deals and backroom deals in order to get re-elected.

It would appear that there is literally no end to the animosity felt toward Palin by some on this site.They rarely disagree with what she says; instead they appear to disagree with her very existence. For others, it seems anything that inconvenienced Romney on his way to losing the most important election of our lifetime must be attacked. As party leader, Mitt Romney made absolutely no effort to mend fences with Sarah Palin and unite the party; in fact, he made every effort to exclude her from any role in the 2012 election. In a way, I´m glad because if Palin had tried to help, she now would be the reason Mitt lost instead of Chris Christie. For some, the delusions run even deeper than the animosity.

"And if she drives you crazy, you are in fact part of the problem."

Poster likes that statement so much he places a variation on each Palin thread, sort of a pre-emptive challenge. I don´t think it makes much sense, but I will pick up the gauntlet by saying to the poster that if Mitt Romney and his supporters drive you crazy, you are, in fact, part of the problem.

There are about six serial posters who bash Palin. They are for Boehner, Romney, McCain, BushI II III IIIIIIIII, Dole, anyone but a candidate that would reform. I think if Reagan ran today they would bash him and pick Rockerfeller. The Repubs are welcome to their party of moderates. No conservative can expect any consideration from them. Our country is doomed and it is not because of those of us who are conservative. I worked the phones until my ears were inflammed for Romney. He was not up to the job of fighting for us. So he lost. Now his Romneybots are back to the usual business of bashing Palin. You guys are so empty.

We let you drive. Nice job.