re: #248 Snarknado!

Even that article notes that it was the other Repubs who didn’t call her out, not Palin herself, that created the problem. The chase after extremists/ to the bottom was by people who held positions of power and should have known better.

Those who knew better where in no position to call her out. doing so during the 2008 election would have resulted in those doing the calling being seen as stabbing the party in the back and handing the election to Obama*. And after the election she was more popular than they were and any attempt to go after her would have been met with an unstoppable counter-attack.

*: I am saying what the perception would have been, not what the facts were.