Strong TEA parties support, Palin endorsement, lots of outside money, strong political class opposition, the evidence of political class panic at her election, history of libertarian positions and pronouncements.
This one seems to be very promising to the stoopid publick, and the kiss of death to me and my social group here.
We all think Palin is a Trojan Horse to the Tea Party establishment. She shucked and jived away a LOT of her platform to run with McCain in 2008, and now it's back. But she still endorses McCain (and McCain's mini-me, Scott Brown over in MA). Even though both of them support Amnesty.
The Republican Elite that court the Tea Party are co-opting the Tea Party in many areas, endorsing RINO's in places where real change has a chance.
AZ isn't really such a place because we didn't have a conservative-everyman run for McCain's seat.
Then again, who can fight a
20 million dollar primary election, let alone the general election? Yep. $20 million. That's what McCain has spent, from his Presidential fund.
And our sour "also ran" candidate is only behind by maybe 4-5 percent. With less than a tenth of that for funding.
That's how much we don't like him.
McCain is quite literally buying this election.