This week’s messy, public breakup between conservatives and Sarah Palin was executed with brutal swiftness. After years of alternately worshiping and defending her from all comers while gleefully echoing her falsehoods about the Obama administration (death panels!), lots of conservatives — and especially conservative pundits — decided, “Enough!” and collectively tossed her overboard.
Palin’s speech last weekend at a conservative confab in Iowa, odd and vacuous even by her standards, served as the trigger for the media mutiny. Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough tagged it “a tragedy,” The Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis apologized for his previous Palin support, and the Washington Examiner rounded up reactions from the GOP faithful: “Long and disjointed.” “A weird speech.” “Terrible. Didn’t make any sense.”
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