Sarah Palin to GOP: Get back to where you once belonged

The astute lamestream media has has finally noticed, four days after the fact, that part of Sarah Palin's interview on Lars Larson's radio program where she addressed Larson's question of whether she would consider a third party run for the White House::

"Well, you know, it really does depend on — I think there are enough Republicans who are realizing, ‘Oh, whoops, some of those liberal Republicans have screwed up’ — I’m not including myself in that group — enough liberal Republicans have screwed up, and … the base of our party is common-sense conservatives, not obsessively partisan, but just wanting common-sense, free market principles, strong military principles to be implemented to get our country on the right track. And if the Republican Party gets back to that base, our party is going to be stronger and there’s not going to be a need for a third party. But I’ll play that by ear in the coming months, coming years."

Wow, you can't sneak anything past the intrepid Fourth Estate, can you?

At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey cuts through the media hysteria:

I see this as less of a story than it seems. It helps to remember that Palin made her political bones as a reformer, an outsider to her state’s GOP. In fact, Palin scored her initial statewide success by exposing corrupt practices within her own party. Being an outsider is part of her DNA, and part of her appeal within the party.

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All Palin is doing is reminding the GOP that they can’t take generic unhappiness with the current Congress and administration for granted and just offer business as usual — and that’s helpful indeed.

We agree with Captain Ed. The party's first female vice presidential candidate is simply sending a not-so-subtle message to the GOP establishment: Get back to your Reagan roots or the shark you've jumped will either eat you or drown you. 

- JP