It has begun:
Bush apparently lost his respect for John McCain when he discovered that he had picked Palin as his running mate, and lays the blame for the Republicans' defeat in the 2008 election squarely at her door.
Read more:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/71131,people,news,george-bush-blames-palin-for-2008-election-defeat#ixzz14QZ0nFiP
Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.
Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=03ABCA4A-E3BB-22E3-ABBAE700DEB533EF
Voter___ Wrote:
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> Mark my words, Palin will not run. She is
> cynically, and I suppose smartly, taking advantage
> of her ignorant supporters to get rich and famous.
> She does not care about governing.
She knows
> that if she were to seek the nomination, there is
> a coterie of GOP insiders that will destroy her to
> make sure she doesn't get it. They are keeping
> mostly silent now because she is good for firing
> up the base and raising money, but if she were to
> ever get remotely close to securing the nomination
> there would be metaphorical atom bombs dropped all
> over the place. For all the idiotic talk from the
> party elders about what a talent she is, they know
> she would be a disaster for the Republicans.