What you're saying. Has it occurred to you that it may work both ways? Are you immune to confirmation bias? We both can google "stupid stuff Sarah Palin said". And everything on the list, I can explain why it was stupid for her to say, and you'd justify why it wasn't. That's just not an exercise I care to spend time on. I think Sarah Palin is a clever but not brilliant opportunist. During her campaign with McCain, she made many statements herself that revealed her complete and utter ignorance of history, geography, policy, foreign and domestic. The media did make more of it than there was, but she mostly earned her reputation.
It's not just okay, but vital to the ideology, to admit when one of your own is a turd, and Sarah Palin is indeed a turd. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that everything she's said is stupid. However, she has said enough stupid stuff that she's become a sort of straw man for the left, that they can use to build and sell a false image of all conservatives as turds.
I'm just not going to stick up for her just because she's on "my side".
