This note was born from my rebuttal to a former facebook connection’s lambasting of Governor Palin wherein he (and several of his “friends”) critiqued a POLITICO article — favorably — which targeted Palin as “…a problem, a disease for the Conservative movement…”
Conservative principles, with respects to how a politician speaks, are best summed up by the actions and words of the most recent modern father of Conservatism, Ronald Reagan. Reagan taught us, through word as well as deed, that Republicans live by the 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of anyone in the GOP. He took that creed to heart when campaigning against Ford, a gentleman’s pledge not reciprocated by president-Ford-to-be.
