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Accountability begins at home

September 22 - RNC pays some Palin legal bills in exchange for help October 7, 2010 - GOP fundraising worsens as elections near -Despite help from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Instanalysis The GOP, including McCain's own campaign, throws Sarah to the wolves during and after the 2008 campaign.  Not only don't they help her fend off  non-stop legal charges of impropriety from the left, they charge her for clothes the campaign purchased for her!  Ha-ha, so much for the hick interloper who tried to manage her own VP campaign.  Faced with still mounting and ruinous legal attacks she says screw this and resigns as governor.  Not to hide under the bed. Oh no.  To strike back at a GOP machine that had become a stale, vengeful, and politically impotent old lady with yellow teeth and sagging teats. Meanwhile,  a spontaneous revolt against same-old same-old  GOP incompetence was occurring, and there stood Sarah Palin, without portfolio, but Twittering away while  millions listened.  The Big Bang!   I, and millions of others instinctively knew the king was dead and  long live the queen. “ The former Alaska governor has achieved some high-profile successes in endorsing GOP primary candidates. More important from the RNC's viewpoint, she has proved to be a potent fundraising draw for GOP donors. [GOP fundraising worsens]  What?  Sarah's high profile successes were backing  anti-establishment Tea-Party challengers to GOP endorsed hacks.  And winning.  Now the GOP is broke. Here's the roost. “ But many Republican donors, especially the ones who can afford to give the most, have expressed distrust in the financial management of the RNC under Chairman Michael S. Steele, whose first two-year term as party chairman expires in January. [GOP fundraising worsens] Accountability begins.