Loyalty, Palin-style

Sarah Palin has come under increasing pressure from crtics and former supporters alike for her campaign's use of violent imagery and language -- a map on her website "targets" Democrats holding vulnerable seats with gunsights and Palin says it's "time to reload" following the unsuccessful Republican bid to block health care reform -- but, while she has denounced violence in the wake of a number of attacks on Democratic political and congressional offices, including bricks thrown through windows at at least 4 offices in three states, she has said she will refuse to tone down her use of violent imagery and language.

That refusal has drawn criticism even from former supporters like Elisabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of the talk show, "The View," who had campaigned for Palin in Florida, called the gunsight map "despicable." Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/27/1549689/palin-denounces-violence-but-gun.html#ixzz0jOTjyYpB

But buried in that story was a choice tidbit that reveals just how little  loyalty -- when she's expected to give it and is not herself trying to get it -- means to the resigned Alaska governor.

All 20 of the Democrats targeted by gunsights on the map on her website are right-leaning Democrats in GOP-leaning districts who had crossed party lines to support Palin and her presidential running mate, John McCain.

How does Palin pay them back for that act of supposed political courage, going against their own party? By putting them 'in the crosshairs' of  her political action committees efforts to dump them and elect politicians loyal to Palin, presumably in order to shore her potential support for a presidential run.

Nice, huh?