John Ziegler a déjà été un des plus grands fans de Sarah Palin, comme le laisse entendre le titre de son documentaire sur la campagne présidentielle de 2008 : Media Malpractice : How Obama Was Elected And Palin Was Targeted. Il y a un mois, selon le texte qu'il publie aujourd'hui, Todd Palin lui a même offert un poste au sein de la campagne présidentielle de sa femme. Ziegler a refusé. Pourquoi? Je cite sa réponse dans le texte :
Why? Well, first of all, contrary to what geniuses like Andrew Sullivan and Howard Dean may want you to believe, there is absolutely no way that she can be elected. I've told this to her directly; more than once. While many pundits mistakenly think what she is doing is some Trump-like PR stunt, I'm pretty convinced she is running and in doing so will damage the prospects of any conservative defeating Barack Obama in 2012.
These aren't my only concerns.
There's also the fact that Sarah's entire operation is increasingly managed like a CIA field office; that she's adopted a bunker mentality; that she's trusting the wrong people, some of whom I know are simply exploiting her. As a result, even those most loyal to her get tossed under the bus, with little or no effort to avoid the collateral damage. Which raises the question: if people like me who would once have taken a bullet for Sarah (and at least figuratively I did many times) can't get behind her any more, what the hell happened?