Emerging from Fortress Facebook, the rogue unloads. She directly accuses Perry of crony capitalism, backing Michele Bachmann's assertion that the HPV vaccine was pushed through in Texas because of political connections:
"I knew there was something to it. Now we're finding that now, yea, something was up with that issue. It was an illustration or bit of evidence of some crony capitalism."
And she seems to be setting herself up as king-maker:
"I'm getting kind of a kick out of this," Palin said, claiming that the day after she brings up an issue, she notices the candidates adopt that issue in their stump speeches. "It's like come on candidates, it's about time you started talking about that."
Make of all this what you will. But she is adopting the purist populist posture against the GOP, including Perry, her onetime extremely close ally.
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