Guess you can rule out the fantasy Palin-Brown ticket.
Even though she championed the shocking win of Sen. Scott Brown in January as “a step for taking our country back,” Palin now seems to be calling him a RINO.
In an interview with Fox Business News that mostly focused on the Alaska Republican Senate primary, Palin railed on Republicans that go along with the “herd mentality” by supporting what she called the “Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.” The host asked, “Is Scott Brown on notice?”
“That’s Massachusetts and perhaps they’re not going to look for such a hard-core constitutional conservative there, and they’re going to put up with Scott Brown and some of the antics there,” Palin said. “But up here in Alaska and so many places across the U.S. where we have a pioneering independent spirit and we have an expectation that our representatives in D.C. will respect the will of the people and the intelligence of the people. Well up here wouldn’t stand for that.”
As we’ve written, Brown has sometimes joined with Democrats to help them with major legislation - the most prominent case being the Wall Street reform bill.
Brown remains a popular GOPer, and will be setting out on the campaign trail to help Republican Senate candidates in California, Illinois, Washington and Ohio, Roll Call reported this week.
Palin seemed a bit uncomfortable calling Brown out, and brought the conversation back to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who she is trying to unseat by supporting Joe Miller.
Watch the Palin interview below. The Brown bit begins at about 2:20:
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