Palin: Immigration Debate 'Just About Driving Me To Renounce My Republican Ties'
CATHERINE THOMPSON – JUNE 13, 2014, 3:03 PM EDT
News of poor conditions at a holding center in Arizona for undocumented, unaccompanied minors whipped Sarah Palin into a fury Friday -- so much so that she said she was on the verge of renouncing her ties to the Republican Party.
"Finally, they have won me over. I actually agree with the liberals’ war whoop," the former Republican vice presidential nominee wrote on her Facebook page. "I, too, demand that this issue of young illegal aliens flooding across our border into horrendous conditions be taken care of. Now!"
The Department of Homeland Security began flying some young migrants to Arizona after more than 48,000 unaccompanied children crossing the border into Texas overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol. A warehouse in Nogales, Ariz. was housing 700 of them at the beginning of this week and that number was expected to double to around 1,400.
In her Facebook post, Palin cited heat, illness, unsanitary conditions and potential sexual exploitation at the holding facility as examples of "child abuse." She then railed against the GOP's unwillingness to engage in meaningful reform on issues like border security.
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I really do need new glasses.
Stranger things have happened. Maybe the Wasilla Diva did have a brief, fleeting moment of compassion.
And despite my cynicism and my jaundiced view of contemporary Republican pols and talking heads, I am aware that maybe, just maybe her compassion was genuine.
As I said earlier, I am cynical about right-wing pols and talking heads. But maybe--right now--she means it. Maybe she doesn't have what it takes to make a proper, heartless "conservative" of the 'let the little brown children suffer' school of today's "compassionate" 
conservatism.
That still doesn't mean I trust her.
