Looks likeLaura Ingraham has sold her conservative soul to keep her Bill O’Reilly and Fox News standing. There was a time when she openly criticized O’Reilly before she got occasional host gigs on his show. Now she marches the peudo-conservative walk. O’Reilly supports the Boehner bill to fiscal mayhem, and of course his newest convert does too.

“Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, one of the high-profile certified non-moderates urging the GOP to support John Boehner’s debt ceiling bill, leveled criticism at Sarah Palin during today’s show for raising the prospect of 2012 primary challenges to House Republicans.

Palin published a Facebook message Thursday urging Republicans to stand firm on fiscal issues, adding: “Everyone I talk to still believes in contested primaries.”

Though Palin didn’t explicitly say that pro-Boehner Republicans should face challenges from the right, Ingraham argued in her broadcast that Palin’s note was unhelpful to the GOP — and to the tea party.

“Well, just, watch out, ‘Everyone I talk to still believes in contested primaries.’ God bless her, Sarah Palin’s saying that in a message she put out,” Ingraham said.

She proceeded to run through a list of conservatives who have endorsed Boehner’s plan, quipping sarcastically: “I guess we’re threatening, implicitly, explicitly, Paul Ryan, Col. Allen West, Mike Pence is gonna be out of the House of Representatives. He’ll be the governor of Indiana. Maybe we can run someone else as governor of Indiana, to run for the governorship, ’cause Pence is obviously a sellout. Can I have the whole list of sellouts? I need the list so I can make sure I understand who’s going to get the primary challenge.”

Ingraham get’s a boodle of cash for appearing on Fox and thus has to toe the line of the management which is pro-raise the debt ceiling so that the markets don’t go down the crapper. A few years ago she would have given Palin and others like yours truly an amen for standing firm.

She’s a sellout and we’ve go a lot of them. Don’t give a crap whether it’s Pence, West, Ryan or whoever. Talk is cheap. When they were on the campaign trail they spoke of doing whatever was necessary – even radical surgery – to get this country back on fiscal responsibility. Watching the GOP this week it’s apparent it’s all talk.

Those primary challenges will take place for those who failed to hold the line on not raising the debt ceiling, we’ll just have to teach the GOP another lesson such as we did in 2006 and 2008. If you’re not willing to stand for core conservative principles we’ll send you home.

Period.

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