It appears that Sarah Palin's focus has shifted from endorsing gubernatorial and senate candidates to supporting campaigns to elect conservative attorneys general.

Courtesy of Palin's Koch brother directed Facebook page:  

While most of the focus leading into 2014 elections has been on the country's life and death fight for our future with a conservative majority serving in the U.S. Senate, there are other offices we need to count on to put a stop to the liberal Obama agenda. In individual states, good Attorney Generals have led the legal fight against Obamacare, to protect religious liberties and states’ right, and to uphold other imperative core Constitutional principles. Here are four conservative Attorney General candidates I'm supporting. They will continue the fight for all of us! 

Arkansas, Nevada, Texas, and Arizona, interesting.  All pretty reliably red states, though Arkansas does have a Democrat as governor.

It is a little unusual for Palin to place any focus on Attorney Generals as a rule, though of course she made sure that her choices as Governor of Alaska were well trained little lap dogs.

That is why I think it is pretty obvious that conservative think tanks funded by the Koch brothers and others are behind her sudden shift to AG candidates.

I think this article from 2010 about the rise of the Attorneys General explains why:

In the last few months, conservative AGs have become some of the nation's most prominent opponents of federal power in general and the Obama administration specifically. They're trying to block provisions of the federal health-care reform law in court, and they're working to limit the federal government's power to regulate guns and greenhouse gas emissions. 

In the last few months, conservative AGs have become some of the nation's most prominent opponents of federal power in general and the Obama administration specifically. They're trying to block provisions of the federal health-care reform law in court, and they're working to limit the federal government's power to regulate guns and greenhouse gas emissions. 

For Republican AGs, protecting state prerogatives has meant battling the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress. In doing so, they've enjoyed instant influence. 

When the Senate passed a version of health-care reform that included special Medicaid payments to Nebraska--the so-called "Cornhusker Kickback"--13 Republican AGs wrote to Congress threatening to sue, claiming their states weren't being treated equitably. Congress dropped the provision. Later, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives considered using a procedure know as "deem-and-pass" to allow the House to give approval to the unpopular Senate version of health-care reform without a direct vote on the matter. Republican AGs threatened to sue again, arguing deem-and-pass was unconstitutional. The House dropped the strategy. 

Those concessions, of course, didn't stop AGs from suing when Obama finally signed the health-care bill into law in March. The AGs argue that requiring everyone to buy health insurance is unconstitutional and that the law places an unfair burden on the states. So far, around 20 states are supporting legal action to block the law, and all but one of the participating AGs are Republicans. 

Of course all of that came to naught after the Supreme Court ruled in support of the mandate.

But there are certainly other policies that the Attorneys General can band together to fight against. 

It was Jerry Falwell who laid out the framework for running conservatives in local and state elections in an attempt to create a bulwark against liberal policies, and then to move successful candidates up the food chain to ever more powerful positions.

In fact much of what we see in politics today is the direct result of Falwell and his Moral Majority: 

Falwell helped to lay the groundwork for the coalition of Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons that now makes up the social conservative wing of the GOP—and helped to bring this coalition of social conservatives into an even larger coalition with fiscal conservatives and foreign-policy conservatives. Moreover, it was Falwell who did more than anyone—even Ronald Reagan—to foreshadow the political style of the contemporary GOP, a style rooted in orthodoxy and disdainful of compromise. In short, if at any point during the past few years you’ve found yourself wondering how the Republican Party got to its present state, understanding the worldview of Jerry Falwell is a good place to start.

So successful was this strategy that the Republicans have been the dominant force in Ameircan politics for the last thirty years or more.

However today the world is changing yet again, as illustrated by the recent decisions in favor of same sex marriage and the population increase of non-whites and the non-religious in this country.

What better way to fight that change than to elect Attorneys General who will actively fight against progress?

And where there is obstructionism and resistance to change can Sarah Palin be far behind?

Which sort of begs the question, why is Sarah Palin not supporting HER former AG's run for Mark Begich's Senate seat?