Getting a good common sense, decisive, genuine conservative in the white house at this time is paramount to our survival as a nation. If we miss this opportunity this time around it may never come up again.
Come on Sarah, do it for God and country. We’re behind you wholeheartedly.
Your tagline rings an eerie bell: (He's just NOT presidential material.)
I remember in 2008 a lifelong Republican friend of my folks, almost a second father, telling me gently, as if speaking to a child, the same about Palin. He considered McCain, and later Romney, "pragmatic" options. He fancies himself a resident of "Realville."
The thing I'm most leery of is putting eggs in the Republican basket. The Republican party is tainted, a crap shoot, inconsistent in its own identity. You may intend to vote for one thing going "Republican," but end up implanting its opposite, and voters KNOW this. They also know what they want -- LESS GOVERNMENT. If neither candidate and/or neither party offers that option, thinking folks sit it out or vote third party.
It will take some time to revive the Republican brand, if it is revivable, and that would happen on more local level. In any case, the only way to do that, obviously, is to starve liberal Republicans of votes in general elections.
In the meantime ... what will "we" do if all of this attempt to get a limited government Christian conservative ala Cruz or Palin to triumph through the Republican primary protocol, and the GOP still nominates a functional Democrat ala Romney or Santorum (big government all the way, read his words) or Bush? Which, let's face it, is the most likely scenario?
Can a GOP primary loser still run third-party? That's the only peaceable way out of this mess via the ballot box.