You aren’t helping her cause (and your cause) if you refuse to acknowledge legitimate critique. I’m not talking about hate, but policy disagreements. I don’t care if it feel like salt in your wounds or not. It’s not about you. If you guys want Sarah to be a contender for POTUS, you’ll have to nut up and be able to steer her onto the right track. Personally, out of all the “front runners” for 2012, I’m leaning towards her, but it’s not very enthusiastic. It speaks more about her opponents than her own characteristics. I would like to see her buff up her conservative and libertarian (small-L) credentials so I could feel better about supporting her. But every time I see a “LEAVE SARAH ALONE!!!!1!1!” rant, it just turns me off.
You aren’t helping her cause (and your cause) if you refuse to acknowledge legitimate critique. I’m not talking about hate, but policy disagreements. I don’t care if it feel like salt in your wounds or not. It’s not about you. If you guys want Sarah to be a contender for POTUS, you’ll have to nut up and be able to steer her onto the right track. Personally, out of all the “front runners” for 2012, I’m leaning towards her, but it’s not very enthusiastic. It speaks more about her opponents than her own characteristics. I would like to see her buff up her conservative and libertarian (small-L) credentials so I could feel better about supporting her. But every time I see a “LEAVE SARAH ALONE!!!!1!1!” rant, it just turns me off.
Well stated, Cabal. I think a lot of Gov. Palin’s supporters are new to the nasty game of politics where nothing is assumed nor trusted without question for a Presidental candidate. We have to nail her down on policy and ideology and can assume nothing about her but her supporters are new to politics and feel threatened by the normal challenge of politics. She’s a Christian? So what -so is Huckster and Rev. Wright.
In their inexperience, the questions on policy and associations (like her dedication to back-stabber McLame) that come with the package to anyone considering a Presidential run, feels scarey and mean and this disadvantages Governor Palin. Because right now, the focus of Palin supporters should be gaining informed support for her rather than polarizing. Polarizing comes during a primary and Palin is far from that. She has yet to shore up support. It is a mile wide and an inch deep right now and Palin supporters should be working to deepen that support right now or she will not survive the primary and election challenges.
The doubts Palin supporters need to answer about McCain, for example, is: does she support McCain progressive political agenda (open borders, cap and trade, closing Gitmo, globalism, reverse hate and discrimination via LaRaza, etc.) or does she part with her friend across the aisle on these traitorous positions? They claim she supports him as a person. The question is - does she support him as a back stabber? We get no answers; only breast beating and crying. So nothing gets solved and her power is diminshed by her noob supporters.
It would be better for Palin supporters to put their energy into nailing Palin down on policy and ideology questions and then arguing to support her positions. Instead we get political babies crying about “attacks” and “haters” and “grizzly moms” like what...mindless illibearls - Obama supporters.
We can not afford anymore mindlessness and unfortunately, that is what we have in Palin supporters at Free Republic. Therefore, it makes no sense to look for answers on Palin. There are none. Her support is mindless for lack of investigation our to fear of the answers.