I am trying to prevent a Goldwater style loss, that’s all.
However, in the spirit of the greater good, I.e., the advance of conservatism, I will leave this and other Palin threads for the time being.
Friend, you're trying to sell a viewpoint to thousands of fellow conservatives who, for the most part, see things exactly the opposite to how you see them.
Palin is the most dynamic, exciting, and all around best qualified Republican that most of us have seen in a generation. Most of us think that she's the ONLY one who is assured a win over Obama in 2012.
Far from being the Goldwater you fear, we believe that she's the Reagan we have waited for decades to emerge.
There's also this... we can't afford to send another milquetoast Republican to the White House, and we cannot afford another four years of Marxist rule and devastation. This time, it's for all the marbles. It's now or never.
Paraphrasing Sarah (as she remarked to her daughter Piper), If we die, we die. If the country fails to elect Palin, we will begin an inexorable march toward a great upheaval, not unlike the Civil War, or the American Revolution, but it won't be because we didn't at least try to restore our nation in the agree-upon way.
I, for one, am willing to give the system one last try, and I refuse to subsume my honor and integrity to political expediency in that effort. That is why I will stand behind Sarah for as long as she'll have me.
If we don't make it to the top, then we go the other route, and I know she'll be right there with us.