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If Palin feels that excessive loyalty to McCain on her part is necessary, then perhaps she should not serve as the leader of the conservative movement, since her admiration for the man has clearly blinded her and is now a liability, not just to her, but to the conservative movement, if she were to become its leader.

40 percent.

Until that number changes, your advice is political suicide. The real question is, where will be the base of the next GOP nominee? On the right, reaching leftwards (Palin), or on the left, reaching rightwards (Romney)?

The former sounds much better to me than the latter. The GOP cannot win national office without some moderates. The trick is to win those moderates and still get a sound conservative into office. You are so driven by purity that you turn the perfect into the enemy of the good.

McCain turned Palin into a national figure. We would not even be having a conversation about Palin being a national figure without such. Palin knows it, and so do the realists - you know, the people who try to figure out how to add 10.1 percent to 40 percent every four years.

40 percent.

You presume that 100 percent of the electorate will show up to vote, which has never actually happened.

You are so driven by purity that you turn the perfect into the enemy of the good.

I am merely insisting on adherence to a set of core principles.

If you feel that it is necessary to violate those core principles, or not to have any at all, in order to merely win, then go right on ahead.

I won't be joining you.