>>> I actually like the chances of a Conservaitve winning the nomination, should both Perry and Palin run. “ <<<
Very interesting points for thought! I acutally forgot about the Hillary girls and there are a few aren’t there! You are informed.
I really think Romney gets the RINOs, the Independents and the moderate dems. Perry can thread the needle and get those too, as you can tell from all the squealing going on here at FR, AND Perry can get the conservatives who don’t all live here on FR. What Rick does to Romney helps only Perry, because outside of conservatives and the Hillary girls you spoke of, Palin tanks. In other words Romney voters will never be Palin people, but they could be Perry voters.
You do have a great point on Palin intensity counting for something. It looks like, to me anyway, that she is confined to the intensity of her base alone and she knows that. She isn’t even trying to attract Independents (and would be skewered by her base “intensity” if she did). That’s why she isn’t running, because the Independents & moderates nationally are going to elect the next president and she isn’t one of ‘em and her supporters don’t sound like on FR anyway that they would let her move to the center/center left if she had run. This would be stroke territory for them with the intensity thing.
As an aside, did you see AND hear Sarah Palin’s speech in Madison? I mean HEAR it, not just the soundbites? If you didn’t, allow me to suggest that I have NOT seen anyone, not any candidate or possible candidate, look the union thugs AND the rank and file, right in the eye and call them out, tell them the truth, and shut them up like she did that day in the rain.
If you think she can’t reach people through looking them in the eye and telling them the truth, you are just flat wrong. For ALL of this, Americans who care about this country still have hope that things can turn around. With Palin, they will believe. With any one of the others, they will vote, but they won’t really know. THAT is the difference between HER and them.