Palin was no celebrity candidate. You signed up last month just to post this garbage? When we were pushing for Hunter, it was guys like you who would say “Hunter Who?” You’d have said the same about Palin. All along I kept saying it was the process that generates name recognition, and now everyone knows Sarah Palin. So get lost.
I look forward to the RINO purge from FR that will include guys like you.
I actually liked Hunter a lot, but he all but conceded before my primary.
Get a clue before insulting me online, big boy.
Oh, please. Duncan Hunter is a conservative in his blood. Palin cannot articulate her views convincingly. She spouts platitudes. When she deviates from the party line when it endorses big-government theft like the bailout bill, then I’ll take her seriously.
Sorry, but I have to agree with NationalConservative here, though I would have phrased it differently.
Palin is very likable, but her selection completely undermined John McCain’s argument against 0bama.
McCain should have recognized that picking Palin would make a hypocrite out of everyone — both Republicans and Democrats — but only Republicans are ever held accountable.
0bama’s inexperience was not held against him in his quest to become president, but Palin’s inexperience was held against McCain.
Neither McCain nor Palin ever developed a strong theme against 0bama, and both of them — particularly McCain — stepped on it as soon as it started taking off. McCain talked in short hand too much, acted like he was speaking on the Senate floor, and generally let 0bama get away with outrageous lies.
The McCain campaign did a lot of “what about those associations, eh?” but they never answered the question. Most importantly, they never painted a picture of the future under 0bama... something Brit Hume has done a better job of laying out clearly in the matter of the last 15 minutes than McCain did in 6 months.
So I agree, we do need someone who can make a good, convincing, coherent case, a Newt Gingrich or a Mitt Romney. Not that I think either one is necessarily the best candidate for 2012. I honestly don’t see a charismatic, solid common sense conservative on the horizon.