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I agree with the import and the tenor of your post. It is a terribly sad situation for the conservative cause and no doubt for the Sarah Palin family personally. I am sure we all wish her well as I have no doubt she would wish the conservative movement.

Time is wasting, we must find someone who can articulate opposition to the Obama assault on liberties. If Sarah Palin were interested in running she would've made the case in her departure speech but she did not.

We have to get rid of the chairman of the Republican National Committee and put somebody in there who can keep his foot out of his mouth and make the case against the affront to our liberties both economic and personal. We need someone who can establish a discipline in the House and the Senate and Boehner has taken giant strides recently to redeem a lackluster history and might prove to be the man in the house. The Senate is very problematical but that is the nature of the institution. I am not at all sanguine about our ability to hold the line on Cap and Trade.

We have a crusade to fight and we need a fighter to lead it. Sarah Palin has taken herself out of contention as a fighter. We have to move on.

If Sarah Palin were interested in running she would've made the case in her departure speech but she did not.

Timing is everything. It is far too early to attack zer0's administration head on. She needs to wrap up the Governorship properly, establish herself in the lower 48 on issues for awhile and only then will she be in a position to attack The One directly. And then only if she is, in fact, running for POTUS which she so far has NOT announced.

Nothing can be known about her strategy yet because she hasn't said what her specific goals are.

I would just like to point out to you and Bob that the beliefs you share on Mrs Palin are correct...but no longer apply in the present.

Consider that it was an axiom that the Democrats could never expect to nominate a hard left candidate and in no way would such a candidate have any chance to be elected President. That belief is of course no longer valid.

In the past, you could consider her actions as enough of a negative to slam the door shut on her possibly every becoming the President. That belief I think is also no longer valid.

The reason I feel this way is the bulk of our electorate no longer vote with the same patterns that were reliable in the past. Again I point to our current popular vote TOTUS.

I have the feeling that if Mrs. Palin decided that she was going to be serious about 2012, the path that would be most effective would be the one she has chosen in regards to the relentless attacks and the effects of multiple scenarios.

I could be wrong with my speculation, but I do not believe that her opportunity to win the Republican nomination is any worse now than it was a week ago.

you said: We have a crusade to fight and we need a fighter to lead it. Sarah Palin has taken herself out of contention as a fighter. We have to move.

fine, go find someone else and if SP gets the nomination in 2012 after a very effective 3 years of speaking and campaigning, you will support her, correct?

I would have voted for any R put up Zero is so bad. What I won’t do is be so dismissive of a candidate with obvious good qualities as SP.

the damning with faint praise from too many here is either a sign of rhino, DU, or at best eccentric erratic rambling conservative.

Why so dismiss SP at least until your white knight appears on the horizon?

Not only do we need to replace Michael Steele at the RNC, but we also need to replace the lackluster GOP leadership in Congress. It's almost like Republicans in the House and Senate are going out of their way to be dull and not get any media attention for their message.

Replacing John Boehner with Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell with Jim DeMint would accomplish that.
These are too energetic and charasmatic leaders who could articulate the Republican message of limited government and fiscal restraint for the American people. Americans need to know what Republicans stand for. The GOP leadership is not doing a good job of getting that message out. So it is time to get them out.

“We have to get rid of the chairman of the Republican National Committee and put somebody in there who can keep his foot out of his mouth and make the case against the affront to our liberties both economic and personal.”

Steele was an excellent choice for RNC chairman. If you knew anything about the RNC, you would know that.

If Sarah replaces him, she will be the democrats worst nightmare.