She is the walking, breathing embodiment of what liberals SAY they want a woman to be--independent, achieving things on her own without special favors, while also having a good marriage and bringing up a good family...AND (this is the worst of her "sins"), she is pro-life and walked the walk even with a child born with Down's Syndrome. THAT is the unforgivable. Oh, and she's attractive, shoots guns, and has gone after corruption in her own party. How could they NOT hate her--she's against everything they CLAIM to be for, yet the result is what they really all want to be, and can't.
What upsets me is it seems she is trying to appease and please the people that hate her.
What difference does this kind of thing make? I'm sorry, you can't win a national election by appealing only to conservatives. Ronald Reagan proved that--he was a conservative who appealed to non-conservatives without sacrificing his conservative principles. People voted for him because while they may not have had the same political persuasion, they felt he believed what he proclaimed and came across as reasonable. Ditto Scott Brown--just today I talked to a Boston democrat operative who hasn't voted Republican in decades--and he said "I voted for Scott Brown, he's just a regular guy, very reasonable..." before I could even ask how he felt about the election.
Outside the Republican party example.. showing up on Oprah,
Reagan would have appeared on Oprah if in the same situation--why not Palin?
Inside example... campaigning for McCain.
She owes him, she pays him back. I respect loyalty, and would have lost respect for her if she tossed him over.
I think Palin could do the same thing Scott Brown did on a national level and win as a conservative.
but she doesn’t seem to want to fight for it.