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I have not made up my mind about Palin. The #1 thing she has done to make me skeptical is her support for Perry over Medina. Perry is a wonderful example of what is wrong with Texas politics.

I'm an easterner not familiar with Texas politics so I can't credibly argue with that statement but I don't see Texas going into bankruptcy like other states and Perry seems to have addressed the Mexican immigration issue fairly well. He is pro-life and hardly a 'RINO'.

Some of you appear to be Palin loons. I don’t think Palin is a loon, but I think some of you have lost your minds. I haven’t made up my mind and all I see are attacks without any real argument on why I should support her..

As I'm sure you meant to note but simply forgot in your haste to submit your post, I am not a 'loon' and I haven't 'attacked' anyone. I've simply noted that some of the venom directed at Sarah Palin seems to come from so-called conservatives - and that it is troubling. One wonders what 'conservative' means to some folks.

I suspect to some, it's a way of finding fault with any politician that dares to run for office as a conservative Republican. To those folks, no human being is ever 'conservative' enough, unless the would-be candidate has absolutely no chance of being elected. Then, they're just fine. Of course, as with all comments here, this is simply my opinion.

A, “Hey, she supported Perry because she thinks . . . .” would do. As it stands, she is supporting 1 of 2 elitists for governor.

I can't speak for Sarah Palin but I have to assume that Rick Perry has shown the kind of leadership that she admires in a fellow politician. Kay Bailey Hutchison trails Perry in the polls and I agree that she is an elitist. I don't know enough about Rick Perry to make that same assessment. Debra Medina seems to lean heavily toward libertarian positions - which can be problematic in some situations - and is coming up in the polls but very likely will lose in the March 2nd primary election.

I believe that Sarah Palin endorsed Rick Perry because she considered him the most conservative Republican in the race with a good record of accomplishment as governor over the past decade. I'm sure she doesn't agree with Perry on every single issue you can think of but on the majority, which is the best you can ever hope for in politics. No politician will ever reflect our individual views 100% on every conceivable issue and a politician that has governed a large state for ten years will inevitably have made decisions you can find fault with. So what?

As long as the candidate has core conservative values and has demonstrated those in his or her decisions affecting public policy, that person is worth endorsing. Playing 'more conservative than thou' and favoring usually unelectable libertarian candidates may feel good but accomplishes little in the world of politics.

Frankly, I'm not at all sure that Sarah Palin really wants to run for president but right now, I would vote for her. If she endorses someone else as the 2012 GOP candidate, I would seriously consider that person. Sarah Palin is the real thing and both she and her message of individuality and smaller government resonates with the American people, tired of allegedly 'brilliant' socialists masquerading as 'progressives' and weak-willed Republican politicians that seem to want to follow the left but do so at a slower pace.

Granted, Palin's endorsement of John McCain is disappointing but I'll cut her some slack - that many simply will not - on the loyalty issue and assume that she won't work too hard for the old fellow.

I'm not 100% behind Sarah Palin for president in 2012 just yet but the jeers and sometimes petty criticisms aimed at her from the right are disturbing in light of her sincere conservative values that generate unrelenting attacks on her from the left on a daily basis and her immense popularity with many Americans, despite the media-fed attacks on her values, politics, family and even her appearance. It's just wrong and a gigantic turn-off to conservatives like me, old enough to recall the similar attacks heaped on Ronald Reagan 30 years ago when he was moving toward the 1980 GOP presidential nomination. No, Palin isn't Reagan but as Mark Twain wrote: "History may not repeat - but it does rhyme". In Sarah Palin's case, I hope it does.