[MacMattico]

I agree with you 100%. And I'd vote for her in a heart beat if she were the nominee. And if some one else gets the nomination and wins, they will owe her a lot, because she has been out there fighting the fight and taking the flack. Maybe that's the Republican plan, because she seems to be able to take anything they throw at her and throw it right back, and in some ways she is like a lightning rod, though not much fault of her own, she's the target the libs aim at the most. Let the left use their ammunition on some one that can deflect it and take it, and if that means she doesn't win the white house but we find a conservative that can, that would be great too. It be to funny to see Katie Couric with a stack of distortions already to attack Palin with and in walks a candidate they aren't ready for.

[arthurus]

The left hates Palin viscerally for one main reason - she is a woman who is not Left. That is unforgivable to them because it contradicts their whole worldview in which minorities are Leftist because they need the protection and direction of the wise superior leftist White Men. Women are still an official minority in that the left sees them as weak and derivative just as they see blacks and Latinos and every other group other than White Men and Orientals. Only those two last groups are granted legitimacy for having other viewpoints (though those other viewpoints are not legitimate) because only those groups are granted fully human status. The left hates nonleft White Men (and their subgroup, Orientals) as one tribe hates and fears another. They disdain all others as lesser beings to be managed in herds.

The Democrats may put up an Obama or Hillary but they are a party run by a few white men for the benefit of a few white men.