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Palin's ACTUAL policy positions put her fairly squarely in the mainstream/center of the American polity. She'll turn a lot of current negatives into positives, or at least neutrals, once the American people actually get a chance to hear her positions, rather than the funhouse-mirror caricature Tina Fey positions the Ruling Class want the American people to think Palin holds.

Honestly, IMHO, she's probably a bit . . . libertarian AND populist for most "social conservatives" (but don't tell that to the "lamestream media" who wouldn't know a libertarian from an evangelical Christian from a neo-Conservative from a RINO if their lives depended on it.

We're ALL "right-wing wackos" to them.)

If she runs, she'll run against the whole Potomac River/Wall Street cesspool, and by doing that she'll get a whole lot of just-plain-folks people who wouldn't ordinarily give a Republican even a first glance.

To be honest, I think if she would go into some of the inner city, black-majority neighborhoods of some of the big cities and some of the Hispanic-majority neighborhoods in California and the rest of the south, engage in her usual face-to-face retail politics, speak "truth to power" the way she has always done, you would be ASTOUNDED at how positive a reaction she'd get--but that's just me and my opinion. I think Palin could target those key Democrat demographics with the message "they're taking you for granted. Aren't you tired of being taken for granted--I don't want to take you for granted. I want you to be FREE!" and make that message really connect.

(This may be why I'm not a professional political campaign consultant. Of course, I'm not sure Palin's in the market for professional political campaign consultants. Frankly, I'd offer the same advice to ANY Republican Presidential candidate who I thought could actually pull it off.)

If she doesn't get in, I'll likely vote Cain if I get a chance.

IMHO, she's probably a bit . . . libertarian AND populist for most "social conservatives"

Excellent post filbert, surprising you haven't gotten more replies.

There are some hard-shell so-cons here who apparently think Palin is going to tear into the "sodomites" and the Mormons like the apocryphal avenging grizzly. They are reading their views into hers and may be in for some disappointment.