[Polybius]

Palin is neither a RINO elitist, nor a crackpot third party Paul-pod, but a mainstream Reagan conservative.

...with hardly any governing experience and a warehouse full of tabloid baggage. What little governing experience she had ended with a resignation before finishing her first term as Governor of a state with half the population of San Diego, CA.

So Palin is a "mainstream Reagan conservative". So are thousands of FReepers on this forum except that thousands of us do not have a family situation, straight out of a Jerry Springer Show, plastered all over the tabloids.

Outside the Sarah Palin Fan Club, Palin is neither adored nor "hated". She is merely mocked just as Tom Cruise is mocked for jumping on Oprah's couch and Jon and Kate are mocked for their public divorce dramas. All of them are mocked because mocking messed up family situations sells papers and magazines.

Yes, Palin draws "big" crowds at book signing. We are a large country and a small percentage of a large population seems "large". Even the lowly Detroit Lions managed to draw 67,000 fans to the stadium when they played in Seattle.

Palin is currently an entertainment personality raking in Big Bucks from adoring fans that make up a small percentage of the total American electorate. She is not a viable candidate in a general Presidential election.

The American electorate already elected one person without experience to be POTUS and America is beginning to get a major case of Buyer's Remorse. America will not make that mistake twice.

The winning nominee for 2012 has not yet thrown the hat in the ring and, right now, is out there somewhere governing and not hawking books or giving paid speeches at $100,00 a pop.

[catfish1957]

I agree... I am as conservative as they come, but there is something about this woman that is troubling to me. One being having to see the Couric interview replayed 10,000 times in 2012. Second is as you allude, a scandal at every turn.

Problem is who else is there at this point?

[SoCalPol]

What Levi who is not a member of the Palin family does hasno more connection than he does with your family.

I worked for Reagan in his first campaign for gov.
Have met him, saw him many time in person as Gov. and President.
Sarah Palin is the closest to Reagan in views and drawing and energizing crowds.

Huckabee who is a shyster keeps his extra size sons out of the picture expscially the one who was kicked out of the boy scouts for killing a dog.

Then there is MittWitt with his 5 sons who never served in the military.
Sarah Palin’s son just returned from serving a year in Iraq.

None of the Wanna-Bes stand a chance over Palin.

[SmokingJoe]

“Yes, Palin draws “big” crowds at book signing. We are a large country and a small percentage of a large population seems “large”. Even the lowly Detroit Lions managed to draw 67,000 fans to the stadium when they played in Seattle.
Palin is currently an entertainment personality raking in Big Bucks from adoring fans that make up a small percentage of the total American electorate. She is not a viable candidate in a general Presidential election”

Yeah?
Now why don’t you chew on these numbers from Rasmussen?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2012/dobbs_

And these:
She is currently running neck and neck with 0bama amongst independents:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390124/posts

And I quote:
“Among the critical segment of independent voters, they are virtually even (Obama at 50 percent; Palin at 49 percent).”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/19/fox-news-poll-palin-going-rogue/

Let’s see anyone from your Detriot Lions ccome even close to that.

And hey? You can send the picture of your rather gay looking poofter and his stupid antics back to Daily Kos where he belongs.

[kanawa]

Cool, we're doing pictures? Here's one...

[MaggieCarta]

PS: Leave the Lions alone!!!!!

[Larry Lucido]

Please don’t tie up FR bandwidth with pictures of your boyfriend.