[Darkwolf377]

I was in and in the GOP and worked to get him in office. He most assuredly was traveling out-of-state on the flimsiest of excuses and being called on it, and Romneycare was one of the few governing initiatives that wasn’t driven by the Democrat legislature, which probably ran the state (and the governor) more than at any time in the Commonwealth’s ignomious political history.

That is an astonishing thing to assert. Robert Travaglini, Sal DiMasi, the House and Senate bills of 2005...this isn't the Dem legislature driving the healthcare initiative??

Gov. Palin in contrast has a record of getting real achievements accomplished as governor, knowing how to inspire and how to lead. She’s clearly got a better grasp on nationwide influence, the media, clearly espousing and sticking to principles and just about anything else that is actually part of a president’s portfolio.

That's all just assertion. Let's see facts.

Just asserting things isn't going to get us anywhere. What are all of these real accomplishments? She inspires, sure, but so does Obama (just not us), and where is the evidence she knows how to lead? I keep HEARING people say this--what are the examples? As for her grasp on the media--how can you say that after the way she's been utterly demolished by the media?

[9YearLurker]

Romneycare was the initiative that Mitt preened about to the press as being the result of his great, deep, problem-solver thinking. He wrapped himself up in it at every chance he had.

And Palin’s accomplishments—from the new pipeline to becoming a national-debate-changing best-selling author and ratings-driving commentator and essayist—are there and obvious and measurable.