So when the media pours garbage all over your favorite candidate, then complains that they smell, you will abandon them? You can be assured that whoever is nominated will be trashed at the same level as Palin has been.
Gov. Palin won the nomination during the 2010 midterm election. She won it with the grassroots. You will know this when she announces her candidacy.
There is no cult here. There is a lot of admiration for someone who is real, has really lived her principles, and will fight against Obama’s agenda while others will do nothing.
The point is to win. If the Republicans don’t win in 2012 then Obama will. God knows what the country will look like after two terms of that man.
I like Sarah Palin because she is right politically and as a person seems to be genuinely morally good and grounded in Christian values. I doubt that she could win an election against Obama, though.
Reagan was an accomplished actor, and we forget this at our peril. He was able to project an image of control and self assurance which made people comfortable with voting for him as a leader. Goldwater was a good man with many of the same principles, but he lacked these things and was all too real to win. Palin doesn’t come across as a natural leader, and that matters. Obama won, after all - he has no qualifications or experience, but he did project the right sort of image, and that matters to a large portion of the electorate.
Incidentally, both Huckabee and Romney, I don’t trust, given their records as Governors. Romney could win, but would probably govern much as Obama has.
Gingrich would perhaps be a good President despite his personal moral failings. Personally, I am impressed by Rubio, but I suppose he’s a long shot.