[monocle]

Your response was exactly what I was expecting. It may well be that all polls show Obama is winning which suggests that we attempt to pick the strongest candidate we can and further suggests we should not choose a candidate with high negative ratings. I agree with Sarah on most, if not all, of the issues but I am not willing to nominate someone who may hand the election to Obama.

I don't if you are old enough to remember the Johnson/Goldwater election in which after the election polls showed a majority of the public held views more closely to Goldwater than Johnson. Which goes to show how powerful images created by the media are and how these images influence the outcome of elections.

[ansel12]

If we can’t get the most popular Governor in America, one of the two top candidates, a proven phenomenal campaigner, a whirlwind that delivered one of the greatest conservative elections in American history in 2010, and the true fighter of the 2008 Presidential election cycle into the White House because of media problems, then we may as well give up entirely and never try to break out of the Bob Dole, Mitt Romney, HW Bush, John McCain list of media approved GOP candidates ever again.

Governor Palin is something that we never expected, a second Reagan conservative that is an Alpha politician, the reality is that we never have that in a front tier candidate, ever, Palin is a rare fluke, we have no choice but to give this all we have, or else freerepublic may as well give up on Presidential politics and concentrate on lessor elections only.

[unseen1]

again the polls show Obama beating every candidate even the ones with low negatives. We need a fighter not a squish.