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Solid evidence? Tell me one other conservative with the name recognition she has that will stir up conservatives to a fever pitch.

I like Rand Paul, as well. But he has nowhere the name recognition Sarah has, and I am not sure he can gain that within the next 3 1/2 years.

But, the RNC will run Rubio in 2016, and he will lose to Andrew Cuomo.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

So if you don't want to vote for Rubio, don't. No member of the RNC can force you to vote for someone you don't want to.

I thank you for your opinion about Palin--it's as valid as any at this point.

Like I said, my number one criteria is who can win. We must win, if there is another election.

But this brings us to another point, there are two themes that run through FR. One is to hate the Republican party and the other is to love Sarah Palin. NOW, if Palin runs for president, isn't she going to need a healthy, unified Republican party? So why would we deliberately weaken it? It's not in our own best interest.