[TwelveOfTwenty]

hillary can be stopped by someone whose articulate, intelligent, energetic and has good instincts as a constitutional conservative.

Agree, but why would a Conservative women be unable to accomplish this? If anything, a Conservative woman could go after Hillary on these issues without the leftists invoking the sexist card.

What we need is a US equivalent of Putin

Putin is a KGB (as in lost to Reagan) thug, whose only advantage is who we have in the White House.

[grania]

There's no woman who has been on that international stage an showing their instincts and strengths.

It's not Palin. Her negatives are such that she wouldn't win over hillary voters. Personally, I'm okay with Palin on a lot of issues, but she hsn't had the actual experiences on the world stage.