I’m glad we may be getting these folks’ vote, but I’m not sure we want to exactly invite these kooks in our party either. The only thing we have in common, is the desire to see Obama lose. I know...i know...the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that jive.
We need to be careful and not do what the Dems did with Obama, and make Sarah Palin godlike. It is her Alaskan pioneer spirit and down-to-eathedness that makes her special. She is a human. Pray for her.
You make a good point. Mass crowd adoration can poison a person. Yes, pray for her. She will be facing unspeakable pressure for the next two months....and who knows how many years after that. She has gone from zero to sixty in two seconds.
Believe me, I well understand your trepidation, but we may have more in common with the PUMAs than just wanting to see Obama lose.
These PUMAs are "mavericks" in their own right, and as such, are fiercely independent thinkers. They're not marching in lock-step with the Democrat party, and saw the shameful treatment of Hillary just like we did.
Don't forget how surprised and shocked we all were when the PUMAs first appeared. Our default considerations of Democrat voters were shattered by these rebels.
These folks are hopping mad, and that is a lot higher on the emotional scale than the average, covert liberal Democrat. I say let 'em in, and share what we have with them. I have no doubt that many, if not most will come to understand that conservatism is the bastion of the real rebels and patriots. Let 'em in so they can discover what real independence of thought within a group is like.
Think about it ... even Ronaldus Magnus was once a Democrat. And you know what happened when he got mad with the Dems? He became a Republican.