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"If she is as smart as I think she is she will take some time to unwind and rest up and then start to network with conservative leaders in the GOP and work to reestablish conservative control of the party. This can be done and in fairly short order if it is started now while the party is in disarray and the RINOs are discredited. And if she does this she needs to reach out to the talk radio barons and to the rightwing blogosphere. "

Best post on the thread- and I read the whole thread. She IS the nominee if she does the neccessary work (and any Republican candidate needs to do a whole lot of work).

Okay, so Palin then wins the Republican nomination in 2012 and is in total control of a Republican Party that appeals only to conservative Republicans and is headed by an individual that has a national UNFAVORABLE rating of 53% right now.

What then?

Lose the 2012 Presidential Election 27% to 73%?

Of all the people in the Republican Party, are there no better candidates for 2012 than a woman that has been Governor since only December 4, 2006 of a state that has less than one third the population of Dade County, Florida who has been, fairly or unfairly, "Dan Quayled" to the point that, to over half of the American voters, "Sarah Palin" is synonymous with "the punchline of a joke".

I repeat:
Best post on the thread- and I read the whole thread. She IS the nominee if she does the neccessary work (and any Republican candidate needs to do a whole lot of work).

Everyone's so emotional about this!

We've got some good candidates. Whichever can find an acceptable and promising way to an electoral victory will be the one who deserves our support.
It ain't going to be easy, and that way may be a surprise.
Hard work will be a large part of that way IMO.
Hey, if some other person does that neccessary work instead then they will be the nominee.
Governor Palin obviously has the momentum- 4 years out.
But it comes down to who can find a way and make it work. It was the best post because it was on that subject.

Frankly, it is silly to the point of dishonesty to pretend this is 2012 or that the situation in 2012 will be what it is now.
The Governor has shown the world she is an excellent candidate in a very difficult situation. But naturally I expect even better of her with more experience.
You want another candidate, good luck. Build them up.

Positives and negatives are not static and can be shifted up or down. In politics nothing is static.

Palin may not be the leader the GOP needs. But she may be exactly the leader. Who knows at this point? We do know that she rallied the base big time and shows talent as a speaker and so there is certainly potential there.

Nixon was a lost cause after losing the presidential race on 1960 and then losing the race for California governor in 1962. He also had pretty high negatives and the press hated him. I submit that Mrs. Palin is far more likeable than Mr. Nixon.

We should not take the definitions of politicians supplied by the leftist press as gospel but as what they are: propaganda. The GOP must work to neutralize this. They have done it in the past and it can be done again.