If it is your intention, or hers, to redefine American Conservatism, it is you who are practicing an exercise in futility, and it is against that motive that I rise so strongly in dissent. Conservatism does *not* need redefining. As Reagan said, Conservatism is timeless. What we believe is true, and the people know it to be true. It rings like a bell.
What is truly needed is to return to what made the Republicans great. Return to Reagan Conservatism. Defining a "conservatism" to fit the Republican mold will not solve the problem, and neither will it staunch the flow of Conservatives abandoning the party for greener pastures.
That is why I asked if Palin could harness the typical 3 pillars of Conservatism, and beyond all the insults, and meager defenses, it turns out that we must redefine Conservatism to fit Palin?
That is *not* a plan for success. That is a plan of division.
Conservatism and Republicans are not mutually exclusive. You should know that. And you are also the one who is making the tie Palin must be like Reagan tie as well.