Oh. OK, because YOU say so.
Palin was on the ticket. She generated plenty of excitement.
Obviously not enough to un-do the damage done by the candidate at the TOP of the ticket. Evey conservative knew that we were going to get a moderate/liberal administration with McCain. It was plain that after the way the McCain people "handled" Governor Palin at the beginning of their campaign that had they managed to pull out the win, she would have been the proverbial "bucket of warm spit" in his administration.
We have to appeal to a broader base.
"We" tried it. And lost.
Now it is time to appeal to Conservative principals, and the people who believe in them.
We did not try... we have been giving away voters for years.