I would go for Sarah Palin simply because she has such a devastating effect on Liberals! If I new absolutely nothing else about her the way she makes the head of a Liberal explode tells me she's a good choice. Add to that her additional qualities and it would be all but impossible, IMHO, to do any better.
She's going to take a whole lot of guff between now and the next election. We've got to make sure she get defended and supported at every stage of the game.
It’s been a struggle getting people over the knee jerk, third rail response—”it can’t be done”—to the formation of a new second oppositon party. However, of those people who do respond lately the trend is toward the need to form a new party.
I think it needs to be called something different than “conservative” or any of of the “conservative sect” parties that are out there today. IMO the conservative label has been successfully demonized by the left. To a majority of the US population being conservative means—among other things—gun toting right wingers who bomb abortion clinics or fire bomb black churches.
My choice for the new party name would be Constitutional Party. For one thing it more accurately describes what I’m about. For another it makes it difficult for the left to attack a Constitutionalist without also attacking the Constitution itself. However, if someone comes up with a better choice I will gladly sign on.