Who is the person you would choose for president in the next election?
Conservatives don’t have a viable candidate at this point.
DeMint, Jindal and Palin look the best so far, but DeMint will suffer for playing into the media caricature of the party, Jindal doesn’t have good international credibility and Palin has to boost her gravitas and undo the damage done to her by her unfortunate media debut (for which I think the McCain campaign was largely responsible for overprogramming her and handcuffing her to stay on message—that’s the only reason I can think of that Palin couldn’t name a single newspaper she read).
So Palin’s still in the running, but for me she’s not the slamdunk others want her to be.