[Sudetenland]

Sarah has a long way to go before I'll buy into her. She's charismatic enough, for sure, but she has domestic problems with which she must deal...I have yet to have seen a ring on her single-parent daughter's hand...and she has a long way to go in her performances during interviews.

She bombed on during Gibson's interview and Couric's interview and was only competitive in her debate with Biden-and that should have been a cake-walk for any capable Conservative candidate.

She has yet to have demonstrated that she has the depth of knowledge and seriousness of attitude to garner my support.

It is absolute madness to jump on anyone's bandwagon yet. To do so would be making an irrational and emotional decision.

Whomever I support will have to earn it over the next two years.

[ozarkgirl]

Yes, we have a couple years to deal with it but I can’t agree with the rest.

Who among us can’t say we haven’t had a “pre-marriage” situation in our families? I think it just puts her among the normal people. I know she’ll get the vote of the midwest because it happens. Having a family member become pregnant before marriage has happened since time immorial. It’s unfortunate they didn’t get married before the baby was born but has no bearing in her political career.

[Lou Budvis]

While I agree that it’s far too early to nominate a candidate for ‘12, there are a couple thing that need to be addressed.

“I have yet to have seen a ring on her single-parent daughter’s hand”
-I could not care less if Bristol Palin ever gets married. That’s her business.

“She bombed on during Gibson’s interview”
-Gibson misquoted her words. Also Gibson proved HIS ignorance about stem cell research when he failed to recognize that Palin was referring to pluripotent stem cells when she was talking about skin cells, which IS the most promising area of stem cell research. Contrary to Gibson, the cutting edge researchers in this area are moving away from embryonic stem cell research.