[ZULU]

Then why are Democrat and Liberal activists so anti-Palin? If she is what you imply she is, she is no threat in an election or a primary.

But the vitiriol with which you people attack her is indicative of the very real threat an “average American” like her poses in a general election.

We have had it with “professional” politicians. “Professional” politicians created the mess we are now facing.

And I have far more confidence in the decisions of an average mainstream American than in the liberal elites in either party.

[mbraynard]

I've met lifelong, HARD-CORE Republicans who have told me they think she cost us the election.

If Ann Coulter can (politely) say she needs to go on a sabatical for the 2012 election, are we really all nuts?

Forget professional politicians - I mean professionals PERIOD. And you were the one who started calling people into question for failing a class at GWU.

Here's the #1 problem I have with Palin: I can't have as a president someone who knows LESS than I do about domestic and foreign policy - or someone who can't speak a sentence or three clearly without a newspaper.

We need to ask for MORE in our elected officials. Sanford and Romney aren't professional politicians - but they did make something of themselves academically and in the world.