Stop being a mouthpiece for the left.
There was obvious tension between McCain and Palin on at least the global warming issue - maybe others. She deferred to his position as the VP should.
The state-run media has always worked overtime to trip Conservative candidates or edit them in the most unflattering way. She more than made up for that in the debate and multiple interviews and speeches during the campaign.
You have your warped opinion. I have the reaction of hundreds of voters who literally came out of the woodwork to volunteer and campaign BECAUSE of her addition to the ticket. And that was just a handful of precincts here in Texas where I have connections. I’m sure there are hundreds, if not thousands of precincts with similar stories.
You obviously hate her, but have offered nobody as an alternative except Newt. And that was priceless. Thanks for playing.
I’m not being a “mouthpiece for the left.”
I’m contributing my voice to what I believe conservatives need to be doing to avoid more embarrassment and defeat.
There is a time to put our best face forward, and a time to be honest with ourselves and each other.
If Palin somehow captures the 2012 GOP nomination, then I will have no choice but to swallow hard and put my best defense for her forward. But it will be an uphill battle, and I guarantee you, we will spend the entire election cycle doing just that: defending her. We will never be on offence with a candidate like Palin, only defence. And you cannot win that way. The best defence does is minimize your loss of ground. You never advance with it, though. And you cannot win by minimizing your loss.
Voters want solutions. If we put forward a thinker who can make a good case for conservative approach to fixing the mess we’re in, and the mess 0bama is making, then we can win. But putting Palin up instead would be simply holding her up and saying “vote for her because she’s a woman, because she’s not 0bama, because she’s a conservative, because she’s a Republican.” It would be trolling for votes based on identity, not ideas. It would be hoping she could get enough votes because enough people are excited about what she represents, the way so many were excited by what 0bama represents. It would be hoping that America says “OK, now that we’ve had a black president, how about we break some more barriers and elect a woman president!” But she really has nothing going for her outside of identity politics, and we all know that, deep down.