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LOL, and Palin is the perfect conservative????

Wow. How did you read all of that and still completely miss the point? Bravo!

The point is that Palin may very well not be a "perfect conservative". The point is also that there is NO SUCH THING. Not Reagan. Not Hayworth. Nobody. Get used to it and get over it.

Get used to it and get over it.

I understand your point, and in addition to it tend to think there will never be a politician that I agree with on everything or will be, in my view, a 'true conservative'.

My point is that, based on her performance as governor, Palin is not a conservative, in particular her fiscal policy. Also, the conservative viewpoints she now expresses we did not see when she was governor here. Massive tax hikes on oil, blocking access to oil/gas development (both on the slope and in Cook Inlet), expanding Denali Kids Care (basically state-run kiddie healthcare). She did nothing to push back against the Fed Gov, which is the biggest landholder here. To top it off, her union husband was sending confidential e-mails to her right before her administration's tax hikes.

Her 'common sense, low tax, etc' views on energy development are hard to listen to, because she did the complete opposite when she was in Juneau. Though I do love listening to her preach about ANWR, because its a federal lease and if it were developed wouldn't be hit as hard by her state taxes. I don't think you understand or appreciate the irony in that.