“Rush Limbaugh pretty much laid that naive notion to rest when he described that she had no choice. “
When I require a celebrity to make my opinions for me, I’ll be a Democrat.
“You do remember that Palin, as the nation’s leading conservative politician, that the media would never have let things happen in the simple way that you fantasize.”
Choosing to go against everything you claim you support for the sake of avoiding media attacks that will happen anyway is INDEED the actions of a politician, but not a leader or a statesman.
You are welcome to your opinion anonymous poster, but when you dismiss Rush Limbaugh as merely a "celebrity" then your opinion becomes very easy to ignore, I notice that you left out Jim Robinson completely, he seems unworthy of even a mention to you.
A couple of things wrong with that, one, no one has 'gone against everything they claim to support', that is one of those hyperbolic statements.
The most childish thing of all is that a politician can be a statesman without politics, if you want to lead the United States as President then you better be one of the top politicians in the world, if you are a conservative destined to become a "statesman" then you better be as good a politician as the greatest Republican politician of all time, Ronald Reagan.
If you want a "statesman" that isn't a "politician" then come to my house, or the house of the many freepers that are pure in their views but have no power, or results to show for it. To change the world, you have to win the politics to hold the office, and then you have to be a master politician to herd the cats that are competing with and are opposed to your goals, Palin did that well in Alaska.
Reagan accomplished what he did, not because he made the wrong decision and ended his "political" career somewhere along the way like an Alan Keyes, or a Ron Paul, or a Pat Buchannon, or the guy that never even got onto the local city council, Reagan got his "statesmen" like accomplishments because he won at "politics".