>Take FR, for example. Freepers are spread out all across the country, and represent every demographic there is. Open any Palin thread and count the pro versus con posts, and see how she rates. It’s very high.<
I agree with that, but counting FR isn’t really counting the general population. For the most part Freepers are conservative. Considered by the lame stream media as right wing radicals.
I didn’t see her at the Reagan dinner, but again I would expect that there were conservatives there and would not expect her to get anything less than star quality treatment there. Even the press would fall all over her because the people she is supporting seem to be doing well.
Maybe the landscape will change because of that. I certainly hope so.
I would love to see her run with Michelle Bachmann on her ticket. What a team that would be for America!
As I said, "take FR for example". I didn't mean that you should take FR as a literal cross-section of America.
My point was that if you listen to what others are saying out beyond the small circle of intimates you referred to, you can get a better sense of how much support Palin has among the general public.
Actually, FR isn't a bad place to sample attitudes of the center-right. It's the largest gathering place of center-right/conservative/Republicans, and also Independents, on the internet. The views here are very representative of the mainstream.
The only view you can't sample here, is the liberal view, which only accounts for 20% of the US population, and who will not vote for Sarah Palin under any circumstances anyway.
I would vote for Bachman over Palin, she’s more of a leader.
I know she’s a favorite around here, and that’s fine, but my gut feeling is she cannot win. She has been so demonized and made into such a polarizing figure that her entering the race would energize Democrat voters to vote against her.
She would be much better as head of the NRC - and start in November, clearing that house of it’s corruption and deadweight, and rally the voters and other politicians into SUPPORT, which is what is most needed in 2012. ‘12 is going to be the fight of the millenium, and I just don’t see her winning. ‘12 is not just the Presidency, it’s also a lot of Senators who are sitting this one out, like Pelosi.
Granted, I don’t see anyone else out there yet, but there’s time.
I will state, however, with full conviction, that if the RNC is stupid and sleazy enough to run McCain, I will vote for her in a heartbeat as an independant, and urge everyone I know to do the same, and will campaign with her against McCain.
My fears of Palin are mostly because of her history, and how the left reacts - she’s our Hillary. But McCain is just sleazy and dishonest and scum, and if the RNC supports another Presidential run, I will never vote for or acknowledge the RNC as long as the current crop of politicians running it are still there.