You are exactly right. I have no doubt Palin could win a majority of conservatives and Republicans. Unfortunately it takes WAY more than that to win a national election. If she runs, we will find out.
I cannot join you in shouting out my willingness to accept whatever candidate the media and the dems can foist on us. There is a bottom line necessary to get my support. An ardent opponent of the 1st amendment, who also champions amnesty and cap-and-trade, doesn’t fit that bill. Neither does the former governor who signed and defends to this day the nation’s first statewide socialist medicine plan. Neither does the former governor of a small state with big-state governmental spending habits.
I have minimum standards for supporting a candidate. I have never espoused the 100% - or even 90% - frame of mind, but I do have a few “must have” issues.
According to you, I have to abandon those principles if the party fields a candidate who goes against them.
I’d say you need to look the word “principle” up again.
I am not - let me say that again *I AM NOT* - a Palin=or-nobody voter. I have not chosen who I will throw my support to - in large part because nobody has even officially entered the ring. BUT, I do know several potential candidates I cannot support.
And shouting at me that my adherence to core principle is the reason why the GOP loses elections is laughable. After all, such truths prevented Reagan from ever being elected in the first place, and he never got 49 states in his reelection campaign, either.