No, I see from this post who you support:
“I am holding out hope that Jim DeMint will change his mind and run and, barring that, am currently leaning towards Herman Cain or Tim Pawlenty while hoping that someone better steps forward. Sarah Palin is fairly far down my list, however.”
Only one of them has any executive experience in government at all. And have you happened to see how conservative his record is? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGPwEHqz5bU
You’re right - I support Jim DeMint first, because he is by far the most conservative person whose name has even been tossed around - more so than Sarah Palin.
I would support Herman Cain second, since he’s also very conservative, and I’m willing to give him a mulligan on the 2008 TARP support thing (IIRC, he’s admitted to being wrong on that, btw).
I would support Pawlenty next, because his record in Minnesota, while not perfect, is reasonably good, and frankly, he’s probably the kind of mainstream (but not FReeper redmeat) conservative who would still govern to the right most of the time, while still being “electable.”
Next would be a cluster with Palin, Santorum, Rick Perry, Butch Otter, and a few others in it - all folks who have a few drawbacks, but are much better than worse - but who just don’t “excite” me politically.
Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson - all of them are right out.
So yeah, I’m not ashamed to support others ahead of Palin, and I don’t see any reason why I should be.