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I think all the “Palin can’t win” talk is stupid. I’m also not worried about Palin being a negative influence if she decides to run for President.

I think anybody who manages to win the nomination has a reasonable chance of winning. Heck, even John McCain was within striking distance of Obama for a short time before he totally screwed up “handling” the economic meltdown — in one week managing to convince a majority of America that picking “the guy with experience” wasn’t really all that much help.

And if Palin doesn’t win the nomination, I really don’t think the Palin supporters are going to lock themselves in their bathrooms and cry themselves to sleep. A lot of them claim they’ll vote 3rd party, but 4 years of Obama has, I hope taught us all one valuable lesson — elections matter. We now know the answer to the question “how much damage could they really do in 4 years”.

So for now, once again I guess one of my tasks is to mediate, to keep us from getting so angry about other people’s candidates that we can’t bring ourselves to support them.

After all, SOMEONE is going to win the nomination. It will likely be a person who is in the race, and someone who we have all gotten upset at some time or another. It would be nice if we haven’t managed to immolate every one of our candidates before the general election starts — especially if it’s in the defense of someone who never becomes a candidate.