“All my non-FR conservative friends are not that crazy about Palin. They are VERY crazy about winning.”
Interesting. My non FR conservative friends are evenly split between Palin and Perry , with a few Bachman’s...
Perhaps you and your friends are not quite as conservative as you think.
Some of them have been active in conservative politics for decades. I am still learning from them.
They are all politically pragmatic, however—even the ones who were starting their own party to the right, in some ways, of all the Republicans and have since abandoned the effort in recognition of the necessity of getting rid of Obama before we have no repubic left.