[smoothsailing]

I have no doubt that Palin will get into this thing and when she does, we just might be able to secure a massive mandates a year from November and get ourselves out of the mess that we are in.

I look forward to that.

I currently support Rick Perry, and would welcome the opportunity to support Sarah Palin were she to become an announced candidate. I've said many times that I thought the two would make a fine General Election ticket. I've called them my dream team.

In keeping with your correct assertion that we should not now annoint Mitt Romney or Rick Perry, but look to more conservative candidates such as Santorum, Cain, or Bachmann, that certainly must apply to Sarah as well. Let's not annoint anyone until we've seen the primary process play out over the coming months.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't advocate for a particular candidate if we are so inclined, and it would be in the best interests of Free Republic to do so in a spirit of civility and good cheer.

And may the best man or woman win! :)

[ASA Vet]

I've called them my dream team.

Here's my dream team.

[Nextrush]

I really don’t want to tear into the various candidates, but I believe this is a serious game with political insiders pushing their candidates hard and tearing into the others.

My operating assumption is that the powers that be in the GOP want Romney.

But there’s been a big push for Perry in the last month or two. Is it to replace Romney or suck up conservatives so their votes will be split between Perry and others so Romney wins?

My guess is the latter.

Sarah Palin is probably the strongest candidate in the GOP field who is authentically an outsider.

She would really change things in Washington instead of just slowing down the debt and spending slide.