[Springfield Reformer]

I don’t like Palin stringing the conservative base along as she sells book and gets speaking fees.

Are you a socialist? Do you think she should have short-circuited her earning potential just so the "conservative collective" could pick up the entire tab for her presidential run? Or is it better if she can be frugal and pay her own way to some extent with good old private capital acquired for the free market value of her labor? Especially when that financial independence is a key part of her campaign theme, you know, no crony capitalism, no obligations to big money, a candidate genuinely free to do the right thing. You really have a problem with that? Inquiring minds want to know...

[Niteflyr]

Are you a socialist? Do you think she should have short-circuited her earning potential just so the "conservative collective" could pick up the entire tab for her presidential run? Or is it better if she can be frugal and pay her own way to some extent with good old private capital acquired for the free market value of her labor? Especially when that financial independence is a key part of her campaign theme, you know, no crony capitalism, no obligations to big money, a candidate genuinely free to do the right thing. You really have a problem with that? Inquiring minds want to know...

Yeah so amazing how so many free market capitalists attack someone who is a successful free market capitalist...making money the old fashioned way...earning it...

[Carling]

I think it's fantastic that Palin is making a ton of money. I just think it's a bit disingenuous of her to use her position in the media to take potshots at the GOP field, and I also don't like her stringing along the base, and basically causing divisions in that base, by playing some “will I or won't I” game. If she believes that Obama must be defeated, then she should give up her media job, enter the debates, and tell the GOP base why she is the woman to defeat Obama and get America back on track.

Giving paid speeches to Tea Party crowds isn't entering the debate, and if some of you can't see how this silly waffling by Palin is turning some people off to her as a candidate, then I question your political acumen and instincts.