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"So what brings you back after your pathetic surrender last night?"

This.

When Obama won, it was like a kick in the gut to Conservatrive America. At that moment, there was very little light at the end of the tunnel. For tens-of-millions of Americans, myself included, that one speck of light in all that darkness was the single-brightest-shining-star in all of American Conservatism. That Star has a name, and you damn well know it.

Last night, after years of believing in that one most brightly shining ray of hope, Conservative America had its heart broken, and that ray of hope extinguished.

Just as her announcement for the presidency would have lit the night sky like fireworks, her turning her back on the CALL of her COUNTRY in its hour of deepest NEED just delivered another KICK TO THE GUT of Conservative America.

Of course there are still Conservative Americans. But that pinnacle of enthusiasm, the one-greatest Energizer Bunny for millions is now just a bad joke on us. The damage done is incalculable. I was wrong about Sarah, and I freely admit it. If you had asked me "Is it even possible that she would consider doing this to the Heart of Conservatism in America?" I would have replied with an emphatic "Hell no!"

But make it quick. The clock is ticking, and I don't see any EMT with a defibrillator rushing in to resuscitate this gasping patient. Let your jeers and guffaws be heartfelt and deep, for soon they will ring hollow in even your own ears.

I find no joy or satisfaction in this, for what it's worth... which ain't much. The enthusiasm she would have brought to the 2012 race is now just so many half-empty, listlessly sagging party ballons.

Y'all better hope Mr. Pizza has some tricks up his sleeve that we haven't seen yet, because a HUGE chunk of the conservative movement just took a double-tap center mass.

For those to whom the opportunity for schadenfreude outweighs your compassionate humanity, now is the time to kick me, and millions of other deeply trusting Americans in the nuts. We were wrong about Palin. Have your great laugh.

Who is laughing? Not me. In fact if you would kindly re-read my post to you this morning, you would find that I encouraged you to apply your obvious talents to the fight to get 0bama out of the White House. Where was the laughter? Where was the kick in the nuts? You were ready to immediately surrender last night, and you're talking about sailing off to the Caribbean and bailing out on America this morning. What kind of patriot are you anyway? If God forbid, Ronald Reagan had died in '81 after that attempted assasination, would you have bailed out when Poppy RINO took over? Don't be a quitter, find your spine man!

But make it quick. The clock is ticking, and I don't see any EMT with a defibrillator rushing in to resuscitate this gasping patient. Let your jeers and guffaws be heartfelt and deep, for soon they will ring hollow in even your own ears.

Thank God the likes of you were not part of General Washington's troops at Valley Forge. I thought you were made of sterner stuff.

Amen to your post 1178.

You nailed it.

And the whining of the now “victorious” political prophets on this thread (who until yesterday realistically only had a 50-50 chance of being right) is over the top.

You’d think they had been tortured or something. And they talk about us carrying on. Puh-leeze.

I feel kicked in the gut for the same reasons you do.

Now I have to adjust to a new political reality, but I don’t have to smile while doing so. Since Reagan, Palin was the only one I would have moved mountains for. I had hope for the GOP, for America, for MY family’s future.

Now, we have to determine which of the squishes, squishes least.

How exciting.

For those to whom the opportunity for schadenfreude outweighs your compassionate humanity, now is the time to kick me

Nah, no kicks.

Maybe a snotty smirk in passing is all.

I think Palin would have certainly added to the dialog of the election and probably have been a good president.

It sucks that so many had so much emotion invested though.
Gambling with such rare coin can lead to painful losses.

I guess that the reason that I’m not freaking out is that there are two - possibly three - good conservatives in the race.

SP wasn’t our last hope, for cryin’ out loud. If we were down to three RINOs, I’d be hitting the bottle right about now.

Yes, I’m pretty irritated about the dozen Palin freaks who rudely attacked anyone who even thought that she might not run. But I think that they got the message. (Well, most of them did.)

Time to move on. We do have other horses in this race and one of them is doing pretty well.