“I’ve looked carefully enough at all of the presumed hopefuls to conclude that Governor Palin outclasses them all by a country mile.”
That doesn’t mean that anyone who has concerns about her electability is “pushing the enemy line”.
No, it doesn't.
I'm a Palin supporter, but I have no issues with anyone who simply hasn't chosen a candidate to support. That's entirely understandable, given that most center-right voters aren't 1/10th as well-informed as most Freepers are.
However, I'm deeply suspicious of those who present themselves as informed conservatives, yet who question her "electability" at this late date. Palin is arguably the most well vetted candidate of the last century. Any conservative who's even passingly familiar with her record of public service, her positions on the issues, her writings and speeches, and her admirable personal qualities, can't possibly still question her electability.
She outshines most Republican presidential candidates (and even presidents) since at least the middle of last century.
For conservatives, the real question should be: what's it going to take to ensure her victory in 2012? Not, "is she electable"?
Where Palin is concerned, there appears to be three camps;
A) those who are very well-informed about her, and who support her for president,
B) those who have mostly drawn their opinions of her from the biased MSM, and remain ambivalent or undecided about her, and
C) those who are very well-informed about her, but who stand in the opposite ideological corner to her. These folks vehemently oppose her. Unfortunately, some of them pose as Republicans and conservatives.