“It might be wise to have a Romney/DeMint ticket in 2012 and make the realization that Palin’s time has come and unfortunately gone.”
Me thinks you underestimate Governor Palin. Romney can’t hold a candle to Sarah Palin.
Besides, Palin is headed for Hollywood...see post on this site.
Romney?
Don't know what his plans are, and I have my doubts that he can re-ignite something he failed to ignite this year, the base of the Republican Party.
It just that hindsight is 20/20 and Romney as Veep would've energized the base, split the single white woman voters because he has sex appeal like Obama, and provided a strong economic hand during troubled times. He should've been the veep and we would've won.
Sure Palin is a great conservative personality, but she just doesn't possess the skills and knowledge necessary to pull of a successful national candidacy. Don't get me wrong, I like Palin. In fact, I like her more than Romney, but that doesn't change my judgment of who amongst them would make a better candidate.
And I am not blaming Palin for the loss, that's largely McCain'z fault because he failed to ignite the base and about six million Republican voters stayed home or voted for Obama. Yes Obama! Exit polls indicate Obama got 18% of the voting Republicans.
In fact, if it had been Palin v Obama we probably would've won.