Those Republican friends of yours need to look at Palin’s record as mayor and governor. Her pro-life stance is personal, in her own words, and she has never, in 8 years as a mayor or 2 years as governor, pushed a socially conservative agenda.
RE “Those Republican friends of yours need to look at Palin’s record ...”
Voters are not changing what they look at to conform with any of our wishes. Elected/running Republicans need to learn to sell ideas, and in many cases they need sellable ideas.
Palin is hard to judge fairly because she was second on a ticket where the top McCain was crappy, and he needed a boost from her. She still had to conform with his crappy campaign strategy and handlers, a campaign strategy that changed every few weeks. All while the media thought it critical to bring her down, she did challenge them to do so in her kickoff speech.