Everything you say matches what I said. So are you right or wrong? We both say Sarah helped preserve the base. We both say that that was necessary because of McCain. In short, we agree. The problem is that all Sarah was able to do was help McCain break even with the base. That’s why I say she was a push, at best.
not a push because the base would not have gone anywhere for mccain.
I would have done NOTHING for a mccain candidate with a genetric VP. ZIP.
Most of the volunteers I met were of the same mind. (conservatives for a person, sorry mr. rino hip hop steele) Sarah was a pure asset.
Just look at the crowds. Obama had huge crowds (consolodations and rent a mob unionistas) and Palin was number two with thousands who just came to see her. When McCain was alone he could barely muster hundreds in a regualar stump speech.
The physical evidence stomps your claim.
I would say that Governor Palin has had the most positive effect on a presidential race in at least modern times.
Remember that usually a veep would not make any difference at all and in an election year when we know we are doomed from the start and primary choices that leaves McCain as the final choice, then without Palin serving as our surrogate presidential candidate the republican ticket would have suffered much worst losses all the way down the ticket.
Something that gets overlooked is how much she carried our spirits up after the election, can the people here imagine how bad our emotional state would have been if we did not have the hope for a future that Palin gave us, if after this defeat we only had those primary losers as the face of our conservative future?