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>they are going to do this to any conservative candidate

True but it makes it tougher when the candidate herself / himself gives them ready ammunition, like blanking out on specific questions in a high profile interview, winking at the audience during national televised debates and doing an “aw shucks” or “say it ain’t so” routine, etc. Same thing happened with Jindal’s response to Obama. His profile dropped like lead after he gave a rather schoolboyish rebuttal.

I say whoever the male candidate is in 2012 let Sarah be vice president nominee to bring in that homespun heartland vote. However in today’s world you HAVE to get the Reagan Democrats and many of them won’t vote for someone like Sarah whom the mainstream media constantly portrays as dumb.

True but it makes it tougher when the candidate herself / himself gives them ready ammunition, like blanking out on specific questions in a high profile interview, winking at the audience during national televised debates and doing an “aw shucks” or “say it ain’t so” routine, etc. Same thing happened with Jindal’s response to Obama. His profile dropped like lead after he gave a rather schoolboyish rebuttal.

I say whoever the male candidate is in 2012 let Sarah be vice president nominee to bring in that homespun heartland vote. However in today’s world you HAVE to get the Reagan Democrats and many of them won’t vote for someone like Sarah whom the mainstream media constantly portrays as dumb.

You are still missing the point.

Every candidate has their gotcha moments.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, either from the left or the right or the center does not stumble in some high-profile manner during their political career.

That animal does not exist so your concern is rather useless concerning Sarah and maybe even insincere, but I hope that is not the case.

The media will leave the gaffes of the candidates they want to win alone, see the 57 states comment by Obama and other statements that got absolutely no airtime and also the numerous gaffes by McCain, and Mitt and Rudy that got relatively a lot less airtime than gaffes by conservative like Reagan and Sarah.

Like I said before, we need a fighting conservative that is not going to play the get-along games that the other so-called conservatives are fond of playing hoping to neutralize the media and moderates in our own party.

We need somebody who is going to hit back hard like Sarah does on a regular basis.

Somebody who is going to stand their ground and fight for what is right, not stick their finger in the wind to try and find the sweet spot on the issues where they think they will get the most votes.

In short, we need a principled conservative willing to fight like hell!

That conservative is Sarah!

Reagan was portrayed from 76’ on as a stupid old fool who was the puppet of the elite and who would help bring on Armageddon.

“I say whoever the male candidate is in 2012 let Sarah be vice president nominee to bring in that homespun heartland vote.”

And this says it all. The one commonality I have seen among Palin Trashers here on FR is the fact that she is a woman. This attitude of “Well the little lady served her purpose and now should just smile and go back home and leave governing to the men” attitude always seems to show itself after enough posts.

And BTW, the “homespun heartland vote” wins elections. If the GOP doesn't win those states they don't win the white house. Obama wining CA or NY by 60% did not secure his victory, it was his wining in the “homespun” states of OH,IN,CO, and NC that brought him victory. It's nice to see how you think about that vast swath of America in between NYC and San Francisco though.

True but it makes it tougher when the candidate herself / himself gives them ready ammunition, like blanking out on specific questions in a high profile interview,

It is just amazing how so many, even conservatives who should be more distrustful of the MSM, have made up their minds about Sarah Palin because of one or two interviews. Democrats certainly didn't mind the bumble-headedness of That One or Smilin Joe Biden with his 64 perfectly white teeth, yet we're willing to throw over a potentially wonderful candidate because she didn't answer immediately, a couple of questions that she thought were ridiculous, but had to spend some time trying to think up an answer for them. She was thinking more about how neither That One nor Smilin Joe would ever be asked such inane questions.