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No, but it is the VP nominee's role to argue for the policy positions of the top of the ticket, and to attack the opposition's positions. Palin failed utterly on both counts.

You've argued that Palin isn't a conservative, because she fails to effectively support conservative principles. You're also arguing that Palin fails at supporting McCain while attacking the left. After you make up your mind as to which line of reasoning you support, would you please explain how she should have supported the decidedly un-conservative positions of the idiot RINO McCain? The mere fact that you cite her lack of support for non-conservative idiocy as somehow being a "failure" which disqualifies her from holding national office shows your true stripes... as well as it again illustrates your complete lack of understanding of conservative philosophy.

Your next two paragraphs are so full of rambling incoherence that I'm actually having trouble addressing them, so I'll simply say this: if you believe that todays democrat party is even remotely like the democrats of the Kennedy era, you need your head examined. Again you show your true political stripes. As for my "arguing" that Kennedy is considered a conservative, not only did I not make that argument, I would direct you to actually do some research on the ratio of indictments and convictions involving liberals versus those involving conservatives. Not RINOs, conservatives.

But then again, you're probably one of the dreamers that thinks Palin is somehow tarnished after having beaten 17 of 18 ethics charges. The 18th, BTW, is on it's way to getting thrown out as well.

You've argued that Palin isn't a conservative, because she fails to effectively support conservative principles. You're also arguing that Palin fails at supporting McCain while attacking the left. After you make up your mind as to which line of reasoning you support, would you please explain how she should have supported the decidedly un-conservative positions of the idiot RINO McCain?

Okay, let me give you an example. McCain's healthcare reform idea was a good one, and it was decidedly in harmony with conservative principles. I do not recall a single instance of Palin defending it or arguing for it persuasively.

She also utterly failed to attack Obama's healthcare plan.

While McCain hasn't been a solid conservative his whole career, his platform on economic policy in 2008 was no RINO's platform. There was plenty there for a conservative to like, and yet Palin failed miserably in arguing in favor of it.

Now to be fair, McCain was also pretty miserable in his ability to defend and argue persuasively in favor of his economic policy platform. I suspect that's because he didn't really believe in it.

However, the fact that McCain was a poor candidate doesn't make Palin a good one.