[okie01]

The point I’m trying to make is, there might be another candidate who’d be as good as Palin who will not have the baggage already laid at his/her feet that Palin does...

I understand what you're saying. What I'm saying is "Should we disregard our best candidate because of 'the baggage already laid at her feet' by the opposition media?"

If we do that, we are letting the opposition media define our own candidate. We are admitting defeat before we even start...

[Personal Responsibility]

I never said we should disregard Palin. We absolutely should not. Understanding that the baggage laid on her during the 2008 campaign will be brought back up is understanding reality for what it is. Palin may well be the best candidate but that baggage is something she will have to overcome.

These things need to be taken into account and not doing so is foolish.

We will not define Palin unless the media implodes some time in the next two years. For independents - the ones who are increasingly running full speed away from Obama - Palin is defined. And it’s not in a good way. I don’t like it - I like a lot of what she has to say - but that is reality and needs to be accounted for.