[Jim Scott]

I think we both know that Sarah Palin doesn't expect to win the Republican nomination or the presidential election on the basis of being female and a political/cultural conservative and I suspect you're fully aware of that reality. The political positions you demand Sarah Palin elucidate are valid but simply inappropriate at this point. She has not announced her candidacy and so is hardly is a position to make specific proposals on major issues. Those are what a candidate does during a campaign. She has to win the Republican nomination, first, which will require a different approach from what she will want to propose to the general electorate in the autumn of 2012, should she win the GOP presidential nomination. I have absolutely no doubt that Palin will make the kind of proposals you suggest when she is campaigning against the Marxist Obama and his failure of a presidency - and I'm sure you'll approve.

[tsowellfan]

She has not announced her candidacy and so is hardly is a position to make specific proposals on major issues. Those are what a candidate does during a campaign.

You may want to tell that to the other undeclared candidates. I think they may have missed that memo.

[tsowellfan]

I have absolutely no doubt that Palin will make the kind of proposals you suggest when she is campaigning against the Marxist Obama and his failure of a presidency

Really! Does she plan to skip running against the ideas of those other republicans during the primaries?

Americans want to know now. Right now they are getting more than their share of Newt's ideas and the other candidates. It's time to start competing with those other undeclared candidates. Sooner is better than later.

[Polybius]

I think we both know that Sarah Palin doesn't expect to win the Republican nomination or the presidential election on the basis of being female and a political/cultural conservative and I suspect you're fully aware of that reality. The political positions you demand Sarah Palin elucidate are valid but simply inappropriate at this point. She has not announced her candidacy and so is hardly is a position to make specific proposals on major issues. Those are what a candidate does during a campaign.

Actually, "making specific proposals on major issues" is exactly what Ronald Reagan did for years before he ever became a candidate:

From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, the great majority of which he wrote himself. .... These addresses .... revise our understanding of the late 1970s - a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the Cold War, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. These radio programs demonstrate that Reagan had carefully considered nearly every issue he would face as president.

Many conservatives just seem to have much lower standards today.

"Palin couldn't explain why North Korea and South Korea were separate nations. ..... Asked to identify the enemy that her son would be fighting in Iraq, she drew a blank. Later, on the plane, Palin said to her team: 'I wish I'd paid more attention to this stuff'."

The emotional gushing over Sarah Palin has become an irrational Cult of Personality and is at odds with the substance that conservatives used to champion during the days of Ronald Reagan.

Sarah Palin has become the Princess Di of American conservative politics.

"She's conservative!"

"She's a woman!".

"She's cute!"

"Let's all vote for her!"

"Even if she didn't know the al Sadr militia from the Knights of Columbus when her own son was headed for Iraq in 2008!"

"She is soooooo CUTE!"

Remember how such childish foolishness has worked out before:

It's deja vu all over again.