I for one didn’t want Palin to run. Although she’s clearly much more conservative than Romney, she has even bigger issues.
Where some conseravtives will swallow their pride to vote for Romney, the same can’t and won’t be said for some moderate republicans and virtually none of the moderate independents that Romney is getting and that Newt and maybe Santorum could have garnered.
She’s too big (and easy) of a target to be the one at the top of the ticket at this point. That and since she wouldn’t reach 40% (Let’s be realistic here, conservatives only comprise about 35% of the actual electorate that votes, and her presence would galvanize the left) in the general election seems like too big a risk and not enough of a reward factor in something to vitally important.
Essentially the 2012 election sucks already and we’re 15 days in.
I completely disagree on your Palin ideas. It took Carter to give us Reagan...this was our opportunity to put up someone that was controversial and win big with that person. Then with a real conservative agenda our country would boom. And how much more could the press throw at Sarah? She weathered the storm and didn’t back down—until it came to running for President.
However, this shouldn’t be about Sarah, it’s about the 3 conservatives we have running and mittens. Either the conservatives get their act together and two of them drop out or we get stuck with Mittens. And if he does win in the general election we will be a left leaning republican party—unless we can use congress to keep him pushed to the right.