[RU88]

Any one who has read my posts knows of my loathing of the false messiah. That being said, Sarah Palin at this point in time could not win the presidency. Thinking back to the last presidential cycle it became abundantly clear to me as we closed in to November that the MSM were much more intent of discrediting Palin than they were worried about McCain. Their intentions seemed clear to me at the time: discredit her to the point of political irrelevance. Between interviews and witch hunts in Alaska they did a fairly good job. This is something that is very hard to come back from. Not impossible, but extremely hard.

Many people voted for McCain because Palin was on the ticket. So in that respect she was able to draw more people to vote republican. However for as many people, mainly conservatives, that she was able to draw I'm afraid that there were an equal number who voted against McCain for the exact same reason.

What I feel is needed for the next presidential cycle is a fresh face who can enunciate core conservative principles without the baggage of the last election cycle. This CAN be done. Given the utter disaster that is known as the Obama presidency I'm of the opinion that our chances brighten by the day. I'm just not so sure that Sarah Palin is the one to take us there.

[toddausauras]

“That being said, Sarah Palin at this point in time could not win the presidency.”

I hope you, the media and Obama’s folks keep thinking this. It will help her win. She will benefit by defying expectations. Hopefully you will break from the media and Obama’s people when she becomes the nominee but even if you don’t - I like her chances in 2012.

[wiggen]

I don’t believe people went out on election day with the deciding factor in their mind being vote against Palin. I find the thought to be nonsense,especially that it was equal numbers for and against her. She boosted the ticket. Without her McCain suffers an even worse defeat.
I won’t go so far as to say had she headed the ticket it would have been closer but its a possibility and shes in an arguably stronger position now than she was then. Shes learned how to deal with attacks on her,knows when to tell a hostile reporter no interview. The further back the games the interviewers played on her the better her image.

[Lee'sGhost]

“...it became abundantly clear to me as we closed in to November that the MSM were much more intent of discrediting Palin than they were worried about McCain.”

God....not this shi’ite again. OF COURSE THEY WEREN’T WORRIED ABOUT McCAIN! THEY PICKED McCAIN.

The answer to your position is in your own observation, you just need to put two and two together. Any...ANY conservative candidate will be skewered by the lib media. They attacked Palin because they fear her. They will attack ANY conservative because they fear conservatism. If you are waiting for a conservative candidate that the media does not attack (which is implied in your comments) you will be waiting forever. The flip side of that is, if you will not support Palin because she was so denigrated by the lib media that they destroyed her as a viable candidate, then you will never support a conservative, because the media will do the same thing with EVERY conservative candidate.

Either way, you are letting the liberal media pick who you can vote for.

And I defy you to support your statement that “there were an equal number who voted against McCain for the exact same reason.” To not vote for McCain because of Palin — as a VP candidate — would be stunningly stupid. If people actually did that they are too stupid to vote for anybody. If people are that stupid then conservatives will NEVER win.

I don’t believe conservatives or most Republicans are that stupid. Only people who think that a conservative candidate can run without being attacked by the lib media are that stupid.