Palin is not running for the republican nomination. She's going rogue!

[gogeo]

The nonsense often bandied about these forums that Sarah Palin is, in effect, ‘only in it for the money’ is one of the left’s PDS talking points and unworthy of a conservative forum...

...and unworthy of conservatives.

. The Palin-as-kingmaker concept is also flawed when one looks at her record, which is hardly that of a manipulating power-driven pol...

Would her ability to be a kingmaker survive her decision not to run? Hard to say.

Again, aside from the trolls, too many liberal talking points are used against Sarah Palin by folks who should know better...

I worry about the future of the party and the country when conservatives are yoked with the likes of these.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Thank you for being civil about it. Too many on here are not civil. We can disagree without being disagreeable.

[gogeo]

Sounds like you've been giving this a lot of thought...

...about why Palin shouldn't run.

[MindBender26]

Palin is better for the GOP and the entire ticket, than her challenger, Mitt Romney

Agree totally. Romney loses Iowa (he is not their kind of candidate) and $ dry up. Then, with no $, he loses NH, and it's all over. He is Guilianni, 2012.

Palin will not run.

Right now the field is wide open, and the eventual candidate may not even be mentioned at this point.

Remember the name Thune.

[gogeo]

The tea party (and Palin)could well emerge from a Romney loss as the successor to a devastated GOP...

Very plausible.

[gogeo]

Understanding the difference between them, based the reason given above, defines one’s competence to fill out the voting ballot...

Very well stated, and VERY TRUE.

[gogeo]

I'm sorry, but she would lose the general badly, however, because of the media-generated attacks that still linger over her...

Every time I see this 'logic' I shake my head.

What conservative candidate worth voting for will not be savagely attacked by the press?

[wtc911]

Sounds like you've been giving this a lot of thought... ...about why Palin shouldn't run.

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Half right.

I have given a lot of thought to her actual, real-world qualifications based on her performance as mayor and Governor as well as to whether or not her quitting with multiple excuses would kill her chance to be elected and imo she is neither qualified nor electable.

[gogeo]

What you really mean is, "All we hyper-conservatives have to do is beat the mainline, Ronald Reagan conservatives...

What does that mean? What makes some a hyper-conservative, and what makes one a "mainline, Ronald Reagan conservative?"

I'm amazed that some don't recognize the very rhetoric being used against Palin was also used against Reagan.

IMO, trying to create daylight between RR and what you call "hyper-conservatives," is flawed in the premise.

[ansel12]

No, I don’t see Thune suddenly becoming somebody, then sweeping the conservative base, then suddenly becoming a record breaking, fund raising monster, and then crushing the already in place, fully developed, GOP establishment supported, Romney machine.

[gogeo]

No, it comes from someone with 40 years experience following national elections and reading the polls...

I'm sure there are many who have the credential you claim who would disagree with you. What value does it confer?

[gogeo]

Those are fatal numbers...

Those are meaningless numbers at this point.

I am a Palin supporter...yet I recognize that the election is for her to win or lose, not me.

She will have to move those numbers. I think it's very doable.

[gogeo]

I do know a bit about Presidential elections. My first one covered was Goldwater v. Johnson...

You seem to be making the mistake a lot of Generals make, fighting the last war.

[dbehsman]

Every conservative I know would vote for Obama before the backstabber Mitt Romney.

Man, do you ever have that one right!

After all of the years of donating money (not that much in the big picture, but still some), dedicating time and effort, trying to support Conservatives in every way possible. If Romney is the big reward, then I'll have no part of it. I will help torch the Republican party. I'll make damn sure to do it by voting for Obama.

After being back stabbed and abandoned for years by my "friends" in the Republican party, why do I owe them my allegiance?

[reasonisfaith]

No, she will be the President—and all rinos, progressives, Marxists and other Alinsky-following crybabies will have to deal with it.

[MindBender26]

In December, 2007, everyone wss saying "No, I don’t see Thune Obama suddenly becoming somebody, then sweeping the conservative far-left base, then suddenly becoming a record breaking, fund raising monster, and then crushing the already in place, fully developed, GOP Democrat establishment supported, Romney Hillary Clinton machine.

:)

[ansel12]

Actually in December 2007, Obama and Hillary were fighting for the one and two slots, just as they had been back in July of 2007, and April of 2007, and January of 2007.

It was just like Palin and Romney, except not nearly as close to each other as Palin and Romney are, and have been for years.

[CharacterCounts]

Nominating a candidate who cannot win the general is idiocy.

Like in 2008?

[MindBender26]

Exactly

[Reddy]

I hear you. But I would never go so far as to vote for zero, I would die first.

If Romney gets the R nomination, I will not vote for him and I will encourage everyone that I know to not vote for him.

I will simply write in the name of someone who is true conservative patriot.

No more rinos.