“...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.
I agree.
If people actually did that they are too stupid to vote for anybody.
I agree again.
Unfortunately, I know women who did this - well educated, long time registered Republican voters. They are as afraid of Palin as the commies on the left are. They were willing to vote for McCain until he named Palin his VP. Their reasons for hating her are as substantive as those given by the far left, and they are as solidified in their beliefs about her as those on the left are. They voted for Obama despite their awareness of his positions aimed at stripping them of their upper middle class accumulated wealth, i.e. redistribution. Even seeing what an absolute disaster Obama is for their financial well-being, they are willing to do it again if it's between Obama and Palin. How do you change the minds of women like that?