My views of who and who doesn't support Palin are based ENTIRELY on a) polling (which no one here likes if it doesn't comport to their world view, and which I admit can be badly flawed at times . . . but which was right in 2006 and 2008), and conversations with young people virtually every day (because I am at a college where I interact with college kids). Since they know I'm a conservative, I also have more conversations with College Republicans than I do with College Democrats. I also speak around the country, usually to either Tea Party groups (wherein Palin is far from the obvious choice---popular, but not overwhelmingly so) and to college groups. So I think I get a pretty good cross section of conservative America, all over the country.
Emotionally, if anything, I'm drawn to Palin. I'd love nothing better than to stick it to the libs. But the mere fact that she drives them crazy is NOT sufficient cause for making her president, and especially not so over perhaps other candidates. Who are those other candidates? Right now, I don't see any I'd pick over her. But right now she'd also lose to Obama in a general election, perhaps not quite as badly as McCain did, but still lose. That might change in two years, but we shouldn't pretend that things aren't what they are right now.
Was the 2007 polling right in 2008? Lemme ask President Rudy...err Hillary about that...
Oh, yeah, and McCain was REALLY popular with independents in those polls too.
Can we please just have the damn primary without every smarty-pants trying to save us all from ourselves? If Palin’s a big bag of fail, she has no chance of winning the primary.
Saying that the polls are wrong is where you and I have both gone wrong in the past. But pretending that polls are static is even more foolish. Trying to pick a nominee by general election polls two years out from the election is insanity. It’s those kind of silly attempts at pragmatism that always get us sure losers like McCain in the general.
We should stop worrying about who CAN win and start worrying about who SHOULD win. It’ll make for a lot more productive arguments anyway. :)
You said that the conservative college kids that you know are jazzed about all the other conservative candidates who might run, but not Palin. I’m curious, just who are these other conservatives they are jazzed about?
Broad brush with no foundation in fact.
But the mere fact that she drives them crazy is NOT sufficient cause for making her president
I haven't seen anyone making a case for Palin running for Prez with that criteria.
...right now she'd also lose to Obama in a general election
Some straw there, and no one can know that for sure.
Palinbot, Palinista etc etc are agitatoty words that really don't help reasoned debate.
Still hugging push polls 22 months before an election, aye?