[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Good luck in your endeavours to convince many here on this site on how many voters have been brainwashed by the MSM. I exhausted from making this point over and over. There many here in the State of Denial(this state being one of the fifty-seven visited by Obama) and many who project their beliefs on the entire population.

Ronald Reagan was behind in the polls into October, 1980 - and proceeded to blow away Jimmy Carter when we actually voted in the general election.

John McCain was the nominee in '08, and he showed how not to run agains Obama. Romney would make no effective attacks on Obamacare, at a time when defeating Obama will be critical to any hope of saving medical choice.

McCain used to joke about the media being "my base." How did that work out in a race for the presidency against a liberal Democrat?? We know that "objective" journalism is interested only in its own importance, and that "liberals" get that positive labeling simply because they agree with "objective" journalism that "objective" journalism is more important than food, clothing, and shelter.

Since the Democrats are in symbiosis with "objective" journalists, it should - if your take is valid - be impossible for be impossible for any Republican to be elected president, ever. But that is not the case. In fact, Reagan won big, even with a Republican running as an independent in a three-way race. Landslides occur when things line up in a perfect storm - a weak incumbent, a bad economy, a charismatic challenger. There was nothing the media could do to save Nancy Pelosi's majority last year, and the way things are headed at the checkout register and the gas pump, there won't be anything the media can do about a Republican victory next November, either.

[monocle]

How many of the examples you have cited have had the high negative ratings that Palin has in recent polls. Since from at least the first of the year Sarah has had high unfavorable numbers. In a very recent NBC/WSJ poll 53% of those polled had unfavorable feelings about Sarah Palin. I fully expect for you to explain that any poll in which NBC participated is not to be trusted and my response will be with polls others have conducted. Polls do not figure strongly in forming my opinions but I follow them to see how people preferences are trending.

[Jeff Winston]

Ronald Reagan was behind in the polls into October, 1980 - and proceeded to blow away Jimmy Carter when we actually voted in the general election.

Right. I'm not saying it can't be done. But if Palin is to win the nomination and get the Presidency, she's got an uphill battle ahead of her, more so than a lot of others in the GOP field.

Of course, she's got a lot of fight in her. And she knows how to fight without looking like she's even breaking a sweat. That's one of Palin's best characteristics.

If she wins the nomination, she's got my vote. But as I say, rightly or wrongly (and I would argue wrongly) she's got a lot of KNOWN AND DEMONSTRATED negative public perception she'll need to overcome.

That's all.