[tsmith130]

Love her or loathe her, the data appear somewhere close to conclusive that Palin did little to help -- and, in fact, did some to hurt -- McCain's attempts to reach out to independents and Democrats. But just because Palin doesn't appear to have helped McCain move to the middle doesn't mean that picking her was the wrong move.

I don't even know where to begin with this crap.

[umgud]

If Sarah had a better running mate, this thing would have turned out different.

[Smokin' Joe]

This election does mark the first comon use of mass conversational hypnosis techniques by a candidate, so you could say it transformed the face of the electorate--to Obamazombies, mindlessly wandering to the polls mumbling "hope... Change....". When questioned about what they wanted changed, few had an intelligent or specific response other than foaming at the mouth about Bush.

Iirc, Bush was not running this time...

Gov. Palin cost the campaign votes? Maybe a few susceptible urbanites bought the MSM's 'hick from the sticks' image, or the Great Chipmunk's heavily edited interview of her as a live feed, but most of us saw through that. If anyone screwed the pooch, it was the "strategists" who okayed an edited interview, and who held her in check to keep her from upstaging the guy at the top of the ticket. Big mistake, really, she resonated with a lot of America.

Note that toward the end of the campaign, DUH1's people were debating and attacking her, not McCain.

As for her being politically done, Gov. Palin will be a force in the Republican Party, or, failing that, will get the nod from the next viable third party.

She is already calling fo the principled and uncompromising opposition to the Comm, er, Democrats agendae.

[Emperor Palpatine]

"Cats and dogs are now living together."

[LiberConservative]

Palin might have cost us a few thousand elitist votes. But that's about it.

[concerned about politics]

Had it not been for Sara, Republicans wouldn’t have had anyone to vote for. It would have been an Oboma landslide. His election would have, for real, been historical. It would have been Reaganesk.

[Ciexyz]

Garbage, pronounced gar-BAZH.