I hear Michael Savage, Richard Cohen and George Will and others rail against Sarah Palin, but do they ever offer an alternative besides another RINO, if that.
Folks, I am a conservative and I am open to the thoughts of the esteemed political scribes who propose other conservative candidates to consider but when they appear to be remiss in suggesting a name and why that name would win the GOP nomination over Palin and Romney and thus never want to enter that arena but turn it right around and bash Palin again I become dubious of their intentions. Suppose Palin like George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life wasn’t born, who would be your conservative champion in 2012? Tell us, we would like to know. We really would.
The fact that people are so adamantly supporting her for an election in 2012 when she isn't even running (yet) is ridiculous. I personally don't think that she will run for President in 2012 and wouldn't win the nomination anyway.
To even name a candidate at this point is silly, esp when 2010 is so important. I'll wait to see who emerges, and will keep an eye on Demint, and Toomey (beyond 2012).
There are many reasons why the liberal elites and the GOP establishment loathe Palin but if it can be boiled down to one reason it is that she was smart enough to figure out that she had to seize the opportunity to run for POTUS in 2012 and not later, if the political landscape allowed her to, and that to give herself the best opportunity to succeed in that endeavor she would have to resign the governorship to give her enough time to get her ducks in a row and take the necessary steps to prepare herself to run the presidential marathon.
Here is how the GOP establishment figured it: Palin would not run for reelection but serve out her term or at least not leave office until spring 2010 when her book came out. By then she would be behind the 8 ball in terms of fundraising, organization, advisors, status in the polls, and because of the Alaskan law prohibiting her from embarking on political endeavors to the lower 48 when the legislature was in session she would be handicapped by a lack of presence there at least in the first half of 2010 (not able to attend the TP convention, CPAC or the SRLC).
Simply Palin outsmarted the entire GOP enstablishment by leaving office last July and they have never forgiven her for making such an astute political move.