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I can't improve upon this article. Although Palin may be a great person, the general thrust of this article is right on. The biggest problem conservatives have (and I am a paleo conservative) is that they believe they are a majority. They are delusional. They think this gimmick of an unknown woman will bring some women over to the Republican side. Conservatives, listen to me, YOU ARE NOT THE MAJORITY. You keep losing and will keep losing. Demographics are not in your favor. Every year that goes by, your numbers decline. You will feel good for a while about this choice, even self righteous but when reality hits, it will hit like a ton of bricks. You conservatives are responsible for giving us McCain because you couldn't come up with a credible candidate who could unite the party and the vote in the primaries was split. This let McCain slip through. Romney would have been OK but too many votes were bled off with worthless people like Huckabee. Now the disaster awaits-probably. The worst problem is that when/if it happens, the conservatives won't recognize that it was self inflicted and they dealt the blow. Republicans/Conservatives are are indeed the STUPID PARTY.

"Every year that goes by, your numbers decline... Romney would have been OK..."

And so your answer to declining demographics would have been to pick another old wrinkly white dude for VP, and a Mormon one at that? Weird. The article at least is coherent—wrong but coherent. Go ahead and argue that Palin's policies are bad or her political skills are weak, but to talk about demographics and then push forward the most demographically irrelevant candidate imaginable... whatever, man.

Truthguy, you sound more like one of Obamas minions. There are plenty of conservatives we just don’t get the media coverage that the loud mouth Democrat liberals get. This was a brilliant, strong move by McCain. Get over it. The disaster awaits you and the libs.

Actually, your post illustrates your own stupidity regarding the importance of conservatives.

Did conservatives "get their way" in the last two Presidential election cycles, and through this most recent primary cycle? No and yes. President Bush, in so many ways, is not a conservative. Duncan Hunter is not the name on this cycle's ticket. So why are conservatives important? How will we get our way?

Conservative voters will be the deciding factor in this election--just as we were in '00 and '04. We didn't elect President Bush as much as we kept Gore and Kerry out. We will do the same to Senator Obama on November 4.

If you think otherwise, you're stupid.

It wasn’t conservatives that gave us McCain, it was the anti-GOP open primaries in crucial states that allowed Dems to cross over and vote for THEIR candidate.

They’re trying to do the same thing here in Oregon, and did it already in Washington...there won’t be a party structure in primaries, it will be the top two vote getters.

So in elections to come we will have a choice between Liberal Democrat #1 and Liberal Democrat # 2.

There's one big problem with your general statement that conservative principles aren't popular in this country. Many of the hypothetical voters you cite in this statement don't like conservative principles until they bedlam and chaos that results when liberal policies are implemented.

If you want further proof of this, just look at how big an issue offshore drilling has become in this election. Even many Democrats who adamantly opposed it have downplayed their positions on this issue (if they haven't changed it completely).

I've said for a long time that 95% of the people who consider themselves "environmentally conscious" when gasoline costs $1.49/gallon really don't give a sh!t about the environment when it costs $4+ per gallon. This is what we're seeing right now, and this is why Barack Obama is going to lose this election by a landslide margin -- the likes of which we haven't seen since Walter Mondale in 1984.