This is getting as bad as the evo/crevo and north/south civil war threads; please try, just once, to understand and get off of the high horse.
There isn't any "mathematical, political, or other formula involved!
To support McPain is anathema to approximately half of those on FR.
To support McPain is to work against the other hopeful - who happens actually to be a conservative.
Running RINOs as an expedient got us Obama and the Governator(!)
Palin should be doing everything in her power to position herself for a run in 2012 - if she intends to do so - and stumping for Juan isn't positioning her anywhere but on a losing streak.
For that matter, and regardless that her supporters try to insist otherwise, her presentations so far have not progressed beyond campaign generalities and do NOT suggest that she has any valid concepts as to what needs to be done or even what she is facing.
It is too early to marry your vote to any single candidate, I have preferences as well but I will not preclude anyone who comes up with a better plan.
Finally, for the same reasons that the Huskster crowd and social conservative bloc drove away support from the larger body of conservative voters, your insistent denigration of anyone who does not share your fetish is irritating, juvenile, and counter productive.
I’m not precluding anyone either.
I’m only saying that Palin cannot be equated with McCain’s RINOism simply because she campaigns for his conservative principles.
I have yet to see a well thought-out response to the true assertion that her failing to campaign for him would have brought much worse on her.
Our country is being overthrown, and you’re crying about getting off the “high horse?”
Look at the facts, buddy! Palin knows how to take the country back, and she will!
Forget McCain.
Excellent points! I agree, and especially with the last.