I’d love to see Palin spend the next 4 years allowing America to learn more about her. Say an in depth interveiw a month on different topics. Going deeper then sound bites. Explain her platform and dreams for America. Show us just what kind of energy expert she is. What is she learning, what books and papers has she read. If she can’t get an interview, then post a 15 minute video on YouTube. Explain her views on evolution, seperation of church and state, same sex marriage, and progressive taxes.

If she does this, and is as good as many think she is, then she should be a shoe in for President in 2012.

Can you as a party offer up someone dumber than W? You just might in 2012.

You will get behind this poor idiot because she passes your litmus tests, or you will not.

Nothing to the base is more important.

Palin 2012, just try and go for it! How will it feel to be smarter than the candidate?

Get real, or go down.

Without her this time round John McCain would have been lucky to get 30% of the vote.

He was up against what was little short of being ‘Organized Crime’.

John McCain lost because he remained a Gentleman thoughout, but you don’t win elections being ‘nice’.

Put simply and totally missed by the electorate John McCain was all that was ‘GOOD’. The other one represented all that was’EVIL’.

And as in the movies its the bad guys that get all the attention!

When the wheels and everything else falls off the wagon in a very short time will the MSM etc even notice?

seriously, when was that? i can’t keep up.

I am ashamed to the very core of my being that John S. McCain has not spoken up in a clear and uncompromising manner in defense of this extraordinary woman. And to those of you who are criticizing this woman in terms that are eerily reminiscent of the MSM foul canards, you might want to take a step back, lay off the Kool Aid and exercise a tad bit of critical thinking! The woman was overmanaged by people who did not have her best interests at heart and only when she blew free of that nonsense did we see the real and very excitingly competence she exuded.

Sarah Palin has a future but given the bloviating going on in this comments section, the Republican Party may not - unless of course all y’all do some serious maturing and THINKING. I’m an old fart of 66 and I’ve seen the “bigwigs” of the Republican Party in operation my entire life - even been part of the in-crowd in my time. The Party needs new blood and a more focused and clearheaded way of thinking. And backbiting amateurs are NOT the future.

“Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.”

This statement was attacked as Palin insisting the US would go to war with Russia. But think about it for a second. In the Clinton/W.Bush admin’s rush to admit countries to NATO, has ANYONE stopped to ask what that means if these countries are attacked. For a brief moment in time, Sarah Palin did.

Whaddya know.

“It doesn’t have to lead to war and it doesn’t have to lead, as I said, to a cold war, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies to help us do that in this mission of keeping our eye on Russia and Putin and some of his desire to control and to control much more than smaller democratic countries,”

The headlines however?

Palin: U.S. might have to go to war with Russia
Palin: War with Russia may be needed
Palin won’t rule out war with Russia

Talk about misdirection. What the hell do these people think “It doesn’t have to be war” means?

I work with many people who _actually believe_ Palin said “she could see Russia from her house.” They also said “Did you see Palin on SNL talking about 2012?”

Me: “That was Tina Fey.”

“Who? It was McCain and Palin wasn’t it? And Palin with that Hillary look-alike.”

Me: “Huh”.

I do think Palin probably was not ready for the national stage, and the McCain campaign has probably ruined what could have been a bright future star.

Carter, Clinton, and W. Bush certainly knew just about as much about foreign policy when they took the presidency. Bush famously failed that “quiz” that was thrust on him during the campaign.

And we’re talking about the vice-presidency here, not these inexperienced presidential candidates.

Biden certainly is no foreign policy expert. The only evidence needed is when he completely made up a story about Hezbollah in the VP debate. He just made it up. He also just made up that Obama took some kind of stand about NATO troops.

Not a peep from the media. That is a _real_ gaffe… not a fake one like “You’re no Jack Kennedy” (which was a low insult to say to a man who was specifically asked by the moderator to choose a past American hero to compare himself to. He chose. Your insult of the answer was low and immoral). Not a fake gaffe like looking at your watch. Not a fake gaffe like sighing. That was a real deficiency in knowledge and preparedness.