A Conservative Woman Asks: How Seriously Should We Take Sarah Palin?

I truly hope that the Republican party in this very crucial period of time DOES NOT pick Palin for PResident. SUre she is attractive and vocal, but so is Madonna but I would not want her as president. President Obama is making decisions and doing things that will lead to big big problems and the Republicans NEED someone who can offset the dangerous changes that Pres. Obama is bringing forth

How do you explain northeastern bigotry?

i say let her run she will never win against Obama anyway lol easy win.

well, I for one welcome Sarah into the frey! To dismiss her because she is folksy and plain speaking will be to the left/repub's own detriment. The left and country club Republican set will be shocked.
Harry Truman is another politician who was extremely disliked before, during and after his rise to the presidency.
He never finished college, because he was a dirt farmer from Independence, Mo.
He wasn't polished, but he was very well learned, because he spent all of his time reading every book in the local library, served in the military, ran a small business (admittedly not successfully). He had strong pro-American values. He believed in himself, he was sentimental in his love of our country.
He had guts. He had a lifelong devotion to his wife and daughter. He didn't care what people thought of him and didn't hesitate to make difficult decisions. He knew what he believed. Once he made a decision he didn't lose sleep over it. He stood strongly against tyranny. Who would doubt that he would not react immediately and strongly to any threat to our country?
Sound familiar? Anyone on the political scene right now who is ready to lead our country out of economic doldrums and restore our place in the world as the beacon of freedom??? No, the answer is certainly NOT Barack Obama!

It is not Romney, or Huckabee, or Pawlenty. All have waffled on various issues, or have succumbed to political correctness in one way or another.

Sarah Palin is our modern day Harry Truman. You just wait!

She's an idiot! SP lives in an alternate universe of which she is the center. She quit her job to do her job better. She is as fake as her accent, and is only out there to promote her book she "wrote" to cash in on her short popularity.

I don't know where you come up with this "fear-of-success" jive as a foundation for women's politics. I got with women's rights in the 1970s, I'm an independent male voter once registered as a Republican and I can cheer my lungs out for someone like Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Sebelius, Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Olympia Snowe. As an independent, I am more concerned about intellect and competence than ideology. I could probably even stomach Liz Cheney.

What I cannot countenance is Palin's utter inability to parse and discuss ideas more complex than flag-waving patriotism and the "real America" of small-town values. She is simply not a thinking person with a vision of where the country ought to go in the 21st century. Her ideas, such as they are, are rooted in the 1950s.

Maybe she can develop into that person, but unless and until she does, she won't get my vote, although a more grounded Republican might.

I am a woman that has always worked in a man's world. I was also raising my children as a single Mom. I am not a republican nor am I a democrat. I vote my conscience at every election. I vote for the person, not party lines.
I had great hopes for Sarah Palin when she first arrived on the national scene. She seemed to embody what I had hoped for in a female candidate.
Unfortunately, as time went on, I found that she was not a candidate I could support. There were many reasons for that. I was disappointed.
And, once she decided to resign from office in Alaska, she completely lost me. She made a commitment to the people of that state. She did not honor her commitment. She left and wrote a book and is touring. She is now more a celebrity than anything else.
Mrs. Pain is not someone I can support.

Why is it that no one talks about President Obama or Secretary Clinton being quitters? They both took a salary from the American people while running for President. The countless investigations and ethics filings in Alaska made it impossible for Governor Palin to, well, govern. So she did the best thing for Alaska and stepped down.