Quote Originally Posted by CGM View Post
Well, I guess we'll see then. I don't mind if she runs, it'll be entertaining, but there's no way in hell she'll win. Gawd, I hope not.
It's the energy she'd create among the base. People tell pollsters they'll vote for such and such but the question is can they be arsed to spend hours of their life actually voting on election day. Potential GOP voters look at somebody like Mccain and think he'll cave in to the liberals on abortion, religious issues, gay rights etc. just like every other Republican I voted for did. But Palin is one of them, the first one of them that's had even a sniff of the White House. Harnessing the energy among liberals created by eight years of Bush gave Obama a huge election machine and put him in the White House. If Obama wins in 2012 imagine the energy in the GOP base waiting to be harnessed in 2016, a more refined version of Palin would be a shoo in.