reason than these sentences:

Sarah Palin not only represents a picture of conservatism, but she did what most conservatives have been dreaming of doing for more than a decade: Throw a bum out.

The Palin juggernaut is ultimately a rebuke to today’s political class. Grassroots conservatives are tired of them because they are greedy, self-serving, and only care about power. They have become government apparatchiks. They do have great experience, which they tout repeatedly. They’re only problem is that it’s all in selling themselves to the highest bidder. Their claims to conservative values are entirely self-serving alliances of convenience

Nail, meet sledgehammer.

Nothing left to say, my man.

Fame is fickle, so I definitely agree that talking about 2012 is premature. She’s also got her hands full with her governorship, given that the full force of the Federal government will be trying to sabotage her to stop her leadership.

As a spokesperson for conservatism, though, Sarah has no peer at this time.

President-elect Obama seems like he’s been running for President since the day he was born. You can see that he is practiced, polished, and presidential from years of getting ready for this.

I think Obama has lived to be the President of the United States, and I think thats how liberals like their candidates. They love the unbrideled ambition, that drive that few of us have, the polish the shines brightly.

Palin is refreshing to me because she is none of those things. What you see is what you get. She was a concerned mother who joined the PTA and later the city council, mayor and eventually Governor. She is someone who just started a job with the PTA, did a good job and was able to work her way up the ladder. I hope she gets the best political team possible around her to help her preapre for a 2012 run if she chooses to do it (I could see why she may not want to run in 2012.)

I heard it best explained very simply this cycle: Conservatives like electing one of their own, someone who could be them, whereas liberals like electing people who are, “better than they ever could be.”

The reason why we like the former is because we don’t think any person–regarless of education or pedigree–is better than another person.

John Lott has a great article (Oct. 6) at Fox in which he points out that Gov. Palin ran rings around Gaffy Biden during the VP debate. here is an excerpt:

When you interview for a job, here is a hint: make sure you know what the job is. Joe Biden failed that test last Thursday. He couldn’t even get right what a vice president does, but the media didn’t notice.

The media is all over itself about how smart and experienced Biden is. Political analyst Charlie Cook is quoted in the Washington Post on Saturday as saying “Biden is clearly so much more knowledgeable, by a factor of about a million.” Saturday Night Live does a skit about Biden being smart, if slimy. Meanwhile, Governor Sarah Palin is treated as being nothing more than a simpleton.

Yet, take Biden’s statement from the debate on the role of the vice president:

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.

And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there’s a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit.

The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he’s part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive, and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous.

One should be careful when throwing around terms such as “most dangerous” and “bizarre.” But Biden is confusing which part of the Constitution covers the Executive Branch (it is Article II, not Article I).

Instead, it was Palin who got it right. Besides correctly stating that the vice president holds positions in both the executive and legislative branches, she also noted that:

Of course, we know what a vice president does. And that’s not only to preside over the Senate and [I] will take that position very seriously also. I’m thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president if that vice president so chooses to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president’s policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are.

Even in this election the white vote has remained consistently Republican (55% to 43% in 2008). The problem to solve is to persuade Hispanic and African-American to vote Republican. The clue is California proposition 8. Hispanic and African American voted against gay marriage, while voting for Obama. So, they support traditional values. Therefore the way to gain their support is via a candidate that is clearly identified with traditional values. It seems that the left is sensing this, judging from their visceral hate for Sarah Palin, who does not pay lip service to traditional values but actually lives them, and succeeds.

I think Sarah Palin is terrific. The interview she did with Greta VS on Fox was awesome. I believe her VP candidacy shaved at least 5 pts off BHO’s eventual victory margin. Nothing against the other VP candidates, but Palin was the one who energized the ticket. However, if she runs against BHO, I do not believe she will not get any significant increase in the African-American vote. They will overwhelmingly support BHO again in 2012. Anyone who watched the coronation in Grant park knows that short of repealing the emancipation proclamation, nothing BHO does will diminsh the lemming-like support of African-Americans for him in 2012. That being said, I do believe Palin can beat him by getting back to the base conservative, pro-life, pro-family message. Latin-American voters will embrace that message as will the strong conservative base of the party.

President-elect Obama can only become less popular. He did not increase black voter particpation much this election cycle. If exit polls are correct the black vote was up about 2 percent over 2004. Blacks usually vote overwhelming for the democrat, but they have low voter participation the same with hispanics. I believe the average age for hispanics is around 15, so most hispanics are too young to vote anyway and blacks are only 13 percent of the population

President-elect Obama biggest problem is you can promise different things to different groups when running for office, but once you’re there you have to governor. President-elect Obama is either a leftwing-liberal or a moderate. Either way he is going to disappoint some of his supporters.

Some folks who went to polls expecting radical change wont go back if he does not deliver, and if he tries to bring about radical change he will not be re-elected, because America is a center right country.

His dilemma — sometimes your lies catch-up with you.