Sarah Palin is a true conservative and a real person. She ignited the Republican base and attracted huge crowds. I think she is the reason the Republican ticket did so well.

Looking forward, Sarah Palin will at the very least be a force to be reckoned with in the Republican party. I would love to see her run for president. She is an energy expert and has principles by which she lives her life.

You want lightweight, you got lightweight in Obama-Biden and Obamunism. Show me one thing either has done, policy or otherwisae, except lie about what they didn’t do.

Gov Palin only needs to bide her time and decide whether she wants to do it. She can sit right where she is until 2011. By then the real lightweight will still be struggling with the depression ‘the creepy creature’ caused and America will want real change.

Too early.

Work local for a couple of years, that’s what I plan to do.

Oh you mean 2012 or 2016: much too early to start that campaign.

Let’s at least get past the 2010 elections before we start having to think about the next Presidential campaign. And if we don’t do something to stop our Congressional bleeding problem, we’re in serious trouble for 2012 regardless.

Don’t mistake me: Sarah’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the picture can change dramatically in four years. I mean, where was Obama on the political radar four years ago?

but like any other governor plucked from the confines of her comfortable state duties at the last minute, she could use some policy mentoring (I recommend Fred Thompson for the job).

Forget Joe Biden’s gaffes like 3-letter words and asking poor Chuck to stand up. What’s really troubling about the vice-president-elect is his real goofiness about foreign policy. He wanted to partition Iraq, remember, along sectarian lines – something rejected out of hand by the country’s leaders. And Biden also thought it might be a good idea to send, no strings alttached, a check for no less than $200 million to those Iranian “Arabs” to show them that they don’t have to hate us after all.

Compared to that kind of thinking by an alleged foreign policy “expert”, Palin is indeed a breath of fresh air. She’s smart, and by 2010, when she will have to prove herself capable of being a national leader, she’ll be ready.

• JP

As a youngish Conservative business woman, with 2 children at college, and as a war widow, I say NO. We have many truly competent women who could go for the white house but Mrs Palin is not one of them. If she was on the ticket I would not vote.
Sure she was a thrill in an otherwise awful campaign, but she is too ignorant, to divisive and far to self centered to represent true conservative. Her family is not what I would expect from a Conservative family, they are high school drop outs, and the 17 year old is pregnant outside marriage. So much for abstinence. So much for family values and discipline.

[...and this is where they always flub it. The Left has always had a bug up its nose about the way that the so-cons refused to stone a 17 year old for getting pregnant. It infuriates them, as you can see here. - Moe Lane]

I love my wife and she is a great person, but she would make an awful president.

You may ‘love’ Sarah Palin, but she’d also make a lousy president for the same reason — she’s not smart enough.

Being smart isn’t just knowing facts, it’s about having the judgment to know what your saying is foolish or not.

If Sarah Palin were smart enough to be president, when asked about her foreign policy experience, she would have said “I don’t have a lot of foreign policy experience, but I also didn’t have a lot of experience when I became governor of Alaska and that’s worked out pretty well. I’m a fast learner, and I realize this is a problem, but I will work hard to become the best vice president in the same way I worked hard to be governor of Alaska”. This answer both recognizes the facts as well as gives hope why it won’t be such a big problem — in other words, a smart answer.

Instead, she said “I can see Russia from Alaska”. This is a dumb answer. And she repated it over and over again, which makes it dumber and dumber.

Remember also, that she had plenty of time to anticipate this question and still gave a ridiculous answer — that is just plain stupid, and your love of her won’t change that.

There are a million things I don’t know, but if you ask me a question I don’t know, I don’t create an answer that is going to make me look like an idiot.