There!

Somebody finally said it.

YES!! Please

Sign me up Charlotte.

Three million fewer people voted for Romney than McCain. The liberal RINOs and the rest of the liberals have been selling the lie that McCain lost because of Sarah.

Romney and the weak-stick RINOs made a huge blunder by not allowing Sarah to speak at the convention.

No. Just no.

I, too, only got interested in 2008 when she was selected, but it is time to stop the gimmicks and get serious about marketing what we believe makes America great to an electorate never taught it.

It can be done. I´m old enough to remember Atwater and Reagan doing it.

"A national exit poll conducted by CNN asked voters whether Palin was a factor in their voting. Of those who said yes, 56% voted for McCain versus 43% for Barack Obama."

I thought it was gonna say: "56% voted for Sarah versus 43% for McCain"...

Romney eventually won my vote; he seems to be a decent man. However, I didn´t send much money and didn´t volunteer my time. Sorry, I simply had no response to him like I did with Sarah Barracuda.

When I am not John Gault I am Sarah Palin.

Will this require surgery ?

No no a thousand times no! Mrs. Palin is nice lady, but clearly hasn´t the intelligence or experience for the presidency. Enough with this cult of personality! It´s ruining our country. We don´t need a conservative version of Our Dear Leader.

#8 Sorry could not agree more. Intelligence who is getting elected because they are intelligent? Sarah at least believes in America and she is not part of the Establishment. It probably doesn´t matter with the media the courts and Obama rigging the system we have probably had our last election that isn´t like the ones held in the old Soviet Union.

Re: #8
Posting Dem talking points does not work in this Salon. Just how much actual experience did the Butcher have when he ran for office? The question of intelligence, well I would put Sarah up against him without a teleprompter anytime.

Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan: charming and affable and unwilling to back down if she´s right. I can´t see what´s wrong with that.

I voted for Sarah Palin in spite of the fact she was on the ticket with that low-life self-serving, I-was-a-POW, John McCain. I was hoping for one of those "I need to spend more time with my family" health crisis to happen early in McCain´s administration.

I have had it up to here with wishy-washy, milque-toast, moderate, I´ll-give-away-the-farm Republican weenies.

I would hope that the Sarah Palins and the Tea Partiers form a new party...Constitutionists...soon and they would take the next election---if 0bama hasn´t declared himself dictator-for-life and cancelled all future elections.

Divided we fall. The single admirable thing the Demos know how to do is stay UNITED on the public front. Their policy disagreements are always kept behind closed doors.
How could we ask anyone to vote with us, when we don´t even know what we stand for?
Don´t you wonder why the LATimes is dangling Sarah out there for the GOP right now? Some of you whine and moan about the media and then take their bait as soon as it´s offered up. The Demos smell blood and want us to destroy ourselves.
I was a mega Sarah supporter, but got fed up quickly with her over-the-top coyness re: this election. She wanted to drag out the primaries as long as possible, and I wonder *why* . Is it possible that Sarah is in it ONLY for *Sarah*--- and she would rather have this country face 4 more years of BHO than give Mitt her support?

Thank you for a Sarah article. I have missed them.
Sadly, it will never work. She has integrity, intellect, intuition and vision. She cannot be bought, rented or bullied. The republican establishment will never stand for that. As a matter of fact, they didnt.
Funny how a Saturday Night Live characterization, wrong at the time, still hangs on. Too bad they didnt go after the Kenyan with such vigor.

To all you snottie dolts that call yourself conservatives and put down Governor Palin at every turn I TOLD YOU SO.Just look what we have now.A skinny-armed commie loving little girl as President again who if there is any justice will be impeached.Now isn´t that just grand?

I love Sarah and I don´t ever want to be cured of it.

It´s become painfully obvious that there are two types of posters here. Those that are truly conservative, and those that whose foremost intent is to promote the Republican brand.

I´ve made the decision to disengage from political obsession and the stress that accompanies it. I´ll continue to vote against the creeping communism in this country, but I´ll no longer support weak sauce candidates who won´t take a stand for what´s right. Election fraud is rampant, and neither party seems to want to fix it. Once the illegals are granted citizenship that, combined with the Marxist takeover of education and the media as well as the future takeover of the Supreme Court, will seal the fate of conservatism in this nation. Hopefully the 20 or so years of life I have left will end before that occurs.

Ronald Reagan was the last unashamedly conservative candidate to run, and he achieved two landslide victories. Since then, the elites in the Republican party have pushed it ever further to the left in each successive election, still falling short. Until there is a fracturing off of a truly conservative party, we will always have a leftist at the helm and the Marxists will have won.

The reason I would vote for Sarah is that I trust her on the issues. That is the most important requirement. As far as intellect and experience, she had more of both than did the Democrat candidate in 2008. And he hasn´t gotten any better.

#12, Palin supported Romney with $5,000 to his campaign. She was roundly and sarcastically maligned for it here, btw. So, it appears she´s damned if she does, and damned if she doesn´t in the minds of some.

The people who trashed Sarah Palin are the same people running this country. The Establishment. The Harvard/Princeton elites who think that the crease in a man´s pants indicates if he´ll be a good leader. The Eastablishment all talk to each other have driven this country into the ground. The all go on Morning Joe and derisively snicker every time her name comes up. At least she´s not one of them.

She made her own way in this world, and went to a (gasp) state school. I´m even more impressed with her b/ c she didn´t go to an elite school. I fear that the axis of evil in DC/NY has ruined her chances, but I would sure like to try somebody fresh and new, not one of them.

Re: #8

I disagree with the assertion that Sarah doesn´t have the intelligence or experience to serve as president.

Especially in light of the fact that Obama, who had much less experience and is demonstrably less intelligent, has been elected twice.

Sarah qualifies for the job in her own right, but if Obama is the new standard that sets the bar pretty low for others who may seek the presidency.
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Please don’t doubt I am a Conservative, and fairly reasonable and down-to-earth. And I am sick to death of Sarah Palin and her whiney voice and practiced comments. She and other self-serving egotists like Newt Gingrich should just focus on things like writing diet books and Dancing with the Stars...p l e a s e.

Sarah Palin was a heckofa better Governor than Romney ever was.
Honestly look at her record while Governor.
She didn´t allow anyone to push her around, democrat or Republican.
She put Alaska first and they were the winners. She sure understands the OIL industry.

As illustrated by above posters, the GOP is split on this. Sarah simply will not play ball with the party Establishment.

If you want someone like Sarah, Allen West, or even Marco Rubio, your only option is to form a new party. That´s my choice. Tough in the short run, workable in the long run. We must rid ourselves of the global corporatists, Wall Streeters, and country clubbers and the ´party of the rich´ albatross that goes with them. They control the GOP; we need a party of our own.

I am tired of people talking about Palin and intelligence. Are you trying to tell me BO is smart? Not at all. Just evil.

Romney? In the debates? Sorry. It was just that BO was so dumb that it made Romney look smart. I am so tired of the DC and media establishment trotting out their latest lackeys and telling us they are smart.

And another thing: wrongheadedness with intelligence is worse than lackluster intellect. That´s what we have for a political establishment right now.

Proof? Who is worrying about the guy they put in jail for Barack´s video? Who among our elite has noticed that Hillary put a man in jail to buttress a campaign slogan that Al Qaeda is dead?

Where is Bobbie Jindal, Romney, Cantor, or the rest of those lackluster morons on the constitutionality of leaving that Bassiley guy in prison now that the Democrats are admitting they lied about him?

One word for them all: morons.

The GOP had better put up a Tea Party candidate in 2016, or the official Tea Party will put one up instead (to run against the Republican). I vote for Rand Paul if he learns to smile more by then.

I love Sarah but believe there are 2 problems:

1. Core demographics are moving against the R´s. Romney was right about the 47% (although his percentages were off somewhat)

2. Voting fraud is epidemic. Blame W on this. He had 8 years to do something and he knew that something needed to be done but he did nothing. Even given #1, the R´s should have been able to win the next 2 national elections had election fraud been curtailed.

3. R´s eat their own if there isn´t perfect agreement on every issue. Too many will sit at home, not vote and pout because the Republican candidate doesn´t have the same exact stance they demand. Then we have the media that is only too happy to continue to harp on that stance.

Her entry certainly would keep many others out of the race.

I am 68 and I have told friends I will never vote again because not a single contested race I voted in produced a winner. I feel my idea of who should lead my state and country is no longer who the majority of voters think should. Having said that, I would come out of political retirement and vote for Sarah Palin.

Sarah was set to run for 2012 - you only have to read her Indianola speech on Sept 3rd, 2011, to see that she had a platform and was ready to run a populist campaign.

http://www.sarahpac.com/posts/governor-palins-speech-at-the-restoring-america-tea-party-of-america-rally-in-indianola-iowa-video-and-transcript

For whatever reason, and I think it was likely strong GOP establishment opposition, she didn´t pull the trigger. So, she endorsed down-ticket and stayed out of the lime-light while the GOP establishment "electable" candidate lost, again. Running as Democrat-lite DOES NOT work.

Romney did not deliver the ground game, despite late-breaking Tea Party support. The Orca disaster cast severe doubts on his much vaulted executive skills.

Read this, and weep:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/265325/

This is a great article! Thanks for posting.

And Todd would make a GREAT First Husband!

(Think Scott Brown without the disappointment).

Has anyone suggested that if Orca had worked that we´d have won? The rats have got cheating down to a science and they´re so entrenched in the system that they´re next to impossible to dislodge. Add to that our circular firing squad. 3m people stayed home?? I hope they have a guilty conscience every day of the next 4 years.

W did contribute to current problems with his lack of action regarding cleaning up the system. Plus he left us bare since he didn´t have a VP who could take over.

Sarah - I love her and if she runs I´ll vote for her. She is the epitome of what made us into a great country. Maybe the next 4 years will be bad enough that people will realize that we need her and her ideas. My fear is that the corrupt who run D.C., Republicans included, didn´t want her messing with their gravy trains and that is the reason the RNC shut her down. And now the same loser doofus wants to be chairman of the RNC again? They don´t call us the stupid party for nothing.

I´ll work my heart out for you. Just say the word, Sarah.

Me too but you gotta declare early. Battlefield prep for a POTUS election takes years.

She has our votes, (2), whenever she might choose to run.

Character STILL counts! (-Washington D.C. sure needs some!)

Palin/ Goldwater 2016!
At this point we Might as well.

...at least Sarah Palin would have wiped the floor with that scrawny SOB! ..at least we would have had THAT much. I`m totally sick of the mealy mouth so-called good guys.take-em and shove-em.

I will always love Sarah Palin and her family. Were she the nominee for POTUS, I´d be all-in for her. I think she is more than smart enough to be president. Compared to Obama--ivy league degrees and all--she´s WAY smarter. She knows all about small business. She knows what it means to live on a budget. She knows that a strong America means a peaceful world.

In this case, Palin and principle before party--and I am considered a "hard R" by the GOP. I´ve never voted Democrat in my life in a partisan election and I vote every election.

God bless Mrs. Palin. I know she will seek to do what God leads her to do. I trust her--would crawl on hands and knees over broken glass to cast my vote for her.

So far, Sarah´s time in the spotlight has been similar to...Churchill´s. Laughed at, derided, scolded by the know-alls and dumped.

bac then, when all else was lost to the incompetent Gods of appeasement, when all the trendy left dimwits had done their worst and it was past the eleventh hour, Churchill reappeared as the only effective weapon the Brits had.

Do we, like the 1930s Brits, have to throw everything away, to descend below the level of our foes before someone like her is allowed to lead...?

Pinch me so I’ll know I’m not dreaming!

A non-hit piece about as non as non can be about Sarah Palin, and in the L.A. Times, no less. Charlotte Allen, where’ve you been all my life? Kudos to you for this exceptionally savvy, most refreshingly candid column! (If Bravo becomes Brava for females, likewise why doesn’t Kudo become Kuda? But, I digress.)

Sarah Palin has weathered probably a record-setting ammo dump of slings, arrows and so much more in the way of cheap, flimsy, gratuitous criticism for well over four years. She’s withstood it all with a well-earned measure of depth, far-reaching life experience, self-confidence, grace and good-natured humor. She’s the real deal, possessing all the right stuff necessary to be a strong, qualified, dedicated American President. Ronald Reagan in heels or a dress? Not quite. But, pretty darn close.

#26, I share your feelings, but there is no "Tea Party". There are numerous, disjointed, disparate Tea Parties. Add in Libertarian, Constitutional, 10th Amendment, and a few others, and therein lies the problem. Conservatives, we must get our acts together and coalesce.

When it comes to Sarah Palin, I´m all in! Seriously!

I absolutely agree with the writer

No, no and no

I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solemnly swear..someday I will hear those words...

She would do a wonderful job. She would know how to win back Latinos. She is from a union household, an ethnically mixed household, a household where they had to struggle to manage things, a household with the typical range of people issues. She´s straight with us, and oh how I like her.

Sarah wanted the GOP primaries to last longer so the establishment wouldn´t have such a stranglehold on the outcome. She´s a real believer in the power of the republic. She wants the people in charge and conservative ideas to be the agent of real reform. I´ve admired her from the beginning and will continue to.
I don´t see Romney getting the attention, even in defeat, that Sarah still gets.
I still have some hope that all isn´t lost when I factor this in.

Where are all the Romney backers who trashed Palin with a frenzy just like that of the Dems? Oh I see several of them are still hanging around trying to help destroy our country. Pitiful how badly some people want to see our country sink. They would rather have Obama than Palin. It is a sick thing and there is only one cure. Several of the usual Palin haters are missing. Maybe Romney´s defeat has dampened their strident bashing for a while. But they will be back. They will promote some other Rove type candidate to lose in ´16. Is sick sick sick how little some people understand what a true patriot looks like. Or maybe they just hate a woman candidate.

To those who disparage Sarah Palin´s intelligence, I have four words:

Barack Obama
Joe Biden

3rd party? We have one already it is called stay at home party.

The most vocal and consistent attackers of Palin in this salon were some of the most vocal and ardent, reflexive and aggressive Romney enthusiasts. All ten of ya. You had your opportunity and drove that bus off the cliff. Acknowledge and own it. The professional republican class has no idea what wins, but darned if they are going to relinquish control or admit their own ignorance. Pass the free shrimp and see if the black turtleneck is back from the dry cleaners.

I fear that Sarah´s "brand" has been too damaged by Alinsky-ite tactics by the Democrats and Republican "haters." But she has time now to try to repair the damage. I have some suggestions, which are
superficial, but that I think need to be done. I think Sarah has fallen into the Hillary Clinton trap with changing hairstyles, glasses and clothes. She needs to pick a conservative style--meaning no hairpieces, hair extensions or obvious highlighting, overly casual dress, workout clothes in public, tight tee-shirts, etc. Her looks should not be an issue, other than to see that she is an attractive, but professional-looking, woman. She also needs to rein in her family. If she can´t get them all on board and rowing in the same direction, she should not run. No more reality TV for any of them. And she should start giving more speeches at serious venues on serious subjects, using serious language. She is a very good and very engaging speaker, but her use of phrases like "lamestream media," that we use and like, but are probably off-putting to some. Having said all this, if Sarah runs, I´m in.

Before ya´ll get in a twist about who to run, you must find a way to "true" elections! The democrats will continue to steal them as they just did, this time adding software to machines that kicked out Romney votes, in addition to the tried and true methods. (Like finding votes in a warehouse recently in the West recount in FL) By the way, I´d vote for Sarah in a heart beat

Come on, this article is a spoof. Look at Allen´s list of reasons why Palin should run:

1. Her teenaged daughter got pregnant out of wedlock, so all single moms will flock to her.

2. She has "an impressive gay fanboy" base, one of whom can manage her campaign.

3. She´s a perfect guest for "The View."

4. She´s cuter than Hillary.

5. She appeals to low-information voters who are driven by their emotions.

6. She has a son in the military. So does Biden.

Come on. Spoof.