I'm not American, so I am confused with some things. Sarah Palin is a Republican, as you two also are, but you're clearly not impressed with her. There is no question that she has a rabid and loyal fan-base, and that she is immensely popular among some, so who are these people that support Palin so thoroughly?
Better yet, who are these people that support her so thoroughly, and what percentage of the Republicans do these people account for?
I was impressed that an unknown girl from Alaska was able to just jump head first into a presidential campaign and show them what courage, conviction, and class were all about. She was the best part of the election campaigns, she wasn't playing by their rules often being chastised for not following a script, I like that. She is a very pretty, very smart, very charismatic girl and I wish her any success she can gather. I had no problem with her as V.P. to McCain, I was looking forward to having a woman in the white house as something other than a tour guide, maid, cook, first lady, or mistress.
The people who are supporting her are the really staunch Republicans very conservative, mostly religious, and really mostly the average middle class on that side of the spectrum. Women make up most of the majority of her fans I would say and that's one hell of a great demographic to appeal to speaking strictly on the political aspect of it. It you've got half the women you've basically got at least a quarter of the country so that is pretty significant.
Sarah Palin isn't popular politically; she's popular personally
Perfect statement to sum up Sarah Palin.
I have two things against her: she doesn't know enough politically to be President
This I have to take issue with. You can not by any means try to say that Sarah Palin doesn't have enough experience when Barack Obama didn't have a as much experience as her even, yet the whole country turned a blind eye to that because he was black and he wasn't Republican after the smear campaign the party took the last 4 years prior to this election. She became a Mayor in 1996 when Obama was teaching at the University of Chicago, and she had been a successful Governor for two years by campaign time while Obama was a tardy and absent junior senator that literally did nothing, if I remember correctly he never even went to Washington D.C. to Capitol Hill or anything for quite a majority of that term as well. It all depends on how you want to say it, you can either say Palin was every bit as qualified, or that she was every bit as unqualified as Obama. Bottom line she was no worse and probably better based on her politics and character alone.
and she didn't finish her term as Governor of Alaska. That last point really rankled me; how could she function in the highest office in the country if she couldn't take the heat in her last position?
So, Barack didn't finish his term as junior senator either, he decided to run for president and quit. Palin was getting attacked from all angles and getting bombarded everywhere on everything after already being beating down in a one sided election and decided she wanted to get out of politics because of how it was effecting her family. She wrote a book, more people are supporting her at the moment rather than attacking her even though the attackers are still at work, and people believe in her. That is the big thing right there, people believe in Sarah Palin as someone who could go and rock the shit out of Congress and make something that is going to help us happen. I can see why, and although I like all of that, and I think she would do fine, the reality is that the Republican party probably isn't going to nominate her, and I don't necessarily think they should.
I think her becoming president would really mark this time we live in as a turning point in history with the first black and the first female president going back to back terms, that would be nutz. I could see people wanting to make history like that so bad that it happens much like with Obama, but really? That's not going to happen though. The Republicans are going to find a real shooter in this next election, someone who can really lay it all out there and make the people decide what really matters to them in the long run.
