re: #269 AJStrata

Ralphie, that view of Palin is just dead wrong.

Palin actually attracts a lot of centrists. If you did not go to one of her campaign events you just cannot grasp what her draw really is. Palin pulled Puma’s and Evangelicals. She is not a bible thumping zealot (myth created by the left).

She is an American mother. I have lived politics outside DC for years, and you cannot see the incredible crowds she drew in Northern Virginia (as purple as it comes) and not understand where she pulls. She pulls from center left to center right, and that is why each fringe is trying to taint here mercilessly.

Won’t help.

As a former “fan” of Sarah Palin who has taken a very long, hard look at her and strove to be honest with myself, I can tell you that this is mostly bullshit if you pardon my French.

She scared the hell out of “centrists” during general election season. I know plenty who were leaning McCain until he picked her and then they ran for the hills. They believed the “myths created by the left”. Those myths which turned out to be far closer to the truth than any of us thought. The left Forrest Gumped and ‘fake but accurate’-ed their way to being almost right about her. Any centrist that was not turned off by her her before, should certainly be so now that we know far more about her.

Also, on a side note… There were no real PUMAs. That was a 15 minute long internet phenomenon that made zero difference in the general election.