Here's a portion of Sarah Palin's recent interview where she responds to how the media treated her and her family during the campaign. Very interesting.
Palin, i.e. a genuinely conservative regular person, was not the reason McCain lost. McCain, for many, represented a compromise – a less liberal but not too conservative politician – a moderate.
But who votes for moderates? The convictions of a conservative will naturally resist appeasement and waffling. If you lack these convictions about what must be done, then what's the difference between a moderate and a liberal candidate, especially if you believe in government as a solution? If you're not voting on conservative principles, you may as well vote for whoever is going to make you feel better .
When a truly conservative campaign is run, it wins, because most people are at least somewhat conservative and understand responsibility and sacrifice even if they don't like it. But if neither side wants to take the hard road, but instead you're offering two different levels of concessions, then selfish people will make selfish decisions.
Palin as a runningmate probably delivered some voters who cared about conservative values. But with McCain talking about global warming and bailouts and completely unable to explain conservative principles to the public, the GOP ticket was doomed.
Palin didn't hurt the ticket. McCain's inability to communicate conservative principles did.
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