Reply #18: She guarantees nothing of the sort [View All]

[Alcibiades]

First off, she talks funny. She may be just folks, but she's not our kind of folks. Most southerners don't play hockey. She is an alien creature to us.

Many southerners will vote for anyone with an accent, but it has to be the right kind of accent. Palin may be a redneck, but she's a Yankee redneck. Alaska: hard to get much more northern than that.

I thought Romney would have been better because he's articulate, good looking an a Neanderthal brow ridge sort of way, would pull in support from economic conservatives, and, yes, would help in Michigan. Palin helps in Alaska, maybe anywhere else where folks sound like the characters in Fargo. Romney's a Mormon, but it's not as if the folks who won't vote for the Mormon are going to turn around and vote for the negro, or stay at home and assure he wins: the Republicans have the racist vote sewn up, no matter what.

I'm not convinced Mitt would have taken it, anyway: being part of a losing ticket would hurt his chances of being the nominee in 2012, and I think we can all agree Romney will be very interested in that.