Would you vote for Palin??

No, I would not vote for Sarah Palin if she ran for the office of President or the office of Vice President. She may have been an effective governor but she was a horrible candidate the last time around and she cost McCain many votes, including mine. I'm not going to go into further detail because her worshipers will attack like wild hogs but she's not someone I would trust to lead this country.

First of all, welcome to myLot and may you enjoy it here as much as I and many of my friends do! Now, would I vote for Sarah Palin... Absolutely, positively, definitively NO!!! Why not? Gee, I could probably write a book listing all of the many, MANY reasons I'd never vote for Sister Sarah for anything, let alone President, but I'll try to keep it a bit more brief than that and list only the main points. For starters, I totally disagree with her politically on virtually every issue; however, that's not the main problem, there have been Presidents with whom I've disagreed on many things but I wasn't SCARED about them being President but the idea of "President Palin" frightens the crap out of me! She's already proven herself to be a quitter, that when the going gets rough, Sarah Palin gets going. I'm sorry, I know all of her many myLot fans and admirers believed she did it "for the people of Alaska" but it's my opinion she did it for herself, pure and simple. She's gotten more attention and she's certainly made far more money by quitting than she would have had she finished out her term. Hey, all the power to her if she wanted to strike while the iron was hot and make the big bucks but I feel that when we make a commitment, as she did to those who voted for her for Governor of Alaska, we're obligated to see that commitment through. She's also given every indication that she doesn't view all Americans equally, in fact she doesn't consider some of us to even be "real" Americans or from the "real" America! I have a problem with that. The President of the United States is the President of the ENTIRE United States, red states and blue states, and is there to serve ALL of the people of the United States, not just those of a certain party or ideology. Finally, while I certainly don't think it's a requirement for our President to be a graduate of one of the "elite" Ivy League colleges such as Harvard or Yale I DO think he or she needs to be more intelligent than the average person and, above all, very intellectually curious and willing and EAGER to learn what he or she doesn't already know that is relevant to the position. Sarah Palin doesn't even seem to realize she has a lot to learn. Annie

I would vote for her.

Good question. If h*ll froze over and Palin became the Republican presidential candidate, it would create quite a conundrum for me. I am not a fan of Ms. Palin, as she is on the "religious right" which, for the most part, believes in moral governing. This belief is essentially moral statism and ignores the premise of limited government, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Not to mention she is a very divisive figure. However, I don't believe the country can handle four more years of the Obama administration's unconstitutional actions, unlimited spending, and expansion of federal government. That being said, if the choice is Obama and Palin...I would be forced to choose Palin. This isn't going to happen as she won't be the Republican candidate, so it's not something we have to worry about...thankfully.