How has Sarah Palin become the spokeswomen for the GOP?

I don't think the GOP has anyone else to put out there right now and Palin is always at the ready...if the price is right...to fire up the base. Unfortunately, according to at least one conservative Republican on this board, the moderates have no spine and are basically worthless so good luck bringing them into the fold. I watched part of Palin's speech earlier this evening and it was the same old, same old. It sounds all good and positive but, as a moderate, I'm not as stupid as the GOP would like me to believe. I still vote the candidate anyway and not the party.

I heard rumors that she is getting in position to try to gain RNC Chairwomen. I hope that she does because then all we have to do is kick the Dems out of office and get the third parties in their see if they can make the change this nation needs because with Palin at the helm of the GOP will it will sink to the bottom of the ocean several times over and will become nothing more than a party of crazies. Oh as for the tea party people they will most likely lose in the general election as they will come off as being extreme and people will vote the person who they think will win because that is how brainwashed people are also people also will vote on how the media (Owned by like 5 companies) Tell them to. We need to take our nation out of there hands as for sarah I won't vote for anyone she endorses period and won't vote for here and beck if they are running in 2012 and make it through to the election.

It's with great regret I admit I didn't see Sarah's speech in Iowa...DARN it anyway! I figured it would be the same old speech she gives wherever she goes, but unity is sure a new theme for her! I guess we shouldn't be too surprised - she plays possibly the biggest role in tearing the party apart and now she's talking unity! What a good question - what is Sarah Palin the spokeswoman for the GOP. I guess it's probably because she wants to be and it seems that even those who may not be too thrilled about that are afraid to tell her so. I get a huge kick out of all of these long time political leaders I KNOW know better saying that, sure, Sarah is capable of being President of the United States or at least not having the cajones to say she isn't. To show that I'm neither sexist nor partisan, can you just imagine her in any national leadership position in the capacity of Hillary Clinton or Condie Rice? I know I sure can't! There's quite a bit of inconsistency in her picks, in my opinion, and I'm afraid it's all personal with her. She doesn't like Senator Lisa Murkowski and didn't like her father so she was only too happy to try to get her taken out of office. I don't she's anymore of a "RINO" than McCain but she HAD to endorse him since if it hadn't been for him she'd still be an obscure Governor or former Governor of Alaska. I guess we have him to blame, right? You ask where all the intellectual Republicans have gone; I'm not sure where but I think we can probably thank Sarah for that. Soon, there won't be any intellectual political candidates AT ALL, they'll all be "just plain folks" trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Don't know anything about foreign affairs, economics, science, the military or any of the other things a leader should know such as HOW TO WORK WELL WITH OTHERS? No problem, just start an email correspondence with some "prayer warriors" and things will work out fine...NOT!! "Common sense conservatism"? I don't think so! It's not the conservatism I have a problem with, by the way, it's the total lack of common sense. Annie

" Maybe one day when a moderate wins the party's nomination the conservative wing wont start bolting for the door to vote for a third party candidate." Have you already forgotten 2008? A moderate won the nomination, Republicans got behind him, but independents and democrats chose instead to vote for a left wing extremist. Clearly being "Democrat-lite" didn't work. You certainly can't claim that the far right was the reason he lost as Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin combined couldn't even muster a full 1% of the vote.

Sarah Palin is not a spokeswomen for the GOP. Please get your fact straight. She supports more Tea party candidates than she does established Republicans. She is using the fame from the McCain campaign to state her ideas about how government should be run. So, what if people happened to agree or disagree with her. That is their choice. She hasn't announced she is running for President. She hasn't started any run for any office. She is simply an American who is expressing her ideas on government. So what, if people are paying to listen to her speak. It is no different then some law professor, doctor, or public speaker giving a speech and getting paid for it. So what, if she endorses a candidate. Lots of people give endorsements. It is not like she can actually vote in these states. I hate to break it to you, but not all of those "perfectly" good Republicans are "perfectly" good as considered by Republicans. Oh yeah, one more misconception to address. Not everyone in the Tea Party is Republican.

I don't think she was trying to be a spokeswoman for the GOP, she had some unflattering things to say about the GOP and party elites. She was warning them that they'd better get on board, because the people are voting for the Tea Party candidates and not necessarily the Republican Party-backed candidates. Sure, she called for unity, but she was telling them they'd better join her side, not urging anyone to unite with the GOP party hierarchy. I found this choice of modifiers interesting: "McCain gets her endorsement but she helped to take out her fellow Alaskan female politician Lisa Murkowski". Why add the word "female"? Are women all supposed to stick together and automatically support any woman candidate? I don't think moderates are the answer to winning elections. Why would the voters want to choose between the Democrat and the Republican who votes with the Democrats? I think the voters want clear choices, not a lot of flubbing about in the middle, trying desperately not to sound too conservative because that might not be popular. I think the big surprise will be how conservative the voters are becoming in response to the most liberal, left-wing administration we've had since FDR.