The problem, as I've indicated in earlier threads, is that primaries reward passion. The top two issues in Republican primaries these days are 1) abortion and 2) gun rights.   There's no question who of the current Republican field has the anti-abortion issue locked up tight. The only one who has "walked the walk":   Sarah.   Similarly, who's the poster girl of the NRA: Cheney?

Mudcatters had best start taking Sarah seriously.

And don't blithely assume that if she gets the Republican nomination it will be a cakewalk for President Obama or any other Democrat. If the economy and war situations don't improve drastically--especially the economy--President Obama (or any other Democrat) will have big problems.

One of the ironies of this is that the one thing some Mudcatters and others on the Left could do to weaken Sarah is the thing they are least likely to do:   stop trashing religion, and stop pushing for politically poisonous ideas like homosexual marriage.   Both of these bring out the rightist crazies in greater numbers than anything else.   As Mudcatters could have seen in 2004.