A serious conservative - like Ronald Reagan - has some knowledge of facts and some perspective based on experience. The conservative philosophy is essentially 1."If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" and 2."The smallest Federal government you can get away with."

Without debating the merits of that philosophy, I would suggest that Sarah Palin is not a conservative. She has little political experience, enormous ignorance about the world, little sense that factual knowledge is needed for making decisions, and a blind faith in doing nothing even when it's broke. On top of that and beyond politics, she has a blind spite for the media ("Will you just quit makin' things up?"), for the President("He's just telling us to sit down and shut up!"), a self-righteous streak that's too obviously real (I doubt she's a hypocrite like so many other politicos), and an inability to take criticism, even from people like her campaign "handlers" who were doing everything to make her look good.
And when she got sick of the governor's job, she up and quit!

She's no conservative. Like many other so-called "conservatives," she's a two- or three-issue Christian populist. I'm not a "lefty" but what scares me is that her many, many supporters think all those weaknesses are refreshing virtues!