CNN: Palin is another Huckabee, the party loves her but she can't win
America Blog Jul 27 09God bless her, and more like her. The more moderates who leave the GOP, the more conservative and extreme the GOP becomes, and the more the party will pick people like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee in their primaries - people who can't win a general election. The only danger, or the big danger at least, is that Democrats will keep trying to be "bipartisan" with an increasingly fringe GOP, moving the Democrats further and further to the right. Compromising with extremism is not bipartisanship.
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