What understandable attitude? I think you are picking and choosing which posts of mine you’re reading. I spoke at a conference in San Fran on race and gender – I don’t think any of the hundreds of folks who’ve read or listened to me on the subject (and I didn’t ask to be speaking on it – they asked me) would describe me in the exact opposite way – as someone who goes out of her way to ask questions and engage.

Eek – what is giving you this notion that I want to avoid it?

Race is an essential element in the mix, and there’s no getting away from it. When it’s shoved under the rug out of politeness or fear of being thought racially insensitive, it becomes a looming undertone rather than a subject that can be dealt with in the open light of day, where it can be honestly debated. I would argue that your understandable attitude, shared by tens of millions of white Americans, only makes it harder to reconcile the races, because it puts the real stuff off limits for discussion, and ends up setting an environment in which whites ultimately patronize rather than really talk to their black neighbors and fellow citizens.

I think different is just different.

She has been governor of Alaska, she has constitutional obligations to her state and its best interests. Alaska’s constitution actually requires that its leaders develop its resources in order to benefit the state. It also has some uniqueness with respects to its independence and autonomy. Again her being still in that mindset is very normal.

She was on CNN and pushing for ANWR development, she was told she had the nomination on woman’s equality day, by McCain personally, did you miss that? That gets into what gets publicized in the media and then again what they just simply choose not to cover.

I am not seeking the opinions of those with pen and paper, I am looking at the people on the street, they can relate to her many can. This is more about natural resources and the war than about gender. She has done some fast track acclimating in Alaska and she is very aggressive against the good old boys network.

I do not understand why you believe she knows nothing about Ohio, if so she can confer with Voinovich?

She is dealing with Alaska a unique micro economy of the US, she is dealing with a simpler less complex part of the US and very well it seems, what her role would be as VP is undefined other than pursuing the development of natural resources. That’s what I am seeing in her, it would be difficult to say she has no respect for the environment. That is real a real agenda that speaks to many Americans on big issues.

She is a Washington outsider and not seeking notoriety at least not yet.

The issue is that a republican president with democratic majority in both houses gets nowhere. Compared to a democratic majority and where that will get us?

Its better not to get into the number of men that will vote for her because she is hot or the number of woman that will not vote for her because she is prettier than them.

I cannot vote McCain/Palin to me it will create grid lock? But then I think can Obama veto something faulted? Does he have the tenacity?

Legislation often has positive intentions that never gets fully realized in society and often is surrounded in denial of responsibility. Never do they say we tried and it does not seem to be working, they keep calling themselves heroes and patting each others on the backs. Or it all becomes a series of twisting manipulations devoid of reality.

In a global economy its best to produce more and consume less.

Eventually those benefiting by consuming less and producing more catch up, a balancing of economies, but this was all thought out with little regard to the depletion of natural resources and the inherent inflation that comes with it and also the environmental destruction as well. The competition for the resources will heat up international concerns and the potential for wars related to them.

If we tested all these political on an understanding of what is linear and spatial relationships they may all fail miserably.

I’m very serious here. I am very apt to say that a generalization isn’t true when I’m showing that it’s not – but you are the only conservative so far that I can recall speaking the way you just did.

If there are many more, or you know many more, I would URGE conservatives, if they are really serious about Sarah Palin fitting in with their sense of family values, to highlight people like you.

Otherwise – what you call a caricature will remain what I know to be what I’ve observed and heard.

So far – you are the exception to what is presented by the conservatives.