I am not ready to rule things out yet. The problems with democrats is that they need some independents or rebublican votes in order to win the white house. For republicans, all they need to do is make all the conservatives go out and vote on election day. This is exactly what Bush did in 2004 by courting all the Christians and that is what McCain is doing again. Palin is very conservative and this will motivate all the conservatives to go out and vote. Any Clinton sympathizers voting for Palin would be a plus.