appreciate it. one of the stories i tell in outside the wire is that one of the very first doors i ever knocked on in my campaign, my first campaign, which was for state legislature, this fellow came to his front door and we were talking. it was really clear immediately that he and i disagreed on this issue he wanted to talk about, and i had just been a candidate for a short time and i did what i had seen politicians on tv do, and i start trying to spin him and tell him how really we agreed, and next thing i knew we were in an argument and it wasn t going well. i felt frustrated and desperate. i said, thanks for your time, i know what you believe. i walked off and he said to me, that makes sense, you can put a sign in my yard, i will vote for you. that s how i learned that voters don t expect you to believe everything they believe. they want to know you believe what you re saying, and they will for gigive you for believi something different if they know you care about them. you are
and so has sarah palin with john mccain. and despite the sniping among the staffs, it did not happen between the two of them. secondly igive sarah palin a lot of credit. first of all, she s always impressed me as a political performer and also as a political talent. and i think any democrat that underestimates her is making a mistake. secondly, i give her credit for standing up to this tea party movement that is opposing john mccain, and i think her going there tells me something. that she s willing to stand up to what she might consider her base and that s a good definition of political courage. it s a little confusing because a lot of the things she said are the exact things the tea party wants to happen. from less government, lower government. let s listen to what she said. this was a rally in senator harry reid s hometown of searchlight, nevada. we re not inciting violence. don t get sucked into the lame stream media s lies about