Is Sarah Palin the GOP ansewer to George McGovern? (democratic, liberal, American)

[mwruckman]

George McGovern really excited the liberal base of the Democratic party in 1972. Unfortunately, he was sufficently outside the center of American poltics that he was painted as an unacceptable candiadate foe the Oval Office. He not only made Richard Nixon look good but went down in a landslide. Now Sarah Palin really jazzes up the GOP base but seems to repel everybody else. Is she what the GOP really needs -- its own answer to George McGovern?

[SGrey]

I don't have much to add other than to say I think your analogy is exactly right.