Conservatism does not work, but the right wing keeps trying to re-package it and sell it to an unsispecting public. First, conservatism was packaged in the form of a loveable albeit senile old grandpa. The result were high deficits and the now unwinnable quagmire on drugs. Next it was packaged in the form of a likeable but not too bright cowboy. The result is a huge deficit, a quagmire in Iraq, and attempts to create a quagmire in Iran.
Now, conservatives are trying to package their failed policies in the form of a hockey mom, who seems a little dim, who knows what the results of a Palin presidency would be, but I bet it will be huge deficits and a quagmire somewhere.