Reply #87: I don't think it has anything to do with showing a conservative side

[Cruzan]

Rather, it's all about her likeability, her personality, her character. Fair or not, true or not, she just strikes many as having a strident, less-than-feminine, lezzy quality to her, and if she tries to overcome that by overcompensating in one direction or another, that will also just be seen through as manipulative and phony (Gore had a similar problem in the 2000 election) and will simply be added to the list of things people don't like about her. For reasons I've not thought enough about, someone like Nancy Pelosi seems to carry little or none of this baggage and I think would fare far, far better.