Coming off a well received speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised some questions about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's conservativism in an interview on Fox News on Sunday.
Palin, who has remained active in the Tea Party movement, called Romney a "great candidate" despite having misgivings, noting that she is not sure he is a constitutional conservative.
"I am not convinced and I don't think that the majority of GOP and independent voters are convinced," Palin said. "And that is why you don't see Romney get over the hump."
"He's still in the 30-percentile mark when it comes to approval and primary wins and caucus wins. He still hasn't risen above that yet because we are not convinced," she added.
Palin went on to say that voters want to see instinctively conservative politics from any Republican candidate.
"We will want to see that candidate whom we can trust will just inherently, instinctively turn right, always err on the side of conservativism, which means smaller, smarter government, more empowerment for the individual, for the private sector," Palin said.
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