Posted on 08/04/2013 12:40:50 PM PDT by Bratch
You are full of crap. :^) Your contempt for Palin, sugar-coated though it is, is very obvious.
I consider myself a realist -- it's why I think the GOP is dead and gone and why I recognize the defeat of Romney as confirmation that yes indeed, people are sick and tired of Obama-style liberalism: they refused to vote for it.
If I were to start an post like that, you and the rest of the "pack" would have been howling as proof of my "trollism"
You read and misread(no surprise) my comments on Gov. Palin’s “chink in her armour”
Now read what I think of other candidates, both past and future.
Mrs. Palin’s problems are ephemeral(go look it up)compared to past/future candidates. I'll start off with Jeb Bush since he's the simplest to dismiss.
He's a Bush and I don't think the country is ready for another "Bush" (The same goes for another "Clinton" but more on her later)
The Governor doesn't have multiple divorces(Gingrinch) , has a faithful spouse with no "issues"(Gingrinch, Clinton), doesn't flipflop on virtually every important issue to conservatives(Gingrinch, Romney, Christie, Jeb Bush?) Has been honest in her business ventures, doesn't have overseas bank accounts(Romney)
Can definitely be seen as an "outsider" unlike (Gingrinch, Romney, Jeb Bush, Clintons) has the "common touch' and not seen as aloft or lost touch with the "common man" (Gingrinch, Romney) and can be very likeable once it veil of the media bias is torn away. (unlike both Clintons) and fought against own party's special interests.
Now compared with Hillary, both have executive experience. Palin, of course as governor and Hil's is as Secretary of state, which during her tenure was an travelling circus of travesties. This also counts as "international experience" for what it's worth
Palin's has very little international experience but luckily for her voters put international affairs very low on list of concerns and she can easily get a VP and others talent to fill those roles. She just needs to 'paint the big picture' as Reagan did and let the pros handle that part of her adminstration.
Hillary's international "experience" can easily be flipped into an albatross her neck. "Benghazi and her "3 o'clock call in the morning" ad, generously sprinkled with her "What difference does it make" quips, should make excellant attack ad fodder.
The collapse of "Obamacare" is another dead bird that can and should be snuggly tied around "Ole Chankles" wrinkled waddle as can Obama's abysmal economy. True she didn't have much to do with it but neither did McCain or Palin have anything to do with the collapse of the housing market during Bush's second term.
It would be political malpractice not paint her with this.
I could go on about Hillary's faults but unlike Palin's weakness, which can be easily whisked away like so much pixie dust by great performances in the primaries and the presidential debates, Hillary's are set in cement and will be much more harder to ignore.
But Mrs. Palin needs to show that 2008 election was an aberration and wild caricature of the press's vivid imagation. (No, I don't blame her for the loss, it was always going to be an difficult fight for any GOPer and burdan was always McCain's)
If she has done all the tedious behind the scences prep work in the last eight years it will be quickly evident to both "Deep Pockets" and voters
THAT'S the way the 'Big Money", party bigwigs and true "realists" looks at the world, with all it's peaks and valleys.
And not through rose colored glasses....
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