Enjoy life in Alaska, make big bucks, and nudge the country back to sanity! What's to argue with???
Ex candidate???
You mean she’s already president???
The once and future candidate.
I’ve been reading some of the folks on this thread and some are embarrassments. I understand if someone wants to support someone other than Palin but when I hear someone talking about how she doesn’t have the support or can’t get it I keep thinking about Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Sharron Angle, Toomey, Ron Johnson, Ken Buck, etc. Did anyone think McCain was going to win the nomination? No. Did anyone really think Obama had a chance in hell? Not really. Those who wish to write Sarah Palin off really don’t understand campaign dynamics. Given their quickness to declare her defeat I have to wonder is it because they just don’t want her to even try or is it because they don’t believe in the worthiness of the cause. We didn’t win all the Senate seats we wanted to but even so even Sharron Angle did better in Nevada than John McCain. Who in the world would’ve thought that would happen? Charlie Crist was a shoo-in but where did he end up? Rand Paul was too radical? Where are these people now, some of them are the same naysayers in this thread some of them are pining over Romney, Huckabee, or worse some narrow conservative that doesn’t even have a financial base to even run.
The single biggest thing that Sarah Palin has going for her is that she has a potential small donor base that will rival anything that any other candidate has even Ron Paul or Obama has had. Sarah Palin gets people excited who are not excited about anyone else. Polls are a bit misleading because Palin is so polarizing but there are a lot of people who like her but just won’t commit because they think it isn’t the right answer because 24x7 the media, the elite commentators etc tell them she isn’t. The elephant in the room is that Palin has a huge potential backlash banked because her critics have been so over the top, so intellectually dishonest that Palin only needs to prove their caricatures wrong to open up main lines to new voters.
She is going to appeal to the independents, she is going to appeal to libertarians, she is going to appeal to evangelicals, she is going to appeal to men, and women and she is going to have an unlimited amount of money to do it with.
The key thing is that if the people on this thread are real conservatives we need to commit to coalescing behind the conservative that rises to the top. Palin I believe will but if it is Jim DeMint, if it is Michelle Bachman, if it is someone who is truly a conservative then we need to commit ourselves to back that candidate or we will be stuck with some establishment hack who doesn’t have a any intent of respecting the constitution or protecting liberty or respecting the founding principles of the Tea Party.
Those here who wish to parrot the media, the “experts”, the same ones who told us Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and others were sure things and better than sliced bread. Well you are already defeated. Better you stay out of the fray if you can’t at least be honest with who you support but instead would rather take the cowards path of sowing derision as if you would really like to support Palin but don’t believe she can win.
Winning is the result of doing. It is not something that comes from hard work. It is not predicted by media love or news pundits. If it were we’d have had Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton. Don’t forget on the Republican side Reagan was too extreme, Bob Dole was the perfect candidate to defeat Clinton, and John McCain was so much better a candidate than George W Bush.