Posted on 11/05/2008 12:38:54 AM PST by mathwhizz
People here are saying here she's too right wing to ever win an election and doesn't have any credentials with independents?
Yeah, maybe after the MSM character assassination she went under but people have the memories of gnats and expectations for her will be non-existent if she runs for President. She's a quick study and will surprise a lot of people.
But do any of you know about her record in Alaska?
She challenged a corrupt incumbent republican governor in the primary with no institutional support and very little money and won. The Alaskan Republican Party hates her guts and that's a good thing! She then beat a democrat former governor of Alaska.
She raised taxes on the oil companies and cut every citizen of Alaska a check for $1300. Yeah, a lot of people don't like economic populism but it plays with lots of conservative democrats and independents.
She's a fiscal conservative that balances budgets and uses the veto pen and wants to streamline and minimize government.
She passed a $40 billion natural gas pipeline, a project that has been in the works for decades and every predecessor failed to get passed, the largest infrastructure project in US history. She did it in her first year as Governor.
Yeah, she's a social conservative but she's also a pragmatist. She's not against sex education in schools, or teaching evolution, or banning books, or any of the nutty things the liberals have been saying about her. Yeah, she's pro-life, so was Ronald Reagan.
I don't know if 2012 is the right timing for her. She is a woman and unfortunately there is a much higher standard necessary for a woman to cross that commander-in-chief threshold especially for her after she's been ridiculed so much by the media.
Her best bet may be to achieve a record of accomplishment in Alaska as a two-term governor and set her sights on 2016.
Given enough time and a serious study of national and international issues (lots of foreign policy trips, speeches at think tanks, appearances on FOX News and becoming a regular on the sunday morning shows, campaigning to take back the house and senate in 2010), she will rebuild her credibility with the American people.
And remember before Sarah became the pitbull with lipstick she was the pragmatic fiscally conservative governor of an energy state with 80% approval ratings which you need lots of independent and democratic support to get. That was her brand and if there is any crime the McCain people did to her was destroy that brand she worked her whole political career to achieve.
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No quarrels with Sarah here.
I will work for her election starting tomorrow if she tips her hand. So will the wife.
Palin / Hunter 2012
I will work for her election starting tomorrow if she tips her hand. So will the wife.
One of the problems is that nobody in the McCain administration spent the time to make the case you just made here. The mainstream media did a hatchet job on her and nobody tried to correct the record.
Blame George W Bush for the GOP lose.
“She raised taxes on the oil companies and cut every citizen of Alaska a check for $1300. Yeah, a lot of people don’t like economic populism but it plays with lots of conservative democrats and independents.”
they’ll vote for the Dem and get the real thing. It was one of the reasons why Joe the Plumber didn’t work. That, and the bailout.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Damn straight! Sarah is the only reason the race was competitive.
McCain ran a dreadful campaign. Sarah was the best thing ever to happen to him. He never played to her strangths and let the media savage her, serving her up to Gibson and Couric. What a stiff he was.
I blame George W Bush for the loss — he did nothing to help Republicans after he was reelected in 2004 and seemed happy in 2006 when the Dems took over. He refused to counter negatives in the media.
I don’t blame Sarah Palin at all — without her we would have been in a lot worse shape. She brought energy to the GOP that has been missing.
These people are massively invading this world of the internet.
You beat me to it. McCain would not have gotten anywhere near the turn-out he did without her. Too bad she was held back.
McCain lost when decided to announce that he would refuse to use make use of Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah “God damn America!” Wright, in campaign ads.
Thanks for joining today just to suggest that Sarah not run until 2016, but I think 2012 will do just fine.
I like Sarah Palin a lot, but she got her shot... Viva La Jindal! That guys the new Reagan and unlike Sarah (God Bless her for real) he can articulate it clearly, intelligently, and convincingly! Unless Palin gets to that point in the next two years, she’ll be a Repub mainstay, but not for president.... she might have another shot at VP though...
I think the mistake that many may have made was in badly overestimating how much in the end the VP pick matters to the average voter when they decide. In the end while the VP pick matters some, swing voters vote for the top of the ticket. Sometimes through excitement I think people missed that.
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