Posted on 10/08/2009 7:22:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That is exactly what I am afraid of - McCain's judgment is about as decisive as the product of my dog's rectum - it rolls downhill...
and don’t forget...the leading cause... LOW VOTER TURNOUT
It baffles me that in a state like Texas the voter turnout for the primary was less than 10%. It doesn’t take very many people of a different mindset to screw up the nomination.
Note that on Nov 8, 2009 McCain received 4,479,328 votes. But total votes across all candidates on March 4, 2009 in the primary was 1,362,322. This is out of 14,780,857 eligible voters!!! The bulk of the problem is apathy...no one cares until it is too late.
Clinton was a total opposite of Bush, Reagan was a total opposite of Carter, Carter was a total opposite of Ford, and so on.
People will want substance over flowery talk, experience over change, and competence over personality in 2012.
I believe Palin can be that candidate, but she needs to prove that to the General Electorate, which is increasingly moderate, suburban, and female, all groups that she does not poll well with.
She has the base, heck she had us at “lipstick”, but she needs to change her perception with the people who actually decide elections, which is not by any means impossible. But she needs to start now.
If she can win over Independents, who are deserting Obama and the Democrats in droves, and dispel the many myths and outright lies about her, she will prove to be an unstoppable candidate.
She is actually in the same place Reagan was after 76’. The establishment of the GOP and the democrats had convinced most Americans that Reagan was a washed up actor who had no thoughts of his own and was virtually a puppet of his wealthy masters. They told us he would be an “apocalyptic” President.
But Reagan spent all of the time between 76’ and 80’ reintroducing himself to the American Public, proving his metal and intellect, and displaying that not only was he not a psychotic cowboy hellbent on bringing about Armageddon, but he was a man ready to lead and ready to Govern with solutions to restore America.
We have been here before. We can do it again.
Definition of “Catastrophic:” War hero with years of government service defeated by communist community organizer with no experience
In Huckabee’s case he doesn’t have the interest to see that the republicans have a strong candidate to take the senate next year. Has he done ANYTHING at all toward that end?
I agree. I think if she runs it will be 2016 or even 2020. Right now she can accomplish a lot behind the scenes, and of course that means she will have a lot of chips to cash in if she ever decides too.
I disagree. The one thing Sarah Palin must never do is change simply to appeal to a segment of voters. What she should do is what Reagan did, chart a steady course, her own course, and require the independents and voter segments to see her views as the right ones to support. The voters should come to Palin, Palin should not go to the voters.
It’s called leadership.
ex animo
davidfarrar
Wishful thinking, dude.
“...did you have any other questions?”
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Well certainly not for you.
It doesn't answer your question directly but it's obvious that they already know who the candidate will be before they even ask us.
Then they proceed to take down the contenders one by one via various methods. Again, i state the obvious.
I am not saying she needs to change, I am saying she needs to dispel the lies, myths, and smears that the left has successfully put out their.
She polled very well with key General Electorate groups before the Democrat smear machine kicked into full gear last fall. Before the smears started, people absolutely loved her and her beliefs and agenda.
She doesn’t need to change who she is, she needs to change how people see her.
It was OVER by the time of the GOP TX primary. No reason for people to ‘turn out.’
Goat granny has a brain for trivia..... signed Goat granny
Sorry I disagree.
The entire GOP establishment is in opposition to her.
Although I do not want her to go 3rd party personally, I don't blame her if she does and I'll continue to support her.
“It doesn’t answer your question directly but it’s obvious that they already know who the candidate will be before they even ask us.”
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Part of the problem I’m having with this, is that I’m not sure when this all changed (Dole ‘96?), because it didn’t used to be that way. Either that, or they did a better job of acting out the charade.
McCain had everything going for him – did he really want to win? If so why not?
Why did his campaign sabotage Sarah Palin?
Why didn’t McCain protect her from the wolves?
Barack Obama—>Tides/Moveon/Joyce/Fenton—>George Soros/OSI—>Quantum Fund
McCain founded a little “think tank” called the Reform Institute. Look at the donor list. See some familiar names?
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Reform_Institute
McCain—>Reform Institute—>Piper Fund—>Joyce/Tides—>Proteus Fund—>George Soros/OSI—>Quantum Fund
I don’t know either. But i suspect it just got gradually worse over the years. And also now, they don’t seem to give a damn whether we know it or not.
That’s interesting and for me, educational.
Thanks.
It seems there are a number of problems with the system, but for those who think the problems are SO obvious, why it there not any sort of movement to repair the system?
If it is totally in the hands of an intractable party “leadership”, then it is time indeed for a third party, despite the advice of Mr. Limbaugh.
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