Posted on 03/14/2011 9:46:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Prominent New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg says that Sarah Palin just might have a clearer path to the Republican presidential nomination next year than commonly understood – an event he warns would lead to President Obama's clear reelection.
Gregg, the former senator and governor of the Granite State, says the muddled GOP presidential field means it's more likely than ever there won't be a clear consensus candidate before the party's nominating convention in August of 2012. If that happens, says Gregg, Palin and her army of supporters might have the upper hand when it comes to settling on a presidential candidate.
"A candidate who runs second or third in a great many primaries could go into the convention with a sizable block of delegates," writes Gregg in an Op-Ed in The Hill newspaper Monday. "Who would this favor? Does Sarah Palin come to mind? Although she is not viewed by most as strong enough to win, she is viewed by many as a person worth voting for to make a statement."
While it's unlikely Palin (should she run) would win that many primary contests, placing second or third might be enough - especially this time around when delegates will be awarded a proportionate basis instead of the winner-take-all system that has previously been the rule in Republican primaries....
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
They do indeed continue to harbor that fantasy.
Chris "Tingles" Matthews called Obama "Carter" (by mistake?) for heaven's sake!
They figure Palin will win, so they're breaking ranks with ZerO and trying to position Mittwit as Obama-lite, which he is after all, in order to draw in liberal crossover votes.
But it would be a mistake to think that Mittwit is being pushed only by liberals, he's also a tool for the TBTFs. More wealthfare, more welfare, and higher taxes for the middle class via keeping "QE forever" Bernanke in his seat.
And did I mention you have to buy Obamaromneycare?
“Sarah Palin just might have a clearer path to the Republican presidential nomination next year than commonly understood – an event he warns would lead to President Obama’s clear reelection.”
Just like Reagan’s candidacy got Jimmy Carter reelected, right?
FWIW, I think we should all just ignore the New Hampshire Primary and Iowa Caucus. They are both pissant states who consistently pick losers.
Not just the TV, but somebody said, “A person who never sees a newspaper is better informed than one who reads them daily.
That's the only way I can see him winning.
Judd Gregg. Almost accepted a job as Commerce Secretary for the Obama. Screw him.
1. Judd Gregg is an hereditary office holder. His daddy, Hugh Gregg was NH governor before him. IIRC, Hugh was Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign manager against Ronaldus Maximus.
2. Opposition to both Palin and Ronaldus Maximus suggests a certain class-based outlook that displays confusion as to why the GOP has drifted so far from the social snobbery and leftist agenda of its founders like great great granddaddy Abolitionist Q. Firebrand. It is simply toooooo much to tolerate non-Unitarians in the party of hereditary privilege. Bitter clingers...grumble, grumble...gun toters...harumph....Christers... grump grump...the servant class taking over the party of their social betters!!! Lions and Tigers and BEARS!!! Oh my!
3. Not only that but this Palin woman probably imagines herself more attractive than Eleanor Roosevelt who was from the Republican wing of the Roosevelt clan although, ideologically, Lenin and Stalin had few differences with Eleanor.
4. What drives Palin Derangement Syndrome is the certainty that she has no ambition to be a social flibbertigibbet and that if she runs and wins she will be deadly serious about changing the culture of the GOP and of America by showing that sound policy is good politics.
5. Palin is like the best young prospects in baseball. She could crash and burn if she is not yet ready OR, more likely, has the highest upside potential this side of Ronaldus Maximus and could change the game in ways that even he did not and always for the better.
6. Many of my fellow men are also shallow as hell and regard Todd Palin as a verrrrrry fortunate fellow. That will, trust me, translate into votes. Her challenge will be to get the women's vote when at least some women will resent her for being, ummm, "beautiful, hopeful, confident, and principled." No POTUS candidate has combined all four of those qualities. If she can sell women on the fact that her election is the most genuine "liberation" of women (assuming they were captured in the first place) of all, she will be elected and each day will be a new and positive revelation.
7. I once represented in a divorce a man who was born in Great Britain and was the son of a definitely working class mother whom I met. She was an elected Labour (knowledgeable and committed socialist) public official. I teased her by asking how she felt about Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. She told me sheepishly that she would never admit it in Britain but that practically all the women she knew were very privately bursting with pride over the job that Thatcher had done and over her proven mastery of British politics as a woman. That is Palin's upside potential.
8. Palin's enemies would do well to study her conduct on the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission, her resignation because of its corruption, her ignored demand that then Governor Frank Murkowski fire the GOP State Chairman as Chairman of the Commission because of his corruption and her subsequent and resulting challenge to Frank Murkowski which put him in 3rd place in a three way primary despite his being the incumbent who had previously served several terms in the US Senate. The lady ought not to be taken lightly. Saracuda is swift and resourceful and has proven quite deadly to the careers of those who insist on underestimating her.
8. Palin can see the Alaskan oil fields from her porch and, in an election during which gasoline prices may hit $5 a gallon, that may resonate with enraged voters even more than Comrade O's experience as an Alinskyite "community organizer." Voter response to Comrade O as POTUS will be along the lines of: Hey, comrade, organize THIS! with appropriate gesture.
9. Ancestral GOPers and and airhead trust fund babies Muffie and Skipper will move to Europe before President Palin's inauguration. Dustbin of history and all that!
10. Even Bullwinkle will cheer as Marine 1 carts away Comrade O and family. Bullwinkle knows that Palin will be too busy for hunting, ummm, Bullwinkle and his cousins. 4-8 years with no mooseburgers.
Tax-chick: thanks for your post. I had begun to weaken a bit but that is cured now!
I could see a draft-Mittwit push by the dems, but more likely he will run as an independent when Governor Palin crushes him like a squishy metrosexual bug in the primaries.
I’m not following advice from a guy who almost served in Obama’s cabinet.
Unlike his fellow Massachusetts good hair guy JFK, Mitt had to earn his money rather than marry it.
Wehner, now a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, cited the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous 1980 declaration that the GOP had become “a party of ideas.”
“Conservatives are very proud of that,” Wehner said. “But she seems at best disinterested in ideas or least lacks the ability to articulate any philosophical justification for them. She relies instead on shallow talking points.”
I'm no member of the Church of Palin, but the assertion that she has no interest in substantial policy ideas is complete garbage.
You're pretty gullible, dude.
Judd Gregg needs to challenge for that pesky nomination thing. His voter will be disappointed if he doesn’t.
good caption, but needs a pic of her showing her nice legs ;)
Judd Gregg is a sex slave to liberals and bends forward when asked.
I can’t believe the decent people of NH have let that state be taken over by idiots. No wonder the Ol’ Man in the Mountain died.
Therefore, in a contest between the two, I would vote for Obama, regardless of the consequences for the country. After all, I’m rich enough that $6 gas and $6 milk aren’t really going to hurt me. Screw those little people ... it’s all about my ego.”
Having reached this conclusion, they assume the rest of the voters will respond the same way.
That's worth repeating.
I've wondered, what if the circumstances of life in the USA got so bad that American men had to remove their noses from NFL and NBA butt-cracks? Would they even then be able to become real men again?
Always a pleasure to see your vividly vehement verbiage, BlackElk! Excellent points, all.
I think many of the points I made about Mr. Gregg could also be applied to many women: Sarah Palin makes them feel inadequate, Barack Obama makes them feel superior. Maybe $6 gas, $6 milk, and $6 bread will make a bigger impact on the average woman than on the economically-insulated “elite.” It can’t be easy keeping those SUV’s on the road; I can’t fill my van right now, because the machine shuts off at $75.
Sound policy? Like what? Her pro-choice for states position on abortion? Her judicial supremacism? Her pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens? Her support for the Law of the Sea Treaty? Her support for the Dept. of Education? Her lack of any stated policies that would eliminate much if any existing (largely unconstitutional) federal agencies or programs?
Her stated policies are, frankly, little different than those of her 2008 running mate.
If the point of the GOP nomination is to lead the opposition to "Obama", Sarah is the nominee already.
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