[Iron Munro]

I would be happy to see a real American like Sarah sitting in the Oval Office.

But the ugly truth is that the left and the media have unfairly demonized and discredited her with their lies, fabrications and characterizations to the point she would not be a viable candidate.

The truth doesn’t matter - it is what the unthinking masses have been led to believe is the truth.

Sarah will probably have to be content making millions of dollars by being a thorn in the liberals side.

[Cicero]

Sarah has far more experience as a leader than Ted Cruz, and I think her values are more fixed and reliable as well.

Mayor, governor, all the way back to her time as head of the high school basketball team, she has led, and others have followed her to victory.

Ted Cruz is a good guy. But he would be ideal as leader in the Senate or the House, in place of the wusses who are doing the job now. That’s where his experience lies.

Palin and Walker, with Cruz as the conservative counterpart of Dingy Harry, cleaning up congress and brooming out all those dolts and wusses.

[antonico]

Whether anybody likes her personally is a different issue as to whether she makes a good leader. Her speech in Iowa was - let’s be charitable - and say it was a disorganized stream-of-consciousness rambling, suggesting she decided to go off script. It was an opportunity to demonstrate why the world should take her seriously as a politician. Instead, she presented really nothing but a list of ad-hominem complaints that made her look embittered.

Like it or not, if you want to lead a nation, Statecraft has a certain protocol. There are trappings that go with the office - whether you’re a president or a prime minister. And one thing that is NOT statesmanlike is standing holding a sign screaming an expletive at Michael Moore. It’s juvenile, witless, and essentially the end of any argument you have. Once you descend to the level of personal attack, you’ve admitted you’re not up to the job required of head-of-state. Margaret Thatcher always said she was delighted when her opponents had stooped to the level of attacking her personally with ad-hominem, because that was the signal that they were basically out of ideas. It was the White Flag, intellectually speaking. So Palin descended to just that level with this ill-advised profane slam to Moore. It makes her look petty, common and unimaginative (there’s no witty intellect in reaching for profanity to make a point - any idiot can utter FU). Instead of reverting back to what makes a good politician, she’s reaching for the kind of public statements that you’d expect to see or hear from a banal, common, witless celebrity. Time to admit it: her 15 minutes was up years ago. She’s now proven she’s the GOP Crazy Aunt in the Attic.

[Gumdrop]

My answer is YES!!!

She’s better for the conservative cause as a commentator. If she enters the race, it will allow the MSM to ridicule everyone who is running for the nomination. Not that they need an excuse - but - they will have a field day painting every GOP candidate with the same brush.

I like Sarah. Please, Sarah, do not run for President.

[vetvetdoug]

Sarah Palin is only toxic to the Republican establishment, RINOs, liberals and Democrats. If she's toxic, then I am contaminated well.If she were to run, we may see the same response as we are seeing with the film, American Sniper, where the pundits are all 180 degrees wrong.

[Envisioning]

Not for me.

Of course, 7 years after 911, the United States of America, the greatest country on earth, elected a homosexual, Marxist muslim as it's president, so you could say I don't have a whole lot of faith in the average American voter.

[BuffaloJack]

Is Sarah too toxic?
Only if you’re a lefty and want a someone to demonize, because they are a threat to your ability to hold control.

[BuffaloJack]

You can pick Sarah Palin or a “sure thing”. By “sure think”, I mean a candidate who is SURE TO LOSE, i.e., Romney, McCain, Cruz, Bush, etc.
Mrs. Palin can count on my vote, besides I want to see the talking heads explode when she gets nominated.

[Trentamj]

Like many in this discussion, I too believed that Sarah Palin's best time to run for President of the United States of America was in 2012 and, in a normal world, the 2012 Republican Party US Presidential nomination should have been hers for the taking. If Ronald Reagan was in her shoes, he would have run in 2012; however, Reagan was a male, and Sarah Palin was both a woman and a mother. As insulting as the Left was to Reagan, it never was as pornographically vile toward him as it was toward Palin, as the Alinsky-based Politics of Personal Destruction had not quite been perfected for Ronnie, as it was for Sarah. The other reality is that Reagan was not a mother, whose instinctive first-priority is to protect her young, upon whom the Left was looking to go wild on at every disgusting opportunity. Now that protecting her children is not as critical an issue as it was four years ago, Sarah Palin just might be ready to stand up to whatever the Left can dish out. Only time will tell.

[cardinal4]

The liberal hair pulling over Sarah tells us what to attack. She is my candidate..

[depressed in 06]

Only to the Obozo phone class.

[marron]

There is a certain class of Republican who hopes to sneak their candidate into office through the side door, unnoticed.

Anyone who actually fights for something is going to attract the attacks of the press, and the weak sisters will flee. He has too much baggage! He’s toxic!

Too many Repubs try to get elected without ever actually doing anything or saying anything, just hinting with a look or a gesture at the principles they might or might not have, then when they get into office they don’t dare actually do anything for fear they might draw the attention of the press. And there are plenty of Repubs even at FR who prefer them to the actual leaders and fighters who get pounded daily in the press (and pound right back).

[RichInOC]

Imagine where we might be right now if people worried less about whether the gov was toxic and more about actually doing better.

[Mozilla]

I like Ted Cruz and I like Scott Walker. I need to hear what Walker has to say on Immigration and Common Core. But I am leaning towards Cruz, but if Jindal runs that would be also interesting.