Now all you have to do is convince me that you're sincere and that you're not just spouting what's expected. You could be simply blowing smoke up my backside.
I say that because of your last comment. I would have said "the best candidate". You give the impression of being either a Republican Party hack or a Democrat hoping she runs as you think she's beatable.
You're well schooled in nuance as I've learned and you seem to choose your words carefully so everything you write needs to be closely examined IMO.
In spite of high current negative perception of her, which I believe she can probably overcome once you turn her loose.
That sentence is so fractured I can't make heads or tails of what you're actually saying.
Okay. You want clarification.
In my opinion, Sarah Palin is the best candidate out there for President of the United States, because I think she has a decent chance of winning, and I think has a very good chance of making a great President.
Unfortunately, the challenges we now face as a country are so huge that I can’t think of ANYBODY that I have 100% confidence in. It’s going to take some big shoes to steer us through our debt crisis, in my opinion.
That said, I have at least as much confidence in Palin as in any other major candidate.
She has a record of going up against the establishment, fighting, and winning. She was extremely popular as Alaska’s governor. She got stuff done. Good stuff.
As far as convincing you of my sincerity, I seriously doubt I could convince you of anything you don’t want to be convinced of.
But given that you’ve said you pretty much agree with what I just said about her, I think you’d find that we have a lot of common ground in that regard.
As for the last sentence: There are a number of candidates out there that I like. I like Bachmann. I like Cain. I like Pawlenty pretty well. I don’t like Romney. One of my biggest reservations with Palin in the past has had to do with whether she could win, based on the fact that as recently as January she apparently (CNN) had a 56% unfavorable rating. If that many people have already decided they don’t like her, that’s a problem in regard to winning.
However, someone else has recently characterized her negatives as “reversible.” And the more I thought about it it, the more it seems to me that if anybody can turn around those perceptions, it would be Sarah Palin.
And the fact is, the media are going to crucify ANY really conservative candidate that steps up.
Actually, what they’ll do is play the same game they played with McCain: root for the biggest RINO, then turn even on him in the general election.
So any decent conservative candidate is going to have to run the media firestorm, and beat it. I think Palin’s got a head start in that department. For one thing, they’ve already fired most of their ammunition on her. Whatever they say now is just repeat.
As far as Palin herself goes, I think she’s charming and articulate enough to turn the tables, once she gets turned loose on the campaign trail and the public is listening to 50% Palin and 50% media instead of 5 or 10% Palin and 90 or 95% media.
That’s what I was attempting to say.