Posted on 12/16/2011 2:18:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Greencastle, Ind. — "Is Palin electable? Absolutely," says Mark Tatge, Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University, tells the Christian Science Monitor. Tatge is cited in an article headlined "Sarah Palin speaks, but are Americans heeding her anymore?".
The professor sees Palin as a viable contender to potentially serve as running mate to Newt Gingrich, should he emerge as the GOP nominee. "Such a partnership is not out of the question,” Tatge tells the publication, adding that he believes that Palin would likely need to "atone for quitting the job of governor."
Gloria Goodale writes, "Less-likely candidates, he says, have made it to the top spot. 'Consider the former B-movie actor who was seen as a bit of a lightweight with a messy divorce in his past,' says Professor Tatge, 'and Ronald Reagan not only got elected but went on to become a two-term president.'"(continued)
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They're going to poop new trails through the wilderness, if Todd and Track come through their front door.
Are you kidding? Nobody even knows who DeMint is -- same problem Duncan Hunter had, four years ago. And lacking name recognition, it's a lock that the LieStream Media will run a blackout on him, to keep him away from public notice.
No, they can't stop Sarah like that, and they know it, and the thought of her stampeding the GOP convention makes them wet their pants just thinking about it. If it happened, they'd load 'em, too. It'd be amazing.
The only thing that can stop Sarah, I think, is female jealousy. The women can claw her to death and would do so without compunction -- with that same dispassionate mercilessness that they show their husbands in divorce court.
Are you trying to encourage this FReeper to stay home on Election Day ..... or actually get him to take rat poison?
Or are you just trying to prepare his mind for your posts next year, along the lines of, "Look we all have to unite behind Mitt Romney; after all, no matter whether you like him or not, he is the Republican nominee"?
You preparing the ground for an "inevitable" Establishment candidate to come in here and sponge up the FReepers? And complete the defeat in detail of the Tea Party movement?
You here to help out the RNC with their "Jim Thompson" problem?
Yeah, only the most devious RiNO's with the deftest, most delicately treacherous touch, like a ghost spider's, could be given the job of getting thorny FReepers to turn from their heartfelt patriotic support of their country and its Liberty Interest, and support the treacherous crapweasels of RiNO Central instead.
With the current crop, I’m writing in Palin/DeMint. If the two were drafted and agreed I would vote for a DeMint/Palin ticket.
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media “vet” the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.
This “election” will be a non-election...featuring the state approved “candidates”-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.
The fact that you continue to fawn over her after she
played you for a fool and left you crying in a ditch
is pretty sad. Sick and sad.
Don’t make me chuckle. This news is all over the place. She was shopping another show.
She hasn’t come out and claimed they were not telling the truth, has she? You are unable to face reality on this subject because you don’t want to.
I don’t care if she shops a show if that is what she enjoys. I think it is. She seems to be happy with a media showbiz type career.
What’s really sick and sad, is the fact that you continue to pollute Free Republic with your hateful, sourpuss presence, troll.
She may be politically viable, but my feeling is that after seeing Newt operate, I’d vote for him over Palin any day, even if she did run. Newt has proven experience and a breathtaking command of the issues — Palin DID NOT. And believe me, I am one of her most fervent fans — but I’m also a realist.
Newt knows the ropes, has been to the circus, has the political instincts. He can SURVIVE in this dog-eat-dog political world. Palin could not.
Palin would do well to get herself into a Senate seat or other position, finish it, do some good through her own political style — become a known and tested entity — and make herself a really great comeback. Its been done before ... and please, please, LEAVE those kids at home, no more Alaska shows ...no more letting the public in to her personal life. You just can’t do it ...provides them too much ammunition.
Palin’s opinion is important to me ...but we need a true conservative leader NOW who can survive and destroy Obama ...we have one. His name is Newt.
Don’t make me chuckle. This news is all over the place. She was shopping another show.
It's "all over the place" originating from a single unnamed source who supposedly told The Hollywood Reporter.
LOL!
Face reality Indy. You don't care for Palin and thus this is how you determine what is the "reality" about all things Palin.
And ironically so, since you are the one lecturing folks on this thread about reality.
An unnamed source as told by The Hollywood Reporter!
That's your level of objective fact finding and critical thought.
LOL!
She used you and you can’t admit it. You know darn well she was shopping a show.
You still can’t see it. She even told you that she is not interested in a title.
Face it, why do you try to make her into something she herself does not want to be?
Good grief, leave her alone and let her pursue the things that she likes. She does not want elected office.
A supposed unnamed source as told by The Hollywood Reporter is your thing Indy. Sorry, that's not how I determine conclusively what is reality.
She even told you that she is not interested in a title. Face it, why do you try to make her into something she herself does not want to be?
Why do you post that boilerplate PDS nonsense to me. I said nothing about trying to make her into anything.
Good grief, leave her alone and let her pursue the things that she likes. She does not want elected office.
Good grief, more nonsense from you. I didn't say that she wants to persue elected office.
Your above two comments are based on aboslutely nothing that I said.
That's another example of your level of objective fact finding ability and critical thought.
LOL!
“..A Mitt presidency would only be marginally better than an Obama second term...”
I was (and still am) a Palin supporter from the get-go, but it is a sad state of affairs if you and many others are so delusional as to really believe that statement. We don’t have the space here to list the nazi schemes being run by Obama that would not occur under any of the GOP candidates. Get a grip!
She’s dead Jim
The more people that feel they have to get into my face and shout that at me, the more I think she’s not. Get it?
Your answers ar not based on what Palin thinks. You actually think YOU know better than her what she wants. Well, you do not. She does not want the job. If she did, she would have run.
Why is it people like you can’t listen to what a person says. She said she did not want to run. Got it?
Crazy a little are you?
Funny, that “she used you” nonsense is pretty standard Palinoia on the left, be it an op-ed writer, a nutroots blogger or some Z-List celebrity on the Bill Maher gabfest. To see so-called conservatives employ it makes me begin to doubt their bona fides.
-——Why is it people like you can’t listen to what a person says-——
Because they can’t face what surely amounts in their minds to betrayal and the resultant loss of face.
Your answers ar not based on what Palin thinks. You actually think YOU know better than her what she wants. Well, you do not. She does not want the job. If she did, she would have run.
Why is it people like you can’t listen to what a person says. She said she did not want to run. Got it?
Crazy a little are you?
I don’t care what you doubt. Bonafides? I have been conservative far before 2008 when Palin said she was a conservative. Her Alaska record is not all that conservative. I don’t have a national microphone nor was I hired by Rupert Murdoch because I am hot.
I am just an everyday person who likes conservatism. I get no reward except that conservative government makes my life better.
Palin is not running, In fact she said she does not want to run and does not want a title.
Why is it that you cannot accept or believe what she says?
It is not a problem with her, it is a problem with you.
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