Posted on 02/20/2010 11:49:54 AM PST by techno
Since the beginning of 2010 there have been umpteen articles or polls regarding questioning the 'qualifications' of Sarah Palin for President of the United States. Here is a statement by Matthew Dowd, ex-Bush aide in the fall of 2009 that puts the topic in perspective:
"No sitting President of the United States in the 60 year history of the Gallup poll has failed to be re-elected going into the fall campaign if his job approval number was above 51% and no president with below 47% has been re-elected."
"The 2012 election will be PRIMARILY about our current president and whether voters are satisfied with the country's direction. Who the Republican candidate is, and his or her qualifications and abilities, will matter ONLY if Obama's approval rating is between 47 and 51% going into the fall of 2012."
COMMENT:
I know at FR it is extremely important to get the right GOP nominee in place to face off against Obama in 2012-I agree fully, but I would also suggest that we never take our eye off the ball regarding Obama's job approval numbers and perhaps put a much higher priority in causing them to stay in the zone of uncertainty between 47 and 51 if not lower than to nitpick away to distraction at the inadequacies or perceived weaknesses or flaws of the GOP candidates including Sarah Palin.
And I am not only talking here to Palinistas which I am one but to everyone on our side including Romneybots and Huckabee supporters who are also disgusted with Obama and his radical socialist agenda and firmly convinced he must be toppled from his throne in 2012.
For the record I am not saying that the posters at FR should abandon seeking the truth regarding the potential GOP candidates for the 2012 nomination, far from it, but I also believe we should never lose sight of the overall objective. Neither Palin, Romney nor Huckabee or any GOP dark horse is the enemy. Obama,the Far Left and the Democrats and their allies in the MSM are.
A response? The reasons have been covered over and over again. No amount of arguing on my part is going to change your mind so why bother?
The reasons havent been covered over and over again. The only thing I have seen are Palin-Bots repeatedly insulting anyone who disagrees with them, over and over again.
I’d add Bush to that list.
With a clown like obama IN OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, There should be NO QUESTION of Sarah Palin’s ‘qualifications’. She’ll be just fine. Probably much much better than the idiots that people see as ‘qualified’. -Corrupted Washington insiders.
The facts: She quit.
Those are the facts. Why doesn’t matter to 80% of America, OR ME for that matter.
Keep making excuses for the quitter. Hey I have an idea. Let’s promote the quitter into an even bigger job with even more responsibiliies and pressure on her shoulders..
GREAT IDEA!! LET’S DO THAT!!
Oh....
My....
God....
Which ‘Palin’ have YOU been watching for the past year? Trig?
Issue after issue she has been challenging Obama in her speeches, interviews and tweets, more so than anyone else.
For the love of god. I hope challenging Obama in speeches, interviews, and tweets isnt the new criteria to become PRESIDENT OF THE FREAKING FREE WORLD! Rejecting Third Party Solutions? Wow.. Some crisis she navigated out of.
Onerom99 asked for examples of Palin leadership, I list examples of Palin leadership, so then Onerom99 acts like he/she requested a list of Palin presidential criteria.
Dude, leadership is a smaller subset of all presidential criteria.
If you wanted a list of Sarah Palin presidential criteria, I would have given you one.
Otherwise, don't waste my time with your "oh-so-objective" and "oh-so-concerned", third-grade bull-crap.
“..Her supporters tend to be as fanatical as Husseins most die hard followers.”
Maybe so, but for DIFFERENT reasons. We KNOW that what Sarah SAYS is the same thing that she WILL DO. We KNOW that she has the backbone to stick with the program. And above all, she SAYS what WE think. -to a tee.
obama’s fanatics couldn’t care WHAT he says or does. -he’s simply the messiah and ain’t nobody as good as him is...
At least she doesn’t derisively call her potential GOP opponents “country club Republicans”, like that looney-tunes nutjob Ron Paul called Palin. :)
“Keep making excuses for the quitter.”
Ahhh, a faithful CNN viewer... You’ve got the mantra down pat. Never mind the FACTS nor REASON...
Yes.. Here’s what I know about Sarah Palin.
*As Mayor she proposed raising sales tax to support her pet Hockey rink project.
*She supported a Windfall Profits tax on Oil Companies.
*She outright lied and misrepresented her stance on the Bridge to Nowhere.
*She’s a dunce when it comes to American History.
*She’s a dunce when it comes to Foreign Policy.
Yea.. quite a candidate you guys got there.
LOL.. I’m a RomneyBot.. Time to go into the tried and true method of painting anyone against Palin as a RomneyBot.
I don’t want Romney or Huck in there anymore than I want Palin.
All 3 of them would be poor presidents.
How old are you? I’d say about 12. Oh My God!
Oh My God, you are dumber than a box of rocks if you can’t get it through your head why she resigned. I’m of the opinion that you have a learning disability.
As you might have heard about a week ago Daily Kos/Research 2000 came out with a poll that said that 53% of Republicans claimed that Sarah Palin is MORE QUALIFIED than Obama to be POTUS, while yesterday Econ/youguv asking the same question came up with 66% of Republicans now feel that Palin is more qualified to be POTUS than Obama.
And when the question is asked in the reverse to whether Sarah Palin is LESS QUALIFIED than Obama, 40% of WHITE VOTERS, 78.5% of Republicans, and 74.4% of conservatives reject that notion, meaning that almost 8 in 10 Republicans and 7.5 of 10 conservatives don’t see Palin as any less qualified than Obama. And we are still 33 months from the 2012 election and almost 2 years from the start of the GOP primary votes.
But again let’s resolve to focus on Obama and to always keep him in our crosshairs.
Nah, it’s worse than that. He’s a Ron Paul moonbat.
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