Posted on 04/07/2010 5:38:19 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
If Sarah Palin runs for President, then she will win the Republican nomination. The rally she is holding today with Michelle Bachmann is amazing, and Obama-like, in it's size:
More than 10,000 Republican faithful are expected to crowd into the Minneapolis Convention Center on Wednesday when Sarah Palin joins Rep. Michele Bachmann at a fundraiser and rally for Bachmann's re-election bid and the Minnesota state Republican Party.
Anyone who can draw 10,000 people to a rally in Minnesota--in early 2010, no less-- is formidable. In the specific case of Sarah Palin, it makes her virtually unstoppable.
National polling for the Republican nomination has consistently shown Palin in a roughly three-way tie with Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. However:
1. Huckabee is unlikely to run, and his evangelical / born again base (virtually all Huckabee voters in 2008 were evangelicals) is a lot closer to Sarah Palin than they are to Mitt Romney. So, Palin will likely start ahead in national polls among declared candidates.
2. Romney's strength in 2008 was in caucuses, which are dominated by dedicated activists. Of the 11 states that Romney won in 2008, three were "home" states (MA, where he was Governor; MI where his father was Governor; and UT for religion), and the other eight were all caucuses. However, Romney isn't going to win many caucuses if he is facing a candidate who can draw 10,000 people to a rally in early 2010, not to mention what is likely a tarnished reputation among Republican activists after the health care fight.
3. Palin's grassroots strength will provide her with all the funding she needs, and also goes a long way to pre-empting any possible insurgent candidacy against her. This will especially be the case if Ron Paul runs again, since Paul can't win the nomination but would soak up pretty much all of the remaining grassroots energy on the Republican side.
4. Say what you will about Palin's ability as a campaigner, but if gaffes were going to make her unpopular among Republicans, it would have happened already.
If Sarah Palin runs for President in 2012, I have a difficult time imagining someone else winning the Republican nomination. While this is pretty good news for Democrats, as Palin polls worse against Obama than almost any other Republican (see also PPP polling), it is also pretty scary. A continually weak economy--which is very possible--could actually make her President less than three years from now.
Didn’t she held pass that law, though? It just goes to show that she might be strong on the rhetoric and the conviction, but she’s so good at passing thoughtful and effective legislation that accomplishes its intended purpose (punishing corrupt politicians) without harmful side effects (allowing enemies to destroy innocent politicians).
I asked a question—how did I embarrass myself? It’s people like you who can only declare things as unquestionable fact, whether or not you really know what you’re talking about. As Bertrand Russell said, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
BTW, the report of a special investigator is not legally binding, and if she thought it was wrong and partisianly motivated she was free to challenge it and continue using the money.
Sorry but there’s not a lot of love for Sarah in the Democrat party.
Are you saying that democrats that voted for Barry are happy. Are you saying that there are no democrats at these TeaParty Rally’s?
There you go----you just did it again.
You can’t even write in English. “TeaParty Rallys”? And you call me the laughing stock?
Family, or just your Libtard friends? Palin has chunks of lame-asses like them in her stool. She's fashioned a self-made millionaire's distinguished carreer of chewing up and spitting out tiny, terrified pieces of the dimwits who underestimated her. Don't feel bad, you're not alone. In fact, you're a dime a dozen--and overpriced at that.
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Hey COMMIE PAWN. I told you to get lost.
GO CONSERVATIVE SARAH!! These commie pawns spent HOURS posting about YOU.
They are CONSUMED with you and FEAR you. YOU ARE POWERFUL while they are piss ants. Worthless little dweebs behind a screen! LOL!!
Good for her—she has a profitable career in conservative commentary ahead of her, and I assume she realizes that entertainment/commentary is what she is best at (like Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh). She can probably be a positive force for the party and the country in that arena. I just hope she doesn’t try to run for President.
I think you should get lost. You certainly don’t add anything intelligent to the discussion.
Funny that you don't see that doing this concedes without a whimper the fact that, absent concurring agreement from people who can actually think for themselves (and not just regurgitate Bukkaki O'Bunga's mindless bullsh*t like a drooling pack of trained chimps), your terrified screeching echoes so completely hollow and empty.
Go try to impress your jabbering herd over on HuffPo or Daily Kos, I don't know how much more belly-laughing my sides can take! ROFLMFWCAO
Buh-bye!
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You are truly bizarre. Do you actually think that made sense?
What the h*ll would a commie know about intelligent. Get lost sucker!
Rock on CONSERVATIVE SARAH!
Goo goo bah bah tooda deedooe dah doodie? Wuppa! Wuppa? Waaaahhhh! Waaaaahhhhhhh!
ROFLMFCWAO!!!
Please stop! You're killing me!
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If you don’t want me to respond to you, maybe you should stop directing posts at me. Did you ever think of that, you silly little person?
Hey commie laughing stock - YOU FAIL!
God, but you are a little phony, your posting history is full of that little, whiny, concern troll stuff, dissing Palin in every post and pushing Romney and rinos, even defending Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul, but always knocking Palin is some way.
Because Pa-Bach's a BITCH! Take it in the neck, Libtard.
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