PALIN'S PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS: Not as Bad as Some Would Lead You to Believe

EWRoss ^ | February 18, 2010 | Edward W. Ross

[2ndDivisionVet]

From much earlier in the year, but still makes some valid points.

[4rcane]

I think the chances are good depending on what gop do in congress, not what obama do as president imho. If gop can block every spending, chances are the economy will collapse imho. The state of the economy in US is such that its a musical chair. As long as money is printed and spent, it creates an illusion of everything is fine, when its not. If Gop in congress continues to spend like crazy, then I think 2012 will be a win for Obama

[Bulgaricus1]

I’d vote for in a half-second!

[Huck]

It could force Obama to move toward the center and become a less controversial president, making him more likely to win reelection.

I think this is something of a myth. I don't think Clinton won re-election because he moved to the center. He always posed as a centrist.

Clinton won because times seemed peaceful at home, and the money was rolling in everywhere you looked. People don't want to change drivers when the gravy train is rolling.

If the economy turns around before 2012, Obama wins re-election. ESPECIALLY if his opponent is Palin. If the economy slogs on like it is now, he loses.

Then again, maybe the Obama-Reid-Pelosi axis was just more than people could stomach in one term. But if jobs and growth come back, people will re-elect him.

[AlexW]

“If the economy turns around before 2012, Obama wins re-election. ESPECIALLY if his opponent is Palin.”

Is that you, Michael Savage?
He says that if Palin is the nominee, Obama will win all 50 states in a landslide...Well, that is pure BS, even though I know it might be tough for her to win. We do not know how much damage Obozo will have inflicted by 2012, or who the demowit nominee will be.
I would be more worried about there even being an election in 2012.
As for the economy, it will not improve as long as the Communist are in power.

[Huck]

Nope, not Savage. Not even a Savage listerner. I'm saying if the economy is still in the crapper, Palin could win. But if the economy gets better, seriously, noticably better, and people are optimistic about their own future, Obama will win. And because Palin is a woman with a love/hate sort of deal with America, I think in that scenario, Obama WOULD win by a landslide.

At this point in Reagan's first term, we were in a bitter recession almost as bad as this one. A lot can happen. That said, I agree with you that Obama will not let things get better. I actually don't think he wants the job for 8 years. I think he got his big banana--Obamacare. Now he'll ride out lame duckness and maybe not even run again.

Now, what if it were Hillary vs. Palin?

[screaminsunshine]

Operation reverse chaos?

[AlexW]

“I agree with you that Obama will not let things get better. I actually don’t think he wants the job for 8 years. I think he got his big banana—Obamacare. Now he’ll ride out lame duckness and maybe not even run again.”

You contradict yourself, wrong on many points, and all over the board.
You say he will win in a landslide if things get better, but
he does not want things to get better?
He did not really have a “landslide” the first time.
Now you say that he will not want the job. Do you think that the stupid healthcare was his only goal?
Obama wants to create the USSA. It takes more then healthcare for that.
You also make a comparison to Reagan.
Reagan was the most loved president of a lifetime. Obambie is the most hated president, ever.
You better just hope there will be a USA in 2012, and leave the prognosticating to others, haha.

[presently no screen name]

Huckabee?

[presently no screen name]

love/hate sort of deal with America, I think in that scenario, Obama WOULD win by a landslide.

So by your standards, your barry is a love/love scenario. You need to get out more.

[presently no screen name]

Did you see this? It came as an email - it’s been around before.

By Wayne Allyn Root, July 6th, 2010 - He went to Columbia at the same time as ‘supposedly’ barry did - and says no one knew him.

He has lots to say - read it at snopes.

True per snopes!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp

[usnavy_cop_retired]

Assume for the moment that Palin is the Republican candidate in 2012 and the economy has started to turn around. The MSM will, of course, talk about Palin’s inexperience and rehash all the false allegations about her.

How does she win? What about taking a page out of the OBAMA/Dem playbook. How about suing the colleges that OBAMA attended for his school records and his employment records, (as is being done in Alaska against Miller).

There is now precedence for it. There is the Miller case and the case against OBAMA’s opponent for the Senate seat.

And, OBAMA will have a hard time refusing to open them since Palin’s records have already been scoured when she was running as VP against the OBAMA team.

I can see a court authorizing it, but she would have to start the battle at least 18 months before the election so as to get through all the court challenges.

[AlexW]

“True per snopes!”

I agree that he is out to destroy America, but not that he is so brilliant.
Nothing that I have seen, and the very little that we know about his past, shows any brilliance. In fact, it is quite the contrary.
Obama has more the mind of a criminal, and he is influenced and run by outside enemies of the USA.

[presently no screen name]

I was going to include that - didn’t agree either. Con men aren’t brilliant. They need people to succeed. Brilliance makes it on it’s own. All by design to destroy our country that we knew BEFORE the election.

Anyone thinking this economy is going to turn around on his watch is whistling in the wind. Our 2010 election perhaps can stop/halt some of the madness. First thing, repeal ZeroCare.

[Kimberly GG]

“If gop can block every spending, chances are the economy will collapse imho. “

I agree. However, if Republicans are in control when things get worse, which they surely will between ‘10 and ‘12, we will be blamed, with much help by the media, for obstructing/blocking the ‘progress’ they’ll say Obama was making and it’s possible he will get re-elected.

[lentulusgracchus]

But according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, 70 percent of Americans believe she isn’t qualified to be the President of the United States.

Education and exposure cure vicious lies.

(Snarks from the same people who thought Obama was ready. Something to be mentioned often.)

[GunRunner]

I must refudiate any support for a Palin candidacy. I don't want another candidate who causes me to hold my breath every time they open their mouth.

There's plenty of other solid political talent out there who would serve us much better in the 2012 race.

[skookum55]

In 1980 I couldn't decide what Republican to vote for in the primary so I crossed over and voted for Ted Kennedy, because I knew there was no way that despicable turd could get elected to a national office. I remember liking Reagan, but I felt he was just too unelectable. I remember Clinton was regarded by many (unfortunately, that included Bush Sr.) as unelectable in 1992, and no one seriously thought Obama could be elected in 2008. Carter really didn't have anything to offer in 1976 except he wasn't a Republican, and most considered Gore the inevitable winner in 2000. In my lifetime about half of those who assumed the presidency owe their position more to their opponent losing than them winning.

Palin may appear unelectable today to many, but Obama is going to look far more unelectable in 2012. Really all Palin needs is a strategy to win the R nomination. I'd rather have the Tea Party behind me in 2012 than the mainstream R establishment.

[agere_contra]

Names please.

There are some, but let’s see if you can name them.

[9YearLurker]

Who the h#($ is Andrea Tantaros?