Posted on 11/18/2010 3:10:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m not exactly outraged Bristol Palin is in the finals of “Dancing with the Stars.” I’m not like the guy who shot out his TV when Tuesday’s votes were revealed.
Bristol has shown poise and a willingness to learn.
But she’s shown something else in her TV reality show run. She’s shown her mother’s surprising strength.
The reason she’s consistently at the bottom of the judge’s rankings and yet wins another chance every week? Her mom is Sarah Palin.
After this month’s elections, we officially live in the bluest blue-blue state on the face of the earth, so it takes a lot of folks by surprise the pull Palin has.
The truth is, for whatever reason, Sarah Palin has captured America’s heart. No matter what.
And her daughter is feeling the love.
If I were a betting woman, I’d bet Brandy and Maks aren’t the last of the shockers will see.
Though it might make me feel like the man in Wisconsin, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bristol takes home the trophy next week.
One person I know I don’t want on the ballot is another member of the Bush clan. I’d support Romney before voting for another one of them.
To 27 - LOL
No kidding nome more Bushs or Clintons or Kenyans
Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. Here are four traits that might have helped his campaign, in 1980:
1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the republican presidential nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.
These Republicans, who might run for president, in 2012, have at least three of those four traits: ex-Gov. Sarah Palin, ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee, ex-Gov. Mitt Romney, and ex-Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. I hope that all of them will run, along with ex-VP Dick Cheney, Rep. Ron Paul, and Gov. Haley Barbour.
I hope that four of those seven will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will receive the nomination before the convention, causing the convention to be suspenseful and exciting. More people will watch and hear the great republican ideas.
I don’t know whom I would support, but I’ll probably run for convention delegate, again. In 2008, I ran for delegate for Huckabee (in Illinois’ 10th Cong. District), and I got almost 4,000 votes. That was more votes than a state rep. (Suzie Bassi) and the Lake Co. Clerk (Willard Helander), combined.
lately, I’ve been questioning the impact of grassroots activity ... as it seems voters no longer react in a positive way to a doorbell ringer for their candidate or local candidate events.
In NH, a team of 12 people, we hit every door we possibly could for McCain while the Romney team phone banked from an hour a way. Statewide, McCain won by 5%, in our area he won by 10% ... some towns, McCain had a better than 2 to 1 margin. But I frequently doubt that it had much to do with our presence there.
OF course, primaries are not a binary decision, like DEM vs. GOP. Multi-candidate fields, voters often have a 2nd preference, so we were pulling votes from other candidates, not Romney.
All I said was IF one of these papers had any credibility at all, chances are it would be the Enquirer over The Globe, The Star, or Weekly News. Although The Globe is owned by The Enquirer, it seems to run all the stories that have no truth to them at all, such as Bush and Condoleezza Rice affair, The Bush’s divorce, President Bush’s “falling off the wagon”, and on and on. You haven’t seen these stories on the cover of the NE. They did do the ones that were true though (Clinton, and Edwards etc).
NO, it is just tabloid fodder
Therein lies a problem if Jeb decides to run for the Senate, would he want to run for President in 2016 or 2020 (he’ll be pretty old then, 67)?
He’s still very popular in Florida, the nomination against Nelson would be his for the asking and he’d be favored in the general election.
Well I certainly don’t want Romney to run for fear he may win.
Or Huck, he’d take social conservative votes that would otherwise probably go to a better candidate like Palin.
Kempthorne, interesting. His big problem would be that’s little known and from Idaho.
We don’t need Cheney running to remind people of Bush.
I agree it would quite exciting it went all the way to the convention, but of course it could turn into a huge mess.
“, I ran for delegate for Huckabee (in Illinois’ 10th Cong. District), and I got almost 4,000 votes. That was more votes than a state rep. (Suzie Bassi) and the Lake Co. Clerk (Willard Helander), combined.”
You have a good name to run for office. ;-)
I’ve only found one thing with which I agree with the Rev. Jackson:
“Stay out da Bushes.”
No more dynasties.
Great if Jeb would run for the Senate AND STAY THERE.
Darned if I can come up with a candidate I’d be juiced about for President right now. No to Barbour, Huckabee, Gingrich, and Cheney (whose health would doom him anyhow). Never to Romney. How is he supposed to lead the charge for repealing Obamacare when much of the plan was modeled on Romneycare?
Jindal or Christie maybe. But when Jindal is interviewed, I get annoyed by him because he just talks on and on without taking a breath and his voice sounds whiney to me rather than authoritative. But that could be easily fixable with coaching. Christie’s got the manner and the voice to survive in NJ, but nationwide he might be perceived as being gruff. He’s said no anyhow. Neither of them have the experience I’d like to see, but if the alternative is a guy like McCain who’s been around forever waiting his turn on the list, I’d take the young governors any day.
I love Palin doing exactly what she’s doing now, but not for president (when you say that around here, you get kneecapped but I’m going to say it anyhow-my knees are strong (-;). The timbre of her voice annoys me no end and try as I might, when I listen to her segments with O’Reilly, I get very little substance out of her comments. GIngrich, in contrast, is always worth a listen and has great insights backed by history, common sense, and political knowledge and instincts. He commands your attention - but NO Gingrich for president.
I really like Pence and Kantor and DeMint and Paul Ryan, but do they have executive experience? No more legislators like Obama.
I wonder if Rubio will be tapped for VP this time around. I hope not, because he would be deadly having a Senate term then running for FL Gov., then President. Although I have no doubt he would be more successful as a Pres. right now than Obama, who is nothing more than an ideologue who surrounds himself with incompetents who think like him, but have never accomplished anything in their lives.
What about Haley or Martinez? Do you see them rising to the top to be Presidential contenders or VP picks down the road?
Rubio and Martinez on a ticket (for 2016 or later) would make liberal heads explode-I’d pay good money to see that show. But that’s not why they should be on the ticket. They should be on the ticket because they’re the best we’ve got.
Without a Tea Party presence, Romney would probably cruise to the nomination this time around. In NH, conservatives did well this year, so you know the Tea Party is active up there. In IA, conservatives for Congress did not do well, so don’t know about Tea Party influence there. Tea Party activism might be the deciding factors, esp. in those early primary states. Gotta to VERY CAREFUL not to end up with a Christine O’Donnell.
Forgive me my stream of consciousness...
I realize a lot of things. The kid looked like a creep. Could have been staged. I don’t worship Sarah Palin or any other politician or commentator. I’ll be happy to support her because her policies will be conservative.
Willow has ben in trouble a few times now so the possibly staged teaching lesson is not sinking in at the Palin home.
Frankly the only thing in the show that bothered me about Sarah was her having the kids snea around to hide from that writer and talking about an “evil reporter” watching them. I think it was childish and made no sense to be sneaking around when all the guy would see was them coming home from somewhere. You can tell me that was staged too but if she’s going to stage things I’ll draw my own conclusions.
So many possibly swell candidates, Christie, Rubio, Martinez ect would be better served to wait till 2016 when they have more exp.
But we can’t wait, we can’t afford 4 more years.
Of course Obama was supposed to wait, but he struck while the iron was hot and won. The American Idol President for the country with the short attention span. ;d
A fresher face would be a positive in my opinion. GOP tradition however doesn’t favor that possibility.
Although I would love to see some of these Hispanic rising stars in the mix, I fear pushing them ahead before their time. I wonder what the incompetence of Obama has done to the fortunes of future black presidential candidates of either party. Are voters going to look at race and think, “we gave a black man a shot once and he failed miserably. Do we really want to go through that again?”
If a Hispanic is thrust too far, too soon and fails, would similar thoughts occur to voters who went out on a limb for mostly racial reasons?”
I don’t know. It’s common wisdom that voters have short memories, so maybe it wouldn’t matter.
But I agree, we can’t afford to wait 4 more years. Pre this election, I read countless replies that the GOP should try to lose the House, so that the GOP couldn’t be blamed for anything and would sweep to victory in 2012. Maybe those remarks were made by trolls, you never know.
How in the world does it make sense to lose now for the purpose of “maybe” winning in 2 years? I imagine we’re going to hear similar remarks as 2012 approaches, like “hey, let’s let Obama win, then when the country is way down the tubes, the GOP will win the presidency in a landslide.”
The GOP is truly starting to shatter the glass ceiling with stellar woman and minority candidates AND winners. I was tickled to see that Noem was elected by her peers to the leadership council. She comports herself extremely well and has a “gravitas” (how I hate that word, but it’s apt at times) that Palin doesn’t have, IMO, even though she’s every bit as attractive as Palin.
I hope we see more of West and Scott as well. I liked J.C. Watts personally, but he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. West and Scott are both very sharp. I haven’t heard much of Labrador, but his is a face that should be out there, being that he’s the first Puerto Rican born person to hold a GOP seat. That’s a great narrative that should be exploited.
Mike Rounds, South Dakota Governor should get some looks as well.
“A fresher face would be a positive in my opinion.”
Amen to that. It's the only way the GOP will win in 2012.
“GOP tradition however doesn’t favor that possibility.”
They need to enter the 21st century. The “it's his turn” mentality ensures defeat.
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Pence or Ryan would make good Presidents.
Obama was the first Senator since Kennedy to win, maybe it’s time for the first House member since Garfield.
House members, state AG’s, Lt. Gov’s, state SOS’s - no one should be excluded.
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