I don't believe it's Palin's positions on issues that are the dealbreaker with independents. I think a lot of them plain just don't like her, on a personal level.
enough brayin
PRESIDENT PALIN ... Does have a NICE RING to it!!!
FWIW, Eisenhower was an establishment GOP pick, elevated to deny the nomination to Senator Robert Taft, the conservative choice.
You can look it up. Senator Taft's descendants made a mess of things in Ohio, the cleanup of which just got off to a good start in the 2010 midterms, but the original Senator Taft was a great patriot, who struck fear into the hearts of the GOP Country Clubbers and Northeast corridor in the early 1950's in much the same way Sarah Palin does today.
"A second -rate movie actor" or "shoot-from-the-hip-cowboy," he was anathema to the beltway Inner Circle. The beltway/media establishment, republican and democrat alike, even went as far as to run a third party candidate, John Anderson, in hopes of defeating Reagan and settling for four more years of Jimmuh Carter.
I believe we should expect and plan on a "moderate" third party candidate, from the elitist republican ranks, financed and promulgated by the leftwing crackpots of the Ruling Class. If Palin is nominated it will be a certainty.
The only question is, who will be the Judas goat? Anderson was a late entry and an unknown. I suspect that this time the saboteur will be mobilized much earlier, and while he/she will not be one of the standard decoys like Romney or Huckleberry, it will be someone a bit more prominent than Anderson was. Bloomberg may be a leading suspect, maybe one of the idiot women from Maine.
Who knows, but this is a development we must be alert to and watch for with vigilance in the next year as the 2012 cycle begins slowly to come alive.
Thank you, bray.
I wish I’d said that.
I was talking to a client about things political.
She was going on and on about what a disappointment OBAMA was, and suddenly burst into a stream of invectives about how much she HATED Sarah Palin.
When I calmly asked her WHY she hated Sarah, she COULD NOT give me a concrete reason.
Isn’t that STRANGE? She just hated her for hatred’s sake.
How presumptuous to make wide sweeping statements such as this.
How a person thinks, what their criteria is, what is the goal, how to best achieve it, what are their values, ... no one is ready or suited to be President alone. It takes good department heads, advisers on many many fronts. No one is ready to meet difficult situations until they meet them and the need arises. This is what determines the mettle of a person. Obama is an example of weakness. McCain is an example of being too old and too compromised to have values that he will not bargain away. MO
Sarah is not afraid, speaks her mind, goes to the people with constructive solutions, and will fight the establishment that has brought us to this sorry state of affairs. ... etc., etc., People can prepare fpr crisis, but until it occurs it is not possible to know how the person will respond. Bush on 911, And Giuliani in New York did a great job of responding. President are smart, willing, talented people that can communicate to the people, make sound decisions and do their best.
Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, and a few others have proved, it was worth the risk taken by their people.
You could stand on her bookstore line and ask her to run when she signs your book. Is it our job to convince her (in your mind)? Get her to announce and start laying out her presidential positions as a candidate. Then there will be something to talk about.
Our next President must NOT be a NWO/CFRer.
And, as a FIRST priority, our next President must IMMEDIATELY and EFFECTIVELY secure our borders and MUST NOT support ‘path-to-citizenship’ amnesty.
Our sovereignty and security MUST be our #1 issue. Without them...no other issues will matter.
On the same day odumbi got a fat lip playing basketball, Palin was shooting shotguns on TV. Nice.