Posted on 04/21/2011 8:51:31 AM PDT by Biggirl
Sound off in this open thread. I’ve been thinking about the concept of electability for the past couple of days. I tend to look at policy positions and leadership qualities more than personal backgrounds and style. It’s not that the other stuff is unimportant, rather I tend to look for a conservative leader that can move us in the right direction.
No limit on the comment length for this post, but come up with some good stuff instead of fluff OK? Try to keep your answers to less than a couple of paragraphs and there is no need to restate what someone else said. “I agree with so-and-so and would add…” works just fine.
So again … the question is … Why is Sarah Palin not electable?
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She is to pretty
Because she can’t play the bass like Gomer Huckleberry, she didn’t come up with RomneyCare, she didn’t give loads of cash to Democrats like The Donald and she doesn’t use a teleprompter?
Because the misogynist GOP RINOs (friends of Mitt and Rove)
will continue their puerile internecine attacks.
Oh, and this too:
Charlie Effing SHEEN beats Palin among independents.
Sarah should be more electable as Barry.
Because the Propaganda Polls say so, thus causing great “concern” among the thespian conservatives.
She is INELUCTABLE, not inelectable.
Sarah should be more electable as Barry.
Honestly, it's not any more complicated than that. Whether there are rational arguments to support that, or whether she is right on the issues from a conservative perspective, isn't relevant to the issue of electability. Whether people should like her more than they do is irrelevant as well. Elections ultimately are popularity contests, and can be influenced as much by personal tastes and idiosyncracies as any other popularity contest.
I worry that the current resident of the Presidential Insane Asylum may have soured voters on any more “firsts” for a long time.
More’s the pity, he may have blown it for truly good men like West and Cain, too.
I feel in my gut that America is hoping for another “fatherly” Reagan candidate who will make them feel “safe” again.
[old white conservative male stereotype]
My opinion.
She doesn’t suck up to Wall Street?
Sad to say, Reagan is dead, there are no more “father-figure” canidiates in the GOP out there. What we need are LEADERS who can lead.
I wouldn’t say she is unelectable.
I would say, however, that she has some serious challenges to overcome if she wants to be elected. Chief among these is that (at this time) she has a serious problem effectively answering off-the-cuff questions from a hostile media. She ends up stammering and misspeaking at times even worse than Bush did. She might be a fantastic President, but I think it will be hard for her to get elected unless she licks that problem.
But with those who had voted for President Obama having gotten soured on him, ending up “staying home” in 2012, it will be ABO as in “Anyone But Obama”.
I think it may be a status thing - she speaks too “country” for the hoi polli. She could improve her electability by occasionally adding “-ing” to a word or two. “Thinkin’, doin’, talkin’”, etc. gets to be a bit much after a while.
Sarah, I love you. You’d make a fine, straight talking, no BS president. Why not work on sounding like one?
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