Posted on 05/01/2013 5:34:30 AM PDT by Josh Painter
As I said yesterday I’d love to see it. But in all seriousness, I do NOT want to see her run under the GOP banner. If she runs, she should cut all GOP ties and run as an Indy. That way people can support her without the GOP stigma. If the TEA people back her, then its no different than any PAC backing any Candidate and the left cannot scare moderate Indys that she is a ‘TEA’ candidate,
Had the TEA party not allowed itself to be co-opted by the GOP, I’d think differently.
In short, As an Indy in the truest form, ANYONE that supports and believes in her can do so without the baggage of the old ways to stop them.
Since the GOP and a wing of the TEA Party has turned on conservatism and conservatism is now so riddled with psuedocons, I think it’s the best route. Stick to solid traditional conservative values and leave the crap behind.
Oh perhaps I misinterpreted.
Do you support Palin?
Link to that poll?
As for favorability numbers generally, system pollsters like Luntz think any comprehensively conservative candidate is at a disadvantage. The solution if course is to just quit trying to run our people and give our country over to the Marxists.
As for the reason for the allegedly low level of interest in Palin, in this poll of which you speak, it is purely a matter of speculation until and unless the data includes well structured analysis of the same. My own, unscientific polling here in Illinois suggests the supposed quitting issue has close to zero significance among voters. Everybody I’ve spoken to about it gets that it was the right thing for her to do under the circumstances. What people are bamboozled about, if anything, is her intelligence, and that largely due to the SNL-style propaganda used against her. A deliberate campaign of “re-information” could counteract that “dis-information,” if she were to jump in with both feet and go for it.
It's Public Policy, but they were one of the most accurate pollsters of 2012.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/02/08/alaska-poll-sen-begich-popular-palin-unpopular/
And Begich leads a bevy of likely Republican challengers. He has a big, big lead — 54-38 percent — over former Gov. and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
There are lots of polls showing the same problem for Palin. She's not popular in her home state right now. Period.
My own, unscientific polling here in Illinois suggests the supposed quitting issue has close to zero significance among voters.
Why in the heck would your unscientific polling in Illinois have any bearing on what people in Alaska think. Palin quit her job as Governor. That did a lot of damage to her. Poll after poll after poll shows her diminished popularity. I doubt she could win an election in her home state at this point. It is what it is.
Palin made some terrible mistakes and missteps after the 2008 election. She's young, if she wants to run for office she has time to rehabilitate herself politically and run for something. My guess is if she runs for anything, it would be President. I just can't see her being happy stuck in the House or Senate. I think she wants a bigger voice which is probably why she will stick with media.
Why my unscientific poll in illinois? Because that’s all I got. Someday, when we visit Alaska to see the northern lights, I will continue my “poll” in Alaska. Until then, I’m dependent on polls created by firms motivated by paying customers who don’t share my perspective. Don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying the numbers aren’t true. I’m just questioning the premise that her strategic retreat has anything to do with it. Could be all kinds of reasons for a particular result. I have my own theories. But what I am saying is I have yet to see empirical evidence that, outside our little echo chamber here, any real quantity of voters, Alaskan or otherwise, are really troubled by her early departure from office. My own inquiries suggest that most low info voters, of whom there are many in my personal acquaintane, have only those ideas about Palin that were put there by the comedians they watch, and those misconceptions are as fragile as frost on a summer morning, and will evaporate during a well run campaign.
I think the evidence is pretty clear by her approval ratings that bailing out on her job as Governor wasn't too popular. But fine, we can put that aside. For whatever reason, her poll numbers stink in her home state of Alaska. Pretty much every poll shows the same. I don't think she could currently win a statewide election there. I also don't think she'd want to run for Senate anyway.
This country is headed in the wrong direction fast. Eventually a majority might shake their way out of the Obama/Reality TV fog and start paying attention. I suspect Palin will be making a significant positive impact by promoting solid conservative candidates in Republican primaries for many years to come.
Senate is the best place for her talents. A term there and then the White House! We need her in the Senate! She has been rendered Toxic by the Leftist Media—A bimbo, a Tina Fey Fool who sees Russia from her house. The Senate could re-focus her populist image and help her state of Alaska.
GOPe engineers a fake draft Palin for Senate campaign to derail an expected 2016 run at the Presidency.
The presence of the regular PDS'ers on this thread support that idea.
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