Posted on 02/11/2010 4:11:59 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
Do a majority of Americans honestly believe she is stupid ? I mean, seriously ?
How can her unfavoribles be so high ? What did she do wrong ? What is she not doing right ?
What does she need to do ? Take a nationally televised IQ test ?
I don't understand why so many regular people think the way they do about her. What happened ?
Dittos to you
The UK has a parliamentary system of government. Big difference. They don't elect prime ministers in the UK, the elect parties. The prime minister (or more correctly, the MP who the parliament would select as PM, and then asked by the her Majesty to form a government) only stands for election in his home constituency.
I'd like to see her in higher office, I think she could really get our energy policy on track - among other things.
I sent this thread to Fox news and asked them to forward it on to Sarah, noting especially your concrete suggestions. Hope she gets it!
She needs to earn her stripes. Reagan was governor for 8 years and involved in politics before and after that.
Leaving the governorship may have been necessary, but it damanged her at the same time. She should run for the senate, do that for 4-8 years, gain experience on national and international matters, and then run for pres. Until she builds up her CV, not enough people will trust she has knowledge.
Reagan overcame the “he’s just a governor for that state out west” criticism by writing serious policy papers and giving serious speeches — on the Cold War for example — for twenty years (i.e. 1960-1080). Her populist speeches are okay as far as they go, but she only has convinced her base at the moment. Independents believe the “she’s stupid” line because she hasn’t done enough to overcome it. That can only be overcome by repeatedly showing that she’s not stupid...papers, speeches, time in office.
"During the recent presidential campaign, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin claimed foreign policy experience by saying that she could "see Russia from her back yard." Would you trust as a president someone who is so completely misinformed on basic geography?"Most people would say no. There would be a few that would know the question itself was bogus. The large number of naysayers would then be reported as a high negative on the public's perception of her foreign policy expertise.
Wow.... you really had to work hard to avoid what I actually said. And yes, I am being condescending toward you.
Wow...great!
Thanks.
Hope she puts her hair up again! ha.
Gas bag.
Sometimes the anger cannot be hidden by odumbos minions.
odumbo has been such a failure that a cardboard cutout would have a decent shot
She’s doing fine. We’re in the chaos of battle at this moment, so it’s not so evident, but she is slowly but surely waking up the countryside in regards to the lamestream media’s tyrannical grip. The louder the wailing, the more successful she is. Her supporters need stand by her, loudly and vocally! At all costs.
The leftist media doesn’t do it often, but when they target someone for total destruction (Bork, Quayle, Gingrich), it’s because they are a distinct threat to their socialist order. They’ve ALWAYS succeeded in these campaigns of all-out warfare on a single individual. They went nuclear on Palin, and keep thinking they’ve succeeded in burying her, but they can’t. She’s has an inherent goodness and an indomitable spirit, and has made a deep cultural connection to the heartland. She knows how to turn the weapons back on the enemy, and it’s a beautiful thing to witness. But, as I said, to fully succeed, she does need us to stand with her, and fight on her behalf, confronting all those weak-minded people still being manipulated by the leftist media. Keep up the fight no matter what, day after day, or the statists will win.
I love Sarah but she would do well to read everything Ronald Reagan ever wrote.
she needs to keep on keeping on. meet and greet all over the place. keep writing. facebook, opeds, respond specifically to other columns out there, calling them out (like health care)
she will have to know issues to hold her own in debates. I think she could survive with a draw vs Mitt as she is so likeable and people will trust her more
she is a natural. nothing is guaranteed but if she wants it with hard work (of course) she can win
i like she quoted Pat Buchanan in her Wallace interview. SP is smart trying to make common cause with RINOs, paleoconservatives, neoconservatives, Rand Paul types, PJB, independents and even find some Palin democrats. she’ll need some of each
So Obama can accomplish NOTHING in life and be elected POTUS, but the most promising Conservative in years, a former governor, mayor and businesswoman has to “enhance her resume”?
Geez, tough electorate. We should just nominate some proven winners/insiders like Bob Dole and John McCain. BTW, whose turn is it in 2012?
Please stop the ignorance and study her life and time in elected office. She is more than qualified to be POTUS.
Your rationalism is appreciated.
Well here’s my suggestions...
1. Go even further Rogue and attack more RINOs.
2. Keep coming up with catch-phrases like “death panels” because that is what it takes to connect with the populace.
3. Avoid any changes that the Ivey League types are advocating.
4. Remind people that Alaska is the largest state in America (in at least one very important way) and unlike oil-rich Venezuela, Alaska has a balanced budget and no rationing.
One more time, clearly for someone who didn't read the poll in question - why would the poll show overwhelming support for sinking Obamacare, for trying terrorists in military courts, and reflect falling poll numbers for Barack Obama? If they were going to make up the part about Palin's popularity problem, why not lie their @sses off on the other topics?
WaPo/ABC uses - like Gallup - registered voters, not likely voters. So, I think an intellectual argument can be made that pro-Democrat politicians or policies receive more a more favorable outcome, but it's not off by THAT much. Were talking a handful of percentage points, hardly enough to get Palin from 70% to a positive approval number.
Those are the facts. Read the poll, the whole poll and leave the WaPo characterization of the poll in the garbage, where it belongs.
Perfect.
Unfortunately, I have to take exception to that, too. Palin's writing is typically liberally sprinkled with references to what other people have said. She tends to make her important points by reference to what "big names" have said, rather than by tackling the ideas in her own words.
I think she's probably capable of speaking in her own words, and that the references are intended to make her seem well-read and well-connected; but it tends to detract from her real need, which is to establish her own intellectual credentials.
Compare her writing to, say, Reagan's Eureka College commencement address (1957) -- Reagain wrote it when he was about Palin's age. Reagan has a sure grasp of the big themes, and he states them very clearly and in his own words.
Palin should work on reaching that level of discourse.
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