I was attacked in another thread on FR just today when I pointed out the 55% unfavorable ratings for Palin.
Compared to whom?
As a conservative, not a Republican, I'd place my trust in Sarah long before placing trust in a "Republican".
In a word, yes.
Probably because a lot of us have learned that polls can be deceiving, and don’t trust them.
I really don’t understand why people are of a sudden concerned about experience when it comes to Sarah Palin.
No one was concerned in the past about several people who ran for President and Vice President, such as John Edwards or John Kerry.
What this article has wrong is that it says that Sarah is the “Leader of the movement” she has NEVER said she wants to be the leader of the Tea Party Movement/Conservative movement, or any movement. She is just contributing because she believes in it just as much as we do. It’s others who have designated her “Leader of the movement”
And this is a 'problem' in what way? I reckon that it's a fairly healthy 'problem' for a politician, any politician, to possess. Although the danger in all this would be if Sarah herself fell for the sense of 'becoming a martyr' - a timeless human frailty - that the MSM et al have heaped upon her, that would be a tragedy .. but until and unless that happens there is nothing wrong with Sarah's message nor her 'celebrity' .. we're not stoopit.
Mr Quinn said this in 2006!!!!!
Republicans Will Hold On
By Quin Hillyer on 11.6.06 @ 12:08AM
When Congress convenes in January of 2007, Republicans will be elected both as Speaker of the House and as Senate Majority Leader.
The new Republican speaker, who will not be Dennis Hastert, will enjoy a margin of only one vote. But in the Senate, where Republicans currently control 55 of the 100 seats and where many pundits are now saying they teeter on the brink of losing their majority, the GOP instead will lose no more than two seats.
Unlike her critics, who would NEVER attack her supporters.....
As for Palin in 2012 here is how I see it. The Republican Party is like a three legged stool. You have the military conservatives, economic conservatives and social conservatives. Palin has the social conservatives wrapped up. To gain credibility with economic conservatives she needs to build on her Hong Kong speech. For military conservatives she has credibility. She loves the military and its never fake or phony. She praises the military at each and every chance she gets. She needs to define what American Exceptionalism means to her and present her vision for America leading the free world. Its my understanding she has a book coming out on virtues and then the third book will be a policy book so that is where I would expect Palin to have a meatier presentation of her vision. IMHO!
There is no problem with Sarah. If she runs and you would like to see her win the nomination, vote for her like I will. If you don’t think she would make a good president, don’t vote for her. Simple enough?
People who keep bringing this up are tiringly ignorant. The Governor of a state can't "give back" Federal funds allocated to a state by the U.S. Congress. There is no mechanism for that. If she had tried to the U.S. Treasury would have told her "We can't accept those funds back. We distribute money allocated by Congress because we are directed to by law. Only Congress can "take it back.""