Palin has just as much chance of beating Obama in 2012 as any other candidate

Friday November 19, 2010

[Inyo-Mono]

To be honest, how dare they consider running if Palin is running, how dare they. Where have they been for the past 2 years, taking on Obama? They hide in the bunkers in the face of Obama’s destructive policies and come out when they want our vote.

Those are my sentiments too.

[volunbeer]

I agree. It is very difficult to see how any GOP candidate wins if Bloomberg runs as Independent in the general election and the rats know this. Look for major positive media coverage for Bloomberg as they position him over the next few months.

A serious 3rd party candidate tilts very heavily in Zero’s favor.

[colorado tanker]

I'm a Sarah fan, too, although I am very aware she has not gone through the self education process the Gipper went through.

That said, I can see a lot of knives out for her on our side of the aisle as well as the other. I just saw what happens when a divided party goes into a general election they should win. Up-ticket loses and down-ticket wins. That would be a disaster for the country if it happened in 2012. I am very concerned there is no candidate conservatives are coalescing behind and we look very divided.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[GOP Poet]

Yes. Understandable. Great to admit to that reality early on too.

[sushiman]

I agree with Michael Savage who said Obama would beat her .

[The Wizard]

I think if Sarah runs, which by the way, she is already doing, she will win. And I will help her any way I can

[meadsjn]

against a Republican establishment that betrayed its principles and let down the country. For Palin, her sentiments jibe with widespread perceptions of the GOP. It's true even according to polling data that there is a schism and disconnect between the GOP party and Republican/conservative voters, if little old Sarah Palin could figure this out and may endear throngs of Republican voters and maybe even some independents to her for coming out on a simple issue going straight at the wrongs of the Party, why can't these fellows having their finger on the issues of the day, figured this out years ago or better yet implement such a thing?

None of the propagandists on FR or in the MSM seem to have read or seen anything Sarah Palin has written or said. That is why they are propagandists.

She is the only national figure who has articulated a conservative vision for the USA to recover and prosper, in all respects, and the only one who seems to have a clue how that vision jibes with the Republican Party Platform.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

She's gotta carry the independent women voters and so far she's got a problem with the ones I speak with. Their comment is often "the mouth, the mouth...whatta mouth on that woman."

I have said repeatedly, she needs to get a coach to help her tone down her colloquial and shoot from the hip style and to learn to speak more deliberately.

And before you guys lay into me...I am a Sarah supporter. I just want her to win!

[Rappini]

Palin can win if the Commies in our Government don’t cheat at the polls. I’m still trying to figure out how Harry Reid got reelected.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Will Palin vote/sign the for the things you want a leader to vote/sign for? Will Obama? Will anybody else as consistently? People are getting all hung up on the “personality” of these candidates. Look past that ... what does she believe. Does she believe what YOU believe? Does anybody else believe what you believe? Do they have a record of accomplishing what they say they believe. Choices suddenly disappear ... and what is left standing? Sarah.

[Question_Assumptions]

I think it’s going to all boil down to two particular things.

First, the left-wing media and left-wing partisans have carefully crafted a caricature of Sarah Palin as a semi-illiterate knuckle-dragging backwater fundamentalist who doesn’t know anything — one of the two standard left-wing stereotypes (to them, conservatives are either dunces or evil geniuses). If Palin can show a command of the issues, respond quickly and intelligently in interviews and debates, and show that the caricature is a lie, her polling will quickly change and people will stop trusting the media. If the public realizes that the media was lying to them in 2008 about Palin as well as Obama and that’s why we’ve been stuck with Obama, the media will have much less influence in 2012.

Second, Sarah Palin’s children could torpedo her chances by misbehaving. If her children get in trouble with the law or another pregnancy or start saying stupid things about their family or politically touchy groups, then people (particularly in her base) could conclude that she can’t control her family and needs to focus on them instead of running for President.

But if Sarah Palin can show a command of the issues, a quick mind, and her family keeps their act together, then I think current poll numbers are going to be largely irrelevant.

[Bamanot]

Palin, Huckabee, or Romney at the top of the ticket would TOTALLY destroy the GOP in 2012. And with Sarah, the folksiness is getting a wee bit tiresome, don't ya know?

There are far more viable candidates including Christie (please run), Pence, Barbour, Pawlenti, Jindal,

[scbison]

Agree.. And you know what, she will probably chose Rubio for VP which will make it very hard for Obama or any other RAT to win... She will have Florida and probably a pretty good number of hispanics voting for her across the country. You could be talking a pretty size margin of victory.

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