Posted on 11/23/2010 10:14:59 PM PST by Patrick1
Sarah Palin seems to be the favorite of the majority of Free Republic members. I still have not made up my mind about her. But if she is the consevative movement's choice to take on the disaster of Obama who has gone from The Messiah to the Mess then there are things that she will need to overcome to get 50% plus one of the American people's vote in 2012. I've listed the ones I hope her supporters can address here because failure to take these issues on will result in certain defeat.
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She did quit as governor after only two years. Do you not think that will be brought up in a national campaign? Shouldn’t her supporters be able to defend that decision?
“Read her Facebook page.”
Right...
No, it’s demonstrably wrong that it’s an impediment.
Don't bet on it. Things could look a whole lot different in two years. Who we select as our nominee is of vital importance.
If Palin has a national campaign to run for president, then the answer to your question, why did she quit, becomes self evident.
We can: why don't you know that?
“The normal perception of any conservative by the MSM that she is stupid.”
I stopped reading right there. Is it “normal” for a “conservative” to care what the MSM thinks? I sure don’t.
Palin is the first presidential candidate to be paid millions$ for running her political commercials on TV. She played hardball with Exxon up in Alaska and won. My guess is she’s the smartest person in almost every room she walks into. That’s one of the reasons why the Liberals are so scared of her.
“The normal perception of any conservative by the MSM that she is stupid.”
I stopped reading right there. Is it “normal” for a “conservative” to care what the MSM thinks? I sure don’t.
Palin is the first presidential candidate to be paid millions$ for running her political commercials on TV. She played hardball with Exxon up in Alaska and won. My guess is she’s the smartest person in almost every room she walks into. That’s one of the reasons why the Liberals are so scared of her.
She fights. Make a list of shortcomings as long as your arm and in the end, she is on a very short list of people who were willing to fight. There are a number of politicians who think its their turn to be president, but only a small handful who took the fight to Obama when it mattered.
Thats Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, and maybe a couple of others... Ryan, Pence, Bolton, and then thats pretty much it.
The others are waiting to be selected as leader, but it doesn’t work that way. Leaders lead, fighters fight, and the wannabes wait for the phone to ring offering them the job.
I agree, Conservatives don’t care or shouldn’t care what the MSM thinks. However it will take more than conservatives to win.
The answer is not Mitt Romney.
To: GOP_Lady
Mitt!
12 posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:41:31 PM by Norman Bates
And no it's not "demonstrably wrong." It's an opinion - based firmly in fact (she did resign); and a legitimate one at that.
1) Quitting as governor after only two years. (Ronald Reagan served eight)
She saved herself from being dragged into a legal quagmire that the Dems believed they could create. She defeated them
2) The normal perception of any conservative by the MSM that she is stupid.
This is so poorly phrased I can’t make out what you mean.
3) No history of statements on public policy issues prior to 2008.
As a Governor, did she need to make any? Or should she have been tending to managing the Corrupt Bastards, which she did brilliantly?
4) Overexposure that often appears unpresidential.
To who? As opposed to Clinton or Bush on Leno and Letterman? Regan on Death Valley Days? Who?
5) No political base either regionally or politically. (Obama had blacks and college kids for example, Reagan had men. Obama had Illinois and California, Reagan had California, the West and South).
This is a joke, right? NO political base?
6) Appeal to independents, in 2010 independents left Obama for anyone else, will they do the same in 2012 if Palin is the nominee?
A genuine concern. She is not a middle of the road gal. That is what I prefer, someone who is right and stays there. You are a Mitt supporter?
7) What is her big issue and how does she explain it? (I don’t think the I’m not Obama will work for her or anyone else all by itself.)
Small government. You really haven’t watched or read anything by her, have you? Why? You think she is unpresidential and stupid, huh?
If God wants her to win, she will. “The foolish to confound the wise” deal.
What’s that? Who cares? Hell, there isn’t even context.
Right...
Funny you should scoff at that. Every major media outlet in the world has someone poised on Sarah's Facebook Notes. Every time she posts a new article, it goes mainstream and viral within minutes, and within an hour, ten thousand leftist rebuttals and analyses are being passed to their editors.
Either Romney never writes anything, or nobody cares, because nobody reads, repeats, or rebuts any of it.
Why do you use the figure “only 2 years” instead of two and a half years, or 31 months?
By the way, I think that will be a great homerun question for Governor Palin as she describes the history making Republican gains after she moved down here to lead a national conservative movement, it will be a question that gives her a chance to describe the party’s gains, and her accomplishments, and all of these new conservative leaders elected since she went national and endorsed and campaigned in their states.
Then why are we still talking about her? All it took to shipwreck George Allen was "macaca."
The normal rules don't apply to her, anyway. Four years of Jimmy Obama will give us a landslide for Ronnie Palin.
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