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Sarah Palin 2016: What 5 Leading Pundits Say About Possible GOP Presidential Hopeful
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 31 Dec 2014 08:13 PM | By Jerry Shaw

Posted on 01/01/2015 12:19:50 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network

If Sarah Palin is looking for success in a 2016 presidential campaign, she has to convince some pundits that she’s serious about running. There are political observers, however, who believe she might hold some magic as a Republican party nominee.

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Dustin Hawkins, a conservative writer for About News and a campaign activist, wrote that the media has already vetted Palin thoroughly and would have to focus on her ideas in 2016.

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1 posted on 01/01/2015 12:19:50 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
LOL!!

The smear's would come daily......

The left knows no shame..........

2 posted on 01/01/2015 12:24:00 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Except they wouldn’t.

The media has already shown they’re fully capable of manufacturing a narrative when they can’t use current events to forward their agenda. There’s no way they would focus on issues.

Because then, she’d win. As would any legitimate conservative.


3 posted on 01/01/2015 12:28:27 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Osage Orange; Cringing Negativism Network

The smears would center on her family and on fictionalized statements she never actually made (like the supposed view of Russia from her house, media-manufactured lie) and they wouldn’t spend 10 seconds on any of the actual issues she raised. Not 10 seconds.


4 posted on 01/01/2015 12:29:22 PM PST by samtheman
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To: Cringing Negativism Network; All

If patriots exercised their voting power to peacefully force the corrupt federal government to surrender wrongly usurped state powers back to the states, then citizens would probably have little concern for who is in the Oval Office.


5 posted on 01/01/2015 12:30:58 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I would LOVE to have her as POTUS not only because she would make a great one but because she drives the left absolutely freakin’ insane. Can you imagine all the sexist crap that would come out of their mouths if she was POTUS? They would be going bananas, they wouldn’t be able to control themselves.


6 posted on 01/01/2015 12:33:36 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Cupp and Delingpole are the only ones among these “leading pundits” I’ve even heard of before.


7 posted on 01/01/2015 12:37:21 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It would be a hoot to see that happening.


8 posted on 01/01/2015 12:38:50 PM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

But a Bush/Palin or Palin/Bush ticket? One of these pundits doesn’t have a firm grasp on reality.


9 posted on 01/01/2015 12:39:11 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: samtheman

About right!!


10 posted on 01/01/2015 12:40:54 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

She’d win, of course.

That’s why, with THIS GOP—it’ll never happen.


11 posted on 01/01/2015 12:43:27 PM PST by Flintlock (Our soap box is finished, the ballot box didn't work--now all that's left is the BULLET box.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Palin winning the nomination, much less the presidency, would be one of the few existing signals to potentially alter my unbridled negativity and convince me that America might genuinely be ‘capable’ of being salvaged after all.

Frankly, though, I think the country is too far gone, too rotted to the core, too happily embracing of darkness, deviancy and corruption, to ever even consider the kind of upright, Constitutional leadership Palin would offer.


12 posted on 01/01/2015 1:04:27 PM PST by greene66
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“Doug Mataconis of Outside the Beltway believes Palin has no interest in running for president “because it gets in the way of being famous,” either as a conservative spokesperson or a celebrity.”

Why do I think of Art Linkletter’s “Kids say the darndest things.” as I read that statement above?


13 posted on 01/01/2015 1:30:34 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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Sarah Palin 2016: What 5 Leading Pundits Say About Possible GOP Presidential Hopeful

Won't happen. She can't afford the pay cut.

14 posted on 01/01/2015 1:46:21 PM PST by GoldenPup
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I would like to see Palin run for McCain's senate seat in AZ. I didn't think before, and I don't think now, she's game ready for a presidential run. It's about much more than vetting.

I said this in 2012 and was ridiculed here, and turned out to be right: she was polling the entire time she did her movie and bus tour. I confirmed this with her filmmaker. The polls were not good then. She needs a grass roots organization in a number of key states, including Iowa, which so far she does not appear to have.

Her governor's record is in the forgotten past, and was tainted by her exit. A successful senate run would push all that aside and give her a national platform to state positions other than Facebook. Most of all, she would need a good conservative campaign manager and I don't know where you find a Lee Atwater today. It will be interesting to see who people like Ben Carson and Ted Cruz get to run their campaigns.

15 posted on 01/01/2015 1:47:57 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
It's not the Left per se that would doom a Palin candidacy. The RINOs have proven to me that they are the greatest threat to any electoral aspirations she might still have. It might be possible to win the Presidency in the face of Media/ Hollywood headwinds because they are corrupt and discredited. But when the knives come out from RINO circles, it will be too much.
17 posted on 01/01/2015 2:12:57 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: Bratch

And NOBODY except a Freeper would remember any of that. Politics is “What have you done for me lately?”


18 posted on 01/01/2015 3:36:34 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Bratch
And, I should add, this was ALASKA. To the rest of the US, it barely exists. Arizona is not a lot better, but given McCain's constant, incessant presence, it is. And finally, a senator just has a lot more perceived gravitas than a governor. While there are twice as many senators as governors, the senators are in Washington, and that is very, very important for staging national issues. Look at Scott Walker:even with his accomplishments, he is scarcely mentioned in policy discussions.

But, that's my advice. I doubt she'd take it anyhow.

19 posted on 01/01/2015 3:39:31 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: 9YearLurker

S. E. Cupp is well worth watching on Fox, and she occasionally says something interesting.

20 posted on 01/01/2015 4:38:24 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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