GOP 'Worried Sick' About Palin

The Street ^ | November 8, 2010 | Lauren Tara LaCapra

[pepperdog]

Do you think Palin would run as VP again, and would Perry ask her?

[ansel12]

She still gets every bit of that by running.

[ansel12]

Palin did not miscalculate in Alaska, she won that primary and Miller should have gone on to win the election, no one anticipated that Murkowski would mount a write in as an independent, and then be endorsed by the GOP Senate.

Palin, the tea party, and the other political supporters of the GOP candidates in Alaska and Delaware are moving the party right, this is the best that we have looked in at least our lifetimes.

[ansel12]

What a gift, she can run on...”hey America, I’m fighting against BOTH parties for you”.

Palin probably saved the GOP from breaking apart in 2009. Palin harnessed the energy that was in the process of turning against the GOP, and re channelled it into a passionate fight to reform and save the Republican party.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘Unfortunately, Perry and Palin are close friends.’

In fact Perry’s primary campaign was floundering early on this time when Palin came into Texas strongly supporting him over Hutchinson. Looks like everyone has forgotten that.

[The Wizard]

I cannot wait to see her elected....

[mas cerveza por favor]

Palin harnessed the energy that was in the process of turning against the GOP, and re channelled it into a passionate fight to reform and save the Republican party.

Good catch.

[excopconservative]

We need a 1984 election like reagan had, not a 1964 election like Goldwater.

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Goldwater was a stiff and severe-looking man. He was a serious man with much gravitas. So much gravitas that they inferred he would blow up the world. Conservatives liked him for his ideas, but being hidden away in Congress he had to build his name identification from nearly scratch. He was always concerned about the Soviet threat and thought that our country’s future was in jeopardy. His personality was hidden by his public persona. No one really hated Goldwater (except maybe Nelson Rockefeller), but he had no charisma about him to create a cult of personality. He had no chance of winning in 1964, only a year after Kennedy’s assassination just as Mondale had little chance after the attempt on Reagan’s life in 1981.

Reagan was a man of the popular culture who could be serious, but was often making serious points through humor. His personality shined through all attempts at disguise and everyone knew he was genuine. Reagan was always happy and looking toward a positive future. People either loved him or hated him, either emotion being illogical and telling more about the person than about Reagan. Everyone knew who he was from movies and television. He was accused of being just a dumb actor and his intelligence was ridiculed. His education at Eureka College was said to be inferior. Although pundits gave him almost no chance of winning, voters decided they preferred a man who had played opposite a chimpanzee to the incompetent Jimmy Carter.

Sarah Palin was thrust on the popular culture when she was nominated for VP. She is the only candidate who has been involved as a nominee in a national campaign and has 100% name recognition. She has charisma that exceeds that of Reagan. She is always happy and positive about the future. She often uses humor to poke fun at opponents. Similarly, people either love or hate her. People who meet her are impressed with how genuine she is. Opponents ridicule her intelligence and her state university education and give her almost no chance of winning. Now a best selling author, TV commentator and public speaker she has given credibility to a national tea party movement when few other politicians would, a movement that has caused upheaval in the Republican Party and defeat for the Democrats. How she will do versus Obama is still up in the air. After all, she has never played opposite a chimpanzee.

[FreeReign]

Sarah Palin has stated she’d only run if no one else does. Since it’s HIGHLY unlikely no one else will run for the GOP, I assume she’s a woman of her word and won’t run if there are other GOP candidates.

Nothing wrong with wanting somebody other than Palin, but when you take Palin's words painfully out of context, you come across as not trying to be objective.

Go back and get the full context of what she was saying.

[MissesBush]

I read the context. I don’t see how it changes my interpretation of what was said. In any event, I don’t begrudge her changing her mind if indeed she does. A big decision like that may involve a lot of going back and forth—nothing wrong with that. I was merely responding to the person who said Bobby Jindal indicated he won’t run for president and implied that if he now changes his mind he’s not a “man of his word.” I was merely illustrating Palin also made a statement about the conditions under which she’d run and if she choses to not adhere to that, would that person then consider her not a person of her word.

[FreeReign]

I read the context. I don’t see how it changes my interpretation of what was said.

Roll tape:

"It's going to entail a discussion with my family (and) a real close look at the lay of the land, to consider whether there are those with that common sense, conservative, pro-Constitution passion. If there's nobody else to do it, then of course I would believe that we should do this."

She will do "it", run, if there is "nobody else" who is a "common sense", "pro-Constitution" "conservative".

That's the full context.