Does Sarah Palin have a shot at U.S. presidency?

Xinhua ^ | December 21, 2010 | Matthew Rusling

[jessduntno]

“One more time. I adore Mrs. Palin. I just think she can’t be elected and will do more harm than good as a candidate.”

And you think she’s a whore.

[jessduntno]

“You’re blinded by your love of Palin, how could you see anything in any type of proper perspective?”

You think that people here are “blinded by love” of Sarah Palin?

[jessduntno]

“*click* Okay, I think I get you, now...sorry for the misunderstanding.”

No problem ... I was probably not clear ... when I told him he was under the ether of the MSM, I was referring to his belief that Quayle was some sort of dummy, as he has been taught to believe SP has no chance of winning. It’s startling to see people fall for the MSM line so often and so repeatedly. I think of it as being under ether ... still alive but deadened to what’s happening to them.

[t-dude]

I’ll buy that you adore Mrs. Palin, but just don’t think she can win.

My question to you is WHY do you feel this way?

Do you have any other disagreements with her policy positions?

Do you doubt her experience? Or feel it is inadequate? Compared to whom?

Is it the negative media narrative that has you concerned?

I am trying to not sound like a “Palin-bot” I don’t want to call names, I want to discuss why you hold the views you do.

Don’t just keep repeating, “She can’t win,’ and then get mad when we disagree.

If you have something to support your position let’s hear it...because I’ve looked at this very hard, and I have come to an opposite conclusion.

Yes, there are some inacuracies about her that need to be addressed. There is a horrible narative, but that is false.

She’s lucky to have truth on her side, so people who say she can’t win seem to be saying, truth cannot win out over distortions and lies. I think this is the genesis of some of her rabid support.

She has been falsely defamed and the injustice of it doesn’t seem fair. Life isn’t fair, I understand, but she won’t shut up and sit down and neither will her supporters.

So I think that is a large part of the emotion behind her support. I’d like to hear from you why you are so certain she cannot win. That there is no way the truth can overcome the lies.

Or do you believe the lies?

I don’t know, all I’ve seen from you is “She can’t win and it will be bad for the party.”

We’ll, congratulations, you can parrot the elite establishment Republican talking points, but so can Barbara Bush...I want to know WHY?

[GlockThe Vote]

Right now - i’m Palin/Christie 2012

[rwrcpa1]

And while she has already been through a national campaign in which she showed signs of being her own woman, she also demonstrated a reluctance to accept schooling from professionals, some analysts noted.

Dan Mahaffee, special assistant to the president at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, said one scenario in which Palin could win the primaries would be to mirror former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's 2008 strategy, which was to drum up a coalition of grass roots conservatives and Evangelicals.

Why would she want to copy a guy who lost, or take advice from so-called professionals who ran a stupid stupid campaign?

[freedumb2003]

>>Is it the negative media narrative that has you concerned?<<

Yes, that is the main issue. IMHO, Her interview with couric was a “macaca” moment in her political career and pretty well sidelined her. It was too soon, McCain’s people didn’t prep her and she got thrown to the dogs.

You rarely get a second chance to make a good impression. Most Americans (Joe and Jane Six-pack in Peoria) still think she is a ditz, despite the fact she has worked very hard to bring her policy understanding up to speed. And Mrs. Palin is wicked smart and has used that knowledge to formulate very insightful AND incisive thoughts about policy: economic, domestic and foreign.

I know that and you know that. But I am pretty sure America DOESN’T know that. I think those early deer in the headlights moments can’t be removed, any more than hillary was able to remove her inane and shrill comments enough to take what an entire machine had handed to her (the fact they are both women is incidental).

And we can’t eliminate the PDS from the left — the zero fuhrer was able to win by converting moderate Republicans (I know, I know, another discussion altogether). In this case, Mrs. Palin has a small but dedicated base, but a very large enmity (undeserved but true nonetheless) population.

I am sure many on this thread will come along and attempt to knock off these one at a time, but it won’t change my conclusions.

And, as a final note, I really hope she and you prove me wrong. Maybe by this time next year we see Mrs. Palin polling at 60+%, meaning America WAS able to overlook her initial missteps.

But history suggests otherwise and there is a lot of mischief that can result if she shoots and badly misses.

I should have started with this — that might have at least taken the discussion into the analysis arena and not name-calling (and yes, I did my share).

[freedumb2003]

>>And you think she’s a whore.<<

Don’t put words into my mouth/keyboard.

It is people like you that will definitely sink any remote chance she has of even being competitive. Slavish sycophants.

[Lakeshark]

Agreed, that's a great ticket.

[Lakeshark]

I think you don't understand the media will attempt to do that to every single candidate with an (R) next to their name, look what they're doing to Haley Barbour at the moment. Heck they kept saying how much they loved McCain until he actually won the nomination.

If you want to sideline every effective republican because the MSM will try to take them out, then we'll never have another president with an (R) beside their name again.

Let's just give up. The media always gets its way right? What happened in 1980? 2000? How did 2010 ever come to be?

[freedumb2003]

>>Let’s just give up. The media always gets its way right?<<

Reagan was able to tie the media in knots. That is the skill we need today, more than ever.

I wish DeMint would make up his mind. At times he is impressive and statesmanlike. Other times, he is just baffling.

[Lakeshark]

I think you forget how it actually happened for Reagan, but that's another discussion. How did a poor speaker who couldn't speak over the media win in 2008?

How did the house get taken over this year?

[Lakeshark]

DeMint has consistently said he’s not interested in running, there’s no mind to make up, it seems to be a done deal already.

[freedumb2003]

>>I think you forget how it actually happened for Reagan, but that’s another discussion. How did a poor speaker who couldn’t speak over the media win in 2008?<<

It doesn’t change my analysis, as laid out above.

>>How did the house get taken over this year?<<

Blowback.

[freedumb2003]

>>DeMint has consistently said he’s not interested in running, there’s no mind to make up, it seems to be a done deal already.<<

My point is we need a statesman with a consistent CONSERVATIVE message. We have 3/4 of that with DeMint.

Mrs. Palin supplies that from the sidelines (I am sure I mentioned upthread her role as a firebrand may be the most important for her) but we need it in the halls of Congress.

[Lakeshark]

Well, it's a good thing you weren't a Reagan analyst, he would have never made it with your kind of defeatist spirit......

Sorry, what I read you saying seems naive at best, like you're counseling we should just all give up because of the big bad media.

[freedumb2003]

>>Sorry, what I read you saying seems naive at best, like you’re counseling we should just all give up because of the big bad media.<<

IMHO and YMMV. You might want to re-read my post since you missed the main point.

[gitmo]

To win the presidency, Palin would have to climb over three rungs: the primaries, the Republican National Convention, and a general election.

And they set those hurdles just for Mrs. Palin? Wow. How unfair. I guess she hasn't got a chance with those requirements. I'll bet the Republicans are making her do that just because she's a woman!

[jessduntno]

“You might want to re-read my post since you missed the main point.”

You don’t have a main point. you just keep repeating that there are better choices but you don’t say who; you keep saying there is a better way but don’t say how; you say the midterms were won because of “blowback” when even the dimmest bulb understands it was the good work and dedication of the Tea Party.

Who are your choices?

You accused Palin of being another Ron Paul, yet when asked in what way, you had nothing.

You then said some nonsense about having a following. Does that in your alleged mind make anyone with a following just like Ron Paul? You said

Really, do you have a thought you can articulate?

Because you have been asked a lot of questions and answered with nothing. You got nothing.

[Lakeshark]

Actually, I think you're missing the point, big time.

You're giving up because no one is Reagan, you're giving up because we have no "statesmen", you snipe at someone who is actually in the ring fighting for what you believe, and you go all drama queen because you don't see a perfect solution (like you saw looking backwards at what Reagan did).

Good luck with that attitude, it's what the MSM adores in conservatives.