Posted on 12/31/2010 2:46:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Is the idea that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could be America’s next president laughable? Not only to many on the left, but also to conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.
On Friday’s broadcast of “Inside Washington,” Krauthammer offered several reasons why Palin shouldn’t be considered the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election.
“What do you mean if not Sarah Palin in 2012?” Krauthammer said. “Who’s saying she’s going to be the presidential candidate? I don’t even hear her saying it. Her chances of being are smaller than half a dozen other people. If you talk to Republicans, I don’t think there are what, more than one in three who would tell you she has a chance of winning the presidency or even the nomination.”
Because of that, he said, she wasn’t the favorite.
“And she is not the favorite,” he continued. “She has a very strong core constituency but outside of that I think she is rather weak.”
Krauthammer has previously downplayed Palin’s chances and indicated he favors Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. He said Palin would not be the ideal candidate to unseat a “vulnerable” President Barack Obama.
“Her negatives are over 50 percent,” Krauthammer said. “She has no chance of winning a general election. Why would you want a candidate who is going to lose against a Democrat who is going to be vulnerable and who is also extremely ideologically ambitious?”
He even employed a Keith Olbermann catch phrase to describe Palin and said even fellow Republicans didn’t see Palin as qualified.
“A half-term governor? I’m not sure Republicans think of her as qualified.” Krauthammer said.
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Palin’s good fortune in the private sector was not her motive for stepping down.
Depending on what happens in the next year of legislation..Rand Paul and Bachmann are the remedy for America. Strong medicine for a very fragile country. Long live the TEA Party, long live the Republic and may all the people of the world one day live in Peace and Freedom.
“Palin’s good fortune in the private sector was not her motive for stepping down.”
——————————————————————————————”Gov. Palin wrote a biography. She didn’t force anyone to buy it. She signed with a speaker’s bureau and gave speeches and didn’t force anyone to attend. She made a TV series and didn’t force anyone to watch it. In fact, she didn’t know if any of those ventures would be successful. Now, if she had gone out and done product endorsements, then criticism of her actions might have had some merit.”
I don’t think she resigned her position for personal gain, but it would be naive to think she didn’t anticipate a financial soft landing based on the enormous popularity she’d developed. It wasn’t a huge roll of the dice to think that the thousands who’d already attended her speeches wouldn’t continue to do so, and that those same thousands (and more...I was one) would buy her book. Perhaps she would have made exactly the same decision if her only alternative was to go back to fishing or stay home while Todd worked in the oil fields - we’ll never know - but as a mother and the primary breadwinner for her family, there’s no way she didn’t factor their well-being (and her future earning potential) into her decision. Why shouldn’t she?
I would only agree that Paul and Bachman are both good fits for their current positions. We need strong and reliable leaders in congress just as much as we need those same qualities in our President. Neither Paul or Bachman can realistically be expected to have the resources to mount a presidential run. The fact that Sarah has set the stage means that she is capable of occupying that stage as well. Sarah Palin is a known quantity in the areas that conservatives are concerned with. She is electable because she is intelligent, politically conservative, healthy, energetic, experienced in government and private enterprise, and so much more. We already know what to expect from the establishment Republicans and their political gaming which helped to elect Obama and we are done with it. This party needs fresh talent and leaders who are committed to returning this country to our legally binding constitutional government. Hard work ahead for all of us but as of this moment, Sarah Palin is the only person I see who is up to speed on what the citizens of this country need and want from our government.
Good phrase!
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