THE WHEELS ON THE BUS COME OFF OFF OFF
Posted on 01/02/2011 6:17:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We’re now less than two years away from the next presidential election, which means it’s time for 2012 presidential speculation to begin! The first This Week of the year kicked off the talk with some of the biggest names on the Republican side, and George Will seems to have found through the litany of names what he called “the President’s secret weapon”: Sarah Palin’s inability to be elected.
Asked by Jake Tapper (filling in for Christiane Amanpour) to evaluate the Republican landscape for November 2012, Will began by addressing the fact that Mike Huckabee had performed particularly well in the primaries in 2008– better than Mitt Romney– and then added this salacious tidbit of speculation:
“The President’s secret weapon may be the Republican nominating electorate… There is one person, high in the polls, Sarah Palin, who cannot be elected president because she cannot compete where elections are decided. In the collar counties outside Chicago, Montgomery County outside of Philadelphia– just can’t compete there.”
He went on give some predictions based on the fact that nominees, he explained, tend to win the majority of electoral votes in the Mississippi Valley– giving Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Sen. John Thune, and the suddenly-popular Gov. Mitch Daniels a leg up in that area.
It will be interesting to see if and when Palin confronts such derision, especially if this will set the tone for how pundits will discuss her chances for the rest of the year. While in 2010– two years removed– she could afford to be glib about it over Twitter, her chances as she races the clock will increasingly depend on how presidential she can come across, that trait one that, using her behavior last year alone, may be easy to “refudiate.”
The clip from today’s This Week on ABC below:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Women voted GOP For the first time every because of Sarah Palin!
He sure as heck ran harder for his Senate re-election than he ever ran for President.
“Unelectable” is RINO code for “Not a member of the Party elite.”
I’m afraid I need a better source....
What’s happening here is that, one-by-one, the Washington insiders are revealing their stripes. Sarah Palin may not run and, if she does, she may not win. But she is sure flushing out the RINO’s and immeasurably weakening them in the process.
1. Sarah hasn’t even declared one way or the other.
2. Guess we’ll have to wait and see
3. Will George Will and the rest of the asshats who are downplaying Sarah’s chances put garbage cans on their heads after her inauguration?
George Will is an elitist Republican and obviously looks down on Republicans without an elitist education. A friend of mine has a daughter who works in D.C. and went to a party that George Will also attended. She told me that George Will had a lot to drink and "was not feeling any pain."
Damn Straight. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ROMNEY, I will stay home
Indeed. Until a crisis occurs.
There. Fixed it.
My position though that there is a difference between support and “worship”. I don’t care for the cult of personality that has developed around Palin and is no different from the one that developed around Obama. For me the difference is between Palin’s supporters that openly say that, in the end, they will support any nominee, provided they are conservative, and those that take the position that if Sarah Palin is not the nominee they will take their bat and ball and go home.
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Of course, if she is the nominee I will be voting for her too....but I fear Obama would win that election. There are just too many people in this country who hate her. Voters who are tired of Obama will vote for him simply because of their blinding fear of Palin...or not vote at all.
Correction: They don’t hate Palin.
They hate the media concoction.
Palin still has 2 years to expose the media’s corruption.
The debates, retail political events, and campaign interviews will show Americans the real Palin.
17% of the Far Left will still hate her.
But more than 50% of the electorate will see her record and her common sense and her courage and will like her enough to vote for her against the horrible record, progressive nonsense, and cowardly ways of Barack Obama ... and some of the other Republican candidates.
“So ask yourself which one of the republicans has a trait that is severly lacking in Obama that the independent voters would want. Then the republican have their nominee for 2012.”
That would be Sarah. And the trait is cajones.
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