The ruling class cannot take their eyes off her, and it fills them with self-loathing.
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)
I endorse this approach. Have you given any thought as to the positions and issues that translate into the required electoral votes? Of course, I realize that will be a moving target as time moves forward but what are the universally important issues?
Makes her look better all the time.
Perhaps the all-knowing Will can just tell us who the next President will be and save us all the trouble of voting!
George Will = Old Loud Mouth Fart
The little RINOettes are scared of Sarah and don’t want her to run precisely because she CAN be elected president and knock down their RINO castle of sand.
They may see Obama for what he is, but as of now, they are skeptical of Sara. She has just over a year to change minds. By then, most folks will have their minds set in cement regardless of what happens.
No way, she will mop the floor with bambi.
The ruling class cannot take their eyes off her, and it fills them with self-loathing.
One of their bigger scores is having Bill O’Reilly on the payroll. Ole Bill never had a negative thing to say about Obama and spent the entire election poo-poo-ing all the communist, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright bombshells that could never be remotely denied, only minimized. O’Reilly is still doing it, and it’s been a real pleasure seeing Laura Ingraham clean his clock. When Bill gets bought, he stays bought!
There must be some serious Soros cash flowing his way, enough to make it worth his while if he gets found out and his entire career crashes.
I’m done riding the republican merry go round. If the gop nominates another MF rino I will vote down ballot conservatives and third party national.
I’m getting too old to wait “4 More Years”
If Huckabee gets the nomination, I’m sitting out the election. And to those who say: “That attitude will give four more years of Obama,” I say: “What’s the difference?”
Oh No’s what are we to do with this news from George Will..I guess Sarah shouldn’t bother running then..the king has spoken LOL..Oh and by the way, who the hell is George Will..some loon who thinks he’s something special because he is NOT
No, I have not yet given this much thought. I think that fiscal conservatism and limited government will trump in the next cycle, but since Obama will run on that platform, it may not count for much. Still too early to tell what the other issues might be. On a tactical level, the successful conservative candidate much aggressively counter EVERY attack made against them by the Left. A spurious charge becomes a fact when left unchallenged and the attacks will be fast, furious, and almost entirely spurious. Most of the leading Conservative candidates are already behind in this effort.
The most important thing will be to vet each candidate state by state and precinct by precinct in a cold hearted and unemotional fashion. Who can really win, and not some pollyanna hopey feely nonsense. White suburban women who voted for Obama in 2008 and Conservative Republican candidates in 2010 will elect the next President in 2012.
The more they scream, the more it convinces me they KNOW Palin can win. Obama is weak, the economy is about to hit more turbulance and “hope-n-change” has hit the skids.
They don’t want her to run....not even to try.
Do you agree with NELSON111? Should we let David Letterman and Jay Leno choose our candidate?
Go ahead and be lead by eneMedia. But don't forget, they always avoid telling you what "is," and try to convince about the "truth" of what "ain't."
That said, there's no certainty others won't enter the fray.
I can only think of Paul Ryan as somebody I would support over Palin. Perhaps another will emerge...but I doubt it.
NOBODY wants to run against her. I believe they believe that it will create so much animosity in the base that their political career would be over.
Same issue with Obama and the left.
I love Sarah. My 3 brothers love her and my very discerning husband is behind her 100%. I just can’t wait for the debates to begin!!
Dated January 13, 2009:
Barack Obama took the next big step in his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he dined with several of the nation’s most prominent conservative pundits.
The president-elect arrived at the Chevy Chase, Md., home of syndicated columnist George Will shortly after 6:30 p.m., according to a press pool report. Greeting him at the residence were other luminaries of the conservative commentariat, including the Weekly Standard’s William Kristol, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post.
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