BTW, President Palin is ineluctable.
Posted on 02/15/2011 4:21:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One too many political tea-leaf readers say that Sarah Palin, with her rock-star personality, loyal following and outsized influence on the Republican Party, could jump into the 2012 presidential race at the last minute and run off with the GOP nomination for president. This is in defiance of consistent and plain evidence that Palin is going nowhere fast.
Now a new poll from the University of New Hampshire only adds to the brief against her running. Among likely Republican voters, the former governor of Alaska garnered just six percent support. Blowing out the field was former next-door Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) with 40 percent. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who came in fourth during the New Hampshire primary in 2008, came in second with 10 percent.
Now, here's where the news is really bad for Palin. Romney has a net favorability rating among likely Republican primary voters at a solid 57 percent. Palin has a net negative favorability rating of -17 percent. That puts her at the bottom of the list of GOP White House hopefuls. There is one silver lining. At least she beats the publicity-hungry Donald Trump. His net favorability rests in the cellar at -43 percent.
Lots can change between now and when the New Hampshire primary actually happens early next year. And we all know that winning the Granite State doesn't mean the nomination is secured. Just ask my MSNBC colleague Pat Buchanan, who snatched the state from Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) in 1996, or Sen. John McCain, who lost it to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush during the nomination race of 2000.....
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
BTW, President Palin is ineluctable.
That was a blow out! Over 50 % for Sarah Palin in a field of over 20 other candidates and I bet those responders dont read the washington compost. If they do, they look at it like its a bug, then put it in the bird cage.
http://www.queertheory.com/histories/c/capehart_jonathan.htm
Who is the typical black, gay man?” Jonathan Capehart, editorial writer for the Daily News asks. “Is there such a thing?” Capehart will talk about the boxes gay people and African Americans are placed in by others and will address the preconceived notions about how gay people of color are supposed to behave and think. Capehart has contributed to OUT Magazine and The Advocate, and is a regular guest on New York 1 News’ program ‘Inside City Hall.’ Most recently, he was one of the members of the editorial board at the Daily News to receive the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
Capehart is no stranger to controversy. He has sparked controversies with his articles on gay sex clubs, the Morning Party and gay support for Republican Mayors in New York and Los Angeles. He is also a correspondent for the critically acclaimed public television show ‘In the Life,’ and a former officer of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
It was a typical FAKE Romney poll from a radio station
calling a few Democrats and Mormons on their list.
Big deal. Romney is hated across America,
and those that know him, will vote for Obama first.
Mitt Romney, The New McCain. Media Approved Candidate!
She climbed a granite mountain on her show. A granite wall is nothing.
Barry with his hip hop personality was elected. I don’t know why a white woman with a “rock star personality” cannot win the presidency. I think Mrs. Capehart’s little Jonathan just wet himself again.
The poll is garbage.
However I do see a great new impediment for her:
If the House Reps do a good job cutting the budget and fighting Obama then the leadership can cut her dowm.
Of course it remains to be seen if they’ll do a good job and if they remain hostile.
It's not surprising that Jonathan Capeheart doesn't like Sarah Palin, but loves Barry. He's gay.
Boy, they are absolutly terrified of her. The will spend the next 2 years trying to find a way to uproot her from being a candidate. Just keep watching. You’ll see the effort.
Sarah can run anyway.
I can vote for her anyway.
She can win anyway.
Ha.
"Wishful thinking" about Palin? More ways than one, as it were.
Interview with Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post
Q. What is your background and how did you come to be involved in tonight's Presidential Forum?
A. I've been an editorial writer for about 10 years now. First at the New York Daily News and now at the Washington Post. As a result, I've had to be on top of major issues, including gay and lesbian issues. I'd like to think that because of my past work the organizers sought me out to serve as a panelist.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lane-hudson/qa-with-jonathan-capehart_b_59808.html
With his boyfriend of 10 years, architect Giuseppe Lignano
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People like Palin as a personality. For President, nope.
You mean you want West to be a prop.
Yup...but the good thing is they are sheep....If we can get her the nomination...they'll vote for her!
Cav Ho!..Shepherds Out!
If Palin is so sure of losing, why aren’t the liberals pushing her candidacy? Why are they trying so hard to prove that she can’t win? If she really can’t win, why don’t they support her?
PERFECT!
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN...
THE HISTORY OF AN ALASKAN HERO
1. SARAH PALIN: is THE MOST BELOVED GOV. IN ALASKAN HISTORY SHE ACHIEVED A 90% APPROVAL RATING..THE HIGHEST OF ANY PUBLIC OFFICIAL IN THE U.S. ....WHY?
SHE STARTED SERVING AS A PUBLIC SERVANT RUNNING FOR LOCAL PTA MEMBER....SARAH WAS DISGUSTED AT THE RUN DOWN SCHOOLS HER KIDS HAD TO ATTEND IN THE LIGHT OF THE RICHNESS THE PRESENCE OF OIL PROVIDED THE STATE. THEREFORE SHE HAD THE GUMPTION TO CAMPAIGN DOOR TO DOOR AND THEREFORE WON A PTA SEAT....THEN SHE RAN DOOR TO DOOR AND WON THE POST OF MAYOR OF WASILLA. THEN GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
AS GOVERNOR .... HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE LEGION...
1. SARAH BROUGHT THE OIL COMPANYS OPERATING IN ALASKA TO HEEL .....FORCING THEM UNDER AN ENLGHTENED WEALTH SHARING PLAN she INITIATED CALLED ‘ACES’ ..Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share” (ACES) MILLIONS WERE THEN PAID IN OIL TAXES TO ALASKAN CITIZENS...MONIES WHICH WERE THEN USED FOR
POWER, LIGHT, SEWERS AND THOUSANDS OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. PROJECTS WHICH VASTLY IMPROVED THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS ALASKAN
VILLAGERS. FOLKS WHO BEFORE HER, NEVER EVEN HAD ELECTRIC POWER ONLY OIL LANTERNS.
2. SHE OVER SAW THE CONVICTIONS OF REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ALIKE WHO WERE CORRUPTING ALASKAN GOVERNMENT.
3. SHE SOLD THE GOV’S PLANE AND FIRED THE COOK IN THE GOV’S RESIDENCE .....PROVIDING HER OWN TRANSPORTATION AND FIXING HER OWN FAMILY MEALS. A LADY NO FRIEND TO OUTLANDISH SPENDING..
SARAH....TRULY THE ‘REAL DEAL’
MANY OTHER CLUELESS ASK ... ‘IF SHE’S THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND BELOVED GOVERNOR IN ALASKAN HISTORY? WHY DID SHE RESIGN HER GOVERNORSHIP...? WHY DID THIS QUITTER QUIT?
ANSWER:
SHE WAS HERASSED OUT OF OFFICE...
BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY AFTER SHE ANNOUNCED HER VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY:
1. Sarah’s political enemies began to harass her. They were quite effective to....on 2 fronts...
they succeeded in
# 1. Freezing the Governor’s office in a cycle of answering endless and baseless ethics charges
AND
#2. Forced SARAH’S family into poverty to the tune of $500,000
2. 19 (NINETEEN!) ethics complaints were filed against her; most begining just days after she was named John McCain’s running mate.
3. IT COSTS NOTHING TO FILE SUCH COMPLAINTS IN ALASKA.
and
4. UNDER ALASKAN LAW EVERY ONE OF THESE MUST BE ANSWERED AND PAID FOR BY THE POLITICIAN HIMSELF!
5. AND THE LEGAL COSTS TO GOV. PALIN PERSONALLY AND TO HER FAMILY OF COURSE LEFT HER 0NE HALF OF A MILLION DOLLARS IN PERSONAL DEBT. FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS !!!!
6. There was no limit on the number of ethic complaints these harassers could file against the Governor and SHE had to pay for her own defense until they broke the family bank.
Her staff had to direct vast amounts of time and attention to defend against these complaints.
7. MOST OF THESE HERASSMENT SUITS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISMISSED !!!!!
8. INTELLIGENT PERSON THAT SHE IS: SARAH understood her being in office was
#1 CRIPPLING THE ABILITY OF THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE TO GOVERN... AND
#2 BREAKING HER FINANCIALLY....
SINCE ONCE AGAIN, SHE HAD TO PAY HER OWN LEGAL COSTS...TO THE TUNE OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSDAND DOLLARS!!
SARAH LOVED BEING THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND BELOVED GOVERNOR IN ALASKAN HISTORY AND ITS A SAD LOSS FOR ALASKA BUT IT IS A GREAT VICTORY FOR AMERICA ....SINCE, NOW SHE CAN DEVOTE ALL HER TALENTS TO TAKING BACK THIS COUNTRY FROM THE POWER GRABBERS CURRENTLY MENACING OUR DEMOCRACY.....GO YOU SARAH!
PLEASE CUT AND PASTE THESE POINTS INTO YOUR HARD DRIVE MEMORIZE THEM AND RELATE THEM TO ALL WHO NEED AN EDUCATION ALONG THESE LINES...
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