Former George W. Bush aide Ari Fleischer says Sarah Palin's got no chance in 2012

The Politico ^ | March 16, 2011 | Juana Summers

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Ari Fleischer says there's no "way, shape or form" Sarah Palin can lock the Republican nomination.

"I cannot see any way, shape or form that she can win the Republican primary," Fleischer, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush, said as reported by the Idaho Mountain Express.

Fleischer, who was in Ketchum, Idaho to speak as part of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts' Lecture Series, said he'd never seen such a wide open Republican field, but that the former Alaska governor was not among the serious contenders....

[o2bfree]

You’ve got to be kidding me. According to your standard, even Obama isn’t eligible to become president. Yet, he is sitting in the white house right now.

I’d like to see Rubio vs Obama in 2012. Obama would lose that election hands down.

[masadaman]

It is not " my standard.' It is the standard of our Constitution, but why quibble? As to "sitting in the White House right now", there would be no issue , no discussion if Obama showed a legitimate long form and both parents thereon listed were both American citizens, by birth and/or naturalization. But he hasn't and they both weren't.

My point was that we need someone to get the issue more legs than simply putting birthers down as nutcases. Rubio and Jindal could do it gently. Trump has just started the process by defending birthers on Good Morning America.