Posted on 06/06/2011 8:24:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Charles Krauthammer‘s substantive reasons that Sarah Palin can’t win in 2012:
I think it would make no sense for her to run. I think her chances of winning the nomination are small. The chances of winning the general election are probably nil. I think, for the same reasons you articulated, 60 percent negatives. That’s almost impossible to overcome. And it isn’t as if that is forever. Hillary Clinton had very high negatives at many points in her career. But over time, they tend to soften.
…The problem with her, I think, is that she is not schooled. I don’t mean she didn’t go to the right schools… But when it comes to policies, she’s had two and a half years to school herself, and she hasn’t. And that’s a problem. You want a president who will be able to not have to learn on the job. We’ve already had that… …with President Obama and with others… It’s the lack of effort to school herself and the lack of insight to see that she needs it…
…I think if you’re going to master policy, especially world affairs, you’ve got to know history. As you said, you have to know how things evolved, and she is weak on that. It’s not as if she can’t learn. The fact is it doesn’t appear as if she wants to sort of sit down, spend some months schooling herself, as many people have done in preparing for the presidency. If you’re a governor of any state, you face a narrow range of issues, and you don’t have to deal with the world. It’s incumbent on you to actually learn about it.
So, just to recap, Sarah Palin can’t win against Barack Obama because she has high negatives, she hasn’t “school[ed] herself”, and she’s weak on history. But an incompetent community agitator with no executive experience, no private sector experience and who is an acolyte of Alinsky is qualified because he has a beautiful, cultured speaking voice.
George Will‘s substantive reasons that Sarah Palin can’t win in 2012:
The independent voters have made up their minds about her, and it is a negative judgment they’ve made… After the 2008 campaign she had two things she had to do: she had to go home to Alaska and study, and she had to govern Alaska well. Instead she quit halfway through her first term and shows up in the audience of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and other distinctly non-presidential venues…
Just to recap: independent voters have a negative opinion of Palin. And the fact that Democrat operatives had filed 18 frivolous lawsuits — all later dismissed — against her (source: Associated Press), which were bankrupting her family, had nothing at all to do with it. That, plus appearing in the audience of Dancing with the Stars, disqualifies her.
Is this really what passes for informed commentary inside the Beltway?
Remember: Krauthammer worked for Walter-Freaking-Mondale in 1980. George Will endorsed Howard Baker in 1980. Both of these guys completely missed the Reagan revolution. Krauthammer and Will are certainly smart dudes, but their political instincts appear to be for s***. Palin can win. Bachmann can win. Cain can win. Ryan can win. Santorum can win. Obama is a sitting duck if confronted with a true, articulate Constitutional conservative.
He’s a walking, talking disaster as President. And everyone knows it.
By the way, I’ve been out of town for a while. How are those Stimulus, HAMP, Cash-for-Clunkers, Weatherization, Green Jobs, Obamacare, “Banking Reform”, drilling moratorium, First-Time Home-Buyer Credit, auto company takeovers and QE2 programs working out?
Hat tips: Mark Levin and Gateway Pundit.
Me too sweetie. Going to be a busy busy week for me, so won’t be here at FR much at all. Night nite. God hold you close.
Examples?
The MSM said Reagan would start a nuclear war.
That was the only card they had in their deck.
With Palin, read my reply above.
The opinions of those “insiders” who say she isn't running since she hasn't built a team yet might just be uninformed as to what she's doing. The recent first leg of her One Nation Tour certainly caught them by surprise.
I would simply take her at her word. Her people are making preparations for a run, so should she decide to declare, she will have a mechanism in place.
My guess (for what it's worth), if another strong Conservative candidate who meets certain prerequisites does declare, then I would lean towards the Governor declining a run. As of now, I don't see anyone else on the horizon.
Andrew Jackson weak, mediocre, corrupt? What have you been smoking?
The public will determine if Palin runs or not.
Wrong. The GOP party establishment will determine if Palin runs or not.
HUH?? Like Sarah cares what the GOP “establisment” thinks. LOL That was a joke, correct?
Only if we let them. There are more of us than there are of them and the Tea Party is a force to be reckoned with.
Cindie
Wrong, Palin will determine whether she runs or not. The GOP will have no say in the matter.
One thing I keep thinking about...This woman is a brilliant politician. I remember her having knowledge of Murkowski reentering the Senate race in Alaska days before anyone else. She has made a couple of comments on how the field is going to change in the next few weeks. I wonder what she knows?
I think that was just her way of saying that she’s going to be in it.
I have a feeling that within a few more months of Obama’s incompetence, the public will be begging Palin to run.
The Summer of malaise of high gas prices and no jobs might seal the deal.
That’s very possible too.
I wish it were a joke. The fact is, Gov. Palin knows that if she does not have a united Party backing her in the general election, she would lose the general election.
She, and we, know no such thing.
Any Republican who would not support HER in the general election should switch parties. She supports the platform, with a few exceptions, I’m sure. The party will be on fire for her if she is the nominee.
You miss the point. Palin is holding off with her decision until she has assurances from the owners of the GOP that the “establishment” will not torpedo her if she wins the nomination. How could you possibly believe tha party will have no say in the matter?
Neither Krauthammer nor Will are social conservatives...and they think anyone who is and is not like them can’t win.
and they are snobs
so why don’t they run?
Krauthammer...I feel sorry for him..it has to suck
Will...Will is the kind of guy we made fun of as kids
We face the most perilous tmes our country has ever faced with huge national debt, a crisis as bad as the Civil War or the Great Depression, and I think Sarah Palin can lead us through this dangerous time better than anyone else. If anyone else better shows up I will be thankful to welcome him or her.
“The party will be on fire for her if she is the nominee.”
Sure, the conservative wing will be, but the progressive wing won’t. Not unless she gets their blessing first will they support her, and even then, reluctantly.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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