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.
Right now you sound like an out of work campaign manager who can’t find a candidate for whom to ply your skills...which after reading your bossy posts is perfectly understandble.
I dunno. I asked him on another thread if he enjoyed being the dancing monkey on every Sarah Palin thread. No response.
As of now, I won’t respond to hostility.
It is unseemly.
But I find your responses... interesting.
answer this before your inanity is addressed :
If quizzes are quizzical, then what are tests?
*waiting*
From the differing State-by-State requirements and deadlines, to the actual boots on the ground needed to fulfill such demands, it is only the highest order of intentionally blind fool who would assume that she doesn't have all of those bases covered, or that she couldn't do so blindfolded with one hand tied behind her back.
I have seen the litter of political corpses strewn in the wake along Palin's ascending political path, and the vast majority were at one time just people who merely underestimated Palin's wherewithal.
Don't be that guy.
8^D
It wasn’t hostile at all. It was “concern” for your apparent masochism...a disorder you are exhibiting on every Palin thread. It’s like wearing a “kick me’ sign. I just wondered if you like this sort of abuse because you sure ask for it. I am actually beginning to worry about ya.
“she didn’t go to the right schools”
How DARE he. That is the end of it.
She’s too affable.
>> I am actually beginning to worry about ya.<<
It is a test. The results are interesting.
Not to worry, it all fits.
I know, why ELSE would she conduct this “listening tour” through the northeast? She sooo smoked them on the Paul Revere question. They thought they had her, but she was RIGHT! And they say it was a lucky break. But she’s been recreating Paul Revere’s ride, riding through New England WARNING THE BRITISH, the tories, the establishment, the liberals, the socialists, the communists of what is about to happen to them and they call her a dingbat.
Does she happen to be going to Lexington and Concord next?
Looking forward to seeing UNDEFEATED and especially its effect.
I remember some clips of her pre-gov debates in Alaska. Rivoting stuff. If UNDEFEATED has that kind of substance, it’ll rock.
Yeah, and the gay commurnity is the most likely to go foaming, raving, rabidly berzerk over Prop 8, and anything else they don’t like. Look, you have to be farking screwed up to be queer in the first place. Also, they and the black think they are untouchable. . . They are going to have to learn that that is not true. Just sayin.
The only “bossy” people I see around here these days are those who insist — INSIST — that everyone must fall unquestioningly at the feet of the saintly Sarah Palin, who can do no wrong, and who is not subject to the common human weaknesses of us mere mortal. Fail to do so, and you are subject to bullying and insults worthy of any schoolyard kid.
Except for he bossy know-it-alls who insist -— INSIST -— that Palin is doing everything wrong when that is obviously NOT the case. But have at it if it floats your boat.
Whever she goes, she fills every venue in which she appears already. Nobody else even comes close to that. Obama and Rummey have to pay people to be bussed in.
“Whever she goes, she fills every venue in which she appears already. Nobody else even comes close to that. Obama and Rummey have to pay people to be bussed in.”
It’s also why Palin refuses to give the press her itinerary - so the Dems can’t have their rent-a-mob waiting for her, infiltrating the crowd and starting riots with her supporters.
Palin is no dummy. She’s a very polished and smart campaigner and learned a lot of valuable lessons in 08
“Whever she goes, she fills every venue in which she appears already. Nobody else even comes close to that. Obama and Rummey have to pay people to be bussed in.”
It’s also why Palin refuses to give the press her itinerary - so the Dems can’t have their rent-a-mob waiting for her, infiltrating the crowd and starting riots with her supporters.
Palin is no dummy. She’s a very polished and smart campaigner and learned a lot of valuable lessons in 08
My gut tells me she is running, but I can make a credible case she's not.
I'll just say that Palin is a very unconventional politician, and the usual political indicators are meaningless.
Someone has to ask...what are the data points you use? What knowledge do you have that allows you to conclude that?
Yes, let's not forget that!
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