Posted on 11/16/2008 1:26:52 AM PST by MartinaMisc
THE 2008 presidential campaign may be over, but Sarah Palin's moment in the spotlight has yet to run its course.
In a media marathon last week, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee sat down for interviews with CNN's Larry King and Wolf Blitzer; had Matt Lauer of the "Today" show up to Wasilla for a family dinner; and told Fox News's Greta Van Susteren about getting the call from John McCain on her cellphone while she was admiring the local produce at the Alaska State Fair. She disdained the Republican "jerks" who spread anonymous rumors painting her as geographically illiterate, and vehemently denied the accusation that she had milked the campaign for a $150,000 wardrobe for herself and her family.
All that was a prelude to her star turn at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami, where she met reporters at a press conference, drew standing ovations from several hundred GOP donors, and humorously updated her fellow governors on what she'd been doing since last year's meeting.
"I had a baby," she told them. "I did some traveling; I very briefly expanded my wardrobe; I made a few speeches; I met a few VIPs, including those who really impact society, like Tina Fey."
Of course she was asked whether she plans to run for president in 2012, and of course she deflected the question. "The future is not that 2012 presidential race; it's next year and our next budgets," she said. But there can't be much doubt that Palin has become the brightest star in the GOP firmament. A whopping 91 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of her, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, and she is the runaway favorite when they are asked to rank possible contenders for the party's 2012 presidential nominee.
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Bwaahaa!
I ain’t skeerd..
Forget that....They both had equal opportunities in the spotlight...
..and no one is clamoring for Romney's quotes, reactions, opinions 24/7.
“She doesn’t have the skills to lead a nation. Sure, she can talk to her fan club, they are willing to overlook her lack of qualifications. It makes the GOP look bad. What are her real accomplishments?”
Care to list specifics there, rodeomomma?
I see a person that has Christian values and morals (what our nation was founded upon), is ready to do the right thing, can take an economy that is failing and within 2 years giving dividends to its constituents, is not afraid to call out peers that misrepresent the people who voted for them, runs a top military organization (seen any Bear bombers over Canada lately?), can stand toe-to toe with foreign allies as well as enemies and not back down if the water starts to boil .... these are just a few things I look at in a world leader. President Bush was okay on 1 of the 3; Clinton batted zero; Bush senior might have got 2 out of 3; Reagan hit homeruns; Carter (see Clinton’s score) ... I would support a person like Palin no matter what gender because I could shake hands with her, look her in the eye, and know that I can trust her. Not many politicians nowadays that I could say the same for.
So to sum up your thoughts: doesn’t have the skills to lead, lack of qualifications, no real accomplishments .... watch out for that koolaid, it has been “liberally” spiked.
“I love God and my country and I will not vote for Palin if she is nominated....”
Brillant!! The first person who has emerged among Conservatives who is smart, true to principle, and a leader who has a real chance, and you want to go work for a third party. My advice is to go NOW! Don’t let the door hit yer b*** on the way out! It is my guess you probably can’t find one pure enough for you, unless it only consists of you as it’s membership. Lord help us if we all splinter looking for political nirvana!
Reagan only succeeded in inspiring Democrats four years after he was a national political candidate. And the left succeeded very well, thank you, in supposedly marginalizing him as a quack-fringe, stupid actor in 1976, thank you.
Rick Perry couldn’t win Texas, in the very unlikely event that he would be nominated. He is a RINO of the worst kind.
In other words,Alaska is the Northernmost Southern State—where women are REAL women—secure,smart,hard-working,plain-spoken,faith-filled and rock-ribbed conservative.Thus Sarah’s popularity there and here in my South—the roots and branches of conservative power in America.
McCain won with the liberal votes here in our SC primary because it was open and the true conservative candidates split the conservative vote.And as history proves,if one wins South Carolina,one wins the Republican nomination.
Palin or Jindal would give our beloved Sanford a run for his money in our 2012 primary. Yet no matter who wins,Obama would be defeated by any of them because Obama,no matter the MSM polls,is a stuck on stupid socialist.
All three need to announce their presidential intentions as soon as possible—even now! Because (as Obama demonstrated) it gets attention,seduces financial interest and sells the lack of faith America has in the incumbant.
In the meantime,Sarah needs to become a regular on Fox News.Not because of anything to do with politics—though she would be a refreshing change of pace,but because the Fox News “image enhancers” i.e.,cosmetic experts,are the best in the world.
Look what they did for a once plain girl like Greta Van Susteren.Think of what they could do for a babe like Sarah over the next four years.
It can’t hurt to steal some of the shallow idiot voters who fell for Obama’s “looks.”
Right now, I would take Governor Palin over the VERY incompetent President-Elect Obama in a New York nanosecond.
I'm confident Reagan and Thatcher, as well as Thomas Jefferson, would have much admired this grand lady who personifies Thomas J's ideal of the citizen-politician.
I admire the courage of your dissent in this forum.
I disagree with you of course yet I welcome your challenge as Sarah would.
No disrespect,but I will consider more the Freeper consensus on this matter—it has worked pretty well so far.
No candidate/President is any better than the people they select to advise them. NOBODY does it alone.
So the very best the American Electorate can do is vote someone into office with a base of solid values.
Combine those solid values with the ability to get people fired up, and you’ve got something to get excited about...
Reagan and Maggie were conservatives.
Sarah is a conservative.
I’m not sure what you are, but I know you don’t have the core of that philosophy at heart or you wouldn’t be behaving similiar to Kathleen Parker.
If you think we care if you are involved in an ‘08 run? You value yourself too highly. :)
People forget that Reagan was called a dumb rube by the media, just like Palin is today. Carter actually wanted to run against Reagan in 1980 because Carter thought that Reagan was too right wing to appeal to moderates and couldn’t win the general election. We know how that worked out.
One thing that I think that Palin has in her favor is that after four years of a corrupt Obama administration the public will want a honest reformer. My problem is that if Bobby Jindal runs for POTUS in 2012, I will have a hard time deciding who to vote for, Jindal or Palin. I like them both.
What a crock. Sarah was overhandled. When Sarah was let free, she was intelligent, articulate, and as capable of anyone. What candidate running in the last 3 elections did you considered qualified. Kerry, Obama, Bush, Gore? I would take Sarah over all of them in a heartbeat. No, she is no Reagan, but she is head and shoulders better than that group.
bttt
Just out of idle curiousity, which is she missing?
It’s that woman against woman thang. It’s for real and it’s not attractive.
I suppose you would feel better if she spent her life hanging out with Commies, terrorists, and drug dealers, and whose great accomplishments include working for Acorn and defeating the Born-Alive Act.
I would add Haley Barbour to that group.
There are a number of republicans I could support and I definitely would prefer a governor to a DC insider.
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