I know nobody want’s to hear it, but Sarah Palin is dead. the media, if they haven’t done so already, will make sure she is done and the fork is stuck in her by 2010 so she can’t even get re-elected.
The big things the Republicans have against them is the media. They are going to make sure Barack Obama is the most respected, most beloved and most popular president ever. All his mistakes will be covered up. Any national or international catastrophess will be blamed on Bush and Obama will be portrayed as the man who left with unfortunate task of cleaning up after Bush, but the mess is so big that no one can clean it up. The people will be told he is doing so great dispite the huge mess Bush left for him. Barack Obama will be loved by the American people no matter how poorly he does becuase that’s the way the media wants it.
The rest of the Republican field is dismal as well. As I said, Palin is severely damaged goods, Bobby Jindal has little experience and not much of a known persona and Mark Sanford isn’t well known either. I suspect either Romeny or Huckabee will be nominated in 2012 becuase they will be the name everyone recognizes, but the are hardly solid conservatives. Plus the media will portray them as Bush rehashes and the public will rapidly turn their backs on them. Then they’ll go down in defeat in at least a 40 state landslide as the much beloved and respected Barack Obama is re-elected handiliy.
Basically, I am saying is conservatisim is dead in Ameican politics. The Bush and McCain Repubilcans destroyed the party. Then when McCain, back in the Senate, helps pass amnisty for all illegal immigrants they will have paved the way for a permanent Democratic majority in the White House and in the congress as those 20,000,000 lowlifes will now all register Democrat and vote Democrat everytime out. No way in hell for the Republicans to ovewr come that many votes.
“I know nobody want’s to hear it, but Sarah Palin is dead. the media, if they haven’t done so already, will make sure she is done and the fork is stuck in her by 2010 so she can’t even get re-elected.”
Ridiculous her ratings in Alaska and in the republican party are astronomical, see post 102.
George W. Bush somehow managed to get re-elected in 2004 with less than 50% approval ratings and a media that loathed him. I don't think the media can kill a candidate. A candidate dies when they choose to die. Dan Quayle, for example, had enough of politics after he and Bush 41 lost in 1992. He formed a multi-billion dollar private equity firm and is now happy being a billionaire. As the article headline says, "They're Not Telling Quayle Jokes at Cerberus".
I wouldn't underestimate the Barracuda. If she decides to run, she'll run on her own terms with her own message, and she'll be a very formidable opponent. Everyone thought that Reagan was finished in 1976, and look what happened four short years later.
Thomas Sowell wrote about what Democrats thought about Reagan back in 1980 by citing Meg Greenfield in the Washington post:
It was the wisdom of the other contenders and of most Republican Party leaders, too, not to mention of practically everyone in Democratic politics, that Reagan was: too old, too extreme, too marginal and not nearly smart enough to win the nomination. The Democrats, in fact, when they weren’t chortling about him, were fervently hoping he would be the nominee. When he carried the convention in Detroit, people I knew in the Carter White House were ecstatic.
We've completely forgotten how vilified Reagan was by the MSM in his day, and keep in mind that back then they didn't have talk radio and fox news and the internet and the myriad of conservative groups that have sprung up since then. If the message is right and the messenger is honest, the MSM can not destroy a person. And no one should underestimate the power of the American public to forget. If Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich and Dick Morris were able to repair their images, Sarah Palin can certainly repair hers.
BTW, any one want to make a bet that the MSM will be talking about Palin constantly tomorrow as she campaigns in Georgia for Saxby Chambliss? They'll be all over her again because she's poised to draw huge crowds.
You could not be more wrong. Republicanism is on it's last legs, but Conservatism is doing just fine. It may have a new vehicle in an election or two, It may rise up to water the tree of liberty to continue, but continue it will.