Posted on 02/04/2009 7:15:52 AM PST by Jbny
Two political figures dominated the final months of the 2008 presidential campaign. One was the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama. The other had been unknown to all but 670,000 Americans only a few minutes before she was first introduced by the Republican nominee, John McCain, at a rally in Ohio on the Friday before the Republican National Convention, only 66 days before the November election.
By the close of that first weekend, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska had become a national sensation. Two days after that, she delivered her debut address at the Republican National Convention as the party’s vice-presidential nominee—a dazzling stemwinder, it was all but universally acknowledged. McCain’s dramatic and unexpected bet appeared to have paid off in spades.
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Thanks.
You have every right to support anyone you want, for whatever reason. But the record on the issues will prevent Romney from ever being elected POTUS as a Republican.
If that were true, how did Obama just get elected by eight (8) full percentage points?
Sorry, your statement is contradicted by recent events, by a wide margin.
“If that were true, how did Obama just get elected by eight (8) full percentage points?”
Huh? I didn’t know Zero ran as a REPUBLICAN?
You want my personal take on that?
I'll give it to you anyway.
#1 - He's a person of "color" so he got the VAST majority of the color vote.
#2 - He's a DemoncRAT so he got the double and dead vote as well.
#3 - He hit the scene when the sitting Republican President's approval rating, for whatever reason, was in the toilet.
#4 - There were many that wanted to be a part of HISTORY and "help" elect the USA's first President of "color".
In a nutshell, he was in the right place at the right time. (for him, not for the country)
And you don’t think just maybe a CEO with expertise in ‘corporate turnarounds’ wouldn’t have possibly (Possibly) have been ‘in the right place at the right time’?
That tells me you just have a problem with Romney that has nothing to do with skill, or track record on ‘the’ issue, the economy, or the war on terror for that matter.
Moot point, we got McLame’s ‘Losing with Honor’ campaign, with President Obama as a direct result.
Not Romney. Not because of his experience and credentials - but because he wasn't a person of "color" and he wasn't a DemoncRAT.
I had no beef with Romney as the Republican candidate.
The only person I wanted over Romney was one that had less chance than Romney, Duncan Hunter.
And you're right, moot point.
Obama walked into what was, for him, the perfect storm and the winds from it carried him to the White House as the resident.
‘Obama walked into what was, for him, the perfect storm and the winds from it carried him to the White House as the resident. ‘
Same view here. I suspect when he leaves office and writes his book, we’ll learn he didn’t expect to win in 2008, either the nomination from the DNC or the general election.
Its the human version of what happens when the dog catches the car, at least so far.
Bump for later.
Glancing through the responses on this thread, it would appear that no one actually read the article. It is well worth reading all the way through.
Just as the elitist MBA and Ivy League culture on Wall Street contributed substantially to the present melt-down, this article also points out the same phenomenon in Washington, where we can expect similar results from those who sneer at the State University crowd and those who have only attended the School of Hard Knocks.
Fortunately, the next four years, and the last election, give Palin the time and the direction to learn the buzzwords of the elites, and also to help formulate a coherent Republican platform. If, that is, Steele can set aside the typically chauvinist inclinations of the male of the species to include her, and more women and men like her, in the development of a winning strategy.
It seems that neither party has ever understood the true equality between the sexes often found in working class and lower-middle American families. Without one another, they and their children cannot survive.
Palin resonates throughout ‘flyover country’, like few politicians before her.
I don’t know if she’ll be the nominee, or even enter the primaries for 2012. But she has reminded the Republican Party of where its greatest sucesses have always originated from.
And it isn’t found on the Blue Blood Rockefeller golf courses, folks.
Great post!
Well said. I think you're right on the money here, Albion.
The author here certainly lays out a challenge with which Palin --- and the Repubs --- will engage and triumph, or not engage and not triumph.
Also, an aside: Gotta love a guy who uses the word "contumely."
I wasn’t remembering posting on this article, and sure enough!
Will have a look later if I can - it’s Folk Society night, when we get to schmooze with leftists who make good music ;-).
Glancing through the responses on this thread, it would appear that no one actually read the article.
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Currently a chronic problem on many threads.
Any conservative who actually heard Sarah Palin answer reporters’ questions knew right away that she was the real deal. US Republican governors had great respect for her, too.
It was the Beltway-to-Boston elites who had never considered that Alaska had any reason to be represented in DC that turned against her.
In other words, the professional political class and their professional journalist sycophants.
Which, as a group, might be America's second most dangerous enemies...
did you mean to say it would prevent Romney from ever getting the GOP nomination to run for POTUS? It’s not real likely he’d run as a Dem.
Also, an aside: Gotta love a guy who uses the word “contumely.”
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I rarely have to use a dictionary. “Contumely” made me want to look it up.
The real meaning of Sarah Palin’s campaign was that she ‘delivered’ -she is many women on the right- and was treated like a fetus in a leftist bloody abortion.
A lot can happen in four years. We shall see how the new direction supposedly taken by the leadership in the RNC will steer things. Palin may not even want to run again, seeing the real nature Washington up close.
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