Posted on 07/03/2009 6:40:30 PM PDT by taildragger
Like many here, I am a political prognosticator. I followed Sarah Palin here for almost 2 years and told friends last May if McCain only chance is to pick Palin. So what does Sarah Palin's latest move mean?
I think she has a high dollar contract as a commentator. It would allow her to present herself to the American people without the Drive-By media filter and put some money in the bank. Both increasing her viablility as a national politition.
If she goes third party, my estimation of her political skills will drop tremendiously. Third party is for making a point, not for winning. I have her pegged as a winner.
Let's talk reality for a second. Although I sympathize and support your goals, let's look at history.
1) No independent party has won the White House in a century.
2) How long are you willing to be out of power to make an independent party viable? In 1994, the PCs were defeated in Canada. They have returned to power 12 years later as a minority party. The question to ask is: How much pain are you willing to endure for how long?
The ultimate up yours to the blue-hair country clubbers in the North East!
He He, Romney is not amused....
Don’t form a new party. Run as an Independent.
But Republicans across the board were excited about Sarah Palin. Once McCain picked her, they shot up 5 points ahead of 0bama. There was real excitement for the McCain-Palin ticket, and it was all because of Sarah...
and then she started to speak in public. She did interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. She spilled her family dramas all over the press.
People lost their excitement over her and McCain settled back down to where he had been before he picked her.
Sarah had potential to carry the GOP to victory, but she didn’t live up. She had a great launch, but then she blew up in the atmosphere from due to mechanical failure.
She still has some very vocal supporters in some quarters of the social/religious conservative movement, by by and large most voters view her as not a serious individual.
Do not despair, more are waking up every day.
We need leadership and voice. Americans, real Americans still live.
pardon me, Bennett feels Sarah is not the future of the Party, I disagree with him and IMHO he has been drifting leftward for a while, I call them as I see them.
you’re so full of crap your stink comes through thr internet!
Maybe so.
But the theory that Sarah Palin could be competitive on a national stage was busted in November.
In the end, she didn’t help the ticket get even close.
McCain lost the election. Without Palin, far fewer republicans and conservatives would have voted. She helped the ticket !!
Never happen, too many Liberals in the State. Was a different story when Hickle was Governor and Alaska is not the same place it use to be.
Without her, his contribution goals are history.
She without a doubt has the RNC on their knee’s now.
To think some even on here today have called her naive at best.
>>>> Losing by 10 million votes, 7+ points, and more electoral votes than they carried proves you were wrong about her being McCain’s best shot. <<<<
As one who is *not* a Palin cheerleader, I’m really surprised by your completely illogical comment.
That McCain lost by those numbers “proves” absolutely nothing about Palin.
Indeed and quite the opposite, it’s fairly common knowledge that Palin greatly improved McCain’s standing in the election.
Win one...
How many Gop-er friends do you have that have given up contributing and give them a verbal rash when they call...
I am sure you know some.
Who is your candidate?
counterpunch is a good FReeper, he’s not a troll, but he’s just wrong on the Palin threads.
There's a certain logic to what you're saying, but it won't hold true in 2012.
1. 2008 was in large part about President Bush, and in lesser parts about Iraq, the economy, and the sense that the country was heading in the wrong direction.
2. Obama was an unknown quantity, and actually used his mysterious status to great advantage. Hope and change meant whatever the voter wanted it to mean.
3. McCain is unpopular with Republicans and would have been decimated if not for Palin. While they ultimately got less votes, her late arrival to his campaign still helped him avoid a total rout.
4. The novelty factor. Lots of people voted with their American Idol instincts.
2012 will be vastly different. Obama is wearing the 'President Bush' hat now. You can't be the Hope and Change candidate when you're the Man. You can't be the mysterious intellectual outsider-to-the-rescue when everyone watched you run the country into the poorhouse for the last 4 years. Obama's no longer a novelty, either. He'll be hip, and cool, and beloved. Just not respected as a leader.
In short, a lot of the pillars of Obama's strength will be weakened or destroyed by 2012, whereas Palin's will not.
I hope she takes the time to kick a few asses around in the GOP first.
That’s right.
If Sarah Palin couldn’t beat 0bama in 2008 as a Republican, how could she beat him in 2012 while splitting the vote with a Republican?
There just aren’t enough votes out there for her to make up the difference. There aren’t even enough Palin supporters out there to outnumber 0bama supporters at the polls.
The idea is a non-starter. Instead, the GOP needs to field a strong candidate and get a unified message. All the intra-party divisions Sarah Palin and her supporters are creating only helps 0bama win reelection.
I’m not even sure Palin is really on our side. I think she is here to sabotage the GOP, create division, and help 0bama win. Her 2008 implosion was very convenient for 0bama, don’t you think? Interesting that she went to college in Hawaii, too... she must have met 0bama there and hatched a nefarious plot to make him Dictator for life. All if going according to plan. They now enter Phase II...
Many, in fact most.
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