Some people just do not realize that a lot of people who do not vote will come out and vote for her.
I would vote for her in a heartbeat.
The #2 book is Glenn Beck
Veyr true. Also what’s he doing calling her supporters Palinistas an d comparing to a bunch of communist thugs from Nicaragua. Very insulting, especially from a supposd conservative.
They key issue for 2012, the #1 issue above all else, that without which nothing else matters, is the following:
Barack Obama will raise well in excess of 1 Billion dollars for his reelection. Easily. If the GOP does not have a nominee who can raise at least 1 Billion or close to it, he will win again. You simply can’t contest a general election and be outspent by 500 million dollars and hope to have any chance at winning.
So, when considering 2012, you have to ask yourself, “can X raise 1 billion dollars? can x generate enough excitement and support and motivate enough people to give enough money?”
For comparison, McCain raised below 300 million. Bush, even with all his prodigious fundraising and record setting hauls raised around 350 million in 2004. Mitt Romney with all his connections and establishment support raised less than 60 million over the course of year. If you had up all three of them, Obama still outraised them by over 100 million.
Does anyone believe Mitt Romney will jump from 60 million in a year to 1 billion? Can anyone see Tim Pawlenty getting folks to give him 1 billion dollars? Mitch Daniels?
Now, I don’t know if I can see even Sarah doing that as it’s a very tall order, but she’s certainly demonstrated way more than any of those folks that she can get people excited, draw interest, generate enthusiasm.
25,000 to see her in some small town in NY for some made up parade? A record crowd on Long Island for an autism fundraiser? Runner’s World website having the most hits ever? 2 words that so unnerved the most powerful man in the world that he needed to call a natl tv address to Congress to rebut them? We’ll see what the book sales do but she could well be on track for records there, as well. And if it has good political substance and people like Rush, Beck, Hannity and Levin start plugging it and saying good things it will do extremely well.
She’s the only one I see out there with the potential to even come close.
But that is the issue. Can x raise a billion? All the rest is commentary for now.
Meanwhile, John McCain who endorsed cap and trader Mark Kirk and sent out his campaign mgr to the liberal Atlantic magazine to trash the woman who almost singlehandedly made him President, is out hosting fundraisers for Mitt Romney who is on record as proudly not being a Republican during the Reagan era and is nwe backing Meg Whitman for the job of most powerful GOP Governor in the country, a woman who endorsed and donated the max of $4000 to Barabara Boxer as recently as 2004. Great.
“Some people just do not realize that a lot of people who do not vote will come out and vote for her.”
Excellent point. I’ve had to drag myself to the polls. Palin is the first person who fired me up since Regan.