“As best as I can tell, Sarah Palin shares my views too.
So do my mechanic, a couple of my next door neighbors, and the lady who does my wife’s hair.
That does not mean I see them all as potential Presidents.”
But they ARE potential VOTERS, aren’t they? You wouldn’t be expecting them to actually RUN for anything, now would you?
Take into consideration that at least half of Independents are former GOP conservatives who balked at always having to hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils, opting instead to vote their values, of which mcshame had hardly any. They stayed home in droves.
During the last election, my heart was breaking for what I saw as two peas from the same pod stiffing us without any degree of shame or conscience. Then along came Sarah and lit up the sky like a burst of sunshine.
NOT what mcshame expected. Not what he planned for when he deliberately chose her because he thought he had a sure loser, an unknown, untried, lady with no national name recognition.
He got his head handed to him and the scare of his life when she made it seem possible he could actually win. So what did they do? He allowed his own campaign to trash her. They smothered her. They slimed her. They are sliming her still.
How much do you respect mccain? Me, NONE.
And what did SHE do?
Well, Sarah is still standing. Sarah is stronger now than she was then. Sarah is outdistancing every other wannabe runner on the scene. I voted for her once already, and I will proudly do so again.
And so will the Independents the GOP drove out.
wow.
I triage politicians into those whom I loathe (Obama, Specter, Murtha), those for whom I have a deep distrust that doesn't quite reach the level of loathing (McCain, Lieberman, Huckabee), and those who I'm willing to tolerate (DeMint, Palin, Steve King).
The phrase "burst of sunshine" will never appear along with "candidate for political office" in any sentence that I write.