Audio: Palin hinting at 3rd-party run?

Hot Air ^ | 12/8/09 | Ed Morrissey

[Bob J]

“IMO it is rather stupid to chose a candidate based on so called electability.”

Yes, we wouldn’t want to vote for someone electable because then we couldn’t whine on the rubble when we lose.

[ansel12]

Perot was no conservative.

[Eagle Eye]

And Dole was?

[Eagle Eye]

Is your life really all about extremes with no common sense?

Look what the GOP and their/YOUR electability doctrine got us in the last 50 years.

Reagan didn’t start out electable but showed himself to be the superior candidate anyway. He was an actor and divorced, not what people thought the President should be.

Way too often the false issue of electability eliminates solid candidates because the GOP doesn’t have the balls to get behind a doctrinally sound candidate in favor of a populist.

Name the great GOP presidents since WWII?

How many candidates were electable vs doctrinally solid?

[ansel12]

Dole did not want to go door to door confiscating guns, and his family has not won awards for their Planned Parenthood membership and fund raising.

[ansel12]

Reagan didn’t start out electable but showed himself to be the superior candidate anyway. He was an actor and divorced, not what people thought the President should be.

When was the two term California Governor Reagan, that almost defeated a sitting President for the GOP nomination in 1976 not electable?

[FrankR]

"Perot attracted some votes from those who did not like the GOP candidate. And your problem with that is what? "

The first part of your sentenced answered the question you asked in the 2nd part...

The Perot/third party syndrome has been documented over and over and over again. And actually, his campaign was pretty good judging from the number of votes he got...but you were probably in high school and didn't pay much attention. The problem is....clinton won. And the problem if this is repeated is, obama will win.

Insofar has me being a "GOP Firster" (WTFTI), it's about winning and joining with enough people who are anti-progressive to get the job done. This not the high school Beta Club elections, it's to determine the future of America.

Now, as I explained - but I guess your GOP hatred causing tunnel-vision missed it...Sarah Palin is MY pick, but if she goes third party and the GOP doesn't totally collapse, OBAMA WILL WIN. Remember, you heard it here first.

I'm disappointed that your hatred for the GOP trumps your love for America.

[Eagle Eye]

I'm disappointed that your hatred for the GOP trumps your love for America.

Help me out...is that a false dichotomy or a non sequitor?

Or just a plan load of horsecrap?

I won't again recount how the GOP made the historically moronic move by nominating McCain. The GOP brought us Obama. Almost as if it was intentional.

So pardon me if I don't have any enthusiasm left for them.

[FrankR]

"So pardon me if I don't have any enthusiasm left for them.

How about obama...got any enthusiasm for him?

I agree that McCain't was/is a loser and seemingly did everything he could to throw it the kenyan.

I will put it to you this way...if the GOP lets the left cross-vote and pick OUR nominee again, and the GOP poll numbers are sucky enough, I would probably go with 3rd party, so long as that 3rd party has a powerhouse like Palin or Cheney as their candidate.

How is that for a comprimise?

I'm not a GOP "firster", but I'm an "oust obama firster". But

[Eagle Eye]

How moronic is it to have open primaries? What is the point?

Want a solid Conservative? Check our Chuck Baldwin. I used to know him. One of the finest men I’ve ever met.

Totally unelectable because he is too principled for the vast majority of people and because too many people would be embarrassed to be associated with someone as Conservative and Patriotic as he is.

And that is a shame.

I don’t really give a hoot if someone is GOP first or not but I won’t hesitate to point it out and have no obligation to respect that position.

For me, two equally attractive candidates, one GOP and one Third Party I won’t vote GOP.

[w. Seymour]

Sarah going third party would be the end of her political career. She won’t do that. Sarah is a team player.

[w. Seymour]

He was a heck of a lot more conservative than Perot. Of course that wasn’t good enough for the 100 percenters and the Buchanan Brigades.

[w. Seymour]

Chuckie Baldwin? Please. The guy is an anti-American joke.

[Dan Cooper]

It's pretty obvious in Going Rogue that SP hates the GOP establishment, but I see this as more of a threat to get its act together.

You must not have read the book, because that does not come through at all. She beat a corrupt GOP incumbent for the Governors seat in Alaska ( and she doesn't say anything bad about him personally ) and decries politicians taking liberties in general, but she doesn't indicate any hate for the GOP establishment at all. She is very complimentary about John McCain and only indirectly critical of the political operatives that ran his campaign. She very solidly comes out for limited government, fiscal responsibility and individual rights, and associates these values with the GOP.

[Eagle Eye]

You are a pantload and not fit to carry his laundry.

Let’s see....he’s an advid Constitutionalist and ardently pro 2A and definitively pro life.

And you’re an FR newbie who wouldn’t recognize Dr. Baldwin in a crowd of two.

[hennie pennie]

Aw com'on, Bob --- you know you want to be a GOP-Firster, surely you've waited your entire adult life to finally find your TruE IdEntity. ROFL. LOL.

Is it a mere coincidence that 'S=A=R=A=H' spelled backwards is "harrass"? :)