Posted on 02/07/2010 9:54:20 AM PST by Steelfish
February 07, 2010 Palin 'Would Be Willing' to Take On Obama in 2012
By Judson Berger - FOXNews.com Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she "would be willing" to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race. Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she "would be willing" to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.
The former Alaska governor, in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, said President Obama's "lack of experience" has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.
"I would be willing to if I believe that it's right for the country," Palin said when asked if she would run for president in 2012. She qualified the statement, adding that she sees "many" other potential candidates who are "in as strong or stronger position than I am to take on the White House and if they're in a better position than I in three years, I'll support them."
But the former GOP vice presidential nominee told "Fox News Sunday": "I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future."
She delivered the keynote address Saturday at the tea party convention, using it to hammer Obama as soft on terrorism. When convention organizer Judson Phillips mentioned the idea of "President Palin" in a question-and-answer session afterward, audience members leapt to their feet and burst into a chant of "Run, Sarah, Run."
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Woo hoo!!
GO SARAH!!
Not only has his lack of experience held him back, HE DOESN’t LEARN so it’s unlikely he’ll improve.
Is this your personal assessment, or did you copy and paste it from DU to get a laugh out of us today?
Reviewing his pulled posts I found him to be a foulmouthed racist/abortionist. T’was an easy zot.
I just now saw your post #21 and thought hmmmmm... funny having Jim show up just after the ZOT! Good goin’...
You forgot Duncan Hunter, Sr., Senator Jim Demint, Alan Keyes, and Michelle Bachmann.
Your arguments are just name calling............find a point and some self respect.
And just who were Hussein and BJ Klintoon before they were nominated?
The Quayled Lady: Why You Should Forget Sarah Palin
By Selwyn Duke
Really, there’s precious little fairness in the world. People tend to be slaves to emotion, and prejudices often reign supreme, even (in fact, especially) in those who rail against prejudice. This is why we’ll see millions of Americans reflexively dismiss a politician simply because of the letter following his name. It is why people will often oppose a position they would otherwise support simply because it’s being advocated by someone they dislike. Ah, that troublesome human nature.
This brings us to Sarah Palin, the Wasilla woman often billed as the best hope of the GOP. She certainly isn’t one of those plain vanilla characters who inspire blasé reactions, that’s for sure. It’s just so often the case that people either love her or hate her, believe she is the cat’s meow or the pig with lipstick, a political sensation or a puerile simpleton. I’m in neither camp.
Scrape away the emotionalism, and one realizes that Palin isn’t at either extreme. Underestimated by the left and overestimated by the right, the truth about her lies somewhere in between. Where, exactly? That is secondary, because there is a more important point here relating to Palin’s political future.
She doesn’t have one.
I know this will raise the hackles of many, but you can forget Sarah Palin. I say this not because of her defects in ideology or lack of competency, but for a very simple reason: She has been Quayled.
Many of you know that I’m referring to what ensued after former Vice President Dan Quayle gave a public appearance at a school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey in 1992. His problems started because he’d been given a cue card with “potatoe” written on it, and, doubting the spelling but trusting the school materials, corrected a student who had spelled the word properly. The media seized upon this, pounding home the narrative that the vice president was a mental vegetable who couldn’t even spell his own kind. And it was easy to make the image stick, too. Quayle was blonde, attractive, and relatively young, so he fit the Ken-doll stereotype. It wasn’t fair, of course, but the public generally sees only the picture the media paints of you.
So being Quayled is a version of being “Borked”; the difference is that the media doesn’t paint you as a menace, but a moron. And while Quayle is an intelligent man — he shredded Al Gore in their 1992 debate — he never could live down the label.
Sarah Palin has suffered the same fate. Like Quayle, she is attractive and relatively young, so she can easily be and has been painted as a Barbie doll. Because of this, unlike Hillary Clinton, Palin actually had to be the smartest woman in the world (or at least in contemporary politics), but she did nothing to help her cause in this regard. By her own admission, the now infamous Katie Couric interview was a crash-and-burn affair. Moreover, if even ten percent of what has been alleged about her wanting knowledge base is true, we have to wonder if she was busy going rogue when she should have been paying attention in the classroom. And what of her shocking resignation from the Alaska governorship, one of the oddest political happenings in memory? Oh, that was just Sarah Barracuda being a maverick? Good luck selling that one.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_quayled_lady_why_you_shoul.html
President Palin! I love it!
President Obama is the epitome of the lack of experience. He couldnt even finish a first term in the senate. AND - in terms of business acumen (big word for those trying to troll here...), he has zero experience in running anything, and his advisers are even worse. What he does do is bully ... and Americans have now seen through this. Sarah Palin is articulate, and in touch - and real - all the things Mr Obama could never be. If it’s her - she will win big. And that is why the left is filled with hate toward her. Funny thing - I thought they loved diversity?
It is way too early to rule it out or in.
That “Troll B Gone” stuff certainly works fast. ;)
You have someone better in mind? I’d vote for Palin. In a heartbeat.
Too late, he's gone. Taken out by numero uno...
Can you imagine the debate, Obama-failure with TelePrompTers at a debate with Sarah without them?
haha
Sarah can kick O’s rear end all over the place
Thanks, Jim.
Is this Obama’s screen name?
Lets make the libs heads explode. I say Palin/Bachman 2012!
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