Posted on 02/11/2010 7:39:54 AM PST by pillut48
"I want to speak up for the American people and say: No, we really do have some good common-sense solutions. I can be a messenger for that. Don't have to have a title to do it."
This is a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message that has worked in campaigns past. There are times when the American people are looking for something more: for an Eisenhower, who liberated Europe; an FDR or a Kennedy or a Bush, all unashamed aristocrats; or an Obama, with eloquence and brains.
But in the present mood of the country, Palin is by all odds a threat to the more uptight Republican aspirants such as Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty -- and potentially, to Obama as well.
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Palin/West 2012?
Wow. The would be AWESOME. How much experience does he have?
Never mind. He’s got Joe Biden beat any day, he could be VP!
A white woman and a black man on a ticket???? Cue the Sheriff Bart jokes. And the KKK.
I actually like the idea of Palin/West. Forgot to mention that. :)
She’s got my vote whenever she wants it.
I really believe that a lot of this freepers who trash Palin are paid workers or volunteers of the democrat party, Mitt Romney, or Mike Huckabee camps.
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