“I could care less if Palin is the nominee.”
Sounds like you care very much so.
“As for your “jack-in-the-box” comment, you should know better. Obama had zero funding in 2006;”
Obama certainly did have significant funding in 2006. The way how he disqualified his Republican senate candidate was headline news.
And how long was Obama a ‘senator’ before he totally abandoned it and ran for President? Not much more after a hundred days. Of course, he was running for President before he was ‘officially’ doing so. His speech at the DNC that year instantly made him a national star.
“and in previous election cycles, some of the best-funded, most organized people went nowhere (Phil Gramm, for ex.).”
But that is not a reply to my argument. I am saying you are summoning unicorns by claiming that a ‘mysterious candidate’ will magically appear when a run for the Presidency must begin two years in advance.
Now, a mysterious candidate might appear in winning Iowa. But they never go beyond that. It is one thing to win a primary. It is another to win most of them.
I think it is intellectually dishonest that you are spouting that a ‘mysterious candidate’ will arise when that isn’t possible. Everyone who has obtained the presidential nomination in modern history has been well known a couple years before they ran.
So I ask, “Why is LS not being intellectually honest?” I believe you are suffering from wishful thinking.
“And, no, not a lot of “drama queens” on FR predicted health care would pass: every day I saw a different thread that said that this or that obstacle would prevent it-—that the House would never go along with the Senate bill, that the “conservative” blue-dogs would never pass it in the Senate, blah, blah. But I’m flattered you managed to remember one of my columns.”
Have you never heard the term of ‘Eeyore’ before? Doom and gloomers are all around us and they are certainly around on FreeRepublic.
Your posting about health care would pass was not an intellectually spirited post but yet another doom and gloom post. The problem with doom and gloom thinkers is that they never become leaders. Leaders must inspire and raise people up.
This is why you are stuck here, playing the role of cultural janitor through your books, and talking to me, while a little fishing woman from Alaska is very possibly going to be the 45th President of the United States.
“Let’s talk again after the 2012 primaries are over. (I will actually be surprised if Palin even runs, let alone wins).”
I knew she was going to run as soon as I saw her first interview (after the 2008 election) with Glenn Beck back in January (or February) of 2009.
Running for president takes a very special personality and energetic attitude. I saw it up close with Bush. I very much see it today with Palin. In order for someone like Palin to run for president, she would have to ditch Alaska, move to the mainland, constantly be on TV, constantly make the public rounds, and assert a opposing agenda to Obama. She is doing all of this.
If she wasn’t running, why would she be doing all this work? Why does President Obama treat her as a political nemesis?
Now, as I said, we'll see who the nominee is and you have my prediction. Apparently, I have yours.