Posted on 07/02/2010 5:38:37 AM PDT by Canedawg
JUNEAU, Alaska -- Sarah Palin isn't going to fade away.
Someone else in her position might have. Two years after the vice presidential nomination made her a star, the 2008 campaign is fading in memory. She's not even Alaska's governor anymore; she abruptly resigned that post a year ago. But she's evolved into an enduring political personality writ large -- and now the talk, growing louder, is of her own run for the White House in 2012.
She's still a phenomenon. She can command weeks of headlines for a single Facebook observation -- see health care "death panels" -- and six-figure speaking fees from groups clamoring for her words.
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Interesting...
That's better than 0bozo’s Approve/Disapprove numbers.
Rasmussen:
"Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove."
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
So how come the Associalistic Press thinks she can't win because she is "too polarizing"? No human is more polarizing than the Kenyan Marxist.
But that's after the presidential election. Palin's stats are before one. Don't get me wrong. I would vote for her unhesitatingly.
If Sarah intends to run for president, she will announce sometime next year.
So will all of the other men and/or women who intend to run.
The bigger question....will Hillary challenge Barry on the dim side? That the “pass the popcorn question.”
She won’t run. She gives up everything if she does. It’d be the end of her pundit career.
I don’t disagree with your hypothesis; Sarah is doing well right where she is now. The emotional burden on her if she ran would be immense, and it’s not as though one person is going to be able to undo the damage all by herself.
((((PING))))
I say she runs—and I don’t see how even if she ran and lost that would spoil her pundit potential.
Much of her power comes from her being expected to run. It is the day she decides not to run that her power would be diminished. Jeesh!
Sarah’s nature is to hold the pedal to the metal. She is not consumed by fears of this or that. As she said once, “if I die, I die”, and also something like “if a door opens, why not walk through it?”. She is her own entourage.
“Let me tell you how it’s gonna be...”
“She is currently the single most powerful political person in the country,” [Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein] said. “The day she announces for president, she gives that up.”
Let’s take Mr. Chairman’s assertions one a time.
A. Probably. She’s certainly on the short list.
B. In the immortal words of Ira Gershwin, it ain’t necessarily so.
bttt
Exactly right. (But I think AP is trying to convince her otherwise).
“She is currently the single most powerful political person in the country,” he said. “The day she announces for president, she gives that up.”
That’s what they want you to think.
That’s a good point.
“She is currently the single most powerful political person in the country,” [Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein] said. “The day she announces for president, she gives that up.”
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How totally wrong this guy is. WHEN she announces her candidacy, she will have the media’s total attention. They will fall on her every word. She will coalesce the Republican Party, conservatives, moderates, and Reagan democrats as no one else could. The media will stay focused on her until they believe they have destroyed her. They won’t succeed but will keep trying.
Obama will not have achieved all of the “transformation” he wants in one term and will run again. Running is what he is good at, governing is not. Any effort by Hillary to wrest the nomination away from him would destroy the Dem coalition and ensure their defeat in 2012. The only way that Hillary runs is if Obama decides that he can’t win again and doesn’t run. She could promise to appoint him to the Supreme Court where he could finish out his dream for Amerika.
So a 2012 match-up between Obama and Palin is likely and in 2012 Obama will have full ownership of his economy and foreign policy.
Ian Lazaran over at C4P has done a great job of deconstructing this statement. He points out that this was the same poll (Selzer Poll) that had Branstad up by 28 points over Vander Plaats when his actual margin was only 10. Bottom line: this usually-accurate state poll badly oversampled moderates which favors Romney and to some extent Gingrich.
The author of this AP article, of course, fails to point this out. Hard to imagine Palin trails Romney in favorability in Iowa when she leads him (and the other wannabes) nationwide among Republicans. If Huckabee doesn't run and Palin does, she should win Iowa easily.
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