Posted on 07/02/2010 6:07:54 PM PDT by pissant
Outside of Republicans, she’s not popular at all. According to our NBC/WSJ poll, just 29% view her favorably, compared with 43% who view her unfavorably (not far from George W. Bush’s 29%-50% score). In addition, the poll shows that 52% have problems with a candidate who has been endorsed by Palin, versus only 25% who are comfortable with that attribute. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Palin is more of a political celebrity than a political figure. ~First Read
This is true, but there is nothing here about Palin that we know now that we didn’t already know a year or a year and a half ago. Her unfavorables among non-Republicans have gone up steadily since the Republican convention in 2008, and outside of a dedicated core of admirers and a few critics no one is taking her political chances seriously. This is the same as it has been for a very long time. As Josh Green notes, it would normally be absurd to think that someone with a 14-point favorability deficit was a serious presidential contender, and there aren’t that many non-partisans who think that she is anything of the kind. The reality is that the more independents and Democrats see of Palin, the less they like. In a country where these people make up at least 65% of the electorate, Palin is essentially unelectable in a general election. This isn’t a difficult call to make. The question to which we don’t know the answer yet is whether the GOP is so willfully blind to this reality and so bent on self-destruction in 2012 that the party nominates her anyway. For all of the reasons I have given before, I very much doubt that Republicans are this foolish. It is possible that the GOP will decide
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Daniel Larison??? Is this guy another Romney faggot?
She is unelectable at a national level. 40% is a tad bit short of a majority, no?
In a head-to-head of Palin v. Obama I think this puke would give it to Obama.
Maybe it's Larry Sinclair with a nom de plume.
“My guess is that Romney will be our next President.”
Romney cannot get past the GOP primary process. I actually think that Huckabee stands a better chance than Romney of getting the GOP nomination. However, I think Palin could beat either of them in a primary.
I’m trying to be logical and not biased (not actually possible), but of the three Palin, Romney, and Huckabee. I believe that Palin has the best chance of getting the nominatin, but I think that in a general election that Huckabee is more likely to win of the three.
Although, I think folks need to keep watching Jindal. He might be a very good pick.
In my post, I stated that Palin will choose not to run.
If that is the case, then Romney is more of a player than Huckabee.
Giulani could surface again, but the primary process front loaded with Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina he is taken out before he can get started.
With the economy going to be the major issue of 2012, then Romney can sell himself as understanding private sector job creation which will be the buzz words of 2012.
Regardless of what the push-polling tries to get people to do, Palin continues to gain in popularity.
Any normal woman in this country with children and/or grandchildren, are looking at the same question you presented: Is there going to be a USA for my progeny to inhabit; and will it be worth inhabiting?
Hardcore liberals make up only about 20% of the voting public. They mostly don't have any offspring about whom to be concerned. Their whole existence ends when their souless carcass gets barbequed and devoured by their multi-cultural neighbors.
None of the nutless RINOs seem to have a clue what is at stake, or they are hopelessly corrupt. Only the conservative women seem to have a clue, and have the courage to fight these communist bastards.
This is going to get very, very ugly, and the treasonous scumbags of both parties will not be forgiven or forgotten.
Sorry but RomneyCare is one of his Achilles heel.
Huck has a “Willie Horton” problem.
“With the economy going to be the major issue of 2012, then Romney can sell himself as understanding private sector job creation which will be the buzz words of 2012.”
Romney can never overcome the very strong evangelical base of the GOP. He can’t win the primary. Unless Palin runs, or some dark horse comes up, Huckabee will be the GOP nominee. I know he isn’t liked here on FR, but freepers are minority and too heavily weighted with libertarians that. Most conservative Southerners are not going to vote for Romney...for many reasons.
The Rino Relic slept with Feingold on campaign reform who has the most liberal voting record in the Senate and slept with Teddy Kennedy as well as Baby Bush on Amnesty and he still won the nomination.
RomneyCare seems like small potatoes compared to Juan’s record.
You may start with her education
It didn't matter for Obama, because he is a commie Democrat.
If Jindal gets nominated, you'll see a 100% demand from Democrats for him to step aside because he is not a Natural Born Citizen. And all their homework has already been done.
I give a SH*T about McCain.
My tagline says it all.
If Conservative Southerners determined the nominee then the RINO RELIC McCain would have NEVER gotten the nomination.
Iowa and New Hampshire set the stage and South Carolina is not really a conservative state, as long Goober Graham keeps getting elected.
Bump. Good thinking.
Sarah has a Bachelor's degree in some kind of journalism.
What sort of education do you think a presidential candidate should have? Some fluffy sociology stuff from an Ivy League college? Perhaps an MBA from an Ivy League college? Some Political Science fluff from an Ivy League college?
Before you answer, you might want to consider the damage that has been done to our economy, our financial markets, our political system, our culture, etc., that is all a direct result of Ivy League Retards and their brainless, myopic, tunnel-vision schemes, from Ivy League commie Democrats AND from Ivy League commie RINOs.
Arrogant retards, every single one.
I don’t give a SH*T about McCain.
Romney and Huckabee are both losers who share the same middle name of Samsonite. If not Palin, then Governor Cristie and from what I’ve recently read, he’s less than stellar on immigration, so God help us unless he gets a quick education and conversion.
Be honest. Have you EVER heard Romney cogently explain how to create private sector jobs? I dare you to provide examples of him explaining how he specifically would do it from the dates of Nov. 2007 to the present. And then add up the jobs he eliminated/sent overseas and subtract this number from the jobs he “created” buying companies and cutting payrolls and report to us the answer. Romney is probably the worst candidate in a couple of generations. He’s the 2nd generation of 4 generations of trust fund Americans(nothing against that but he’s never faced any economic hardships, he’s never really had to work for a living,by the sweat of his brow, probably never changed a flat tire or had callouses on his hands). Has he changed his mind about not agreeing with the Reagan economic policies of the ‘80’s and the value of tax cuts in spurring economic growth/job creation during Reagan era? I will spend tens of thousands to defeat him for what he has done to Sarah Palin and for him allowing/standing by as the establishment GOP beta-males/girls have attacked /denigrated her from Sept. 1, 2008 to the present.
Consider this aspect. If she'd stayed in Alaska, she'd have been a bankrupt, defeated, scandal-ridden has-been.
How many other unsuccessful VP candidates have within 2 years of their loss written a New York Slimes bestseller (to standing-room only crowds on a nationwide book tour) and had their endorsement eagerly sought out by candidates nationwide?
Cheers!
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