The GOP's Sarah Palin problem

Wash Post ^ | 11/5/10 | Michael Gerson

[loboinok]

Damn... I’m old but not that old! ;)

[microgood]

First of all, this is a moronic statement. Barack Obama is the President Of the United States. This means that everyone on earth is qualified to be President Of The United States.

No, what that means is anyone can become the President, not that everyone is qualified.

Secondly, people at FR were talking about Palin as potential Presidential material long before McCain chose her as his running mate.

That is true in small circles, but not remotely like after John McCain nominated her.

When you're wrong, you're totally wrong. Wanna make it 3 for 3?

This is like shooting Ducks in a barrel.

[pissant]

Gotta hit the hay. IF I remember, I’ll respond to this one tomorrow.

G’night.

[eyedigress]

Pick a good one. Pick something real.

[microgood]

In WA State, we were force fed the “establishment candidate”. And he still lost. Again. Just like I figured he would.

And I am out $120 for that one. But since I am in Norm Dicks district I bucked up for Jaime Herrera and that payed off bigtime.

[truthfreedom]

These neocons attacked Christine after the Primary. Gerson is one of them.

Podhoretz, Frum, Gerson, Brooks, Kristol, Krauthammer, Perino, Rove

[TXnMA]

Thank you! I was going to post the entire article (I have it all ready on my clipboard to paste into the FREditor) -- and then give these NayPalin-sayers a link to find out "the name of the 'guy' who wrote it"... '-)

[ex-Texan]

I agree with what GWB said about Palin and McCain recently. Never been a McLaim or Rhino fan and never will be. I wish Palin well and hope she makes tons of money but the specter of her daughter on 'Dancing with the Stars' weirds me out. Enough is enough already!

'Nuff said by me on FR.

[SoConPubbie]

I agree with what GWB said about Palin and McCain recently. Never been a McLaim or Rhino fan and never will be. I wish Palin well and hope she makes tons of money but the specter of her daughter on 'Dancing with the Stars' weirds me out. Enough is enough already!

And another vapid reason for not supporting someone who is a fighter and a true conservative.

[Chunga]

No, what that means is anyone can become the President, not that everyone is qualified.

List the qualifications for becoming POTUS.

That is true in small circles, but not remotely like after John McCain nominated her.

So what? It doesn't follow that she wouldn't be near or at the top of the list here for the GOP POTUS nomination in 2012 if she weren't McCain's running mate in 2008. Did you ever study Logic?

This is like shooting Ducks in a barrel.

You're either a horrible shot or you're firing blanks. LOL

[SoConPubbie]

You are the one who compared her to Lincoln. And unlike Sarah, he wrote this all by himself:

Nice head-fake and trying to change the direction of the conversation again.

Your original post was about Sarah not having the necessary experience.

You've as yet to admit you were wrong after I presented the factual comparison of the actual executive and representative experience of the two.

Yes Lincoln wrote a wonderful speech in the manner and style of prose of the day.

If you really had any knowledge of Palin's speeches, positions, etc., you would know she does a great job of presenting with passion, directness, and clarity of conservative though her positions in the manner and style of prose of this day and age.

Your dishonesty on ducking my response to your original post is telling.

[WilliamHouston]

I’m one of the many independent swing voters who handed this election to the Republicans. In 2008, I sat out the election and watched Juan McCain - the handpicked favorite of the GOP establishment - crash and burn in states like Indiana, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Here in Alabama, the Republicans won big in 2010. They won the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. They won 6 out of 7 House seats (all but the gerrymandered black district), reelected Richard Shelby to the Senate, and elected Robert Bentley Governor.

This huge, historic victory in Alabama was due in large part to ... drumroll ... taking a hardline against immigration. “Dangerous candidates” like Boozman in Arkansas, Scott in Florida, and Deal in Georgia won in the South.

The fact is, independent and conservative Democratic voters in the South despise these Beltway types like David Brooks, Karl Rove, and Michael Gerson. The GOP did better in this election cycle THAN EVER BEFORE (and in the Midwest too) because of the perception, wholly attributable to the Tea Party, that these Washington insiders were finally losing power to independently organized grassroots conservatives.

That is the ONLY REASON the GOP has been given a second chance. If the Republicans we just sent to Washington govern in a “bi-partisan manner” on immigration like McCain-Kennedy and follow the sage advice of the likes of Frum on CNN or Gerson in the Washington Post, they can get used to being the minority party again.

[biff]

Ditto.

It just chaps my a$$ that the RINO’s in charge are attacking Sarah and MB in Minnesota. These two gals were two of the few that carried the water for the republicans for the last two years. Neither one would back down in order to be politically correct, nor timid, never compromised their morals and never gave up no matter what the media threw at them. God bless these two.

As far as the Republican party goes and our house majority, they are on probation as far as I am concerned. Another “cleansing movement” may be required in 12.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Whatever you do, Conservatives, don't vote for that there Sarah Palin!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Check out Chet99’s account.

[Brices Crossroads]

This guy Gerson is detestable. Did Bush’s administration have any conservatives in it. NO MORE BUSHES. NEVER!!!!!!!

[iopscusa]

Pls just stop w/ the stupid advice crap...when the WaPo merges with the HuffPo let me know otherwise STFU!

[Diogenesis]

The Romney-Gay-Islamic-Misogyny-Wing of the GOP attacks.

Mitt Romney: "I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[traditional1]

Here we go with the PDS’ers bullshit, again.

[RoadTest]

“I think many of her supporters think she’s done that already. And walked on water the entire way.”

I wonder if Jesus appreciates your dig? I don’t, and I want to remind people like you that Governor Palin cleaned the corruption out of state government and got the oil companies to share profits with the PEOPLE - NOT THE GOVERNMENT - of Alaska.

How many politicians do you know who have accomplished good works? We see Gov. Christie (sp.?) of New Jersey doing that, or attempting to.