the media is obssessed with going around every republican to get them on record to attack Palin. Most republicans are cowards. They either say no comment or go along with the attack
I tell what is really frustrating the GOP establishment is not so much what Palin is doing but that Mitt Romney cannot gain separation on Palin in the polls and that many good candidates are refusing to run in 2012. Here is a rundown of those who have already said they are not running:
1) Michael Bloomberg
2) Mike Pence (running for Governor of Indiana)
3) Jeb Bush
4) Mitch Daniels
5) Scott Brown
6) Chris Christie on many occasions
7) Jim Demint
8) Bobby Jindal
9) General Petraeus
10)Paul Ryan
“many good candidates are refusing to run in 2012. Here is a rundown of those who have already said they are not running:
1) Michael Bloomberg
2) Mike Pence (running for Governor of Indiana)
3) Jeb Bush
4) Mitch Daniels
5) Scott Brown
6) Chris Christie on many occasions
7) Jim Demint
8) Bobby Jindal
9) General Petraeus
10)Paul Ryan”
Sorry, but this is by and large not a list of “good” candidates for 2012. For example, why in the world would you be disappointed that Michael Bloomberg is not running? This guy has nothing whatsoever to do with conservatism. Ditto Scott Brown. He was good for a GOP senator from Mass, but all in all he’s a RINO.
Congressmen are never great presidential candidates, so I’m not really too disappointed that Pence and Ryan aren’t running, they’re fine right where they are.
Mitch Daniels recently mentioned that we should consider a national VAT tax. Unless he was talking about doing away totally with the income tax, which I don’t think he was, that statement disqualifies him in my book.
Jeb Bush-too much baggage on immigration, and I’d rather not have another Bush in there at this point, so no big loss not having him run.
General Petraeus-don’t know enough about his domestic politics to give an opinion.
That leaves Jim Demint and Bobby Jindal. These are the only 2 on this list that I would really be excited about if they ran for POTUS.