Posted on 11/17/2010 2:27:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sarah Palin says she is seriously considering a run for the White House, and she believes she could beat President Obama in 2012, the former Alaska governor told ABC News' Barbara Walters. "I'm looking at the lay of the land now, and ... trying to figure that out, if it's a good thing for the country, for the discourse, for my family, if it's a good thing," Palin said in an interview scheduled to air in full Dec. 9 on ABC as part of Walters' "10 Most Fascinating People" of 2010.
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I meant for that to include 1964, everybody voted Democrat in 1964, even the Protestants.
In 1960 the female vote went Republican while the male vote went Democrat.
From the 19th Amendment until 1964, the female vote was usually, or at least often more Republican than the male vote. Since 1964 the white female vote has almost always remained Republican, it has been more Republican than the white Catholic vote.
I’m Talking all women as a Whole.
I think you meant Democrat?
“She would need to take speech/voice lessons if she runs. I interact with alot of non-political “independent” voters, mostly women. Not leftwing nuts. They don’t hear a word Sarah Palin says because they can’t stand her voice and folksy speech patterns which they mistake for a lack of intelligence. Tina Fey’s impressions have spoiled the well with that group of voters.”
This is why the classical art of Rhetoric is so important. It is said that Demosthenes used to go to the beach and speak with pebbles in his mouth to force him to clearly enunciate his words. That may be too extreme.
But the McGuffey Reader used to be the standard educational text for all Americans and the higher levels included pages and pages of elocution passages.
I think Palin is pretty much unelectable in the general and that the Republicans need to nominate a CONSERVATIVE who has no baggage nor will create any during the campaign and can destroy Obama in a debate. I don’t think that is Palin and I also don’t think it is Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Gingrich, or pretty much anyone who is speculated at this point to run.
Hopefully someone with conservative credentials and electability will step up and run. Palin is a suicide mission and I don’t trust any of the other rumored candidates at all.
In what way, specifically?? We have a "different voting populace" in EVERY election. I see no significant difference that will specifically hurt Palin, and several (and especially the Tea Party) that will help her.
That’s a very misleading statement. Bristol is not “pushing condoms” on that video, she’s “pushing” abstinence. “The Situation” is pushing condoms.
It’s rather odd that they had the same name, but in reverse.
Awwwwwwwwwww. Cute!
She will destroy ALL others in the debates... wait and see... this election... the debates will be the deciding factor. The party elite days are over and done with.
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Millions and millions of democrat leaning immigrants have been naturalized. Just look at cali new york and many other states that dems have a lock on.
Sarah is my first choice. But it will be more difficult than 1980.
True. Remember when that one candidate yukked it up on Arsenio Hall and blew his own horn? He was doomed to fail too because presidents just don’t do that kind of thing. /s
True. Remember when that one candidate yukked it up on Arsenio Hall and blew his own horn? He was doomed to fail too because presidents just don’t do that kind of thing. /s
Your post #35 was excellent.
I wish someone would articulate what those similarities are, in a way that went beyond “They are both patriots.”
They are not similar in so many ways, that is scary to see her heralded as the “second coming.”
I’m sure that out of six hours of tape, someone could put together a short outtake that makes Katie Couric look like an idiot.
No doubt but that’s not the point.
The point is, the entire media with lone exceptions of Fox, talk radio and a newspaper or two will focus like a laser on anything that makes her look bad like that tremendously edited Couric interview did. And the drumbeat will be unending from the time she announces until the time she wins or loses.
I’m not saying it’s fair. I am not saying not to nominate her because of it either. I am ALL FOR letting the primary process do it’s job. I am only saying that I don’t think she can actually win.
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