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Sarah Palin Says She Could Beat Obama
ABC News ^ | Nov. 17, 2010 | MARY BRUCE

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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To: The Pack Knight

Gallup has Palin’s favorables at 80%, Rasmussen at 82%, as far as Barbour, he made it clear that he sup[ports the unilateral surrender on social issues that Daniels calls a “truce”. I have noticed that a lot of the anti_Palin people are the weak on social issues “conservatives”, it sounds like you fall into that category.

November 12, 2010 Gallup-”Now that the 2010 midterms are over, the big question swirling around Palin is whether she will run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Given her high name recognition and broad popularity among Republicans, 80% of whom now view her favorably, she is clearly in a strong position to seek it.”

“GOP Primary Voters Like Palin Best, With Romney, Huckabee Close Behind
Friday, November 05, 2010 They’re the leading contenders for now for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, and, perhaps not surprisingly, they’re the best liked of 14 top party players among likely GOP primary voters.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of those voters finds that 82% have a favorable opinion of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008, while just 17% view her unfavorably. That includes 50% with a Very Favorable opinion and eight percent (8%) with a Very Unfavorable one.
Seventy-nine percent (79%) have favorable views of both Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, and ex-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Seventeen percent (17%) hold an unfavorable opinion of the two men who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.”


561 posted on 11/18/2010 11:03:01 AM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: bwerty

Sounds like a Romney dream come true for, conservatives take out the woman that can beat him, and is ahead of him, while fantasizing that something better will emerge, like a charismatic conservative on a white horse, that isn’t a woman.


562 posted on 11/18/2010 11:20:12 AM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: editor-surveyor
...in the areas where they are not ‘similar’ Palin holds the strong advantage.

That may be true, or it may just be a matter of perception or personal consideration. Not sure where I stand on that. I'd have to think on it.

I'm not sure that it even matters all that much. The Founding Fathers were distinctly different personalities, and had their own individual strengths and weaknesses, but we revere them all, because where it really counted, they were all of the same mind, temperament, and conviction.

I believe those things are what are most important between Palin and Reagan, as well.

563 posted on 11/18/2010 11:32:03 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ansel12; editor-surveyor

The sad thing is that if she goes up against Romney, Romney will likely win because we didn’t put up a better real conservative.

That’s what I want to avoid, but I’ll just come back to this thread in 2 years and one of us will say I told you so.

If Jim wants this to be a Palin forum he should change the domain name. Sometimes the groupthink here is almost as bad as the left.


564 posted on 11/18/2010 11:44:50 AM PST by Feline_AIDS (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: ansel12
Yeah, most of us scoff at Gingrich, he is something of a buffoon and he seems to be having difficulty finding a place to fit in, that Scozzafava thing was typical for the Newt of today, he is a figure that burned out years ago.

Shhhh..... don't tell that to Hannity. He still reveres Newt as an Olympian god of the Republican party.

565 posted on 11/18/2010 11:45:21 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
"ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Oct. 25-28, 2010. N=1,202 adults nationwide."

Shirley, you jest.

You cite a poll from the beating heart of the liberal MSM that polled "adults" (anyone who can fog a mirror), as proof that Sarah Palin is unelectable?

Heh....you're stretchin' there, Hank.

I'll bet you didn't dig into that "poll" to find out whether they contacted "adults" in both blue and red districts, now did'ya?

Seriously.....

566 posted on 11/18/2010 11:52:02 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Feline_AIDS

The good thing is that she appears to the one that can defeat the Romney machine, she is currently ahead of him among the primary voters.

Conservatives are ahead on this one.


567 posted on 11/18/2010 12:26:13 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: trisham

The ad speaks for itself. I don’t understand why she would want to be part of it.


568 posted on 11/18/2010 1:44:33 PM PST by ari-freedom (Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
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To: Feline_AIDS

Palin is the best.

Anything less than Palin is failure.

She has demonstrated her superiority to all that care to know, and those unaware will remain in the same ignorance that they have cherished for their entire lives.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t lead a slug anywhere. Best to just pour salt on them.

Do you prefer Morton, or sea salt?
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569 posted on 11/18/2010 1:54:11 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Windflier; ansel12

> “Shhhh..... don’t tell that to Hannity”

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Hannity is Rupert Murdoch’s Restroom Valet.


570 posted on 11/18/2010 1:58:12 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Windflier

> “That may be true, or it may just be a matter of perception or personal consideration.”

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Everything is a matter of perception or personal consideration.

On one hand there is the perception of those that share Sarah’s insights from the Holy Spirit, and on the other hand you have the eternally lost that think that they don’t need him.
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571 posted on 11/18/2010 2:03:15 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Windflier

> “That may be true, or it may just be a matter of perception or personal consideration.”

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Everything is a matter of perception or personal consideration.

On one hand there is the perception of those that share Sarah’s insights from the Holy Spirit, and on the other hand you have the eternally lost that think that they don’t need him.
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572 posted on 11/18/2010 2:03:17 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Americanexpat

None of these other kids were promoted and publicized by their parents. Sarah even wrote about Levi in her latest book. That’s only going to make things worse.


573 posted on 11/18/2010 2:05:13 PM PST by ari-freedom (Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
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To: ari-freedom; Americanexpat
None of these other kids were promoted and publicized by their parents.

What do you mean "promoted and publicized", and since when was Chelsea Clinton not recognized and acknowledged by her parents during their public lives.

574 posted on 11/18/2010 2:12:09 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: ari-freedom

If you weren’t such a bitter troll, you would see the value of an abstinence message. You really do need to talk to someone.


575 posted on 11/18/2010 2:49:10 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

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


Sorry, but no one is perfect. We have to stop looking for perfect and unite around a likable, capable person who agrees with the great majority of our core beliefs. Palin has two great advantages the others don’t have, even if they matched her on values, which they don’t. She has a political instinct that even surpasses Clinton and Reagan and she understands how to use the media like no one else I’ve seen. That’s a recipe for victory.


576 posted on 11/18/2010 2:56:10 PM PST by excopconservative
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
There just isn’t a lot of evidence of intellectual curiousity there.

In other words, you believe what the media (and the McCain handlers) have told you about her. Sorry, I listen to her speak and read what she has to say...and I come to the exact opposite conclusion. Sarah Palin has a better grasp of where we are as a nation and what we need to do than anybody else. Reagan would be proud...

But we can do so much better.

Like...who?

Please, let's not let the media pick our candidate again...

577 posted on 11/18/2010 3:39:49 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: JaneNC

Wisconsin , Michigan, and Pennsylvania might go red next time. Colorado seems to have turned blue, and probably will get bluer as the Californians flew the Mexican influx.


578 posted on 11/18/2010 5:19:34 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: okie01

No, Palin is not an intellectual. Neither was Calvin Coolidge, who could read Greek. Intellectuals think like Frenchmen.


579 posted on 11/18/2010 5:22:06 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Windflier

I don’t know about others. I’m supporting DeMint or Christie, both of whom can articulate their positions much more eloquently.

Hank


580 posted on 11/18/2010 5:43:38 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (Where's the diversity on MSNBC? Olbermann, Schultz, Matthews, Maddow.....all white males!)
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