Her negatives are too high. Unlike on Dancing With The Stars Palin supporters will not be allowed to vote more than once.
So were Reagan's.
I sure wish he had been elected.
Yeah, Reagan was unelectable too.
She could beat Barry, but she shouldn’t close her eyes when saying she believes she can.
Palin supporters will not be allowed to vote more than once.”
Whereas Democrat supporters are allowed to vote numerous times.
This match up would give us a completely unvetted candidate with a dismal record to run on versus the most vetted candidate in American history.
I agree about her negatives being too high. Would she be a better President than Obama - yes, by a factor of one million because she actually loves this country and has a record of executive experience. She has common sense and could well be smarter than Obama, as there is ZERO actual evidence of his purported “brilliance”.
I don’t think the Reagan analogy works in this day and age. Reagan was despised by the ultra-left but he had been a very successful 2 term governor of the biggest state in the country, active on the national scene for decades, and was an elder of his political party. Palin has nowhere near his body of accomplishment, plus the MSM has skewed even farther left and there are forces at work now (like all the Soros organizations) actively working to destroy the country and people like Palin. Look at how they abused that “ethics” process up in Alaska to harrass her. Look at how her e-mail was hacked. It’s a different era.
Will not the primary season take her out if she is such a flawed candidate?
I’m just asking, folks, and I am deadly serious.
If she can make the case for her vision of America, and she can rack up the victories early on, what does that say about her would be voters? Are they just Palinistas who are idol-struck and non-thinking?
Everyone seems to forget that the primary process isn’t just a couple of weeks of intense ad campaigns and then ZAP, off to the voting booth. There are going to be debates, dozens of them. Interviews with the various local medias will be held by all contenders. There will be local campaign headquarters and precincts all over the fruited plains filled with loyal volunteers doing all that they can to see that their candidate comes out on top in their respective states.
Palin will not be able to win by hiding out on Facebook, Twitter, Fox News, or any of the friendlier talk shows. She is going to have to move beyond her base and tackle those souls who don’t pay attention to politics to the same degree as those of us on Hot Air, Ace of Spades, Red State, and all the rest of the blogs. And if she were to WIN those voters, what speaks louder, the fact that she can capture such votes or that the rest of the GOP voters in that state were not sufficiently motivated enough to vote for anyone else?
The candidate Palin becomes after emerging from the primary process (assuming she enters and wins) won’t be the same Palin that everyone is talking about in this thread. She will be a battle hardened, well versed, b@lls-to-the-wall competitor who won’t be a wallflower in the fall campaign season.
Lest we all forget, it was about this time in 2006 when we all thought that the 2008 Presidential run was going to be a New York affair between Rudy and Hillary. My, that seemed like an ice age ago.
Clinton was tough, but she never got the anal exam that Palin got.
So before we all start dismissing that “Caribou Barbie” as being a) unintelligent, b) unqualified, and c) unelectable, remind yourselves as to what they were saying about Reagan back in 1978.
I should know. I was there to watch it all unfold, and they were far worse on him than even on Bush-43.
For my money, I will entertain no such talk about how Palin can’t win, so she must be stopped before she even decides to run. If we are going to correct the mistakes of the current administration, we don’t need a wimp, but a warrior who has already been baptized by the fire of unrelenting assault by just about everything in the universe.
Chris Christie has already declared that he isn’t running.
That only leaves Sarah Louise Palin. If she throws her hat in the ring and wins it all during the primary season, it will be through the sweat of her efforts, and the hard work of the people who will walk through fire on her behalf.
All (who calls themselves conservatives) that elects to sit at home or vote for Obama in November 2012 rather than pull the lever for Palin are, in my mind, misguided and short-sighted. The nation has already seen what happens when statists are given unchecked power at both ends of the Mall in D.C. To allow it to happen again is tantamount to abandoning the political battlefield so close to victory because you have issues with the person leading the charge.
It is not just a matter of Obama vs Palin, Left vs Right, Statist vs Conservative, but that of the US as fading light going the way of Europe, or the US as the bright beacon of light being the last, best chance of hope of Western Civilization in the new millennium.
If 2010 is considered to be the most crucial mid-term election in history, 2012 is going to be remembered as the most critical election in our lifetimes. For the sake of our progeny, I hope we all get it right, lest the future historians talk about this period of the world in Mandarin Chinese or some other tongue.
Palin is no goddess, nor perfect. But she is a patriot, deserving of the same chance to run for the highest office in the land if that is what she chooses. Let’s see what happens, and let history attend to itself.
Now, that’s a shame, since the DEMS allow voting in general elections more than once.
A not-even-one-term governor from a small population state, who had negative approval ratings there, and who was selected to the Veep spot by a loser candidate in a desparation move, is not an ideal candidate.
We must win in ‘12. We need to pick someone with lower negatives who people will feel secure voting for.
As much as I like Sarah personally, she is simply too risky to nominate against Zero. We will have many more “safer” true conservatives running in ‘12.
Enough...have you actually been awake during the last 20 years?
Reagan negs were high too buy he Won!
“Something a Haley Barbour supporter would say” for $200, Dick...
- JP
have you seen Obaman’s negatives? Sarah has time to do things her way (not McCain’s way, not Schmitt’s way).
Keep this crappy economy as it is (or worse) and “hope and change” will become an epithet for EPIC FAIL.
This is wide open on the GOP side. Let the voters decide.
At a similar time before election, Reagan's negatives were worse than Palin's are now. Gee, I wonder how THAT worked out.
Took your hemorrhoid shot I see.
But Obama supporters will be allowed to vote as many times as they wish.
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.
LLS