Posted on 11/23/2010 1:52:05 PM PST by dselig
Last week was the week when the idea that Sarah Palin is going to run for president began to sink in properly. As I explained, she is an immensely viable candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination.
Frank Rich, in the New York Times, argues that she is a shoo-in for Republicans because time is ripe for her populist stance, and because her defects are no greater than George W Bushs when he jumped into the 2000 primary race.
I am not so sure. The debates would prove a stiff test of her grasp of detail, and if she found the slings and arrows of running as vice-president and governing Alaska hard to cope with, how would she fare in the brutal terrain of a presidential race?
Palin is the best known quantity among the likely candidates. As First Read notes, her main task would be to broaden her appeal among a primary electorate that in the past has always opted for the candidate most likely to win the general election. With her negative numbers among Democrats and independents still high, that is quite a challenge.
Karl Roves comment that she lacks the gravitas for the top job continue to define the battle over Palin among Republicans. Barbara Bush, with the ultimate back-handed compliment, has now underlined how the old school views the Alaskan queen as an upstart. Palins unique style has already changed the game, but to win the nomination she may well need another game changer
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I disagree. The supreme right protected by our founding documents is the right to life, and she, like Gerald R. For, John McCain and Ron Paul, is pro-choice for states on abortion.
And I have a question for you: Can you name one department of the U.S. government she has advocated eliminating? Do you have a link, for example, to her ever calling for the abolition of the unconstitutional Dept. of Education?
Great picture! Freeper heroes...nice to see them together.
Heh...have you ever seen her live and in person?
My fear- and it’s a real fear- is that we are doing to Palin what the left did with/to Obama. She’s becoming idolized and it’s a destructive force to have idols for leaders.
I normally don’t even go on Palin threads because I have several dear freeper FRiends who adore her and I see no value in getting into a fight about her.
I like her. I admire much of her life story. I don’t support her for POTUS and honestly- after seeing her daughter getting death threats for dancing on a TV show I would think she’d think long and hard about running.
I don’t know who it’s going to be that the GOP finally chooses- but someone who alienates Independents will ensure 4 more years of The One.
I wish I could get excited about any of the apparent contenders- but none of them have “it”- and Reagan’s dead.
Mitch Daniels.
Wait and see. The pressure is on the GOP now, to find somebody who's smart, engaging, accomplished, and experienced, who can take some of the shine off of the Palin celebrity train.
Party-wise, Indiana seems to be a mixed bag and yet Daniels won both his campaigns handily.
I can see him gaining establishment support pretty early on.
DOA.
Reagan had many years as a celebrity to develop his personal skills -- still, he was despised and seldom taken seriously by the opposition. For the relative short time Palin's been on the radar, she's done a remarkable job. Hell, most of the votes McCain got were for her. Palin may need to refine the skill-set somewhat, but she has the basic mojo and instincts needed for winning a national run. And, no I'm not in the Palin cult. There's no one on the scene right now on our side who can hold a candle to her in a national campaign. Your incessant venting against her makes you sound like you work for PMSNBC.
Well, unless he changed his mind he said recently that he was definitely not running.
Actually she did not say she was pro-choice, she said that if Roe vs Wade were over-turned, let the State’s decide. That does not say ‘I’m pro-choice’ It says I am State’s Rights believer.
Good Grief....
bookmark
Your Mitt Romney guy is no conservative.
Try that reasoning with any other unalienable right of the people and see how it works out for you.
Do you want the states to decide whether or not the people retain the right to free speech or freedom of the press?
Do you want the states to decide if the people retain parental rights or religious liberty”
Do you want the states to decide if the people retain the right to a jury trial, or the right to be secure in their persons and their papers?
Do you want the states to decide if the people retain the right to keep and bear arms?
And, again, let me remind you, the right to life is the supreme right. Without it, the individual person can never any enjoy any other right.
In the coming primary battle, the establishment, the “smart” money, the RINOs, the Sodom and Gomorrah political whores and the media are all aligned against the people with wicked giant Myth Romney. We the little people are backing Sarah the RINO Slayer from the North. It’s an uphill battle against huge odds, but we’ll be praying we’re on God’s side. We’ll need all the help we can get to smite the heathen giants.
Don’t feed the Alan Keyes/third party, hijack troll, try to leave him alone, this is one of his favorite tactics on Palin threads.
This is really off this topic. I get it. You can say what you like as to not liking Sarah Palin. I can answer you. I have. We disagree, so we will agree to disagree. I believe she is conservative, you don’t.
Thanks :) I’m slow in my old age, but I finally figured it out. LOL Have a great Thanksgiving.
Then you should be head-over-heels infatuated with Obama.
He's so friendly to the country's business interests you know.
To claim that men, or states, can decide whether the people have rights is to destroy the main premise of this country. The founders considered it to be self-evident truth that our rights come from God, not men, that those rights are therefore UNALIENABLE, and that the duty of government, the reason for its very existence, is to protect those rights.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
And the Constitution is explicit about the imperative duty of all to do so. It spells out in no uncertain terms the responsibility of each and every state in this regard:
"No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
It's not optional.
I'm with you and Sarah Palin, no matter the odds. Sarah Palin has fire in her belly. She is fearless. She loves God, she loves our Republic, our Constitution, our military and she's all American. She's a pro-life mother of five beautiful children and grandmother of one and happily married to a true Alaskan hero.
No more compromises in our candidate! Restoring our Republic is too big a task to leave to anyone with ties Washington, D.C. Sarah Palin is hostile to the way our business is conducted and she has the guts to smash and dismantle unconstitutional government agencies and departments, and hopefully do some public employee union busting while she's at it.
Prayers for Sarah Palin and her precious family. God save America from "the corrupt bastards aiming to stop her" and the Marxists currently in power.
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