Don't Run Sarah!

The Daily Beast ^

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Sarah's going to do to the soft Establishment underbelly that she did to that halibut.

I can't wait.

[mc5cents]

But Palin is viewed unfavorable by 51 percent of voters. And among independents, the key swing voting bloc, her negative is at 54 percent. She is not the right candidate right now.

Gee, and I wonder why that is? Any ideas. Could it be the 24/7 trashing she receives in the media and the scoffing she gets even on "conservative" sites such as FR? Could that have something to do with it?
Sheesh!!

[mjp]

she defies conventional wisdom and does things her own way: She doesn’t retreat, she reloads.

Since her basic principles are correct, if she defines them openly and honestly, and continues to stay consistent with them, and doesn't compromise with her opponents, she will win.

[Caipirabob]

She is Obama’s greatest hope.

Of course, as President, being a Christian, President Palin might "pardon" him.

[Windflier]

She is Obama’s greatest hope.

Perhaps that's why his minions in the MSM are attacking her 24/7/365 with everything but the kitchen sink. They really, really want her to run.

Wait....that makes no sense....

[OwatonnaNative]

Mark McKinnon is a democrat but he chose to work with Bush. Now, we are to believe that this democrat just has Sarah’s “best interest” in mind in writing this? When democrats are trying to knock you out of the race early it is a clear indication that you are the candidate that they fear the most. I believe most of the fear on the left that gets directed toward Palin is rooted in her personal integrity. The left doesn’t believe Romney when he says he will cut spending; they do believe Palin when she says it. They don’t believe Huckabee when he says he will devolve power to the sattes; but, they do believe Palin would do everything in her power to do so. As for me, I will vote in the Republican primary for the first time and that vote will be for Palin.

[rob777]

"She is Obama’s greatest hope"


So it would appear.

[Diogenesis]

Mitt Romney: "I am not a GOP backstabber.
[(coward thinks) I just get others to do it for me.]"

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Romney Rises Again - Mark McKinnon
After laying low during Palinpalooza, the former governor is back atop the GOP pack for 2012.
He ... established health care reform in Massachusetts"

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"Rove is pushing Romney so aggressively some folks are beginning to wonder what's going on," grumbled one veteran Republican strategist."

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"Rove has made no secret of his support for Romney as McCain's VP. "

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The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney
guided by his business partner, George Soros, had
Parker, Frum, and the rest of TeamROMNEY
attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008 to the DNC.

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

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Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

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"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

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Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

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"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

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Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[jazminerose]

I trust the common sense of Sarah Palin. If she believes a run would be in the best interest of the country she loves, she’ll do it.

[mommyq]

For the millionth time, Sarah was forced out of her position as governor because Obama’s blogger losers kept filing expensive lawsuits against her, i.e., she wore the wrong jacket to the dog sledding competition.

[RichInOC]

Mark, when you write a column entitled “Don’t Run, Sarah!”, and a good chunk of it sounds like points in favor of her running...your cognition isn’t so much dissonant as echoing around your head like a drunken bat.

[Vendome]

I want her to run now. It will be a foundational experience for her next run.

I want her for President and I want it with majorities in the Senate and Congress.

I don’t care if she loses this time, there will be another and she will hone her skills and sharpen her message.

Go Sarah!

[Vendome]

I want her to run now. It will be a foundational experience for her next run.

I want her for President and I want it with majorities in the Senate and Congress.

I don’t care if she loses this time, there will be another and she will hone her skills and sharpen her message.

Go Sarah!

[LS]

This column is so disjointed as to be devoid of all logic. I'm NOT sold on Palin as the pres candidate in 2012. I think she has made important strides in setting herself up, and again, if she is the candidate against whomever the Dems run, she of course will have my support and hard work. But I prefer to keep options open.

That said, this guy's so-called analysis is trash. OF COURSE the Republicans will support her, and so will some indies. The question is how many she will get, but I'm betting that with each passing Obama day, she'll secure more and more former Obama voters.

If the choice is Palin or Obama, Palin wins. But so does almost any other Republican, including Romney. Many on FR hate Romney so much that they have lost touch as much as Mackinnon has with Palin, namely there are a LOT of people who really, really like him if for no other reason than his perceived business sense.

I think Huckabee is probably one of the few Republicans who could not win.

But if I could wave a wand today and put anyone in the presidency, it would be Jim DeMint. He has both an instinctual (which Palin has) grasp of conservatism and an intellectual basis (which I don't think she really has). He knows why a given issue or position right and also has the logic and reasoned arguments to know what people have said in the past and where they have been right and where they have been wrong. That is critical when it comes to explaining necessarily painful policies to the public. Without it, you're left with Obama-isms: it's right because dammit I say it's right.

Anyway, I see Palin making great strides to become more attractive to "middle America," but I still don't yet see her becoming the kind of Reagan thinker that I expect we'll need.

[blarney]

The article was very well written and it makes a lot of sense once you get past the basic jabs(which he even called himself on). I cannot say he was wrong in the basic premise of the article which was she is just too polarizing.

Though it’s not her fault she is so polarizing(I think the left did it when they needed to take her down when running)and it just kind of stuck. Now no matter how you see it there are probably enough people who don’t like her that she could be damage if running for the highest office.

In some ways she almost seems like the rights version of Obama in the fact that she embodies so much of what we want that we overlook other things that limit her abilities.

It just seems like the writer is very accurate in a lot of parts when he isn’t sniping at her and just being objective.

[Al B.]

Groan...this article is right up the alley of the Establishment concern trolls around here.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

But wait a minute. If she has no chance of winning anyway, then why be concerned if she's going to run or not?

I say let her run and fall flat on her face, right?

[MindBender26]

Sarah Palin has much better things to do than run for office and expose herself to the slings and arrows....

“It’s much better to the the King-maker than the King.”

[Erik Latranyi]

They missed her most important qualification... She’s a community organizer.

I imagine Sarah giving her announcement speech and taking on the issue of "qualifications".

She can compare herself to the current President and cite the jobs she has performed, but just so those who voted for Obama can have a reason to vote for her, she spent the last two years as a community organizer for the Tea Party.

[rob777]

"They really, really want her to run.

Wait....that makes no sense.... "


It makes perfect sense. They need to put a single face on the conservative revolt who is easy to demonize. I do not think it is fear of her that causes them to pay so much attention to her.