Posted on 11/25/2010 11:45:55 AM PST by kingattax
TIME Magazine Reporter Jay Newton-Small told CBS News Correspondent Bill Plante on Wednesday's "Washington Unplugged" that Sarah Palin may be the favorite for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
"If she wanted to, she is the front runner for the nomination, if she isn't, she is the kingmaker," he said. "Either way, she is definitely a force to be reckoned with and not someone to underestimate."
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The clowns at CBS and Time need to worry about their comrades in their ‘RAT party. We Americans have our side handled and we don’t need THEIR help. Ain’t gonna be no mo John McCains and Bob Doles.
She’ll be a queen-maker: herself.
Are their any other non-beltway Conservatives? It would seem perhaps Haley Barbour might be the only other one, yet even he could be considered an insider and would be less likely than Gov. Palin to win.
They're going to certainly try with Romney.
If she somehow doesn't win the primary, she's a shoein for the VP choice again. No one energizes the base like she does.
Personally, I'll happily support her if she is at the top of the ticket. I only wish there were a more seasoned and as exciting a conservative than she to head the ticket in 2012 and for her to be at the top of it in 2020.
The liberals, elites and most of the MSM BELIEVE that Sarah Palin is just some stupid hick.
Shhhh.
Meanwhile conservatives are laughing all the way to power!!!!
In politics it is all about defining yourself before the media and opponent defines you. Sarah Palin has been defined and if she is serious about running, she needs lot of work to redefine her image. Need to boldly go out to the conservative media and talk about some policies, join the discussion among conservatives. May be one or two selected main stream media will also be good.
You cannot just simply talk about small government, less tax, no for obama healthcare and less spending. This will not cut it. Need to show that, she can discuss issues along with Newt Gingrich or Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney or Bobby Jindal or Paul Ryan. She needs to stop making mistakes like North Korea as an ally and that stupid stuff. Main stream media is waiting for her to make a single mistake. It is a huge distraction for 2012.
Evidently not, your candidate is well behind her, and so you really should be explaining why he isn't the frontrunner rather than trying to imply that the leading conservative is not actually the top politician in America, and the one most directly held up as President Obama's chief opposition.
The liberals, elites and most of the MSM BELIEVE that Sarah Palin is just some stupid hick.
I hope that Sarah can identify some fair-minded people at the networks (granted there’s almost no Republicans) that can get her a foot-hold on the channels non-cable subscribers watch. People are dropping cable and satellite subscriptions in droves as they discover that there are now more over-the-air channels and many available online.
I think that an early candidacy by Palin will cause Huckabee, Pawlenty, Thune, and Gingrich to stand aside hoping for VP consideration and conceding that they don’t see a way of competing for the conservative base. More moderate and establishment candidates like Romney, Daniels, and Barbour will remain at least through the early primaries. If Palin doesn’t declare early, Romney will become the front runner by acclamation and Palin will have to compete with other conservatives as well. I would have thought that she would prefer later rather than sooner, but it’s hard to ignore momentum or to allow anyone else to gain some.
No, I think they know better, and are just trying to convince the masses of the lie.
Liberal Dems, liberal RINOs, liberal media are really not so smart. With real conservatism, everyone can prosper. With liberalism and RINOism, no one really prospers; but the liberal Dems and RINOs just suffer less badly than the productive citizens. It's a mental illness.
Palin has her faults. Her experience did not bring her into contact with erudite people, and she doesn't have the intellectual glibness of the professorate or the dull palaver of the corporate boardroom. These are real assets in our society. The mistake is, however, to associate this with lack of intelligence. Calvin Coolidge was a highly intelligent man who could --and did --make very effective speeches. But he was much aware that he was not an outstanding platform speaker who could arouse audiences like TR or Wilson. He was, however, as he recognized, very good on the radio. Palin for all her glamour is almost too hot for TV and not well-spoken on the radio. She indulges herself in these run-on sentences. She needs to learn to listen to herself talk and stop the repetition of certain phrases. less is more in her case. Obama, ironically, has the same faults, but since he is talking professorese when he is not talking preacherese. this is not noted.
I'm not so sure Gov. Palin, herself, doesn't feel exactly the way you do. I caught a little of her on Hannity the other day and was immediately struck by the thought: "She's a genius--she's running for President in 2020 (or 2016 if the disaster of a 2nd Obama term occurs) not 2012!"
Barbour is probably the smartest of the moderates, but don’t think that his thick accent would not be a big handicap.
I agree. She didn’t taken the nomination in’08 with the view of becoming President. She just wanted to get on the national stage.
I think she is very spiritual believing God is in control. I think she is trying to elevate godly values and conservative principles and willing to let the chips fall where they may. If that's 2012, OK. If that's 2016 or 2020, OK. If that's never and all she has been able to do is represent those values as best she was able, I think she'll be OK with that too. But I am concerned about the Judas in the inner circle and about her losing her way in the midst of the battle. Within every successful endeavor lie the seeds of failure. Constant vigilance is needed that they are not watered.
I am not American, but if I were I would be rooting for Sarah for 2012. My Reasons? Surprisingly, (only to the ignorant) it is precisely because she had expressed clearly and succinctly the most truly sustantive positions on almost every major policy issue facing America—fiscal policy, economic development, employment growth, heathcare, enery independence, defence and security, foreign policy, good and bad immogration policies—you name it she has a well worked out position. I have not the foggiest notion what Mitt Romney stand for, other than being an opportunist. Search as I might, i cannot find the slightest evidence that either Barrack Obama or Hillary Clinton have ever actually accomplished anything substantial in their entire careers, and are purely the product of manufactured perceptions—or ‘marketing constructs’. I pray night and day that, over the next two years that the American people will recover their equilibrium and wisdom and overwhelmingly affirm the gift of Sarah Palin by electing her President. I may be a tiny minority in Europe (I am Irish) but on that day I will fall on my knees and weep with joy.
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