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Kristol: Palin probably won't, shouldn't be nominee
Politico ^ | March 230, 2011 | Ben Smith

Posted on 03/23/2011 9:47:13 AM PDT by EveningStar

Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol was among Sarah Palin's earliest Washington admirers, and helped bring her to the national stage, but he said this week that while he still admires her, he questions her choices and doesn't think she should be the Republican nominee for president.

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To: Gator113

Do you really trust the American electorate? Just two years ago they voted for Barack Hussein Obama.

I don’t think American voters are sophisticated enough to filter thru the bogus attacks and vote for Sarah.

She’d make a fine POTUS, but there’s little chance she wins.


121 posted on 03/23/2011 10:47:46 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Finny
Weak? In whose reality?

Well, how about Planet Earth? Last poll I saw nearly 60% would not consider voting for her for President and 37% of Republican voters wouldn't vote for her. A candidate can improve on support numbers in the polls, but those unfavorables are toxic.

122 posted on 03/23/2011 10:47:55 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Alas Babylon!

per my comment at #92. Photo-shop it or have someone do it (as outlined), and let me know where to send payment.


123 posted on 03/23/2011 10:48:54 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: EveningStar
RE :”She has a very shrewd judgment about politics and policy and very good instincts — but she hasn't done what Reagan ... did, which is really educate himself over a number of years,” Kristol said. “i think she's unlikely to be the Republican nominee, and to be honest I think she probably shouldn't be the Republican nominee for president,” he said, adding that he thinks she's “unlikely” to run.

I got mixed feelings here, I dont trust Bill Kristol and he was her biggest fan.

She can prove them ALL wrong and come out today and announce her candidacy for the good of the country, then get the nomination and beat Obama in 50 states. Then again...

124 posted on 03/23/2011 10:49:36 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: miss marmelstein
I don't think Palin is dumb. I think she's unqualified. Serving two years as Governor of one of our smallest states and then bailing is not enough experience to be President.

Had McCain won and she served a four year apprenticeship in the White House, it would be a different story. But that didn't happen.

125 posted on 03/23/2011 10:52:10 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Duncan Hunter (either one) has no chance of winning the nomination.


126 posted on 03/23/2011 10:52:14 AM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: jtal

I didn’t give a damn about those two interviews. They were set ups. They did it to Bush as well and he went on to win the presidency. I became a Sarah fan when she gave her speech at the convention. I was gobsmacked - and still am.

My earlier post was just to be snarky about the “I love her but...” remarks that keep popping up. It wasn’t meant to be taken literally; sorry about that!


127 posted on 03/23/2011 10:55:14 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Gator113

In the primaries I will, but when it comes to the general election I’ll wholeheartedly support our candidate.


128 posted on 03/23/2011 10:58:40 AM PDT by refermech
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To: EveningStar
Is C4P down? (down for me)

Any freepers able to connect to C4P?

129 posted on 03/23/2011 10:59:30 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: unseen1
"gallup shows Obama under 50% in 38 states."

Reagan and Clinton had worse (much worse, really) approval ratings 20-months before their reelection, and yet they were reelected.

Presidential elections are contests between two people, first and foremost. The American people will vote for someone they don't like, if they like the other candidate even less. That's a practical political reality.

130 posted on 03/23/2011 10:59:50 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: colorado tanker

I think I understand what you’re getting at by calling Alaska “the smallest state.” But it’s weirdly inaccurate as well.

And Clinton didn’t exactly run the biggest state in the union either!


131 posted on 03/23/2011 10:59:53 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Alas Babylon!

correction ... outline is at #111


132 posted on 03/23/2011 11:01:05 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Sarah is about to repeat history. Bank on it.


133 posted on 03/23/2011 11:03:02 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: newfreep

down here too


134 posted on 03/23/2011 11:03:16 AM PDT by unseen1
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To: miss marmelstein
"And Clinton didn’t exactly run the biggest state in the union either!"

True, but he did it for 11 or 12 years. He had a LONG record to run on.

135 posted on 03/23/2011 11:03:50 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: jtal

“if we place all of our hopes into ONE PERSON instead of getting our ideas out there, how are we any better than the ones who latched onto hopey changey boy based on his “mesmerizing” personality?”

There are at least two problems with that argument.

1. We are not placing our hopes in one person; we are supporting the *only* person among potential candidates who credibly and strongly supports our positions. If there were others, there would be room for debate. There are no others.

2. People who exercise good judgment in throwing their lot in with a good person on the basis of her positions are in no way comparable to idiots who throw their lot in with an evil liar because of his “mesmerizing” personality.

“I love Sarah, and I think it’s shameful what was done to her.”

You got that right.

“I suppose it’s possible to fight her way out of it, but she’s starting in a deep hole.”

So was Reagan, and if she adopts his strategy, she can win as he did.

“And the media are going to fight her every step of the way. Every gaffe, every minor mistake will be amplified.”

What Reagan did was to go “over their heads” and talk directly to the American people. He went on all three channels (!) several times and explained, “This is what we have, this is what I want to do about it. This is what the moron demonrats want to do. I think my idea is better because...”

And he came out the winner every time. He had the media pukes frothing at the mouth and eating their own livers. It was a joy to behold.

“I really believe she has a tendency to freeze in spontaneous interviews”

And I really believe that is a myth. At the time, I was confident that she had been gagged by McLame’s handlers. It turned out that she had been. With no idiot Washington insiders telling her what she can’t say, she would run a shovel up Couric’s butt, spin it around, and jerk her guts out.

“I think it’s stupid to choose a candidate based on that fact alone but that’s where we are in the TV and youtube world.”

We are only there because we have allowed the leftards to say we are. We are only there because normal people have allowed whackos to make the rules. The way out is just to say no, we’re not playing that game any more.

“I’m just saying it’s going to be VERY HARD for her to win back the “independent” public.”

There is no “independent” public at this point in history. People who think of themselves as “independent” are actually people without a coherent world view. They recognize the truth of some conservative positions, but allow themselves to be deceived into swallowing some leftard lies.

The only difference between a “moderate” and an “independent” is that the moderate has signed up as a member of one party or the other.

What the Stupid Party has been doing thus far has obviously failed to snap these individuals out of their confusion. The way to do that is to stop equivocating—stop pretending that libtards are decent people; stop pretending that any libtard position is even the least bit rational; and for Pete’s sake, come to grips with the fact that calls for civility are nothing more than a demonrat ploy. They are as inappropriate as they like, any time they like. They only call for civility when it ties the hands of their opposition.

It is long past time for decent people to wake up and realize that when dealing with scumbags, civility is nothing but a self-imposed handicap.

After a hundred million innocent dead in the twentieth century, no liberal is entitled to the slightest consideration, courtesy, or civility. Liberals should be reviled, abominated, spat upon, even beaten, whenever they have the gall to show their faces in the presence of decent people.

The time is right for conservatives to turn the tide: or to let “moderates,” “independents,” and RINOs hand everything back to the left.

Postscript: Mitt is a despicable scoundrel.


136 posted on 03/23/2011 11:03:59 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: refermech

If there’s been only one example in all of history where a person states the complete opposite of the truth, it was in this post of yours.


137 posted on 03/23/2011 11:04:24 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Sarah Palin is above taking the fake high road.)
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To: colorado tanker
A candidate can improve on support numbers in the polls, but those unfavorables are toxic.

You mean those flawed ridiculously low and overly-Rat sampled polls conducted across big liberal cities that I keep seeing cited over and over again?

138 posted on 03/23/2011 11:05:34 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: colorado tanker

RR was a military veteran but he never saw combat due to a problem with his eyesight. He was an officer who served in Public Relations here in the US.


139 posted on 03/23/2011 11:06:38 AM PDT by gramho12
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To: OldDeckHand

Obama isn’t Reagan or Carter


140 posted on 03/23/2011 11:07:06 AM PDT by unseen1
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