I love Sarah Palin, but I don’t think she is electable (right now) for President. Here is my reason why...,
First, the incumbent almost always has the advantage in any election. I don’t know why, but it’s a matter of fact. Perhaps you can cherry pick some elections, but with most elections this is the case? Thus, if you are a polarizing candidate (meaning people either love you, hate you and there is no in between) then it’s a lot harder to get elected too. So if you have two polarizing candidates Incumbent (Obama) vs. Challenger (Palin), then the polarizing factor will zero out. The advantage will then lean towards the Incumbent’s favor.
Second, I don’t think Sarah is ready for the White House too. Seems like she cannot handle interviews with the Rats in the media and press. For instance, the interview with Katie Couric was disastrous. It’s not so important what the Rats say during the interview, but how Sarah responds. All they need is one bad answer (I know it’s B.S.) to just beat Sarah with it endlessly. For example, reading books or about Russia, etc...
Third, I believe Sarah can do something even more important than being President right now. Sarah would have no problem being elected the Republican Party Chairman. I want to see her clean house in the Republican Party like she did in Alaska. The Republican party is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan. I believe Sarah could be instrumental in turning the party back to it conservative roots. This would save the Republican party IMHO and the Tea Party would fade away. This is bigger than the President because the Chess pieces are already in place. The Republican party holds a lot of offices at the moment because of Obama. However, if they do what they did over the budget again, then it’s going to short lived and trigger the end of the party.
This is just my 2 cents about it, but I maybe wrong?
The interview with Couric was edited more than Obama’s life story.
By the way, that Couric interview is no longer an issue. Palin has grown up and become more media savvy since that interview. I don't believe you will ever see her mess up like that again.
Comments like yours ultimately say that she shouldn’t be allowed to throw her hat in the ring and prove herself. They tell her to sit-down, shut-up, unless she just sits on the sidelines and cheerleads.
I believe Palin has earned the right to make her case before the nation. Her speech in Madison facing the union thugs, showcases her potential power as a candidate.
If she’s such a flawed canidate, like you make out, will not the primary season eliminate her?
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 Free Republic, 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. 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. That kind of thinking is for half-hearted Conservatives who don’t dare recall the stakes involved, and how this country can’t handle another four years of Obama or even another RINO. 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.
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.
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.
If gasoline prices are still in the $5 range, and the economy is having a Carter malaise deja-vu, you could be elected president.
Anybody could be elected president. Even Alvin Greene!
It’s the economy stupid, and no magic halo this time.
It has never been easier for a candidate to run against this socialist usurper of our freedoms. If Palin wants to be president, this is her time to run.
All you got to say is,
“Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?’
Worked like a charm for some guy that trounced Carter.
“I love Sarah Palin, but I don’t think she is electable (right now) for President.”
Not many giving Obama much of a chance in April 2007.
FLASHBACK APRIL 3 2007 Iowa Polls
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/april/040307poll-data.pdf
DEMS
Clinton 25.5
Edwards 23.2
Obama 16.3
Sarah Palin may not be as great as Ronald Reagan but Barack Obama is even worse than Jimmy Carter and so that levels the playing field. Thus, we are setting the stage for the 2012 election to be a repeat of 1980. In which a true conservative absolutely crushes a weak and ineffective incumbent Democrat.
Second, I don’t think Sarah is ready for the White House too. Seems like she cannot handle interviews with the Rats in the media and press. For instance, the interview with Katie Couric was disastrous. It’s not so important what the Rats say during the interview, but how Sarah responds. All they need is one bad answer (I know it’s B.S.) to just beat Sarah with it endlessly. For example, reading books or about Russia, etc..
I have seen just about every interview she’s done and haven’t seen anything that she didn’t handle well. She whipped O’Reilly’s ass so bad that he turned against her and bad mouths her every chance he gets. Yes it was on Fox, but O’Reilly is more friendly to Øbama than he is to Governor Palin.
About the only thing I might complain about is that she is too nice sometimes and doesn’t blow off the bullshit questions about Kathy Griffin and Levi and other nonsense like that.
Take your RINO-abetting, Democrat-enabling, intentionally strained and poorly punctuated mainstream media talking points elsewhere, troll.
People who puke this kind of retarded garbage don’t deserve a hero like Palin for President. O’Bunghole’s more your speed.
Definitely wrong, and it's not even worth two cents.
Let me ask it this way. How old are you? What is the first Presidential Election you were eligible to vote in?
Cheers!