Posted on 06/08/2011 6:02:28 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
That’s a big, big point.
Even half serious watchers of Palin have to acknowledge that she’s nowhere near ‘stupid’, as the Dems, RINOs and media have made her out to be.
It’ll be interesting to see if Undefeated can lay to rest the claims that she’s unserious, unschooled, and unqualified, as well.
The reality-TV aspect of her personality and her folksy off-the-cuff speaking style do seem to me to be parts of who she is, peccadilloes such as anyone or any leader has. They endear her to some and put others off, but they are peripheral as to who she would be as a president.
And I do fear that in-fighting will split the conservative vote, playing right into the hands of the GOP establishment (and ugh, the Mittster).
I don't know Sarah Palin, but I'll bet a weeks pay that was what she wanted to do too.
But the evil Rouse and other Obama operatives kept hitting her (and Alaska) with all those groundless complaints and lawsuits. None of them ever stood up, but they were quite hurtful to Palin, which was the intent.
So in the end, she sacrificed her future for the good of her state. Evil won.
God owes her. I hope He comes through.
She'll definitely have to come up with a strategy for educating people on her reasons, then repeat it over and over so the voters finally get it. We all know she will be blasted about it repeatedly by the MSM.
Those frivolous ethics complaints also cost Alaska $2 million. Palin wasn’t about to let Alaskan taxpayers foot the bill because she was hated.
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Agreed. The author should have known this. Either he's misinformed or deliberately misrepresenting the facts.
The reality-TV aspect of her personality and her folksy off-the-cuff speaking style do seem to me to be parts of who she is, peccadilloes such as anyone or any leader has. They endear her to some and put others off, but they are peripheral as to who she would be as a president.
Okay. For the record, Sarah Palin is my first choice currently (although 'what if' she doesn't run?) with Herman Cain a close second. I have posted consistently very positively about Sarah Palin. I agree that she did not quit, that she decided to attack in a different direction.
Sarah Palin, following her resignation: This is not the face of a 'quitter'. Look out libs!
Btw, you only prove my point that too many posts at FR are overtly thin-skinned about any perceived 'criticism' of Sarah Palin.(even if it may actually be a 'grudging' acknowledgment that Sarah's chosen path may be the right one and better than what the 'conventional wisdom')
As Fred Thompson said on Hannity's show last night [paraphrased], "To see how far down we've come in America today, contrast back in the days of Nixon when we asked, "What did he know and when did he know it?". Today we ask, "What did he show, and when did he show it?".
I don’t believe Cain, West, Bachmann or DeMint has a prayer of being the nominee or the president. All good conservatives, but a first-term congressman, third-term congressman, a former pizza executive and a Southern white male senator are all poor picks for the GOP nomination. (A Southern white male senator who is a Democrat would be well positioned, to the contrary.)
Absolutely none of them have a whit of experience as an executive in government, which voters fairly look to as the best background for a president. Two of them have only run in a single (local) election, with one of them not even having made it out of the primary at that.
Cain is a good man whom I believe will flame out for his inability or unwillingness to address too many issues, other than saying he’d hire and listen to experts. West and DeMint likely won’t run.
None of them has been vetted in a national campaign before.
Bachmann has been supported and egged on by an Establishment looking to stop Palin, and for that doesn’t deserve an ounce of our support.
In another four years we would have lots of strong, seasoned, competitive GOP governors to consider. Right now Palin is IMO our only genuine, viable conservative choice. If she doesn’t run or do well, our best hope out of the mushy middle is Pawlenty.
That IMO is the hard reality of the 2012 race.
I guess you could put me in the category believing Palin has her quirks and flaws like any human or political leader, but she is our best choice for the GOP and the country in 2012.
I agree with most of this. However, if Sarah Palin doesn't run, but backs any one of these other candidates instead, they instantly become electable. Having been a FredHead who was burned before, I'm not putting all my eggs in one basket again.
If her mini-me isn't careful Sarah just might back TPaw, sending both Mitt & Michele packing.
I hear you on the Fred-burning, I was there too. But I don’t think Palin’s backing makes any of those electable. It’s Mitt or TPaw in a walk against any of them.
You could be right, but at this early stage of the race, I refuse to be so pessimistic. Too depressing. Besides, saying Herman Cain, Jim DeMint or Allen West isn't electable reminds me of the naysayers saying the same thing about Sarah Palin. Never say never. Saving the Country is too important.
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