Posted on 08/29/2011 2:24:17 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
So would Palin. No poll this far out should discourage any conservative from backing the candidate most to their liking and in line with their beliefs.
It’s been asserted here by multiple posters that it was the former. I’ve looked for proof of it, and have found no proof. I asked the question because if Sarah said what others here are claiming she said, it is extremely divisive.
I don’t think she said it what way, though, but I’ve yet to see “proof”. So, in terms of me being objective, I was, because I offered two scenarios, but only commented on the one scenario that is being accepted as truth on FR.
Do you have a link for your claim of Sarah’s words?
How many went on to be President? Stand by my statement.
Well, it is CNN. But I am not terribly surprised.
Palin quit, more than once. She was beaten by the DNC once already. That is the bottom line. She consistently polls losing to 0bama by double digits. You can take a chance all you want on having 4 more years, but I refuse to take that chance.
Too much is at stake this election to trust someone who has a problem staying on the job when the going gets tough. That’s my bottom line this election as far as Palin goes.
It shows bad judgement in signing into law a bill that would cost taxpayers unlimited amounts of money whenever the governor get sued.
I don’t see how anyone can say it wasn’t a bad law with a straight face.
Why do you and some others have so much difficulty understanding that some of us are “GOP supporters”, and would support Palin if she entered the race?
And what about a Perry presidential run?
Not so good. Of those polled, 48 percent said they planned to vote in the Republican primary and 33 percent in the Democratic.
Of those GOP voters, the percentage who said they would vote for Perry if he was running was....nine.
Almost double figures!!
Perry did edge out Herman Cain. Mitt Romney led the way with 16 percent, Sarah Palin had 14 percent, Ron Paul had 10 and then came the Perry juggernaut.
Obama's approval rating here, for what it's worth, doesn't make Texas in play in 2012. Asked who they'd vote for in 2012, 35 percent said Obama and 44 percent said "Republican candidate."
Sarah Palin didn’t quit her office to run for VP, though. She quit it in July 2009, which was after the 2008 election if my calendar is correct.
More than 2 years later, she hasn’t announced her candidacy for any other office, unless I am mistaken.
It was a good law that was exploited for political gain and revenge. That doesn’t make it a bad law. It makes the people who take advantage of it at the expense of taxpayers nothing more than jerks.
Why do you and some others have so much difficulty understanding that some of us are ‘conservatives first’ and will not fall in line behind the almighty (R) after years of being stabbed in the back by the GOP/RNC?
Based on what Palin said, she and Perry have similar immigration views (work visas for illegals). The big difference is he signed a Texas "dream act," which I don't like.
It depends on what that person has done in the real world. It isn’t just political experience but long term executive experience showing that the person has a grasp on how to make good decisions and has sound judgment. I don’t think serving a half term where a good chunk of that time was spent on the campaign trail is sufficient experience for what will have to be done after the 0bama reign of terror.
People took a chance on inexperience with 0bama, they aren’t going to do that twice if there is a decent choice. There is already more people with governing experience in the primaries than was on the general ticket 2008.
People taking advantage of the law, and ultimately making Palin quit her office, made it a bad law.
Politics are ugly, and Palin got run out of her job by a law that she signed into effect.
It was a terrible decision anyway you try to spin it.
I've never quite understood so-called conservatives who react to Palin in the same way that liberals do. I can understand being in disagreement with her in one or two areas of policy, but the condemnation from some on the right is near 100%. That's simply not logical to me, given all of her other strengths and demonstrated allegiance to basic American principles.
No candidate is going to measure up to our highest ideals, but they all fall somewhere between the top and bottom of our scales. I believe that in the areas of competence, leadership, patriotism, courage, smarts, honesty, instinct, and track record, Palin scores as high, or higher than any modern day politician I've ever seen.
I honestly do not understand why some who profess to be on our side are so dead set against her.
Now you may call me a quitter, and that's fine. But I can easily look at myself in the mirror everyday knowing I did the right thing for myself, just as Palin did for herself AND the taxpaying citizens who trusted her to stand up for them.
I disagree that Perry is a RINO, though. Hell, the RINO/GOP establishment tried to get him out in Texas.
Palin endorsed McLame and sat silent as McLame bashed the Tea Party. By your logic, wouldn’t that mean Palin is a RINO?
Xavier Rodriguez was appointed to the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio by W after Xavier was voted off the Texas high court.
I don't know the full history of Xavier but I see he was defeated in his retention election after outspending his challenger almost 59-to-1.
Despite that, W thought he deserved a bump up to a federal judgeship.
It was the right thing for Alaskan tax payers, period. Would you rather she stay in office and ignore the job she was elected to do because of the lawsuits? You clearly have a problem identifying what is the right thing to do.
Did you quit your job because of a workplace rule that you approved, though?
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