Posted on 05/05/2013 1:04:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 05/05/2013 1:07:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Would you support Sarah Palin should she decide to run for the presidency in 2016?
Let's see. How does she compare to my litmus checks:
What's not to like?
Oh, yeah. That thing about not reading newspapers and also seeing Russia from her house. That's just too dumb to be true. /s
Well, but she did resign from her office, so I guess that's one thing not to like. But they all have at least one thing not to like. How does she compare on all the major conservative issues?
And the left absolutely hates her.
And Tokyo Rove and the GOP-e absolutely despises her.
But tea party conservatives like her. A lot!
And so do I.
How about you?
Are you ready to turn this country around with an honest to God pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, God-loving, America-loving patriot and grassroots conservative favorite who we can all be proud of and for whom we will work overtime for a change?
That makes no sense. LOL! She's the candidate, whether she's running on the republican ticket, democrat ticket or 3rd party. Like Reagan, like McCain, like Bush... she is what she is no matter what ticket she runs on. You either support her or not.
The question was not whether you support the GOP. The question is:
Would you support Sarah Palin should she decide to run for the presidency in 2016?
Period.
Me? Absolutely!
Face slap.....of course, I forgot my towel when I went to vote, that’s what happened.
I wouldn’t want to go anywhere without my wonderful towel.
At the moment he's still an outsider.
Palin...YES. Rubio...NO!
Much, much safer to keep doing what the GOP has been doing -- not too controversial, please! Not too partisan! Surely next time they won't lose. *rolls eyes*
This country is poised to a tipping point. I tell you, one serious candidate who would come out and call environmental tyranny for the hoax it too often is, would instantly shift the political balance. Americans are loaded with contempt for government, media bias, "liberalism" as broadly defined, and both the Republican and the Democrat parties. They're filled with contempt with their fellow Americans for electing such tyranny ... when said tyranny was in large part "elected" by imaginary voters. Liberalism has advanced by systemic vote fraud, ginning, and manipulation, and falsely validated by a pop culture media that is ludicrously top-heavy with liberals.
There was zero risk with Romney -- we'd have lost either way. Palin is indeed a risk. Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
Why do you not see that the GOPe is the party now? ALL of it top to bottom/side to side? There is no Reagan in it anymore. Anywhere. I do not understand.
In a heartbeat.
I love her to death, but no vote;she cannot win, the MSM will make hash out of her.
The GOP corrupts 95% of those elected within their first term. If they are long term GOP pols the percentage approaches 100%. If Palin cannot be corrupted the GOP will not let her anywhere near the Presidential primaries. If she can be corrupted I won’t vote for her.
Her only chance is third party. There is no way the current GOP leadership will let her win the primary. Frankly I doubt they’ll let her get to the point of being considered for the primary.
That doesn't mean the other 85% are Conservatives, but it does mean the major party factions are OUTSIDE the GOP-e.
The big money guys can continue throwing their money away with those guys ~ after all most of them grew up as Democrats ~ or they can decide they'd like a good tax policy rather than the GOP-e 'me too-ism'.
The major complaint of Conservatives is simply that the RNC is made up of people who do not share any of their core values. The Conservatives, however, are numerous enough to start their own competing RNC and pull the party together by simply abandoning the old RNC ~ which will still get some states supporting it, but those are the states we'll need do some missionary work on later ~ we don't need their delegates at this time.
This is very nearly how the Republican party was founded in the beginning. The founders formed a committee for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President. They invited remaining viable Whig state parties and strong Abolitionist organizations to send delegates to a convention.
I wish people would read this some day. The Republicans did not create a top down or bottom up party ~ they simply formed the RNC!
It's absurdly simple, but there's the key to dealing with what is presently a serious party split that's going to cause us to lose elections for the next decade ~ part of the party wants to continue going after voters who aren't there ~ an undecided middle ~ the rest of the party wants us to take the battle to the enemy by telling the public how bad they are, and at the same time, by mounting massive voter registration drives ~ and that's only going to happen as state and local Republican party elements INCORPORATE Socon and Fiscon groups directly into the party structure.
Just doing some checking on the history of Catholic political parties in Europe and the US. They've been either full bore parties, or major factions as in the United States.
The leftwingtard faction that currently runs the Democrat party pretty much disabled them by abandoning support for private sector labor unions. Some of them have become far more conservative in Europe, but there's a mixed result ~ one such party in Nederland seems to have been absorbed by the Commies. No idea how that happened!
We face a similar 'take over' problem in the US where people with no interest in the welfare and well being of the American people have taken over both major parties. We need to fight back ~
The GOP-e can attract, at most, 15% of the Republican vote in primaries with several candidates. They know that.
That doesn’t mean the other 85% are Conservatives, but it does mean the major party factions are OUTSIDE the GOP-e.”
And you don’t think Palin can win with the majority of that 85 percent as an indy? Without all the problems attached I listed?
You Win Mu. There is no point to this anymore
The MSM doesn’t like any of our candidates so what do we do? Do we let them decide who will be President?
I would support Our Sarah if she chooses to run, no question about it.
Absolutely not. She cannot win and if by some divine intervention she did pull it out, she could not govern. Sadly, it is not her fault. She is a fine women, but Gov. Palin has been damaged too deeply to win or to govern if she did win.
“Conservatives like you had BETTER understand that libertarianism is the path to living morally because it PREVENTS government from prohibiting YOU from living morally.”
True Libertarianism would ALSO PROHIBIT me from putting morality into law....that IS A BIG PROBLEM. If I cannot forbid open homosexuality, drugs, etc. I DO NOT CALL THAT FREEDOM. I call it anarchy and a worthless society. I have NEVER agreed with a libertarian viewpoint that things like prostitution and pornography, etc. are “victimless” crimes.
In a “Libertarian” world I (my children and their children) would have to see and be exposed to open unimpeded vice of all kinds.....NO THANK YOU! The slime readily available on the internet is testament to that. In a “Libertarian” world it would be on every street corner and I could do nothing to stop it by law.
Libertarianism IS NOT the path to a moral society. Of course, excessive government is not either.
I want a Puritan America, not a decadent red light Europe.
I would vote for her, as I said.
I haven’t seen any changes in the media or the party.
For instance. is the left going to run all the debates?
Yes! Another purge on Free Republic.
Away with all dissent.
And then when the elections don’t go your way you can say, “I don’t know anyone who voted for that guy.”
I am more libertarian than conservative. That is why I like Ron Paul and Rand Paul.
Yes, but it’s not the 1980’s.
So, basically whoever wins the GOP nomination is not worth winning the Presidency.
Okay. LOL!
I'm laughing at that one and I'm not even a registered Republican.
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