Posted on 02/13/2010 8:31:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin has proved that she can draw a crowd. What she has yet to demonstrate is that she can translate the appeal of a phenomenon into a political force that can attract or mobilize sizable numbers of voters.
The former Alaska governor is the Republican Party's biggest celebrity. She has given voice to a grass-roots movement grounded in anger with Washington and President Obama's policies. But her political future remains in question. Is she presidential timber? A force only within the Republican Party? A protest candidate like George Wallace (minus the racial divisiveness) or Ross Perot?
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"Right now, she is a figure like [George] McGovern or [Barry] Goldwater, two candidates who led the most intense movements in our country's political history, but who couldn't win the middle."
If Palin harbors presidential ambitions, she has a huge mountain to climb. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 71 percent of Americans do not think the politician who was Sen. John McCain's running mate in 2008 is qualified to be president.
Those numbers are so daunting that some Republicans who otherwise admire what she has accomplished doubt that she will run in 2012. Others say that unless she can transform attitudes dramatically, she cannot hope to win a general election. Still, GOP strategist Phil Musser said, "if she ran for president today, she would be the Republican nominee."
Musser's comments are notable because he is an adviser to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), who is eyeing a 2012 candidacy of his own. Palin's political future remains "very much an open question," Musser said, "but the intensity that she brought to the ticket in 2008 hasn't faded, and one could argue that perhaps it's been enhanced."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yep. New. Where you from. Hoping to meet you someday.
hmmm let’s see i lost the password and no longer use the email i reg with years ago so i had to make a new screen name. how’s that work for you?
So? I have to agree with “most” FReepers? I’m worng if I don’t. The same thinking of calling me a RINO because I didn’t agree with you?! Man you really thing a lot of yourself, don’t you?
EVERYONE is entitled to my opinion.
As for your craven fear, and attempted sabotage of a truly popular and strongly conservative figure, I can do no better to refer you to this vanity I wrote during the 2008 election campaign:
(Vanity) Annotated Tolkien and the Election Cycle
Cheers!
Heh heh heh.
You're the one saying she is not electable -- you tell us how not.
Registered Republicans are at an all-time low, all due to the unpopularity of east-coast RINOs, those milquetoast nutless, gutless weasels who make up less than ten percent of Republican voters, yet make most of the noise and the messes.
The media knows Sarah will win the general if she wins the nomination. They know Romney, Pawlenty, and any of the other RINOs will not. That is why they are working overtime trying to keep Sarah out of the primaries, split the primary votes, split the Republican party, and whatever else they can do to keep the commies in power.
The RINOs are doing the same thing to keep any conservative out of the primaries.
Sarah will get the majority of independents, and there are more independents than registered Republicans.
She is electable, and she will win.
Liar!
Why don't we look at what you actually said eh? This is our post # 119 in this very thread, and I quote:
“She is unelectable. She is the prom queen and will always be viewed as that no matter what you want to think.
119 posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:28:19 AM by CaptRon”
Don't see nuthin’ about the press saying anything about “prom queen”. YOU did!
My craven fear and sabotage?! WTF are you talking about!? Christ Almighty you are nuts! There is NO more staunch Repub on here than me! Yeah, I disagree on the candidate, but to accuse me of sabotage. You ARE delusional. Get help.
I ascared now. Putting double locks on my door, wacko.
ever notice that anyone that doesn’t think like a leftist or rino is stupid? not worng but stupid.
I think you are correct PPalin simple has to make the sale. there will be a moment that comes where Palin makes the sale and the people will be shown the bill og goods the MSM was trying to sell them irt Palin at that moment She wins in a landslide.
It doesn’t take much to prove you are not stupid. you just got to act not stupid which if you are not is very easy to do.
Read it. So?
/sarc Yeah..and Saddam Hussein was the greatest human rights campaigner on the planet too.
He LIKES (loves Sarah to death) but he just doesn't see *at this time* "the American public putting her in charge of the country."
May I be the first to say, that "whenever" Sarah becomes our nominee, CaptRon will do everything he can to work for her election? I say this, because I know he will!!!
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Dollars don’t = votes. Don’t get me wrong. I love her to death, but I don’t see the American public putting her in charge of the country. Plus this guy is a jerk.
Read your OWN post #2 this thread.
In its entirety, (ahem):
No. The Dems will riducle her into obscurity. And she makes it easy.
Thanks for playing.
Cheers!
Well, it’s late here. Have a disturbing night.
I'm wondering if it's getting to be time for another bug-zapper thread.
Cheers!
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