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)
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She is electable, and she will win.
Bank on it.
I already did as far as EV’s. She wins NC, FL, VA, OH, CO and one or two of the northern states like MI, WI, or MN. she takes IW. that will give her the 270 EV needed to win and notice not one east coast or west coast state on the list needed.
As far as majority. Let’s see. She starts with 46% of the vote since most of the people that voted for McCain will not suddenly switch and vote for Obama this time around. that means 5% of the vote needs to switch. she can easily capture this be not being Obama.
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VERY INTERESTING!
What kind of power? Like making the President back off his policies by Tweeting?
My thoughts, exactly.
Meanwhile, you will spend 40 years in the political desert waiting for the GOP nominee who is not mocked. Whether it is stupidity, age, spelling skills, lifestyle, or whatever category can be created, NO GOP nominee will win media approval or acceptance.
Sarah Palin is more than electable. In fact, she has been elected twice city council member, twice mayor, and once Governor of Alaska. 60 million Americans considered her fit for office of VP of the United States. If you think a Conservative has to thread the needle to win, you are sorely mistaken. All they need to do is articulate the common sense conservative principles of limited government, restraint in spending, and strong national defense. Sarah Palin’s record is one that proves she will do what she says, and that speaks louder than words.
I would advise hand wringers to take a deep breath and get ready to elect a conservative House and Senate in November, then let the chips fall for the Presidential season.
It would be smart to not let the media decide who the Republican Presidential candidate will be.
If it is not Sarah Palin, the media wins again. They gave $800 million of free propaganda to Zero. Ronald Reagan could not have won and his poll numbers would be where Sarah's are today if they did to Reagan what they are doing to her. Remember how McCain's numbers were so good until he was running against Zero! The media manipulated the election and the polls.
We would be wise to take back the media by going around them and not letting them dictate our nominee.
We could strike a blow to them once and for all by doing all we can to get Sarah elected!!
The biggest reason they hate Sarah are her Pro Life Stand and her Christian faith which she doesn't hide.
I’ll vote for Sarah.
If the global banksters hand Romney the GOP nomination, I’ll write in somebody else - anybody else.
Hey calm down before you do yourself an injury.
Translation: We will let the media pick our candidate to avoid ridicule or controversy.
Hmmmm...haven't we seen this movie?
The tremble at the thoght of the title "President Palin"
"Alas! Something evil good this way comes!"
Oops! The=they & thoght=thought
I was just thinking about this. Did VP Biden ever retract his statement about BO being inexperienced for the job as president when he was running against him? Jus' wondering!!
Palin 2012
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what? oh yes--the non-sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow) argument... i am "tre" conservative... McCain is not... why would i like him? Sarah Palin is tre conservative and she was on his ticket... why don't you question that?
i love Ronald Reagan and all he stood for... i am a Protestant homeschooling, 2nd Amendment wife and mother who teaches Latin, Greek Mythology, American History and Classical Literature including Shakespeare... i do not believe in sending my children to government school... i am against amnesty... i support our military... i believe whole-heartedly in the US Constitution... one of my brothers fought in Vietnam... a niece and nephew took part in Desert Storm... it's silly that i have to defend my American heart to you just because i have the word Latina in my handle...
as far as i know, all of my relatives are from the United States of America, including grandparents, great grandparents, great-great grandparents... i don't even speak Spanish fluently... haha! my husband is a "white" man, and we really don't know the ethnicity of our children because we adopted them... all they know is that they are American...
i like Sarah Palin... i don't believe she's ready to be POTUS... btw--i've even been told i look like her... we have the same figure, same hair, same complexion and we both wear glasses... we even dress the same... i can relate to her, but i don't see her being our President at this time... i did 18 months ago, but not now... i would like her to come across as more "sharp," a la Lynn Cheney (Dick Cheney's wife)... it was her Oprah appearance that made me more skeptical...
in any case, you are coming across like an Obamobot... if i don't like Obama, i'm a racist... if i don't think Sarah Palin would make a good President, i am what? too Latina? a wise Latina? so, in your opinion, i cannot disagree with the notion of Sarah Palin being ready for the presidency unless i am not really conservative? sounds a lot like Obamabot thinking to me...
let me know when you are ready for an intellectually honest conversation... your response to my post is one of the most unintelligent resposnes i've ever received... try not to respond that way... you may make intelligent Palin supporters look bad...
it's relevant to me, silly... and no, you don't really KNOW... you think, believe, predict... but not KNOW... and that's relevant to you... but not to me... and so we have differing opinions... okay... i can live with that... but some of you who support Sarah Palin can't seem to... disagreement with you is not an option...
That's precisely why it's irrelevant.
Overwhelmingly, conservatives, Freepers and most Republicans agree that she represents their values.
What the loony left think is irrelevant.
“and no, you don't really KNOW... “
I know because she has a record as governor of Alaska that I can look at, unlike 0bama who had zero executive experience before he became president. She was such a good governor that she had the highest approval ratings of any governor in the entire country, at over 90%. The proof of the pudding is in the eating
At the end of the day, the only judgment of how good someone is at governing is, whether those who are being governed think that person is doing a great job or not. That is why 0bama’s approval ratings are in the toilet. The American people don't like the way he is governing, or his policies. Ergo he is a terrible president.
Your screen name (latina4dubya) indicated you liked Bush -- and he was known for his support of "Immigration Reform" and closer integration of the US and Mexico:
(see here for a government-sponsored site on it for example).
The reason I asked you about McCain, was that the cornerstone of his election strategy seemed to be to pander to the supposedly monolithic Hispanic voting bloc, by enabling amnesty, so that the Dems couldn't demagogue the issue as being race-based. (As though that worked in the Civil Rights arena, where the Congressional Dems were actively working against civil rights, and yet managed to hang the "RACIST" tag on Republicans over the next generation.)
So I wanted to see what a member of McCain's "target demographic" for that strategy thought of that approach.
Notice -- despite your claiming you needed to defend your conservatism to me, btw -- that I explicitly stated my motivation for the question, in my post #118:
(I lived in Phoenix for 6 years; he pandered to the Amnesty crowd in the hopes of getting the Latino vote. I'd like to hear first hand from a member of that demographic, their opinion of McCain in general, and then with respect to that issue.)
So with that out of the way, I'll acknowledge that your reply -- tho' with some tartness to it -- answered my questions: you are a Reagan conservative who despises Amnesty.
It is interesting however, that after calling yourself a Reagan conservative, you bash Sarah Palin; in Going Rogue she consciously, deliberately quotes Reagan both on policy and on political strategy. I can't comment on her Oprah appearance because I don't watch Oprah. I remember seeing her when she was a mortal newscaster on WJZ Channel 13 in Baltimore, and not liking what I saw.
in any case, you are coming across like an Obamobot... if i don't like Obama, i'm a racist... if i don't think Sarah Palin would make a good President, i am what? too Latina? a wise Latina? so, in your opinion, i cannot disagree with the notion of Sarah Palin being ready for the presidency unless i am not really conservative? sounds a lot like Obamabot thinking to me...
Not a bit like Obamabot thinking: because Obama has never had any substance beneath his veneer, still less any character: and the objections to Palin "typically" center on her lack of polish, while still admiring her "true grit" and dead-on movement conservative values. Palin and Obama are mirror images as far as their qualifications and reasons for attracting the voters.
let me know when you are ready for an intellectually honest conversation... your response to my post is one of the most unintelligent resposnes i've ever received... try not to respond that way... you may make intelligent Palin supporters look bad...
This only tends to lend additional credence to my original suspicion that you (despite the claims elsewhere in the post) ARE a troll; unless you were just Ticked Off about the tone of my earlier post.
Cheers!
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