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 more qualified than any president that we have had since Bush I.”
That is the standardless attack line they try to use. How do you refute it? Who, after all, is qualified? The answer is “a 35 year old natural born citizen of the United States”. That makes you qualified. 270 electoral votes make a qualified person President. And how they perform in the job determines, in retrospect whether they were “fit” for the job. I think, after she serves, Palin will go down in history as eminently fit for the job, and I agree with you that her life experiences, both inside and outside of government have fitted her uniquely and extraordinarily well for the job. That is why she has my wholehearted support.
Palin is the only person able to bring the landslide win. And to really change Dc you need a landslide win. Mitt, TPAw etc will at most get a win with no mandate.
OH PLEASE.
Sarah Palin attracts crowds and media attention where ever she goes.
The candidate who will beat Obama will have to raise millions and ONLY SARAH CAN DO THAT!!!
Ron, stop baiting. It’s unseemly.
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.
Not baiting. He started it.
Yes, but did they elect her? Nope, got behind the articulate, clean negro.
Thanks for your support.
ROTFLOL. That sounds just like my kids.
Yeah. I trust the Washington Post and ABC News to conduct an objective poll on Sarah Palin.
Seriously. look back thru the posts. He called me ignorant and later told me I slandered him! I’m tellin’ ya, these new posters are angry and uncivilized.
Seriously, has anyone here known me to be nasty to anyone?
Yes, that was the other point I meant to touch on. You are right. Who are the people who read the W.P. and watch ABC news? Duh. Why don’t they try running their poll in the Weekly Standard and FOX News?
I do not want Obama to be in power for 8 years. That’s really the bottom line.
Ok point taken, but I still think honesty trumps gender in Washington DC.
ROTFLOL....nawwwwww, not you. Calm and collected all the time ye are.
LOL..u know better than that Cap'n.
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