Good to see you post. You are on-target, as usual.
Has there ever been an example of a politician so loathed by the media who has successfully turned around such wide-ranging negative perception?
The folks who think Palin can do no wrong, or who think that just because she has large and DEEP support among conservatives believe she will overcome that negative perception because they really, really want her to, don’t seem to want to put aside their passion and look at Palin’s situation without emotion.
This has been the trouble with her opponents, as well—they cannot put aside their blinding hatred and see WHY she is so popular with so many.
In the end, I can’t think of a single politician so thoroughly loathed by the MSM, and whose image is so set at this point in the presidential election season. If Palin runs, in order to win she has to overcome a media blockade unlike any other. Just because we’d LIKE her to change her perception by the public, doesn’t necessarily mean it is possible.
Nixon. He was despised. But, he waited until he got to the White House to quit.
...I start to wonder if some bone-brained schmuck isn't sitting there with two P.C.s and a laptop, all on different ISP's with unique "Absolute Adresses" posting as several people, all of whom simply "love each other's brilliance and beauty..."
Because, quite frankly, the cynical defeatist drivel offered up by Nate B. in fact deserves but to be ignored by actual thinking Americans, not applauded like some particularly prescient precept.
"I can’t think of a single politician so thoroughly loathed by the MSM, and whose image is so set at this point in the presidential election season. If Palin runs, in order to win she has to overcome a media blockade unlike any other."
Ahem. Ummmm, the Lamestream Misleadia has spent the last three years attempting to knock her off her pins with every imaginable onslaught available, tired to shut her up and convince America that she's already all washed up.
I guess you haven't noticed, but...
...they failed. Badly. Monstrously. Indelibly. Forever. Sarah Palin is better known and better liked today than when they started their assault on her all those years ago. Her Facebook fan base has tripled over the last two years. Her volunteer ground support has organized ready-to-launch teams of "get out the voter" commandos in virtually every State in the Union, basically as a response to the FAILED media attempts to destroy her.
Anyone who at this point thinks they can effectively point to the media's repeatedly ineffective assassinations of Palin as a reason why she cannot win is simply and quite obviously as blind to the truth as they'd like to paint us as being.
In fact... they, like the media, are just whistling past the graveyard. Make no mistake.
Sarah Palin is coming, and the TEA Party is coming with her.
I understand what you say and you may right in theory and in this case of Palin (we shall see), but at the same time, it is automatic surrender to say that if the MSM doesn’t want the Republicans to run a non-nonsense conservative with close to 100% intergity, then by golly, we have to honor the MSM (or else).
Personally I believe Obama is DOA in 2012 and anyone will beat him, and that includes Sarah Palin, in fact, she might win PA, MI, WI. If you believe his economic policies are a folly, and they are, there is no way the econmy turns around, and Pre. BOZO loses, no matter what. Hence, the electability meme in 2012 in my judgment plays a minimal role.
Reagan was down by 32 points in the polls in Feb. 1980. Reagan won by 10 points.
And that was before the alternative media sources that we have today.