Posted on 10/23/2008 10:33:33 AM PDT by lewisglad
Conservative Republicans are talking enthusiastically about Mrs Palin as a White house contender next time, acknowledging that if a week is a long time in politics then four years amounts to several lifetimes.
"Sarah's the one," said one leading conservative." The party is broken and only she can fix it. We need someone who comes from outside Washington and relates to the aspirations of ordinary Americans."
The Alaska governor, a heroine of the Religious Right for her uncompromising stance on abortion –– recently said that unlike Mr McCain she supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Mrs Palin has also contradicted Mr McCain on policy towards Pakistan, over drilling for oil in Alaska and on de-listing North Korea as a terrorist state. While some believe these illustrate her uncertainty over policy, others sayr she is the Republican nominee. (for 2012)
She has also made clear she was unhappy with the way she has been "handled" by the McCain campaign, which kept her out of the media spotlight until it felt she was ready and then arranged a series of interviews with network anchors.
But Alex Castellanos, a leading Republican strategist said that Mrs Palin could have a bright future. "It depends if she can return to being more than someone who rallies the conservative base.
"For a while, she was much more than that. She represented Americans frustrated with failed government in Washington. She wasn't just a conservative, she was a populist. She was President Harry Truman, she was that Maggie Thatcher figure.
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You betcha, she can!
There is a website , www.teamsarah.org you can join and I assume that we will keep it going until she is elected in 2012.
You heard it here first. :-)
Can we Puleeeeze get through this election first?
“All she needs on her resume is apparently to get elected as a state senator in Alaska and vote present 99% of the time.”
Well, at least she has something to be proud of (Alaska).
On the other hand we have the two states represented by the opponents, and a rather lackadaisical voting record.
If she wants the job, she’s easily the frontrunner to become THE voice. She is a favorite of talk radio and Fox News conservatives, and speaks their language as only a true member of the club can.
Palin will have plenty of time to become fluent on national issues. She will easily benefit from the low expectations threshhold, and will probably even garner positive reviews from the MSM types who disparage her today.
Palin will be judged to be “ready” in four years. George Will and David Brooks and Peggy Noonan will all swoon over her once more.
Palin is an enormously talented politician. When she knows what she’s talking about, or even when she knows enough to fake it, she is very, very appealing, and very good at redirecting questions to whatever her own message is.
Pro-Palin voices will begin to talk a great deal about how the only person to ever come close to beating Barack Obama was Hillary Clinton. Palin will seem to fit the Hillary mold for many Republican primary voters.
With a potential President Obama running what is likely to be a bigger government that spends more on social programs, Republicans are likely to run the most anti-government, anti-Washington campaign this side of Barry Goldwater. Again, Palin is perfectly positioned for this campaign.
Republicans tend to pick the next guy in line. Strangely enough, the next guy in line is now Sarah Palin, by virtue of her being the VP nominee this year. She will have the benefit of being both an outsider candidate and the natural heir to the nomination; indeed, the only candidate who will have experience in a general election campaign.
Her main obstacles to the nomination are Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
The Republicans are going to want someone willing to really go for Obama’s throat, and be able to do it with a smile. Depending on the outcome of the GOP’s War of the Roses, the evangelical community might be a much stronger force in 2012 than it was in 2008, at least when it comes to dominating the GOP nominating process. They are a solid bloc of voters and footsoldiers.
Palin will be the most well-financed candidate aside from Mitt Romney. She will raise gobs of money from energy interests (who will be running scared against Obama’s green energy initiatives), and will in turn raise gobs of money from small donors online.
Some community organizing experience would also help.
I've been thinking the same thing. Both are bright, common sense conservatives. The country would be in great hands through 2028 (1/2029).
I have to be honest here that I’m more than a little annoyed with talk of 2012, when we are fighting to save this country with the 2008 election.
We lose this one and we may never have a peoples vote again to get to 2012.
It is that serious!
“Can we Puleeeeze get through this election first?”
If I have to spend time contemplating what the administration officials chosen by Obama and Biden and Pelosi would do to our country...
I think it fair we spend equal time contemplating what it would be like with Governor Palin as President.
It’s just fair, ya know.
We need Mitt Romney/Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney/Bobby Jindal. Both will be a winning ticket. Bobby jindal will blow obama in the debate.
I agree she can still win this time in 2008, but even people in the UK can see Sarah is ready to run for POTUS!
I would vote for her
LLS
And whomever is our nominee next time would just please screw the federal funding rules!
As someone said.. she just needs to be a US Senator in Alaska and rather than working on bills... start campaigning four years in advance for the Presidency.
If Obama wins, it is going to backfire when suddenly he’s the focus of the nightly commentaries (no McCain to discuss after the race is over)... glowing commentary only lasts a short time because it doesn’t get the ratings.
Instead, the media will have to be critical and dissect his every move. And, because Obama will not have ever been heavily criticized by the same media during the campaign he will go on the defensive and show just how empty and unpresidential he really is...
I know the leaders of the world want him to win because Obama has not yet established his political identity. It has been ever-changing as the go-along candidate.
assuming McCain loses, she will need A LOT of work and experience to bolster her resumé, imho.
IMHO, 4 more years as a gov will be just fine for me.
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