Palin 2012 is just as ridiculous a proposition as Quayle 1996 would have been. My Democrat friends are salivating at an Obama v. Palin matchup. It would be the final nail in the GOP’s coffin. We need to throw the net far and wide to find a viable candidate, but we also need to nominate someone who has not become a national laughing stock. And if you don’t think that she has become a laughing stock then you surely don’t live where the bulk of the votes are. She may play to the base, but she can’t bring the votes necessary to win.
In the beginning of his rise the only people who loved him were the hard core base. And we loved him because of the one salient point that we knew in our deep heart....he was "true" to his principles....the one politician who you knew what his stand would be BEFORE HE SPOKE....and that is what we feel about SP.....sure she needs a little seasoning....BUT WE KNOW WHERE SHE STANDS BEFORE SHE SPEAKS.....she embodies our principles and our deep love for this country, just as RR did......A leader connects with his people in a mysterious way that is hard to explain....all I know is that RR connected with me then the same way that SP connects with me now.
God could drop a great blessing on your door step, and you would reject it because it is raining outside.
Just how blind are you ? Palin is not a national laughing stock. This is a team and Sarah is our best player. We owe her the nomination. We better be loyal to her, or we do not deserve any future success.
and I will make sure to do my part to undermine anyother candidate that gets in her way. and any other RINO candidate that gets the nomination.
It was the wisdom of the other contenders and of most Republican Party leaders, too, not to mention of practically everyone in Democratic politics, that Reagan was: too old, too extreme, too marginal and not nearly smart enough to win the nomination. The Democrats, in fact, when they weren’t chortling about him, were fervently hoping he would be the nominee. When he carried the convention in Detroit, people I knew in the Carter White House were ecstatic.
Pardon me for not being impressed by Democrats crowing about how badly Palin would lose if she were nominated. They said the same thing about her when she ran for City Council, Mayor, and Governor. Just as they said the same about Reagan.
And sometimes Republicans even make this mistake. I remember how we all laughing at crazy Howard Dean's "50 State Plan" for the DNC. What a dopey idea to open offices in the deep South, right? Well, Howard got the last laugh. His 50 State Plan was a huge success and now Michael Steele wants to copy it for the GOP.
Here's my prediction for Palin's appearance in Georgia on Monday: she'll give a great speech and she'll close the deal for Saxby. The media will cover it because the camera loves to follow this woman. The MSM has a love/hate relationship with her. She's ratings gold. They can't get enough of her. And yet they loathe her at the same time. She has the star power to do pretty much anything she wants. We've never seen this sort of thing before. It frightens them and so they are dead set upon marginalizing any power she might have as a national candidate. But, again, I would not underestimate her.
As for Noonan, it might be instructive to recall that she didn't support Reagan in 1976. Make of that what you will...