Posted on 12/21/2008 8:28:23 AM PST by BGHater
Vice President Dick Cheney says he's confident Republicans will rebound from this year's election defeats. But he doesn't know if Sarah Palin will be the candidate to lead the comeback.
Cheney said the Alaska governor who was John McCain's running mate this year is no lock to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012. Cheney says Palin will have to "earn it," just like anybody else would.
Besides capturing the White House, Democrats widened their majorities in the House and Senate in this year's elections.
Cheney likens the current political cycle to the 1970s, when Republicans lost the White House following the Watergate scandal. Republican Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980, after just a single term for Democrat Jimmy Carter.
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Good! Who needs the GOP/DNC?
McLame????...... nuff said.
Cheney is of course correct. I’m sure we all wish he would have said more to boost her (and maybe slap at McLame a little), but that’s not how he works.
Watch Palin’s re-election run in two years. That will tell you her plans.
No question about it. I agree. Heck, McCain (a supporter of semi-amnesty got 10% less of the Hispanic vote than Pres Bush)--the demographics going forward are ACCELERATING against the Republicans--and it will get worse by the year.
Add that to that--the PERFECT ALIBI (Hussein is already saying it will take years to recover from this economic mess--and, of course, the MSM completely agrees with him and is running with that ball bigtime)--and Hussein will be unbeatable in four years.
I believe she is doing just that, Cheney.
Duh!
This just in! The Sky is in fact blue!
Quite honestly, I wouldn’t want an endorsement from Cheney. That said, he didn’t endorse anyone but merely spoke the truth-—ANYONE thinking of running for the presidential nomination at ANY point in time must earn it....period. If she wants it, I believe Palin is in the best position to earn it—she has the name recognition, support of most Republicans currently, and she can certainly outcampaign just about anyone (even McCain gave her that-—and he gave her almost nothing otherwise).
However, I’m afraid stockstrader could be correct. The MSM is so emphasizing the horrible economic situation which BHO is “inheriting” that any improvement whatsoever, no matter how minute, will be credited to him. I do not want any of our young guns, including Palin, to run in ‘12 if BHO has a popularity rating exceeding 50-52%. We know he has the ground game to run effectively, and I don’t want Palin (or Jindal) to be a sacrificial lamb.
Don’t disturb the echo chamber.
I do hope the Republican primary doesn’t turn into another Republican silly season. Let the establishment throw their moderate into the fray, and keep it down to one or two conservatives. I think Sarah will put on her hunting boots, and stomp the daylights out of the rest of the field, and I hope she does it quickly, so we can get on with stopping the Communist coop. It’s time to shut up the Republican establishment, and it’s time to destroy Barry Ogodo, before his cult destroys us.
I don’t care who the Republicans pick Palin will be my vote in 2012 if she elects to run.
I love Sarah Palin as ‘the’ candidate, but I don’t see enough women supporting her to be viable.
As you saw with supposed ‘conservative’ women political commentators and female (supposed feminist) journalists, they savaged her. You would have thought women would have gotten behind her, but it boiled down to being able to kill babies. Baby killing trumps a wholesome female candidate with American women. They spoke and voted for Obama.
The press has already poisoned the well with a negative stereotype that has not been responded too even by John (Backstabber) McCain. He left her to out to dry.
No one is a lock right now for the GOP nominee. But I think it’s telling how the media brings up Sarah when interviewing Cheney, I mean WOW, they are scared shitless that she is gonna run, every question is about her. “Is she gonna run?” they are constantly asking that, they are so scared that she will run and win that they are planning for it now, they are showing their stupidity and fear by constantly bringing her up. You all see, that is what they fear, her running for President, the non-stop attacks, that is what this is all about, they know their prophet is a false one so they are preparing for the future. Cheney is right, no one is a lock right now, let’s see what Obama does to tank this country even further, if it looks like we are in a world of trouble then of course Sarah has a chance to run in 2012, if not, she can run in 2016, she is gonna run for sure, all a matter of when
1) Unmarried women voted for Obama by a massive 70 to 29 percent
2) Married women, by contrast, preferred McCain by a slim 3 percentage-point margin, 50 to 47 percent.
3) Overall, 53 percent of the national electorate this year was female, according to exit poll data. Women overall voted 56 to 43 percent for Obama; men voted 49 to 48
2008. Guiliani vs Clinton: put money on it.
The Republican Party wants to fail again?
If the people want Sarah, they best take heed.
Dang! Very informative. It just gets deeper and deeper. Things are coming to light, however.
Rapper Jay-Z, at an Obama rally in Cleveland last night, giving the same salute that Hitler used to give back in the day.
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True, but right now Palin is Governor of one of only about five or six states that are operating in the black. If she can maintain that for the next few years, that would be a very effective argument in her favor.
I do not want any of our young guns, including Palin, to run in ‘12 if BHO has a popularity rating exceeding 50-52%. We know he has the ground game to run effectively.
On the other hand, Palin has the ability (the will) to speak more simply, honestly, and straightforwardly than any other candidate out there (when she's not on some stupid leash, which she won't be). As far as public persuasion goes, I'll put that ability up against Obamas 'hope and change' B.S. any day of the week. Of course she will still have to contend with a totally biased media, but at least she won't cut her own throat by going on 'Saturday Night Live'.
I agree 100%.
I hope that Sarah waits until 2016.
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