It's like a bad dream. The MSM advocated for Huck as their own Operation Chaos. They wanted McCain; Huck would have been their miracle candidate.
Posted on 06/03/2009 9:22:40 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
It's never too early, apparently, to start handicapping the field for the 2012 presidential race.
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey found what amounts to a dead heat among Republican contenders, with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee at 22 percent, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at 21 percent and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney also at 21 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
With all the attempts to give Sarah a coronation here, I’ve had to start early.
She would do a damn sight better, look at her state...
I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind.
I was wrong!
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she.
And what a she!
In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad's indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media's assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven't heard since my Dad left the scene.
This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP.
Last night was an extraordinary event. Widely seen beforehand as a make-or-break effort -- either an opportunity for Sarah Palin to show that she was the happy warrior that John McCain assured us she was, or a disaster that would dash McCain's presidential hopes and send her back to Alaska, sadder but wiser.
Obviously un-intimidated by either the savage onslaught to which the left-leaning media had subjected her, or the incredible challenge she faced -- and oozing with confidence -- she strode defiantly to the podium and proved she was everything and even more than John McCain told us.
Much has been made of the fact that she is a woman. What we saw last night, however, was something much more than a just a woman accomplishing something no Republican woman has ever achieved. What we saw was a red-blooded American with that rare, God-given ability to rally her dispirited fellow Republicans and take up the daunting task of leading them -- and all her fellow Americans -- on a pilgrimage to that shining city on the hill my father envisioned as our nation's real destination.
In a few words she managed to rip the mask from the faces of her Democratic rivals and reveal them for what they are -- a pair of old-fashioned liberals making promises that cannot be kept without bankrupting the nation and reducing most Americans to the status of mendicants begging for their daily bread at the feet of an all-powerful government.
Most important, by comparing her own stunning record of achievement with his, she showed Barack Obama for the sham that he is, a man without any solid accomplishments beyond conspicuous self-aggrandizement.
Like Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin is one of us. She knows how most of us live because that's the way she lives. She shares our homespun values and our beliefs, and she glories in her status as a small-town woman who put her shoulder to the wheel and made life better for her neighbors.
Her astonishing rise up from the grass-roots, her total lack of self-importance, and her ordinary American values and modest lifestyle reveal her to be the kind of hard-working, optimistic, ordinary American who made this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth.
As hard as you might try, you won't find that kind of plain-spoken, down-to-earth, self-reliant American in the upper ranks of the liberal-infested, elitist Democratic Party, or in the Obama campaign.
Sarah Palin didn't go to Harvard, or fiddle around in urban neighborhood leftist activism while engaging in opportunism within the ranks of one of the nation's most corrupt political machines, never challenging it and going along to get along, like Barack Obama.
Instead she took on the corrupt establishment in Alaska and beat it, rising to the governorship while bringing reforms to every level of government she served in on her way up the ladder.
Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
Now don’t go hitting the Sarah haters with facts and wisdom, kills the buzz...
Dead heat is how I’d describe it. My chances of voting for him, are best described as DOA.
Oh pleeeaaaasssseeeee! Can we go for at least 12 months without Presidential election polls?
That is even better, I don’t think we will have a coronation from the general public. I would bet on the governor from South Carolina.
It's like a bad dream. The MSM advocated for Huck as their own Operation Chaos. They wanted McCain; Huck would have been their miracle candidate.
I know many FReepers hate Romney, but wow, what a better choice than McAmnesty...
Romney/Palin would have ROUTED Zer0.
I watched "Sarah" on SNL and agree with you based on those skits. However, when I limit my assessment to the performance of Alaska's governor, I reach exactly the opposite conclusion. Governor Palin is far more qualified for the White House than any major candidate since Ronald Reagan ... and more than that, she's a good candidate for that job.
She still needs to earn the nomination, and my money is on the a liberal RINO with media support to take the nomination as the conservative votes are split 3-4 ways, but if she makes it to the White House, she'll be our best president since Reagan, perhaps our best ever.
I have huge misgivings about Romney and huge (different) ones about Huckabee. And Palin, my concern with her is that she’s been “Quayle’d”: the media have irreversibly branded her as a dim-bulb, no matter the truth.
Yes, you are the self-appointed 'anti-coronation' FR poster. That worked out fabulously in 2008. In fact, it led to Duncan being exposed as the stalking horse for Huck. Is it true that you prefer Huck to Sarah?
Romney? Huck? Don’t let CNN pick your candidate.
Remember what happened last time.
There can be only one and her name is Sarah.
1. I think it is too early to handicap.
2. I also think that whoever it is, they dang well better have an attitude that will unravel the socialist interventions placed by Opossum. And, just like imPOTUS44, do it in the 1st 100 days.
Palin/Jindal or Palin/Bachmann
I think it’s great to see some real diverse backgrounds, personalities and life-experience among the candidates. You can argue that they could all be stronger candidates than they are, but you can’t argue that they’re all alike. I’m for getting out the popcorn.
Romney and McCain are of equal worthlessness in my view *non* of the big names from 08 should be allowed within ten miles of the republican debates this time around. Its time to go out there and find the next Reagan. A sound conservative who communicates it well..
Yep.
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