Posted on 11/24/2009 5:07:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"Like it or not, if Sarah Palin decides to seek our nation's highest office, she has a shot," Matthew Dowd, the chief strategist for the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign, writes in today's Washington Post, before offering Palin a list of advice on how to get there.
Dowd draws a parallel between Palin and Obama, in that each are beloved by members of their own party, and not liked so much by members of the other:
Polls show that Palin's favorability numbers are a mirror image of those of Obama. She is respected and loved by the Republican base, while Democrats despise her. Granted, independent voters have significant reservations about her capability to be president, and this would be a hurdle in the general election. But to win the Republican nomination, Palin needs only to get enough support from the base to win early key states. Already, in nearly every poll today, she has a level of support that makes her a viable primary candidate. Just look at the crowds and the buzz her book tour is drawing.
And it's true: Obama is liked by 88 percent of Demcorats and disliked by 93 percent of Republicans, according to his latest major favorability poll, conducted by Research 2000 for Daily Kos.(continued)
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You did mean to impart that this is the leftstream frame of mind, didn't you?
We didn’t choose McRino...SOROS DID...
Dobbs...what a complete joke he’d be. No Thanks...Palin is the one.
She will not get my vote then. Tom Tancredo backed Mitt - so I guess Mitt will get my vote.
Frankly, John McCain made Bob Dole look good...
Those 7% of Republicans who like Obama must be in the House and the Senate.
You can't seriously be comparing Bob Dole to Sarah Palin???
Sheeesh, friend, Bob Dole could barely even get his own family excited enough about his campaign to show up to a rally. Palin can pack more bodies into a square yard than any Republican politician we've ever seen.
Until McNuts came along, Dole was the most boring, uninspiring candidate that most of us had ever seen.
You can almost smell the fear!!!
She is a light weight and a quitter, she is finished but good book!! My wife loves it!! I won’t read that tripe. Dobbs Now !!
That is idiotic beyond belief, the top conservative candidate in America, in fact currently the top republican candidate period, the most influential republican politician in America, as Governor she was the most popular Governor in America, and your big man analysis is a childish burp about “light weight and a quitter”.
Do you know what Palin’s view on immigration is? Many may be surprised but it very similiar to the “trash” you speak of above.
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If you listened to her Rush interview, she is against amnesty. It’s called “illegal” immigrant for a reason. They go to the back of the line and apply like the rest.
of course. That’s how the press sees things.
Another irony with much of the media hatred of her is that if you were to forget all the political issues and just relate to them as people, as potential friends, etc... I suspect that the vast majority of media members(and certainly women)would find way more in common with her and find her way more friendly and fun to be with than Obama.
But the ideological commitment trumps all.
If she were a liberal, pro-choice woman she would have been hailed from the start as a hero. Oh well.
‘like it or not’ he was writing for readers of the Washington Post.
I think the best thing would be if John McCain was to run again in 2012. I think he’s got the most experience and is a shoo-in for the nomination.
With all due respect to Senator Dole, who was a very fine man, Sarah Palin is a much more dynamic and appealing political candidate. Dole v Clinton looked like Ali v Larry Holmes. Sarah won’t have that problem.
Additionally, her record in Alaska supports her stance of a year ago, again due to the fact she did not lift a finger against Alaska's sanctuary cities (much akin to San Francisco being a sanctuary city).
My point is/was if we are going to call certain politicians “trash” and RINO for holding the same view, then we need to hold her to the same standard.
You can't seriously be comparing Bob Dole to Sarah Palin???That's precisely what Bob Dole thought in 1994 when Clinton saw the Republicans take control of the Congress for the first time in 40 years. How'd that work out?
Actually, if you traced back you'd see that I was making the exact opposite point - that just because the poster I was responding to thinks that Obama will be unpopular by 2012 is no sign that he can take for granted that anyone could beat him then. And by her resume, contrary to the propaganda, Governor Palin was the most qualified to be president of all the four major party presdential/VP candidates in '08.If she runs the pols will try to make a big deal out of her resignation from the governorship of Alaska. But IMHO she would be able to turn that completely back on the critics, "Which would you rather have, a time-server who clings to an office for their own perquisites, or a leader who knows when they have accomplished what they are going to, and it's time to pass the baton on to their successor?" "I know that Barak Obama doesn't think much of George Washington, but in his time he was celebrated above all his countrymen for passing the baton on - once when he could have become dictator at the head of a mutinous army at the end of the Revolutionary War, and again when he could have kept office for a third term."
I think that last line could be devastating.
Ok, deep thinker
See, I am not sure I agree with that. nobama, and his crew are a one and done bunch. If a Republican, running on Conservative values can't win in 2012, then there is no hope for the country; palin or not. If that is the case, then open revolt in the only option.
If Palin plays king maker over the next three election cycles, then there would be a base of Conservative (not Republican) politicians; and most likely young ones, across the entire country at every level of government that the libs would not be able to un-entrench for decades to come.
Reagan, God rest his soul, did titanic work in rebuilding the conservative base. Look how long the benefits lasted, though. The elder Bush wasn't even out of office before we started to see the intrusion of New World Order BS creeping back into American politics. It led partially to the election of clinton. Gingrich led a mini resurgence of conservatism in 94, but it too didn't last long, either. It wasn't but 2-4 more years that the liberalism that led to our current financial problems crept back into the mix; in the late 90's. Bush was a fricking disaster on the domestic front as far as Conservative values go. The point I am making is that a strong conservative leader can only take non conservative politicians so far. Eventually, they will go back to being fiscally and culturally liberal; because that's where the money is.
We've lost academia, we've lost the entertainment industry, and we've lost Washington. The only way conservatism is going to take back the country long term, is by becoming pervasive at every level of local and state government; to include city councils and local school boards; and eventually the federal government.
Palin is young enough that waiting until 2016 will not make her too old to run for president. She's politically astute enough that I think she can survive the attacks that will come her way in the interim. Imagine this; Sarah Palin taking the oath of office with not only a majority in one, or both houses of Congress, but also having 30-40 Conservative govern-ships and/or state houses behind her, as well. That won't happen in 2012, but a Conservative movement led by Palin could engineer it by 2016, if not then by 2010, in my opinion.
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