The Unlikeable Palin

American Conservative ^ | 7/2/10 | Daniel Larison

[Clyde5445]

NBC/WSJ——Pleezzzzz. If I am not mistaken their sample is average Americans and not registered voters.

These polls are based on a false media image. Palin will smash this image once she starts to campaign with her own message. The one thing none of these clowns take into account is the retail side of politics. Palin is a master at retail politics and that is the game changer.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I pick the most obvious choice :-) How about we impeach Obama now and put Palin in.

[lovesdogs]

Go Grizzly Mama, all the way!!!!

Sarah will do what she will do and ask for God to guide her along the way. Ronald Reagan followed that path and it worked out ok for him. If Sarah's path carries her to the oval office in 2013 or 2017 it is ok with me. We just do not under any circumstance need a RHINO sliding into the office and subverting a true conservative.

[Carley]

snicker snort

[Al B.]

This guy is a PhD in Byzantine History from the Univ. of Chicago. He recently wrote a column criticizing U.S. support of "Israel's recklessness" in the flotilla raid and urged more accommodation to the Turkish position. No wonder he writes for Buchanan.

Another anti-Israel Buchananite hates Palin. Big deal.

[Radix]

I have not seen anyone in national politics more appealing than Sarah Palin.

I actually believed that Romney would likely be the most competent person to be President (in 2008) despite his major gaffe here in Massachusetts of signing that outrageous Health Care Law.

I'm getting old enough to realize that my days are numbered. I have more concerns about posterity than I do for my own future.

Sarah Palin is the only person in sight that seems to be of a similar mindset.

There is nobody better out there right now.

Well the new Governor of New Jersey could be a contender, but he has only been in office for a few months.

Lets see what happens during the next year or so.

[LibLieSlayer]

This is nothing more than a combination of leftard dreaming and romney paying this clown to write this tripe.

LLS

[Yossarian]

She will be the first woman to become President, but it won’t be 2012.

If this is the case, Palin would help her prospects considerably (in terms of winning over mushy moderates) by getting a serious job, where she is responsible for solving - FOR REAL, NOT JUST TALKING - serious issues.

I understand why she left the Alaskan Governor's office. However, that act was very damaging to her Presidential prospects.

[Williams]

Don’t believe the poll, but it is amazing how the American people can be manipulated against a person who certainly never did anything wrong and has done a lot of good.

[LibLieSlayer]

He will never get my vote.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

I could smell it on his writing.

LLS

[richardtavor]

“the poll shows that 52% have problems with a candidate who has been endorsed by Palin, versus only 25% who are comfortable with that attribute.” REALLY? Every candidate that she has endorsed has one. How does buchanan call himself conservative?

[Williams]

Even if Palin has high negatives that doesn’t mean she can’t be elected, once she has center stage in a general election. It’s like all the people who thought Reagan wasn’t electable until he proved himself in the debates with Carter.

[bicyclerepair]

Was just in ALASKA for two weeks.

While in Skagway, we saw a Sarah Palin store. So I went in, Dad photographed me next to the full-size cutout of her, bought a coffee mug for my next evil capitalist gig, a few pins and smiled at all the other people in the store. Ahhhhhh.

[onyx]

Thanks, Al B. I was just about to research the writer.

I’m not a silly Pollyanna. I know that Sarah will have to reintroduce herself to the doubters that the media persuaded that she was Tina Fey dumb, but I also know that Sarah is up to that challenge.

She’s media smart now and she’s ready to be POTUS. Let her shine and ‘bring it on.’

[Biblebelter]

You make a good point.

But remember Ronald Reagan had only one serious job as you put it and that was the governorship of California.

After he left office, he did pretty much what Palin is doing now.

Since cable news commentary was not option then he did the next best thing,he had his own radio commentary show, did a lot of speaking, and worked hard for candidates who were conservative.

That is why I said 2012 would not be her year.

She is doing good works for conservatism just as Reagan did when he left the governorship.

At some point she will have accrued the political capital to cash in with the electorate just as Reagan did.

[SoCalPol]

Since this Magazine is anti war and anti Israel
am so glad they don’t like Sarah Palin. I would not want a magazine like that supporting her.

Like Duncan Hunter Sarah Palin suports the war against the IslamOfascists and supports Israel.

Thanks for exposing the paleos who back the PaulBots and bash Sarah

[Al B.]

It’s like all the people who thought Reagan wasn’t electable until he proved himself in the debates with Carter.

And that's after Ronald Reagan had spent 3 decades in public life, was running for president for the 3rd time and was up against the disaster called Jimmy Carter.

Despite all that, Americans STILL were not sure about him until that debate because of the constant anti-Reagan media drumbeat. The polls were a dead heat and Carter was ticking up. The deal was closed in one night.

Post-election polls showed 2/3 of Americans thought Palin had gotten a raw deal from the media. If she is the nominee, she'll get a serious second look. It'll be up to her.

[aSeattleConservative]

For a “conservative” magazine, I saw an awful lot of Ron Paul/libertarian links in there. (It appears that libertarians in this case just HATE competition).

[Al B.]

She'll have her shot if she wants it, no doubt about that.

Problem is, that's what has her detractors in a dither. They don't WANT her to have an honest shot.