Posted on 11/13/2010 7:16:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 11/13/2010 7:56:26 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
PLUMSTEADVILLE (Pennsylvania) - AS SARAH Palin solidifies her life in the spotlight with her own reality show launching on Sunday, speculation has reached fever pitch: will she remain merely a media phenomenon or rise to president of the United States?
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You don't appear to be capable of learning from anything. Harry Reid had to steal more than 60,000 votes to win in NV against Sharon Angle.
| GOVERNOR | ||
| REID, RORY(D) | 298,171 VOTES | ( 41.61%) |
| SANDOVAL, BRIAN (R) | 382,350 VOTES | ( 53.36%) |
| UNITED STATES SENATOR | ||
| ANGLE, SHARRON (R) | 320,998 VOTES | ( 44.59%) |
| REID, HARRY (D) (Incumbent) | 361,657 VOTES | ( 50.24%) |
Sorry, but the votes don’t add up for a stolen election.
And why would Reid steal the election for himself but not his boy?
We knew this race was going this way early on election day.
The turnout numbers showed early on that Reid was going to pull it off.
I do not want a repeat of this in 2012 with 0bama.
America is over if that happens. We will become the USSA.
L-dogs! Good to hear some time commitment. I’m doing full-time 90 miles north of here in NH. Just get that cell phone with 803 area code and your good to go in South Carolina.
I believe they call that begging the question, i.e., treating an unproven premise as if it were true and moving to the next stage of analysis prematurely. The only reason Palin is even being challenged on this “electability” canard is because she is so flippin popular she poses a serious risk of defeating all her GOP competitors. Why is that? If there’s someone who could connect with and energize the GOP base better than her, where are they? You’ve really got to be able to win in your own party before you can hope to win the presidency. Competition is the raw material of American exceptionalism, and if Palin keeps winning in the speed trials I don’t know how you can keep her out of the actual race.
There are many who are in the right place philosophically, and with the experience to back it up.
You think she has the charisma to win. But if that was true, there would be some empirical evidence to back it up. Instead, all evidence points to the contrary.
If Palin somehow becomes the GOP nominee in 2012, what will you say when she loses? “Oh well, better luck next time”? There won’t be an America left for next time. 2012 is our one shot to stop 0bama’s agenda from going into effect. Once it does, there will be no getting rid of it until it bankrupts America. And then we’ll have more serious concerns with the total breakdown of society, the monetary system, law & order, and national defense.
NH is open to unemrolled Indies. Not open to DEMS. (yes, more INDs will vote in GOP primary if there is no DEM primary. Didn’t seem to bother Buchanan in ‘96.)
What ridiculous analogies.
The country as whole is FAR more conservative than Delaware and Colorado.
Secondly, you seem to be forgetting that PALIN WON and became the governor or Alaska. The other four lost. BTW, Miller, if ends up losing, lost to a Republican not a Democrat. So, to even use him as an example is lunacy.
Thirdly, the morons that run the Republican party did not sufficiently fund Angle or Buck or both likely would have won their races. Angle was ahead in every poll going and got beat because labor unions and casinos owners ran a better ground game.
Alaska is a solid Republican state. It’s also only 3 electoral votes.
That’s not the concern. Nor is it much help in the grand scheme.
If we don’t carry Colorado and Nevada, 0bama wins.
Your Republican establishment buddies didn't sufficient support Angle or Buck. They will support the Republican nominee for President.
BTW, exit polls showed Mike Castle losing to Coons. Are you suggesting Republicans run someone to the left of Castle for President so they can try to win Delaware? Or do you admit that what happened in Delaware in meaningless to the GOP’s Presidential hopes?
The magical thinking here, BTW, is that candidates that every poll showed couldn’t win somehow were going to win simply by virtue of the Tea Party believing they would because of Tea Party support alone.
Sarah Palin fits that, except that half the Tea Party members even understand that she can’t win.
The candidates who did win were the ones with broad appeal beyond just the Tea Parties, like Ron Johnson, Kelly Ayotte, Pat Toomey, and Marco Rubio.
The ones who lost were the more polarizing candidates who could not expand their appeal beyond the Tea Parties: Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Ken Buck, Joe Miller. This is the group Sarah Palin belongs to.
Of course the GOP is not going to be playing to Delaware.
But they must win Colorado and Nevada.
Both of these states are beyond Palin’s reach.
A Palin-0bama rematch in 2012 would yield the same electoral map as 2008.
Agreed. If the Republican party puts up another old, out of touch, wrinkled white guy for President in 2012, they are done.
People are sick of the same old, good old boys. The party needs to present a fresher, younger, more in touch face to the young voters.
Huckabee is too blah and bloodless.
Romney is too plastic and processed.
I doubt the voters will trust either of them to have what it takes to get this country out of this mess.
We need someone strong, vital, conservative, unafraid, willing to think outside the box, and classically American as our next President.
Palin is NOT Angle or Buck. She won. They didn't. There is no comparison between an established politician, one that beat the Republican machines in Alaska, and rookies.The Republican Machine in Alaska struck back and defeated Palin... Twice.
Then Bobby Jindal is your man.
And unlike Palin, he could vanquish 0bama.
Margaret Thatcher.
Correct. Anybody is better than BO.
Then why don’t you run?
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