I COULD BEAT HIM!
Posted on 11/17/2010 2:27:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sarah Palin says she is seriously considering a run for the White House, and she believes she could beat President Obama in 2012, the former Alaska governor told ABC News' Barbara Walters. "I'm looking at the lay of the land now, and ... trying to figure that out, if it's a good thing for the country, for the discourse, for my family, if it's a good thing," Palin said in an interview scheduled to air in full Dec. 9 on ABC as part of Walters' "10 Most Fascinating People" of 2010.
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As for some of the spineless conservatives on our side who are susceptible to the negative media depiction of Sarah, and are hoping to find a male candidate that will be above criticism, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. The media will pick apart any conservative candidate and rip him/her to shreds. Especially in a general election - there is no conservative candidate immune from media criticism and ridicule.
Despite the steady stream of media bashing, Sarah keeps her focus on Obama and his policies of destruction, and at times she seems the only GOP politician with the courage to tell it like it is.
I’m very glad to read your wonderful comments before I sign-out, due to T-storms here.
As always, you’re spot-on astute! Sarah is strongest of all the candidates, because she’s already been smeared, slandered and legaly libeled, IMO, but here she is standing taller than ever and owning the news cycle 24/7, 365!
Fiddlstix won’t want to miss reading your comments.
(scratching head)....well, ok. I guess we're on the same page .. LOL
You've got the calculus exactly right. The Democrats cannot win the White House without the black vote, and they won't have the black vote if Bambi isn't the Dem nominee.
Two years into his term, and he's already lost the consent of the governed. He's bleeding support in nearly every demographic. He and his henchmen in Congress have led the Democrats into the political wilderness, and America to the brink of total collapse.
He's not even going to try to do a Clinton, and shift toward the center. It's not in his radical, Marxist DNA. He's already doing the "double down" on his agenda, which spells certain ruin for Democrats, from dog catcher to Congress, in 2012.
On top of that, several states will adopt new election laws that compel presidential candidates to produce a valid long-form birth certificate before the next election. Bambi can't (or won't) produce one, so he's automatically out of the running.
And --- high level Dems are already planning to maneuver him out of the way, so that they have some hope of retaining the White House.
But, as we've pointed out, no Bambi, no black vote.
Smart Dems ought to just pack it in until 2020, and find a real job. The future looks mighty bleak for them.
Dude, we speak english here. LOL.
Sarah Palin has a blank check in the political world. Get with the current thought.
Sadly, 92% of blacks are still on the Democrat plantation (and that truly is what that monolithic level of support is), but 8% of us have escaped to freedom.
Sarah will do remarkably well if she wins, despite the negative predictions.
As for Fiddlstix (my online sweetie), it's always nice to hear from him. :-)
I think she can’t win for several reasons:
1) The media has savaged her image, probably irredeemably. It’s not fair. But it’s true.
The comparisons to Reagan are simply off-base. First, Reagan had aptly demonstrated his ability to govern the nation’s largest state for eight years, so attacks on him as a lightweight rang a little hollow.
2) She simply has no serious record of accomplishment. Now that didn’t hurt Obummer, but the media will pound home over and over that she was a half-term governor of a sparsely populated state with not much of an impact. They won’t let her off the hook as they did with O.
3) She has left no trail of spending a lot of time considering great issues. Reagan had literally decades of speeches, all of which he wrote himself, in addition to his two terms as governor. Can you honestly say she’s ever said anything that you haven’t heard said by others and better a hundred times?
4) I’m sorry, but the fact is that she does come across as fairly shallow. Compare her to a DeMint or Gingrich who’ve obviously given lots of thought and study to theories of governance and big ideas. Do you really believe she’d do as well in a debate with Obummer as DeMint or Gingrich? Try to be honest with yourself. There just isn’t a lot of evidence of intellectual curiousity there.
She’s a solid person with a compelling story. She’s right on the issues and has been treated very unfairly. She isn’t the total dunce that half of America believes her to be.
But we can do so much better.
Hank
Now, I have the chance to say “good night” and your poor ‘online sweetie’ is apparantly offline. That’sll teach him.
Nite, (((Victoria)))
She would need to take speech/voice lessons if she runs. I interact with alot of non-political “independent” voters, mostly women. Not leftwing nuts. They don’t hear a word Sarah Palin says because they can’t stand her voice and folksy speech patterns which they mistake for a lack of intelligence. Tina Fey’s impressions have spoiled the well with that group of voters.
THe majority of women voted for Hussein.
He got the female vote.
The mood of the country would have to be right. Who knows how things will be in a year. I knew Carter was toast when the rescue mission failed, and he had no back up plan. If Teddy Kennedy had had a spine, he would have defeated Carter in the primaries.
How does any of them? Right now, at this moment, we don’t have a candidate. To know any of the possibilities is to discount them.
Same here. I got chills reading that piece. When I first read it, I thought, "Oh my. This is a real President speaking."
There is no doubt in my mind that Sarah Palin will be one of the finest presidents this nation has ever had, if the people will have her. I think they will.
can I call you full of BS ? Because I really think you are.
We can’t appease the MSM in the hopes that they will eat us last. It is not about Sarah Palin you moron. THEY HATE US ! AND THEY WILL HATE ANYONE WE NOMINATE !
throw a good leaded under the bus. lets just be cowards
Who's going to bring out the conservatives to vote?
Who attracts the crowds and can raise money equal to Barch Hussein Obama, if not more?
Sarah Palin is the only one right now and I don't see another out there who comes close to her.
LOL! Other conservative candidates don't have the stigmas, real or imagined, that she does.
We can pretend that 25% of voters can create a landslide Palin victory, or we could be realistic and consider some other equally conservative (socially and fiscally) options.
LOL! It's easy to raise tons of money for candidates when you're the only one going out there and campaigning for them.
leader (sp)
> “The media has savaged her image, probably irredeemably. It’s not fair. But it’s true.”
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No, it’s not true. - The media attacks are actually the key factor in her rapid rise to the top in all the polls.
> “She simply has no serious record of accomplishment”
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Really an idiotic statement. She has one of the longest and strongest lists of accomplishment of any of the candidates of the last 100 years. She is probably the most accomplished and influential leaders in the history of the state of Alaska:
Governor Sarah Palin’s Accomplishments - http://www.palinpromotions.com/blog/2010/07/25/governor-sarah-palins-accomplishments/
> “She has left no trail of spending a lot of time considering great issues”
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More blithering idiocy. Her WSJ and Wash Times op-eds, plus her Facebook articles amount to the largest compendium of policy positions by any presidential candidate in the history of American politics.
> “ I’m sorry, but the fact is that she does come across as fairly shallow...”
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Only to those that are themselves quite shallow, like the author of the post to which I respond.
You cannot have spent more than five minutes assembling this far-left wish list of empty dreams.
Your pal Gingrich has contemplated nothing but the glory of global socialism, and Jim DeMint (who I personally like) comes off like gomer Pyle in a $1000 suit when he speaks.
factmart was referring to the 11/2/2010 election and the female vote, I agreed with him that Palin brought us that and pointed out that in Presidential elections that we have lost the female vote since 1964.
I was making a subtle correction to his post about 11/2/2010 being the “first time ever”.
see #455
they hate conservatives and christians. its not about sarah.
stop trying to appease the left. grow a spine
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