Posted on 01/18/2011 9:34:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Begad! The Palin Offense!
You initiated this contact, and started with insult at that. People address me, I respond. Nevertheless, I hereby give you the last word, under the policy of noblesse oblige. I shall mercifully ignore you hereafter.
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It sounds like you're suggesting that her prospects would improve if more people met her, or otherwise got to know her.
Respectfully, I disagree. Palin is red meat for the conservative base - she shores up other pols credentials with them, while any negatives that she brings to the table only count with people who wouldn't vote Republican, anyway.
In a real election? She do a great job of firing up the base (just look at FR to see that). Unfortunately, that's only about 40% of the vote. I don't know this, but I'd guess that her negatives with liberals are pretty high. Not going to be many crossover voters for her - unlike with RINOs in 2008.
So, she's got to carry independents - people who, more or less, swing with the breeze. Can she do that, with a constant littany of hatred being spewed at her by the MSM? I don't think so.
If the vote was held next week, I think that she'd get 46, maybe 48%. BO (even as battered as he is right now) takes the election.
Now later on? 2016? 2020? You betcha. Voters have short memories. Especially if she rehabilitates herself, has most of her viewes proven "right" - "I told you we needed to repeal Obamacare, and look how bad things are!" or "I told you we needed to repeal Obamacare. You voters did (cheers) and look how GREAT things are (louder cheers). It's a great day in America! (bedlam, standing ovation)"
Frankly, I think that Palin is doing a great job right where she is for now - a lightning rod for the left's attacks.
But, that's just my opinion. Everybody has one. :-)
I love Sarah Palin you cluless blockhead
Palin 2012: when the student is ready, the teacher appears.
Source, please?
Yeah...like I'm going to fall for the "HAND" for the 3rd time...You can't help it.
And if I don't hear from you in 5 minutes...thank you for mercifully ignoring me yet again, instead of explaining why you prefer Obama to Romney, on a thread about Palin.
fnord
I can tell you who is the worst - Mitt Romney abd his boy-mongering amen corner.
Please refrain from pinging us to posts that you don’t agree with.
Especially when it involves posters who have 8 years seniority over you and a clean record.
Not me and I live in Santa Cruz - I am the ONLY one here that’s pro Palin. Sure is fun.
I’ll bet there’s more support for Gov. Palin there than you can imagine, but everyone knows better than to talk about it.
No, you’re not. My bff lives in Santa Cruz and is a huge Palin supporter. Has a bumper sticker on her car, is a FB friend of the Governor’s, etc.
Hey... there’s quite a few of us Cali’s who do support Sarah.
McGovern's floor was significantly lower than usual, at least in part, because his opponent was no conservative. There were any number of progressively inclined voters who voted for Nixon but could not vote for Ronald Reagan eight years later. Nixon (Mr. wage and price controls, affirmative action and detente) was part of the progressive Republican tradition and he had a broader potential constituency than any candidate contemporary conservatives would tolerate. Carter would have done better without John Anderson who got 6% by drawing people who loathed Carter but couldn't stomach a conservative. Mondale lagged a bit behind the normal rock bottom because of special circumstances (he was a hopeless politician and RR was himself).
All in all 42% is a pretty good estimate of the proportion of voters no conservative can reach barring truly extraordinary circumstances.
By the economy alone, we live in interesting times. Thanks for replying.
No, indeed not. Most FReepers .... know that she was the Mayor of a town and the Governor of a State. And, if that isn’t “enough,” most FReepers take into account that she has FAR more executive experience than the current occupant.......
Well, that kinda isn't what wtc was slyly hinting at. (wtc, please grow a backbone and tell us what you really mean, instead of all this slicker-than-pond-scum hint-dropping and arch allusion. I mean, it really gets old, okay?)
He/she means that Sarah doesn't have as much time-in-office as Mitt Romney, who is wtc's and the Bush family's favorite Judas horse who'll bring the conservatives back to the RNC Aristocracy stable.
Then Mittens will stab them all in the back, again and again, like Poppy Bush did ...... "rising above" principles, to apply the vision of a "statesman" in a "leaderly" and "pragmatic" way, to "meet the practical challenges of the real (="us big, you little") world".
Want a Bilderberg/Bohemian Grove/CFR Goodfella, vote for Mittens. And don't talk about Sarah, she'll just spoil Mittens's chances by making him look like the soiled, shopworn, counterfeit goods he is.
She can run and do it all from Alaska, and she wins in a walk.
Well, anyone with enough Senate experience to look like a good VP choice is going to be "old" to you, maybe even "used-up".
Personally, I favor a Fred Thompson/Sarah Palin ticket, on the theory that people know they'd get one real President ready to go for now, and another who'll be ready in four years. It'd be a 12-year ticket, IOW. Maybe Sarah can do it by herself at the top of the ticket, she certainly has the moxie, but she'll need help, and Fred could help her a lot on the bottom of the ticket, because as a VP candidate he'd be game-day ready from the git.
VP candidates? Lugar too associated with the Bush crowd, too compromised, ACU ratings slumping. Other GOP senators? Not enough name recognition, except ex-senator Rick Santorum, who brings the hatefest liabilities with him that Sarah also suffers from (gays hate his guts for having morals; after they beat him by throwing San Francisco bathhouse money at his opponent [better use gloves with that, buddy], the scumbags gloated in real time on the Net over his little girl's crying while daddy made his concession speech).
Who else we got? John Kyl's certainly conservative enough, but he's been in McCain's shadow and hasn't enough name recognition. Bill Frist? Compromiser. Rick Perry? God save us from that phony-talkin' light-loafered RiNO goobernor! Richard Shelby? I dunno, does anyone know him outside Alabama? Ditto the Virginia and Carolina Republicans. Mel Martinez is bright green. Mitch McConnell, old, tired, and sold-out, the very emblem of K Street.
Who else?
Tim Pawlenty? Who's he? Michelle? Too much like Sarah, we need balance. J.C. Watts? I dunno, kick his name around a bit. How conservative is he?
She will be in Reno on Jan 29 at a big function, but it’s probably too early...
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