I’m not trying to be unnecessarily cryptic. I just didn’t want to indicate my personal preference for president, because you’re so obviously promoting a Rand Paul draft.
We only just started talking. It’s not my style to start advocating for my preferences so early with someone.
I also didn’t intend for my post to sound like an interrogation. I’m pretty sure I only posed one question in there, and it was actually just rhetorical. I didn’t really expect for you to answer it.
Yes, Sarah Palin is my choice for Republican nominee in 2012. I see that you would support her over much of the rest of the current field. I believe that’s the only sensible choice, given the field of potential contenders, and without a doubt, a FAR better choice than the current occupant of the White House.
Palin simply stands head, shoulders, and torso above the rest of the competition. In my estimation, she measures up better in every important department than anyone out there. Not just better, but significantly so. I honestly can’t see anyone on the right giving her a serious challenge for the nomination, though I’m sure some will try.
“I’m not trying to be unnecessarily cryptic. I just didn’t want to indicate my personal preference for president, because you’re so obviously promoting a Rand Paul draft.
We only just started talking. It’s not my style to start advocating for my preferences so early with someone.”
I don’t really understand that, but alright. If I’ve just heard from you and you’re saying no to Rand Paul, I think it’s reasonable to ask who then. Not specific to you personally, but it can be too easy sometimes just to pick at perceived imperfections, especially when whatever those perceived imperfections are, the great flaw is that he’s just not your preferred, already decided candidate.
I probably like Palin for the same reasons you do, and high up there is her executive experience. If executive experience were the single deciding factor though, the final determinative, Giuliani did a good job here in New York City being the executive over far more people, of far greater representative diversity, than in Alaska and many other states. But I’m just mentioning him as an illustration - I do not support him over Palin, or just about anyone in the field you could name, even with that.
“I honestly can’t see anyone on the right giving her a serious challenge for the nomination, though I’m sure some will try.”
Maybe when this really gets going to state primaries I’ll see that and agree with you, but she hasn’t been as publicly visible, seemingly, for a while now.
I would want to be more sure about her foreign policy before I was as convinced as you - part of the reason we’re in the mess we are now was the ‘anyone but Bush’ sentiment - look how that turned out, and part of that was from how Bush entered without much knowledge of foreign policy, by his own admission - so the people he relied on for this were neo-conservatives, and, disturbingly, supported him early on as a candidate (if I remember right) not in spite of this, but because of this - they could direct things.
So, for me, that’s a concern with Palin, even if I already know she is smarter by far than the vast majority of her detractors. Kristol is a prominent neo-conservative who was recently talking her up, which raises some flags with me. Having another Republican administration whose foreign policy was directed by neo-conservatives is not at all desirable, I think, unless you want in a few years time an even worse situation than the one we’re in now following it.