Posted on 05/13/2011 6:17:38 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Mark Steyn says he has a soft spot for Tim Pawlenty and believes he may be the last man standing to challenge Obama in 2012. He also says Newt won’t be President and that Trump isn’t conservative and trashes his demonization of China as the single source of all that ails us.
As for Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin, Steyn says he wouldn’t advise them to enter the field of 2012 GOP candidates. He says Sarah Palin would make a better king-maker and Huckabee should stick with his successful Fox News show.
Great comment Gargantua.
Palin 2012.
For a fellow who writes well, his support for John McCain, Jr. is perplexing.
I'm an avid Palin supporter; however, I understand politics, I know history, and I'm a a realist. Nothing I've posted, in any way makes me an "enemy" of Palin!
Yeah right....lol...We don't need a President that's proved right time after time...We need a pundit..
Geez...
The media will attempt to destroy any threat to Obama. Palin happens to be the one they fear the most. Whoever the nominee is will be up against the media firing squad and Obama;s billion bucks. May as well be Sarah who has already been super-vetted. If she runs those massive rallies will start, with her grabbing the narrative in a disastrous economy....
...Palin 2012.
VERY well said. And as far as I'm concerned, it is another reason that Palin should run. The mindset of her backers, and we hope Palin herself, is to call bullsh*t and FIGHT, challenge, vote fraud in the sheer name of what's right and decent.
All other Republicans roll over to the results of fraudulent elections. They're conditioned to do so by American entertainment culture, which "legitimizes" that brilliantly described urban minority that has STOLEN elections and come to power fraudulently.
The majority of legitimate voters in America oppose them. A minority has seized power through fraud and is ruling a majority that has been conditioned, pressured, deceived, into rolling over by an all-powerful media illusion. Who's the better warrior to lead the charge against that crap -- Pawlenty, who could make an appearance in some major city and draw a crowd of perhaps 300? Or Palin, who could make the same appearance and draw thousands of Americans who are getting curious about politics because of her?
Election fraud is the real problem here, and it is a war of the ruling minority against the rebelling majority. Warriors are called for, and Palin is a warrior. Among other things.
Yes, Palin has a huge following, which will NOT translate into them voting for some other person, who she might claim to back. You obviously have little understanding of her supporters.
Palin is not "unelectable"; however, every single person now with a hat in the ring, or talked about, IS unelectable! Not a one of them can beat Obama and the GOP will lose the House, should one of the pygmies be the GOP candidate.
Steyn is damned dead wrong about this and so are you!
It’s far too early, from Palin’s perspective, and she doesn’t want to telegraph her punches.
I’m disappointed by steyns comments as well. Saying palin should not run is an admission of cowardice.
We face an industrial complex of anti conservatism composed of journalists academics media pundits faux activists and soros associated billionaires. Any conservative will have themselves their families and their church destroyed or burned.
The tea party has no leader. There are hardly any declared candidates in an era of 9 percent unemployment. We are afraid.
Telling sarah not to run is the tip of a melted spear. We cringe and cry in the face of abusive power.
Sad.
Palin IS electable; far more so than any of the the damned pygmies,on our team.
Might be right... Guess we will have to wait and see - sure hope you’re right though...
So - career politicians are the ones we should stick with? That's surely been working out well.
IF we go with 'seasoned politician' as the prime requisite for a candidate, then we are keeping within "The Establishment."
That will sink us.
Our nation is on the brink of total collapse - maybe 'take over' is closer.
We need to think outside the box.
I'd take West, with his military/commander experience and his proven 'stand his ground' strength, his thorough knowledge and love of our Constitution, his thorough knowledge and experience with our deadly enemy, the mooslimes, and his total disregard of PC - political correctness - over a politician with DECADES of 'experience' as a politician, but who has done little else.
We need someone with the background and experience and INTEGRITY of Lt.Col.Allen West.
Besides, by election, he will have also had 2 years in the web of Washington politics - and, as he has said, he'll have a pretty good grasp of how things work there by then.
And unlike so many that go to Washington with good intentions, only to be cowed by the 'Big Boys' - West backs down to NO ONE.
You want to stick with the same game plan we've used for decades? We'll lose. There is not ONE that has so far declared that can win.
Exactly so !
Well Said!!
I really don't understand why you say this? I am about as much a political realist as anyone around. Many people probably hate me for writing off candidates I consider entirely awful like Christine O Donnell and Sharon Angle (not bad people, just bad candidates), but I just don't see why you and others think Palin is "unelectable". In a year that Hussein had the entire media working overtly as his PR team (so obviously that even comedians made fun of the press for it), Palin managed to keep the election reasonably close almost entirely by herself. I mean, it isn't like people were turning out to rallies to see McCain.
Negatives right now just don't matter much. Hillary had very high negatives, yet once she got in the race those numbers evaporated. It is not like Palin's negatives are driven by gaffes or idiotic statements like Ron Paul makes. Her negatives are simply a constant beating by the media, a media that literally accused her of being responsible for the Arizona shootings. If she enters the race as a candidate with a polished, energized campaign she should be able to wipe out those high negatives.
What other candidate can really unite the party more than Palin can? She can pull together average Republicans, movement conservatives, Tea Party folks, all the people sick and tired of the establishment, etc. She could fire up the base and with a sharp, professional campaign there is no reason she can't appeal to independent voters using a common sense approach.
Maybe I am just too biased in her favor to see it? What am I missing? I just get the feeling the media is scaring people into buying this "she's unelectable" meme. I see her as the natural candidate to run against Hussein.
Well, it’s always nice to be so positive...heh.
Exactly and WHY those not seeing that, refuse to see it, is beyond me.
Everything you posted is correct......Cain would not have a chance in heck of winning this election....Palin’s time is NOW and we know she can take the heat and keep walking......
Uh oh, Steyn just made himself an enemy in the eyes of a lot of Freepers.
Suggesting that Palin might not be the Messiah is blasphemy around here.
I hope I don’t get myself banned by saying that. I know I will be flamed.
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