I’m not sure what you mean by enemies. People on FR can be awfully thin skinned. What I mean is, there are some who would call anyone who has any criticism at all an enemy. I simply wondered what you meant.
I don’t tend to follow people here (that is, I don’t generally recall who says what —this is a place I come, discuss things, etc, not exactly the real world where I know particular people —I don’t keep track of people and often probably have a lively and even contentious discussion with someone one day and then a nice chat about their grandkids the next. Except for a few nasty jerks, I just don’t keep score and then only if they give me cause for concern).
So, I’m sorry for the long post, but my question remains. What do you mean by enemies? I am always a little afraid to say anything about Palin. I like her, but she’s not my first choice at this moment. On the other hand, I don’t want the Republicans to make their habitual mistake of picking off all of the good candidates before the election season really begins while Obama sits back and waits and amasses money and then uses all of that to walk away with the election in 2012. It’s hard for me to imagine a scenario in which I would not support anyone who runs against him.
Read the book I referenced. (‘Bring Her Down’: How the American Media Tried to Destroy Sarah Palin. Kindle Edition, $2.99)
Then come back here and see who is echoing the media’s spin against her.
They almost always begin by telling us “they like Sarah, but she’s not their first choice”. They usually won’t say who that first choice is, because it’s some blue state rino the enemy media can live with, or someone they know they can defeat. Then they will echo leftist enemy media inspired “concerns” about her supposed shortcomings and how if we want to win, our choice needs to be someone, or anyone, other than Sarah.
For some, their greatest secret fear is that someone with actual Christian faith might get elected.
FR is Palin Country. It’s not here to provide bandwidth to those with a conflicting agenda. Jim seems to be focused on keeping it that way.
Just because I support Sarah Palin for the primary, doesn’t mean I don’t want all of our best Conservatives to run.
The more the merrier. I want them to suck all the air out of the room from the rinos and cinos. Besides, if Sarah doesn’t run, we’re going to have to decide between them, and it would be best if we knew early on who we’re going to be getting behind if it should come to that. (Or who we want for Sarah’s running mate, if it doesn’t.)
I too, find it hard to imagine a scenario in which I would not support whoever wins the Republican primary against Obama, although it will really frost me if by the time I get to cast my primary vote in CA, Mitch Romney and Ron Paul are the only Republicans left standing. (I’d have to take Paul and pray for the best... Shudder...)
Let’s do Palin/West, or Palin/Cain or if Sarah doesn’t run, Cain/West, or Cain/Bachman, or any other sane combination, instead. We should be thinking about narrowing in on our second and third choices soon, so as to be prepared for all contingencies.