Will Palin Run? She Already Is
Questions about Sarah Palin’s future political plans are ubiquitous. From the left and the right, political pundits wonder aloud if she’s really thinking about running for the office of president in 2012. And depending on the pundit, the questions over whether she will run are usually tied to reasons why she should or shouldn’t.
But missing in all this guesswork over Palin’s intentions and the weighing of the pluses and minuses of her possible candidacy is the simple fact that she’s already running for president, and so far, she’s beating Obama and the mainstream media at every turn.
While I’ve suspected that she was already running for some time, it dawned on me with near certainty after she released her “Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States” last week. Her willingness to mock Obama’s 2008 claim that he’d campaigned in “57 states” proved that she has absolutely no fear of running against him. It also showed that she meant what she said about running against Obama in 2012 when she told Barbara Walters she could beat Obama.
I believe she started running for the office on the first weekend of February 2010, when she stood before the Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and asked: “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working for you?”(It doesn’t seem a great stretch to reach back to 1980 and juxtapose this with then-candidate Ronald Reagan’s famous question about the Carter years: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”)
At that same Tea Party convention, the mainstream media seized on the fact that Palin had written speech notes on the palm of one of her hands before ascending the podium. Groups like ThinkProgress.org and media figures like Andrea Mitchell mocked Palin for this, so Palin simply mocked them back by showing up a few days later at a campaign stop for Texas Governor Rick Perry with the words “Hi Mom” written on the palm of her hand.
Since then, she’s continued to dismantle the assaults of the mainstream media while simultaneously taking Obama to task on point after point.
For example, she seized on Obama’s April 2010 statement that “the United States will not use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear country” as being indicative of his ignorance about nuclear weapons in the first place. She then mockingly added that it was just more proof of “the vast nuclear experience [Obama] acquired as a community organizer.”
Do you remember the “Sarah Palin is a c***” t-shirts that popped up in the 2008 campaign? That will seem like a kiss on the cheek compared to what Palin will face should she choose to run in ’12. I would actually fear for her physical safety as well as that of her family.
jones I dont think you have to worry about Sarah’s safety. I am sure there are enough of us level headed thinking people from the old school out here to take care of any one STUPID enough to harm her or her family,
“I would actually fear for her physical safety as well as that of her family.”
Only if Hillary’s running; it’s well-known, in the “wrong” Beltway neighborhoods, that Hillary’s enemies live in fortresses, or they live in coffins.
Should something happen to a viable candidate in 2012 or before then I fear the future of this country.
Righto. So you just said that hillary will have palin assassinated if they both run.
Do you see what’s unhinged about that?
I think Sarah Palin will know about this. The main problem will be how to keep her supporters calm if the allegedly “intellectual” and “non-discriminating” Leftists start to act on this gutter standards. Her campaign must not dumb down to them and Republicans will have to avoid firing back at the same level. This kind of style will speak for itself and should be exposed to the public. The average decent American citizen will be disgusted in a way that leaves no other way for him to show his protest than by voting for the victim of that kind of smear campaign.
Average decent American citizens are outnumbered by not so decent machine politics in the coastal states… NY, NJ, Cal make up a LOT of electoral votes
Indeed, in every state there are urban shit-holes where most everyone is on the dole, claims some sort of victim status/identity, or is an employee of the nanny state….we can vote, but we cant overcome the sheer numbers. an unfair advantage
Nice of you to bring that up. Au contraire, however, they had better be afraid of Sarah Palin. Very afraid.
They are afraid of her, that is why they spend so much time attacking her, they know she is one of the more dangerous political opponents they have right now.
Actually..Sarah has a lot of power just doing what she is doing…she can laugh all the way to the bank with the criticism..
She has more base power than most candidates..
Thanks for your concern. But we tried this with McCain. We thought he would be immune from media criticism, but when the media turned on him in the general, he folded and ran a hand-off campaign allowing Obama to walk into the end zone.
Sarah knows what to expect. She can take a punch and come back in fighting form. She has the emotional makeup to score against Obama and will not be deterred by his “historical” nature the way McCain was.
Given the fact that the media and the dem’s picked McCain, he didn’t have a chance, once they turned on him after the Dem primary.
That’s always the story of squish, ain’t it? They’re media darlings while bad-mouthing their betters then they and their supporters are oh-so-surprised when that same media establishment turns on them the moment they might endanger a Democrat’s chances.
I always thought the financial crisis hiatus McCain took mid-campaign was his tipping point. Instead of going back to DC and chiming in he remained silent for several days. I believe once he saw the mess the office would inherit he made a decision it was not something he wanted to deal with. IMO. I could never imagine Palin backing away from something like that.
Hmmmm! Interesting theory! I never thought of that. You could very well be right.
And you are certainly right about Palin; she wouldn’t surrender.
Neither would this man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M&feature=related
By the way, he gave this speech on 2 minutes’ notice.
Have you been living under a rock for the last two years? They have thrown every thing they can MAKE up at her to no avail. Don’t worry about St. Sarah. She will take care of herself and the nation too.
I think you’re half right. She’ll definitely take care of herself.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-supporters-call-sarah-palin-cnt.html
The oh so tolerant Obama supporter.. Would love to know who these people are/live/work, and would love to show them this pic..
“The oh so tolerant Obama supporter.. Would love to know who these people are/live/work, and would love to show them this pic..”
Here are some examples of oh-so-tolerant obama opponents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l5o9c6cD2I
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1065778/Four-students-suspended-hanging-Obama-effigy-tree-campus-Christian-university.html
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/05/wisconsin_redne.php
And those are just three examples from many.
Using the logic I’m seeing on this thread, I think I can conclude that this represents the position of everyone here, therefore this is what all palin supporters think. See how this works?
This is kind of the point that jon stewart was making. Political debate has been degraded to the point where a certain sort of person just hurls threats and abuse at the other side. I like to think we can avoid that.
That would be really neato! Have Jon Stewart let us all know when he plans to start implementing that idea, and we’ll all join in, ‘kay?
And there’s your problem. The first step is to learn to tell the difference between justified criticism and threats/abuse. I’m not aware of obama ever having strung up or burned an effigy of a conservative political leader.
There can no longer be any doubt that Sarah Heath Palin is more accomplished, shrewder, tougher, and more determined a politician than that supposed epitome of political genius of our time, Barack Hussein Obama.
Palin has slipped adroitly past every barrier every one of her adversaries has attempted to erect before her. She’s used her great gifts of personality, beauty, and plain-speaking to such advantage that with a few paragraphs on a Facebook page, she can turn a Senatorial election in Massachusetts or a Gubernatorial one in Virginia. And she hasn’t peaked yet.
In the language of chess, Sarah Heath Palin is a “passed apwn.” And as chess players will tell you: Passed Pawns must be pushed!
Palin in 2012!
30 out of 43 is not exactly stellar, actually, but it ignores the fact that many primary campaigns would not have won without her support. O’Donnell, for example, lost the general, but knocked out the faux-Republican in the primary. Miller, too, won the primary in AK, but lost to Murkowski’s write-in campaign. Loads of Dems decided their guy couldn’t win and wrote in Murkowski to spit in Palin’s eye. The fix was in.
Yes, she is canny. Folks say she cannpt be a serious candidate if she does a reality show, but it a shrewd move on her part, because 20-somethings LIKE reality shows.
Everything she does is an unorthodox campaign. She knows she has to beat the Republican establishment, the Media, AND Obama. Thus, we get SarahPAC, endorsements, amd attacks on the LSM and Obama.
Pretty cunning. Just imagine what she could do if she ever read a newspaper!
Of course the problem there is finding a newspaper worth reading. The extreme Left and the MSM make a self assumption of superior intllect, reason and sophistication and yet they elect intellectual lightweights – further handicapped with ideological blinders – like Obama, Pelosi, Biden and Reid.
In the end, it is your principles that matter (limited government, self reliance, freedom and litle things like) and the intention to populate key government positions with knowledgeable and skilled people instead of sycophantic ideologues. So what if she can’t name the prime minister of Podunkistan.
You’re right about no newspapers worth reading. The Associated Press–which is 90% or more of the news coverage in most papers–is nothing but a bunch of hip socialists who don’t know squat about anything from economics to history to basic science.
Only things I read in my paper are the obits, local events, and Thomas Sowell’s syndicated column. All the most important news–and nearly all the good investigative reporters–are on the internet.
Well I wish you would stop buying their newspapers then.
Assuming there are newspapers worth reading. Sarah and her crew have the new media figured out. Check out the new improved Conservatives4Palin site. And PalinTV. Anyone found a MittTV site yet? Give it a few years and Barbara Bush will be complimenting the excellent moose stew served at the White House.
Except that Palin supporters cannot just sit back and watch her run, as much as we would like to gaze at the spectacle.
We have to engage along with her right from day one.
Remember the comments about McCain as the campaign drew to a close and he was flagging badly, we have to put him on our shoulders and carry him across the finish line? Didn’t work.
Palin, on the other hand, seems to be able to put us on her shoulders and drag our sorry arses across the finish line.
Make no mistake. We are in deep dog doo in the country. What has been done to us by our elected officials on both sides of the aisle is nothing short of criminal.
No one that resides within the beltway is going to be able to change it.
It is going to have to come from all of us. We are going to have to dislodge the calcified bureaucracy and shut down the endless reach of government.
Eugene McCarthy inspired the scruffy college brats of his time to “Go Clean for Gene.” Palin’s ability to inspire and stir supporters to action is beyond anything we’ve ever seen. The biggest hindrance to volunteerism is cynicism. A politician with proven integrity has an enormous advantage. One who has a record of rooting out the corrupt in her own party is a whole new ball game.
I sure hope and pray that we have an excellent candidate to vote for in 2012.
Sarah Palin is an impressive woman, but she did stump for McCain. Other than that she represents most of the issues I’d vote for: constitutionalist conservativism; i.e less government, lower taxes, and freedom.
More important, the left wound commit a seppuku or move to Canada.
Reagan had a fight against the Republicans and won. Sarah may well accomplish the same victory.
Should she win the nomination in 2012, I’ll vote for her.
Got enough of them here already thanks. Don’t give me reasons to pray she doesn’t win.
Of course she stumped for McCain. She didn’t nominate him, but he was the GOP candidate and he asked her. Who should she campaign for, Obama? McCain did not campaign well but thank goodness he launched Sarah onto the national scene so she can save us from Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Barney Frank, Keith Olbermann and Karl Marx. Also Premier Putin of Russia…under him it’s still very much the Evil Empire. Obama thinks he can make nice with Putin, who is laughing his butt off at Obama.
of course she is running. she brought america to their feet when she allowed mccain to announce her as his running mate, his ratings shot up, then he opened his mouth again and no one listened. But when she appeared-america stood up and cheered!then the old gaurd republicans blamed her for mccains failure. the established democrats and the old gaurd republicans have a nightmare, america loves her common sense approach to everyday life in america and the world.hilary traveling around the world making contacts will not do her any good, america already has the first woman president,supported by both parties. no matter how they try to isolate and give the tea party a face that is a lie to justify their positions as the best solution available, she will prevail.they all know it too.
I still think Palin would be more useful with her own TV show after Oprah leaves. She would have a huge audience, she would be building up her credibility as a presidential candidate on a daily basis, she would be well paid, and she would be driving the liberals INSANE. Just look at how powerful someone like Rush Limbaugh is. That alone would make her show worth watching.
Palin is still young and could still run for president years from now. What is the rush? Let her be the mouthpiece for the conservative movement in this nation. Look at how influential she was in this past election and how many of her candidates won. Her influence would only grow if she replaced Oprah and she would be the power to deal with in most of the states between New York and California. Not bad for not even being an elected official. The best weapon she has at getting back at her detractors is by staying in the limelight, and she should be using this power on a daily basis.
Sarah Palin is a politician and a leader, not a talk show host. Oprah has no power. Oprah can’t fly on the Air Force One around the world as our Commander in Chief and leader of the free world.
Oprah has billions of dollars but she can’t appoint Supreme Court Justices(one of the most powerful entitlements of a president).
Oprah has millions of viwers but she cannot tell a 4 stars general “salute me and obey me”.
Do you really think Oprah has any power? Sarah has been a mayor and a governor, she knows what real executive power is!
Oprah launched the campaign of a no-name Senator named Barack Obama and helped make him President of the United States. God only knows how much her corporation donated to the campaign, too. Not bad for a talk show host. I think you sadly underestimate the power of today’s media. Whoever owns the media today owns the White House. Obama proved that.
Nice try. No cigar.
So Libertyship46, who is your candidate, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty or Mike Huckabee? Seems I’ve seen this seek, find and destroy mission before.
Put my money on the hockey mom.
The problem with Sarah Palin not running for President now is the country is in dire straights right now, not five years from now. I don’t know about anyone else but when I look around and evaluate who has the guts to take on the entrenched forces of both parties, most of the males in the Presidential pool look pretty whimpy compared to Sarah. Anyone eles out there share this view? And for those Sarah detractors who don’t agree with me, how about mentioning another candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 2012 that you think has the guts to take on the big boys.
Lt Col Allen West. I would love to see both on the ticket.
You may see this, but one thing we can count on is that unlike President Reagan the media won’t be able to force her to choose a moderate as VP to “balance the ticket”. We now know that the conservatives vastly outnumber the liberals and we can have two conservatives on one ticket.
Right on, Old Sarge!
Actually, there is a movement to draft Allen West for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 (kind of like Eisenhower in 1952)
A lot of people all over the country got the same idea at the same time, namely, “WE NEED THIS MAN AS PRESIDENT—and ASAP!”
On Facebook, there are at least half a dozen different pages devoted to Allen West for President.
And there are at least three blogs devoted to Allen West for Prez 2012, including my own, West to the West Wing 2012,
http://westforwestwing2012.com/about/
I encourage you to visit!
West is a national treasure. His time will come. We are lucky enough to have Sarah right now right when the country needs her.
Ms Wallace then added, off-mic, “And that’s why I hate that Chillbilly so much.”
I love how you think she’s qualified for president because she wrote some stuff on her hand and is willing to mock Obama.
But I hope she wins the Republican nomination. What a gift to Obama that would be.
As I recall, the Democrats were gleefully hoping for Ronald Reagan’s nomination for president in 1980. They may have been exactly as gleeful about their easily beating Reagan as you are about easily beating Palin.
I might agree with you if you can show me that Reagan had unfavorable numbers as high as Palin does. Nevermind, I don’t want to dissuade you. I’ll be voting for Palin in the primaries…
“You’ll get Reagan in ’80!” was an Archie Bunker punchline in ’76.
‘I love how you think she’s qualified for president because she wrote some stuff on her hand and is willing to mock Obama.’
That is what you got out of this article? If you want to assume that the superficiality of the maundering liberal base is shared by the general electorate when they consider Palin, by all means, go for it. Tell all your friends. It can only help.
What a GIFT to our country!!!
Odumbo doesn’t have a chance!
Ronald Reagan, the cowboy actor and crazy warmonger was a real gift to Carter’s second term…..YEAH RIGHT!
Hey Boris, Natasha is looking for you. See her. She’s over there sitting next to Putin.
Conservatives running as conservatives win elections, moderates running as conservatives sometimes win elections, Republicans running as Democrat lite almost never win. For this reason I pray you get what you want, then Obama will be another Democrat one term failure who will try to get the MSM to continue acting like he is relevant in internal and international politics.
I think Sarah Palin understands and knows full well what her and her family are going to be facing from an angry and bitter media that will do anything and everything to destroy her. I think it’s one reason why Bristol Palin was on DWTS…ignoring the skeptics and those who mocked her or her mom and doing what she wanted to do regardless of the mauling she would receive at the hands of the media. It would be so refreshing to see a candidate who is totally unafraid of challenging Barry on every issue and making him explain his position, not just get away with empty rhetoric or leading his drones in the mantra of “Yes We Can” or OH – BaH – MaH. Of course she is going to require additional security…the progressives will be just insane with anger and will encourage the mentally deficient among their own to harm her, if not overtly then certainly in some covert fashion. I say; RUN SARAH RUN!!!!!!!!!!
I think it’s one reason why Bristol Palin was on DWTS…ignoring the skeptics and those who mocked her or her mom and doing what she wanted to do regardless of the mauling she would receive at the hands of the media.
According to Sarah, that’s exactly what happened. “They’re going to attack you no matter what you do, so you might as well dance and have fun.” I see more of that coming.
Sarah has a very contagious love of life, an indomitable cheerfulness, a sense of humor without which no person would be able to survive what’s been thrown at her relentlessly!
She does remind me of Reagan in that respect. Every sane person is attracted to sunshine. Reagan was that rare and awesome combination of warm sunshine and tough grit.
Sarah Palin knows exactly what she is up against. Far better than many of her supporters.
Sarah Palin is not hated for her record. (You would think Democrats would like a woman who took on big oil and the corrupt Republican machine in Alaska.) Nor is she hated for her politics. (Her politics are well in the Republican mainstream.) She is hated for who she is: A working class girl from the Mat-su Valley.
Many liberals and conservative blue-bloods find her embarrassing. She has a reality TV show! She gives her children interesting names! She let her daughter get involved with Levi Johnston! She makes up words! She graduated from the University of Idaho! That isn’t even a “safety school”! She is a non-denominational evangelical!
She is smart to bypass traditional media because she knows that they will always look down on her because of where she comes from. So she goes directly to the people. She must be doing something right because people can’t stop talking about her.
I couldn’t agree more. And she’s not only running, but winning at this point.
One of the reasons the media hates Palin so is because she is unorthodox. She refuses to go about things the politically correct way (or even the politically routine way). I agree with Hawkins: she is running right now. And she’s slamming the opposition at every turn.
One more thing: Palin/Christie 2012
Palin/Christie? Never! Christie is a blowhard who pays a guy to tape and post YouTube videos. Besides, he’s a moderate who has dissed Palin.
AND was a pushover on the Ground Zero Mosque.
AND is not tough on immigration.
West to the WW is absolutely right — Christie is fine as long as he’s up against NJ’s Stalinist unions, but for the rest, he’s a big disappointing squish. On any issue that transcends NJ’s borders, he sounds positively Bloombergian to me. “Palin-West” sounds great to me.
Have to agree. Christie is very good on NJ’s financial crisis. But he’s a loser in too many other ways. He exposed his shallow character on Jimmy Fallon.
I think Palin has been running since she resigned as Governor of Alaska. And I think the nomination is hers unless she does poorly in the debates. Her policy positions are good and her Facebook postings on QE and tax cuts, among other subjects, show her to be a quick study. I would like to see her lower her voice and not try to say so much in each sentence, but I don’t question her intelligence. She has many other very obvious gifts and I think would do well debating Obama. Unlike McCain, she certainly wouldn’t be afraid to be frank about Obama’s history and obvious shortcomings.
Good piece. Thank you. Just out of curiosity: “how many of the Obama- endorsed candidates won in this past election?” It might be a good comparison to make in measuring basic support for each of them.
She will continue running, taking on the establishment and the media, and she will win. I do pray for her safety–but she is indeed a frontier woman, not fearless, but wise about her person.
Remember when Obama pulled that stunt that he needed Secret Service protection. Two can play that little game.
Protection, allow her husband and her to carry concealed anywhere any time and I expect the first one they cap will put the rest of the dirt bags on notice, no murderers here.
Sounds good to me, it would also scare and enrage the libs so much they would have nervous breakdowns.
She is outsmarting the media at every turn. She’s the smartest dumb woman I’ve ever seen.
“She’s the smartest dumb woman I’ve ever seen.”
Good one
She is very intelligent, even though she is unsophisticated. How could she have gotten to where she is if she were dumb?
There is a difference between intelligence and education or sophistication. Too many people have plenty of “book learning”, but no common sense. They are good at repeating what they have been told, but cannot reason or make good decisions.
The President is a classic case of this. He was a good student, but is an ineffective leader. When his book learning turns out to be both ineffective and unpopular he blames the people. He cannot adapt or change course.
I agree with Jones. One of the many unanswered questions is what inspires such visceral fear of Sarah Palin? What does she threaten that Republicans and Democrats and the media and the self appointed elitists – and even some large corporations – are trying to protect? I don’t think it has anything to do with her religious beliefs or her pro-life views. It’s something much more basic.
They know she can win, and that if she runs she transforms the Republicans and the political process back to what the Founding Fathers wanted it to be.
truth…calling people out and wanting the truth.
Jim M.,
WHAT, pray tell, is more “basic” than religious and pro-life views? I cannot think of anything that runs deeper that that. You’re talking about the biggest, deepest questions of human existence.
I think those things are EXACTLY why they hate her so much. The workers of darkness hate the light, as it says in the Bible — and you know that that is true just by looking around.
They hate Sarah for the same reason they hate Allen West and Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann and George W. Bush. All these individuals are people who believe in the simple fact that good and evil exist. If good and evil exist, then that means there is an objective standard by which to measure human choices and actions, i.e., some choices and actions are more good or more evil than others. Since the left uses relativism as an excuse to do whatever they damn well please, they are very THREATENED by anyone who awakens the conscience inside them that they have tried to squelch.
Because they are living a lie, they crave having others around them who will reinforce the lies they are telling themselves. If they didn’t have others around them constantly propping them up by agreeing with them, then they might be left alone with their own inner voice–and that would mess up everything, for then they might actually hear the deep stirrings of their own conscience.
They can’t admit that they feel threatened by anyone — so it pours out as rage. The “closer to home” a person like Sarah hits, the more threatened they feel, therefore the greater their hatred and rage.
The corrupt of both Party’s fear an honest person coming to power over their cesspool.
Money may be a big factor. Downsizing the federal government, fiscal sanity and a shake out of corruption will cost Obama’s friends and GOP good old boys a lot of money and power. Be afraid, Wall Street banksters, be very afraid.
I actually like Sarah Palin because I think she brings out the best of America. While the other politicians are beating their own drums, Sarah is busily beating “our” drum. She’s the only one who consistently asks; “What is the best path for America”. I like that in an elected official.
In a contest of; “Principals and courage of convictions”, or talking about; “Polling says the wind is blowing this way”, I’ll take convictions and principals every time. Sarah has this in spades. Obama, OTOH, with his talking out of both sides of his mouth, “bitter clingers” remarks, and “typical white person”, those of us who were paying attention back in the summer of ’08 saw the revealed Obama and knew he was an empty suit, and were derided for saying a single word against him.
I’m afraid the 2012 election will turn into another beauty contest with Mitt Romney being the prettiest, (frankly I think he’d be a poor choice), but unfortunately he has the best name recognition factor going right now. Of course, Rick Perry would be my 1st choice, but I’m not sure the country is ready for another Texas Governor, albeit TX has the best economic track record because of good solid leadership from Austin.
The tree of liberty may need a drink. Let’s all pay attention the next time around.
Obama’s not an empty suit at all. He is FULL to bursting–with rage, resentment, bitterness and vengefulness. He really does NOT like most Americans at all!
As wicked as Bill Clinton was, as much as I loathed him, I never felt like he hated me PERSONALLY. With Obama, on the other hand, it’s personal.
Obama’s best Chicago buddy Bill Ayers was in a Weather Underground meeting years ago where they talked about the need, after the socialist revolution, to “eliminate” up to 25 million stubborn Americans, those who wouldn’t get with the program of fundamental transformation.
I know good and well that I’d be one of those 25 million, and Obama wouldn’t shed one microgram of a tear for me.
If it’s God’s will she will run and WIN>
God, I do believe, gave us free will.
To choose good or bad, right or wrong. God helps those that help themselves and others.
>>so far, she’s beating Obama and the mainstream media at every turn.
Yes, not only by being right on substance but by her strategery. I bet she has some interesting tricks up her sleeve.
But I admit, the first thing I want to see is what she says about ethanol when she goes to Iowa.
GREAT POINT!
I cannot think of a single politician who is not a sucker for the ethanol scam. I have been involved in energy conservation promotion since I was a teenager in high-school–and ethanol is worse than the loopiest Rube Goldberg scheme. You feed energy and more energy and MORE energy INTO working the fields, irrigation, fertilizer (made with fossil fuel), pesticides (made from petroleum), harvesting and hauling, etc.–all of which takes massive amounts of energy. All to get a few lousy kilocalories out at the end. You put way more energy INTO the process than you ever get back out of it.
Besides, Tom Friedman is a huge booster of it. Shouldn’t that raise a red flag?
I was wondering about that, too, when she went to Des Moines. I bet she will shock the media and speak the truth. I think Iowa would respect her for it. You know we will in every other state. Going Rogue by speaking the truth has proven to be a powerful new concept.
You are probably right that she is seriously considering running. But if she wins the nomination, I don’t think she will be running against BHO. He’s obviously lost that loving feeling and just seems to have lost interest. I have no clue who the Dems will put forward (I think Hillary has little chance). Whatever happens, we will be in for interesting surprises.
DD
hill will run. I think BHO has pissed her and Bill off royally.
Bill and Hillary are steam rollers. They throw out lies and hope they stick. The US has shown Bill can do no wrong. He’s a liar, adulterer, cheat, and the people just call him “a good ole boy” and slap him on the back,hehehe. Hillary has taken a beating by bill and Obama and her base will be ruthless.
GO PALIN…I just don’t see her running. She’s extremely powerful right where she is. If there was a free show…Hillary, Obama, or Palin, Palin without a doubt would draw the biggest crowd. Hillary’s people would run them over as they came out, and Obama would have to think about what to do.
I’m betting it’s Howard Dean.
Howard Dean. He will be their new darling. Keep a lookout for the Democrat media complex to begin running puff pieces on this incredible guy.
Here here! I would back her. To hell with her graceless mean-spirited critics.
You can always tell the quality of the candidate by the viciousness of both the opposition and the press. On that note alone Sarah is a winner.
When the self professed elite and academic world start name calling you know they are both scared and have nothing better to offer. What a great country got was a black guy that made the entire politically crowd correct swoon in self congratulation. It gave all liberals that touchy feely warm glow that they had done something good, good for themselves.
What in fact the world got was an inexperienced dolt that can’t even remember a five minute speech to a kindergarten class, but, he sure looks good, sounds good and says all the right things. A liberal to the core.
What we got was a hard core committed Marxist who has surrounded himself with hard core committed far leftists.
who obviously have hardening of the brains..
That’s not the only thing Nicolle Wallace has said about Palin:
“Her incredible cynicism, her bitterness, her aggressive attempts to claw anyone that points out an area for her to work on, I think these things will continue to reveal herself and the people that love her will continue to love her, but the people who are not so sure about her will, I think, formulate harder opinions and more clarity about her.”
Palin-hating moron quotes a Palin-hating journo-lister.
Yawn.
Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t make them a moron. And Nicole Wallace, I wan’t aware that she was a part of that journolista thing. Can you confirm that? As a former advisor who was trying to help Sarah Palin get elected, I think dismissing her as a Palin hater is a very emotional response, one that perhaps takes your claim beyond the realm of truth.
“Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t make them a moron.”
No…but when heresay offer heresay as some sort of fact rather than specifics, then you come off as a moron.
Be more grown up than offering “he-said-she-said” as a debating point, and maybe you won’t be mistaken as a moron in the future.
“No…but when heresay offer heresay as some sort of fact rather than specifics, then you come off as a moron.”
And when I hit submit before fully proof-reading my post, sentences like this make me come off as a moron.
PIMF
nicolle just talks out of jealousy and meanness. “sour grapes” to be precise. she and megan mc cain need to bunk together.
People, ugly women and weak men, seem to be afraid of a woman that has a strong will, looks, ability to communicate. People like palin, period
Sour grapes doesn’t seem to be Ms. Wallace’s motivation. Granted, her appraisal of Sarah Palin doesn’t comport with the popularly held view among Palin’s ardent conservative supporters. But Ms Wallace was on the scene with Sarah Palin, working intimately with her in a way that would have her know much about Sarah’s mind, personality demeanor, etc. I think it’s wise to giver her comments the weight such experienced merits.
As for “people, ugly women and weak men” fearing her, I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply. Ms Wallace is certainly a person, but she is neither a weak man nor an ugly woman. In fact, I’m quite sure many men find her quite fetching.
Please, let’s try to focus on the facts and reasoned opinions when discussing these matters that have such great import for our shared future.
“Sour grapes doesn’t seem to be Ms. Wallace’s motivation.”
And you know this, how exactly? Do you read minds, or are you, in fact, Nicole Wallace?
There have been dozens of people who have worked with the Governor at least as closely as Ms. Wallace did, and they offer a completely different view from Nicole’s.
So, tell me how could it be anything other than sour grapes?
I said “seem,” so no, I do not pretend to be a mind reader. And perhaps her motivation is that she feels to speak the truth as she sees it. Her view is no more hearsay than is the opinion of those dozens of people to whom you refer. I think you may be trying a bit too hard to be contrary when a simple reflection on the facts and veracity of Ms Wallace’s statements is all that is required.
Those leftists living on the East and West coasts, no doubt, try to calm themselves with this mantra: “She cannot possibly win. She didn’t graduate from Harvard or Yale.”
They ignore one plain and simple fact. An Ivy League degree is no substitute for character. You may have both the degree and character. But, the latter is more important.
As for Palin’s constant critics, she need only remember a lyric from the Harvard fight song sung at athletic events, “Illegitimum non carborundum!”—–Don’t let the bastards wear you down!
Heck, some of the smartest people I’ve known never went to college at all.
Nothing on the planet makes a liberal’s head go into explode mode quicker than the word “PALIN”. Just hearing her name makes my liberal brother in law go into a frenzy even if I slip it into a conversation to agree with him on something. Sometimes I just say it to annoy him. Like “if Obamacare goes into full effect, today’s health costs will pale in (you have to say it real fast so it ocomes out as Palin) comparison to what we’ll have then.” Drives him nuts.
As soon as she makes it official, the left will go totally nutso in this country.
Yes, that is my experience as well.
Even liberals who are otherwise reasonble (or as reasonable as liberals can be), explode in rage at her. The depth of the hatred is really astonishing. I mean, I wouldn’t stand up if Obama came into a room; I put myself in the 1/1000 of 1/1000 in my contempt for the man, and I have a temper too…..but I simply could not summon the public outrage about him that seemingly mild-mannered liberals can summon in a split second about Sarah. It is a visceral hatred beyond anything I’ve ever seen. The only thing I can compare it to is the hatred some ex-spouses have for each other.
I lived in BC and the Yukon 23 years, long enough to drop saying “y’all.” Unless I encountered anti-American snobbery. “Y’all” is to leftest Canadians as garlic is to vampires. “Palin” is like a well aimed silver bullet.
Michael Savage is right. In Palin’s case, her popularity and her electability are inversely proportional. She has become more popular and less electable.
I don’t listen to Savage, so I hadn’t heard that. Thanks for passing it on.
I think Savage is right about this. And the opinion polls that I’ve seen bear that out. She’s very popular among Republicans, more popular than any of the other well-known figures—but 2/3 of the Republicans who like her say they do NOT want her to run for President. What does that tell you?
Uh, it means that there’s more support for men’s rights among the Republican rank-and-file than among incumbent GOP pols?
Savage just embarrasses himself again.
Savage? Give me a break. Savage is all about Savage. All the time. And clueless most of the time.
If ego and self-aggrandizement were to render pundits mute, we would have no media. I think you may need to find another reason to claim he is incorrect.
I don’t think she will run, but suspect her decision will be based on two factors.
The first, as she says, will be her evaluation of the other candidates, but in a different way than the normal candidate would do it. I don’t think whe will weigh herself against them. She will weigh their chances against their ability to defeat Obama.
The second will be her analysis of where Reagan stood in the country’s eye about 1978. Reagan was widely vilified in the press, but if I were her, I would want to know how strong his negatives were with people who did not support him, versus the strength of Sarah’s negatives today. She knows that her negatives are extremely intense. Were Reagan’s negatives equally intense with Democrats? If they were, or close to it, it would be an indicator that she can win people over as he did. But if the public was just wishy-washy about Reagan (or simply didn’t have an opinion), then it would indicate that she has a tougher hill to climb than he had.
I believe she is the ultimate patriot and will base her decision on her evaluation of her and other candidate’s chances against the Manchurian, rather than her personal ambition. And she also knows that passion in a minority doesn’t insure victory in a natiional election.
Sarah knows that there are 8 men that want to challenge Obama. But she also knows that she is the first woman ever with a real shot at being a presidential nominee. She knows Romney is pro universal health care and abortion, Huckabee is pro pardoning criminals and raising taxes, Gingrich is a hypocrite, Pawlenty has no charisma and Jeb Bush has family baggage.
Well, what about the one man out there who has NONE of those shortcomings, and who is THE NUMBER ONE voice out there about the dangers of sharia and radical Islam?
http://westforwestwing2012.com/2010/12/04/the-3-minute-challenge/
Well, what about a man who has none of those shortcomings, plus loves America every bit as much as Sarah if not more, and is never caught off guard, always has an intelligent, confident, coherent reply, the man is UNFLAPPABLE. Rock-solid and mile-deep. Check him out:
http://westforwestwing2012.com/2010/12/04/the-3-minute-challenge/
Sara is one of those rare phenomenon that happens once in a century.
The only way the left can stop her from being president is to assassinate her. And I’m afraid they are willing to just that. She is not only “the shrewdest political figures in our country at this moment.” She’s also the smartest. That is why the left and the blue bloods are afraid to death, and they would do anything to stop her. She should double or triple her security detail, call me crazy but I fear for her life.
You’re not crazy.
It’s the leftists who are crazy.
Alright. Let’s curtail all this stupid talk of assassination right now. It wasn’t true about the present POTUS and it’s not true now. It is the second definition below that will be used and it is evil enough.
as·sas·si·nate /əˈsæsəˌneɪt/ Show Spelled
[uh-sas-uh-neyt] Show IPA
–verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing.
1. to kill suddenly or secretively, esp. a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
2. to destroy or harm treacherously and viciously: to assassinate a person’s character.
The last thing any sane person wants is for a President or a Candidate to be assassinated, when one is they become martyrs and saints, the left has used this with the Kennedy’s and Che, I don’t think they are stupid enough to set themselves up for it to be used against them.
Palin runs electable circles
around Obama. You can tell she loves America.
She’s likeable.
On the other hand, every day, in his own simple minded way, Barack Obama tells the voting American public that, as far as he’s concerned, they can go to hell.
For example, Obama doesn’t have the common sense needed to realize he must get up and get out and talk to the American public about WikiLeaks. Obama knows he’ll say something stupid, but that never stopped him before. (Never stopped Obama throwing the race card and calling Sgt. Crawley in Cambridge an idiot). Obama’ll say something like, “It’s up to Eric Holder to first decide if Assange has done anything illegal.” Newflash from earth to Obama. A lot of things legal are still wrong. Yet, it’s still a President’s place to share his thoughts about something as hugely damaging as WikiLeaks with the American people. Sound angry. Man up. Sound like a man with two enormous ears and a mean streak for Assange.
It’s like December 8, 1941 and the President going in front of the American people talking about nothing but price of corn. Obama, you’re an idiot.
I mean, Obama’s told us he’s okay with the ground zero mosque. He illegally shoved through ObamaCare. He’s built up so much disgust a little more can’t hurt his election chances. Can it?
Waiting for Eric Holder to decide the legalities of Assange’s actions is like waiting for a Nazi prison guard in a death camp to do a Bob Hope imitation in German that would have perfect timing. Would really kill.
Obama remaining silent is asinine.
On the other hand, when it means going on a TV show, he jumps at the chance like a trained seal to look and sound stupid.
Did you see the fool he made of himself on Jon Stewart or was it the Barbara Walters show? Saying he doesn’t think about Sarah Palin? Is he kidding? If he actually can bring himself to have sex with lanky, looney, patently ugly Michelle, don’t you think he uses some mental imaging to perform? My bet is that his mind is fixed on Sarah Palin. The flowing soft hair. Palin is sexy. Erotic.
Marvelous mental erectile material.
Dollars to donuts, it’s what enables Obama to perform. I mean, picture yourself facing a naked Michelle. What male reading this over the age of 15 actually believes he could get aroused looking down at that mannish frown and having those albatross arms wind around you like you’re being smothered?
I’d rather do Eleanor Roosevelt. But it’s close. But I could only do it one time and I’d be petered out.
Every time Obama appears in public these days he sticks his foot in his mouth, showing just how disconnected he is with the 70% non communist/progressive part of the American voting public.
Most Arizonans want to beat Obama with a water hose because of the porous borders he refuses to acknowledge or fix. Some might say it’s the equivalent of Michelle leaving their daughters’ bedroom doors open to drug dealers and rapists. Then after the girls are attacked I can hear Michelle saying how proud she is of them for not screaming and waking their father because he’s got such a big day ahead of him. Not interrupting Obama’s dream.
Yes, NoBama has a dream. Citizenship for all illegal aliens. More votes for the Democratic Party. It’s that simple.
Folks, Palin is going to give Obama the kind of beating he’s never gotten in his life. The way this election is shaping up, Obama is getting 90% of the black vote. 60% of the hispanic vote. And Palin’s getting the rest. She’s prettier, faster, smarter, braver and sexier than Obama. It won’t be close. And if you’re comparing Palin to Michelle, it’s like comparing a woman to some creature who descended from trees. Maybe it’s me, but sex with Michelle just might be the reason Obama’s such an unpleasant, stubborn ornery guy.
Maybe it’s time to cut back on your porn consumption.
it is obama’s foot-in-mouth syndrome that gave him the fat lip
She’s braver? Are you thinking about how she bravely quit the governorship of Alaska? Or how she bravely refuses to be interviewed by anyone who might ask her tough questions? She seems like a lightweight to me.
She’s so idiotic, Aaron, that you’ve read through dozens of comments and thousands of words and chosen to respond to the longest, most asinine. Twice.
Like everyone else who criticizes her, your actions and your sentiments seem quite at odds with each other.
Aaron, you haven’t been paying attention nor using your comprehension skills. So you somehow missed the Soros funded phony ethics charges campaign that put the middle class Palins a half million in debt? Did you notice Sarah completed all her campaign promises and accomplished far more in 2.5 years than any other US governor with multiple terms? Or that she squares off with O’Reilly and Chris Wallace in unedited formats? No Obama soft balls there. Her book tour is her thing. She’s smart to include local media and restrict the gotcha gang of the lames tream media. Although we weep when Wolf Blitzer is not happy.
“And if you’re comparing Palin to Michelle, it’s like comparing a woman to some creature who descended from trees.”
I’m sure there are plenty of Palin supporters who are not knuckle-dragging white supremacists. You’re giving them a bad name by propagating the stereotype.
Sarah’s politics are right on target and she is strong consevative woman. BUT she is unelectable. If she is the republican nominee, we might as well get ready for 4 more years of Obozo. The major strike against her was when she resigned from the governorship of Alaska. The demonrats will be all over that: “Palin..could not complete her term as governor. Will she handle 4 years as POTUS?” Were she to run, the left wing will dig into her past and throw everything they can at her. Remember how they painted McCain as a racist for running against Obozo? And that old fool dottered over like a cheap tent, throwing under the bus any supporter who dared use Obozo’s middle name. Palin would be better off as a talk show pundit a la Savage and Rush.
>>“Palin..could not complete her term as governor. Will she handle 4 years as POTUS?”
Let’s let Sarah answer that question. I’m sure she’s capable of doing it well.
“Were she to run, the left wing will dig into her past and throw everything they can at her.”
Whare have YOU been for the last 2 years? They’ve BEEN doing that and have found NOTHING. They’ve been throwing everything that have at her, with no results.
“Were she to run, the left wing will dig into her past and throw everything they can at her.”
They’ve BEEN doing that and have found NOTHING. They’ve been throwing everything that have at her, with no results.
I don’t think she has anything left to fear from them ‘digging into her past.’
Nothing there or we would’ve seen it long before now.
Palin/West 2012….That’s MUCH better.
At this point on the calendar, anyone could claim to be “reasonable”, whatever that means, by arguing that the primary season is not opened, yet. But look at what’s going on in the public arena: Everyone with enough leisure time to talk feels obligated to say something, anything, about her “electability”, whatever that means.
Sounds to me like the lady is indeed running, already, and the intensity of the buzz tells me that she is going to be a tough act to keep up with. You want to run against her as a “conventional” candidate? Go ahead, and get “conventional” coverage, and good luck with that! Don’t we have enough candidates with the mannerism of a Harvard graduate, emitting precisely the vibes that will automatically attract a Nobel Prize transmuted into a heat-seeking missile by the lights of political correctness?
Candidates do not fail or succeed according to some “electability coefficient”. If they did, a computer could be given the run of the white house. Elections are not held in a vacuum. At any point in time, there is a threat that seems more ominous than all others. What if the fall of 2012 is dominated by a crisis endangering America to the very core of its identity? Can you really say that under such circumstances an authentic patriot lacks electability?
Can you say that such circumstances may not obtain? What would then be the weight of the “electability coefficient” as presently computed by the heavy brains of today’s pundits?
If the crisis you allude to were to occur, people would recognize that what we need is a Winston Churchill. And God, I believe, has given him to us in Allen West.
I feel pretty confident that if mega-mega-crisis happens, people would flock to Allen West — BUT WHY SHOULD WE ONLY DO THAT IF THE WORST HAPPENS? If we have a Winston Churchill on hand, why on earth would we push him to the side?
I can remember in history class, being amazed at the obtuseness of the British, taking SO LONG, until things got SO BAD, to come to their senses and put Churchill in charge. Are Americans really determined to be just as short-sighted and foolish as the Brits were back then?
I like Sarah, but let’s face it: She is NOT a Churchill. WE ARE AT WAR, folks. And if you don’t believe it, ask Hezbollah, ask al-Qaeda, ask a dozen other terrorist groups that have declared war ON US.
She can win only if from now on she will lead a team of (true) conservative eggheads and will appear able to presents solutions and plans to the American people.
She must add this side to her definition; she must appear as wise as she now appears honest and enthusiastic.
Sorry, i have nothing really against Sarah Palin, but I think she is unelectable!
What’s the rush?
Governor Palin is still young and can wait out the 2012 elections while being a public personage, attending to her family, making bucket loads of money, and building an even stronger and deeper political base outside of the GOP establishment (as well as improving her political staff and research machine) for 2016 or 2020.
By then she will have many years as a political kingmaker, know many of the people who she will need as allies in the Congress, Senate and State houses across the nation (many of the will owe their positions to her) and have built a solid resume to run on. She may also be tapped to a cabinet position by the next president, which will give her that much more clout in the end.
The Legacy media and establishment politicians will have been exhausted without creating any lasting damage, and most importantly, she will have created a climate of public opinion favorable to the principles of the TEA party movement, as apolitical people become more and more aware of Governor Palin’s positions on issues. The irony is the Legacy media will be the enablers, by constantly screaming her name.
I wish her the best regardless of her choice, and look forward to seeing the Progressive movement going down in flames over the next several years.
The “rush” is that Obama will have just about totally destroyed the USA
by 2012 and if he gets the impetus of re-election for another four years it will be all over for the USA. We need him replaced in 2012 and Palin is the only one who can do it. I do not trust Romney or Huckabee to defeat Obama, do you?
Sarah’s age and her ability to win later are irrelevant. She’ll be 48 in 2012, plenty old enough but beside the point. In politics, you strike when the iron is hot. In politics, unforeseen events can change things overnight. Someone who can be President in 2012 had darned well better
go for it then, not fumble the chance away by speculating “Oh I can always run in eight years or 12 or 20.” Doesn’t work. Occasionally, it might but again, the whole deal is we need Obama OUT in 2012 or America’s lights go out. And I don’t mean only that he’ll have us using candles by then instead of electricity.
Even if Romney or Huckabee did beat Obama, they wouldn’t do what needs to be done to reverse Obama’s damage. I don’t think any Repub frontrunner has Sarah’s guts.
THAT is the difference.
She has the GUTS to face off the Prog beast like Ben Grimm in the movie when he stops that truck cold. 60 to 0 in a second. She will give it her all to cut federal spending, prevent tax hikes, and cut wasteful regulations.
And judges? Let’s just say ole Kennedy can look forward to an early retirement knowing the Cuda has his replacement ready, and it is not Hillary Clinton.
Constantine,
You are dead right that America will simply not survive if Obama is not ejected in 2012. Hell, I fear that we may not survive UNTIL then!
But we do have a Winston Churchill on hand who is job-ready at this very moment, if Americans will have the sense to elect him, and his name is Allen West.
The survival of this nation is endangered, both from without and from within, every bit as gravely as that of Britain was, not so very long ago.
I love Sarah, but she is NOT a Churchill; Allen West IS.
Please give it your consideration. http://westforwestwing2012.com/about/
I am a rock solid supporter of Sarah and would like to see her run
This is not a criticism of Sarah but a hard fact she should be aware of.
Many of her base supporters have nerve deafness and don’t hear high frequencies. We also have touble discerning rapid speech. She can easily alter her speech pattern by lowering her voice and speaking slower.She would benefit by using a hypnotists trick – starting high but into her sentences lower her voice and slow down her cadence, and use shorter sentences. This is easy to do and she would reach more of her supporters.
If she has the time listen to the great orator’s speech patterns.
I believe that Obama’s trainers spent years working on his speech patterns. I’m sure that they researched the topic thoroughly, and spent an enoromous amout of time teaching him diction, cadence, etc. To the point, that his nicotine addiction was deliberately induced in order to lower his voice an octave.
Moreover, I think he has also been trained for years in two other areas: the science of lying is the first. Lying while appearing natural isn’t as simple as people think, and the average person wouldn’t even imagine it could be formally trained, but there are literally dozens of ways to deflect questions and speak in a way that can appeal to multiple audiences and later be re-interpretted to mean something differnet. It is an acquired skill. All national politicians are good at it, but Obama came on the scene with a higher skill level than anyone since Clinton, who was a genius at it and had been in high-level politics for decades before he ran for office. Obama could not have become that skilled in a state legislature. There simply would not have been a need for it.
The second area is knowledge of foreign affairs. In the early 80′s, that was his major at Columbia, but in the intervening 20+ years, he had no need to have any knowledge whatsoever of foreign affairs. Yet, in 2006 he was conversant enough to handle himself quite well in interviews. Contrast that to Sarah’s stumbles, and Dubya’s difficult learning curves during their national campaigns. Obama didn’t learn that stuff because he liked reading State Department releases with his morning pack of cigarette. He was explicitly trained for a very long period of time.
…. Lying while appearing natural isn’t as simple as people think ….
It is for psychopaths. And for sociopaths.
Socio-and/or (as in the coke-brained marijuana-mumbling mobbed-up Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist mother’s-milquetoast sail-eared simpleton’s case) psycho-pathologically easy.
Something I never realized or thought about. I love Sara but can’t stand to listen to her for more that a couple of minutes.
YUP.
Am hearing that from a LOT of people.
Now contrast that with THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k
[the man I want you to watch–Allen West–doesn’t speak until about the 1:40 mark — but the first 1:40 is just as important so you can see the CONTRAST between West and the other distinguished figures on that panel: All you get from the brilliant Andrew McCarthy is a joke about “taking the fifth”; and the man on the far left who gives the EMBARRASSINGLY PATHETIC response is Gen. Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff!!!! Contrast Gen. Myers’ response with the educated, articulate, honest, fearless, stirring, NO PUNCHES PULLED response from Lt. Col. Allen West.
I challenge anyone who loves this country to view this little 3-minute video and tell me they don’t want this man as their next President.
When Mrs. Palin’s voice starts sounding like she’s getting some vocal training, then you’ll know she’s serious about running for President. The same thing was a tell for New York’s junior Senator’s plans.
I hope she runs and i hope she wins
…. if I had to place a bet on who wins in 2012, my money would be on Mrs Palin ….
On President and Armed-Forces Commander-In-Chief-Elect Sarah Louise Ronald Wilson Reagan Heath Palin, that is.
Along with my money – New York City to a single brick — and with that of approaching 100% of thinking Americans and of around 55% of us, overall.
(But what to do with the “Democratic” National Socialist Workers’ and Gangsters’ Fascist Party’s especially treasonously imported for the purpose 35 million-man criminal alien army’s invasion/colonization vote?)
Go Palin!
Go Palin Go!!! She is the greatest thing to hit this country since Reagan.
If Sarah hopes to win in 2012, she needs to begin building a team
of experts in domestic and foreign policy and begin to articulate
Her vision for America. The reality show is simply not enough!
Beyond the rather puerile nature of this post and discussion, I’m a little concerned about all this Palin adulation. it feels a lot like the Obama adoration in 2008. How are we any different than liberals if we “anoint” Sarah Palin before she has proven herself worthy of the real and very demanding challenges of the presidency? I think when people say she needs to continue her research or study up on foreign affairs, that’s a sign that we have to tread lightly before we “anoint” of another “one.”
Never lose sight of the goal, the reversal of liberalism and the generation of economic growth and military and political power and influence. Out focus should be on who best to lead that. I’m not convinced Sarah Palin is that person. As a celebrity and a spokesperson and a lightning rod for conservatism, fine, but leader of the free world? She’s not near ready. Not yet anyway.
Umm… Do you read? Did you read either of Palin’s books? How about her facebook posts? She pops up everywhere from National Review to the Wall Street Journal. For you to suggest that followers of Palin are succumbing to the same adulation that surrounded Obama in 2008 is beyond absurd. She has been and continues to lay out a very detailed vision of what she believes about America. If you take a moment to read what she writes and listen to what she says it is no mystery at all where she is coming from.
I have no desire to anoint Palin to anything. I, and likely she too, would relish a hard fought campaign – even if it means she loses.
She has shown herself to be a very capable executive already so I have no hesitation supporting her for president in that regard. As far as foreign policy is concerned, who besides George H.W. Bush had burnished credentials going back as far as Ike? I fully believe that the force of the president’s character is the most important credential. I think we can suppose that our adversaries are watching her just as closely as we all are to see what she is made of. I can tell you that I would not want to be in her crosshairs. She is showing herself to be a crack shot.
Most importantly, Palin understands the core principles that made this country great. Those principles are loathed in the White House right now – they who had never been proud of their country until they lied about themselves to get elected. Palin reminds us of who we are and what we are capable of if we hold fast to our faith in God and the words of our founders.
No one else is articulating that message right now – when it desperately needs to be said. The other Republican candidates think that this is just another election cycle. It isn’t. It might just be our last – just as Reagan warned us years ago. If Obama gets another four years… Well, let’s not contemplate that.
Great response..Saw Willard Mitt Romney on Leno the other night. Not very inspiring- talked about hair, etc. It’s just more of the same exposed in ’10 midterms. Never thought that many RINOs had infiltrated the GOP. Florida’s Charlie Crist, Delaware’s Mike Castle, and many others whose covers were blown big time. Thanks to the Tea Party and Sarah for bringing much of this to light.
The amount of over-reach at the federal level that has taken place over the years is embarrassing. It’s an unhealthy arrangement- one that threatens this Union’s future. As a rogue governor, Sarah no doubt sees this imbalance. I wonder, where have other governors been all this time? Taking kickbacks? Addicted to Highway Funds? Where was the resistance to this intrusion into states’ business?
Something’s gotta give. We can’t go on with Washington dictating (and funding) every iota of business in our lives. Michelle’s $4 billion contribution to school lunch monitoring is but the latest in a series of follies dictated to us by the Feds. Enough is enough.
To think a regular mom with kids and a brain should be kept as far away as possible from the White House is rediculous and insulting. Horse trading, smoky backroom deals, and Ivy League parchment may have to take a back seat to common sense and a woman’s instinct when it comes to survival of the family- the American family at that.
This country was built upon a simple recipe of representation that our current crew of pols seem to have trouble following. Nothing of late that they’ve pulled from the oven is fit to eat, much less serve to America. I suggest we try a new cook and move the clowns out of the kitchen for 40 or 50 years, at a minimum. Speaking for myself, my hunger for freedom and liberty reaches starvation level I if nothing is done soon. I bet I’m not alone.
The solutions to this mess are very simple, actually. Define what is legitimate and un-fund/absolve the rest. Taxes, for example: hit me at the register and then never send me another IRS letter. Let April 15th become just another day where my biggest worry is if the spray I put on the peaches will deter leaf curl.
Obama has left the door wide open for anyone with enough sense to repair what’s wrong with the country. My hope is it’ll be Sarah and other like-minded individuals with a desire to really ‘fix’ what’s wrong by first understanding the problem. Trouble-shooting is something I do almost daily on my job, trust me, this is an easy fix with the right crew. Best of all, America has just about any tool in her toolbox you’d ever need, so that won’t be a problem. Ok then, where do we get the permits? Let’s get started.
THREAD WINNER, imho.
If anything would make me reconsider my rejection of Sarah for nominee, it would be this letter. Very good work.
You haven’t changed my mind, but thank you for giving me something worth thinking about!
I don’t believe West will run until he has a chance to win. Like a smart soldier. Meanwhile, Sarah could use a Sec. of Defense who knows his stuff and knows the nature of our avowed enemies. You want West to advance, support Sarah.
Respectfully I disagree with SOME of your thoughts. And yes, I do read what she put out in the media.
She has l;aid out “a very detailed vision of what she believes about America”
Not so sure about this. She tweets a lot, and delivers pretty much the same stump speech wherever she goes, but she rarely says anything specific about her policy intentions or solutions. It’s important to know what she believes about America, but until it goes beyond her rather vague almost cliche statements, she seems more a friend and less a leader.
She would “relish a hard fought campaign – even if it means she loses”
Not so sure about this. Like it or not, she does consistently duck the media. And that’s her right. Has she received some unfair treatment in the media? Sure. Most politicians do. I don’t think the answer is to hide from them. The answer is to take them head on. Personally, I think it makes her look weak to just lob out tweets over the wall.
And the idea that “Those principles are loathed in the White House right now” I think is not fair. It makes for a good sound bite, and that’s the currency of political discourse in our media age, but I don’t think it’s accurate.
I maintain that Palin is in danger of believing her own hype. And the more she believes it, the less effective she will become.
Dawg of Gawd,
I agree with your reservations. Sarah is a political genius, and is much much better than the media portray her — BUT how does she even begin to compare with Allen West, who has two masters’ degrees; many, many years of leadership experience in some of the most high-pressure situations imaginable (22 years in U.S. Army, 4 wars, heaps of medals, and final rank Lt. Col. (two steps away from General) and a Battalion Commander in Iraq); is the ONLY non-retired politician who CALLS OUR ENEMY BY ITS NAME: ISLAM; has a mile-deep, rock-solid knowledge of world history, American history, Islamic law and history, the American Founders and Framers, and the U.S. Constitution— AND speaks, even when caught totally impromptu, better than the very best teacher you ever had–i.e., authoritative but understandable and engaging. He knows what he’s talking about and he doesn’t back down. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, and yes, even Vladimir Putin will crap their pants if they have to face a President West.
He is the Winston Churchill of our time (except that he speaks better and is in better shape!)–we would be crazy not to do whatever it takes to elect him President.
Dwight Eisenhower never served a day in Congress, and had to be DRAFTED by the American people to run for President. TIME TO DO THAT AGAIN.
Please consider it. http://WestForWestWing2012.com/great-speeches
Piper’s Mom in 2012!
She will stick it to Obama in the general and thats all I want to see. I would be shaking in my boots if I had to defend Obamas record infront of Palin.
hillary will be her opponent if palin run.
Yup.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024551-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
“Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State is ‘My Last Public Position’”
I believe she will run as there is really nobody else fighting like she is with the conservative/libertarian creds.
I got two books signed by her and shook her hand in Carmel, IN yesterday evening after waiting 15 hours in line in the Meijer store.
I was glad she liked my Reagan / Sarah poster, “Gipper & the Grizz” that I set up behind where they had her signing my books.
I told her (play on words in her book) that if she runs, she will not be a Lioness leading sheep, but a Lioness leading Lions!
I hope she got the copy of C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters” I left for her as she likes Lewis. I would not want to be the devil assigned to Sarah Palin. Doh! I left a movie video, “Watership Down” for Piper, but I’m not sure she received it.
The friends I was with were great, and all agreed it was a thrill to get to meet the Cuda.
I live across the street in Cincinnati where she signed books earlier today, but I gave my wristband to my barber’s wife since she is a big fan too. There were a lot of people camping outside in the rain/snow during the night.
The recent “elections proved that while rank-and-file citizens largely support Palin’s worldview, they are rejecting Obama’s…”
Yes, they support her worldview all right, but the question is, do they support HER?
There are so many people, even on our own side, who find her voice and accent grating, her way of expressing herself ineloquent, and her jabs at Obama snarky. I’m just relaying the comments I hear from my CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN friends, i.e., people who agree with her 100% on issues. They just don’t like/trust HER. If that’s what even a lot of the friendlies think of her, where does that leave us with that “magic middle”–the swing voters/moderates/independents who determine the outcome of the election???
Considerations such as the above — along with her lack of knowledge, experience, and most importantly BOLDNESS where radical Islam is concerned — are why I urge Republicans to work toward drafting Allen West for the GOP presidential nomination. And if Sarah were to throw her support to him, it could be a landslide. Please think about it, folks. And come find out more at West to the West Wing 2012, http://westforwestwing2012.com/about/
A view from the perspective of 20 000 kms; I agree with you that Allen West is perhaps the most formidable political figure in today’s America and he is the only person that I would be most happy to replace Sarah as a presidential contender.
The most desired team would be West/Palin where Sarah could commit herself fully to rebuilding America’s energy independence, which she would for sure do with the utmost passion and enthusiasm.
I don’t believe though that West is much better than Palin; In my eyes they both represent THE VERY BEST America has today to offer.
There is no need to contradict each other as they both are the greatest treasure of America.
For the Allen West there is a rather big obstacle though had he decided to run for Presidency.
I don’t believe for a moment that the voters who have fought for him so valiantly to elect him to Congress, would take it lightly if he abandoned his congressional post immediately after having started his tenure. Not only they would regard that act as a treason but that would also give a powerful weapon for his former opponent Ron Klein (I’m not sure of spelling) who would use that to insult and ridicule West and take over his congressional seat.
I don’t believe for a second that West who is the man of the hihghest nobility and integrity would be willing to even consider such a scenario.
He certainly won’t run for the Pres. in 2012.
And that leaves Sarah as the only contender worthy of serious consideration.
However, Palin/West would be for sure much more acceptable for West’s supporters, as he would have possibility to join the race at much later stage while having lots of waluable work already done in Congress.
Palin/West 2012 is certainly a dream ticket.
P.S: Even the most ardent supporters of Sarah Palin on the http://www.conservatives4palin.com are open and sympathetic to the idea of Allen West being the US President.
It is prof how much that man is loved and admired.
But it is not going to happen for the reasons presentad above.
Palin is one of the few people I’d actually vote for. She is a real person & not a politician like Romney, Steele, etc. As the Doc says in Forrest Gump, “His legs are fine, Mrs. Gump. But his back is as crooked as a polician.” Palin is the way to go. Besides, it will drive the liberals insane in SF, Boston & NYC.
with the current system and situation happening right now in the United States. Americans need to rethink their position or ideas on electing candidates from Ivy league. Most of these intellectual candidates are greedy and they do not care anymore of common americans once they got elected. Why not elect candidate who will surely serve the members of We the people and not those people from the back room deals? Sarah Palin, although not a member of Ivy league, has great common sense to lead and she has proven the capability of fighting corruption from within her own party. Other countries like Philippines and Israel were able to elect a woman president and common sense conservative women presidents and leaders had proven to be effective government leaders. Likewise, women leaders do not just flip-plopped because women instincts are more loyal to their objectives than men’s. Men have a lot of vices like womanizing, drinking, smoking and gambling that is why men are more prone to corruption.
Ugh. I just went and followed that up. Palin’s comments were just bizarre. I really DON’T think she quite understands what nuclear weapons do, or what they’re for (is she seriously suggesting that the US would retaliate against a conventional attack with a nuclear escalation? Holy crap) And her retort was even more bizarre – obama’s comment summed it up nicely: He takes advice from the secdef and joint chiefs. Palin tries to imply he’s drawing on his “community organiser” work to craft nuclear policy. It’s depressing that people might actually fall for that sort of dross.
For people who’ve learned less about nuclear strategy than some of us have forgotten (which apparently includes sarah palin) … here’s a good place to start:
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/Pubs/display.cfm?pubid=585
http://www.rand.org/about/history/wohlstetter/
“The Delicate Balance of Terror” is brilliant. That was written in 58. Wow, that man was smart. His missus, too.
I agree with Mrs. Palin. His comment was ignorant, but not because we believe in using nukes against a non-nuclear nation.
It has long been the policy of these United States that we engage in no first use of nuclear weapons. They are strictly retaliatory. A nation without nukes cannot be hit in retaliation, now can it?
Palin is right again, and Obama wrong… again! Upstaged by a non-newspaper-reading hick. That’s gotta hurt! Again!
She is simply not as stupid as the Dems would have you believe, folks.
Satisfied?
“I agree with Mrs. Palin.”
I think we can assume that. In fact, I think we can assume that without actually knowing in advance what palin as said
“His comment was ignorant, but not because we believe in using nukes against a non-nuclear nation.”
Uh huh.
“It has long been the policy of these United States that we engage in no first use of nuclear weapons. They are strictly retaliatory.”
Righto. So you just sort of missed the whole bush talk about “usable nukes” and “bunker busters” then? Apparently you also missed this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001053.html
Even obama doesn’t go so far as to completely rule out “first use”. I don’t think any president has ever done that, because it’s not something they can safely promise.
“Palin is right again”
Did you actually pay attention to what palin said? Her comment was that obama was like a kid in the playground saying “hit me and I won’t hit you back”. In what way did that match the reality of what obama had said, or any sort of reality at all? Obama wasn’t ruling out military retaliation against conventional attacks, and wasn’t ruling out nuclear retaliation against nuclear attacks. So how is that saying “hit me and I won’t hit you back”?
“Upstaged by a non-newspaper-reading hick. That’s gotta hurt! Again!”
You guys have got to start realising that just saying something doesn’t make it true.
“She is simply not as stupid as the Dems would have you believe, folks.”
I’m not sure you’re in a position to judge.
This is interesting, and a theme that I think I’ll keep returning to.
This thread is about palin currently effectively campaigning for the next presidential election. I see a lot of appeals to her “character” and “qualities” but not one single policy. Not one.
I’ll relax that a bit. It’s been pointed out to me that asking for a stated policy is a bit unfair because she’s not in a position where most politicians would be publishing platforms, and that’s fair enough. So can anyone here point to one specific thing that you believe sarah palin would do if elected president, that you think deserves your support?
But I want you to provide some evidence. Fair is fair. Just making stuff up won’t do. If you think she’ll do something then show me where she said she’d do that, or did it in the past, or even something close. And be specific – “making everything good and wonderful” won’t cut it.
This is my third or fourth attempt at getting an answer to that question on this site. I’m still waiting. Don’t get me wrong – the issue here isn’t palin’s lack of policy statements, the issue is why so many people are so dedicated to somebody who hasn’t ever said what she’d be likely to do if you all went out and voted for her. Doesn’t anyone else think that’s odd? Does anyone else wonder why I’m the only person (possibly in the world) who’s asking?
I have answered this challenge of yours before. I shall do so again.
She shall adhere to the Constitution. She vetoed a gay marriage ban in AK, not because she was opposed to it ideologically, but because it clearly violated the State Constitution. She did it the face of her ideology.
Budget cuts. When she took office, she sold the Governor’s plane and fired the Governor’s chef. Get that? She reduced her own perqs!
Fiscal responsibility. She forced the oil companies to pay market prices for the oil, thus benefiting the people of AK. Further, she told them develop it or lose it. Production thus increased.
Balanced budgets. Despite inflation, the AK budget is less than when she took office. None of that is her successor’s doing, as the State assembly shall not meet again during his term.
The city of Wasilla incurred considerable debt for infrastructure. Yes, much of it was for the sports facility. Now, years later, the debt is almost paid off, and the town grew considerably as a result of these policies, and the budget outside those things was, and still is, less than before. Btw, these things were approved at the ballot box, first, not forced on the people.
Corruption. She has a long history of bucking the establishment. She does not go-along-to-get-along. Folks lost their jobs, even went to jail, because of her actions. That alone would sell me on her!
Thinking outside the box. Her whole approach to this election is definitely outside the box. (It’s also weird to me how this current system of practices in government has become inside the box, when it is so bizarre, that normal folks just want to hurl when they see it. Mrs. Palin has the same visceral reaction. I can trust her not to engage in such insanity. After all, she is not a lawyer.)
Business friendly. She successfully runs a small business. She works HARD! Just watch her reality show of her and her family fishing. She busts her butt. Bristol casually busts the fish skulls and they both wipe the slime off. Hard, nasty work! I just do not see frequent golf outings in HER Presidential future.
We are not engaging in blind hero-worship like the Left did with Obama. We know specifically what we like about Palin.
Satisfied, Matthew?
“I have answered this challenge of yours before. I shall do so again.”
Did you read my response to that earlier post? Because you’re still claiming things that aren’t true.
“She vetoed a gay marriage ban in AK,”
She didn’t. She vetoed a law to prevent same-sex partners of state employees from receiving health benefits. And you’re right – it was unconstitutional, and she had just received a direction from the alaskan state supreme court ORDERING her to pay those benefits. So she had no choice but to veto the bill. Signing it into law would have meant ignoring a court order. Not a good move. Read:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080617054201rn_1/dwb.adn.com/front/story/8508726p-8401181c.html
“Budget cuts. When she took office, she sold the Governor’s plane and fired the Governor’s chef. Get that? She reduced her own perqs!”
Sure. But she didn’t cut the state budget:
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/Alaska_state_spending.html#usgs302a
“She forced the oil companies to pay market prices for the oil, thus benefiting the people of AK.”
That doesn’t even make sense. Why would a prospector pay the market price for a resource? They’d be operating qat a loss, once you take into account capital, surveying, development, extraction, transport etc. No, she didn’t do that. She DID increase the rent tax to 25% though. Are you saying that palin would increase taxes on the petroleum industry nationally? Is that a policy?
“Further, she told them develop it or lose it. Production thus increased.”
I have to admit I don’t know anything about that. Gimme some links and I’ll check it out.
“…the AK budget is less than when she took office. None of that is her successor’s doing, as the State assembly shall not meet again during his term.”
See earlier link. The state budget increased on palin’s watch. It it still increasing.
“The city of Wasilla incurred considerable debt for infrastructure. Yes, much of it was for the sports facility.”
I’m surprised you brought that up. That didn’t exactly go off without a hitch:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html
And as for wasilla’s budget decreasing … if I actually go through the wasilla budget papers, is that what I’m going to find? Or are you just making it up? Have a look and save me some time:
http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=366
And can I infer that you approve of infrastructure spending that’s funded by tax increases? Is that what you expect palin would do? Is that a policy?
“Corruption. She has a long history of bucking the establishment. She does not go-along-to-get-along. Folks lost their jobs, even went to jail, because of her actions. That alone would sell me on her!”
She had a very short history of turning in a couple of corrupt colleagues. I’m not aware of anyone who went to jail over it, though. There was a federal investigation that sent a bunch of crooked republicans and businessmen down, but that was under way well before palin ever got the governor’s position. Are you giving her credit for an FBI case that served its warrants before she was elected?
And what do you think about the pressure her office put on a man who wouldn’t fire somebody she didn’t like? Was that “corruption”?
“Thinking outside the box.”
That’s just nonspecific waffle. You could say obama ran outside the box too. He just did it better.
“Business friendly. She successfully runs a small business. She works HARD!”
I’m sorry, but … she what?
“Just watch her reality show of her and her family fishing. She busts her butt. Bristol casually busts the fish skulls and they both wipe the slime off. Hard, nasty work!”
Busting the skulls of fish makes someone a good president? Is that even better than being a POW? Do you understand that this is precisely the sort of “image” thing I was talking about? It’s a TV show. It’s scripted, produced, sponsored, edited, catered. Might you consider the possibility that your response is exactly what that show is SUPPOSED to make you think? If obama went fishing and wiped some slime, would you regard him as a better president?
“We are not engaging in blind hero-worship like the Left did with Obama.”
I’m unconvinced. You seem to have some fundamentally mistaken beliefs about her past record, and you seem to be easily swayed by reality TV. Your reasoning about this seems to be tilted distinctly toward the emotional.
I’m a foreigner, but watching the US elections in 2008, I couldn’t understand how one could pick Sarah as a running mate with John McCain. She became a loose canon eventually. Totally unprepared admittedly. U honestly believe that she could bring your country out of a recession? And Barack Obama can’t?
I like Sarah, but not as the president of the United States! She won’t
cut the mustard Internationally. But if she is successful in getting the
GOP nomination, well obviously she deserves a crack at it. But she might
be better running for Congress? Get a feel of things before aiming for
the White house. In my opinion one needs a GOP nominee, of quality. (Education, political experience, and a scandal free past?) Someone who can identify with some ultra – conservatives and more importantly with the Democrats.
Your criteria are interesting.
Education? Check.
Experience? Check.
Scandal-free past? Check.
Ultra-conservative who can identify with Democrats? WTH? What kind of fantasy is that?
Of course, Palin had an 80% approval rate in AK, before she went national… and became public enemy #1 with the Dems. Naturally, they, the Far-Left Dems, were the 20% in AK who did not approve of her.
There can be no coexistence with the Dems, because they are not Dems, but Socialists/Statists. They are a virus, and we “ultra-conservatives” are the cure.
Perhaps, being a furriner, you have not met an ultra-conservative, so you think that another one will somehow be different from Palin. Umm, not so much. Actually, in some ways, she’s a bit liberal for my tastes.
The only thing that will save us is for Washington to be turned on its
head, Palin is the only one that can and will do it. Rommy,Pence, Huck,etc
is more of the same ole same ole.
Please run Sarah
Is Sarah running? Not yet. We’ll know when she announces on the local Anchorage radio show where her kids call in to chat with their buddies. However, Sarah is the de facto Leader of the Conservative Opposition. By default, since no one else has stood up or seems capable of doing the job. As such she is earning the nomination the old fashioned American way. And having a lot of fun. She has no title, no government pay check. Waiting for someone else credible enough to support to step up. Odds are she will run because there is no one near as good. I predict at the next presidential inauguration the crowd will actually clean up the Mall as they leave.
Palin as president, well she does have the moron vote in the USA which is high wrapped up.
Now the woman wants to confront Russia in Georgia with the US military, that will be amusing when the Russians decide to use tactical nukes on any invading forces.
Would Palin be stupid enough to nuke the Russian capital ?
The full context of that statement was, curiously left out Gibson’s interview; fancy that. If Georgia became a member of NATO and Russia attacked, he would be obliged by Article V of the Charter to respond.
Having grown up in a former Russian colony, with signifiers of that status,
Wasilla, (Russian for William) Sitka, Wrangel, she’s more aware than most
of the Russian Bear on the proud, But they know her as the Okhanitsa, so she knows well how to deal with such an eventuality
She’s beautiful. She knows how to make a ton of money. She surrounds herself with family. She is a successful businesswoman. She is a master of the Internet and social media. Men want to be with her and women want to be her. She has captured the imagination of America. She’s Kim Kardashian, and I say we elect her president!
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Sarah is running, have no doubt.
She will win for two reasons: Obama and Obama.
Bonus: she’ll make a great President.
As would Chris Christie and Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence.
But Sarah has what Ronald Reagan had – appeal to common people, the ring of truth in what she says and she speaks it simple.
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