Look: We are at war with the marxists in this country. They are not entirely incompetent. In fact, they are mostly in power right now. They are mostly in power in Alaska right now, and were when Sarah was Governor.
They set up a no-win situation using ridiculous "ethics" laws that would have bankrupted Sarah and made the remainder of her term unmanagable and useless. So they won. She was FORCED to run away to live and fight another day. It happens. A forced retreat sucks but is a legitimate battle technique. She certainly lost that battle and incurred damage. But she LIVED to fight another day and that day is coming now.
If you can't understand this, and can't vote for a conservative that chose to LIVE rather than fall on their sword at the enemies feet, and therefore put a MARXIST into office again, then there is no hope for you and, frankly, I question why you are even on this forum.
You mean a conservative that doesn’t like Sarah should not be on this forum? Are you serious?
Is this Free Republic, or Sarahland?
I tried like hell to keep my fingers off the keyboard and let you guys work yourselves into a Jonestown frenzy. I know there is no disagreeing with you, but if you think the crap you are going to get thrown at you on FR is tough, wait until she announces.
You will be walking around next June wondering what the hell happened to your Queen!
I am not debating her worship’s right to run. And I am not debating that she has strong support around here.
But you guys really need to dilute the kool aid a little bit and perhaps listen to some of the opposing viewpoints. Because it is only going to get worse for you if she announces. And you need to come up with more intelligent responses than, “If you don’t like her, go away”, or “if you don’t like her you are a troll”, or “if you dont like her you must not be conservative enough for us.” To those of us who have been around for a long time, those are just silly responses.
How about: I just don’t like her. I don’t trust her. I don’t like the way she runs her family. I don’t like the way she left her job. I don’t think she has the experience to be President.
And yes, I know she was gov for two years and that is more than Obama had, blah blah blah. Where did THAT get us. Can’t we do better? And NO, I do not have the answer. That is what this process is about.
Open your minds. Develop some good talking points. Embrace those who are on the fence and explain; don’t yell at me. Don’t call me a troll. Otherwise Tina Fey will put you out of business before next May all by herself.
Good argument and I can agree with you.
However you said that she lost and incurred damage. In my opinion some of that damage was losing many votes in a possible presedential election.
I understand your position but this decision, however right she thought it was at the time, has consequences. It can’t have possibly have been the only course of action for her.
Very well stated. In fact, I believe you have explained the situation in one of the most succinct ways I’ve heard.
“She certainly lost that battle and incurred damage.”
Yes, but since then she has prospered mightily and is winning the war. Yes it is a war, so far fought with words rather than weapons. She has shown strategic vision, and would be a fine CoC in my opinion.