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Not a fan: Krauthammer calls Palin 'rather weak' and gives her 'no chance of winning' in 2012
The Daily Caller ^ | December 31, 2010 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 12/31/2010 2:46:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Is the idea that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could be America’s next president laughable? Not only to many on the left, but also to conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.

On Friday’s broadcast of “Inside Washington,” Krauthammer offered several reasons why Palin shouldn’t be considered the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election.

“What do you mean if not Sarah Palin in 2012?” Krauthammer said. “Who’s saying she’s going to be the presidential candidate? I don’t even hear her saying it. Her chances of being are smaller than half a dozen other people. If you talk to Republicans, I don’t think there are what, more than one in three who would tell you she has a chance of winning the presidency or even the nomination.”

Because of that, he said, she wasn’t the favorite.

“And she is not the favorite,” he continued. “She has a very strong core constituency but outside of that I think she is rather weak.”

Krauthammer has previously downplayed Palin’s chances and indicated he favors Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. He said Palin would not be the ideal candidate to unseat a “vulnerable” President Barack Obama.

“Her negatives are over 50 percent,” Krauthammer said. “She has no chance of winning a general election. Why would you want a candidate who is going to lose against a Democrat who is going to be vulnerable and who is also extremely ideologically ambitious?”

He even employed a Keith Olbermann catch phrase to describe Palin and said even fellow Republicans didn’t see Palin as qualified.

“A half-term governor? I’m not sure Republicans think of her as qualified.” Krauthammer said.

Watch:

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...In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale....

...In January 1981, Krauthammer began his journalistic career, joining The New Republic as a writer and editor....

...on domestic issues, Krauthammer is a supporter of legalized abortion; an opponent of the death penalty; an intelligent design critic and an advocate for the scientific consensus on evolution, calling the religion-science controversy a "false conflict;" a supporter of embryonic stem cell research using embryos discarded by fertility clinics with restrictions in its applications; and a longtime advocate of radically higher energy taxes to induce conservation....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer

Yeah, quite the conservative...

1 posted on 12/31/2010 2:46:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chuck has a weak chin.


2 posted on 12/31/2010 2:48:26 PM PST by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is a first-class jerk!


3 posted on 12/31/2010 2:49:26 PM PST by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Once again Charles lets his Elite panties show in public. Has anyone asked him exactly who in the Republican bank of contestants he thinks is the best and why?


4 posted on 12/31/2010 2:50:05 PM PST by fish hawk (reporter to old Indian: you lived here on the reservation all your life? Old Indian, "not yet".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People also said that an incompetent, Marxist manchild from Kenya becoming president was also “laughable”. Who is laughing now.


5 posted on 12/31/2010 2:51:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("The Dems have a 'war room' for everything but war..." - Dennis Miller)
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Krauthammer is wrong as hel!.
6 posted on 12/31/2010 2:52:49 PM PST by Logical me
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If you talk to Republicans, I don’t think there are what, more than one in three who would tell you she has a chance of winning the presidency or even the nomination.”

If you talk to Republicans, I don't think there are more than one in three who have even HEARD of Mitch Daniels.
7 posted on 12/31/2010 2:53:05 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (quipment.)
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Yea, like we have never heard this from him before. Apparently Charles is not getting enough people to pay attention to him nowdays so this tripe line of his keeps coming up. Then again, maybe he is so scared she will actually do it that he has to keep convincing himself that she won’t so his establilshment world view apple cart won’t be upset.

His only hope of remaining gamefully employed in the beltway is to keep the establishment RINOs in power. If the Tea Party tide keeps rolling, Charles just might have to retire because nobody outside of his sphere of “intellectuals” give a rat’s fart what he thinks anymore. Even a person with hearing good enough to hear a mouse pissing on a cotton ball won’t get a tickle in their ear when he roars.


8 posted on 12/31/2010 2:54:43 PM PST by mazda77 (Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I suppose for his one in three, he quizzed David Frum, Peggy Noonan and Scott Brown.


9 posted on 12/31/2010 2:54:53 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (quipment.)
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Why would you want a candidate who is going to lose against a Democrat who is going to be vulnerable and who is also extremely ideologically ambitious?”

Well, if the alternative is a candidate who will be willing to implement a milder version of the same agenda and play nice with the ambitious ideologues on the left, permanently paralyzing the remaining resistance to the Leftist agenda, it seems comparatively attractive.
10 posted on 12/31/2010 2:57:20 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (quipment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is a first-class jerk!


11 posted on 12/31/2010 2:58:14 PM PST by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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The egomaniac Krauthammer has ended 2010 as Dr. Misgynist
who worked with Rove to destroy O'Donnell and
tried to hurt (as if the paid pussies could) Gov. Palin.

"Go Mitt. Go Mitt. Go Mitt."


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12 posted on 12/31/2010 2:58:35 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Why not Palin? Here are facts: Barack Obama never was an executive in his entire life (Community Organizer)and...it shows in his utter incompetence. Joe Biden is as dumb as human being can become. John Kerry is a total waste as a human being and a public servant. Shall I go on!!! Charles, my boy, you gotta be kidding. I’ll trust, street smart Sarah Palin over any of these deadbeat America haters!!! And.....let my remind you Mr. Kraut, that Marco Rubio was to be slaughtered by Charlie Crist, and just how many votes did Rubio kick his useless butt by, say close to one million. Kraut, get a new fruit cart to vend from. This anti-Palin fruit ain’t sellin’!!!


13 posted on 12/31/2010 2:59:28 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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Who is surprised, he wasn’t a Reagan supporter either?!


14 posted on 12/31/2010 2:59:44 PM PST by A. Morgan
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Yes the Kraut has reverted to his former self, a suck-nuts Mondale liberal. Charles Krauthammer is a genuine teabagger--for Obama.
15 posted on 12/31/2010 3:00:27 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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ineluctable

16 posted on 12/31/2010 3:00:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
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As much as I would love it if Sarah Palin became our President...I’m afraid she cannot. She can do more where she is and is out there doing it now. I love and admire Sarah Palin but don’t think she will run much less win. We have to support others whom we can be more certain about like Herman Cain. The man is brilliant and has an EXCELLENT chance of winning if he chooses to run. No romney, no mccain, none of the stale old same oh, same ohs.


17 posted on 12/31/2010 3:01:30 PM PST by cubreporter ( Trust Rush and you won't go wrong.)
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I always thought Charles was one of our most profound thinkers and a paradigm of conservatism. Some people at FR have exposed his past, which I have looked into. I have come to the realization that this guy just may be a charlatan. At a minimum, he bears watching.
18 posted on 12/31/2010 3:01:30 PM PST by Cisco Nix (Real Conservatives stay sober and focused)
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Sarah could kick his RINO a$$.


19 posted on 12/31/2010 3:01:59 PM PST by MeganC (January 20, 2013 - President Sarah Palin)
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I think you are going to see an interesting event over Sarah Palin as she campaigns. The libs want to her to win the nominaton. They are going to register as Republicans in primaries to help too.

All the while, the old guard in the Republican party are praying she doesn’t run.


20 posted on 12/31/2010 3:02:35 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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