Posted on 10/20/2008 7:55:52 PM PDT by dodger
Sarah Palin will be elected President in 2012, no matter what happens two weeks from now. She will, most likely, rise up when John McCain declines to run for re-election or, failing that, on her own as a direct candidate.
PALIN 2012, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST .... As endorsed by the Dodger!
Most presidents are two termers.
Who was the last losing vice president to ascend to the presidency in a later election?
FDR (lost in 1920 as VP candidate, won in 1932, wouldn’t leave office).
Recent losing VPs don’t get out of the primaries.
Number one: Where did you first hear it? Number two: As I said, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS THIS YEAR ...
Maybe she will run under the Bull Moose party.. PALIN 2012
Yes, the Bull Moose Party. The Party of Teddy Roosevelt.
Having said that, it's still a very personal choice. Given all the vitriol from the MSM, and after 4 years of Obama/Biden, I'm not convinced this will be the choice she'll make. In fact, my sense is that this nation may never see another conservative at the helm again. The Left will have co-opted 2/3 of the electorate, muzzled conservatives and any other opposition, and turned our constitution into something we don't recognize.
Meanwhile, how often losing VP nominees go on to election is a new question and not much accessible via statistical analysis given that personalities and circumstances so dominate.
Given that, Sarah Palin is odds-on for 2012 in my humble opinion.
Argue if you wish but please refrain from further limpid conflation of issues and maladroit compounding of arguments.
HOO-HOO-HOO ... HAA-HAA-HAA!!!
Obama is another Carter. He will make a bunch of moves that nobody will like. His own party will turn on him first.
O’Bamer is the Uber-Carter. If he wins in the next fortnight, he will be discredited by 2010 ....
“Most presidents are two termers, so if Obama wins, odds are he will be a two termer.”
If he wins and you think we are getting past 2012 alive, you’re an optimist.
Please donate to the link above.Put your money where your vanity is.
Goodbye troll. ZOT!
Let me try this one more time.
1) I’m not going to do your homework. But I can guarantee you that someone (at least one person) said the same thing here weeks ago. I also know that personally, I purchased two relevant domain names about a month ago. But I’ve told no one publicly. Until now.
2) You’re missing the point. I’m not disagreeing with you, just your timing. The point is NOT the results of this year. The point is that it’s counterproductive to talk about it UNTIL this year’s vote is over.
Good points but do refer to #’s 67 & 68 below ...
Good lord ... such prissiness. Thank you and good night.
Here’s potential ZOT bait. Joined yesterday, this is the first post.
PS: Perhaps you did not read your ‘homework’ carefully: I said as much 15 MONTHS AGO ...
What?
Ever hear of Richard Nixon? VP from 1953-1961. Lost 1960 election. Elected President in 1968.
Newbies are amusing.
the nomination is hers if she wants it. Her only competition may be Jindal but he’ll still be very young in 2012 (41) and frankly he’s very ivy league east coast intellectual. He’ll win some of the liberal coastal states but Palin will cleanup everywhere else. She connects with people in a way nobody else in the republican party does.
We’ve all seen her grow in the next 7 weeks, now imagine her after 4 years of thinking about HER views on national issues and running HER own campaign, not parroting McCain’s talking points and reading his speeches as kind of a hired gun.
I don’t know what the status of the country will be in 2012 if the hope peddler wins but the nomination will be Palin’s if she wants it.
The next question is timing. She can win the nomination but can she win the general election? Is 4 years enough time to erase the character assassination the mainstream media inflicted on her?
Or is she better off serving two full terms as governor, working her butt off electing republican congressman all over the country and going on every foreign policy conference or speech or charity event overseas she’s invited to build real commander-in-chief credibility?
She’ll only be 52 in 2016. She’s got a bright future ahead of her whatever she decides.
She’s a quick learner and the biggest hurdle any candidate for president has is name ID and fundraising.
Those will not be problems for Palin. If she makes a serious attempt to study national issues over the next 4 yars and builds a campaign team around her, there’s absolutely no reason she can’t go all the way.
She has the best raw political instincts of any politican since Reagan. That can’t be learned. You either have it or you don’t. The rest can be learned and she’s a quick study.
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