Posted on 11/07/2008 8:31:02 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
If the Couric interview did her in. She would not have 91% favoribles among the GOP.
BTT!
If you don’t believe me, talk to people outside of FR. Palin has become a caricature of herself.
However, I never thought, in a million years, that she would have been the pick for VP. Several posters on here proved prescient. Maybe they are right about her resurgence.
Meaning, then, that the flailing and tiresome anti-Sarah trolls hereabouts are all one-eyed, one-eared and brainless...?
Yeah. I'll buy that. ;)
Sarah will be the first female POTUS
- John McCain knew, with GWB’s low popularity, gas prices up, and the economy going south (even before it tanked in July), that he wasn't going to win the election.
- John McCain knew that a strong campaign, even if it was ultimately a losing one, would help down ticket GOP candidates and avoid a total Democratic blowout at the congressional, state, county, and local level.
- John McCain knew he needed something to offset the ONE’s star quality because he certainly wasn't going to - especially with the MSM already in the tank with the Dems.
- John McCain knew he would need a high energy campaigner who could really get out the base and draw in at least a portion of the independent vote.
Huckabee was too conservative, and Romney had religion problems (it didn't matter to me but it does matter to a portion of the Republican party base). Besides, selecting them would be just another serving of white bread to a public craving something different.
BHO was the first truly serious African American presidential candidate. So he countered with the first Republican woman VP candidate in selecting Sarah Palin. In effect, McCain countered BHO's star power with Sarah's star power and it scared them. Badly.
It didn't matter that she wasn't really qualified to be VP because they were not going to win. Her job was to electrify the base and get conservative and independent voters to vote Republican for local, county, state, and congressional-level officials. And that was why they ran so hard right down to election day itself.
As a strategy, it didn't work perfectly. But the election wasn't a total blow out either. There was no Democratic tsunami.
And, has anyone forgotten how freaked out the Dems and the liberal press was and still are about her? At least THEY understand how dangerous a relatively young, attractive, articulate (well, once she got her campaign legs under her) conservative is to them politically.
Well done, John. Well done, Sarah.
She will never get the single mom vote and theres one hell of a lot more of them appearing daily.
91% of the Republican party does not get in Free Republic.
A poll has been properly cited and referenced, in support of the contention that Governor Palin is not, in fact (as the MSM smearmongers would have it) "damaged goods."
You'll need to provide something at least as convincing, in order for your rebuttal to be taken at all seriously.
That's not unfair; it's simply the way rational online debate works.
No, it's just the opposite.
I consider the Republican party being a liberal RINO party and any conservative (registered Republican or not) out side the party.
The GOP has effectively squashed any semblance of conservativism in it's ranks and continues to destroy anyone who shows any.
Evidence in support of this prediction ("will never") being...?
Do Republicans ever get the bulk of the single mom vote? Nope but I bet she’ll get more then most Republicans in the past/present, plus maybe she’ll still get those 15% to 20% of the PUMA’s that voted this year for us.
Having a 91% favorability rating within your own party is a good place to start from if you’re going to launch a bid for the Presidency in 2012. Many critics will say that is all she is. She will not expand beyond the base and thus not be a good candidate. I beg to differ. Once anybody knows you can count on a huge bloc of support you can then focus exclusively on developing outreach by developing programs and policies that attract others to your side. That is a big advantage to any politician. Again, I take the minority position. Thank God, for John McCain. Without him Sarah Palin would not have been possible.
That makes a great tagline... Thanks!
Hey, you certainly don't have to convince ME -- !!! ;)
I have. Based on what I've heard, you're inventing facts that you cannot and will not support.
When your bluff was called you punked out.
...and a big part of the 33 1/3% are really lying democrats lying about being republicans!
Uh Huh...I meant to use 'lying' twice, when talking about democrats, you can never overuse the word.
It's definitely a silver lining.
Three other sitting governors – Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Charlie Crist of Florida and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota – all pull low single-digit support.
Point: se_ohio_young_conservative. ;)
Al Franken won this voting block overwhelmingly. How on earth would Republicans ever find someone to appease these dumb women?
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