Posted on 11/30/2008 2:59:10 PM PST by lewisglad
If McCain had lost NH, he would never have won SC and Crist and Martinez would have stayed out and not endorsed (as they had previously promised) and we would likely had a completely different outcome in the GOP primary. What I do not understand in this country is how everyone has become a bunch of sheep, going with the candidate the media tells them is likely to win rather than actually researching and voting for the best candidates.
The ONLY good thing to come out of this election was Sarah Palin IMO.
Sanford?
Puhleeze....
I like Sarah, but she needs to beef up if she wants to win.
Politico: Palin a GOP star, but little liked by center
Includes comments from GOP people. Barf. They're trying to separate Sarah from her grassroots support now IMO. Never seen anything like this for any politician, certainly not since Reagan.
Figured I'd post it here and not a new thread since there's an ongoing discussion.
Me too.
Sarah!
Just use that title cause Murtha gave it to me...infact that will be the “signature” on all my Christmas cards to my Buckeye friends>!!!!
The MSM goons are scared to death of Sarah Palin.
They don’t give a hoot about the rest; they’re all mulk toast by comparison, they just know that they have to stop her.
Ridiculous her ratings in Alaska and in the republican party are astronomical, see post 102.
great, so we’ll win Alaska. What about the 49 other states?
My vote is NOT Palin.
I haven’t looked closely at Jindal, but he looks very promising, and capable of expressing complex thoughts coherently. That would be a refreshing change after the Bush years.
“Very true. But her numbers among NON-Republicans (ie the majority of the electorate) are far from stellar.”
A republican candidates numbers outside of the party four years before the election, are probably not conclusive.
Well Joe is a veteran, I don’t know what his specialty was.
Won’t be Romney.
I predict a Jindal/Palin ticket.
Wow. I didn't realize that. You make an excellent point. I still think that most Dems were more concerned with their own primary fight to care much about ours. But that might change in 2012 when they have a candidate locked in, and they might try to take revenge for "Operation Chaos".
Thank God there's time for these public servants to wise up to what's going on. The truth of the matter is that, regardless of decades of brainwashing by the MSM that the Oval Office and Congress call the shots under the Constitution, the state governments actually have more constitutional power to serve the people than the feds do. This is evidenced by the following constitutional statutes.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution (emphasis added) in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.So Governors Palin and Jindal can rally the other governors to use their "presidential" powers to "veto" Obama's health care bill. This is because, since the federal Constitution says nothing about public health care, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes to finance government-assisted health care to the states, not to the federal government.10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution (emphasis added), nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson reflected on state regulated health care when he discussed the Founder's division of federal and state powers.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons (emphasis added), our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4jGiven Governor Palin's track record in successfully taking on the big guys, it's no wonder that God kept Sarah in Alaska, especially since the feds have no power to regulate or lay takes for things like public health care anyway. Governor Palin can best lead the states to restore constitutional limits on the federal government while devising a health care plan for Alaskans from Alaska, not DC, that is, if Alaskans actually want health care. Likewise for the other governors and their states.
And after Governor Palin cleans up DC in the next two or four years from Alaska, then she can run for President and take it easy in the Oval Office if she wins. That is, if we're not fighting wars somewhere.
The article is written by a moderate. Nothing against Michael, but the moderates had their way with the choice of the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. That really worked out well for Republicans, now didn’t it?
Sorry, Michael. Your guys have blown two elections in row. You’ve had your shot, and it resulted in two miserable failures. Now please get the hell out of the way.
- JP
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