Posted on 11/30/2008 2:59:10 PM PST by lewisglad
It is way too early to be talking about 2012. Many states are going to have to tackle tough budget problems (AK & LA included). How Jindal and Palin handle these budget problems will make or break their Presidential aspirations. The problem with the GOP is not that its too conservative or less conservative. Its the image of the GOP being a country club for rural evangelicals who care only about gay marriage. Palin and Jindal have opportunites to show the world how competent they are with fiscal matters. If they are successful, then their stock for the GOP Presidential nomination will go up. We need people who are competent, problem solvers.
However, if any Republican leader makes back handed digs against our gal Sarah, the gloves come off. I'll be "putting on the foil".*
*little hockey joke for all lovers of the movie "Slap Shot".
Agreed, and he already has the bus, plus all those illegals he' helped put in school will vote for him, maybe?///
How so? Please explain.
“I have yet to see any proof that palin is a conservative.”
You need to put on your glasses.
AS I said: “I have yet to see any proof that palin is a conservative.”
Oops. The beginning of my post was cut off. I meant to write that Robert Stacy McCain at the American Spectator made a great argument about these so called moderate swing voters.
Palin/Jindal ‘12 BABY!!! Oh Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh
Apparently, you can’t be a social conservative and be well-educated. Nice.
You forget the PUMA’s. They were supposed to come out in battalions on Election Day for McCain/Palin. They voted for The One (piss be upon him) anyway.”
What is the link to those numbers?
What do you call a ‘conservative’?
The next four years will allow Sarah to prove that she is ready for the big leagues, and not just AAA ball.
I know nobody want’s to hear it, but Sarah Palin is dead. the media, if they haven’t done so already, will make sure she is done and the fork is stuck in her by 2010 so she can’t even get re-elected.
The big things the Republicans have against them is the media. They are going to make sure Barack Obama is the most respected, most beloved and most popular president ever. All his mistakes will be covered up. Any national or international catastrophess will be blamed on Bush and Obama will be portrayed as the man who left with unfortunate task of cleaning up after Bush, but the mess is so big that no one can clean it up. The people will be told he is doing so great dispite the huge mess Bush left for him. Barack Obama will be loved by the American people no matter how poorly he does becuase that’s the way the media wants it.
The rest of the Republican field is dismal as well. As I said, Palin is severely damaged goods, Bobby Jindal has little experience and not much of a known persona and Mark Sanford isn’t well known either. I suspect either Romeny or Huckabee will be nominated in 2012 becuase they will be the name everyone recognizes, but the are hardly solid conservatives. Plus the media will portray them as Bush rehashes and the public will rapidly turn their backs on them. Then they’ll go down in defeat in at least a 40 state landslide as the much beloved and respected Barack Obama is re-elected handiliy.
Basically, I am saying is conservatisim is dead in Ameican politics. The Bush and McCain Repubilcans destroyed the party. Then when McCain, back in the Senate, helps pass amnisty for all illegal immigrants they will have paved the way for a permanent Democratic majority in the White House and in the congress as those 20,000,000 lowlifes will now all register Democrat and vote Democrat everytime out. No way in hell for the Republicans to ovewr come that many votes.
What about Mark Sanford?
Hell, she was head and shoulders above the rest already.She had the misfortune of being hamstrung by a complete POS rino.
Jindal is my choice
Was that a babelfish translation?
Look, I have no right to insult anyone about making typos. I make them all the time. But what the heck are you talking about there?
I want to know why don't you think she is a conservative. What makes you say that she is not? Are you arguing that she is not a social conservative, or do you think that she is not a fiscal conservative? By what criteria are you suggesting that she is not a conservative. That was what I was asking.
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