Posted on 07/03/2009 6:40:30 PM PDT by taildragger
Like many here, I am a political prognosticator. I followed Sarah Palin here for almost 2 years and told friends last May if McCain only chance is to pick Palin. So what does Sarah Palin's latest move mean?
I”m all for a new party , the GOP is totally lame. However Palin is not who we need to get us out of an almost impossible political mess. She is great , yes , but not electable as president. We need someone of almost historic proportions to ever turn this disaster around.She is not it.
Limbaugh took a week off.
Think "Rush to Excellence Tour" 1989 - 1991. But substitute a word.
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0bama is losing moderates and independents at lightening speed.
But that doesn’t mean they’re ready to turn to Sarah Palin now, either.
It’s not an either or situation. That’s what is known as a false dichotomy.
We can’t afford to run on an “Anybody But 0bama” platform in 2012 and hope that he is unpopular enough to sweep in whoever we put up.
The Democrats tried that strategy in 2004, and learned the hard way that it doesn’t work.
Instead, we need to run on what does work. Republicans offering real solutions based on free-market and limited government ideas.
The Sarah Palin Flying Circus may be the Greatest Show on Earth, but it’s a lousy way to try to win an election.
How it was used the 11 or 12 years ago when Kirsol wrote the book may well have been different, or he had a tin ear for nuance, or he just didn't care.
Today the term is used only by Democrats to mean "Jews who have jumped the reservation".
Last night Rush’s late night was thought to be the Obama documents on Ebay , now he was starting with a new party with Palin.
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Teddy Roosevelt ran again on the Bull Moose Party and by then he believed all land belonged to the federal government and was only rented (thru taxes) by American citizens
So much for one of my relatives in his later years
>Being a McCain AND Romney man no wonder you hate the conservative so much, man you have problems, I just wish that you had some integrity and would slow up on this wild slimeing campaign that you are operating on FR.<
To: NYC Republican
Pawlenty is more of an apolitical non-ideological moderate than a conservative. And Joe Biden would absolutely eat his lunch, and then drink his milkshake.
Romney is the most effective advocate for John McCain, and has the sharpest teeth as an attack dog. Plus he is unflappable. That is exactly what McCain needs in a VP. Remember, the VP is a supporting role. He is there to sell the top of his ticket while assailing the other party’s.
Romney was hand-made for the job.
I think the reason so many unacceptable names have been floated is to try to keep some element of surprise while lowering expectations amid the persistent speculation it is going to be Romney. Then when Romney is picked over Lieberman, Ridge, and Pawlenty, everyone will breath a sigh of relief and hail the selection.
115 posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:23:03 AM by counterpunch (John McCain - For the LOVE of Country)
So you are telling me that the multitudes of rabid Sarah Palin supporters across the fruited plains held back and didn’t vote for her just because of John McCain?
Sorry, but I don’t buy it.
I think every Sarah Palin supporter in America jumped at the opportunity to vote for her in November.
And there were just 10 million less Palin supporters than 0bama supporters.
Keep in mind kids, Not even Jimmy Carter lost by 10 million votes. Not even Michael Dukakis lost by 10 million votes.
This was approaching a defeat of Mondale proportions.
I already said she was the Dan Quayle of 2008. Will she be the Ross Perot of 2012?
Preach it baby, right on !!!
Rush is an entertainer first and he wouldn’t risk his career trying to do this tour.
I’m not a big Palin supporter, don’t get me wrong...but w/ the exception of Rep. Ron Paul — who, IMO, is a total class act & I support 110% — she & former Rep’s. Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, & J.D. Hayworth are the only other GOP’ers I respect.
I’m glad that former Rep. Bob Barr has seen the light re: the big-government agenda of the GOP, but he has been such a blatant Drug Warrior over years past that I still don’t care for him.
As I consider it more deeply, however, it is that selfsame desperation that might just make this a feasible option at this time. How many Colin Powells are there? Even among RINOs who have no use for the ultimate Source of the blessings of prosperity who nonetheless seek to retain them - I speak of those more moderate, i.e. to the right of Powell - there must be a significant number who see that they face, with their own numbers alone, the prospect of tyranny and even dictatorship if they do not join. They know we need energy and passion to win, and that this is not their strong suit.
It might just be, therefore, that this is the one point in history where a non-quixotic, genuine third party with a sense of patriotic duty undergirded by strident urgency, has a legitimate chance to build a winning coalition.
Hmmmmmm...that's news to me.
Heard today that her approval rating is 72% and that is with all parties factored in. Pew report I think.
Ah, well you might be interested in this reproduction of your ancestor. Sarah shot the moose..
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Yes, and most of them next time will be voting for anybody that runs against Obama. Unless, of course, the Republicans choose McCain, or some equally dimwitted loser like him, which is certainly within the realm of possibility since many of them are pleased with Obama's agenda, and like McCain, wish to echo it. In that case, most voters will simply sit out another election since it won't make a bit of difference who they vote for.
I doubt that Sarah Palin will be the nominee, nor will any conservative since the progressive Republicans and Democrats will have permanently "killed" most of them long before '12. If I were you, I'd sleep well knowing that Obama is probably very safe in the next election.
Your dirt digging attempts are funny.
How far back are you going to go looking for everything positive I said about Romney to try to ‘expose’ me as a closet Romney supporter? Hell, I was solidly behind Romney in the final stretch after Fred dropped out and the remaining choices were McCain and Huckabee. I still wish Romney had been nominated and not McCain. How about you?
But I wonder, in all your selective digging, are you going to highlight where I also said that Romney is what you get when Nixon is under the table with his hand up Guy Smiley?
I just call stuff as I see it, when I see it.
I’ve got no agenda beyond analyzing the current situation as it is.
I’m ready.
LOL! Poor Rush. That's what he gets for playing golf.
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