Posted on 11/19/2009 9:15:01 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Not really.
She sure didn't have the highest approval numbers in America when she quit the job, now, did she?
Uh, how many terms had she served when she was picked for VP?
Now tell me why you think that the most popular governor in the United States was not a shoo in for reelection in your scenario, the fact is that she would have been unbeatable for reelection, as it is she still was unbeatable when she actually did leave after the 2008 election and all the constant national effort to weaken her in her office.
"The fact of the matter is that she wouldn't be where she is today without the star-making cachet of having been chosen as McCain's VP. Without that, she'd be a one-term governor of Alaska"
That's exactly what I said. Because that's exactly what she was--an unknown governor who'd only served one term. Less, actually.
Your problem is you don't seem to understand the meaning of the word "one" apparently.
Now tell me why you think that the most popular governor in the United States was not a shoo in for reelection in your scenario,
I never even thought about re-election. And obviously neither did she. How do you know she would have run for re-election? There was speculation that she was going to run for senator at one point.
You just decided on your own that she's not a one-term governor. She was, she is. Stop trying to alter reality.
the fact is that she would have been unbeatable for reelection,
That's completely not true. You need to look at her poll numbers.
as it is she still was unbeatable when she actually did leave after the 2008 election and all the constant national effort to weaken her in her office.
You keep spinning and spinning to avoid the simple reality that at the time Palin was selected for VP, she was a one-term governor. Why you can't understand simple English, I don't understand, but you look uninformed, to be polite.
And the simple reality is that as beloved as she is by Republicans, the general public doesn't think she's qualified to be president. If she were the same person but were a pro-choice democrat, neither would we.
“She sure didn’t have the highest approval numbers in America when she quit the job, now, did she?”
LOL, after all the left could do against her, she was at 56% when she left office. Romney left office at 34% and could only reach 56% once and 66% once.
Look at the date on the story below.
The Most Popular Governor
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
by Fred Barnes
07/16/2007, Volume 012, Issue 41
Juneau
The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they’ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle—especially to transparency and accountability in government—can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
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In the roughly three years since she quit as the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the “body count” of Palin’s rivals. “The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah,” says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called “Voice of the Times,” which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp?pg=1
You have a gift for avoiding the point, I'll give you that.
I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with your dancing around here, but you've yet to disprove anything I've posted. You just don't like it, so you try to distract. But it's not working.
You tried to portray her as just a generic member of a GOP governor “crowd” of up and comers in your post 32, and I posted this which set you into argument.
“The difference is that Palin was not just a part of a group of competent leaders that deserved recognition and watching for future potential. I am saying that Palin was on the verge of being discovered as a charismatic superstar, GOP female Governor regardless of a McCain.
A beautiful, moose hunting, crusading, female Governor that was the most popular Governor in America with approval numbers in the 90s was someone that the media could not keep from the public even if she was a republican.
People like me already knew who she was, just as I already knew who Jindal was but Palin at some point was destined to reach the general public as a well known, colorful and interesting Governor.”
You're awfully sensitive if you say it "set me into argument". I merely pointed out that, indeed, she was a member (I never said "generic", which is meaningless in this context) a member of a crowd of up and comers.
She indeed was just that, and would still be at this point if not for McCain's choice of her as VP.
So after all of your back and forth efforts, we're back where we started, and you still have no evidence disproving my point. Without McCain's choice of her, and the subsequent MSM firestorm that was a result of and further fueled the interest McCain's spotlight on her created, we wouldn't be talking about her this way one year into Obama's first term.
Your subsequent posts are efforts to muddy the argument, but you've proven none of your assertions.
She was the most popular governor in America and probably the most popular elected official in America, she was the most colorful and exciting republican since Reagan and one of the most interesting politicians of American history, she was definitely heads and above any other governor of either party towards being the next political superstar.
Considering the past year, events seem to prove all that true, there are other governors but nothing like this phenomenal woman, they are now printing 2.5 million copies of her book by the way.
I’m waiting for the heads to start spinning when Sarah endorses McCain.
Sarah has praised McCain and not said a bad word about him. I think he feels he has to reciprocate in kind, or he will look foolish, especially with women who don’t especially care for him.
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