Posted on 02/17/2010 8:27:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem. Voters thought his entertaining dimensions might be incompatible with presidential responsibilities. For example, he selected a running mate most Americans had never heard of and who had negligible experience pertinent to the presidency. This was 1964.
Barry Goldwater, whose seat John McCain occupies, chose to run with Bill Miller, a congressman from Lockport, N.Y., near Buffalo. Miller, Goldwater cheerfully explained, annoyed Lyndon Johnson. After the Goldwater-Miller ticket lost 44 states, Miller retired to Lockport, where he practiced law and lived in dignified anonymity until his death in 1983. Although he had served as an assistant prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg and spent seven terms in Congress, no one suggested he should be considered for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.
Yet Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.
Conservatives, who rightly respect markets as generally reliable gauges of consumer preferences, should notice that the political market is speaking clearly: The more attention Palin receives, the fewer Americans consider her presidential timber. The latest Post-ABC News poll shows that 71 percent of Americans -- including 52 percent of Republicans -- think she is not qualified to be president.(continued)
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Exactly—and when his predictions are proved wrong, they just disappear down the memory hold and he goes merrily on, thinking he knows the future.
In 2006, Will wrote an article on the handicapping of the 2008 GOP race and thought Romney was in the catbird's seat.
"Yet with Allen much diminished and perhaps out of contention, and with Rudy Giuliani not yet doing serious groundwork for a national campaign, the Republican field is already down to two. That is good for only one of them: Romney."
WTG, George. We're in the internet age. Somebody always remembers...LOL.
Who's seat is it George? (hint: Ted Kennedy)
This poll he cites was what was called an outlier. It's been deconstructed as having terrible sampling procedures (twice as many dems as R's, and other such things). All the other polls show much greater suppport for her, one that is growing. Will is so stuck in his little cocoon, he reports the fuzz as reality for the whole world.
Now excuse me, I have to go set up my picture of Sarah between the two candles on my altar.......
FreeReign:You think Sarah is a lying, America hating, self-centered, freedom grabbing, abortion loving, Constitution shredding, commie?
What?
I do knock down strawman fallacies and I don't set them up (which is probably what you meant to accuse me of).
Back to point, Obama is a lying, America hating, self-centered, freedom grabbing, abortion loving, Constitution shredding, commie while Sarah is not. That is why some people like Sarah, I'm not sure why some people like Obama, which is why Obama and Sarah are different. Your comparison of the two is false.
I have never liked George Will, he has been the token fake Conservative for ABC News as long as I can remember.
Sarah has now said that she would want to be president under certain circumstances.
Obviously, it is now apparent that Sarah didn't resign as governor just to become wealthy.
It is your vision that is distorted, because you work in denial and emotion, while I go by the evidence.
I see that you and George have met!
Has to be either Brownsville, or Austin....
Ahahaha! Great find!
Fellow Paulestinian, is he?
Apologies Sir!
The historical verdict on populism is that the morons with confused politics (IE Populists) lose outside of local contests. Jackson was an exception, as his election was the first in which non-land holding white males could vote (and they voted for one of the largest landholders in Tennessee!).
>Populism gave us the income tax, usury laws, and other noxious statism.
Left wing populists, I suspect. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tea Party people want all that to be flushed down the commode of history.
>Populism is to brain dead hicks what socialism is to brain dead urbanites/suburbanites.
The kind of populism you mentioned above is not unlike socialism, IMO. They’re both of the Left.
None. What's your point? Will isn't running for president, nor is anyone seriously considering him as a candidate.
I see. So just because the Dems nominated and managed to elect some ignoramous completely unprepared for the office, we should do the same thing.LOL.
Well put! That qualifies as quote of the day in my book!
You should make it your tagline.
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