Posted on 01/24/2011 8:51:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“If the GOP goes suicidal and runs Palin the entire middle will go for hussein again.”
As much as I like Palin, I agree.
I see this as Politico of the Leftist bent joining in on the current kickoff of the Obama disinformation campaign for reelection in 2012.
If we look about almost all directions we can see a massive startup of the machine that is going to inundate us with OBS for almost two years. This article is part of that startup IMO.
Probably worse, more like 20%. It will be ‘64 all over again. Palin is right on the issues but the media and the ‘Rats will do to Palin what they did to Goldwater, only on steroids. Obama won’t be running against Palin, he’ll be running against a ‘Rat and media-created caricature of Palin. And the sheeple will buy into it.
“Why would he be considered the only “viable” choice? I don’t get it.”
You have a point... there is one “Republican” I’ve heard independents mention... Romney. Independents are spoon fed by the media. As such, the ones I know consider almost any Republican as too radical, too extreme.
De-nile is not just a river in Egypt. I think you (as many here on FR do) see the world through the filter of your own lens. This country is made up of millions of voters who want all sorts of free stuff and will vote for the person who is promising them the MOST free stuff.
Only about 35-40% can be counted on to vote for their country over their pocket book and closet of give-aways.
Politico got that direct from sacred mouth of the Holy Creator of Crop Circles.
Obama is up to 52% approval in Rasmussen, and even higher in some other polls.
Many people here mistakenly believed there was some nationwide “revolution” taking place against the left and big government. The truth is, there is no “revolution”. Conservative grassroots are asserting themselves via the Tea Party and pushing the GOP to the right, but the country as a whole has in no way rejected the social welfare state.
The minute the new Republican House tries to cut much of anything, the usual howls of protest will come from the media and the majority of the public will direct their ire at Republicans for trying to “starve kids”, “steal old people’s social security”, etc. We’ve seen this before in 94’95’ and were about to see it again.
Things will have to get much, much worse before the sheeple in this country realize the nanny state is unaffordable and always fails. It could still be a very long time before the masses even begin to accept this.
Absolutely, Reagan was re-elected by 49 of 50 states and couldn’t whittle a dime out of government spending.
“Independent is just another name for a wishy-washy moron who considers himself a deep thinker.”
I think you’re on to something here. I have been so disgruntled with my RINO Senator as well as all the others that I began to think of myself as an Independent voter. However, there is no way in hades I would vote for a democrat so I reckon I’m still just a disgruntled Republican.
I find it is hard to get conservatives to give up on their favorite big-government positions.
Emotionalism wins over pretty much everything for most humans. Engendering cognitive dissonance in someone just makes them mad at you.
We’re Independent and Proud.
And we’re not fence sitters.
We’re Old School American.
IF so, which I highly doubt, they are dumb
She is more viable than Romney, McAmnesty, or Chuckleby however. Those will lose the conservative base - who likely will never vote for another RINO under any circumstance.
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