Thompson got in the 2008 campaign late and never recovered. I really wish McCain had chosen someone else to sink with his ship. Palin could have been spending the last 3 years getting more experience as Governor of Alaska and be in her second term now. She was taken out of the oven too soon, so now she’s just a half-baked Alaskan.
I hope Bachmann can manage to stay in. She’s a good voice for conservatism.
I’ll certainly support Palin if she gets in and wins, but I’m not as optimistic about her chances as this article. I think her support is very deep, but not very wide.
We’ll know soon enough. However it turns out, I hope we can all stand together in the end - to stop the Obama regime.
Disagree....no one lights a fire in the conservative base like Palin. Plus she has already been completely vetted. She’s got no where to go but up.
My energy level comment was sarcastic. Palin and Thompson, similar energy levels???? Come on!
I’ve been thinking pretty much the same thing. It’s what made her famous but you could say being used by McLame as VP candidate was in hindsight the worst thing that could have happened to her career. Ultimately prompting her decision not to run for reelection.
I don’t think she’s gonna run for President and maybe she never wanted to but being a 2 term Governor who lets say succeeded in cleaning up Alaska politics and slaying the Arctic RINOs up there would have been a better path than VP candidate and former Governor turned media/pop culture icon.
Thompson never really campaigned and said he didn't have the fire in the belly to run a campaign. He was talked into running, but never wanted it.
Palin has plenty of fire - if she gets in there will be no stops.
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Keep in mind a little history - Sarah Palin was PERSECUTED by harrassment lawsuits which were without merit, yet so long as she was Governor of Alaska, they interfered greatly whith her discharge of duties as Governor. The fastest way to resolve virtually all of these lawsuits was to resign, and remove the governorship as the target of this petty (and expensive) guttersniping.
So to say that she “quit under fire” is to misrepresent the facts. She did it to restore the power of the Governor’s office.
Her current strategy (poised to run, but not yet announcing) keeps the snipers off-balance and uncertain of how to proceed against her.
And if she chooses not to run officially, but is subject to a draft at the Republican convention, who could bet against that?
You're quite a wordsmith :-)
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