David Corn: Palin, the GOP, and the Wimp Factor

Mother Jones ^ | December 2, 2010 | David Corn

[2ndDivisionVet]

First he cites a poll that says she's leading the GOP race, then he calls her a "presidential tease or a second-tier candidate" farther on. Which is it David? She can't be the frontrunner and second-tier or is your logic too hard to grasp for us dumb hillbillies?

[FrankR]

[Maine Mariner]

“Morning Joe” Scarborough is not a prominent Republican.
He is a talk show host who has done nothing to help elect Republican candidates for a good number of years.

[Northern Yankee]

She can't win against a socialist cowardly wimp?

Hardly... she'd kick Zero's skinny a$$ in a heartbeat.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I thought Mitt was “Sleazy” or somesuch. Gomer could also be called “Fatbody”, “Squirrel-eater” or “Lapband” I suppose.

[John Valentine]

Nobody that counts give a half a fig for what Joe Scarborough thinks about anything.

[Friendofgeorge]

He`s not a Republican at all as far as I am concerned. I fully suspect he voted for Obama.

[Clarence]

I think that Palin is an interesting person who has some good things to say; she certainly knows how to hold the attention of the press. I find myself agreeing with about 90% of what she says.

Can someone explain to me (serious question) why she would be a good president given that she quit her job as governor of Alaska? She quit that job, went straight to Fox and is making big $. Is being governor of Alaska not that important? Doesn’t a resume count anymore? If so, her resume is scarred with walking away on her constituents. For the record, I have no problem with anything else in her history other than quitting that job.

In other words, is she a quitter? or not? Most of us don’t care for quitters, and the tough sledding is all ahead of us- we need people who are going to get in there and fight until the end.

[The Wizard]

great photo

[Sacajaweau]

I think the "she's a quitter" is overplayed. It's more about the real "Why did she quit"?

She's making a ton of money, works on her own clock and answers to no one.

And that amounts to self-serving.

I was her age once. I quit a magnificent Civil Service job and started my own business. And damn right....it was self serving.

So it wasn't my quiting...I never quit working...

[corkoman]

Can someone explain to me (serious question) why she would be a good president given that she quit her job as governor of Alaska?

I cannot imagine a more inane question. Obambi quit his senate job before becoming president - does that say something about him?

Did you happen to read about the numerous ethics charges she was forced to defend against - all found baseless - yet costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars and keeping her "busy"?

You must have missed that.

[libertylover]

I like Sarah because she connects well with ordinary people. However, she needs to stop saying "flippin" all the time, which she substitutes for the real f-word about every other sentence. "Flippin" doesn't have to be bleeped out, but it still sounds trashy from a presidential candidate.

[Diogenesis]

What a lying column.

The bastard has attacked Gov. Palin and her children
through SURROGATES through two (2) elections.

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney
guided by his business partner, George Soros, had
Parker, Frum, and the rest of TeamROMNEY
attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008 to the DNC.

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

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"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

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Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

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"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

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Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[Maine Mariner]

That is how I see it too.

As if we should listen to liberal commentators’ advice on who we conservatives should nominate for office.
These commentators did not like Reagan and more recently the ones in Maine did not like Tea Party member Paul LaPage.
in 1981 it was President Reagan; in 2011 it will be Governor LaPage.

[TexasCajun]

Scarborough is the Meghan MeCain of cable news, a Liberal Republican that never has a good thing to say about his party or its people.

[Diogenesis]

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

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[samtheman]

Joe isn’t a Republican. He just plays one on TV. And he doesn’t even do a good job of that.

He makes Mike Castle and Karl Rove look like Republicans by comparison.

[LibLieSlayer]

satan’s razor lipped demon slithers from under his rock and hisses at the NEXT President of the USA.

LLS

[Matchett-PI]

"Can someone explain to me (serious question) why she would be a good president given that she quit her job as governor of Alaska?"

The mere fact that you would even ask that question is evidence that the answer is probably over your head.

Suffice it to say that Palin is tough as nails and knows how to play hard-ball to neutralize and out-maneuver her political enemies. And they never see it coming - her fist is in a velvet glove.

[LibLieSlayer]

scar head is a COMMUNIST!

LLS