Posted on 11/05/2008 7:18:20 AM PST by RobinMasters
Campaign Spot reader Joshua writes in, with some data on what Sarah Palin did and did not add to the Republican ticket.
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No kidding
Also, I hope Ted Stevens gets expelled from the Senate so that Palin can appoint herself to the then vacant position. She will stay until the next cycle election (at least 2 and maybe 6 years). While there, she will have had years more Senatorial experience than O had (his 150 days of experience).
Super Sarah had nothing whatsoever to do with the loss; neither did McCain. It was a complete and utter revulsion of the boob currently in the White House!
While I am a big supporter of Palin, I dont think 2012 is a good time for her to run again unless the economy is in the tanks. Palin has been SOOO savaged by the media as a stupid airhead, alot of the myth about her still persist in the public who will refuse to vote for her
No doubt about it, if she wasn’t there McCain and whoever else would have lost 57 states. She energized and united the base like nobody else could have or did. Unfortunately she didn’t have a lot to work with in McCain.
DITTO. When Thompson dropped out, I was right here on FR saying a McCain yard sing would never cast its shadow on my front lawn. When he selected Palin, someone I had been watching since February, I was beyond excited and would have had McCain/Palin tattooed on my chest if my wife would of let me. I would of crawled through glass on bare knees to vote for them.
Fred will prob be dead by 2012, as for the other, who dat?
Party needs to be cleaned out, and we can prob. forget about 2012 as well.
America is dead. Never will you have freedom again, not that there was much left anyway
I would have sat home if it were not for Palin
Any vacancy in US Senate in Alaska requires a new election in 90 days. No appointments there anymore.
Ditto
Please don’t read into this anything that I didn’t intend.
You sir are an idiot. No offense.
Phew now that that is out. No where I mean no where in the history of american politics can you point to a VP candidate so energizing the base as Palin did.
Thompson Deep thinker?
Sanford? Sheesh
Sorry in terms of political capital Palin owns the conservative base in her pocket. And it is that capital that wins elections, not your GRE score.
The conservative movement has been screwed, like it or not there will need to be a Palin or someone similar that is outside of the traditional republican circles to revive it.
If you can not see that ( and it is obvious you can’t by your suggestion) then we will get the same steam rolling we got last night.
ditto
And yes, if she's such an airhead, how did she defeat the good old boys and become Governor? Isn't that a slap at the citizens of Alaska then?
Easy answer ... cajones. She was the only one apparently willing to fight it out towards the end.
I agree. And I think she has a great future ahead of her. Think of the numbers and excitement at her rallies. She speaks well for Conservatives. Finally, a voice for us! And a pretty one at that!
No, it wasn't a wipe out. it was close, which is why the vote fraud worked. McCain, nor anyone else could have got any closer. the fix was in by media and Obama's fraud squad. There was nothing anyone could do, too much corruption in the courts and government.
to me it seemed like she wanted to speak to everybody and thank them, but Mccain didnt let her. Thats my personal observation.
I'm not as convinced that it was McCain himself as it was the gaggle of drooling idiots that McCain surrounded himself with.
We heard a lot of backbiting coming out of McCain staffers about how Sarah was going off the reservation.
Sarah, when turned loose, is a good communicator. That's what the GOP needs to turn it around. That's what Reagan did. Reagan didn't invent conservatism. Reagan communicated conservatism to the American people very well.
That's something that BHO did this cycle. He did a lot of talking about nothing, but he did it really well.
I don´t think she is a deep enough thinker or principled enough to be a future leader.
Right. Just because she took on corruption in Alaska, knows the energy issue like the back of her hand, received national security updates, had an 80% approval rating in her state and was the only republican with the guts to call Nobama out on being a socialist & friend of terrorists in front of cameras with NO FEAR.
Yeah, who wants her as a leader?
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