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Sarah Palin For President
Macleans ^ | July 2, 2009 | John Parisella

Posted on 07/02/2009 9:30:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Governor Palin was the only thing that gave Senator McCain the slim chance that he had last year, and he fumbled it: That wasn't her fault!
1 posted on 07/02/2009 9:30:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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She may be exactly what the GOP needs at this point.

Someone who’s as far away from Washington as one can get.


2 posted on 07/02/2009 9:32:34 PM PDT by Nextrush (Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan, I hope.)
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I still remember when McCain decided to ‘concede’ Michigan and pull out. Sarah wanted to keep fighting for every single vote. That tells me all I need to know. Too often, it seems, elected Republicans are willing to concede.


3 posted on 07/02/2009 9:32:45 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (A Blue Dog Democrat is an oxyMoron!)
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The article is full of patronizing BS.

The party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and (the pragmatic version of) Reagan is the path to a Republican resurgence. Palin is nowhere on that radar. She is all about celebrity status and controversy.

Gibberish. In several ways.

4 posted on 07/02/2009 9:34:15 PM PDT by SolidWood (Down with the islamic regime! Freedom for Iran!)
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McCain’s disastrous choice may have been fatal to his electoral chances, but it brought Palin to the forefront of national attention.

Disastrous choice??? If it wasn't for Sarah Palin, McCain probably wouldn't even have won Arizona.

5 posted on 07/02/2009 9:34:37 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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It wasn’t her fault he lost, but the theory that she could attract enough votes to beat Barack 0bama was tested, and it failed. By nearly 10 million votes and 10 points, no less. If she was the only thing making John McCain competitive, she sure didn’t do a good job. They lost in a certified landslide.

Perhaps if the race had been close, then Palin supporters could have some credibility to their claims. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t even close to being close. Either Palin can pull in the votes, or she can’t. People had to opportunity to choose her over 0bama, and they passed by the millions.


6 posted on 07/02/2009 9:36:46 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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Oh she can and WILL be President in 2012!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/purpleporter#play/all/uploads-all/0/_5bUbl9Dgj0

Go Palin-The first WOMAN PREZ in the U.S.

p.s.

I have her autograph along with Piper’s and I plan to place them in my in VOTES for WOMEN banner circa 1913. Talk about a treasure trove!!

GO SARAH!!


7 posted on 07/02/2009 9:37:33 PM PDT by purpleporter
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The fact the left and the MSM hate her tells me all I want to know.

Look how they behaved last Presidential Election cycle; they did all they could to pump up McCain, and to a lessor extent, Rudy. Two losers they knew were going to be the easiest to defeat because out of all the candidates, they had strayed the farthest from the base.

Sarah excites the base. Furthermore, she is not afraid to fight back and fight back hard on a continual basis.

She is a fighter and exactly the candidate the GOP needs to coalesce around.


8 posted on 07/02/2009 9:38:10 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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I still remember when McCain decided to ‘concede’ Michigan and pull out. Sarah wanted to keep fighting for every single vote. That tells me all I need to know.

Excellent point. I agree that Romney has the best chance to win Michigan as he did in the primary.

9 posted on 07/02/2009 9:38:47 PM PDT by byteback
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Based on what we have observed so far, I would say definitely not, though politics has been known to produce some strange developments.

Yeah. Like a Kenyan running The United States.

10 posted on 07/02/2009 9:39:08 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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she was not at the top of the ticket!! she was not running against Nobama!! McCain was. Sorry but your theory is utterly rediculous and reasoning inherently flawed.


11 posted on 07/02/2009 9:40:19 PM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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However, if she is to be taken seriously and considered a viable contender, she needs to change the negative perceptions of her and develop a political profile that appeals to those outside her narrow base.

Gee, that sounds like McCain's strategy.

How about she focus on promoting freedom, opportunity and the removing of government shackles.

If that doesn't appeal to enough voters than the country doesn't deserve her.

12 posted on 07/02/2009 9:41:10 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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“Oh she can and WILL be President in 2012!!”

Sorry, but you’ll have to wait until noon on January 20, 2013.


13 posted on 07/02/2009 9:41:21 PM PDT by devere
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Was she running for president against Mr. Obama? Conventional wisdom says that the top of the ticket is what decides the winner, not the running mate. Given that, she still has much more executive experience than Obama does. Senator McCain’s suspending his campaign to fly back to Washington and then doing nothing substantial didn’t exactly inspire confidence, or have you already forgotten that fiasco? Being the standard-bearer is different than the VP nomination. BTW, who do you suggest for the nominee three years hence?


14 posted on 07/02/2009 9:41:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~H.L. Mencken)
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10 points is not a “landslide” and in the electoral college it was like the 8 point Clinton victory over Dole in 1996.

Nothing like the Reagan over Mondale 1984 or Johnson over Goldwater 1964 elections. Those were the real landslides.


15 posted on 07/02/2009 9:41:38 PM PDT by Nextrush (Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan, I hope.)
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To: SolidWood

The article is from a Canada.

Macleans does not understand Conservatives.


17 posted on 07/02/2009 9:42:03 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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It wasn’t her fault he lost, but the theory that she could attract enough votes to beat Barack 0bama was tested, and it failed. By nearly 10 million votes and 10 points, no less. If she was the only thing making John McCain competitive, she sure didn’t do a good job. They lost in a certified landslide.

Sorry, but your logic is fatally flawed and the exact opposite of what actually happened.

The only reason this election wasn't a Democrat version of Reagan's landslide victory over Mondale (58.8%/ 40.6%) was Sarah. She actually brought in probably an extra 10 million voters that McAmnesty would never had gotten. The excitement the base had for McCain was because of Sarah.

Evidence for this you could not have missed here on FreeRepublic where poster over poster have claimed, including myself, that the only reason they voted for McCain was Sarah.
18 posted on 07/02/2009 9:43:17 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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Thanks...but NO THANKS.

NO one who supports amnesty will get my vote. NO ONE.


19 posted on 07/02/2009 9:43:57 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (PALIN - Supports a "path to citizenship" for ILLEGAL ALIENS)
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Journalist Todd Purdhom paints a picture of a woman with a narcissistic personality, who’s short on knowledge, disinterested in policy discussion, and not ready for primetime.

In comparison to zero, biden and hillary, I would say Palin is well qualified

20 posted on 07/02/2009 9:44:49 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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