[romanesq]

“Everyone who voted for McCain-Palin were voting for Sarah Palin.”

Never said that. I recounted a story of three people is all.

What is fair to say is that Sarah didn’t draw enough votes on behalf of McCain. You need to maintain the distinction. For some reason you cross over all kinds of lines. Not easy to have a discussion that way.

Some Republicans want a rematch probably for lots of reasons:

1. Many feel Sarah represents the anti-Obama (numerous reasons here).
2. Many feel the attacks on Sarah were attacks on their values and families
3. Many think she will actually beat the crap out of Obama (I’m not sure)
4. Others believe there’s a reason why she is so hated. That she is the biggest threat to liberal/leftist rule.
5. Some Republicans are not RINOs or do not want a watered down Rat lite party. Sarah is clearly not a RINO.
6. Many Republicans probably don’t see it as a rematch. In point of fact it isn’t.

I’m not committed in 2012. I want to stop Obama’s destruction of American culture/society/economy and foreign policy success.

Not sure Sarah is up to all that. But right now she remains the best known threat to Obama’s clear leftist agenda. His claim of being moderate is now clearly seen as a ruse.

Many of us knew that. We looked at the record and all we saw was a left wing younger version of Al Sharpton. But the media loved it and took up the propaganda with gusto.

This last election was nothing more worthless than when Hitler ran in Germany.

[Jim Noble]

This last election was nothing more worthless than when Hitler ran in Germany

Hitler and his movement were very, VERY popular in Germany. By 1935-36, he could have won any open election with 70+% of the vote.

It's getting to be too late now, but any time between 1960-1995, any honest German of a certain age would tell you that, after a few beers.

[counterpunch]

6. Many Republicans probably don't see it as a rematch. In point of fact it isn't.

Dewey's run against Truman is historically viewed as a rematch, even though when Dewey ran 4 years earlier, FDR was at the top of the ticket. It was considered a rematch by the press too, who was mostly pulling for Dewey.

In 1984 everyone laughed at the Democrats running a guy whose administration was booted 4 years earlier by Reagan. It was seen as an attempt to rerun the Carter campaign and return to the Carter years. No wonder he went down to a 49 state defeat.

Those Republicans who don't think of running Palin in 2012 as a rematch just haven't really had it brought to their attention in those terms. But the fact is the reason they want Palin to run in 2012 is precisely because she was on the ticket against 0bama in 2008. So a rematch is actually the reason they want her to run again, even if they don't realize it.

It really comes from a basic poverty of ideas on their part. In other words, they just can't think of anyone else.
But that is no way to choose a candidate.
It's a recipe for assured defeat.