The Sarah Palin Stamp Of Approval (Her endorsements have been more successful than critics imagine)

NPR ^ | 07/21/2010 | John Nichols, The Nation

[ken5050]

Unlike the Dems, with their proportional primary voting system, GOP contests are all winner-take-all. In a crowded GOP presidential field, Sarah could easily win nearly every contest with a plurality...she has a clear path to the nomination...

[hosepipe]

[ but I’d rather have someone who is Pro-Life. ]

Well duuugh.. what you gonna do if they aren't?.. NOT VOTE?..

[SmokingJoe]

After Palin’s political crack-up in 2008, and as someone who has reported on her ethically challenged tenure as Alaska's governor

Groan!
Sarah Palin’s tenure as governor was one of the most ethical in the country, and vastly more ethical than the super corrupt 0bama regime, which will go down in history as the most corrupt regime this country has ever seen.
Who the heck is John Nichols anyways? A member of the notorious journolist?

[redhead]

"This guy has journolist myopia. He doesn’t get it - he only gets his liberal world view."

Consider the source. The "Nation" is the national socialist rag.

[SmokingJoe]

She offers slashing opinions on Fox News Channel, Twitter and Facebook

Al “We will doctor pictures to make Israel look bad” Reuters strikes again.

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[The Working Man]

After Palin’s political crack-up in 2008, and as someone who has reported on her ethically challenged tenure as Alaska’s governor, I was (like many Republicans) skeptical about her ability to master the intricacies of Republican primary politics on the national level — an essential first step in a presidential bid.

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Well, well, well, repeat something often enough and a lie becomes the truth. Political crack-up = coordinated search and destroy mission a la Journolist conspiracy of journalists. And a ethically challenged tenure as Governor of Alaska? Well, we all know now that exercise was also a well-coordinated attack on her through a process that prohibited her defending herself except through the process of going bankrupt paying for lawyers while her opponents claims were investigated with tax-payers funds.

I too am now outed as a supporter of this remarkable woman who has incurred the ire of a corrupt political party system. (Both parties) As my daughter would say — YOU GO GIRL!

[Pollster1]

with regard to the former mayor of Wasilla

Does this moron not know that (future) president Palin also served in a higher office? That's as irresponsible as not knowing that the former junior senator from Illinois spent years as a druggie and may still be one to judge by his actions and decisions.

[Personal Responsibility]

The reality is not that Sarah would lose. The reality is that she is the one person other than George W Bush who the Left will excoriate so badly that, to the independents, all the negativity around Obama will seem to fall by the wayside. If you don’t understand that then you don’t understand how independents think.

[okie01]

The reality is that she is the one person other than George W Bush who the Left will excoriate so badly that, to the independents, all the negativity around Obama will seem to fall by the wayside.

I seem to recall the Republican establishment saying much the same about Reagan relative to Carter in 1978-79.

Please, let's not allow the opposition to determine whom we nominate.

[okie01]

-- John Nichols writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.

This appears to be by your John Nichols, the Annointed Idiot for the Capital Times.

For once, he sounds serious -- instead of condescending -- and he is obviously scared. Very scared.

[Personal Responsibility]

The point I’m trying to make is, there might be another candidate who’d be as good as Palin who will not have the baggage already laid at his/her feet that Palin does. If she’s the best candidate that’s fine but being the best candidate is a combination of things. Not understanding that and taking it into account could result in four more years of Obama.

[stevestras]

“The reality is not that Sarah would lose. The reality is that she is the one person other than George W Bush who the Left will excoriate so badly that, to the independents, all the negativity around Obama will seem to fall by the wayside. If you don’t understand that then you don’t understand how independents think.”

You are a pussy.

You don’t understand how winners think.

[Personal Responsibility]

I am not saying don’t run Sarah because of the beating she’d take. I’m saying not factoring it into the overall equation is like running a football offense without taking into account how the defense will react.

[okie01]

The point I’m trying to make is, there might be another candidate who’d be as good as Palin who will not have the baggage already laid at his/her feet that Palin does...

I understand what you're saying. What I'm saying is "Should we disregard our best candidate because of 'the baggage already laid at her feet' by the opposition media?"

If we do that, we are letting the opposition media define our own candidate. We are admitting defeat before we even start...

[Personal Responsibility]

I never said we should disregard Palin. We absolutely should not. Understanding that the baggage laid on her during the 2008 campaign will be brought back up is understanding reality for what it is. Palin may well be the best candidate but that baggage is something she will have to overcome.

These things need to be taken into account and not doing so is foolish.

We will not define Palin unless the media implodes some time in the next two years. For independents - the ones who are increasingly running full speed away from Obama - Palin is defined. And it’s not in a good way. I don’t like it - I like a lot of what she has to say - but that is reality and needs to be accounted for.