Sarah Palin's 2012 Opportunity

US News and World Report's Washington Whispers ^ | September 28, 2010 | Paul Bedard and Caitlin Huey-Burns

[2ndDivisionVet]

The odds-on favorite to win the GOP presidential nod in 2012 is none other than Sarah Palin, according to a statistical formula developed by Villanova University Prof. Lara Brown. The professor's figuring is bad news for presumed hopefuls like Rep. Mike Pence, Sen. Jim DeMint, ex-Gov. Mitt Romney, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Gov. Haley Barbour, and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Many simply joined the game too late, says Brown, author of the new book Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants, which studies every election since the founding. Others, like DeMint, are still brewing but won't be ready until 2016. As for Newt? "I don't think the GOP can forgive him," she says.

The book devises an "opportunism variable" based on the candidate's résumé to explain who wins the presidency and why. Palin has an advantage because she has been elected both mayor and governor. She also was a major party vice presidential nominee, giving her an enviable breadth of political experience. According to Brown, candidates who take risks and run for a variety of offices do well. It's even better if they lose a presidential race or two. "It takes about a run and a half to get there," Brown says. Pols "may think they can get it done in six months or a year, but [winning] will actually take them running, losing, and planting seeds," she says.

[Gargantua]

WHO IS YOUR CANDIDATE FOR 2012?!

I'm going with the hands-down winner;

Sarah "Barracuda" Palin, whom history will record as America's first woman and most amazingly accomplished President ever. That she will get so much vital work done for our Nation will be the uniquely unlikely combination of her own incredible abilities and the mammoth mountain of things that need doing quickly to right this badly listing ship of State.

;^D

[onyx]

Notice “the parent(s)” always show up, and now without getting pinged? That FR mail or IM must be working well because they up like clockwork...lol.

[mkjessup]

The fact is, we're not talking about Ronald Reagan, and the comparisons suggesting that Sarah Palin is anothe Reagan simply do not hold water, not in the areas of experience, not in the areas of conservative gravitas, and what Reagan may have done 34 years ago quite frankly has no relevance today.

Even IF Richard Schweiker had gone on to become Vice President in a hypothetical Reagan Administration beginning in January 1977, he would have had the responsibility of presiding over the Senate in the event of tie votes, and attending funerals of foreign leaders. There wouldn't have been much opportunity for him to do much damage so far as Reagan's conservative agenda.

[Windflier]

One word will answer your entire long-winded question about Sarah Palin’s support of John McCain in his latest re-election bid, and that is:

PAYBACK.

Live with it. It’s a reality in politics. It’s now done and over with.

[Windflier]

That post looks like a threat directed at another FReeper.

Kook post of the thread.

[mkjessup]

That is a pretty old graphic here at freerepublic, instead of whining like a girl because you don’t interpret things well, why not just turn her in to the moderators, they’ll remove it and the nightmarish danger can end?

You, like Onyx are incapable of addressing legitimate questions regarding Sarah Palin's qualifications (or lack thereof) to be the GOP nominee, let alone President. You and your ilk resort to bluster, bombast and veiled threats. You can make any kind of excuse you want, the age of a graphic that may have been used before on FR has no relevance to how it was used tonight at #32 by Sarah's lead cheerleader.

If any poster had used that graphic, directing it at Sarah Palin, with a note "you're next", I guarantee that some Palinista would have been screaming murder most foul and perhaps even contacted the authorities over such a threat.

[mkjessup]

See #106. You would probably one of those screaming about it if it were directed at Sarah Palin, instead of at another FReeper.

[Gargantua]

No, he won't. There isn't another politician, either on the table for 2012, or in our great history, who are as remarkably accomplished at acheiving the impossible in record time while also running for VP, raising a family and having a baby!

Get real... it isn't even close. Not by a Wassilla mile.

;-/

[jy8z]

I can't wait until 2012.

[EveningStar]

[Psalm 144]

You know, you gained some respect with post 80 as honest debate, then lost it all at 84 with inane pants wetting.

[Windflier]

Why don’t you just make me ‘get lost’ Onyx?

That sounds like a threat on a Freeper to me.

[Arizona Carolyn]

He’s a Ron Paul lover.

[mkjessup]

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
~Voltare~

Your histrionic posts are certainly not well-mannered, and it will be up to others to determine whether or not they rise to the standard of 'stupid'.

[Gargantua]

I know you're a tool, I just can't decide if you're a hammer or a wrench. LMAO

8^D

[mkjessup]

One word will answer your entire long-winded question about Sarah Palin’s support of John McCain in his latest re-election bid, and that is:
PAYBACK.
Live with it. It’s a reality in politics. It’s now done and over with.

OK, so was Sarah lying about McCain being a "real conservative", or did she really believe that he was?

[mkjessup]

Try not try discussing the topic, if you’re capable of that?

[Gargantua]

I got it! It's the abrasiveness that gave you away...

...you're a random orbital sander!

Tool.

8^D

[mkjessup]

Why don’t you just make me ‘get lost’ Onyx?
That sounds like a threat on a Freeper to me.

Work on your comprehension skills.

[Windflier]

"If you read, “Going Rogue”"

SO you believe what is said in a political autobiography?

If you'd actually read "Going Rogue", you'd know that it's not a "political" biography. Good job on outing yourself.

It's pretty obvious from your posts that you've got a bug up your *** about Sarah Palin. Not once on this thread have I seen you intelligently express your basic disagreements with her.

So, what's the story? What have you got against Sarah Palin?