Wendy and Mark are right on this. Sarah Palin is, sadly, unelectable as President and she’s smart enough to know it.
However, she does have a huge amount of support and respect from rank-and-file conservatives who would be willing, if she asked them to, to hold their nose and vote for an otherwise imperfect candidate.
She will not run for President in 2012, she will use her bully pulpit of popularity and media attention to put light on conservative values and causes and - when the time comes - she’ll throw her support behind the eventual GOP candidate. If that candidate wins (which is unlikely in the extreme) she may parlay her supporting them into an appointment position, perhaps Sec. State or Chairman of the GOP which she could then use to launch a future Presidential bid, though I doubt that.
Yes, Palin has a huge following, which will NOT translate into them voting for some other person, who she might claim to back. You obviously have little understanding of her supporters.
Palin is not "unelectable"; however, every single person now with a hat in the ring, or talked about, IS unelectable! Not a one of them can beat Obama and the GOP will lose the House, should one of the pygmies be the GOP candidate.
Steyn is damned dead wrong about this and so are you!
I really don't understand why you say this? I am about as much a political realist as anyone around. Many people probably hate me for writing off candidates I consider entirely awful like Christine O Donnell and Sharon Angle (not bad people, just bad candidates), but I just don't see why you and others think Palin is "unelectable". In a year that Hussein had the entire media working overtly as his PR team (so obviously that even comedians made fun of the press for it), Palin managed to keep the election reasonably close almost entirely by herself. I mean, it isn't like people were turning out to rallies to see McCain.
Negatives right now just don't matter much. Hillary had very high negatives, yet once she got in the race those numbers evaporated. It is not like Palin's negatives are driven by gaffes or idiotic statements like Ron Paul makes. Her negatives are simply a constant beating by the media, a media that literally accused her of being responsible for the Arizona shootings. If she enters the race as a candidate with a polished, energized campaign she should be able to wipe out those high negatives.
What other candidate can really unite the party more than Palin can? She can pull together average Republicans, movement conservatives, Tea Party folks, all the people sick and tired of the establishment, etc. She could fire up the base and with a sharp, professional campaign there is no reason she can't appeal to independent voters using a common sense approach.
Maybe I am just too biased in her favor to see it? What am I missing? I just get the feeling the media is scaring people into buying this "she's unelectable" meme. I see her as the natural candidate to run against Hussein.
IF Palin asked me to hold my nose and vote for business as usual, I'd tell her to forget it. BAU has morphed into being more damaging than the opposition. It's how we got where we are.
Beyond bizarre, dude. Absolutely unreal, but they got to you. Sincere condolences.
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LOL... pathetic reasoning to say the least.
I agree. I think she’s a very smart lady and a good person, but sadly most men I know wouldn’t vote for her. And I’ve seen a lot of negative remarks about her on various blogs from mostly men. Not sure why, except maybe they think it’s a “man’s job”.