Posted on 01/30/2015 4:54:59 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Sarah Palin made headlines last weekend when she said she was interested in running for President. Palin has been an important part of the Tea Party and conservative movements in this country since she came onto the scene in 2008. Nobody on the right throws red meat to a crowd quite like Palin. Her ability to sarcastically tear down liberal sacred cows is second only to Rush Limbaugh. Best of all she drives liberals up a wall. They hate her more than any other conservative in this country, including George W. Bush and Limbaugh. Watching liberals fall to pieces over Palin is always amusing. Palin has also been an important player in the Tea Party political scene. The candidates she campaigned for, particularly in 2014, generally won. She has an excellent track record in that regard.
The question is whether Palin should run for President and perhaps as importantly whether conservatives should support her candidacy. The answer is clear, she should not run and if she does conservatives should not support her. There are any number of reasons why Palin shouldnt be the Republican nominee beginning with the fact that her experience is limited and at this point remote. Palin was Governor of Alaska for all of two and a half years. She resigned ostensibly to make money in personal appearances. If Palin was serious about running for President, she should have stayed in office and run for re-election. In the alternative, she should have run for a winnable Alaska Senate seat in 2014. Instead, Palin has shown a lack of interest in actual governing. We need to nominate someone with experience and if we look at the slate of candidates out there we can clearly see there are other conservatives who have a lot more experience than Palin. Surely the GOP can find someone with more experience than Obama had in 2008, we cant set the bar down to his level.
Palins ability to attract people other than conservatives is near zero. Fair or not, Palin is a polarizing figure in American politics. On one hand shes brought it on herself by tearing down liberal sacred cows. On the other hand, the left-wing media has relentlessly attacked her for no other reason than shes a heretic to the feminist cause. Lets be honest, Palin has egged the left-wing media on and its been amusing to watch her set them up and tear them down. Doing that makes for great giggles for Tea Partiers but it does nothing for Palins likability. Because of the media, people actually think Palin said she can see Russia from her house. The media has pushed that narrative, knowing full well that Tina Fey said that on a Saturday Night Live sketch. People other than conservatives think Palin is a crass moron. That is a hurdle she wont be able to overcome if she runs for President.
Sarah Palin has a place in conservative movement of the Republican Party. Shes an important part of the Tea Party. Theres a difference between being the flame thrower for conservatives and running for President. Palin is great at what shes doing right now. Shes made a good living for herself and her family by giving speeches and making media appearances. Shes done a terrific job campaigning for conservatives in House and Senate elections. Shes found her calling in politics, it makes no sense for her to give it up to run for President. Conservatives shouldnt want her to give it up either. Her record was magnificent in 2014. Were much better off having her back conservative candidates for Congress than we are watching her flame out in a GOP Presidential primary thats likely to be crowded with too many conservative candidates. If she wants to get involved in the primary, she should act as kingmaker and endorse someone. For her to run though will result in her ultimate defeat, which will likely limit her opportunities to influence politics in the future.
We conservatives need to find someone who has more than the right views. We need to find someone who has experience and can translate that experience to the White House. That person isnt Sarah Palin. Two and a half years as Governor of a small state isnt good enough. Eight years as Mayor of a town of less than 8,000 is not good enough experience. Palin is great at what shes doing now, conservatives should be happy that shes found something shes both successful and influential at. The Democrats set the bar low for experience when they nominated Obama. The Republicans need to raise that bar. Scott Walker is just as conservative as Palin and he has a lot more experience. Hes balanced budgets and taken on unions in a blue state no less. Ted Cruz has more experience than Palin between his time as solicitor general in Texas and the US Senate. We need someone who is more skilled than Obama is. We have candidates like that on the right in the GOP. Sarah Palin just isnt one of them.
Lets cut to the chase here.
Sarah Palin was elected as Governor in 2006 as the anti-Murkowski machine candidate. She beat incumbent Frank Murkowski in the GOP primary totally enraging the machine.
When she got to Juneau the legislature was filled with R’s who were loyal to the Murkowski GOPe machine. In order to govern with the legislature she had to work with anti-Establishment Republicans and the Democrats in the legislature.
But when she became John McCain’s running mate in 2008, all the Democrats who supported her turned against her.
When Sarah Palin returned to Juneau in November 2008 after the presidential election she had lost the ability to govern effectively because she had virtually no support in the legislature. The Democrats had joined the Murkowski Machine Republicans to oppose her.
Her decision to resign in 2009 was a wise one because it enabled the state to be effectively governed again with a legislature and governor who would “get along with each other”.
Best Post on the thread Yet C. Edmund Wright!
I think she would be more functional in a VP or Senatorial capacity. Is an Alaska senate seat up for grabs in 2016?
Ha ha! The establishment is scared shiteless! Hey Leo, I think we know Sarah P. pretty well by now, so don’t try and convince us that the sky is green.
Yeah, let’s all get behind Huckabee...Hipp Hip, Horray!!!!!
Exactly. Who gives up POWER? No one, even when faced with obvious criminality, EVER gives up POWER. Power is too seductive. She is NOT seduced by power. Now, tell me why we wouldn’t WANT someone in power who is not seduced by power? If Sarah P. is in, I’m ALL IN.
lol
> Yeah, lets all get behind Huckabee...Hipp Hip, Horray!!!!!
Not me. I’m a Cruz type o guy...
> Ha ha! The establishment is scared shiteless! Hey Leo, I think we know Sarah P. pretty well by now, so dont try and convince us that the sky is green.
I think we all agree we like her but would people vote for a woman after a very bad experience with the first black president? I think people are going to be more cautious this time around. We just about lost our country because of the current infiltrator.
If they run Hillary we have to run Sarah Palin.
Why does Sarah Palin have to run if Hillary runs? You don’t actually think running a woman will stop the mainstream press from crying war on women do you.
You shoot, and miss. We didn’t vote for a black man, we voted for a Marxist and got what we deserved. Sarah P. is a Western Conservative in the vein of Reagan. I have NO DOUBT that the establishment is terrified of her because they know she has a spine of steel and would immediately set about the task of dismantling the Washington corruption machine.
It’s even worse, Palin is seduced easily by money.
If I have to step into this imaginary cat fight I will. You think Sarah has baggage? Her husband is on his leash. Hillary’s is diddling underage girls. War on women? Nope, war on little girls. Sarah wins.
Wow! What a Shallow Completable little Flame Troll You Are.
Keep Spouting those Leftists Memes, Gotta do their work for them.
And, You didn't take my advice and Post all of Sarah's Achievements on Your BLOG. that SoConPubbie so graciously compiled: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3251390/posts?page=70#70
THANKS....but will it penetrate the stubborn noggins on the thread this am?
When do you start work at Daily Kos? Or is it Huffington Post? Or maybe just the Communist Party.....
Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska so she could go make money as a paid speaker and pundit. In her case, money was more seductive than power. I’m lost as why this is so outrageous to point out.
I don’t deny Palin’s accomplishments and in fact discussed them generally in my post. Her talents are better suited doing what she’s doing now.
Wow. I guess it is so much more moral to steal money from others and buy their votes than to greedily earn your own money.
...and HELLry is diddling her islamic/satanic “wife”, Huma.
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