bullsh!t. The Democrat party lurches left and loses every time. They win when they run as moderates. The right is is the opposite. The GOP wins when they run as conservatives and get trounced when they run as Dem-lite.
LOL. I’ll ignore dissecting this garbage and just go to the next thread. You have an agenda against Governor Palin, that’s all.
Romneybot cr@p, pure and simple.
There’s also the other big reason: a former VP (often previously a major rival in a presidential nomination battle) is the default choice, especially when the other nominees aren’t all that great. Would Bush Sr. have won a reelection over a Mondale?
Total crap.
20% of US voters are Liberals, 40% say they are Conservatives. It’s simple math. Start by getting the 40% fired up and then pull enough of the independents to win.
... In nominating her, Republicans would be saying to the country, “We have learned nothing these last four years. We have changed nothing.” ...
Pure Poppycock from a Rommniebot!
There is not default runner. The only thing that Mitt has filled is empty air with more empty air.
Nope. McCain - THE TOP OF THE TICKET - lost the election.
Palin's politics are to McCain's politics like chocolate is to mud. Palin was no, nor is not a moderate sell-out to liberal positions.
... In nominating her, Republicans would be saying to the country, “We have learned nothing these last four years. We have changed nothing.” ...
Pure Poppycock from a Rommniebot!
There is no default runner. Palin did lose, Juan did, by saying things like “I don’t understand the economy” or something equally stupid whenever he surge in the polls.
The only thing that Mitt has filled is empty air with more empty air.
Sarah Palin is no Walter Mondale. She is our Barack Obama.
By that I mean, the troops, the base, the grassroots, whatever you call them, identify with her on a deep symbolic and emotional level. They will never turn from her (if she is a candidate), and they will turn on and attack any "normal" candidate.
This intensity is very unusual in Presidential politics, and it may very well be enough to get her elected (I presume, if she wants the nomination, she will get it).
There are two questions about Our Lady of Wasilla that I don't know the answers to: First, can she overcome the enormous and unprecedented media/Hollywood/university attack machine, and, second, if she is elected, what then?
The Leftist core behind Obama was very confident they'd be getting the wrecking ball that Obama has become.
I do get a tingle up my leg every time Sarah speaks, but I don't yet have the security that her Administration will have as many radical patriots as Obama's has communist traitors.
We shall see.
“A poll of GOP insiders suggests that ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has little support among the party’s professional class — and maybe that’s just how she wants it.
In a survey of 109 party leaders, political professionals and pundits, Palin finished 5th on the list of candidates most likely to win the party’s ‘12 WH nomination. Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney (R) was the overwhelming choice of the [GOP insiders]
Voters were asked to rank 5 candidates in the order of likeliness to capture the GOP nod. The results:
Likely To Win WH’12 Nomination (First place votes)
Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney 81 points (62%)
MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty 46 (9%)
Sen. John Thune 38 (12%)
MS Gov. Haley Barbour 28 (6%)
IN Gov. Mitch Daniels 25
Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin 25
Rounding out the top 10: Ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, ex-AR Gov. Mike Huckabee, ex-FL Gov. Jeb Bush, LA Gov. Bobby Jindal. Candidates other than Romney, Pawlenty, Thune and Barbour split the remaining 11% of first-place votes.
Meanwhile, Dem insiders too think Romney is the most likely candidate to run against Pres. Obama next year. The results, from interviews with 111 Dem insiders:
Likely To Win WH’12 Nomination
Romney 29%
Thune 15
Pawlenty 13
Daniels 11
Gingrich 6”
How's the Ron Paul for president bandwagon going? More than 1% yet?
Total BS.
McCain is is the face of moderate Republicans. He ran away from the conservatives. His record of compromise with the liberals running the Senate is why he was so unpopular.
Palin is probably unpopular with the country-club Republicans in Washington. She resonates with the working man around the country.
The Democrats problem (and this is where this guy got his history wrong) was that they committed to Mondale way too early. By late 1983, the economy was quickly turning around. All then indicators were pointing up by late 83.
By the time the primaries were held in the spring of 84, the economy was roaring back. It was OBVIOUS that Reagan’s policies were working. The Dems were committed to Big GOvernment and as Reagan so aptly put it, “Government IS the problem.”
I don’t know if Palin will be the nominee in 2012 or not. But I’m certain that Romney won’t be.
Besides Bush years were only bad in the MSM narrative that comes apart day by day. Carter years were genuine and utter disaster.
And finally, what actually do you have against Palin’s policies. Mondale was a candidate to return the country back into the Carter's abyss. Even if everyone assumes that Palin takes country back to Bush's time, majority will agree that it ain't bad at all, especially considering the present glorious leader...
The polls show Palin would probably not be a successful nominee, regardless of whether its her own fault or the fault of the massive campaign against her. Romney would fare better, but is still an unlikely winner, IMHO. I wonder who the author thinks WOULD be a good nominee? Mitch Daniels? The Huckster? Pawlenty?
You're getting desperate. Don't worry, so are a lot of others.
R and D victories have totally different dynamics.
Democrats win by painting the Republicans as mean-spirited ... corrupt hypocrites, racism, starving children, etc. The Republicans often cooperate by painting themselves as mean-spirited.
Republicans have won in the past two different ways
a) paint the Dems as weak, naive, incompetent on national defense and international affairs. Bush won on this both times.
b) taxcuts and fiscal sanity.
Usually the Dems need nothing more than their one trick pony.
Usually the Republicans need 2 or more issues to bring a coalition together.
Don’t try to bring logic or consistency to this analysis. Democrats can be a corrupt and mean-spirited as they want and benefit from the double standard that exists, whether you like it or not.
Jimmy Carter can seem to have a great success with the Israel’s Begin-Egypt’s Sadat peace agreement and get no votes for it thanks to incompetence on Iran.
What is this goober smoking? McCain is the face the failed Republican party machine. Palin was McCain's hail Mary attempt to capture the base that STILL despises him.