If Palin runs for president: Her strengths won't be a lot of help

The Chicago Tribune ^ | September 12, 2010 | Steve Chapman

[presently no screen name]

major media phenomenon

Supply and demand - People want to hear/see her! They forgot facebook - where she goes around the media!

[Berlin_Freeper]

I don't think Palin could go from campaigning as VP for McCain and turn around a short while later and refuse to endorse him in Arizona.

On the one hand she is committed to help him be President and then on the other she snubs him in Arizona...?

That's not realistic.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Translation: If Sarah runs we will destroy her."

They've been trying their hardest for over two years. Do you see it working on her? She's 10X more powerful now than she was as the Republican candidate for the vice presidency, and she was drawing HUGE crowds back then!!

[Uri’el-2012]

I have no use for Slick Willard.

[The Wizard]

poor guy...he just doesn’t get it...If she runs, she wins....that’s why they’re so damned scared

[Clyde5445]

They coulds have picked JD Haysworth and didn’t.

[presently no screen name]

Good post but when it comes to COMMON SENSE - we can see who lacks it. Nice of them to expose themselves!

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A recent Gallup poll found that among Republican voters, she's more popular than Abraham Lincoln, with a 76 percent favorable rating — higher than any other potential GOP presidential candidate listed by Gallup.

More popular than Lincoln? I really doubt they did a head-to-head poll of Palin's popularity and Lincoln's. It looks like this is just exaggeration with nothing to back it up. If not, the party took a major wrong turn a while ago.

[driftdiver]

I dunno, there is a lot of Palin idolatry running around and I hope many people aren’t in for a major let down. She’s smart, conservative, beautiful, well spoken and pretty honest.

If nothing else she’s raising the bar for other candidates and America will be the better for it. Funny how leftists are the ones fighting against the woman and the GOP still can’t get out of its own way to leverage it.

[Clyde5445]

“Gee, you’re sorta dumb.”

Sorta!!!!!

[ScaniaBoy]

The poor little libs; they just cannot help themselves. A very good analysis of what is going on in their heads when they think (I use that term very loosely indeed) about Sarah Palin:

Palin and the Left’s Status-Anxiety

Actually as the author notes in a comment below it is not only the left:

Shannon Love Says:
September 10th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Lexington Green,

Of course, most conservative pundits treat her with condescension as well. They have a stake in the same status games.

That is true. I think we are seeing more of a generic middle-class insurgency against an integral political class than a left-right divide.

[GunningForTheBuddha]

They really have to stretch and twist to find some way to put her down

Actually if she gets nominated her primary weakness is still Tina Fey. As long as the left have Tina Fey they can make the unwashed masses of mouth-breathers believe Sarah says outrageous crap like "I can see Russia from my porch".

[Uri’el-2012]

That's not realistic.

You are not familiar with Ronald Reagan or politics.

Primaries are for principles.

The general election is for the Party.

[presently no screen name]

It’s CONSERVATISM!! A little thingie that the LEFT will not admit to.

[onyx]

Chris Christie is wonderful for New Jersey, but not for president. He lost me on illegal immigration, the GZM and his lavish endorsement of Mike Castle. He’d have to really toughen-up on illegal immigration. That’s the huge issue.

[presently no screen name]

They wouldn’t dare say Reagan!

[Berlin_Freeper]

You are not familiar with reality.

Sarah Palin was in a general election.

With McCain.

[RichInOC]

Steve, she beat the Republican incumbent and his Democrat immediate predecessor in order to become governor, before just about anybody south of the Alaska-British Columbia border who wasn’t just a complete political stat geek had any idea who she was. That is not fanboy myopia. That is cold hard fact. At some point, the idea that she’s somehow less formidable of a potential candidate now that she’s got broad support in the rest of the country becomes less a reasonable concern or even astute devil’s advocacy than simple denial.

[Uri’el-2012]

They coulds have picked JD Haysworth and didn’t.

But she endorsed Juan the lying RINO.

If she had any conservative principles she would not have endorsed Juan the lying RINO

She is not trustworthy.

[onyx]

LOL. That’s “your” opinion of “yourself”.