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Palin says she could defeat Obama in 2012

WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin says she could defeat President Barack Obama if she seeks the White House in 2012. In an excerpt of an ABC News interview released Wednesday, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee says she's considering a presidential run. When asked directly if she thought she could defeat Obama, the former Alaska governor replied, "I believe so."

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20101117/US.Palin.Obama/

good lord...

hey ice dancer...weren't you just saying palin was not even thinking of running and that her letter was just a some "friendly" advice...

she wants to run, i only hope she doesn't come close to winning the gop nod
 
I can't imagine anyone saying they may run for President coming out and saying they don't think they can win. I have no idea what Palin is going to do but it sure seems like she is itching to run. Then again who knows maybe by hinting at it she thinks it keeps her in the spotlight more and that's good for her business.

I hope she doesn't run because if she somehow won the GOP nomination it would be handing Obama another four years on a silver platter.
 
cawacko said:
I can't imagine anyone saying they may run for President coming out and saying they don't think they can win. I have no idea what Palin is going to do but it sure seems like she is itching to run. Then again who knows maybe by hinting at it she thinks it keeps her in the spotlight more and that's good for her business.

I hope she doesn't run because if she somehow won the GOP nomination it would be handing Obama another four years on a silver platter.
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How is she going to handle the close scrutiny? She wasn't able to handle it during her run for VP! Is she, like Angle and O'Donnell going to ignore the "lamestream" media and not answer tough questions? she won't allow a handler, like Bush, so what is the answer to keep her from sinking her own ship, time and again? Limit her speeches to her base? Will mainstream GOP take to her? over Romney or Huckabee, oh, she thinks she can win, and the key word here is "think"

Does she think she can control all of her family while she is doing this?
 
Watermarx said:
Obama is at a low enough point right now that Huckabee is beating him in the polls. Palin, however, is still being beat by a nearly 10-point margin. Huckabee does 14 points better. That should tell her a lot. Even if things go even further downhill for Obama from here, if they nominate Palin it's going to make '64 look like a landslide.

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/11/2012-poll-obama.php
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This far out, it doesn't matter, Reagan and Clinton suffered lows at this point in their Presidency, it always happens when they aren't being right or left enough and after these midway elections!
 
The Demotards would collectively bust a nation-wide nut if the Republtards nominated this incompetent fool in '12. Jizz would be flowing down the streets.

She couldn't even fill out her term in Alaska. She can't handle pressure. And imagine her on the campaign trail. LOL She doesn't know shit.

Please, Republitards, please come up with someone who isn't over 70, and has a brain. But use both critera on the candidate. You fools haven't been able to do that since HW. Figure it out.
 
Beefy said:
The Demotards would collectively bust a nation-wide nut if the Republtards nominated this incompetent fool in '12. Jizz would be flowing down the streets.

She couldn't even fill out her term in Alaska. She can't handle pressure. And imagine her on the campaign trail. LOL She doesn't know shit.

Please, Republitards, please come up with someone who isn't over 70, and has a brain. But use both critera on the candidate. You fools haven't been able to do that since HW. Figure it out.
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I would love to see her in a debate with Obama or Romney, or even Huckabee for the primary nomination! ????? She better quit making reality shows and go do some studying!
 
Well she's already demonstrated that she's entirely incapable of thinking on her feet. She's a complete retard.

And thinking on one's feet is a biggie for me when I think about who to vote for for POTUS.

Also, tenacity, the ability to withstand pressure, a knowledge of what power one has and doesn't have in said office, basic Constitutional knowledge, and feet planted ln the ground.

At least Obama can fake all of these qualities, Palin can't even do that.
 
Yurt said:
Palin says she could defeat Obama in 2012

WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin says she could defeat President Barack Obama if she seeks the White House in 2012. In an excerpt of an ABC News interview released Wednesday, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee says she's considering a presidential run. When asked directly if she thought she could defeat Obama, the former Alaska governor replied, "I believe so."

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20101117/US.Palin.Obama/

good lord...

hey ice dancer...weren't you just saying palin was not even thinking of running and that her letter was just a some "friendly" advice...

she wants to run, i only hope she doesn't come close to winning the gop nod
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Well, yurt, when I made that statement she had not made hers. That still does not connect the letter she wrote to her considering a run. Palin was sought after to speak at TEA Party rallies across the country. Her open letter to freshmen congressmen, who had been elected in large part due to TEA Party votes, made her letter completely appropriate.

As to her electibility? I think it's still an open field.
 
Beefy said:
Well she's already demonstrated that she's entirely incapable of thinking on her feet. She's a complete retard.

And thinking on one's feet is a biggie for me when I think about who to vote for for POTUS.

Also, tenacity, the ability to withstand pressure, a knowledge of what power one has and doesn't have in said office, basic Constitutional knowledge, and feet planted ln the ground.

At least Obama can fake all of these qualities, Palin can't even do that.
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in a word, yep!
 
This was written well over a year ago by Willie Brown (who is NO conservative) about Sarah Palin. I think he's spot on in his analysis here, well except for the last part where he says there is no one else. There will be someone else who steps up.


Sarah Palin, political genius

The pundits are wrong. Conventional wisdom is wrong. Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was a brilliant move.

Palin has some of the best political instincts I have ever seen. She became a pop-culture superstar overnight when John McCain made her his veep pick, and she's still second only to President Obama among politicians the public is interested in. Even in liberal San Francisco, she'd be front-page news if she ever came to town.

But that kind of celebrity comes at a high price. What a lot of people don't know is that Palin entered Alaska politics as a reformer attacking the corruption of the state's Republican establishment. As such, she was the darling of the Democrats - until she hooked up with McCain.

After the election, with Palin back home but positioning herself for a 2012 presidential run, it was clear she would catch nothing but ridicule from Alaska's Democrats. It was not going to be pretty.

If Palin wants to play on the national field, she has to be free to move around. She has to be able to drop into Indiana, Ohio or Tennessee and help Republican candidates raise money. She has to be available for radio and TV.

She has to be like Gavin Newsom, free to roam around the country, safe in the knowledge that things will pretty much take care of themselves back home.

Instead, Palin faced the prospect of being constantly pinned down in a state that is a day and a half away from the rest of America. She would have been totally isolated in every sense of the word.

Now she can study up on issues where she is lacking and become a full-time political celebrity.

The pundits call her a quitter, but let's be honest - the pundits never liked her to begin with. Better to take one hit for stepping down and move on than to stay in Alaska and die a death by a thousand cuts.

Governor or not, Palin is still the biggest star in the Republican galaxy. After all, who else have they got?



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/12/BA9A18MCT5.DTL
 
Palin Dumb Like Reagan?

And before everyone discounts Palin-just saying~

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Sarah Palin: Dumb Like Reagan?

In 1976, Ronald Reagan lost the Republican presidential nomination to incumbent Gerald Ford. Yet his message during the primary campaign had so inspired the party’s conservative base that he was allowed to address the Republican National Convention anyway. And as he addressed that convention, speaking of the Democrat-led attack on personal rights and economic liberty, many of those who listened could not help but think they were hearing the man who would be the GOP’s presidential candidate in 1980.

On November 2, 2008, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and presidential candidate John McCain lost the national election to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Yet throughout the campaign, Palin’s words, rather than McCain’s, jolted the conservative base of the Republican Party from its slumber. From her speech at the Republican National Convention on September 3, 2008, to the “common sense” solutions she’s prescribing for America’s ills while on her book tour, many of the people listening to Palin think they’re hearing the woman who will be a presidential candidate in 2012.

Reagan had been a Hollywood actor in Westerns before entering politics, and the media never allowed him to escape the stigma of being a “dumb cowboy.” To them he was B actor who became a C president in 1980, pushing a domestic agenda based on shrinking the size of government and a foreign policy that supposedly made America the laughingstock of the world. (Remember how pundits gasped when Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” and again when he called “Communism a form of insanity”?)

But a funny thing happened on the way to Reagan’s bid for re-election. To the media’s chagrin, it became obvious that the “dumb cowboy” was deeply beloved by the citizens of this nation. He beat Walter Mondale in the greatest landslide victory in American history by taking every state but one on election night.

And while it would certainly be fair to say the cause for this record-setting victory was Reagan’s optimism, his deep tax cuts, and his dealings with the Soviet Union from a position of strength (instead of a position of Carter-like weakness), it would be a mistake to overlook the important role common sense played in his huge victory. In other words, the specifics of both his domestic agenda and foreign policy notwithstanding, his possession of a tremendous amount of common sense made him a president to whom the people could relate.
 
Rana said:
This far out, it doesn't matter, Reagan and Clinton suffered lows at this point in their Presidency, it always happens when they aren't being right or left enough and after these midway elections!
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Your right rana. My point was, if she's that far behind him at this point, there's absolutely no hope for her.
 
Ice Dancer said:
And before everyone discounts Palin-just saying~

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Sarah Palin: Dumb Like Reagan?

In 1976, Ronald Reagan lost the Republican presidential nomination to incumbent Gerald Ford. Yet his message during the primary campaign had so inspired the party’s conservative base that he was allowed to address the Republican National Convention anyway. And as he addressed that convention, speaking of the Democrat-led attack on personal rights and economic liberty, many of those who listened could not help but think they were hearing the man who would be the GOP’s presidential candidate in 1980.

On November 2, 2008, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and presidential candidate John McCain lost the national election to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Yet throughout the campaign, Palin’s words, rather than McCain’s, jolted the conservative base of the Republican Party from its slumber. From her speech at the Republican National Convention on September 3, 2008, to the “common sense” solutions she’s prescribing for America’s ills while on her book tour, many of the people listening to Palin think they’re hearing the woman who will be a presidential candidate in 2012.

Reagan had been a Hollywood actor in Westerns before entering politics, and the media never allowed him to escape the stigma of being a “dumb cowboy.” To them he was B actor who became a C president in 1980, pushing a domestic agenda based on shrinking the size of government and a foreign policy that supposedly made America the laughingstock of the world. (Remember how pundits gasped when Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” and again when he called “Communism a form of insanity”?)

But a funny thing happened on the way to Reagan’s bid for re-election. To the media’s chagrin, it became obvious that the “dumb cowboy” was deeply beloved by the citizens of this nation. He beat Walter Mondale in the greatest landslide victory in American history by taking every state but one on election night.

And while it would certainly be fair to say the cause for this record-setting victory was Reagan’s optimism, his deep tax cuts, and his dealings with the Soviet Union from a position of strength (instead of a position of Carter-like weakness), it would be a mistake to overlook the important role common sense played in his huge victory. In other words, the specifics of both his domestic agenda and foreign policy notwithstanding, his possession of a tremendous amount of common sense made him a president to whom the people could relate.
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Too bad Hinkley didn't take shooting lessons.
 
Reagan was an evil man who deserved to die. There is no one in history who has harmed the American republic more. I wish there was a hell so that he'd be burning in it right now. There is no one who has caused more suffering to more American people. He, and all conservatives, deserve to die.
 
Watermarx said:
The Republican party base has always voted Republican, obviously. They would've voted for them even if they hadn't tried to rebrand themselves as a pseudo-populist movement.
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That's just so naive~ The TEA Party was made up of republicans; independents; and even disenchanted democrats.
 
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