Palin says 2012 presidential bid a possibility

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think people keep talking about her because she continues to be in the news and it isn't clear why she should be.

What is it about Palin specifically that excites people politically?

[luckytxn 2,265]

The Socialists fear her because she is a threat to them. The bigger the threat the bigger the stalking.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The Socialists fear her because she is a threat to them. The bigger the threat the bigger the stalking.

I'd like an honest answer to the question if you have one.

What is it about Palin, politically, that people find attractive? What is it she stands for, specifically, that people would want to vote for?

[Peikko 1,575]

Returning America to traditional American values for the real American people. What's not to like?

[Danno 1,228]

I'd like an honest answer to the question if you have one.

What is it about Palin, politically, that people find attractive? What is it she stands for, specifically, that people would want to vote for?

She has a novel message... Limited Government.

The more People know about Obama, the more they seem to like her.

Certainly I can think of a number of people I would rather see, run and win but if the question were, Obama or Palin, you can bet by 2012, a lot of people will go Palin even if they really wanted some other conservative.

HUnt you are so deep in the can for the LEFt, IT'S Why you can't imagine anyone Pulling the lever for her.

Give me a few.. or even "one" area that you think Palin would screw up as President, but Obama would "Get right" in the eyes of the average American?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

She has a novel message... Limited Government.

Newsflash: That is the message of the mainstream Republican party as a whole.

Key word there being message.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

She has a novel message... Limited Government.

The more People know about Obama, the more they seem to like her.

Certainly I can think of a number of people I would rather see, run and win but if the question were, Obama or Palin, you can bet by 2012, a lot of people will go Palin even if they really wanted some other conservative.

HUnt you are so deep in the can for the LEFt, IT'S Why you can't imagine anyone Pulling the lever for her.

Give me a few.. or even "one" area that you think Palin would screw up as President, but Obama would "Get right" in the eyes of the average American?

A "novel" message, Danno? Really?

Anyone who runs for office uses that message - its like a checklist of things to say if you want to get elected. Out here in CA, Meg Whitman (CEO of Ebay) is running for State Governor - guess what her "novel" message is. Its "limited government", "cut public spending" and "fix education".

So no Danno, its not "novel", its a cliche - and I hear nothing substantial from Palin to back it up. Certainly nothing approaching a campaign platform to flesh out some detail about how she would go about it.

If you take that away from her, all Palin has is the obligatory appeal to nationalist sentiment and jingoism. You want to see that in office? I bloody don't.

Edited February 11, 2010 by Gene Hunt

[scandal 951]

I thought this was kinda funny. It's from Garrison Keillor's column today.

History does not record that Samuel Adams charged a fee for addressing the rally at the Old South Meeting House on Nov. 29, 1773, at which he rallied the Sons of Liberty to resist the British, leading to the Boston Tea Party. But that was then and this is now.

Miss Sarah knows where the cameras are, and she has pizazz, and the tea partyers whooped and yelled for her standard Republican stump speech, which is like paying $750 for a hotel room and finding no clean towels and a lot of dead cockroaches and then circling Excellent Excellent on the customer questionaire.

Ouch. That's a tad harsh. But still chuckle-worthy.

[Dan J 277]

The Socialists fear her because she is a threat to them. The bigger the threat the bigger the stalking.

She isn't a threat to anyone and she probably won't run in the end. But in order to keep rolling in the dough from crazed fans like you, is to be a hopeful candidate. As soon as she is not, all those $100,000 speaking engagements dry up.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

She isn't a threat to anyone and she probably won't run in the end. But in order to keep rolling in the dough from crazed fans like you, is to be a hopeful candidate. As soon as she is not, all those $100,000 speaking engagements dry up.

She is no threat, not because she won't run or can't win (I believe she will, and she can) ... but because Presidential authority is so limited. Will she be able to thwart the wishes of a corporatist-Senate? Not a chance. The 60-vote filibuster, much maligned by my fellow liberals today, could very well save the Republic one day very soon

[Danno 1,228]

She isn't a threat to anyone and she probably won't run in the end. But in order to keep rolling in the dough from crazed fans like you, is to be a hopeful candidate. As soon as she is not, all those $100,000 speaking engagements dry up.

Ahhhh, Luckytxn is no "crazed fan" of Palin... I don't think he even cares for her but

I'm betting he sees the Humor in the Left, wetting their pants over her.

[Danno 1,228]

A "novel" message, Danno? Really?

Anyone who runs for office uses that message - its like a checklist of things to say if you want to get elected. Out here in CA, Meg Whitman (CEO of Ebay) is running for State Governor - guess what her "novel" message is. Its "limited government", "cut public spending" and "fix education".

So no Danno, its not "novel", its a cliche - and I hear nothing substantial from Palin to back it up. Certainly nothing approaching a campaign platform to flesh out some detail about how she would go about it.

If you take that away from her, all Palin has is the obligatory appeal to nationalist sentiment and jingoism. You want to see that in office? I bloody don't.

You got all hung up on my throw-away line and never answered my more serious question.

"Give me a few.. or even "one" area that you think Palin would screw up as President, but Obama would "Get right" in the eyes of the average American?"

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

First tell us who you think qualifies as "the average American", Danno. Most Americans live in a census-designated metro area. Most Americans don't make a lot of money. Most Americans are white. Most Americans don't have a college education. So... is the average American someone who fits all those criteria? Is that another way of saying those of us who don't (say, college educated or non-white or wealthy or rural) matter less in these discussions?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You got all hung up on my throw-away line and never answered my more serious question.

"Give me a few.. or even "one" area that you think Palin would screw up as President, but Obama would "Get right" in the eyes of the average American?"

Actually I think my question was more "serious" than yours and its pretty telling to me that noone has stepped forward to tackle it. Best you could do is to say she has a "novel" message. That might cut it for the Entertainment Tonight crowd, but I'm not buying it.

[zenaxe 22]

I hope she makes a run for it. May the best candidate win. It's a long, long slog through Iowa and New Hampshire, and there's no time like the present to start putting together a campaign team and a warchest.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/07/pal....run.tea.party/

Palin says 2012 presidential bid a possibility

February 7, 2010 6:03 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she would consider a run for president in 2012 if the situation was right for her family and the nation.

In an interview recorded Saturday and broadcast on "FOX News Sunday," Palin said she would run "if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family."

"I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country," Palin said, later adding: "I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future."

The interview was recorded before her keynote address Saturday night at what was billed the first national Tea Party convention. Palin, who had little national profile before running unsuccessfully for vice president on Sen. John McCain's Republican ticket in 2008, remains a leading GOP draw and an unofficial symbol of the Tea Party movement of conservative discontent with government.

The convention, which concluded with a dinner and Palin speech that cost more than $500 per ticket, was intended to begin transforming the Tea Party movement into a political force capable of influencing elections, organizers said.

"It's so inspiring to see real people -- not politicos, inside-the-beltway professionals -- come out, stand up and speak out for common sense conservative principles," Palin said in her speech to a crowd that gave her repeated standing ovations.

Calling the Tea Party movement a "ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they're doing business," Palin said "America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this."

In the interview with Fox, Palin said she believed President Obama would lose a re-election bid in 2012 if he fails to change the policies followed so far in just over a year in office.

If Obama "continues on the path that he has America on today," Palin said, "he's not going to win."

"That's what a lot of Americans are telling him today, and he's not listening,"

"Instead, he's telling everybody else, 'Listen up and I'll tell you the way it is.' Well, we have a representative form of government in our democracy. And we want him and we want Congress to listen to what the things are that we are saying."

In her speech, Palin cited the upset victory by Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy as evidence of the popular discontent over Obama's policies.

She called on the administration to take note of the election results, saying "you better stop lecturing and start listening."

"The Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government," Palin said in reference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Many of those attending the convention at Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center said they are big Palin supporters.

Pam Silleman, a 52-year-old small business owner and Tea Party activist who traveled to the convention from California's Napa Valley, called Palin "the Tea Party's inspiration."

It's so inspiring to see real people, not politicos, inside-the-beltway professionals, come out, stand up and speak out for common sense conservative principles.

Asked if Palin should make a bid for the White House, Silleman said, "I would like to see her in a higher office but I don't know that she'll do it. I wouldn't want her to be hurt that bad."

Fremont Brown, a supporter who had "Palin 2012" bumper stickers with him, said Palin is "the right person."

"She has fervent heart and she's conservative," said the 59-year-old Brown, who owns a small business in North Carolina. "She was the only one truly qualified with executive experience of the four who ran in 2008. The others were glorified lobbyists."

But Palin's experience has frequently been called into question, most recently in a book that chronicles the 2008 campaign. "Game Change" by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann largely portrays the then-vice presidential candidate as wholly unprepared for the national stage and poorly versed in a range of pressing issues.

Palin has called the book "a bunch of BS from [McCain campaign manager Steve] Schmidt and those guys," Palin said. "It's pretty made up."

In the Fox interview, Palin said she receives daily e-mails from experts on topical issues that have helped her become "more astute" than she was during the 2008 election campaign.

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