As I watch the Republican presidential debates, I must admit that we have a great field of candidates running, and if the reports about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie getting into the race is true, then things will only get more interesting. What makes it such a great field of candidates, is the way America is finally getting a chance to see how truly diverse the Republican party is. After all, take a look at the Democrat party, and all you will find is a who’s who of the anti American communist reject society.
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Although I must admit that there is one person missing from the debate stage, and her absence has left many wondering why. I do know that she is of the belief that times have changed, and that Obama and the Democrats are so toxic that she could enter the race as late as November or even late December and still be the one to beat. Recent polls taken of just the conservative base in the Republican party prove her right. She is still the one to beat, and that has the rest of the field a little uneasy, because you can bet that Sarah is on their minds.
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When Rick Perry jumped in many were claiming it was all over, but since then he has slipped. Since she won the Iowa straw poll, Michele Bachmann has slipped a bit. Rick Perry even attempted to lock it up the Christian right vote before he jumped in, but Sarah Palin is still the choice of over 80% of the Christian conservatives, and guess who will show up en mass if she enters the race? You got it, the conservative Christian base. That’s why the country club Republicans keep touting Romney, or begging Chris Christie to jump in. They want a moderate, and will do all in their power to keep a true conservative from getting the nomination. As for Perry, I personally knew that the sheep’s clothing he was wearing would wear thin under the pressure of real debates. Sure enough, his true inner wolf has begun to shine through for all to see.
Truth is, why should Sarah get in the race yet? If you ask me, I think she is one smart cookie to be sitting by as the current field destroys each other. These debates and all this early campaigning is primarily all about getting recognized by the base, and there is not a possible candidate who is better known than Sarah already is. So unlike the others, Palin can sit back and watch the show while she sharpens her teeth for the battle against an inevitable attack she will receive if she does jump in.
A Momma Grizzly knows when it’s time to jump and attack her prey. If she sees other predators fighting for the prize, she will sit back and wait for them to inflict enough damage on each other so that they are less of a threat to her and her young. Then when she thinks the time is right, she will go for the prize while the others are licking their wounds. When she shows up, there will be but a weak resistance that is easily defeated and cast aside as she grabs the prize to drag it away to her young.
If you want to see what a couple of real savvy and wise men think of Sarah’s chances, check out what Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump think. They may be moderate politicians, but you don’t see them attacking her or even supporting other moderates because they know it’s still to early. Seems like they have a better understanding of what’s going on with the Republican party and America, than the republican leadership does.
Both of these men understand that if Palin jumps in, all bets are off as to who the front runner is. Truth is, if Sarah jumps in, she will become the front runner and both Trump and Giuliani know it. I’m of the opinion that they’re both holding out for either the VP slot, or at least a cabinet appointment. Imagine what will happen to the future stock of anyone who is part of the administration that fixes America’s troubles.
Now, for those who think that Sarah is damaged goods, or that she has already waited too long to jump in, take a look at the Google Trends chart below. You will see that Sarah Palin still holds her own against against any Republican you could plug in. Go ahead and change the names, and you will see that Sarah Palin stays at or near the top of every challenger in names searched for information on the web. Even when you plug in Obama, Sarah tops him.
Presidential tracking trend for Sarah Palin, Rick Perry,
Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Barack Obama.
What that means is, that Sarah Palin is still the most widely searched politician in America. That would not be the case if the left had been successful in destroying her in the eyes of the public. Also, when you stretch out the years, you will see that throughout the last three years, she is the only person who has kept pace with Obama in popularity. Now that Obama is so toxic that the Democrats are even urging him not to run for re-election, the leftist slanted polls are showing that Obama even loses to Sarah.
Just for the record, I have personally talked to a few campaign insiders for three different candidates who revealed to me that they have had internal polling showing their candidate, along with Palin and another person defeating Obama for the last 8 Months. I am not at liberty to share with anyone what campaigns they are from, but the information is reliable enough so that I sleep comfortable at night when I think of our near future.
Mark my words, the Grizzly from the North is still the one person that every Republican running fears the most. As for the Democrats, who cares. Even they know that the way things stand now, there is not a Democrat around that could garner more than 40% of the vote in a head to head contest next November.
I seriously wonder if the Democrat nominee will even hit 40%. This could be another election where the Democrats talk another Ross Perot billionaire type into running on a third party ticket. If they do, don’t be surprised if that candidate comes in second behind the Republican, with the Democrat nominee coming in third with less than 20 % of the vote. Trust me when I tell you that the Democrat party is considered by the vast majority of Americans to be as toxic as Obama himself is. When I Considering the huge coat tails the Republican nominee will have, I would think that if the Gipper were alive he would be slightly jealous. Obama could very well be remembered in the history books as the man who brought down the Democrat party.
In my life, there has never been a situation where even the least desirable candidate in the Republican party will win going away against any Democrat. (I said will, not could) If the Democrat nominee is Obama, well then good night Irene, because the fat lady is already warming up. If the Democrats really think they would have a better chance with Obama not running for re-election like Johnson did in “68”, they are sorely mistaken. If they convince him to not run, then get ready for the black vote to stay home in anger. I would also advise everyone to stay away from Charlotte North Carolina next year, because if they replace Obama on the ticket, there will be rioting like you haven’t seen since the Chicago convention of 1968. The Democrats are going to lose big all across the country as they did in 2008, but without Obama on the ticket, those losses will be even more devastating for them.
As for the pundits who claim Sarah is missing the chance to get early campaign cash. I can only tell you that regardless of how late she jumps in, her coffers will fill up with campaign donations quicker than measles can spread in a day care center. She will vault to the top of the polls and by February 7 (Super Tuesday), the inevitably question will be, “Who will Sarah chose as her VP?”.
So settle back and enjoy the show for a few more Months, because the first primary isn’t until mid January, and Sarah has yet to speak. When She makes her decision official is when the race will get exciting. That’s when all the cockroaches, the Rino’s, the Democrats, the MSM, the Entertainment Industry, and even political leaders from around the world, will join together in an attempt to stop her from winning the nomination. They all know, that the person who wins the Republican nomination, will be the next president of the United States.
Just like Reagan won it all in 1980, and he wasn’t even supposed to win the Republican nomination, so too will Sarah if she chooses to run. Remember, Jimmy Carter had internal polling telling him that while he would defeat Ronald Reagan, he would lose to George Bush. So his people began attacking Bush early to try and hedge their bets, and he paid the price.
Interesting how the media and the Democrats try to convince us that Obama’s best chance is against the most conservative Republican. Yet they continually try their darnedest to get a moderate elected as our candidate. They know that when conservatives stick to their conservative principles, they win every time. Well, when it comes to Sarah Palin, I have never heard her back down from her conservative credentials, and that my friends, is why the establishment is so afraid of her.
Do you know what could be really, really cool … and there may actually be chance of it … the GOP convention is unable to pick a candidate … and the party implodes.
We wanna get Gate, Peggy and Toby in there as delegates!
Herman Cain wins GOP Florida straw poll.
Works for me.
Herm Cain said a whole lot of things Americans were dying to hear – as a result he was the MVP in the Florida debate. He has some rough edges on a few financial matters, but good advisers could fix that. It’s his overall political philosophy that really makes Cain a winner.
There isn’t one chance in billion that Palin could be a serious candidate for election to presidency – she is that far off the radar screen.
She’s a popular spokesperson on conservative issues, but it doesn’t take a lot of brains to echo what we already know and want to hear. However, she looks good saying it – but that doesn’t make her presidential. I really don’t want to get into her negatives, mostly because we know them, and more just recently more have surfaced and they only confirm why she’s not presidential.
I suppose it’s kinda fun to throw her name at the left because she irritates them so much, but is there any other good purpose – I think not.
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Sarah should just keep raking in the millions on her speaking tours and maybe do a few book deals and she will have served her highest and best purpose to the conservative cause. To do more would be counterproductive and it worse, it could keep Obama in the White House 4 more years.
Re: It’s his overall political philosophy that really makes Cain a winner.
Agreed. 13 months is a lot of time. I sure would like to see Cain make an impact. I believe he could be an excellent commander in chief.
And what would those negatives be, also what would the newly discovered negatives about her be Jack? I know you are not going to repeat the lies from a certain journalist’s book that was based on allegations already debunked by the MSM itself. Like she slept with a black basketball player before she was married, or that she snorted cocaine off the top of a 55 gal oil drum.
The current contenders for the Republican nomination wished they were as vetted already as she is. No, her negatives all come from her being the most feared conservative in America.
As for her brains, let me know when you have accomplished what she has and we will talk about intelligence. You know Jack, when you repeat the leftist allegations that are not based on facts, about individuals like Palin, Bush, Perry, or any of a number of other conservative it really makes me question your core beliefs and conservative credentials.
I remember allegations back in 1979 that a certain conservative should just keep raking in the millions on his speaking tours and maybe do a few book deals and he will have served his highest and best purpose to the conservative cause. To do more would be counterproductive and if worse, it could keep Carter in the White House 4 more years. Let us all pray that Sarah ignores advice like yours as Reagan did.
I find it interesting how the Democrats and their cohorts in the MSM tell us that Palin could never win against Obama, but then they turn around and try to convince the base to vote for moderates like Romney, Perry, Christie, Huntsman and others to be our nominee. Gee, if the left wants Obama re-elected so bad, then why don’t they lay off Palin and help her get the nomination? They should be doing all they can to push her into running.
Instead they send slimy journalists up to Alaska to stake out her home. They sneak around like little perverts with binoculars watching her daughters in the back yard, looking through windows into their bedrooms, and talking to every drug addict and criminal around her small town in an attempt to destroy her. If she is so stupid and easily to defeat at the ballot box, then why are they going through all the trouble?
I’ll tell you why, because they know she would defeat him in a landslide, plus she would have Tea party Americans grabbing her coat tails as they all head to Washington to really change the way things are done, and return America back into the shining city on the hill Reagan spoke about.
Instead of joining the leftists like Quentin who continually repeat the lies told about real conservatives. Maybe you should start supporting and defending them against all the propaganda lies being spread about them. Then maybe you not come off sounding so schizophrenic in the way you support conservatives one day, just to turn around and attack them the next.
One thing I am, I am consistent in my support of the conservative cause and those who champion them. Whether it be politics or religion, you will always know were I am coming from and what my response to any given subject will be. I may be very predictable and boring at times, but I am consistent. It helps me to sleep better at night when I am true to the same thing everyday.
The reason Sarah quit the governorship was twofold. First and foremost, Sarah had done everything she said she would do when she ran for office. For what was left, her successor could be just as effective. Second, the left started filling thousands of frivolous lawsuits against her, and unlike the other 49 governors, the Attorney General of Alaska does not routinely represent the governor when accusations and complaints are filed against the office holder under the operative ethics statutes. (This means that the governor has to personally pay for their own legal defense.) Basically she was sued out of office. By the way. After she left office, Alaska passed a new law that forces the District Attorney to represent the governor, and allows for the State to pay for any and all lawsuits against the governor. So no other Alaska governor will ever be forced from office by the MSM and the left as Sarah was. Again the left has caused the tax payers of a state to waste money when they never had to before.
It is quite interesting the way her detractors forget how she was the darling of the Democrats before the national media knew who she was. What they conveniently forgot was the way Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, named Frank Murkowski. Yes, the father of Lisa (It’s my seat, mine, mine, mine) Murkowski. Back then the media and the left loved her because she tore into the corrupt good old boy’s, “Country Club” Republicans, and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. Back then the Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar to taking on their own party.
Now with the corrupt good old boys death grip on the state broken, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies. So Sarah constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES” (Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share). Exxon, the biggest corporation in the world, protested and Sarah told them, “don’t let the door hit you in the derriere on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
Another thing the Grizzly did when she walked into the governor’s office was she got the list of State requests for federal funding for pork-barrel projects. She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. She even suggested that the money saved from the “Bridge to Nowhere” be given to Minnesota to help pay for the I-35 bridge that collapsed. Minnesota to help pay for the I-35 bridge that collapsed. Then there was the money she saved the tax payers by dismissing the governor’s cook, giving back the State vehicle issued to her, and dismissing her State provided security force. After all she was packing heat, but no one knew at the time, so I doubt that any attack on her would have been successful. Could someone please give me a list of governors who have offered money allocated for their state to another?
Even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
We have all heard how Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. However, when was the last time you heard from the MSM that Sarah Palin went to the Alaskan legislature and submitted a plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable energy by 2025. As of today, Alaska is already at 25%. I’m still waiting to hear from those who support the mainstream politicians on both sides of the aisle, about the list of names they have of other governors who can match what Sarah accomplished in just two and a half years as governor of Alaska.
In my humble opinion Palin would be the most absurd person we could ever consider running for president and apparently most Americans agree with me.
A recent Fox news polls showed 74 percent said they do not believe that Palin should even run for president! Not even run?
Among the poll’s Republicans, the number that said she should not run was 71 percent, that’s huge! They’re telling her DON’T RUN! How many people thinking about running for election are sent a message like that?
Of the Independent participants in the survey, 66 percent also said they do not want Palin to enter the race. Even among the tea party, where Palin support is strongest, she still only managed 28 percent support (with 66 saying she should sit this one out).
Frank Schaefer of the NYT said, “Who voted for McCain/Palin in bigger numbers than they even voted for Bush/Cheney? Only one shrinking group: uneducated white folks in the deep south and a few folks in Appalachia. Take away the white no-college-backwoods-and/or-southern McCain/Palin vote and the Republicans would have been approaching single digit electoral college oblivion.”
Mona Charen had this to say, “By telling Barbara Walters that she thinks she can defeat President Obama, Sarah Palin has dimmed hopes cherished by sensible Republicans that she might decide against a run for the White House in 2012.
Here are just some of the reasons she should not run. The Republican nominee should be someone with a vast and impressive record in government and the private sector. Voters chose a novice with plenty of star power in 2008 and will be inclined to swing strongly in the other direction in 2012. Americans will be looking for sober competence, managerial skill, and maturity not sizzle and flash.”
And this one, “There is little sign that [Palin] has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office.” Peggy Noonan
Karl Rove thought she was “nutty candidate” and had questions about her “troubling personal background.”
Being governor of Alaska is like being mayor of a large city, and she quite that job 2 years into it for greener pastures. And greener they were, she’s made millions on her bus tour. This makes her look like an opportunist, not a committed civil servant.
Being president is about being woken up in the middle of the night and handed a crisis. “Does anybody think Sarah Palin’s ready for that? I don’t think so,” said David Brooks on NBC’s Meet the Press. People may like Palin, and agree with her on many of the issues, but “running for president is not American Idol.” Ultimately, people won’t think she’s qualified to be president.
The “threshold question” when picking a president is “Should we give this person nuclear weapons?” said George Will on ABC’s This Week. With Palin, that question “answers itself.” Palin is a “genius” at manipulating the media, and she can have a big impact on this race, but she’s not ready to handle the nuclear football.
There’s tons more issues that I have against Palin, and yes, some of it are these really awful rumors that seem to have some traction, but there’s no good reason to go there. Palin just isn’t the kind of person we need in the White House, but neither is Obama. If it’s any consolation if I had to choose between one or the other I think would just quit politics and join an artist colony.
Let me begin by destroying your wishful thinking that polls show Sarah would never have a chance against Obama. If you look at a recent poll by Rasmussen, where they asked Whos Views Are Closer to Your Own”, you will learn that those who most favor the same views of Sarah against those who held the same views as Obama, that Sarah wins in a landslide. (You will have to register to see the poll. No I will not share my login or password)
The poll shows that,
Palin gets 52% to Obama’s 40%.
Among mainstream voters, Palin beats Obama even worse with 63%-28%.
Among the elites, Obama won 68%-30%.
Im surprised that there are as many as 30% of the elitists who agree with Sarah over him. There are a whole heck of a lot more normal Americans that have the same views as Sarah. You must be one of those political elitists if you think Obama would crush her. Interestingly, the same type of numbers were bantered about back when Gore ran against Bush. Bush was supposed to lose, but when it came to those who agreed with the views of the candidates, Bush won in a landslide. Back then in 200, we were not living under the worst recession since the 30’s, so I don’t see a close election for Obama against anyone.
Now as for Mona and all these other so called Republicans, they all come from the left isle of the party. Conservatives none. That quote from Mona was written back in 2010 right after the Republicans won big thanks to Palin and the Tea party conservatives. The moderates were still stinging from the fact that she drove the voters to the booths. Other than two contests, the Tea Party carried the day, and yet Mona and the others you mention all helped the Democrats defeat those two Tea party candidates in Nevada, and Delaware.
That quote from Mona, was written by her in a column she wrote for the National Review. The Review by the way, makes no bones about their Kool-Aid drinking support for Romney. The same slick suited politician from Massachusetts who agrees with Obama that the government has the right to force me into buying a product (Health-Care) I and 85% of Americans don’t want. The National Review went down the tube after Buckley passed on. They have since become nothing more than a who’s who of the moderate inside the beltway elitist Republican good old boy group that Sarah Palin confronted in Alaska when she was governor. I have news for you, no self respecting conservative subscribes to the National Review any more. If you still do, than we know where your political leanings are, but than again we already knew you were a moderate. Didn’t we?
As for Karl Rove. I’ll bring up Delaware and Christine O’Donnell. Rove was pushing a liberal. When “the people” spoke in the primaries and said they wanted O’Donnell, Rove not only did not get behind Christine, he actively did his bet to ensure that she could not win! She would have had a fighting chance if the Republican establishment and the Roves of the world would have gotten firmly behind her! But she wasn’t part of the club! They made sure she lost to a Democrat because they could not chance the Senate beholding to Sarah. So as for Rove, he has had it in for Sarah since McCain picked her as his running mate.
To which I must ask, “Karl is that you writing for Jack?”
Now on to Peggy Noonan. Peggy wrote some speeches for Reagan in her youth. Then after Reagan left office, her elitist friends at the Times attacked her for being one of his speech writers. She has been trying to get in their good graces ever since, and that’s why GW told her he was not hiring her to write his speeches. She has had a grudge against any outside the beltway conservative who does not travel in her circle of East Coast elitists since.
Peggy is a jealous elitist idiot who supported the very unqualified community organizer for president over McCain in 2008, yet she has the nerve to tell the world that Sarah is an unqualified hillbilly. I agree with what Stuart Schwartz of the American Thinker wrote about her hatred for Sarah.
So you support opinions by snooty elitists columnists that support Barack Obama’s presidency now? Interesting. I told you that you sound schizophrenic at times Jack.
You throw out a bunch of crap poll numbers that have all been proven to be based on skewed sampling, and then add in the comments from a bunch of inside the beltway Republicans who will sell this country down the drain to keep control of the party and you expect me to take you serous? Besides, even the leftist Pew poll shows Sarah beat Obama, so figure it out as to what leftist polls really think.
Then in an attempt to make yourself sound witty I guess, you through in a comment from a New York Times writer who walked away from Christianity in a very open way by claiming there is no difference between Christianity and the government of North Korea, what am I to think? What, did you think I was so backwards and uneducated that I would never know who this idiot was? You toss out a quote by him that basically calls anyone who supports Palin to nothing but white uneducated trash.
So now I know what you really think of me. You know they say that a man’s foolishness is found in the abundance of his words. Maybe you should have ended your comment to me after the quote from Mona Charen.
Before I write something I’ll regret, I’ll leave you with this. You need to decide if you want to support the conservative wing of the Republican party, or the liberal wing Jack. Time is running short for us, and we need to end the game of politics as usual. It will not happen with the moderate National Review wing of the party, it’s coming from the Tea party conservative wing.
Jack, thank you for talking some sense. It’s refreshing in this political climate to see legitimate self-criticism (not to be confused with petty inter-party squabbling) from either of the two parties.
Sarah Palin is arguably the reason Republicans lost the White House in 2008, and she wasn’t even running for president, she was only the VP. But voters thought even that was too much power for her.
Gate: “Interesting how the media and the Democrats try to convince us that Obama’s best chance is against the most conservative Republican. Yet they continually try their darnedest to get a moderate elected as our candidate.”
Personally, I want Republicans to choose a more moderate candidate because I think our country deserves a healthy two-party system, with viable candidates on each side. Our citizens deserve to be faced with a real choice on election day, but when one party’s candidate is a ridiculous sideshow act, that can’t happen. I would rather live in a country in which Barack Obama loses to Mitt Romney, then a country in which one of the two major political parties can look at Sarah Palin and say, “Yes, this is the best we have to offer.” The latter scenario, while good for some laughs, is actually far more depressing to me. It only serves to further polarize and radicalize our politics. The current division in our country has made it much harder to even discuss politics, because half the time it seems the other side of the discussion is speaking a foreign language or lives in an alternate universe.
Thanks Chris that means a lot. You’re an honest young man and soon to be one of our countries leaders and its great that you can come here and exchange ideas and debate with us. This is what PS is all about. I’m glad that we can share some the idealism that made this country strong here. Yes, I agree with you that the people deserve the very best candidates they can find and let the competition bring out the best ideas.
On a side note, and I would like your thoughts on this…..there are many times when I have to question if having only two opposing political parties serves a good purpose? It’s really about the candidates and what they believe. I hate to see them be forced to conform and bend to what their political party demands in return for their support and endorsement. Political parties are notorious for being the headwaters of dirty tricks too. It creates divisions within our society and we wind up hating each other because somebody is a republican or someone is a democrat. I would rather support the candidate and let us rally behind our favorite. It would be a lot less divisive if we did, it might also make it possible for more competition because more people could run, not just a select group of reps or dems.
Gate, you make many good points and I appreciate all your effort to bring us this information. However, I’m not convinced and I’ll have to stand by my earlier thoughts on Sarah, that she should keep on doing what she’s doing and stay out of the race.
I sincerely believe it would be a complete disaster for the republicans. She has not comported herself well with the media. She has made some outrageous misstatements that tells us she’s not educated herself on many issues. She comes up obviously short on American history, geography, world history and international relations.
Once you get her off the talking points created by the GOP and she comes off like a dunce. She’s fantastic at conveying a message just like the news media person she was trained to be and that’s where she should stay for now.
I would like to see her compete on “Are you smarter than a 3rd graders?” If she could win, I might be swayed, but I doubt she would.
My guess is we’ll either have Romney or Perry as our choice so all the talk in the world about Sarah will be in vain. I’m not saying these guys are my favorites either, I’m just being realistic at this point in the race. I’m really looking forward to another debate, I would like to see Herm move up to make it a 3 way race.
Jack: “On a side note, and I would like your thoughts on this…..there are many times when I have to question if having only two opposing political parties serves a good purpose?”
I question this too, Jack. When I said I wanted a healthy two-party system, I didn’t mean this is the ideal. Just that if we have to have a two-party system, I want it to function better than it does now.
Gate: “The National Review went down the tube after Buckley passed on. They have since become nothing more than a who’s who of the moderate inside the beltway elitist Republican good old boy group”
Buckley WAS a moderate.