Much as I would like to see Sarah Palin emerge as a strong candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012, I don't think it is going to happen. After four years of President Barak Obama, the voters of this great nation are not going to be up for another ingénue.
I know that I, for one, have sent her a letter suggesting how she can improve her understanding of national and international issues—a course of study if you will. No direct response, but time will tell if she paid attention.
In the mean time, I am wondering about the insight of Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan, in this article on former Governor Palin. Ms Eagan votes this way on Governor Palin: "Totally wacked, for my money."
But, the line that really caught my attention was this one: "Moderates may admit Palin helped sink John McCain’s ship."
What? Maybe moderates do think that way, but the rest of us think that Governor Palin was the one keeping that campaign afloat. I think that Ms Eagan misremembers what happened in 2008.
In her moderate concern, Ms Eagan is now talking about a “Palin-Bachmann for 2012” ticket. I doubt it, but it does take Ms Eagan's paranoia and puts it in one punchbowl.
Regards — Cliff
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I am never more concerned for the future of this country as I am when I read otherwise reasonable people writing to complement a person whose record is as much of a consistently abominable cock-up as ms Palin's. I can only attribute it to the sort of slavish devotion to party that has enabled party hacks from both sides to tag-team on and crater our economy, and dragged us into a debate about a trillion-dollar-plus boondoggle while the simple fact is that we need energy self-sufficiency before all else, and, by the way, not from drilling, but from plans like T. Boone Pickens'.
I'll never respect a party, or adherents to a party, that cannot see the truth here.
Well, actually, as things go, Ms Palin has her hits and errors. For example, the interview with Charlie whatever his name is showed that he was clueless and she had the answers with regard to Foreign Policy—at least if you judge by official US Policy and what then Senator Obama had on his website. On the other hand, she is has had her problems, including with Katie Couric. As I noted.
So, this isn't about Party so much as wanting to see someone succeed. I thought her record in Alaska was fine. And I liked her spunk for going up against her own Party (that word again) over corruption.
But, as you suggest, she is about as ready to be President as some junior senator from Illinois.
And, while I fully agree with you about T. Boone Pickens having a great plan, I also think we need nuclear power at the same time. In the interim, we need to drill. Nothing happens over night. And, we need to do something about fixing all the power lines so we can shuttle this electrical power around. And, I suspect, we need to do something to upgrade and secure the SCANA.
Regards — Cliff
While there are people who are chanting Palin 2012, as someone who likes her, I'm not chanting anything. I doubt she will ever run for office again. It doesn't mean she won't be involved though. She may or may not be a TV pundit. Still I don't think that is where she belongs either. Stick with a niche, such as children with disabilities.
There is a claim Palin sank the Republican ship, but what if it has been the moderates all this time?
We've take voting for the party for granted. I think that is how we ended up with four democratic candidates that pretty much stand all for the same thing, while the local Republican party seems not to have a strong platform at all.
Be more concern about public policy that speaks for itself, then constantly priding one's self as a moderate. The label of moderate, is much like the term middle class, it may mean anyone from a family of five making 35,000 or a single person making 130,000. It means little.
Susan B. Anthony never saw the day women had the right to vote, yet it's her statue that sits in the Capitol Rotunda.
Back in the day, before fuel injection, one way to get a stalled car going was to spray some ether into the carburetor. The volatile gas is quick to ignite, giving a sudden burst of energy, allowing the engine to crank and the usual fuel to kick in and run the car.
Of course, cars don't run on ether. The burn temperature is too high. Sustained use of ether or any accelerant, like nitrous oxide, will damage the engine, if used continously.
The GOP is stalled. Palin and the liberty fetishists, aka Teabaggers, are being sprayed into the mainstream to catch the spark. Beware!
You may think I'm trying to steer you wrong, as I am a Democrat. I swear, I shit you not. America depends on the push-pull of the two party system.
Carefully dose the vapor, that noxious fume. And remember this, purity does not exist in a melting pot.
I must say I am with Bad Karma here -- I never thought you would be serious about your support for the former governor. She once again might be the best thing to happen to the Democrats. A third of the electorate may fall for the "folksy" approach, but the majority thinks that it takes someone special, someone you can look up to and respect, to be the President of the United States. I cannot believe "America" would be so disinterested to let her happen. It would be a great disservice to women, at least in my male opinion, if she were the first female Commander in Chief of the US.
What? Maybe moderates do think that way, but the rest of us think that Governor Palin was the one keeping that campaign afloat.
That's the problem. Too many people see Sarah as the balloon, not the pin. People took one look at a 72-year-old-McCain and realized that a Palin Presidency (putting those two words together is enough to make me ill) could have been a strong possibility and it sunk McCain's campaign. And might I add, Thank God.
Sarah Palin belongs nowhere near the Oval Office. I just don't understand what white women see in her. I guess the same thing they saw in W.
Which explains so very much.
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