Palin = FRONT RUNNER for 2012! *** BELIEVE IT!! ***
Book tour takes her all around swing states; figure that's a coincidence, do you? She's stopping typically in counties that she and McCain won (they took 78 of the 100 least-educated counties nationally).
Her story is one of pure ambition, remember. She told how her life consists of trying to slip through some door and if there is no space for her inside, to try slip herself in anyway:
"'I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.
"Even if it's cracked up a little bit, maybe I'll plough right on through that and maybe prematurely plough through it, but don't let me miss an open door,' she tells the Fox interviewer Greta Van Susteren."
That was in answering the 2012 question! She replied by given us her election game plan (involves God, as she said). We should believe her and not talking heads claiming she's still seeking inspiration/looking for a sign. Get real, MSM!
Think about those country cousins; they're key! Pawlenty can't much excite those Talibangelicals and Romney doesn't move them at all. On the Chris Matthews Show (the weekend one; not Hardball), our host snuck a peak (with 3:20 left in the program) at Palin's ace: remember, her dream venue would be a state of rural, low-information voters and Fundamentalists (yes, the ignorant base). (Huckabee can also appeal to sanctimonious yokels sure, but compared to Bible Spice?! Come on!!)
Well, guess what! She'll get exactly the golden opportunity to pump up the rural religio vote, when she comes roaring out of the Iowa caucases, thumping her petty-retribution screed alongside the Good Book. Matthews is right: she'll harvest a bumper crop of bumpkins from across the Corn State! (BTW, could she order-up another ghost-written volume before then about being The Lord's candidate?). Others will want to stop her, but if she can then just finish respectably in New Hampshire (even, say, a reasonable third), she will reprise that smash-Iowa-victory among South Carolina's holy rollers (think Sanford, DeMint, Joe Wilson, Jim Crow). (Penalize Palin for quitting governorship? To the extent her dumbass supporters are even aware of the issue, they'll accept any excuse (scheming Michelle Obama tricked her, whatever!)) And the mouthy nitwit will be on her way to the nomination!Only if (1) she then actually gets nominated and then (2) suffers a crushing loss to Obama, will Klondike Barbie's days as a superstar finally be numbered.
In a blog on this same subject, OT...I aloud as how I would believe in a God should she be chosen for the repubs.
C
November 16, 2009 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
It really is all too scary, C!
November 16, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Penalize Palin for quitting governorship? To the extent her dumbass supporters are even aware of the issue, they'll accept any excuse."
Maybe some REAL patriots should show up at her events holding up signs that say, simply, "QUITTER!"
She should start writing self-help books like "How to quit as governor of our largest state for fun and profit!"
Clearly, regardless of her supporters' ignorance, the rest of the public knows she is more interested in increasing her own abundance, not the welfare of her state or nation.
Would she quit the Presidency if there was a book deal in it?
November 16, 2009 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans are on the record (especially some business owners) as promoters of hard work, long hours and sticking to it until the job is done.
So how on Earth can they support Palin?
She's lazy, she quits when the going gets a little rocky, and she obviously wouldn't work hard enough to even crack a meaningful book to read, because it just takes too much brain effort.
November 16, 2009 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Another could comment. She's selling a lot of what Bush had to offer in 2000: Huffy disapproval.
Disapproves of this, disapproves of that.
Bush himself was monumentally incompetent. What does that make Caribou Barbie?!
November 16, 2009 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
This the thing; quitting the Presidency. How could anybody take this seriously?
It depends on the "anybody" I guess.
Great comment about the "QUITTER" signs and real patriots!
November 16, 2009 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can you even actually quit the presidency of your own volition? I mean, short of dying...
November 16, 2009 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
1) Convene a seance.
2) Summon the spirit of Richard Nixon.
-or-
3) See Watergate.
November 16, 2009 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think you have to worry too much about this, it's really hard to rally the troops for the long hard slog, when you've got both feet in your mouth.
November 16, 2009 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right about her character, obviously.
And I am not trying to be difficult or argumentative for the sake of it. But what Matthews was saying is that the holy rollers in rural states will just back her. She just needs to turn up maybe just once or twice talking about God, firerms, death panels, dog-whistling for the bigot vote, disapproving grandly about everything, scolding Dems bad treatment of women especially Talibangelical women, and all that outguns a whole lot of organization. Iowa is almost a no-show primary for her as is South Carolina.
November 16, 2009 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Max Blumenthal has an article on TomDispatch - How Sarah Palin Made Herself Indispensable While Destroying the Republican Party - that lays out the road map.
Seems the republicans have a winner-takes-all primary strategy. So all Palin has to do is just get enough votes to be awarded the highest %-age ... 26% out of 4 nominees on the ballot ... and she wins all the delegates for the state. She could easily walk thru every primary and garnered just enough votes to capture the entire delegate count without ever debating an issue with any other candidate on the state ballot.
November 16, 2009 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I forgot to mention this little, but very important point.
The more people who run against her in each state primary, the fewer votes she needs to win all the delegates. So the republican party needs to select their chosen one, and only one, to go against her, hoping no other fool would be silly enough to toss their hat into the race. Then again, Palin may find people willing to step up to the plate to make it look like competition so as to guarantee the primary 's will be a cakewalk for her.
November 16, 2009 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
The 26% figure assumes the rest of the candidates split the vote equally, which is never the case. You are right, of course, that more candidates in practice lowers the percentage she has to get, but I'd wager no one wins a primary with only 26% of the vote unless you've got at least 10 candidates running.
November 16, 2009 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
My example was assuming each of the 4 candidates receive equal public support, so all Palin has to do is literally win by a nose. However, in most cases, she'll have no problem maintaining a healthy 35%. If she grabs enough of the smaller states, just like Bu$h did in 2000, all she has to do is concentrate on a few big ones and she's on easy street.
November 16, 2009 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a truly scary analogy, though, right?
It's at least remotely possible that Palin could win a general election. Yes, I have that little faith in the electorate, even though they voted for Obama in 2008.
November 16, 2009 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is my riff, yes. This is an electorate that decided they'd rather have a beer with Bush in 2000 than Gore! Voters like that cannot be trusted to be responsible -- far from it.
November 16, 2009 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! She could get 26 maybe even in New Hampshire!
This really is a party committing suicide, as much as they may be enjoying themselves now.
November 16, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
The republican party elders saw right thru her when McCain selected her, but no one listened to them then and still won't now. She's gonna take the Party and the base to the cleaners in 2012 and fleece their pockets at the same time.
November 16, 2009 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's astonishing, but this seems like a likely or possibly the *most likely* scenario, yes. Like I wrote at the end of the blog, only if she's nominated and Obama then trounces her (70-30?) does the monster even die. If she pulls out of the race 2/3 of the way in she can bellyache about how unfair the process was to her, who she could have won in the general, and rejuvenate for 2016!
November 16, 2009 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
If she is the republican nominee, I don't think she'll back down. She was really pissy about not being allowed to stick the knife in deep into Obama's chest during the last election. In her campaign, the knifes will be long and sharp and if any attack is blunted, the liberal media will be a fault. It will be a blood feast, not an election.
November 17, 2009 4:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like a merry time!
November 17, 2009 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Apt response:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VXa82AuwHU
November 16, 2009 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
ack: 2012 trailer
November 16, 2009 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Before you click the link, think to yourself "what happens if Palin becomes president?." It adds to the story.
November 16, 2009 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but the religios will already now be working out some crazy theory about how the non-events that will not occur in 2012 are a stoke of a vengeful God to punish a sinful nation for having picked a black President.
November 16, 2009 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol, or that the Maya rain and sun gods will take revenge after we reach some climate tipping point in 2012 because we don't sign a climate accord.
What's sad is that your 'crazy theory' is already somewhat true.
November 16, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
God, it's sad, amigo! LOL!
November 16, 2009 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
But isn't Alaska suppose to be the buffer that protects us?
November 16, 2009 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, once upon a time I prayed that Ronny Reagan would be nominated...no frickin way are the American People going to elect a bmovie star who had problems putting more than three sentences together without a teleprompter.
ha!!!
November 16, 2009 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who would have thought that a community organizer with virtually no national experience, no executive experience, no business experience, and no military experience who can't speak without a teleprompter could get elected. But here we are. So Palin is a shoe in.
November 16, 2009 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
but palin is an un-read, dopey flirt. Obama is an intelligent guy who actually studied and read about his challenges as President.
Bush had no experience as a community organizer; no national or international vision; his business experience was as a failure in industries that you would have to be idiotic to fail in; military experience -- can you spell AWOL? Yeah, I'd say palin is on the same level as dubya.
November 16, 2009 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Still with the AWOL crap huh? No matter how many times a lie is disproved you lefty loons just won't let it go. The truth is Bush server in the Tx ANG, Obama never served in any fashion. Bush ran businesses, ran the state of Texas, and Obama ran his mouth. You talk of his 'intelligence' as if it were a fact, based I suppose on his attending schools like Harvard and Columbia. Schools with professors in the news for assaulting the police and punching a woman in a bar fight - clearly a high academic standard. These 'elite' institutions have long ago become PC bastions. Just being a leftist that hates America is enough to get a degree nowadays.
November 17, 2009 7:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
You will, of course, chihuahua, detail extensively for us the wide and deep experience you possess that qualifies you to sit in judgment on someone who is so demonstrably superior to you as both an elected official and a human being.
Or you will simply reveal yourself yet again as a pathetic little yapping annoyance, worth only a good swift kick now and then.
(Note: No actual chihuahuas would be harmed in this exercise. They are real dogs, and thus I respect them, yappy annoyances though they may be. This poseur, on the other hand, deserves nothing more than being bound and thrown into a pit of starving pit bulls while clad only in beef suet and pig's blood.)
November 16, 2009 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are apparently too stupid to understand how our system works. As a voter I am entitled to judge my elected officials, that's what voting is about. You follow a cult of personality devoted to Obama and believe he is above questioning. Wrong! And in 2012 you will be very sad as your hero/god is booted out of office.
November 17, 2009 7:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bu$h had even less and those areas where he did have experience were total failures.
November 17, 2009 4:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, as usual you are wrong. Bush had 6 years of executive experience, to Obama's none. He served in the Tx ANG, Obama has never served in the military in any capacity. Bush had a number of years business experience, from running a baseball team to oil exploration companies. Obama's experience is limited to running his mouth, telling people how things should be because he thinks he is just so smart he knows everything.
November 17, 2009 7:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well if Bush was such a genius how did he manage to make such an utter mess of our country -- he let 911 happen; he let Osama BinLadin go; he invaded a country for no good reason, which has cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and trillions of dollars; he approved torture and the outing of a CIA agent; and his financial "management" has put us in the worst recession since the Great Depression -- and he seemed to just have a lot of fun doing it -- never lost a minute's sleep! Yep, the "genius" and his wife chuckled about how they kept going up and down the stairs at the WH on the night of 911. I promise you, they were the only "chucklers" in the entire US that night.
Genius? How in the world such an incompetent boob could accomplish so much harm is amazing.
November 17, 2009 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Even if it's cracked up a little bit, maybe I'll plough right on through that and maybe prematurely plough through it, but don't let me miss an open door,"
In other words, Sarah Palin is an unapologetic opportunist. She didn't quit her first three colleges. She merely sought other opportunities. Marrying an Alaskan native with a drift net permit in Bristol Bay? That was just an opportunity too! Why so many kids? Why pass up an opportunity for getting laid? $100k in expenses for her clothes and those of her kids? C'mon now, do I have to explain it each and every time?!? These are God given opportunities and who is anyone to deprive Palin of them?
If you remove the "l" from her last name you get the opportunity she will afford the GOP for years to come, unless they can find a way to shut her down. But she's a free reality-TV psychodrama in free fall. The MSM cannot pull themselves away even though she is ripping the heart out of the GOP. This train will be wrecking for years to come and, well, it hurts them more then it hurts me. :-{)>
November 17, 2009 2:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
So I take it, Palin's new name handle is ...Silent L... ???
November 17, 2009 4:59 AM | Reply | Permalink