Well, I guess she’s getting all mavericky and doing things her own way- you know, “shakin’ things up”! I’m sure she thinks she is bypassing the establishment and taking her case directly to the ‘real Americans’ that are her base.
It will be interesting to see how a Presidential campaign consisting of a movie and a road trip in a bus will pan out. I think it will look a lot like the “Atlas Shrugged” movie.
I find her “folksy charm” repulsive, but it sure rings a bell for lots of people. I don’t think she can find enough of those people to get her a job in the White House, though. The more she talks, the more normal people dislike her.
Reall?. He warned about NAFTA. he talked about the whooshing sound of jobs being sucked out of America. He was prophetic about what the corporations had in mind.
I suppose he was running before your time , so you don’t know better, but he warned us about the economic problems that followed.
Politics can create monsters. Palin was half way there with her “pretty girl” entitlements. But she has handlers that butter her up every day , telling her how important even her tweets are. Every place she goes she has an audience that paid to see her perform. She swims in a sea of right wingers. She is shocked when people criticize her , and since they are not like the people she deals with every day, she believes they are outliers.
Somehow she thinks quitting was completely justified and all have forgotten it by now.
Perot in 1992, was for balancing the budget. He was protectionist to some degree about the economy and urged fairness through tariffs. He was pro choice. He was a fan of the EPA.
Sure he had ideas.
My memory is that he babbled a lot and lived and spoke nothing but clumsy clichés, particularly in the debates, but in speeches also. “If yer car’s not runnin’, why, you’ve gotta LOOK. UNDER. THE HOOD!” (wild applause.)
I’ll take your word for it that there was something there, but it was buried under a lot of nonsense.
So. I did not claim he should be deified, But he actually presented charts and attempted to educate people about the economic costs of both Dem and Repub policies. But if you choose to totally ignore what his warnings were because of a stupid wedding comment. you can.
I don’t think she’s running. She couldn’t even handle being governor of Alaska, for chrissake. There’s no way she has the stomach for a demanding presidential campaign and the accompanying media scrutiny. This bus tour is nothing more than a lame attempt to stay relevant.
Presidential Candidate H. Ross Perot - The Dark Side Of course you can. He did data processing for the government and was ruthless enough to buy pols and get rich off it. His wealth came from Medicare and Medicaid contracts.
SaharaTea: I thought of that when I made that post yesterday. However, she has all these adoring Republicans telling her they want her to run for president. All that mindless adoration may have convinced her she does have the stomach for the job. She hired that filmmaker to produce “The Undefeated.” Politicians have egos as big as those of opera divas, if not larger, and she may have convinced herself that she be president. As for media scrutiny. I suspect that in Palin’s world every media outlet but Fox is the “lamestream media” that is “wee-wee’d off”* because they can’t deal with a hockey mom.
Frankly, if I were a Republican there’s no way in hell I would want her running. You might as well as cede the 2012 election to Mr. Obama.
The last time I was in Arizona I read an artical where she actually used that phrase.
As per usual, I logged my 10 minutes of Rush outrage while tooling around at lunch-time, and he told his faithful followers that he is sure of the fact that the White House is most afraid of Palin being the nominee. Because – his reasoning – they *know *they can beat a liberal Republican; they *know *they can beat a moderate Republican; they *know *they can beat a Republican pretending to be a Republican (the endangered white RINO); but they also know that they *can’t *beat a conservative Republican – of who Palin is the shining star.
