I am never one to underestimate the stupidly of the Republican base, but even they cannot be this stupid, can they?
“My opponent wants to retrench the welfare state…”
“The hell I do! I want to make it smaller!”
I don’t see how "the quitterinator’ can possibly get elected. But she would be a figure head for somebody with no votes to run the country. Wonder what she would do with all her free time? I suppose Cheney would be president again.
The German Chancellor would give her a backrub?
I tend to discount any website that combines two real words (any way) into a single word (anyway). I’m sure it’s a perfectly cromulent usage, but it greats on me. (sic)
Her administration would start numerous wars, insult various heads of state, and get fleeced by leaders smarter than she is (basically everybody). If people made a big deal about Saudi Arabia buying US ports, by the time Palin’s done, China will literally own the White House, probably put some stone lions in front and coi pond in the back. All for some magic beans
**What exactly would happen if Sarah Palin was elected president? **
I suspect it won’t be a very good time to be a moose.
Canada will close its borders the day after the election. Young American women will be offering themselves as mail-order brides to Canadian baby seal thumpers. A lot of us here will be kissing up to Canuck dopers angling for whatever a green card is up there.
And I’ll be Raptured…
I hear Dick Cheney is looking for work . . .
I agree with this - you’d see the increasing marginalization of America as a political and economic force, with China, Russia and the EU taking the opportunity to forward their own agendas (not to mention Iran, Israel, India and Pakistan, etc).
But, by achieving isolation/fortress America wouldn’t that be substantially popular?
It would be a bloody sad, and enormous waste IMHO, but if you ever get on the recieving end of a paleoconservative that’s the endgame they want asap.
Of course they believe that they can have resplendent isolation with all the hegemonist trimmings, but the US can’t afford the trimmings now.
“Say it ain’t so, Joe.”
How could she possibly top that? What even rhymes with Obama besides, “yo mama?”
As expected of the resident fauna of this doper planet can do nothing but joke about the question of the OP because more and more people view Obama’s presidency as the wrong direction for America and the fauna fully expect a wing nut such as Palin to get nominated and elected as wing nuts are viewed as those things which hold the world together.
So rather than respond to the OP and admit the inevitable the fauna avoid critical thinking and resorts to a dialectic of obfuscation.
The breakdown of the 89 posts are as follows:
6 say she will resign
15+ say that the proposition of the OP is ludicrous
17 say Palin is stupid
7 say that they will move away
6 say that it the proposition is the end time
5 delve into sexual fantasy
20 are completely non-sequitur play on words
13+ are somewhat on point
American politics can be viewed as a harmonic oscillation which becomes self excited at times to the point of destruction. We have seen this system behavior throughout the history of America and it arises from a generational embrace of the ideologies of Marxism, practiced here on the doper planet, and Capitalism, practiced almost everywhere else in America.
The American constitution lays out the frame work for a Capitalism and thus American politics oscillates as the constitution is the guiding rules that rebind the nation. Now comes the Obamanation, an extreme oscillation toward Marxism, fed by the exportation of jobs and globalization of the economy and the brain washing of the internet media. Another extreme oscillation toward Capitalism should be expected as foreshadowed by the Scott Brown victory ,a Palin presidency should not be dismissed, as by these obfuscating posts on the doper planet. The fact is that the world will not support a nanny American state and the US deficits will not be sustained and America will come to see Obama as the David Karish or the jim Jones of progressivism as the suicide of higher taxes is his only out.
So given the desire of the people for guaranteed independence and oportunity embodied in the constitution I expect that during a Palin Presidency that American will become energy independent as energy issues is one of Palins strengths. I also see with that energy independence that Americas influence in the middle east significantly diminished as oil would no longer be a strongly motivating factor for America’s presence. And $600B of made in America energy go into the pockets of each and every American.
I also see in a Palin Presidency a certain amount of a return to economic protectionism as those 18 to 29 year olds become more and more disillusioned by the lack of jobs and lack of a means to fulfill their dreams of financial wealth and independence as the Obamanation has not and I predict will not ever address joblessness of the population in the short time he has left in power. The regime has complete control of the Bureau of Labor statistics and the reports are known to be half truths and offer only false hope. The population will vote its pocket book and the suburbanites will come out in droves, 63% or better turnout rates, more than enough to overwhelm those that vote themselves bread and circuses.
I predict that Washington DC will become a ghost town as even those blinded by the dream of a Marxist utopia can see that a large government administrative bureaucracy is a dead weight that is not and will not markedly improve the lot of the individual one iota. Even the most die hard Democrat after all will not be as sheep to be controlled by the Obamanation’s thought police and the American ethos says that government handouts dimish the man and does not elevate. I predict that many buildings in Washington DC will have to be rehabilited as the anger of the displaced regime will wreck destruction on those public facilities as was seen upon the exit of the Clinton Administration.
I predict that there will be a resurgence in adherence to the 10 commandments. Viewers and listeners of Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and conservative talk shows everywhere is growing daily because of their espousing of the virtues of not lying, not coveting, and not stealing and Palin exemplifies the morality of the family unit and the honor that should be given each individual, father, mother, and child. Each carries their faith openly without fear and more and more people are seeing that their speech is loving and is soothing unlike the speech of Obama’s wife and Obama’s preacher and Obama himself when not reading from a teleprompter. And more and more the conservative talk show hosts are introducing guest hosts demonstrating to the people that they are a multitude of others having similar principals which but strengthens the listeners resolve against Obama and Godless marxism even further.
Now will the office temper the steel of principals that is within Palin I cannot say. Clinton, Obama, and Palin all are so young and their metal was never tested prior to ascending to the office. Clinton never rose above his dalliances, Obama is too indoctrinated and brain washed to elevate himself above the petty and only time will tell for Palin. Bush and Reagan are already recognized as greatest leaders since Kennedy. All previous Presidents of our time had been tested under fire in hot and cold wars and saw first hand the depravity of the marxist regimes of hitler, stalin, pol pot, moa, musilini and ben laden, so what is in Palin can only be guessed and if she will take her place as a leader of men and bring about a high amplitude oscillation back to the American conservative ideal cannot be predicted with high accuracy. So the safe prediction is that Palin’s tenure as president will critically damp the oscillation for at least the time of this generation, say till 2050 and maybe longer depending on the extent of Her energy independence policies.
On a side note, Bush and Chaney set up Obama’s failure by dangling the carrot of wall street bailouts which played into Obama’s dream of marxism but it had the predictable consequence of pissing off a whole lot of people in small businesses. Progressives and marxists are so easily duped but it had to be done to show the young up close the bankruptcy of a marxist doper planet.
This is why we laugh.
Thank you.
Yes, dear. Now take your pills.
Just out of curiosity:
focusonz: one of your premises is (I assume, but am always prepared to be corrected) that Obama represents some kind of Marxist ultraleft something-or-other, and that Marxist ultraleft something-or-other governments are doomed to failure. But it seems to me that the Canadian government is further to the left than anything Obama has managed to accomplish, i.e. we already have universal health coverage and a broader social safety net and whatnot. So is Canada a super-duper Marxist ultraleft sometime-or-other? If so, why hasn’t it utterly failed, as Marxist ultraleft somethings-or-other are doomed to do?
Anyway, on a more thread-relevant note, a Palin presidency would suggest that a sizable chunk of the American population are not yet ready to shed the pseudo-theocratic system that the religious right has been agitating for since 1980 or so, and that’ll be a problem since it stifles social and scientific progress at a time when international competitors will be surging ahead.
I was going to praise focusonz for avoiding the word “sheeple” but there was a “sheep” reference so nul points.
If you think Hitler, Mussolini and Osama bin Laden were/are in any way Marxist you clearly don’t have the slightest understanding of what the word means apart from “thing I think is bad”.
And who is “moa”? All I get when I Google it are articles about flightless birds and Mall of America, and I’m pretty sure neither the birds nor the mall are Marxist (although you’ve got to keep an eye on those Minnesotans).
**Bryan Ekers **is quite right: Obama is about as Marxist as Warren Buffett. Try again.
I just figure that even an eight-year Obama presidency (generously assuming a cooperative congress) isn’t nearly enough time to get the American system to move sufficiently left to match the Canadian one, and if the overheated rhetoric regarding Obama is even slightly accurate, I can only assume some Americans think stepping over the Canadian border is equivalent to a trip to Havana.
Well, she would be a hotter President than, say, Taft. 
Palin has principals inside her? And more than one at the same time? And you’re concerned about whether those principals will keep their “steel?”
Are you doing this on purpose?