Palin was elected governor of Alaska. Then she quit that elected position to make money. She walked away from the work that thousands of volunteers and paid workers had done in her behalf. She apparently felt their work was meaningless. They worked hard for her and she threw it all away.
That is totally unforgivable.
She spews racist call signals and the sheep (see: people that vote Republican) are responding.
Nah. Disagree. We’ve had this conversation before. There’s a lot of Palin dislike out there. The easiest way to end production in an Obama campaign office in 2008 was to have the TV on and Sarah Palin on it.
If you want to see why Sarah Palin is a lightweight, compare and contrast.
After watching that video, it occurred to me that if Condoleeza Rice decided to run for President, she would be nominated, and she’d possibly win. The far right would stick with Palin, but Condi would attract a lot of independents and more than a few Democrats, I think.
Wouldn’t she be too, like, tainted, by her association with the Iraq War, etc.? Even in 2012?
Also . . . lesbian, almost certainly. Any never-married woman her age (and a younger one could hardly be a candidate) is going to have to answer certain questions if she runs for POTUS.
No chance. She’s pro-choice and she’s gay.
It’s more than just that she isn’t married. She has a longtime partner who she lives and travels with.
The point is that if you listen to Condi speak, then listen to Sarah Palin speak, it becomes clear who might be presidential material and who isn’t. As long as there are women like Condi Rice in the Republican Party, Sarah Palin’s got no business being the party’s Presidential nominee. Rice exudes intelligence and thoughtfulness. She comes across as morally certain and strong, but without being a shrill ‘Grizzly Mom’. Tough and competent beats winks and catchphrases every time.
That’s all true, but she could never get the Republican nomination. Even if she wasn’t gay, the pro-choice thing would be a deal-breaker.
Following some soul-searching as to why the press persists in spending so much time on her, even though she is neither a declared candidate nor current office-holder, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has declared February a Palin-Free month. I’m in; how about (the editorial) you?
Secretly, everyone wants to slip into Sarah’s tent on a cold night. If she looked more like a mud fence, she’d never have made it out of the political corral. Looks trumps stupid.
Not so gay as to turn down the presidential staff, from what I hear. She’s got a bigger problem than being gay, and that’s being black. Nominate a black candidate, and Nixon’s Southern Strategy is blown to smithereens.
You’re asking that of a guy who still believes in Saddam’s WMD’s, remember?
Oh, I think nominating a black candidate to run against a black candidate is actually a pretty valid way to get a black nominee for the GOP. But Rice definitely isn’t that candidate. She’s smart, but no.
That’s certainly true, but let’s not forget she is incompetent.
She was national security advisor at the time of the 9/11 attacks. She was supposed to be the one person in government to break through all the BS and get different agencies – be it the FBI, CIA, DOD, Justice Department, whatever – to work together.
She failed and we had to create a whole new cabinet department because of it.
- Is the debate “Obama is a god and mere mortals ought not to challenge him” v. “Obama is the greatest human who ever lived and mere mortals ought not to challenge him?”
or does the OP want to know why Palin is the defacto leader of the RP?
Best wishes,
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I thought that there was some article lately that named her male love interest?
No cite, etc…, just in my head.
Best wishes,
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Is this a double-entendre?
Thy rod and thy staff.
Not that I know of. I know the Bush White House did not discourage gossip or speculation about male friends being possible love interests, but I also know from an inside State Department source (my dad) that Condi had (at least whem she was SoS), a female partner named Randy who lived with her, traveled with her and was treated as her spouse by staffers and underlings. It was an open secret in State.