What Else but an Open Thread?
-Governor Palin's appearance at the Sixth Annual Turkey Trot in Kennewick, Washington, helped "bring in some big bucks for the [Red Cross]."
-Palin running even with Obama?
-Governor Palin is the fourth politician to occupy the #1 spot for the USA Today Best seller list. Barack Obama is not one of the four politicians. The other three politicians are Colin Powell, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton.
-Creede, not to give it away but this sentence in Going Rogue "could be entered into the annual Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest."
The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.
Oh wait, I have the wrong book. That sentence is in Dreams from My Father.
-For the NBA fans here, it may be worth it to check out Branden Jennings, the likely rookie of the year, tonight on ESPN. There may be no other reason to watch the Bucks play.
-What else is happening?
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i've always loved an underdog... Darn this is fun!... Sarah!... You are ONE SWEET LADY!
Sarah's critics didn't get to enjoy Thanksgiving. They didn't get any turkey. They were all busy eating crow.
We never did learn who "Headquarters" was. I suspect it was Schmidt, whoever headed the McCain side of the campaign, and John McCain himself.
McCain took a dive. He threw the election. He was so enamored with the idea of electing the first black president that he just couldn't stand in the way. When Obama gave his speech to a joint session of Congress, McCain had an angelic expression of joy on his face. I knew then that his loss was deliberate, and I'm convinced he was a major factor in hobbling Sarah during the campaign.
Ego payed a part as well. Without Sarah, McCain rallys drew as many people as Joe Biden rallys. He was jealous of his own running mate. That's why he wouldn't let her give a concession speech - it would have outshone his own speech.
McCain let Sarah twist in the wind while his own aides attacked her anonymously, and now supports those aides as they attack her book. Meanwhile Sarah has not said or written a bad word about McCain.
First for newcomers to C4P I am a passionate supporter of Governor Sarah Palin and if you go through the several posts I have made over the last 8-9 months you will see that. I support her wholeheartedly and would walk over broken glass or take a bullet for her if I had to.
So what I am about to say is done with regret but in hope that Sarah will get this message. I am an iconoclast and I was one of the first posters on C4P to call for Sarah not to run for re-election and to resign as soon as she could. I received overwhelming negative feedback at the time at C4P; this moment I expect will be no different.
For the record I do not know Sarah Palin, have never have met the fine lady, and probably never will.
I watched the incident in Columbus, Ohio where a Canadian, unbeknowst to Sarah wanted to 'pwn3d' her (media ambush-to be owned). For those of you who did not see the video the lady approached Sarah while she was signing books and subsequently escorted away while shouting about what she would tell Canadian conservatives. Sarah looked up and mentioned something about 'keeping the faith' and introducing some private initiatives into its state-run system in Canada. No big deal. Sarah is a conservative and stated a conservative position.
But what happened later in the video did concern me. The "Canadian" lady appeared at what she called 'the loading dock' near the Going Rogue bus and shouted out again at Sarah.
Sarah responded from the bus with the same type of answer previously but what I take issue with is that she engaged the lady again in the first place. She should have simply ignored her and moved on. After all, the lady wasn't even a potential voter, but that's beside the point. It just didn't look presidential.
And I know, I know-Sarah is now a private citizen and she's not in the business now of sowing the politiical seeds for 2010 and 2012. What I say to that is hogwash. i'm not stupid and neither are the folks who frequent this web site. If Sarah is going to run for POTUS she has to start to act the part. Sorry folks if you think I'm too harsh.
What the incident revealed to me that Sarah Palin has a tendency to be too gracious, too empathetic, to 'engage' folks when she shouldn't or is not in her best interest to do so. It's similar to having an answering machine, you are at home, and you can't bring yourself to let the machine take it and feel compelled to have to answer the phone on every occasion and thus allow your life or your project at the time to be interrupted or compromised.
To appear to be more presidential, I believe that Sarah has to pick her spots better, be more opportune, know when to engage and to know when to refrain from any interaction. Look, I'm not saying that Sarah should become standoffish-no way, no how. But there is a middle ground. And I believe it would be in Sarah's best interest to find it.
That is why IMHO she needs handlers around her to prevent these type of incidents occurring again or to prevent her from facing these scenarios. I'm sure glad this happened 2 years from primary season and not in the fall 2011. And fortunately this tendency is correctable and preventable.
Fortunately Sarah has the big 3 in spades: charisma, fundraising super-ability and eloquence which are not correctable. Pawlenty, Romney, and Huckabee would sell their soul to the devil to even have 2 out the 3.
For those of you who have forgotten or are not aware of it Steve Schmidt at the University of Delaware several months ago disclosed he knew on Sept 16 (Lehman Brothers collapse and bankruptcy) that McCain would lose the election and that he told McCain his thoughts. Schmidt should have resigned or McCain should have forced him out but as we know it didn't happen.
Every event, strategy and decision in the campaign should be seen through this prism, including the Couric interview, the decision not to 'use' Reverend Jeremiah Wright against Obama, and the post-election bashing of Sarah Palin by anonymous sources.
My Humble Opinion...Let Sarah Be Sarah!
Our friend Alex Knepper over at race42012.com is trying to stir the pot regarding a comment that Sarah made to Greta in her interview with her saying to the effect if after reading her book and learning her positions a reader or voter still holds out voting for her then, "So be it, if I can't please them, I can't please them. I'M NOT GOING TO TRY. I'm not going to change who I am or compromise my positions, my values, in order to placate or to try to get some demographic or some group of people on board with me if they just don't get it."
MY RESPONSE AT RACE42012.COM:
Sarah gave an honest assessment of offer and acceptance which is the basis of any contractual arrangement.
If what Sarah offers is not acceptable, there is no bargain and simply no sale or what lawyers call CONSIDERATION.
I used to be in direct sales. For those of you who are not familiar with the intricacies of direct sales here's how it works. A sales rep's job is to beat the bushes (businesses/private residences/institutions) in an attempt to market/sell a product or a service to a POTENTIAL CUSTOMER/CLIENT and in return receives from the purchaser some money (debit/credit card) and /or signs a contract to pay a certain amount each month (installments). This is called free enterprise. Millions of transactions in America like this happen every day.
As a sales rep who works in the field and who approaches potential customers/clients as politicians do on the campaign trail while engaged you soon learn you only have 24 hours in the day; that you have to sleep, and that your prospects are only avaiable for certain hours of the day or evening. In my case, I usually started my day at around 3 PM and knocked off at around 9-9:30 in the evening. You soon learn not to waste your time talking to folks who have no interest or need in what you are selling. In other words through trial and error and experience you learn to manage your time efficiently and try your best to be always in front of legitimate prospects; after a while you figure out through osmosis and personal observation who a real prospect is.
Quite simply Alex, Sarah recognizes who a prospect is and who is likely NOT a prospect. There is nothing stupid, ill-advised or outrageous about dealing with politics in this manner. Why do you think the Going Rogue Tour is avoiding NYC, SF, Boston etc.-the bigger markets and why Sarah has decided to sign books in smaller town and cities. Alex, this is where the rubber meets the road: Sarah has a higher likelihood of convincing independent conservative fence-sitters in the Ozarks of Missouri to vote for her than the liberal folks that live in the gay section of San Francisco.
You act like Sarah committed the worst sin imaginable. C'mon, let's get real. Some will, some won't, so what. Deal with it and move on. Do you really believe that a flaming lib who reads HuffPo every day and relishes every moment that Sarah is made to look stupid or foolish is a likely prospect to vote Palin in 2012?
Techno, your comment agrees with my own observation from the book: Sarah can be too nice for her own good. She tolerated insubordination and incompetence in her government when she should have fired the people involved much, much sooner.
loving the book on chapter 3.
Sarah should go on CNN, ( wolf blitzer ) and today show to wrap up her interviews. She might want to go on leno too.
And how did this stupid little incident hurt Sarah? I'm not sure I follow your logic. The leftwing haters will hate her no matter what. She did nothing wrong. Just my opinion.
The post game commentaries by Schmidt at the U. of Delaware are instructive, because they really do frame the debate,she gave glowing recommendation about Schmidt's skills, but then
it seems after the Villages and Grand Rapids, September 15-17, the wheels came off the campaign, they curtailed her contacts back home, including that famous moment chronicled in one of her tribute videos 'and then she was gone' they put her in a gilded cage, and served her up to Couric. One would even wonder if the campaign had fallen off the rails earlier, scheduling an event, the same day she sends her son of to war.
Everytime she mentioned "headquarters"...I keeped getting that image of the intro from "Get Smart"...
Phonebooth and then all those darn doors he had to go through...
Wollf Blitzer,,,hmmm....I think Sarah said she like his mother. (that's in the book).
<span>Everytime she mentioned "headquarters"...I can't get..."Get Smart"and all those darn doors...out of my head!</span>
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I'm not talking about hurting her with the LEFT or the hatred of the LEFT. What I'm talking about is the role that she seeks to assume. Read my post regarding what Sarah said about voters not agreeing with her after reading her book and from that you can surmise that she is running. A private citizen doesn't care about whether she gets votes or not.
There is a certain demeanor that any Presidential candidate has to assume. It goes with the territory That was what I was addressing. If you notice I did not focus on the original incident, mocking Sarah, as most Leftists have tended to do, especially at HuffPo. It was at the loading dock that I had issue with. IMHO, Sarah is a bit too accommodating. This was an example.
But let me repeat my focus on the 'loading dock' is NOT the Far Left; it is how Sarah should conduct herself as a future Presidential candidate. She has to become more guarded in making extemporaneous comments of this sort IMHO.
I journey over there everyonce in a while, Bob, and I'm struck really not by the Sarah phobia there, but the lack of conservative principles seemingly. That is the clincher for me,
WHy? I think all the interviews got very repetitive. Very view were about the book. HEck for the most part the 1st 3 chapters didn't exists and much was left out of the 4th.
That said if she did that is fine. She holds the cards with them. She could say she has to approve editing and only questions on the book to include the non-asks from 1-3. They can tell her no and it will be fine. They need her for ratings not the other way around.
Agree, They are 20% of population.
you make a good point. she can't risk being overexposed.
A few days ago I was over Ace's website and that Obama quote from his book was there. I read it and then posted a comment that I read it in Palin's book, but then I checked the book and I couldn't find it. I posted a follow-up note that I could not find it in her book. What happened was that I read it on Slate around the same time as reading Sarah's book (ch.1), and misattributed to Sarah's book because there was an apartment mentioned. Then I took a closer look and noticed it was attributed to "Dreams.." and then smiled at my mistake.
The funniest thing is that when I write nowadays, I have to double-check for unfinished sentences or runons. I suspect it is because I am getting older and cannot write with one pass like I could 15 years ago. I need a good stimulant to get in the zone sometimes.
They gave up after the liquidity freeze and mortgage meltdown. Sarah did not. Then, Schmidt decided to blame Sarah to CYA. Wallace did the same. Putting her on Couric with THAT much time and ability to edit was in fact a backstab and totally unprofessional move by the campaign. Wallace is not even a conservative but an elitist and left of center.
Schmidt gave up and was probably burning out due to micromanaging too much in areas that didn't need it.
At least Leno would probably not go after her kids like Letterman.
It was a trick question to evoke a response that supposedly was consistent with Sarah's level of intelligence to fit with the stereotype.
I only had to reach the paragraph once to realize that Sarah did not write it. Sarah writes with elegance and panache. That prose was lumbering and prosaic.
Greta, specially the second half, and O'Reilly were the better on the video side, with Rush and Miller on the radio side, Walters had her moments, but there was too much on the one who shouldn't be named, who deserves the fate of Rurapenti, from the UnDiscovered Country, (that was filmed in Alaska)
I agree. She sometimes is too nice to the enemy. At some point, she will need to be not ruthless, but decisive and wiley at the same time.
We can tell from the past news from her time as governor and reading her book that Bitney probably should have been replaced sooner or not hired for the legislative liasion position because it just wasn't working out.
She will need a good CofS and even if she struggles with it, a mindset that will distance her operationally from the average Americans but still have them in her heart for all her decisions.
You cannot shake the hand of all 300 million Americans, but we can understand why she wants to.
You can be good and warm, but when the time comes alert and efficient in your actions.
Right. But, with a couple people watching out too, like escort ships guarding the carrier in a battle group.
narciso:
I disagree with you on Bawa. I believe of all the interviews that was the most defining one. It was the interview that Sarah used bullcrap and backasswards and that she rated Obama a 4 out of 10 and gave a pointed assessment of his administration. And it was the interview in which she was the most serious, smiled less and displayed the most gravitas in. And it happened to be the one with the most upside potential (security/soccer moms). Watch the Bawa interview again and pay special attention to her guarded facial expression and how slowly she speaks and then compare it the upbeat Hannity interview-a major difference.
I try to make this point to people who express doubts and lack hope in Sarah because they see something mean in the media.
I tell them that there are 40% of this country will NEVER vote for her. And, she should not water her conservative vision down to attract that 40% since it would pull her to the left policywise and NOT get their vote anyway. That is the mistake that McCain and L. Graham make continuously. They don't understand the 20% hardcore leftists or the 20% on top of that who are not as doctrinaire but benefit in some way from big government, etc.
One thing you notice about the people on Race42012 is that they are pretty out-of-touch with anything outside the beltway. Many of them are mushy moderates who lack principles. They are like Kerenskyites replacing the Czar in Russia but still fighting the war when it was not as popular and destroying Russia's economy, etc. leading to the Bolsheviks coming in.
Don't worry about Slate or DKOS. Fight them, but don't think that they are 60% of the country. They are not.
If that crowd was the majority, do you really think Obama/Pelosi/Reid would be having this much trouble passing the worst piece of legislation to ever come out Congress?
What I think Governor Palin should do is go on Conan. Letterman is hammering him in the ratings and nothing would annoy Dave more then Conan beating him in the ratings with 'The Cuda'
Yep. Why step in it when you can step over it.
Right now, Palin's operation is run by a few people, and it's run reasonably well for a book tour, but one of the things I don't detect is an actual "campaign manager/Chief of Staff". This isn't like running for Mayor of Wassilla.
The Canadian thing is a minor dustup that's grist for Kos, but little more than that. Sarah genuinely enjoys engaging the public. That can be turned against her. Only the detached and ruthless eye of a campaign manager can take Sarah's native cunning and natural political talent and harness it to a national purpose. Candidates can never do this alone.
That is exactly why I am bringing it up now. This is only a minor dustup now, but it's Sarah's future political habit of engagement over the next 2 years I'm more concerned about.
No, at least any time soon, we are amusing ourself to death, in Postman's immortal phrase. Her instincts were probably right to try to blot out the Fey caricature, but then again some of the things, they insinuated in their
skits, justifiably gave her pause. I guess she had to do Oprah, and thankfully Walters didn't ask her 'what kind of tree she would be'. The idea that Gibson couldn't understand that allowing her son to go to Iraq, indicated she knew
full well the meaning of the Bush Doctrine, is a signal misunderstanding of what constitutes wisdom and judgement
I would expect that Sarah's comments to Greta would draw a negative response from the RINO's. After all, she really set herself apart from the 2012 field with those comments.
This will be a major primary issue, and is a true dividing line between the Palinistas and thr RINO's. The RINO's are constantly telling us that the GOP needs to change or modify their principles to attract various demographic groups, whereas Sarah is stressing the need to sell Common Sense Conservatism and the values expressed in the GOP platform. She knows where her potential voters are.
IMHO, the 2012 primary battles will largely be fought over this issue.
And now for something totally different.
Eric Holder is determined that the US should be disarmed even though poll after poll shows americans love their 2nd Amendment. (Makes his cronies' jobs lots easier down the road.) Take the quick quiz at USA Today regarding guns.
http://tinyurl.com/yh37ggw
But did you notice other than Oprah and Bawa that every other interview were interviews that Sarah should have done in the first days of the campaign and which I criticized the McCain campaign for not allowing Sarah the opportunity to do on Draft Sarah Palin for VP. I thought it was a crazy, idiotic decision at the time and with Sarah's poll numbers improving dramatically over the last week by appearing on right-wing radio and TV I rest my case.
Not allowing Sarah to be interviewed by Rush Limbaugh, who has 20m listeners is just so asinine. McCain really must hate Rush.
What I really thought was great about the comment is that she staked out a position, come hell or high water with conservatives. What you see is what you get. IMHO, millions of conservative and rank and file of the GOP are tired of the sucking up, consensus-building, bipartisanship, and compromising that goes on in Washington.
What Sarah subliminally is telling them is if you don't vote for me as a conservative, you have nobody to blame but yourselves if you saddle yourself again with RINO's. It's time to put up or shut up. I have a hunch that Sarah is going to win this battle for the hearts and minds of conservatives.
I can imagine that some time in the near or distant future. Dave's Palin-hate won't go away.
Look let this be a lesson that even poor Charmin' Charlie, is discovering, the media will go along when you skewer Republicans, but ultimately their sympathy is with the Democrats, and they will cut you down at the appointed time
The Sarah 'remark of the day' on Thursday morning that shows she is really down-to-earth is when she quipped with her Aunt Katie about 'doing non-traditional' Thanksgiving by going to Quiznos for dinner.
In essence, Palin needs a "n*tcutter," like Rove, or Emanuel. A rabid dog that'll be out front so Palin can stay above the fray.
I didn't follow Knepper's argument. I think Tommy Report posted over there what I was thinking: Palin's putting her ideas out there and if after hearing them some people still don't like them or her then she's going to leave them behind. She's not going to tailor her views to placate a certain voting block. I don't know what the hell A. Knepper was talking about. I rather enjoy a politician not compromising her principles just for a few crumbs.
I agree. Even her voice tone was different. And a non-issue but she was even more stunningly pretty in this interview.
It does not give me any pleasure to report this but apparently what caused the accident was just prior to the accident Tiger Woods was involved in a 'domestic dispute' with his wife.
Wow, I could not disagree more. If she hires someone like Emmanuel, I would lose a lot of respect for her. This isn't a game. This isn't like Obama's smoke and mirrors routine. Bamboozle them, win at all costs. IMHO, Sarah would not want to win that way. She already told radio hosts that she wondered if Americans would be ready for the kind of campaign she would run, without big-name consultants.
I think Sarah will do it her way ... she will hire people with integrity and intelligence.
An interesting observation by mamagetsamini at HA:
"This incident (the gatecrashers at the WH) is getting more media scrutiny than the Fort Hood shooting."
Exactly. Some people are saying Sarah's book is a "she said/he said" about the campaign. So, there's not much independent evidence to decide one way or the other. Not true. Some things we all KNOW. We KNOW she did few interviews last year. We KNOW she is doing many now. We KNOW she is running the show now. We KNOW her poll numbers are going up now.
I just voted. Nearly 4.6 Million votes and 97% YES.
Hmmm. I guess you mean Charlie Crist?
or he hates himself
I agree to a certain extent, however, I don't think Sarah's going to change, so it's kinda pointless.
I miss Lee Atwater.
OH LORDY! Tiger's Wife may have beat him with the golf club...injuries were not from accident but from his clubs....OUCH! This according to TMZ...
I may never play golf again!...
That whole Bush Doctrine thing cracked me up. I follow politics and when Gibson asked that I went, "Bush Doctrine. There's a Bush Doctrine?"
It's not like there's a textbook definition. So some media types have called different things the Bush Doctrine. Are they really so arrogant that they think if they say that's what it is then that's what it is?
The whole thing was just stupid.
Is what she said to Greta really any different from this:
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.
Ronald Reagan, 1975
She's not saying she'll just totally ignore others, but she's saying she's not going to change her principles to suit them. She's not going to start calling for higher spending if that will get her more moderates. She's not going to become pro-choice if that will attract more indepenet women. It doesn't mean she won't listen to them or take concerns into account, but she's not going to just look at polls and then decide what her positions are. What's the big deal? All the good leaders do just that.
I disagree with you that what Palin did was a bad thing, but what I see in her is the tendency to reach out to everyone, even her detractors.
But hey, I have new policy I adhere to. I never give advice to the Governor. She does well enough by herself without my input, I think.
I will comment on something you said though that bears further thought. Huckabee does possess all three of those attributes you mentioned, perhaps in lesser degrees, but he possess them. How do you think he was able to win Iowa? How do you think he came in second with Romney in the Republican primaries? I was once a Huckabee supporter myself. I know how convincing he can make himself sound, and how well he can appeal to social conservatives. He may be the one person who can derail a Palin nomination for the GOP. I don't say this lightly. He must be taken seriously as a potential threat.
To be honest, McCain never has particularly liked Rush, given what the latter said about him.
Huckabee lacks the ability to raise a boatload of money. I'll concede eloquence but I wouldn't put him in high in the charisma charts-somewhere in the middle.
Guest:
The big deal is this 2009 and 99% of the current politicians do not think in those terms. Here is what the modern politician, Democrat or Republican is taught (call it politics 101 in 2009):
1) pander to whoever you have to to get votes
2) identity politics must be uppermost in your political strategy
3) we can't win without the Hispanic vote
4) be flexible to accommodate diverse groups
5) don't offend anybody by your policy positions
6) larger government is modern reality
7) assume specific positions based on polls or feedback
8) war is to managed efficiently; triumph is passe
9) the practicality of the nanny state
10) secular humanism is the dominant culture in a pluralistic, multi-cultural America
TMZ is reporting that Tiger got the facial lacerations from Elin scratching him and that what caused the car accident was Elin taking a golf club as Tiger was 'fleeing' to the car and smashing it causing Tiger to become 'distracted', thus running into the fire hydrant and tree. In addition he said he was on a prescription medication that explains his grogginess after the accident.
Quite honestly I love Tiger Woods but I live by the rule it is what it is. This will be all over the Enquirer and the tabloids and the entertainment shows; this is the one story that could get Sarah off the front pages.
Don't get me wrong. Folks will stand in line as always to get their books signed and she will sell just as many books but next week at least for awhile the focus on the media won't be on Obama or her.
I feel bad for Tiger. He's going to get a dose of what Sarah has gone through in the last 14 months and it won't be pretty.
The nightime comedians and SNL are going to have a field day with this material, I'm sorry to say.
John Ziegler, who is a big Tiger fan, must be in mourning today.
Believe me if this kind of incident had happened in the Sarah Palin family you would not hear the end to it.
This is a signal to all superstars out there, even you Sarah, once the celeb-media gets ahold of a story like this it goes not only viral but super-viral. Sarah, just remember there 10,000 bloodsuckers out there ready to take you down at a moment's notice, just like they will try to do to Tiger now.
And that is truly chilling.....
It is entertaining that news has been saying that she "broke the REAR window of the SUV with a golf club to help him escape the wrecked vehicle....."
This story has political implication in the sense that in this world of 24/7 media and the tabloidization of the news there is no way any management group (IMG in this case) is going to be able to spin the truth for long. There are just too many bloodsuckers out there; it just takes one to pay off the right person, put it on the Internet and then let it go super-viral.
Having said that Obama was shielded by the MSM during the campaign but really what helped him out greatly is a combination of McCain making the outrageous statement that Obama was qualified to be POTUS and that the American people had nothing to be scared of with him in the WH and the portrayal of Sarah Palin as stupid or crazy, take your pick.
Now with the campaign over in the past 10 months you are now seeing cracks in his facade. Nobody cares anymore what McCain thinks of Obama and Sarah over time has been more pointed and vigorous in her opposition to Obama's agenda and personal actions and decisions, especially after she resigned in July, registering body blow after body blow.
And with the Going Rogue tour we have a piece written by Peggy Noonan in the WSJ (I posted about it in an earlier thread) in which she surmises that the liberal elites are not as enamored with the Messiah as they once were; Peggy cites recent articles by Elizabeth Drew and Leslie Gelb to prove her point. Interestingly this coincides with the Palin interviews in which she performed brilliantly and demonstrated to many Americans that she is not the clueless unsophisticated bimbo that the MSM and the entertainment industry have made her out to be. And with that is the extrapolation that Obama may not be as smart as the liberal elites tell us he is. His disaster as POTUS is living proof of that possibility.
I don't believe in coincidence. But I do believe in the zero-sum theory: when someone rises, someone falls.
By the way there is now a poll over at Youpolls placing Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin in a head to head matchup because of a story that broke that some folks want the former VP to run in 2012:
Current results:
Cheney 26%
Palin 74%
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=6550
Remember this is a three-phase approach. First is the book tour, whose purpose is to connect with people and get her story out. Being nice to everybody isn't a problem now, and it may be an asset.
She might shoot him from a helicopter.
They did give up after the economic meltdown and McCain suspended campaigning. I still think they could have pulled it out even after he voted for TARP. But McCain could never articulate anything about the economy that made any sense. He couldn't tell American how it was going to be better. Then congress porked up TARP and we were back where we started with the Republicans not saying anything about that, even McCain. Sarah could have explained it, but then her hands were tied by Headquarters. This was the perfect time to explain about all the corruption that was going on because it was pretty visible by then. Another opportunity lost. Never, ever vote for folks who have been gaming the system for way too many years by way of their service in the Senate or the House. They make terrible presidents.
We were left with McCain who couldn't explain anything and Obama who lied. It is the economy, stupid, and we will be suffering for quite a while.
This as opposed to Obama who spent 2 years pretending to be a moderate.
You are right about raising money, but then again he doesn't need to raise as much as his opponents, he derailed Romney running a relatively frugal campaign despite the latter's own peronal fortune.
He shouldn't be underestimated, nor overestimated. Sarah Palin can win head to head with him, but he can possibly split the vote just enough for Romeny to win. It's a legitimate possiblity, and something that should be accounted for.
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