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Sarah Palin for President

With the news that Michael Steele is becoming the next RNC Chairman with Newt backing him up, Palin is the ideal person to energize the party for 2012!

By: Josh LeGuern (Diary)  |  November 11th, 2008 at 05:33 PM  | 

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Is Sarah Palin a national policy lightweight? Yes. Does she have the right instincts to develop a strong national policy and campaign? Absolutely. I don’t know if it’s going to be in 2012, 2016 or beyond, but I am more than certain that the Republican Party will be the party to put a woman in the White House for the first time and I’m pretty sure that woman will be Gov. Sarah Palin.


As long as she shows herself to have a fluency on national issues by time the primary campaign rolls around mid-2011, I’d be more than open for Palin to take the reigns, nationally. What do you think?

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  • 10ksnooker

    You want lightweight, you got lightweight in Obama-Biden and Obamunism. Show me one thing either has done, policy or otherwisae, except lie about what they didn’t do.

    Gov Palin only needs to bide her time and decide whether she wants to do it. She can sit right where she is until 2011. By then the real lightweight will still be struggling with the depression ‘the creepy creature’ caused and America will want real change.

  • NightTwister

    Too early.

    Work local for a couple of years, that’s what I plan to do.

  • civil_truth

    Oh you mean 2012 or 2016: much too early to start that campaign.

    Let’s at least get past the 2010 elections before we start having to think about the next Presidential campaign. And if we don’t do something to stop our Congressional bleeding problem, we’re in serious trouble for 2012 regardless.

    Don’t mistake me: Sarah’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the picture can change dramatically in four years. I mean, where was Obama on the political radar four years ago?

  • Josh_Painter

    but like any other governor plucked from the confines of her comfortable state duties at the last minute, she could use some policy mentoring (I recommend Fred Thompson for the job).

    Forget Joe Biden’s gaffes like 3-letter words and asking poor Chuck to stand up. What’s really troubling about the vice-president-elect is his real goofiness about foreign policy. He wanted to partition Iraq, remember, along sectarian lines – something rejected out of hand by the country’s leaders. And Biden also thought it might be a good idea to send, no strings alttached, a check for no less than $200 million to those Iranian “Arabs” to show them that they don’t have to hate us after all.

    Compared to that kind of thinking by an alleged foreign policy “expert”, Palin is indeed a breath of fresh air. She’s smart, and by 2010, when she will have to prove herself capable of being a national leader, she’ll be ready.

    • JP
  • TrillaFromWasilla

    As a youngish Conservative business woman, with 2 children at college, and as a war widow, I say NO. We have many truly competent women who could go for the white house but Mrs Palin is not one of them. If she was on the ticket I would not vote.
    Sure she was a thrill in an otherwise awful campaign, but she is too ignorant, to divisive and far to self centered to represent true conservative. Her family is not what I would expect from a Conservative family, they are high school drop outs, and the 17 year old is pregnant outside marriage. So much for abstinence. So much for family values and discipline.

    [...and this is where they always flub it. The Left has always had a bug up its nose about the way that the so-cons refused to stone a 17 year old for getting pregnant. It infuriates them, as you can see here. - Moe Lane]

    • mom2oneson

      Her daughter is pregnant, that could happen to anyone with adult children. I disagreed with her announcing and it and with her having the boyfriend on stage but the fact that her daughter is pregnant has nothing to do with her being conservative. Young adults don’t always think but they are still good kids. Sometimes the best growing up they do is after dealing with their actions. Honestly except for sending her to a convent how you can prevent a young adult from getting pregnant? She is marrying the father and raising the child, the girl has younger siblings so she is used to mothering already. The Palins have extended family too who will also be there for the young family.

      I thought she used the public schools in Alaska? I know they have a public school at home program. I thought I saw a reference once that she used that, not sure.

      • Moe_Lane

        Hit refresh. :)

        • mom2oneson

          :)

          • redeagle

            I think what Palin and all the Repuclicans should really encourage and praise the Democrats when we think they are wrong and then we will have the right to go after their policies. It is too time consuming to go after their personalities now.
            Anyway, think about this.
            This bugs me:
            1. Palin is getting us natural gas-
            2. I say a special on Greta and Alaska has much oil, natural gas, and wind and the Alaskan people want to go for these.
            3. Now here is the corker-Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Gore, Hollywood have cried no more oil-we do not need it. Yet, they now are telling Bush to bail out the big 3 three-Why? what is the use.
            4. Who is going to buy SUV’s, big trucks, most American cars as they realse carbon.
            5. So we bail them out, no one buys their cars because Congress, and especially the Democrats and Obama, say they are going to build a grid for electric cars (which cannot be powered in mass numbers as we do not have eneough electiricty. The grid is to replace oil guzzling vehicles.
            6. Think about this.
            7. Obama has just said that he will again put in the moratorium on drilling.
            Why give the 3 big auto makers billions when no one will, or according to Al gore, drive them
            Am I missing something here. I am confused.

          • redeagle

            I just posted a comment and I meant to say we should praise the Democrats when we feel they are doing good for our country so we earn the right to go after their policies. I really have been missing some sleep as I am worried and confused with all these bail outs.

  • sc_leeann

    Sarah Palin is a true conservative and a real person. She ignited the Republican base and attracted huge crowds. I think she is the reason the Republican ticket did so well.

    Looking forward, Sarah Palin will at the very least be a force to be reckoned with in the Republican party. I would love to see her run for president. She is an energy expert and has principles by which she lives her life.

  • even_steven

    I love my wife and she is a great person, but she would make an awful president.

    You may ‘love’ Sarah Palin, but she’d also make a lousy president for the same reason — she’s not smart enough.

    Being smart isn’t just knowing facts, it’s about having the judgment to know what your saying is foolish or not.

    If Sarah Palin were smart enough to be president, when asked about her foreign policy experience, she would have said “I don’t have a lot of foreign policy experience, but I also didn’t have a lot of experience when I became governor of Alaska and that’s worked out pretty well. I’m a fast learner, and I realize this is a problem, but I will work hard to become the best vice president in the same way I worked hard to be governor of Alaska”. This answer both recognizes the facts as well as gives hope why it won’t be such a big problem — in other words, a smart answer.

    Instead, she said “I can see Russia from Alaska”. This is a dumb answer. And she repated it over and over again, which makes it dumber and dumber.

    Remember also, that she had plenty of time to anticipate this question and still gave a ridiculous answer — that is just plain stupid, and your love of her won’t change that.

    There are a million things I don’t know, but if you ask me a question I don’t know, I don’t create an answer that is going to make me look like an idiot.

  • Rod_Patrick

    But who really knows what really holds on by 2012.

    4 years is enough for a person to change from an ugly duckling into a full swan.

    Let’s see!