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11/18/2009 01:48:34 PM · #1
I know she never officially mentioned if she is going to or not going to run.

My questions is why do people think she is a viable option? What would make her qualified? What positive change could she bring?

Just a background on my political views so folks know Im not just trying to bash her but actually looking for other opinions.
-I voted for Obama, I would consider myself a moderate liberal.
-Im not a 100% believer in Global Warmning, but I think we should conserve wherever we can regardless.
-I don't oppose the wars we are in, I just think Bush mismanaged them in the worst ways.
-I am agnostic leaning towards Athiest.

There it is... what are your thoughts?
11/18/2009 01:53:49 PM · #2
Something like 40% of Republicans want her for the 2012 GOP nominee, and 100% of Democrats want her to be the GOP nominee.
11/18/2009 02:00:35 PM · #3
I don't think she is a viable option but the GOP's other options havn't been so great either.

She has some level of charm going for her IMO, but the folksy talk(no matter how genuine) comes across as silly.

LOL @ Scarbrd :)

100% of Tina Feys want her to be the GOP nominee.
11/18/2009 02:23:25 PM · #4
Apparently her ex "son in law" (of sorts) has some crazy stuff, that if he ever drops it, it will be the end of her political career.
11/18/2009 02:26:17 PM · #5
Editorial cartoon
11/18/2009 02:26:55 PM · #6
Originally posted by AJSullivan:

Apparently her ex "son in law" (of sorts) has some crazy stuff, that if he ever drops it, it will be the end of her political career.


So is it wrong for me (in Scarbrd's 60% republican category) to want him to share?

I didn't like McCain or Obama.

Palin scares me.
11/18/2009 02:35:22 PM · #7
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Editorial cartoon

Good one; I like political cartoons that can be appreciated by "either side."

As for the almost-son-in-law (Levi Johnston), I'm curious to see his upcoming Playgirl spread -- mostly for lighting tips, etc. :-)
11/18/2009 02:38:34 PM · #8
Originally posted by karmat:

Originally posted by AJSullivan:

Apparently her ex "son in law" (of sorts) has some crazy stuff, that if he ever drops it, it will be the end of her political career.


So is it wrong for me (in Scarbrd's 60% republican category) to want him to share?

I didn't like McCain or Obama.

Palin scares me.


Haha, I would love to hear it to, because she is no longer a politician in my eyes, but a pseudo celeb like Paris Hilton.
11/18/2009 02:45:56 PM · #9
Honestly, Palin is like Obama. Little experience but gets a crowd fired up and has elevated herself to rockstar status.

I'd rather not see her run. We don't need a rockstar with little experience running the country. We need someone that can make tough decisions, understand economics, and not divide people.
11/18/2009 02:46:43 PM · #10
Originally posted by NVPhoto:

My questions is why do people think she is a viable option? What would make her qualified? What positive change could she bring?

*shrugs*

She's a hardcore neo-con, and she's a she. That makes her a viable option for hardcore neo-cons (they probably forgive the part about her being a her, since they might naively assume that gives her some appeal to women as well). Her time as Alaska's governor has, at least, exposed her to politics. I'm sure there are more than a few in the Republican Party who feel the 2008 presidential campaign gave her some legitimacy as a political figure.

Positive change? I guess it would depend on your ideology. In my case, I think she represents a fatal step backwards.
11/18/2009 03:03:48 PM · #11
Originally posted by citymars:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Editorial cartoon

Good one; I like political cartoons that can be appreciated by "either side."

As for the almost-son-in-law (Levi Johnston), I'm curious to see his upcoming Playgirl spread -- mostly for lighting tips, etc. :-)


Did you see the special he just recently did on 60 minutes or something where they showed him SP's interview and he was talking shit about her and saying that SP is lying about everything...

I don't like McCain, Obama or Palin and Biden isn't anything special either. I could bash all 4 of them all day so I'm hoping that someone else really steps up and takes us into the right direction.
11/18/2009 03:21:42 PM · #12
Levi Johnston has had his 15 minutes. go away.
11/18/2009 03:28:15 PM · #13
Originally posted by mpeters:

Levi Johnston has had his 15 minutes.

Would that have been when Ms. Palin trotted him out on stage at the Republican Convention?
11/18/2009 03:43:45 PM · #14
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by mpeters:

Levi Johnston has had his 15 minutes.

Would that have been when Ms. Palin trotted him out on stage at the Republican Convention?

Lucky for him he was dragged kicking and screaming into a quasi-reality tv show. :)
11/18/2009 03:49:14 PM · #15
Originally posted by LoudDog:

Honestly, Palin is like Obama. Little experience but gets a crowd fired up and has elevated herself to rockstar status.

*Sigh* I can't wait until we get two solid years of this leading up to the next election.
11/19/2009 02:18:20 PM · #16
Palin... That's the woman who thinks that she can deal with Putin and Medvedev because from the tip of Alaska you can see Russia on a clear day. Right...

I think that she is the wet dream of all hawks in Washington. Somebody stupid enough to believe all the intelligence they made up and start another war or two to deflect the public's attention from the fact that the country is basically bankrupt.
11/23/2009 08:04:11 AM · #17
Someone like him will get my vote
11/23/2009 08:07:39 AM · #18
she does cause much amusement.
11/23/2009 04:19:19 PM · #19
Originally posted by vtruan:

Someone like him will get my vote


I like the first impression. We'll have to keep an eye on him.
11/23/2009 04:32:19 PM · #20
In regard to the posted video, I feel compelled to point put that if it was a Democratic candidate openly advocating insurgency and armed rebellion, the same people that are cheering this candidate would react in horror. I believe the words "anti-American" and "treason" would immediately enter the discourse.
11/23/2009 06:45:52 PM · #21
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:

In regard to the posted video, I feel compelled to point out...

Oh, you can point it out, but it will do no good. :-P
11/25/2009 10:27:58 AM · #22
//www.22minutes.com/

Ah, Marg Delahunty, God love ya....

Marg: "I just wanted to ask you if you had any words of encouragement for the Canadian conservatives who have worked so hard to try to diminish that socialized medicine we have up there"

Palin: "Keep the faith, 'cause that common sense conservatism can be plugged there in Canada, too. In fact, Canada needs to reform its' health care system, too, and let the private sector take over what the government has >inaudible<, so keep the faith".

ZOMG, no no no. See what I mean? A step backward.
11/25/2009 11:01:50 AM · #23
Speaking of 22 minutes, how the hell did Shaun Majumder wind up there?! He's just as awful as he was when he was doing man-in-the-street "comedy" on the Rogers community channel.

Carry on. :)
11/25/2009 04:19:55 PM · #24
Originally posted by farfel53:

Originally posted by vtruan:

Someone like him will get my vote


I like the first impression. We'll have to keep an eye on him.


Aside from rhetoric what did this guy actually say?

This is the problem today- no one has a plan, but they have a speech. And I am sure someone will say- Ron Paul had a plan- no he didn't he had talking points.

We expect nothing from our politicians and that is what we receive in return. We label people "liberal" "neo-con" "fascist" "democrat" "republican" and we throw those labels out at whenever we can. If it can't be said in ten or fifteen seconds we don't want to hear it.

Growing up I had a neighbor that was six years old living in Munich when Hitler came to power (1933), I can tell you he knew what fascism meant. These people walking around with pictures of Obama with a swastika across it have no idea what fascism and Nazism is, or was, I only know it from the stories he told my brother and I. He saw people pulled out into the street and beaten with clubs and whips because they had attended an anti-nazi rally- or people just plain disappearing because they attended a rally. Or a woman beaten because she rushed to a Jewish mans aide after a crowd had pulled him from his shop and beaten him.

Everything in American politics has become polarized. You have to be for or against something. There is no compromise. God forbid someone can't slap a label on you. And ClubJuggle is right if a "liberal" or "democrat" had given this speech six years ago- Fox news would splash him across the screen every fifteen minutes and Hannity would be calling him a "traitor." why- because labels are easy.

Teddy Roosevelt said it best: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

And that should apply to any politician.
11/25/2009 04:38:36 PM · #25


Palin is the face of our country's downfall. It surprises me how much ink and airtime someone so uneducated has amassed.
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