Does Sarah Palin really think she's a player for the Repub presidential nomination circa 2012?

[MoonRiver]

Poll question: Does Sarah Palin really think she's a player for the Repub presidential nomination circa 2012?

[chelsea0011]

1. Oh, she's running and has already the sexist LW doesn't practice what it preaches.

This is going to be her whole campaign...claim she is being treated unfairly because she is a woman and at the same time never offer andy policy solutions. Get ready for the long drone that started this week.

[tekisui]

2. Be still my heart. I simply cannot wait to watch her, Newt, Mittens and

others deliciously devour each other for the losing side of the 2012 election.

I cannot wait. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[MoonRiver]

4. Yep, it's gonna be delightful viewing!

:popcorn:

[Blue_In_AK]

3. She's being coy about her plans.

That means she definitely has them. I'm sure a lot will depend on whether or not the recent deal she made with Exxon to get her precious gas line built is successful or not. If she's got something "real" to point to she'll have a little more perceived heft, especially among the resource exploitation crowd, than otherwise.

[Clear Blue Sky]

5. The field is wide open, with no front runner.

[MoonRiver]

7. True, but I was asking what you think she thinks. eom

[Joe Bacon]

26. She "Thinks"?

Everytime that idiot opens her mouth she proves that her RAM plates need a serious overhaul!

[MoonRiver]

27. Ok, you got me.

That statement was definitely an oxymoron. Emphasis on moron.

[saltpoint]

33. Agree. Huckabee likely wants the nomination, but may feel that Obama is

unbeatable. Romney, even if he believes Obama is likely to be re-elected, still wants the nomination so badly that I'm certain he would roll a cement truck over his grandmother to get it. He inhabits the phrase 'desperate ambition.'

Palin thinks she is the frontrunner but her entire profile for almost a month has been her indignant huffiness over something David Letterman said on tv -- not exactly the context for redefinition of her Party, much less a rationale for voters' support.

Gingrich is a has-been. John Ensign? I don't really think so. Jeb? Not with that last name.

The Pukes got nothin' and a lot of it.

[asjr]

6. As long as the media cover her every

time she even thinks about farting, she will believe it.

[Andy823]

8. Yes she is deluded!

The "wacko" right base like her, don't ask me why, but they do. The only problem is that any one in the party with half a brain knows she doesn't stand a chance. The only way I see here getting the nomination is if the party knows they don't stand a chance, like last year, so instead of sacrificing anyone that might someday stand a chance, they let her run like they did McCain, knowing they aren't going to mess up someone else with potential's chances in 2016.

I really think the party is going to be divide come 2012 so bad that they won't know who to run, and may end up with a "new" party coming out of it. I think Ron Paul will run again also and that will help divide the party as well. So she may run, but only if things are so bad they just don't care anymore!

[southerncrone]

15. Went to one of my doctors yesterday, a Ron Paul supporter, & she

feels like he will definitely run again. Said the Libertarian Party is on the move, especially now that the Repukes are in such disarray. Libs are going to "seize the moment".

[Merlot]

17. I saw a "palan 2012" bumper sticker yesterday.

Wish I were kidding.

[BlooInBloo]

9. I'm not sure why you think republican voters *aren't* that stupid.

[MoonRiver]

10. I don't think I said that. eom

[BlooInBloo]

11. Good, since I didn't say you said that.

[MoonRiver]

14. Alright then!

:hi:

[HughBeaumont]

37. I for one am looking forward to her 2012 nomination.

It will be the biggest testimony to that very stupidity we so know and love.

Then again, 57 million people were stupid enough to put her a dying heartbeat away from the presidency in 2008. Luckily, the "stupid" was outweighed.

[Kalun D]

12. You forgot one choice

Yes she is a player and we wish her all the success in the world to become the repug nominee

cuz she don't stand an Alaskan snow-ball's chance in hades of beating Obama. You betcha.

[grytpype]

13. The crazy GOP base loves her. She could win primaries. The Presidency never.

[saltpoint]

16. She likely thinks she has a strong hand but the poker game will

become too rough real fast. She'll bow out after a thumping in the Iowa caucus.

She's a joke.

[MoonRiver]

18. I believe it will be the first debate that finishes her.

Not being the sharpest pencil, by a long shot, in the box, but definitely the loudest, will not bode well for that morAn. But, hey, I definitely wish her well in the primary! Maybe, just maybe, the GOP is stupid enough to nominate her. :evilgrin:

[saltpoint]

31. Hi, MoonRiver. Yes. I hope they do nominate her. It's possible that the

other stronger contenders -- Romney, Huckabee, etc. -- may have a cold hard look at the internals and realize that President Obama is likely not beatable.

If they conclude that Obama will easily win re-election, they may just step aside and let the fire-belching Far Right nominate Palin, rather than blow mounds of cash and reputation on the challenge.

Obama would crush her in the general.

[MoonRiver]

36. Good points, saltpoint.

I think the Thugs are looking for a charismatic enigma, who can galvanize the moderates and loonies. Good luck with that one! Huckabee might be the closest they have right now, but he is still far from appealing to the moderates.

[Milspec]

19. OMG Please, PLEASE

Please, be the nominee. PLEASE!!!!:crazy: :crazy: :toast:

[Optical.Catalyst]

20. Please Oh Please let it be Sarah Palin

That would be icing on the cake for President Obama's second term. I want the Republicans to put their blow up doll on the top of the ticket and then watch them crash and burn in a truly epic fail.

[MoonRiver]

21. Looking forward to a 95 (Obama) to 5 (Palin) megalandslide!

:woohoo::party::

[Optical.Catalyst]

22. I get goose bumps just thinking about it

[invictus]

23. The Palin VP candidacy is the biggest F-U McCain has ever given to his party.

nt

[MoonRiver]

25. But, but, it's a "mavericky" thing,

you wouldn't understand. :crazy:

[Boomerang Diddle]

24. Let's hope so!

Watching her debate the other Repug flunkies in their debates should be a hoot!

[IDemo]

28. I hope Tina Fey had no plans of retiring anytime soon

Without question she will pursue the nomination, and without question it will be comedy gold.

[masuki bance]

29. Yes, that's why the sleazy jokes are OK. nt

[emilyg]

30. Strange reasoning.

[saltpoint]

32. She's too far right and she's too far north

to win the Republican nomination in 2012.

Also, she's a governor of a state and has the attendant duties of any governor combined with an absurd zip code way, way, up in the northwest.

She's disconnected intellectually, as we readily attest, but she's also disconnected geopolitically. She essentially has no network on which to build an organization. Romney has one in place. So does Huckabee. Money and charm and previous contacts will get you everywhere in politics.

Palin is isolated in the way-up-there zone, plus she's demonstrably stupid. I'm not seeing that combination presenting any sort of meaningful run for the presidency. MoonRiver made an excellent point about how Palin would fare in the first caucus debate. It could very easily be her undoing, meaning that in less than an hour and a half, her race for the White House would be ended.

[beac]

34. What Palin fails to realize is that her rabid fanbase is just 20% of the 20% of

Americans who still self-identify as "Republicans"-- enough people to fill a stadium and feed her insatiable ego, but FAR short of the number needed to win her an election. Poor Sarah, math is hard.

Still, it will be delicious watching Newtie and Willard and the rest trying to find a way to kneecap her without getting the "Boo-hoo, you're a meany sexist!" treatment from her. :rofl:

[old mark]

35. I believe it is possible the GOP will nominate her - I am sure she will be in the primary.

They have no use for "moderates" or people of any intelligence or sense, and have few enough of those anyway. She gets big numbers - for a republican - and lots of media attention, even if it is negative.
If they don't nominate her, they will lose.
If they do nominate her, they will lose in historic numbers.


mark

[leftofthedial]

38. she's the fluff girl in the porno that is repuke politics

fluff girl

[SoCalDem]

39. Media will decide who runs and who wins

That said, SHE thinks she's the foregone choice, since she ran in '08. And she thinks the people love her.

Republicans don't pay all that much attention to substance. They always look for symbols and they love their fluff:)

It's the party of angry old white men (and their subservient wimminfolk), so she thinks she's a perfect fit.. The wimmin want to BE her, the men want to DO her:)