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Sarah Palin in 2012: Contender or Pretender?

Contender! 27 29.35%
 
Pretender! 44 47.83%
 
Sarah who? 6 6.52%
 
Candy!!! 15 16.30%
 
Total:92
zuvuyeay on 26 November 2010

if they want her in,she'll get in

also i don't agree with anything you say,nothing wrong with female leaders as long as they do the washing

and trump and arnie lmao



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Soleron on 26 November 2010
mrstickball said:
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Ask any Libertarian what they think about the Tea Party. 95% will tell you that its a sham. Better yet, check the 300 post thread on the Libertarian Party's Facebook page. It sums up what they feel about the TP.

I agree with that. I think a lot of people outside the US watch the Republican Party and think - Why don't Americans see that they'll just do what they always do when they get power?



chocoloco on 26 November 2010

I hope she runs so we can all laugh when she is destroyed by the obamanator.

The youth vote will be back in 2012, they only show up for presidential elections.



dsister on 26 November 2010

Go Bobby go!



Sig thanks to Saber! :D 

Mr Khan on 26 November 2010

Pretender. Palin's playing the money game, plain and simple. She could make more with a month full of speaking engagements right now than a whole year as President, and that counts out her books, top-rated TLC reality show, and anything else she can slap her name on

 

If she resigned from the Alaska governorship because things weren't going her way, how could she possibly want the pressures of the presidency? Even the most popular presidents had their dedicated foes in their day (like FDR or Reagan), and she's definitely not going to rally the nation like either of those two did

Hinting at a presidential run helps to hype her name in the short run, increasing her profit off this whole affair



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O-D-C on 26 November 2010

her daughter is hot though... so contender



Kasz216 on 26 November 2010

She would be a contender in the same way John Kerry was a contender.

There are few other options and their opponent is grossly unpopular.

Though they still don't stand a chance because they are even more unappealing.

 

If she wins it'll be fun to see if there are any more crazy ass conspiracies about her though like maybe a return of "Her daughter's baby is really her's and she made it retarded by flying around to campaign!"


That... was actually worse then the John McCain black lovechild conspiracy i think.



Kasz216 on 26 November 2010
mrstickball said:
Soleron said:
ramses01 said:
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Do not insult libertarians by calling a psychotic bimbo libertarian.  If you think she is libertarian then you don't know much about libertarianism.

This. The Tea Party's apparent message is one of small government, but the people behind it are far-right conservatives who wouldn't actually do that if they got in power. They'd push the tax cuts, religion, hawkish foreign policy and restriction of liberties like their predecessors, and be as financially responsible as Bush. Palin clearly falls in that category.

The biggest issue is her lack of intelligence and inability to admit differing viewpoints. To be an effective President you have to be pragmatic and centrist - I don't think she's capable.

Ask any Libertarian what they think about the Tea Party. 95% will tell you that its a sham. Better yet, check the 300 post thread on the Libertarian Party's Facebook page. It sums up what they feel about the TP.

Any true-blue Libertarian is going to tell you why they hate the GOP:

  • They don't like civil rights (gay marriage/unions, abortion, drugs)
  • They won't actually reduce the size of government (massive increases in federal spending since the Nixon-era, Bush's war and defense increases)
  • Libertarians are mostly non-interventionist for foreign military policy. Most have dissaproved of every American war since Korea.

    • And for the same reason, they will tell you that, for the same reasons, they dislike the tea party, because when it matters, it will be unlikely that the GOP will actually do whats needed to bring the government down to size. That is not saying that there aren't great GOP guys like Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, and Chris Christie when it comes to government...But the fact is, 60-70% of the GOP are still life-termers that want to pander to their consitituents with promises of government taking care of them, and are too fearful of making the difficult choices in order to fix America's problems.

    I agree and yet disagree.

    I think most (but not all) of the Tea Party are old school republicans vs neo-cons and a decent number of them will be forced to "stay" to those ideals, meaning the tea party generally won't be doing anything in congress because they won't have the leverage to make deals.

     

    There was a good chance for it to turn into a powerful libretarian party, the problem was the Democrats sabotaged it immediatly with the whole "They're racist" claim.

    Back before their idelogy jelled they would of accepted anyone right up to a gay black lesbaian who is an illegal immigrant, so long as they were for lowering the budget.

    They even supported Democratic candidates in the early going that were fiscally conservative.

    They never got the second half of the "fiscal conservative" branch to come over though.

    The reason they aren't more Libretarian is because not enough Libretarians came over back when they needed views to jell.

     

    I doubt they'll just be "same old" republicans though.  The GOP is spending waaaay to much money to specifically destroy them for that.



    rakugakist on 26 November 2010
    numonex said:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/25/AR2010112501593_2.html?hpid=topnews

    Article here from Washington Post. I hope it does not happen and a real Centre-Right Conservative is selected as the Republicans US Presidential candidate in 2012. 

    Sarah Palin is not a real Conservative. She is a crazy woman posing as a Republican. Palin has extreme views that are dangerous and divisive. Palin does not know anything about Foreign Policy and she is too ignorant to be President of America. 

    Being a conservative nation like America a man is needed as leader. Republican Party have guys like Donald Trump, Arnold Schwarzenegger and plenty of other guys who would do a good job as  US President. World Politics is serious business when you are dealing with Russia, China, Iran, France and all those other tricky nations. 

    I feel like you know nothing about politics.  I also like how your original post was quoted before you edited it.

    Pretty much everything you said is off base.  Also, Arnold or Trump doing a good job as president, hahahahaaha.



    iBlah on 26 November 2010
    non-gravity said:
    numonex said:

    World Politics is serious business when you are dealing with Russia, China, Iran, France and all those other tricky nations. 




    http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=120231&page=1&str=1724025978#

    they're tricky alright.