Avinash_Tyagi said:
Gnizmo said:
madskillz said:
I don't think so, folks. Her duties as governor of the biggest state in the Union were getting in the way of politics. She actually has a good chance of getting the GOP nod. I mean, she's not a Dem, who rarely re-run a loser.
Personally, I know the GOP can't wait to see her hotness grace stages and Tea Parties. Tea bagging with Sarah Palin - I'm totally there.
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Her political career is absolutely dead after this move. Who would vote for a president that could quit half-way through the term? More over we are probably about to catch wind of a huge scandal. Quietly resigning on a Friday before a holiday week-end is extremely suspicious. She got busted for doing something, and is now quickly making a graceful exit.
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I don't think it will matter much to her supporters, who we saw in the 2008 election, are the far right wing of the GOP, they'll follow her, they won't follow someone like Romney because he's a mormon or Jindal because he's brown, but they'll fall in line behind Caribou Barbie.
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That's the beauty of the two-party system. However distasteful the Republican candidate is, the Hard Right have no other choice except to let the Democrat win. None. If they promote a 3rd party, the Democrats rally around and crush them on the split vote.
The problem is that the Republicans often fail to recognize this in the primary season, and vote for the guy who's best at pleasing them, and not best at pleasing joe everyman. That's why the Democrats were able to come out of the woods they got lost in between 1968 and the mid '90s: they realized that their candidates needed to be more dynamic, and not necessarily beholden to the core values of the party. That's why we got people like Bill Clinton, the destroyer of welfare, or Barack Obama, who won't positively commit to an absolute right to gay marriage.