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News & ArtsWednesday, May 25, 2011
2012 Looks Like Sarah Palin Is Probably Running for President
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM
Sarah Palin is fortifying her small staff of advisers, buying a house in Arizona — where associates have said she could base a national campaign — and reviving her schedule of public appearances. The moves are the most concrete signals yet that Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, is seriously weighing a Republican presidential bid.
Combine this with the movie that Dan told you about this morning, and it looks pretty likely that the thrilla from Wasilla is going to jump in.
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As much as I'd like to cynically enjoy the comedy sure to come of this, there's still that scintilla of fear and terror that something could go horribly awry and she could win.
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As much as I want Obama to win, the fact that his likely challengers are all a bunch of wingnuts still scares the shit out of me. No matter how much they increase the odds of him winning reelection, the fact that this is what the other side offers us makes me ashamed to be an American. If anyone can offer any advice for an American loser (no degree, few if any skills, bad credit, only speaks English) who wants to emigrate, please help me now.
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You realize if the liberal tell her to run, thinking that this will help Mr. Tepid Flacid win, and she does instead, that all credibility (um, what's left of it) amongst liberals will go out the window.
No one thought dumbshit GW Bush could do it twice in a row. And there you have it.
No one thought dumbshit GW Bush could do it twice in a row. And there you have it.
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It should be entertaining, if painful, to watch the half of the McCain ticket that scuttled the campaign try to run on her idiot own. It takes a special kind of stupid to think that the idea of your being Vice President was so appalling that your running mate lost means that you should take a stab at being President.
@4, it's worth noting that a whole lot of people don't think Bush did it twice in a row, or even once.
@4, it's worth noting that a whole lot of people don't think Bush did it twice in a row, or even once.
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I don't know if God wants her to run for President (like conservatives generally claim), but I sure do.
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Establishment Republicans, the ones that never know whether to pander to the extremes or excoriate them, are going to have a very hard time with her.
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Of course she is. She has to to maintain her marketability through the next cycle. The scary part is, she has a chance of winning the primary (not a hope in hell of winning the general, but despite all the nay-sayers, she could be the nominee).
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Jesus fucking Christ, I actually had real hope there for a few weeks that she was actually out of the news cycle. GO AWAY STUPID LADY.
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I vote for a mass exodus. if enough of us pool our resources, we could buy a nice island in the mediterranean and declare ourselves a sovereign state. Who's with me?
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Good news. Obama can continue to capture the center with his moderate policies. The loony left (ie. Slog) will vote for him because palin terrifies them and moderate Republicans and independents will stick with Obama.
So enjoy being politically irrelevant Sloggers and we thank u for you vote!
So enjoy being politically irrelevant Sloggers and we thank u for you vote!
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She will not run. She is a grifter. She wants to keep her name in the news so she can make some more money.
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I can just hear her screeching to her team: "well if that David Cameron can get to be PM"
Team .o 0 (uh that's kind of a coalition with lapdog Nick Clegg of the Limp Dead, er Lib Dems but whatever)
Palin: "and if that Stevie Harpseal can get a majority in that... uh... darn it all, what's that land mass east and south of Alaska? You know, the one that borders the three oceans?"
Team . o 0 (thank Christ she is going to be an easy sell to the mass uneducated in our great land)
Palin: "then I should be able to get to be Prez, right? What's the current Prez got that I don't have?"
Team . o 0 (Good thing that's a rhetorical question)
Team .o 0 (uh that's kind of a coalition with lapdog Nick Clegg of the Limp Dead, er Lib Dems but whatever)
Palin: "and if that Stevie Harpseal can get a majority in that... uh... darn it all, what's that land mass east and south of Alaska? You know, the one that borders the three oceans?"
Team . o 0 (thank Christ she is going to be an easy sell to the mass uneducated in our great land)
Palin: "then I should be able to get to be Prez, right? What's the current Prez got that I don't have?"
Team . o 0 (Good thing that's a rhetorical question)
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@4: i think i get the gist of what you're saying, but everything you think is wrong &/or utterly implausible. plus you can't spell.
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She quit her last Gov job half-way through her term for no known reason other than grabbing the cash. This is just one of the many things that make her impossible to take seriously as a national candidate. The news cycle sure does lover her though, almost as much as Snooki.
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Charlie Sheen will be her running mate, making her look McCain-like. Sheen will own the next election cycle. #winning
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@ 20, that new movie is supposed to explain her resignation away somehow. I'm intrigued to see how it tries.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, YESSS!!! Oh, please little baby jeezuz, yes! Tina Fey will have a permanent guest spot on SNL next season. Win-win.
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@#20 barac spent his time as senator running for president and leaving his office for the same thing , only difference being he won. spread the crap evenly please or not at all . also remember this : no ever ever thought a nigger would make it to president either , but look who's knockin boot's in lincoln's bed . super negro !
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If she runs, she won't run to win, because being president is hard. Harder than being a governor, and she couldn't cut that, either. She'll run just hard enough to fill her PAC coffers to skim from.
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This is going to be so amazingly stupid. I can't wait.
Like Donald Trump, she's doing it for publicity. She knows she doesn't have a chance.
Like Donald Trump, she's doing it for publicity. She knows she doesn't have a chance.
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Palin/Bachmann 2012. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Jesus, if you make this happen, I will blow you. (But not if they win, obviously.)
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@25: President Obama left his senatorship after winning an election in order to serve the country. Mrs. Palin left her governorship after losing an election in order to get a book deal.
It's like the difference between dropping out of the University of Minnesota in order to go to MIT and dropping out of the U of M in order to work at McDonald's.
It's like the difference between dropping out of the University of Minnesota in order to go to MIT and dropping out of the U of M in order to work at McDonald's.
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Palin makes a career out of playing the poor victim. Nothing is her fault and lame-stream media just relentlessly attacks her "just cuz." She won't win, but she'll gather enough attacks against her to play her victim card for some time more. Maybe she'll get enough for another book deal. But nobody wants a victim for a leader.
My theory is that "the powers that be" in the GOP fully realize that they don't have any chance of winning in 2012, and are therefore allowing all wingnuts to make a go of it this election. That way, in 2016 the Republican front-runner will appear refreshingly sane.
My theory is that "the powers that be" in the GOP fully realize that they don't have any chance of winning in 2012, and are therefore allowing all wingnuts to make a go of it this election. That way, in 2016 the Republican front-runner will appear refreshingly sane.
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As much as people say Palin is over-exposed (and she is, to the nth degree), many liberals don't seem to have read any of the deep pieces on her and her coven of die-hard followers. Palin is, by all accounts, sincere in her convictions; if she sees herself as the huckster she is, it's almost certain that she sees herself a huckster for the cause. This is a woman who preferred reading messages from fellow "prayer warriors" than getting briefed on the issue of the day. People who've interpreted her resignation as an embrace of Palin the Profitable ignore Palin the Pious (Palin the Presidential), at their peril. She believes God and the ghost of Ronald Reagan want her to be President. I'd be more than happy to see her try and take on Obama. If she does, it'd be a national repudiation of movement conservatism that the wingnuts would take a decade or more to recover from.
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@25- I'd like you to notice how badly venomlash p0wned you @29.
@29- I'd say Governorship of Alaska is a little more like community college. Chicago's population is like four times the population.
@29- I'd say Governorship of Alaska is a little more like community college. Chicago's population is like four times the population.
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I struggle to imagine how she still has delusions of competency. I guess if the last republican president could do it...But seriously. Why does she even WANT to be president at this point? Doesn't she get how much more work it'd be than her current ghostwritten, easy life?
@32, pOwned?
@32, pOwned?
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if there was pwnage there i missed it . all i saw was a half hearted attempt at the facts . they both neglected the duly elected posts they won in favor of a much bigger game. barac won she didn't , but hey we wouldn't be having so much fun with blago with out the whole fiasco now would we ? from my point of view barac does not deserve re election , and none of the repub bobble heads they have out running right now even deserve air time let alone our time . clean the slate and start over on both sides please!
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Yay, we can expect more trite partisan analysis from Paul on this and other sideshows.
OTOH, if there's anything that will unite moderate former Republicans and apathetic Dems in a movement to the polls it's this bitch on the General Ticket. I once entertained the idea she was a Dem. plant or someone nudged, unwittingly, into playing psy-ops with the low info voter. Maybe that's not so far off even if that wasn't an intension of anybody involved.
OTOH, if there's anything that will unite moderate former Republicans and apathetic Dems in a movement to the polls it's this bitch on the General Ticket. I once entertained the idea she was a Dem. plant or someone nudged, unwittingly, into playing psy-ops with the low info voter. Maybe that's not so far off even if that wasn't an intension of anybody involved.
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