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I agree that Sarah Palin is a bonus for the Republicans. she will repudiate the slander that has been directed to her. She will be a force in 2010.

I am also a huge fan of Gov. Palin. I have a feeling she’s going to get the last laugh on all of her detractors one day. And I can’t wait.

I believe the main reason she is so hated is because she is pro-life and proud of it. Simple as that.

Dennis Miller made me laugh the other day on O’Reilly when he said Palin looks like she has a great sex life with a great husband and the feminazis can’t tolerate someone being happy when they themselves are perpetually miserable.

Could be some truth to that.

Sarah Palin has room to grow. and she will need to grow if she wants to be more successful than her last VP run.

between the psycho-political pressure cooker environment of everyone out to get her or everyone out to save her, she has to decide and demonstrate how she would rise above the flames.

one advantage she has over the likes of Hillary Clinton is that she’s not pressured to conform to the political style of anyone in particular (like Hillary was politically conditioned to be a Bill copycat).

that is all i will say on the matter. i’m cautiously optimistic about Palin 2012 (or 2016 as the case may be).

Initially Sarah Palin stole some thunder from the “old boys” but they soon got to work and skewered her. The media were willing accomplices, some of them women. She didn’t have a chance.

It was a disgrace the way they tore into her personal life as well even though she had her husband and children with her and on display. Who wouldn’t be distracted dealing with that?

She was not quite prepared for it, betting next time around THEY better be prepared for Sarah Palin.

In four more years Palin has time to polish her profile, hit the all the talk shows, and drum up support from grassroot Americans.

I’ve asserted many times before that the old boys network in Canada, heck, even in municipal politics in Canada is still constipating our communities.

I don’t think that in Canada the move by females to encourage and develop women leaders is nearly strong enough.

My small Ontario town stands as an example of an old boys network which surrounds itself with more old boys. The token woman on our town council always seems to get buried in fluff or ignored altogether.

The really vocal females in my town(and there are many) seem get labeled with the “bitch” moniker and eventually bullied into silence. They also tend to stand out making themselves a target for the stuff the old boys like to sling.

A friend, at dinner, made this stmt,-Sarah is us, the regular people. She uses slang, tells it like it is, and is not politically correct. She will be the same tomorrow, next week and next year. She is a real person, not a phony.
Congrats again, see JNW.

Wohoo! Now this is good news - top two liberal leader wannabes feuding already. See Kinsella and Bourque.

Doesn’t look great for the two front-runners. I wonder what the truth is?

Did anyone watch the interview that Greta Van Sustern did on Fox News, this past week? The only major network that did was when Greta went right up to Alaska and filmed the whole thing in Sarah Palin’s beautiful environment in Alaska. It was so clear, crisp, and so right on why the ordinary people like her, because even though she is governor of Alaska she is a real ordinary human being with values that the ordinary people value.
Greta interviewed the Governor in her kitchen while she was making some things for them to snack on and you could see the beautiful lake and the trees and landscape of Alaska behind them. It was a real eye opener into what beauty Alaska contains.
So many of the Republicans are the wishy-washy kind wanting to fit in with the far left leaning democrats and will agree with everything the left wants to bring in, but Sarah Palin has clear cut values that the center left Republican do not have and only true conservative-Republicans like Palin do have.

FoxNews.com is the only major news network worth listening to as you at least get a fair and balanced news coverage that you won’t get from any other major American network as they are all left leaning. And as a Canadian I listen to them as often as I am able and not to CNN and their brand.

Yep Raphael, with any luck she might become as worldly as Barak Obama.
Why on earth would anyone put any effort into a run for president when to win the race takes absolutely no experience or track record?

Lee,

One might hope she would try and improve herself for that sake alone, regardless of the credentials of others.

Sufficed to say, if she gets massacred by a Katie Couric, or a Charlie Gibson in four years time again, she won’t be taken any more seriously than she is now.

JT,

I’m not entirely sure what your point is.

Same here.

I hope she is the Republican nominee in 2012. That will ensure another 4 years of Obama provided he does not screw things up too badly.

Of course she might actually put her nose to the grindstone and acquire some substance. But if the same vacuous nothing to say but you bethcha comes out of her mouth, she will definitely be helpful in assuring a Democratic win. There is nothing there. Do some homework. Maybe check out this site - http://syrin.vox.com/library/post/gearing-up-for-the-rnc—republican-for-a-reason.html or this one - http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
Many Alaskans have a negative opinion of her. Many who have known her her whole life.

But if the Republicans are smart, as they lick their wounds and reassess their fall from grace, they will find another standard bearer to carry their torch.

I also have a very low regard for her, but perhaps she’ll take these next two years to take a few courses, brush up on her basic political knowledge, perhaps even leave Alaska and become worldly.

Agreed. She initially interested me, but the more I saw (and heard) of her, the less impressed I was. As I’ve said before, just because they throw a conservative at you, doesn’t mean you must like them. The religious-right stuff just turns me off.

Those who dont like Governor Palin appear irrational to me.
All i hear is nebulous stuff like “religious -right”,
“not ready”, she needs to be more “worldly”.
These same people have no problem with President -elect Obama, who has less experience, belonged for 20 years to a church whose pastor was a radical American -hater, was introduced to the political scene by a domestic terrorist.
Look at what the Obamatrons did to two TV stations who dared to ask tough questions of Joe Biden.
Of course they could not ask tough questions of Obama, he was not available for interviews.
I have heard every speech that Palin gave since being selected as VP, and i never heard her once touting her religious beliefs.
As i said, not rational.

Thanks, Liz. Link here.

Hilarious!

Lee-
“What a silly statement.
The fact is, as is reported everywhere, Governor Palin has a higher approval rating than any Governor in the country.
There may be some who have a negative view, of course,
But to say “many” is misleading.”

The use of “many” is not misleading. That you chose to be mislead is your problem. Many Alaskans do not approve of her. That they may be on the wrong side of some approval poll does not mean there are not many of them.

Regardless, it is not the “many” of Alaska who mattered in this election.

I for one hope that Governor Palin fads into oblivion. Either she is a ditz, or she plays the cute little ditz card very well. Either way, these are not qualities very becoming of someone seeking to hold the highest office in the world.

From the Couric interview to getting “punked” by the Masked Avengers, she continually showed that my 15 year old step daughter has a more sound world view than her, and that is not saying much as most days I don’t even think that she is human!

Lee - As I stated earlier, if you chose to be mislead, that is on you. I am under no obligation to be fair or balanced. You certainly are not. Why then do you expect me to be?

You say all you hear is irrational nebulous stuff coming from those who do not like Palin. Either you are not listening or your statement is misleading.

You prefer to drink the kool aid from your side but get odd when it is offered to you from the other side. You have been mislead if you believe what you do about Obama and his political birth happening in the living room of Ayers. You are being mislead when you believe Rev Wright was anything more than Obama’s pastor. Without hard evidence to the contrary, anything you embrace as fact has the potential to be misleading.

At least when I say many Alaskans do not approve of Palin, I have a poll to prove it.

You want to know when it was I decided that Palin was not up to being Vice President? When I read the questionaire she answerd when running for Governor.

The question was about the National Anthem. It asked if she would oppose removing the word “God” from it. Her answer was very enlightening. She answered something to the effect - “If the anthem was good enough for our founders, it is good enough for me.” On the surface a safe answer, right? But I expect my leaders to have more than the average grasp of civics and the history of my country. Our anthem was not written until the late 1800s and the word “God” was not added until the 1950s. I learned this in public school history. The fact she did not know this or have the instinct to check her answers before sending them in, (this was a take home questionaire BTW) this tells me she was short on substance and long on appearance. I am tired of voting in pols who have less of a clue than I do. I really gave her some time before I decided she was an empty suit.

Now, you can call me irrational. But from where I sit, your views on Obamna are irrational, not my views on Palin.

…I like Sarah Palin but I have to say that she was not ready. She lacks the experience for the position and she is too naive when it comes to the press. With some coaching and some effort, she will become a formidable force the next time around…

I agree with E of E on this one. She’ll need to learn how to handle the press for sure.

BTW, wasn’t it Obama who made a reference to the ‘President of Canada’ at one time during the election campaign?

And O said he would/had visited all 57 states and Biden commented on how FDR had gone on tv during some crisis. Funny how that never got media attention.
O has brought change already. When was the last time a group of protestors invaded a church service in the USA. Is that the change voters wanted. Reading some reports of the violence against certain groups it looks like it might be 4 years of Back to the 60s.

I was extremely disappointed to see that even John Snobelen has jumped on the anti-Palin bandwagon in his Toronto Sun article the other day. I would have thought John, of all people, would know what it’s like to have the media constantly bashing you.

P.S. MRMacrum, perhaps you could enlighten us to Obama’s vast well of experience that qualifies him to be President?

So, to be President, you don’t need experience, but to be VP you do?

Boy, you Canadians sound like the better mannered twin of the whiners on the Right here in the US. It just cracks me up.

You guys can try to turn this discussion from Palin to Obama all you want. But the thrust of your initial comments and the point of the post was about Palin. I addressed that.

We will see if experience matters won’t we? As far as I am concerned, since the performance of the last 5 presidents went from underwhelming to awful, and that 4 of them were governors, I do not hold much stock in the experience quotient. Being President requires something not found in any other job. To be a good leader of a country, one must be able to articulate their plan clearly, act upon that plan, have a good team in place to enact the plan and convince the population to they are working for them and not for special intersts or some whacko personal agenda. Experience and experts can be hired.

But all this is moot as I said. You can sit there up in Canada and watch. We will either go to Hell in a handbasket and take many of you with us. Or the new direction will stop the negative movement and all of us will prosper. The what could haves, the what should haves, the mighta beens are now just hindsight. And it is way too early to even know if it is 20/20 hindsight yet.

It does seem odd that my hardest times as a business owner and personally have been while a Republican was President. Yeah, that’s really odd.