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Palin's Poll Numbers Hit Historic Lows, Even Among GOPers
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Sarah Palin has upped her national profile in recent weeks, but a new poll shows that the extra attention hasn't done her any favors. In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, the amount of people with a favorable view of Palin has dropped to its lowest point ever recorded by the pollster. More than 70% of respondents said she's not qualified to be president.
Palin's numbers don't improve much when just Republicans are asked to give their opinion of her, the poll found.
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The Post reports just 45% of conservatives consider Palin qualified to move into the Oval Office. Last November, 66% of conservatives said she was qualified.
Only 37 percent of Republicans have a "strongly favorable" view of Palin. Among all Americans, her overall favorable/unfavorable split is 37/55, the lowest it's been since ABC and the Post added her to national polls in Sept. 2008, when John McCain made Palin his running mate on the GOP ticket.
"Although Palin is a tea party favorite," the Post reports, "her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey."
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3star2nr
February 11, 2010 8:30 AM
Palin needs to "play the war card" to win now.
She also needs to upgrade her palm pilot
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 9:30 AM in reply to 3star2nr
I think this is cool! The same poll finds that most people don't know much about the tea bagger joke-"party". So when they learn that Palin and "tea party" are joined at the hip (NO! I did NOT mean that!), then that is the measure of the "popularity" of the "tea bag" party outside itself.
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AhTrini1
February 11, 2010 9:40 AM in reply to JNagarya
I am cynical, and think when Americans learn about the teabaggers, they might actually join them.
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 9:46 AM in reply to AhTrini1
Until they see some of their signs, and hear what's behind their sloagans.
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Max Thrax
February 11, 2010 12:31 PM in reply to AhTrini1
Naw. The MSM won't let the learn about the Tea Partiers, as far as the MSM is concerned it's about the deficit. Remember, the MSM only talks about deficits when theres a Dem in office.
Part of me wants her President so we can finish this off and move on.
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ohyeathatsright
February 11, 2010 1:17 PM in reply to Max Thrax
Where 'This' = America
Cause that's what's going to happen.
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stillidealistic
February 11, 2010 2:16 PM in reply to Max Thrax
God help me, Ive caught myself wishing the same thing. I feel so dirty!
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rwc
February 11, 2010 3:36 PM in reply to stillidealistic
I, too, sometimes feel that it is going to have to get a lot worse before people wake up and reject rightwing politicians. But then, I look around me, and I see fascism is quite possible in this nation -- that a corporate-controlled dystopia is closer to reality than most people think. You add up the religious right, the Tea Partiers, the ignorant who just absorb the Fox News, 24 TV show mentality, and you have the makings of fascism. It could happen here.
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farnsworth
February 11, 2010 4:15 PM in reply to rwc
When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. - Sinclair Lewis
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JEP07
February 12, 2010 9:24 AM in reply to farnsworth
And wearing lipstick...
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Sailormarlowe
February 12, 2010 9:54 AM in reply to JEP07
You just described fagsworth...
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Spiffarino
February 12, 2010 2:34 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Like Glenn Beck and his minions, Palin will always have a group of committed followers who will gladly part with their money to get a piece of whatever it is you think she has. And, while Sarah piles up heaps of your hard-earned cash, the rest of us will sit back, roll our eyes and ponder the old saying about a fool and his money.
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lousgirl84
February 12, 2010 5:14 PM in reply to JEP07
On a pig dressed like Sarah Palin.
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glblank
February 11, 2010 1:51 PM in reply to AhTrini1
The Paulites, which is akin to being a Naderite, remain passionate but not overly significant are starting their own brand of Tea Parties but hopefully will fail any purity test. The problem will be with the ride the tide voters who have no commitment, want to participate and vote flavor-of-the-week
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Spiffarino
February 12, 2010 2:37 PM in reply to glblank
Say what you will about Ron Paul, at least the Paulites follow a person of substance and accomplishment. The Palinites follow a grifter and a quitter.
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Kelly Sirkus
February 11, 2010 10:02 AM in reply to 3star2nr
Bwahaha! They have an App for that -- it's called a Sharpie
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smartalek
February 14, 2010 10:59 AM in reply to 3star2nr
brilliance!
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felix
February 11, 2010 8:32 AM
Well, running against Palin might be Obama's only hope for reelection. I see the WH is forecasting the unemployment rate to be 9.2% at the end of 2011. They better be overly-cautious because no incumbent president can go into his reelection bid with unemployment rate at that level.
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lousgirl84
February 11, 2010 8:45 AM in reply to felix
You trolls get up early don't you. I guess you need the money
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GayIthacan
February 11, 2010 8:53 AM in reply to felix
Oh really, felix??
Unemployment was 16.9% in October of 1936.
Roosevelt was reelected comfortably.
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Tim
February 11, 2010 9:06 AM in reply to GayIthacan
"If you want to look thin, stand next to somebody fatter than you" - Rodney Dangerfield.
The troll is right. By 2012 Obama will be seen as the bankster's candidate. If that's true, and isn't it already, then he better hope he's running against Palin or some other certifiable clown or he's out on his bipartisan ear.
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new10
February 11, 2010 9:10 AM in reply to Tim
Don't worry. The GOP will be providing said needed clown, whomever they nominate.
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blkblt
February 11, 2010 9:49 AM in reply to Tim
I agree, Obama will (rightly) own the economy by re-election time. People have a very short memory. We better hope it has turned around by then. I for one am encouraged by the timing of all this. Better to have your problems early in your administration, take your lumps now and be on the upswing when you have to run again.
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stillidealistic
February 11, 2010 2:24 PM in reply to blkblt
Only if we allow them to pin it on him. From my POV it seems like we're aiding and abetting them on that front. Or at least some of us are...
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blkblt
February 12, 2010 10:58 AM in reply to stillidealistic
Oh I don't think they have to pin anything on him. After 3 years his policies will have taken hold and his treasury sec. and financial advisors will have had time to effect the economy. He will rightly "own" the economy. I just think by that time we will be on the right track and people will not want to change horses.
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3star2nr
February 11, 2010 10:16 AM in reply to GayIthacan
yeah but roosevelt had balls
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jsdc007
February 11, 2010 9:46 AM in reply to felix
What rock have you been under? Unemployment just fell from 10% to 9.7%.
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 9:52 AM in reply to jsdc007
He was in his bomb shelter hiding under the TeeVee with FOX on and keeping him safe from all them there fern'ner "Commies".
And missed that the number of illegal immigrants has dropped by a significant number while they wree screaming that the country is being overrun by insufficiently white folks who don't have birth certificates.
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AhTrini1
February 11, 2010 10:12 AM in reply to felix
How will the hypocrites do if they win? What did Dubya do for 8-yrs? Ooops, the questions are rhetorical for the average voter, since I know only people who actually think can asnwer those kind of questions.
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GayIthacan
February 11, 2010 8:50 AM
And this was before she was caught giving herself a 'hand job'!!!!!
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Plotius
February 11, 2010 8:51 AM
People who support her need to start dieing for her.
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darkrhyme
February 11, 2010 12:01 PM in reply to Plotius
Real Americans(TM) die for Sarah.
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pd
February 11, 2010 8:56 AM
I doubt she cares about the polls. She has no intention to run for POTUS. She's cashing in now, while she's got some buzz on her. But she's not going to say yes and she's not going to say no until the last minute. She knows that if she were to say that she doesn't intend on running in 2012, her speaking fees would immediately drop by 3/4. Fox would have to stop treating her like a potential candidate with all the fawning interviews and start treating her like a normal commentator. Even among their regular hacks like Kristol and Krauthammer, she'd come off as a retard. (That was satire. Sarah sez it's OK.)
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Dan Tobin
February 11, 2010 10:16 AM in reply to pd
I have a three-point response:
1. Yes.
2. I agree.
3. Why have so few people figured this out? Maybe these new poll numbers will help.
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FromTexas
February 11, 2010 12:25 PM in reply to Dan Tobin
I agree too. Palin doesn't want to BE president, just run for president. That's how she stays relevant and makes her money. It worked for Nader. She may have set the whole palm notes thing up - she was only speaking to a few hundred people, yet turned it into a three-day media event. That's a pretty clever PR stunt that probably brought in a bunch of money and more speaking engagements. She needs the media to give her relevance. Otherwise she's just the Quitter on Twitter.
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pd
February 11, 2010 10:41 PM in reply to FromTexas
There is one scenario where I could see Palin "running". She announces and snowshoes through the first few primaries while SarahPAC soaks up a bunch of cash from the tea party drones. Then, when things seemingly look grim for her campaign, she drops out, milks her Fox gig as a campaign commentator and pockets the leftover campaign funds. It's a pretty cynical view, but Sarahbarracuda gets what Sarahbarracuda wants. And she wants CASH!
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ahumbleopinion
February 11, 2010 12:19 PM in reply to pd
You have hit the nail on the head. The Republicans put her on Fox so she could show how unqualified she was to clear the field for a real candidate. It seems to be working.
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Reefdancer
February 11, 2010 8:58 AM
My only question is: WHAT TOOK YOU MORONS SO LONG???? The rest of the country know it right after "In what respect, Charlie?" Bwaa haa haa
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Silence
February 11, 2010 9:00 AM
She's a very nice lady and provides a great service to America. However, she talks too much. Sometimes less is more.
Palin will not be the GOP candidate.
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new10
February 11, 2010 9:13 AM in reply to Silence
"She's a very nice lady..."
If you believe that then you haven't been listening to all the talking she's been doing.
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 9:49 AM in reply to new10
See, the more she talks, the more she reveals the sociopathy that is meant to remain hidden behind the mask of sociability.
That's what "Silence" worries about: that We the people might find out what they're REALLY about behind the lies that they're patriots, and give a damn about Constitution and country.
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Silence
February 11, 2010 10:19 AM in reply to JNagarya
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~Thomas Jefferson
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 10:26 AM in reply to Silence
I'll believe Jefferson said that when you provide a SOURCE for it. Until then, it was stolen from Mark Twain --
"Never use two wordsd where one will do."
Otherwise, your "quotation" has no relevance to your claim that she talks too much.
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Silence
February 11, 2010 11:05 AM in reply to JNagarya
Try the Jefferson papers.
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"In reading the Reporters, enter in a common-place book every case of value, condensed into the narrowest compass possible which will admit of presenting distinctly the principles of the case. This operation is doubly useful, inasmuch as it obliges the student to seek out the pith of the case, and habituates him to a condensation of thought, and to an acquisition of the most valuable of all talents, that of never using two words where one will do. It fixes the case too more indelibly in the mind."
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http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28tj110142%29%29
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Silence
February 11, 2010 11:26 AM in reply to Silence
Would you prefer to see it in his own handwriting?
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page047.db&recNum=759&itemLink=/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjser1.html&linkText=7&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_qNHw&filecode=mtj&prev_filecode=mtj&itemnum=5&ndocs=5
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JNagarya
February 12, 2010 8:17 AM in reply to Silence
I'll believe you are acting in good faith when you STFU instead of posting materials you don't begin to comprehend, even were it proven -- by someone credible -- that it's actually from Jefferson.
Not-so-by-the-way: the quotation, regardless from whom, isn't legal authority.
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CityGuy
February 11, 2010 9:14 AM in reply to Silence
Wow Silence I agree with you here. Palin will NOT be the GOP candidate.
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Viva!America!
February 11, 2010 9:58 AM in reply to CityGuy
She will be the Tea Party candidate
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EdtheUmp
February 11, 2010 10:08 AM in reply to Silence
What great service to America? Please.
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3star2nr
February 11, 2010 10:18 AM in reply to Silence
I agree Sarah palin is a very nice lady.
Recommending that Obama should declare war on Iran and commit thousands of americans to die so that he can be re-elected is very nice policy
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AhTrini1
February 11, 2010 10:42 AM in reply to Silence
I wish she will be, sincerely. Please run Sister Sarah, Queen of the teabaggers, run!
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darkrhyme
February 11, 2010 12:16 PM in reply to Silence
Very nice lady? She's a trash-talking hypocrite of the lowest order. She's scum.
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guest4000
February 11, 2010 9:11 AM
Impossible! David Broder said she's "at the top of her game"!
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Moose49
February 11, 2010 9:20 AM in reply to guest4000
And he's at the bottom of his. Which is really saying something.
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lousgirl84
February 11, 2010 9:23 AM in reply to guest4000
After reading Broder's column I felt compelled to respond. The guy needs to retire and take her Going Rogue book to the bathroom. This guy has lost it. He is a perfect example of why people should retire after a certain age
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Marinus van der Lubbe
February 11, 2010 9:57 AM in reply to lousgirl84
Baffled Broder bungling bubonic hearsay heeds his inner troll in citing that Cellulite Sarah's snowball's chance is meteoric. WaPo waffling wickedly starboard pusillanimously positioned to jettison all progressive wit....Bradlee legacy dies by BOHICA....
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jeffgee
February 11, 2010 10:15 AM in reply to lousgirl84
That would include Sarah's 2008 running mate.
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geofu54
February 11, 2010 9:38 AM in reply to guest4000
It's because of those media idiots like Broder that she is still being treated as if somehow relevant in 2012. Broder thinks she is "at the top of her game" precisely because he thinks it is just a "game". That's goddamn fuckin stupid, and serious disservice to sane voters, as such a piece of crap from the media keeps causing distraction.
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AJM
February 12, 2010 11:36 PM in reply to guest4000
Certainly hope so. If the current poll numbers are the best she can do there is hope for the country yet.
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rbe1
February 11, 2010 9:12 AM
I think it's important to keep the Tea Party side show running right up to the 2010 elections. If the democrats handle this right they can pin the Tea Party label (including their ideas for eliminating Medicare and social security and giving the rich another few tax breaks) to every republican running for the House and Senate. It's also important to stick the republicans with everything Palin's said. The drumbeat should be so overwhelming the MSM has to deal with it, Fucks News or no Fucks news.
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Silence
February 11, 2010 9:23 AM in reply to rbe1
The TEA party is becoming very popular.
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rbe1
February 11, 2010 9:31 AM in reply to Silence
With you ?
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 9:34 AM in reply to Silence
I think this is cool! The same poll finds that some 46 per cent don't know much about the tea bagger joke-"party". So when they learn that Palin and "tea party" are joined at the hip (NO! I did NOT mean that!), then that is the measure of the "popularity" of the "tea bag" party outside itself.
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expat46
February 11, 2010 9:55 AM in reply to Silence
Silence, I take it from your comments that your not part of the 'run Sarah run' faction of the tea-bagger coalition. That puts you in the minority of a leaderless movement.
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Silence
February 11, 2010 10:11 AM in reply to expat46
I'm fine with that.
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CincyCapell
February 11, 2010 10:07 AM in reply to Silence
With old white people who are on Medicare but against 'government run socialized medicine'.
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Minerva
February 11, 2010 11:46 AM in reply to rbe1
Yeah, the high profile of the teaparty types really hurt Brown in Massachusetts...
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DeathSquad
February 11, 2010 9:21 AM
Good! Now she can finally go back to that state that should be part of Alaska and take care of her special needs child.
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jim43
February 11, 2010 9:30 AM
Palin's poll free-fall needs to be a wake-up call for the Right. Palin's brand of politics is their brand of politics, and Americans are rejecting it. Even their frustration with Obama and his agenda is not pushing them to accept Palin as the next appointed leader.
http://www.political-buzz.com/
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bluesplashy
February 11, 2010 11:42 AM in reply to jim43
Shhh - let them keep on sleeping, dear things. They are having such nice dreams and you know how fussy they get when they haven't had enough sleep.
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jottawalee
February 11, 2010 9:30 AM
"not qualified" misses the point of her appeal. she has charisma, she gives voice to what a lot of 'disenfranchised' white people feel -- "qualified" loses as an argument like it did with Bush v. Gore. Obama needs to (re)seize the populist mantle and actually do populist works -- health care, bank reform, new energy/green economy -- like Teo. Roosevelt took on the robber barons. it's important not to scoff at Palin for who she is, but to expose the ideas and substance of her politics (where there is any) as bankrupt and not in the best interest of the country or even her supposed 'everyman' supporters.
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AhTrini1
February 11, 2010 9:31 AM
Don't follow those polls; they are satire.
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tduff
February 11, 2010 9:35 AM
The question is, what is wrong with other 30%?
http://randomthoughtstd.blogspot.com/
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 9:39 AM
She doesn't have charisma. She has a fan base of immature and inadequate males, racists, and other full-time illiterates who want a champion for their dumbnitude.
Someone who doesn't know the difference between stupid ridicule -- "So how's that anti-Obama 'hopesy-changey' 'joke' workin' out for ya, Ms. -70 per cent?" on one hand, and on the other, genuine satire.
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justaJ0e
February 11, 2010 9:39 AM
Have to agree that Sarah running for president would be the best thing EVAH! for the Dems.
BTW - To give some much needed perspective here. On average, no president in the last 30 years or so has ever managed to change the unemployment numbers by more then about 3 points (lower or higher) from when they took office to when their 4 year term ended. The exception of course is when you drive the economy off a cliff like Dubya did. Then jobs can evaporate at an astounding rate.
So, if President Obama's policies DO managed to lower unemployment to less then 7% by the time his first term is up, he'd have to be considered ABOVE average in the "jobs creation" department.
We'd all love to see unemployment drop to pre-crash levels (or even better) but no other modern era President has pulled off that kind of jobs creation ... so it's probably not realistic to think that this one can either.
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Prof Wagstaff
February 11, 2010 9:42 AM
I think former Gov. Grifter could really improve her poll numbers if she would declare war on Canada.
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bluesplashy
February 11, 2010 11:43 AM in reply to Prof Wagstaff
Yesssss!
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margochanning
February 11, 2010 9:43 AM
The democratic candidate that runs against McCain really needs to play the Palin card. McCain vetted her for about two hours and chose to put her within a heartbeat of the presidency. They should run ads questioning his judgement that are focused very narrowly on the vetting process. No need to attack Palin directly since she loves to play the victim and the mainstream media always picks it up. With 70% of the electorate believing that she is not qualified, this is the strongest line of attack against returning McCain to the senate.
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JNagarya
February 11, 2010 9:44 AM
This is bad news for McSame, for whom she'll be campaigning.
Problem is, the threat to him comes from the "Tea Party" right.
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MzTicketyBoo
February 11, 2010 2:12 PM in reply to JNagarya
I'm hating the meme of McCain running for 2012. He was criticized for putting Palin "within a heartbeat of the Presidency" and therefore not expected to live though a full first term. The fantasy of McCain running being taken seriously to embarking on a winnable campaign would just invite a repeat of everything he was running against in 2008.
Pass the bong on this one. I think McCain 2012 supporters have had enough smoke.
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congoman
February 11, 2010 9:53 AM
Not hard to imagine the world if she wins the WH in 2012...
Year one; War with Iran - not paid for! Support the troops!
Year two; Cut the budget er....lower taxes on the rich to get the government out of their way!
Year three; War with Pakastan --- its just a common sence solution right?
Year four; Declining poll numbers... need to play another war card to lift american spirits! How about Iraq! You Betcha.. been a while.
Year 4.5; Sarah Palin quits. VP Todd Palin takes over. Declares war on Canada.
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jeffgee
February 11, 2010 10:23 AM in reply to congoman
You're assuming she'd make it to year 4.5. I'd give her 2 years, tops, before she'd found an excuse to Go Rogue and quit. As W said, "it's haard work"
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congoman
February 11, 2010 10:37 AM in reply to jeffgee
Ahh yes - perhaps 20 months tops. Thats is all she would need to turn the planet into a flaming ball of freedom fire.
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Kelly Sirkus
February 11, 2010 10:01 AM
interesting. wonder if 20% who think she is qualified would be the same 20% who self-identify as Evangelicals and thing that W was the greatest Prez ever.
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docrocktex
February 11, 2010 11:25 AM in reply to Kelly Sirkus
This 20% continues to drag down the rest of the country. I think at least 5% of that group are prominently featured on our major media networks on a daily basis.
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FlownOver
February 11, 2010 10:02 AM
Palin supporting McCain could have the pleasant consequences of increasing negatives for McCain, Palin and Heyworth alike. Win-win-win.
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kJCUWzUl
February 11, 2010 10:05 AM
The Obama administration would not have been able to end slavery.
The Obama administration would not have been able to end desegregation.
The Obama administration would not have been able to get voting rights.
The Obama administration is a complete failure and comical to watch.
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congoman
February 11, 2010 10:09 AM in reply to kJCUWzUl
....beacuse of unprecident, irresponsible obstuction. Right?
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EdtheUmp
February 11, 2010 10:18 AM in reply to kJCUWzUl
WTF is your point?
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3star2nr
February 11, 2010 10:21 AM in reply to kJCUWzUl
Your arguement makes absolutely no sense.
Why Obama is a black guy, how would a Black guy become president to end the enslavement of black people.
Please tell me your not this stupid
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jeffgee
February 11, 2010 10:14 AM
Where's Sailormarlowe? He hasn't come to precious Sarah's defense yet. Most days he's first in line to post some Palin-like word salad of hyperbolic praise of her.
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JEP07
February 12, 2010 9:26 AM in reply to jeffgee
see above
and below
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garp
February 11, 2010 10:16 AM
That we're still following this idiot around the country recording every bowl movement falling from her mouth is some kind of unfortunate signpost for this political culture of ours.
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temptxan
February 11, 2010 10:20 AM
But she does have David Broder jumping on the Palin train. I love it, just proves how out of touch he is with America. Can you say villager?
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EdtheUmp
February 11, 2010 10:22 AM
Please run Sarah. Please, please run. Please.
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chimpale
February 11, 2010 10:25 AM
Hey Sarah, how's that snarky, folksy, don't-know-nuthin-bout-nuthin stuff workin' for ya?
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TJ1
February 11, 2010 10:35 AM
If we've learned anything about Republican presidential nominating conventions, it's that the Republican nominee will be selected by that 37% that still has a favorable opinion of Palin. At that convention, you can't be too far to the right or too much of a nut to get serious support!
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darkrhyme
February 11, 2010 1:19 PM in reply to TJ1
Or too white.
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DwH
February 11, 2010 10:46 AM
Sarah Palin is a f**king retard.
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TJ1
February 11, 2010 11:01 AM
Re: Broder
Read closely you will see Broder never said Palin had the right stuff to be a competent President - he simply said that she has the political skill to be a serious threat to win the election. I think he's correct. I think the Democrats have missed the populist mood and Palin appears ahead of all the others in getting in front of that parade. Another example of the cost of Obama's abandonment of the huge groundswell of popular support he had in November when Americans were behind him overwhelmingly on that election day. This is truly sad.
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chimpale
February 11, 2010 11:05 AM
What's truly incredible is that there are adults who can speak about Palin and the presidency with a straight face. Seriously, Bush was as bad as it should ever get. There should never be another American president as uninformed, ill-prepared, and just generally dopey as Bush. And, Palin would make him look like a Rhodes scholar.
Here's what you might expect from President Palin:
Palin: "I'm goin' to Latin America next week so I'm gonna take some time to brush up on my Latin."
Reporter: "What will be your mission in touring that part of the world?"
Palin: "Oh, well, we're gonna talk about trade relations and oil and stuff. I'll...go find my itinerary and get it to ya."
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bluesplashy
February 11, 2010 1:15 PM in reply to chimpale
Perfect. Are you Palin's speech coach?
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darkrhyme
February 11, 2010 1:23 PM in reply to chimpale
Yeah. And Bush even scored above 1200 on his SATs and got through Yale and Harvard. So he wasn't genetically stupid. He just didn't give a shit and did whatever El Dick told him to do. He played the rubes like a fiddle. That was his talent. But he wasn't a rube himself.
Sarah, though...she's just fuckin' dumb. And she's a rube.
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sheerahkahn
February 11, 2010 11:34 AM
The problem for Sarah Palin is she has yet to figure out that exposure is not her friend.
If only she had learned the wisdom of Mark Twain in keeping her mouth shut.
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runfastandwin
February 11, 2010 11:47 AM
Dammit I was hoping for her to win in 2012. Talk about 4 years of comedy gold.
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Schmed
February 11, 2010 12:39 PM in reply to runfastandwin
Did you find Dante's nine circles of hell to be hilarious? Because if Sarah Palin ever gets her hands on the tiller, that's where we're all headed.
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JEP07
February 12, 2010 9:30 AM in reply to Schmed
Imagine the launch codes written on her hand.
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sean
February 11, 2010 12:02 PM
Broder = Sorcerer's Apprentice
Palin = Mop
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Boidster
February 11, 2010 3:16 PM in reply to sean
Rush Limbaugh & Glen Beck = dancing hippos?
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JimmyBobby
February 11, 2010 12:35 PM
"Palin's Poll Numbers Hit Historic Lows, Even Among GOPers"
So, we're talking about her because...??
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TJ1
February 11, 2010 12:41 PM in reply to JimmyBobby
For those who don't remember how Ronald Reagan entered the White House, it was generally believed when he got into the arena that he had no chance either. But - these things can happen. One way to reduce the odds of that happening is if the Democratic leadership learns how to do politics better. One would think that because they are - politicians - this wouldn't have to be a concern. But, based on what we've seen since the November 2008 election, I don't think that can be taken for granted. They are fully capable of blowing it.
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ched
February 11, 2010 1:45 PM
Not having seen the poll itself, my initial reaction was that the WaPo/ABC folks see the Snowbilly Grifter and Teabagger crowd gaining traction amongst independents, and want to tamp it down before she becomes the 'inevitable' Repub nominee.
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jimson
February 11, 2010 2:08 PM
Of course her poll numbers are falling, she's not "going rogue" enough!
I can see her totally flaming out, and the tea-bagger community will blame some liberal conspiracy, not Palin herself who just isn't all that bright.
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Iggy Pop
February 11, 2010 2:10 PM
I don’t think Palin could ever win a majority or even plurality of votes in a general election, however she will be around politically for a very long time because she has a large fanatical base of true believers. For this reason, she should not be dismissed.
Accordingly, we should not dismiss her acolytes. Most of these people are living proof of the deep economic and social problems that fester in this country unsolved. She offers “revolutionary” solutions to these problems. In a healthy society she and her crack-pot ideas would not float, but they do, and there is a reason they do . . . people are desperate.
The way to counter her and make her irrelevant is first, do not dismiss her, and second, offer a real and viable Left-wing progressive agenda, and agenda of real change as Obama once promised. By the way, that’s why he got elected. Right now, Obama and the left offers feeble reform (maybe no reform) of a corrupt and broken system. As long as it remains feeble, Sarah and her people will be around. We have to have some spine and stand-up forcefully for what the Left has always represented—fairness, equality, justice, reason. That is not revolutionary or radical, but getting it might entail being revolutionary at least.
If we get fairness, equality, justice and reason, Americans will feel safe and well-off. Sarah will disappear.
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DugFmJamul
February 12, 2010 10:12 PM in reply to Iggy Pop
Nice post, very nice and you're right on about Sarah. But you give the Progressive Movement within the Democratic Party too much credit, progressivism is on a downward trend. Democrats will best be served reducing the influence Progressives have on the Democratic Party.
The American People have awaken and they are rejecting Obama and Progressivism. The American People have realized that Progressivism is a direct threat to our Constitutional Republic.
More and more people are reading the Constitution and as their knowledge grows so does their disdain for Progressives. Progressives have used the democratic process to introduce "genuine socialism" into our form government. Using democracy to change our form of government from a Constitutional Republic to a Democratic-Socialist State is SEDITION against the Constitution of the United States of America. Promoting any type of Government other than a "Republican Form of Government" is sedition against the Constitution. This is exactly what Progressives are doing and the American People are beginning to understand this.
This November Progressives will find out the hard ward way how much the American People have rejected Obama and his progressive designs on America.
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Sailormarlowe
February 11, 2010 6:38 PM
More wishful thinking by lamestream lip-flippers. "Historic lows"? The lady has been on the national scene for less than two years. Every time the limpo libs count her out, she rakes in a few million bucks, and totally owns the cable news outlets & internet blog sites. Sarah Rocks!
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lousgirl84
February 12, 2010 5:20 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Obama's Victory Strategy
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By Jon Taplin - February 12, 2010, 11:14AM
A couple of months ago, I went out on a limb and predicted that a 2010 Republican election victory was a mirage. The New York Times/CBS News Poll this morning reinforces my confidence that President Obama and the Democrats can keep their majorities in November.
Americans blame former President George W. Bush, Wall Street and Congress much more than they do Mr. Obama for the nation's economic problems and the budget deficit, the poll found.
They credit Mr. Obama more than Republicans with making an effort at bipartisanship, and they back the White House's policies on a variety of disputed issues, including allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military and repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
Every successful campaign has a narrative. Obama's narrative for 2010 is "I inherited this mess caused by eight years of Republican misrule. I kept the economy out of a second great depression, but despite my efforts at compromise, the Republican party will block my every effort in a desperate attempt to return to power. Do you really want to go back to the ruling ideology that got us into this mess in the first place?"
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TJ1
February 11, 2010 8:46 PM
Joe Klein is saying the same thing as Broder; I certainly don't agree with Klein all the time, but he too believes Palin can win the Republican nomination and is therefore someone who needs to be taken seriously. Democrats need more than sarcasm to sideline Palin.
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lousgirl84
February 12, 2010 5:19 PM in reply to TJ1
From today's TPM Cafe
Obama's Victory Strategy
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By Jon Taplin - February 12, 2010, 11:14AM
A couple of months ago, I went out on a limb and predicted that a 2010 Republican election victory was a mirage. The New York Times/CBS News Poll this morning reinforces my confidence that President Obama and the Democrats can keep their majorities in November.
Americans blame former President George W. Bush, Wall Street and Congress much more than they do Mr. Obama for the nation's economic problems and the budget deficit, the poll found.
They credit Mr. Obama more than Republicans with making an effort at bipartisanship, and they back the White House's policies on a variety of disputed issues, including allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military and repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
Every successful campaign has a narrative. Obama's narrative for 2010 is "I inherited this mess caused by eight years of Republican misrule. I kept the economy out of a second great depression, but despite my efforts at compromise, the Republican party will block my every effort in a desperate attempt to return to power. Do you really want to go back to the ruling ideology that got us into this mess in the first place?"
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DugFmJamul
February 12, 2010 9:56 PM
Reading most of these posts here one would come to the conclusion that "Journey Man Politics" is something Progressives frown upon.
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Mustang58
February 13, 2010 10:42 AM
The only "right stuff" Palin has is the blessing of beauty, certainly not brains. I truly believe she would not get the attention of a roving reporter if she didn't look like she does. And that says way too much about our society today.
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Tosh
June 6, 2010 3:04 AM
It's because of those media idiots like Broder that she is still being treated as if somehow relevant in 2012. Broder thinks she is "at the top of her game" precisely because he thinks it is just a "game". That's goddamn fuckin stupid, and serious disservice to sane voters, as such a piece of crap from the media keeps causing distraction.
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