McCain Campaign Chief Says Palin 2012 Could be “Catastrophic” for Republicans

She would be a train-wreck…she feeds the extreme right of the party and doesn’t have a good track record of staying on the job. Having her as the Rep nominee would be a huge mistake. I wouldn’t vote for her.

No she would be a god send. This woman is not afraid to say it like it is. Thats why you are all afraid of her because you know she will win. Funny how abc and the dems are already campaining against her. Why? bewcause they know she will win. Otherwise shut up if you are not afraid. There is nothing to say is there?

Maybe the Mayans knew she was coming in 2012

It’s so long to go until 2012 that it seems silly to talk about it. The Republican field is empty, and the incumbent’s strength at the end of his first term is going to be either Carteresque or Reaganesque. We may was well be hypothesizing about who is going to star in the movie that wins the 2013 Best Picture Oscar.

YIPEEE!!! A BabyDoll story!!! …I have been so deprived! Ok… what gets me here; “She has talent…” Although I do very much agree, I’m more concerned about her ability to lead and what she believes in. Great that she can ace the “talent” portion of the beauty contest…err, Presidential campaign but what about being able to LEAD? To think?

If Obama’s poularity is high enough in 2012 that the Republicans know they are going to lose anyway then Palin could be the right candidate. She would lose and lose very badly, which could be just what the Republican party needs to weaken the nut-job wing of the party. The nut-job wing (birthers, tea party, death panels) dominates the Republican party today and if they were hurt really badly in 2012, the Republican party could be reborn with some sanity.

NO NO NO!!!
We need you republicans to make sure that this idiot woman gets the bid. Do whatever you have to do. Spare no expense. TAKE NO PRISONERS!!
PLEASE!!! PRETTY PLEASE !!!!!!!!

stdntDrvr
You are the kind of republican we don’t need. Palin debated a sitting senator of 36 years for 90 minutes…and won. According to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, it was a “tie”, which means she won. It was one of the most watched debates of all time (70+million viewers) and she crushed him. The only idiots are people like you who buy into what the liberal media tells you.
Katie Couric mocked Palin repeatedly for fumbling when asked what she read, but somehow joe biden is given a pass when he didn’t know who has president during the depression. Not only that, but he thought that TV’s were around in 1929 as well. Couric is an idiot and so Palin-haters everywhere.
Palin 2012!

“This woman is not afraid to say it like it is.”
And she’s not afraid to say it like it ain’t:
“Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there.” – Sarah Palin in response to the legislative Troopergate report which found her guilty of an ethics violation

Dave–
stdntDrvr is exactly the type of Republican you need, if you want any hope of your party not being marginalized for many years to come.
No one, other than her base, thought she won that debate. She lost totally when she said “I’m not going to answer the questions but am going to talk straight to the American people”.

Dave, you went from “it was a tie”, to “she won”, to “SHE CRUSHED HIM”.
Calm down.
Come on man, your all over the place. If that moron palin was all that great and powerful, SHE WOULD BE VICE PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW!
But she isn’t. She is going down as a very rich, far-right joke and quitter. Nothing more.

The only reason she is still relevant is because she is beautiful. If she were ugly she would have been thrown in the garbage heap.

Yeah Dave!!! Keep purging everyone who disagrees with you. Pretty soon it’ll be you, Jim Rod, Glenn, Rush, and Sean screaming at the wall. You Clown….The fact you think Palin is qualified disqualifies you from commenting on what would be good for the future of our country. And I’m a lifelong Republican.

Joe biden proudly claimed that…
“JOBS is a 3 letter word”
“I have been to all 57 states”
“When Roosevelt was president in 1929 he went on tv to calm everyone down”
“Bosniacs were under attack”
“Barrack Obama is the first clean black man to run for office”
And not word was said from the liberal media. He is quite possibly the biggest blundering fool to ever be on the national stage, and yet because he is not an attractive conservative woman, he is protected. Very sad indeed.

Oh, man, it would the biggest trouncing since…last time she was on the ticket.
Yes, she’s very popular with a certain core element, but that element does NOT represent a majority in the Republican party and certainly not in the electorate in general. Her positions/views are far too conservative/right/fundamentalist and her leadership too spotty. The Republican party needs to wake up and distance itself from the radical fringe instead of pandering to them or it is doomed. I know several Republicans who voted Indendent or voted for Obama or didn’t vote at all because of Palin and what she represented. As a progressive, I’d be tickled pink to see her anywhere NEAR the Rep. ticket in 2012, of course :)

Palin is the target of the left wing ” news” media becasue they are afraid of her. She has a certain honesty about her that Obama and the rest of the Chicago mob don’t have. For all of his speeches, Obama is turning out to be the biggest failure in history because he has no idea what he is doing. Th former McCain aid ran an absolutely miserable campaign and can’t get over it.

If you think Katie Couric’s interview was unfair to Palin, just wait — the media can’t wait to get into the action. Palin’s worse manners will be brought forward, and Palin won’t be able to do anything about what is shown. Her hairdo is so 70s, and she lives in the past. Please America grow up or be certain America would be lost forever. Over 200 years would be forever gone. No America with Palin.

Joe Biden proudly claimed that…
“Jobs is a 3 letter word”
“He has been to all 57 states”
“Bosniacs were under attack”
“In 1929 Roosevelt went on television to calm everyone down”
He also got caught plagerising in college and in the 80′s during his first presidential bid. I wonder where the media was on all of this?? Because he was not an attractive conservative female, he was protected and all of you sheep on this post bought what they sold you.

It’s still more than obvious that ABC is continuing its love affair with Obama and Biden- Biden is a gaff every time he opens his mouth- but Palin was and is held to a different standard. This guy as a “long term GOP stragtegist” is alot of the problem that the GOP have lost so many votes. I didnt vote for McCain- I didnt vote for Obama either- but this guy and his so called GOP experts ran a horrible campaign – they should have prepared her and her family for the media scrutiny- Hillary already had her dirty laundry aired for years- Palin was fresh blood to the media and the experts over in the GOP should have realized that. They are the ones to blame for the loss- GOP get some new ” experts” on your team. This guy is almost as worthless as an expert in todays world as Carl Rove is.

Sarah Palin is a God send to the Democrats. As an independent who supports Obama, I would contribute money to her campaign knowing full well that her dimwit, simpleton charm would sway her small group of sheeple while making all others run in fear of life towards Obama!!

I’m an Alaska Resident and a Republican, but I did NOT vote for Palin even when she ran for Governor. It was obvious she won only because of female allure! This woman is a DISASTER! People wake up! I know people who work with her. She is not smart!! She made big mistakes and caused a lot of contention in Alaska. Seriously.. Palin is self absorbed and all this has gone to her head. She cares about Sarah!! We already have someone like that running our Country right now! Let’s do something different next time and vote for someone with INTELLIGENCE, NOT THE GIFT OF GAB OR A GREAT SALES PERSON. Please do your homework in 2012.Let’s focus on the issues! We need someone who actually knows how to budget, has had experience running something besides their mouth. And we need someone who will take charge and stand up and say let’s remove these freeloaders and send illegal immigrants back to their Country. We need REAL LEADERSHIP! We do not need ANOTHER Beauty OR POPULARITY CONTEST! Obama and Palin are the same person, only on opposite ends of the spectrum. We need REAL change next time around!!

John McCain is a True American, a True Patriot and an Honorable Man. McCain saw the handwriting on the wall – that his fellow Republicans would surely destroy the very nation if allowed even four more years of power. So McCain very nobly fell on his own sword: he chose Palin as his running mate to ensure that he and his party would NOT occupy the White House after January 20th of this year!
Either that or McCain is a “Compleat Idiot”. Which I doubt.
For Palin, there is no question but that she is a superannuated high school cheerleader – pom-poms and all.

We need a candidate who does not need a drama to stay alive during the campaign, drama like Joe the plumber, Joe the Heckler, or Joe the hunter, which Joe is next in line. Obama & Joe Biden are real people. There is no drama with Obama or Joe Biden.

It would be fun to have cries of “sexism” for any criticism of Palin to match those of “racism” for Obama. Oh wait…Palin is a Republican…never mind.

stdtdriver,
Barry was a 2 year junior senator with a more liberal voting record then the outspoken socialist from VT, and he got elected. He also had 0 experience.
As for Palin, We win with far-right canidates…
-Ronald Reagan
-George bush sr (before he raised taxes and got booted)
-George W.
We LOSE with idiodic moderates…
-Dole
-McCain
You need to start paying attention to who the media and the rest of the liberal nuts hate the most…that is who are canidate needs to be. Remember how much they all LOVED McCain? That didn’t pan to good for us conservatives, did it?

Mack -” The thought of Sarah Palin even getting close to the Oval Office is scarey in itself.”
You mean more scarey than the dunce we are stuck with there now?” YOU BETCHA (wink wink)

Posted by: Dave | Oct 2, 2009 11:55:06 AM
“stdntDrvr
You are the kind of republican we don’t need…..”
Let the Republican back biting begin! How funny, Republicans who see what Palin really is and won’t vote for her because of it, will be considered “not real Republicans” or as Dave puts it “the kind of Republicans we don’t need”
Tell us Dave, what kind of Republicns are the ones who you don’t really need? Just the ones who don’t agree with your fun-duh-mental opinions?
McCain had a pretty fair chance of winning the election …. until he put Palin on his ticket. What a huge mistake that was for him to do. Could have picked just about anyone else and would have won.
Let her run in 2012. It will be one heck of a trouncing she will receive.

When are you so-called Americans going to wake up to the fact that whomever you vote for is the representative of special interest groups? They call them a Democrat or Republican and the special interest groups have a whole army of these puppets.

Oh my this would be an absolute HOOT to watch if it happens.
She would actually have to attend debates with intelligent and qualified rebuplican candidates. They she would actually have to answer questions to the media – hooting again.
I am a republican – and this would be the best comedy on television!
Our fellow (and far more qualified) republicans would take care of her early.

stdntDrvr
She comes across as a moron because she is one, but that hasn’t stopped the republicans in the past (witness one George W. Bush). I’m a moderate independent, by the way.

I have watched in wonder since Palin’s intro last year at all of the horrific comments made about her by other WOMEN (with zero outrage from supposed “women’s groups”).
Bottom line is that women HATE other women in power, especially attractive and happily-married ones. I thought the femenazis were going to burn her at the stake! If I could have a nickel for everyone time I have heard women around me say “I just don’t like girls” I would be a rich man.

I hope she is their nominee. Look at all the laughs we got from her last year. I LMAO at SNL. And her interview with Katie
Couric…you can’t write better comedy that that! We all need a good laugh now and then so why not laugh at the steaming pile that is the remains of the Republican party!

“Palin single-handedly dismantled the corrupt republican party in Alaska as governor…”
There was a corrupt Republican Party in ALASKA???

All you have to do is read the comments here to see how someone like Sarah Palin can divide this country.
Folks, it’s very simple: DIVIDED WE FALL.
the GOP needs a candidate everyone respects, and Palin isn’t it.

Dave “Palin single-handedly dismantled the corrupt republican party in Alaska as governor” She has darn near done the same to the National Republican party. Let us not forget how McCain did not get elected because of her.

All of you snobs out there who are arrogantly demeaning this woman need to get a reality check on history.The same thing happened to Reagan and Lincoln.She is the one political figure in public life today who actually stands for and believes in something beyond herself.That is why she endgenders so much loyalty and support. Those who underestimate her do so at their own peril.Mr. Schmidt needs to remember what a leading political boss, as he apparently once aspired to be, in 1860 said of Abraham Lincoln when he was meanly attacked using the same terms I read above, “Gentlemen in that uncouth railsplitter you see the craftiest, slickest politician who ever hoodwinked a yokel mob!” Just remember that a few years from today. She will have the last laugh at your expense, not hers!

I’M AMAZED AT THE FEAR THAT SO MANY ELISTISTS HAVE OF PALIN,INCLUDING “SMUFFIE”SCHMIDT THE WORLD DUMBEST CAMPAIGN MANAGER. PALIN WILL PROBABLY NEVER RUN FOR PRESIDENT, BUT SHE WILL CONTINUE TO OPEN EYES TO REALITY. THE LEFT HAVE GOOD REASON TO FEAR HER. 85% OF WORKING AMERICA IS NOW STARTING TO REALIZE THAT WASHINGTON IS A JOKE.

Palin’s new book will make an exciting addition to my collection of colorful toilet paper from different countries. Does anybody have an unwanted biography of Ronald Wilson Reagan to donate?

Wayne
Actually, conservatives report much happier sex lives then liberals do in survey after survey (look it up).
Jordann
Yes the republicans were in the pockets of the big oil companies, and once she became gov, many of them were fired and some even went to jail. She fought the corruption head on.
On the other hand, isn’t it funny that given ALL of the corruption in the windy city that barry didn’t find time to take on any of it?
-he was in bed with Rezko (the convicted felon and slum lord)
-he campaigned for blago
-he sat in rev racist’s church for 20 years while representing ACORN as its lawyer
-he drank martinis with unrepentent terrorists.
What a guy!

I can’t even begin to imagine Palin 2012 – Might as well offer it to Paris Hilton

Dave (Oct 2, 2009 12:58:34 PM):
What you mean, “were”???

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t she retire?
If that’s the case, why is this even being talked about?
The last election was all about gimics. Obama’s gimic is that he’s black, so in retaliation McCain had to find his own gimic in Sarah Palin.
While watching this past fiasco of a campaign, the only thing I could think about was how unenthuastic she seemed. Did she even want it I wonder?
By the way, I’m not a Republican or a Democrat. I’m an American.

BArb – excellant post. I imagine it is awfullt hard to do anything about the country’s problems and still find time to run for election.

Barb
Barry is too busy crying because he couldn’t score the olympics for his chicago cronies to. He failed miserably on his end of the “pay to play” deal, so now he’ll have to focus on mundane issues like winning in Afganistan and fixing the economy.

Palin is so dumb, she doesn’t know she’s been used. Republicans are such sexists.. no way they’d ever vote for ANY woman. They simply rely on the social heirarchy of old.. white men at the top and everyone else subserviant. The ONLY reason Palin was on the ticket was to ATTEMPT to shave off Hillary voters. Which is absurd, that they think women are such gullable idiots, we’d vote for a woman just because. No fellas, those of us who supported Hillary did so because we thought she was the best candidate. To try to entice us with Palin was a joke.
Now that this charade is over, the republicans can dump all over Palin and show their true colors with regard to gender. They’ll NEVER support her or any other woman. The are incapable of such progressive thought.

I was really torn during the election as to who to vote for. While I hadn’t voted R for the last few elections I was really leaning toward McCain. Except for a few disappointing actions I was truly preferring him over Obama…
Until i heard Sarah Palin speak for the first time. Once a politician gets a wide enough reputation for being an idiot they seldom come back from that. She’s been accurately compared to Dan Quayle who also made a series of gaffs that established him in public opinion as an idiot and he truly never recovered. He hasn’t held public office since.
Her best chance at reestablishing credibility may have been to hold onto her post as Governor and focus everything on regaining her approval rating there. Her resignation came off as just another erratic move even to her own party.
True Quayle had his supporters just as Palin does but just like Quayle I doubt she will ever convince the powers that be within her own party that she can win an election of any sort. What her supporters apparently think of as “maverick” behavior is simply erratic behavior. And “speaking like it is” as some give her credit for fizzles out pretty quickly. Once you mimic the complaining of the discontent you have to take it somewhere with concrete sensible ideas and she’s never made it past the whining.

I’ll agree with Get it Right. It was over when Palin mentioned she could see Russia from Alaska which is in a completely different time zone. Its one thing to exaggerate facts as a political figure but another to be erroneously wrong to the point where Tina Fey can ruin your political career.

Oh come on, Palin running in 2012 would be hilarious!

Sarah is THE MOST disrespectful politician I’ve ever seen. If the GOP wants to earn it’s respect from the public back then I would suggest not even thinking about allowing her to be the next Republican presidential candidate. She is one of THE biggest reasons why the GOP has no respect from the public now.

Dave (again) wrote, “On the other hand, isn’t it funny that given ALL of the corruption in the windy city that barry didn’t find time to take on any of it?”
Umm, Dave, you DO realize that President Obama was a United States Senator from Illinois, right? That it’s not the job of a senator to ‘take on’ anyone in a city within his state. That would be up to the Governor, the Mayor, and maybe possibly state congressional members…..

hEy. EvErYoNe. HoW wE dOIn GoOd. Ok. JuSt SaYiN. aNyWaY. sArAh PaLiN iS dOiN wUt ShE cAn WhEn ShE cAn. ThAtS gOoD. dEtErMiNaTiOn Is A gOoD tHiNg HoPe ShE pIcK oNe ThInG. cOnFiDeNcE iS a AbSoLuTeLy BeAuTiFuL tHiNg.

I hope all you ney-sayers, that threaten to leave if she wins. Let me pack the bags for you.
I can tell you she won’t: Sleep with her assistants, take sweeta$$ loan deals from Fanny/Freddie/Countywide, run gay prostitutes from her place (Frank), sleep around with movie stars, do drugs, sleep with interns, and on and on.
Just keep hanging on Nobamas hip and I know you will all be going down with him in 2012.
PALINISM is alive and growing. Not so much for her but what she started: Normal people, feed up w/ gov’t, and stood up for what they believe.
PALIN 2012. End of story. If it wasn’t for McCain, she would have won.
:o)

SearamblerOne
Ummmmm.. so was it barry’s job to be involved with tony rezko in buying a 2 million dollar mansion?
Or was it his job to be ACORN’s lawyer?
Or his job to be drinking cocktails with terrorists?

Sarah Palin didn’t debate anybody. She ignored the debate entirely, and instead vomited a prepared set of sound bites, like “Say it so, Joe”, and “Here’s a shout out to Ms. _____ third grade class in Wasilla”.

Sarah Palin is darling and certainly far more qualified to be president then Obama but I agree – she is not presidential or vice presidential material. Our next president will need to be the opposite of what we have now – brilliant, qualified, exceptional and someone who loves this country. Republicans better get their act together now.

Uh Oh… You know Obama’s in trouble when the state run media has to trot out Schmitt to bash Palin. As a Republican I’d like to thank ABC since it’ll raise her profile a little more and help us raise even more $$$$ for the mid-term elections. Thanks ABC!!!!

Palin/Bachman 2012! (Then Bachman 2014 when Palin quits)

No no, Palin is awesome! She should be the Republican nominee! Let the Republican base decide! WHo are you to declare she would be a disaster?

Oh come on. It would be fantastic. DO IT!!!! The republican party needs to split. It has to. If it is going ot survive you need to leave the dingbats behind you. You’re never going to get another moderate vote again, just do it. Have the cons put Palin up, and then you pick you’re own and split and you put up an intelligent republican and let them put up their bimbo and maybe you’ll have a shot. But you will NEVER get power again so long as you have tea parties mental midgets calling for hte policies of Hebert Hoover and Palin and Rush saying he wants thecountry to fail. Moderates are looking at this crap and saying “THIS is the republican party?????” and you’re never getting another moderate republican or moderate democrat to vote for you agian. Heck, I wont even vote for a republican senator or congressman for my state because I just cannot relate to these people and I think they’re danerous to our economic situation. I dont want any rpeublican voted in washington. Not with how they’ve been behaving. Distance yourself from it, or the republican party as a whole, dies.

Steve from NH
Were you passed out when Palin beat Joe the Blundering Idiot Biden in a 90 minute debate in front of 70 million people?

Palin wants to be elected President of the United States so she can quit to become Letterman’s replacement. Really. She has a plan. It pays better.

As an open-minded liberal, I would love to see Palin win the republican nomination. The republicans deserve to have such a moron as a candidate. The tactics of the republican party have taken on a communistic propaganda-filled style, and they truly deserve to have an idiot like Palin to run as their presidential candidate. PALIN IS A POLITICAL JOKE, and I am so HAPPY that she is a radically religious, ultra-conservative republican.

Tony,
I’ll make a donation for your boat fare to Europe. Steve Schmidt is why I quit donating to the McCain campaign. There is nothing dumb or incompetent about her. And “So Dumb”, I left the Republican party because of not only Hannity, Glenn, but also people like you. Catch the boat with Tony!!

Pick out the worst thing the guy said about her and highlight it. No liberal bias there. A bad choice compared to who? Bush? McCain? Obama? That bar seems pretty low. I think she is a straight forward woman. I am curious what her SPECIFIC ideas are, not the warm fuzzy nonsense of ‘compassionate conservate’ or ‘change we can believe it’ or “I’m not the other guy, vote for me because he’s worse…”

You libs better wake up…the country is being dragged to the far left by our current gov’t and WE DONT LIKE IT THERE (polls clearly show that).
Soon enough Palin will look like a centrist to many of us being forced to swallow this marxist regime. Palin won;t have to move too far to the center..the American people will follow her to the right and she will win in a landslide..assuming the economy never recovers ..because nothing will save Obama if that happens.

Sounds like sour grapes. He did such a good job with McCain’s election. Without Palin, his campaign was a failure. He should never have been the rep. candidate to start with. If she cannot be president, then she would make one hell of a VP. Most honest person in politics today as far as we know. Honesty is hart to find up there, they all have their hands out.

“that included taking rev racist/wright “off of the table”.”——–you can’t win elections without moderates and nobody cared that a preacher from years back made a couple questionable quotes in two speeches. Only the far right gives a crap at these straws you grasp. What you dont get, is that nobody else cares. For those who were actually looking at the issues, your distractions dont work, becuase you people already had your mind made up not to like him. for the folks who were actually listening ot his policies, and had not decided yet, and truly were taking into account all the positives and negatives, your crap you were spewing was just so stupid. YOu people are getting the repuation….no…you now HAVE the reputation of the party of the stupid people and this past campaign was the tour de force that sort of made it official. THe lowest point was when your ‘joe the plumber” ended up being a guy who did NOT make 250k and wasn’t even a licenced plumber. Then mccain freaked out and dind’t understand what a derivative was, palin was shopping, it was just a complete implosion that was resulted because of one very important fact…you weren’t addressing the issues. period.

She could pick Letterman as her running mate. He’s the “talk of the town”.

I will never vote for Palin. I’d rather drop my Republican affiliation (which I’m already very close to do).

Well, all great empires come to an end, at least we know she will do it for us.

Wow, coming from a reliable source at the Huffington Post. I’m SO impressed.
Obviously this man Schmidt has some women issues. Not to mention a miserably failed campaign under his belt. Not sure if any candidate in the future will be running after him for his “help” anytime soon.

I am not a big Palin fan but >>> Steve Schmidt >>> is a loser so why should anyone listen to him?

“No she would be a god send. This woman is not afraid to say it like it is”. In reality, she is a non-thinker spinning out of control! Kind of like George W. Bush – only maybe worse! She would be as catastrophic for this country as the recent earthquakes and tsunamis to Indonesia and Samoa!! What an ignorant joke she is!!!

I pray daily that the Republicans will be dumb enough to nominate her. In fact, I would actually contribute to her primary campaign.

oh god… please let palin be the leader of the moronic lemmings in 2012.

Oh, please please PLEASE let Palin be the Republican nominee. Nothing else could destroy the Republican brand quite so effectively.

Don’t the Republicans have one Intellectual anywhere? Sarah Palin
doesn’t have the education, or the
depth of knowledge to be the most
powerful person in the world.
Republican have demonized the term
liberal, it seems as if they want to
demonize being intelligent. The office of the President IS NOT the same as the Governor of one of the least
populated states in the US. Plus,
do you really want a person who doesn’t finish what they start?
The last President used his “gut” to
be the “decider”, that didn’t work too
well did it?

“Palin is the target of the left wing ” news” media becasue they are afraid of her”. Guess that is why there is so much noise about Obama. The right-wing is afraid of him for the same reason!

Steve Schmidt, the manager of what is generally perceived to be one of the worst run campaigns in recent history, has two reasons for trashing Palin and shooting down her nomination.
He hopes to get the blame for his lousy work for McCain laid elsewhere and he knows he will not be getting a job in any campaign of Palin’s.
I believe his personal interests are more important to him than anything to do with the GOP, Palin or the country.

I cannot believe what I am reading from the folks that believe this woman would make a good choice for the country’s highest office. I certainly hope that all the Republicans and Democrats that feel she would be a good candidate come to their senses. I think a good test of her qualifications and knowledge of the world would be to put her up against a fifth grader.

@Walter “Palin would be awesome and will surely surpass everything Obama has done (in her first 100 days)” Okay Walter you have a venue here. What specifically would she do that would be awesome? And please no vague declarations.

Sarah Palin has about as much chance as Nancy Pelosi of getting elected president. If the far right and left haven’t figured that out yet than they are in for more disappointment. Too much credence is given to Fox News and MSNBC. They preach to the choir. Their audience is almost irrelevant when compared to the total news sources available today. Fox continues to brag about their thumping the competition but really is seen by only about 2.5 million viewers on an average night. I seriously doubt that all the cable news shows put together would draw more viewers than the Cartoon Network. The newscasters of yesteryear were much more trustful and politics was presented without all the bias and spin. So if all this stupid stuff continues then we may see a new independent party emerge that will clean both their clocks.

There is no one I would rather have than Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for President in 2012. It will guarantee that we will have President Obama until 2016. Go for it Rethugs. You’re all so smart and know what’s best for the Country. Do it, I dare you!

She couldn’t any worse than we are with Obama and his Mama. Besides, She’s HOT!

lilo–If she she dumb how come she has a # 1 book that is not even out yet? I don’t see you Mr. Schmidt having a number # 1 book YOU JUST JEALOUS!!!!!!
______________________________________
There’s no such thing as bad publicity. she is just one common example of: You don’t have to be smart to be popular.

OBAMA in 2008 is catastrophic. I should have voted for Hillary.
Palin is more trustworthy than the fraud.

It seems to me the “Palin Effect” isn’t based in what they like about her, but more about how she really bugs the other side of the aisle. The radical conservative base is so crazy angry that they cannot control everything and they have a black president that they would elect another buffoon just to aggravate the left. It is another symptom of the “Just say NO” mentality.

You people are really running scared LOL Palin makes most crooks nervous. Obama has lost his sails and is drifting back to Chicago fast. We can take back our country once again and look at these last 4 years as a bad dream that really went bad………

Yeah, the Democrats have a lot to fear from a quitter. She quit her job because she was afraid to show the American public just how incompetent a leader she is. There’s really no other reason for her to do it, unless it was financially motivated, which shows she cares more for her pocketbook than the people who elected her.

I am crossing my fingers for a Palin run in 2012…consider it a democratic landfall.

God help our Country, and God help anyone who thinks that this woman would be a good candidate for anything other than maybe as the president of a PTA – I’d still be concerned with that as well if I were a parent at that school!
Palin’s lack of political savvy is so obvious – even to folks like me who don’t have that much political savvy. Her rhetoric and speech delivery is analagous to poorly orchestrated evangelism on Sunday morning t.v.
She is prejudiced, unyielding and excessively small minded – how could any feeling, thinking woman think she has the right to say whether another woman should or can have an abortion. She needs to woman up and give credence to the old Indian addage of “Don’t talk about another Indian unless you’ve walked in their mocassins” before she jumps straight up to criticize and condemn.
Screw Sarah Palin and her closet Fascism. She’s the last person we need in any leadership capacity in this Country.

Saying that because she has a #1 selling book makes her smart is the exact type of logic I expect from Palin supporters…Flawed. According to your logic Tori Spelling and Chelsea Handler (along with Teddy Kennedy) are all geniuses as they have all had #1 bestselling books.

I think the problem with our country is with both the Democrats and the Republicans. The two party system is dragging us down. We need more options, unfortunately the Democrats and the Republicans have a virtual monopoly and have no intent on sharing power. Both parties are responsible and both parties act reprehensibly. Until we get more than two choices, our country is screwed. Granted, a President Palin would make W look like Lincoln…and our country would really be up the creek.

The Republican party is making one basic mistake – after the major loss of last years presidential election, they are not re-examining themselves as a party and who they need to represent.
Instead they continue to rant and rave against Obama without forming a new consensus as to what they – as a party – stand for. Sarah Palin is a symptom of that lack of identity. Though I am totally unable to understand it, she has a large base of followers. But Sarah Palin is totally unelectable, and unreliable.
On one hand we have the Democrats fighting with each other over everything – looking to reinvent the Democratic party – though it does not need to be reinvented. On the other hand we have the Republican party screaming vile insults and making imbecilic statements (a la Sarah Palin). It seems to me that this country has fallen apart politically. The party in power cannot agree on a simple grocery list, and the party out of power can’t figure out how to regroup.

Never mind that she is dumb and cant possibly be taken seriously as a candidate for the POTUS. Should Americans be fool enough to elect her, we would at least have a President that every red blooded American male could fantasize about every night.

I hope she runs. Everyone likes to watch a good train wreck.

For all that diss Palin, you have Tim Pawlenty who is an actual candidate, where Palin is only a candidate in your minds. Seems you are firing you ammunation at the wrong target. Then again, it makes sense as liberals are not really that bright, they just believe they are.
And lets see here, Palin #!, Kennedy #8 ( Amazon)
What does that tell us?

Hmmm, let’s see…A woman who neither accepts birth control nor abortion rights, even in the case of rape. A woman who denies human impact on climate change. A woman who denies evolution on the basis of strict creationist interpretation of biblical stories. A woman who carts her months old baby around on the campaign trail at all hours of the day and night, along with his schoolage siblings (one of whom is pregnant) as an example of strong family values. A woman who supports a church that finances exorcism of juveniles in Africa when their families don’t pay enough alms. A woman whose husband is a secessionist. A woman who wants to “drill baby drill” in ANWR, regardless of the impact on the environment or how many species will be driven to extinction.
yeah right…this is exactly who we need in the White House. Why will Republicans support her? Because she’s a woman.

jd58m….by your post, we can all clearly see where you get your information from. You have been lied to over and over again and you obviously have taken the bait. I feel really bad for you. Your comment is full of things that the media want you to believe, they are not true. please do some research on your own to find facts before you post.

McCain performed well in the last election, considering that his role was that of sacrificial lamb in an election that the Republicans knew they couldn’t win.
Palin would serve adequately in the same role come 2012.

There are mentally handicapped people, there are physically handicapped people, but Palin is politically handicapped person. She will not be able to function as a politician at Washington D.C. level. Governor of least populated place on Earth is as far as she can function, even that is little bit too much for her to handle.

So I know I’m going rogue here… but I have the perfect Republican ticket… this is a guarantee… a sure winner.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (Ret.)
Former State Dept. official Lynn Cheney
I think Former Gov. Palin is on top.(you’ll excuse the wording there but I couldn’t think of another way of wording it) I think that would be a ticket for the ages.
Tell me that wouldn’t be a perfect for us.
The Democratic Party 2012 Comm.

LET HER RUN 2012. IT WILL BE FUN. THE LATE NIGHT SHOW WILL HAVE A BLAST.

get it right then am i to assume you have all the answers? man your just as back words as anyone else. If you are not afraid of Palin then why do you and your type hype abouther? If you think she is an idiot then let her run so your guy can win? why the hype man. The fact that all the left news agencies are down talking her and the dems included shows the rest of us who is feared. So listen up, I am honored that you include me in the great group of talk hosts. I must hit your nerves. So fear not, let her run and see what happens. You know what will happen. Besides the dems have already lost control next election. Listen to the people not the paper or state run news.

getitright I forgot, Please call the DNC and have them send you new material. The clown comment went out with Clinton when he defined what (is) was.

Schmidt certainly knows how to cover his bets. He doesn’t provide ONE statement pertaining to Palin’s presidential run in 2012 without equivicating. He’s like one of those Economists on a talk show: “Well, I predict strong growth in the future unless shrinkage in the markets takes place.”

“Bottom line is that women HATE other women in power”—then why did Hillary have such HUGE support from women??? Hillary overwhelmingly had black women’s approval! No, women love to see women but they HATE to see a STUPID women!!! A stupid woman in office, who does a disasterous job due to her inability to know her arse from her elbow in anything would be a HUGE step backward for women. Women are careful that whomever goes forth first, needs to be a very smart women. PUt a stupid women in and when she fails, which a stupid person will, then all the crap of how women are not smart will fall back on us that women cannot lead. Many women have lead other nations. they have ALWAYS been well educated, with higher education and college degrees in law and finance or other, and usually multiple degrees, or law degrees. This is an uneducated women and it SHOWS!!!!!!

Boy, the media can sure have an affect on people. Dave Letterman rips on her every night, SNL changes her Russia quote for comedy appeal, and Charlie Gibson looks down his glasses at her at you all think she’s a moron. She’s a lady worth listening too.

Posted by: Anon | Oct 2, 2009 1:24:31 PM “PALINISM is alive and growing.”
Yep, for the Republican party it’s growing like AIDS and taking them down even more than they have already fallen, if that could actually be done. There just simply aren’t enough of you who think the Earth has only been around for 6000 years and humans walked with dinosaurs to get her into the office of POTUS. She got her 15 minutes of fame and now she’ll make loads of money off of a book she didn’t even write on her own. What a hack!

Gawd, she’s hot.

This woman is a fake, a phony low life with no activities and nothing more than her “cuteness” and her idiot behavior including her relationship with her kids, and with the state of Alaska. If this is the best that the Republican party can come up with than we are all doomed. Palin has about as much mental ability as a chipmunk with dementia. She is appalling, undereducated and a freak Christian who wants the entire country to be one of domination to the Christian Right and their fascist ideas. The media should just dismiss her along with the erroneous claims that millions love her – who cares, the position of the United States of America deserves more than a backward looser.

“Its gotta be all about job creation”

If they are not concerned about the independent vote then let her be the nominee. Independents like myself thinks she is an idiot.

SHE’S A QUITTER!!!!
Thank goodness she didn’t break a nail writing this book, she probably would’ve blame the media for that as well as everything else that went wrong with the governorship!

She couldn’t take the scrutiny of the Alaska Governorship, now a presidential campaign? Yeah, right … they would dig so far into her past, and her career – she would be begging for an IRS audit instead. Though it would be interesting to watch her “house of cards” fan base collapse after the second primary debate. Better stick with Mitt …

McCain Campaign Chief Says Palin 2012 Could be “Catastrophic” for OBAMA – there fixed it!
I don’t get you people who think Sarah Palin is, as you call her, an idiot. She is a real American – I think at this point in our country we don’t need to keep on electing the same entrenched politicians who keep the status quo. She is a breath of fresh air and would fight for the American public – OMG what a concept!
Hey Elle – where can I send a contribution to get you out of the country faster – sick of you Anti-Americans who always throw that threat out there but never come through when you lose. You are just a typical NOW-like woman who only supports liberal woman – can’t stand to see a conservative woman with a brain. Have a happy socialist life in Europe!

Sorry Dave. Your attack on a fellow Republican is not factual. Sarah Palin has never won a debate. I’d be surprised if she could win a spelling bee. This woman is a journalism and 6 years and 5 years after the fact, she graduated with that degree and nothing to show for it beyond winks and you-betchas. Sarah Palin appeals to a base who either wants her to be a garage pin-up girl, or women who feel comfortable with her because she makes them feel better about under-achieving and getting paid for it. Whatever it is, she will never, ever become President of the United States. She’ll need Black, Hispanic and educated votes. She’ll never get them.

Alaskans wont forget that shes a quitter. When the going gets tough she just quits, personally I think she should pay back all the money she earned as govenor as she spent her entire time in office on the presidential campaign trail. Whats she going to do if she wins the Presidency, quit because Iran won’t agree to stop building nukes?

sooo many sexist comments. the only reason you all fear her is because she’s a strong woman. she has an accent and sounds different. does that make her an idiot? no. stop listening to David Letterman and judge for yourselves.

I say let her run…let the republican party show everyone what fools they really are. To anyone that thinks this woman is even remotely qualifed…you’re even nuttier than she is. Oh and Dave you are correct about one thing…no one wanted to hear McSame speak because everyone was waiting for Palin to make a fool out of herself just like she did in all her interviews.

Like McCain and Dole were any better… PLEASE!!! Like my friend Joe Strummer like to put it… Cut the CRAP!

Ms Palin against Ms Clinton? I think I would rather stay home and shoot myself than vote for either one.

By mentioning Sarah Palin and buying her book when her life is an open book is keeping her relevant beyond her 15 minutes. She had a shot at becoming a great Governor for the state of Alaska and she blew it by prematurely quitting. She will greatly enhance her stature if she reads great works of literature and contemporary biographies. On this day the 140th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi if Palin reads about his life story and those like MLK and Nelson Mandela that followed his ideology to great benefit she will begin developing a sound mind and then maybe there will not be as much fear that she could get anywhere close to the white house and be catastrophic to her party, her country and humanity.

I’ll vote for Sarah Palin! She’s got more Experience and Common Sense then Obama. 3 more years of Obama and Palin will Look Like Einstein !

An even worse scenario to conceive of beside Palin being president is who would her running mate be? I mean, for goodness sake, who has less experience than Palin at governing (by 2012)? Maybe Sen. Ensign from Nevada. He’s learned to screw up his family pretty well. Or Sanford from SC, maybe he’ll be a born again Christian? Romney? I don’t think Mitt would stand aside waiting to become Palin’s bulldog. Yes, I have to agree, ‘catastrophic’.

I would love to see her run in 2012 and I think Carrie Prejean would be an excellent VP candidate.
Let the beauty queens take over! They certainly know how to motivate the base!

where in the world is there any republican leadership?? Whats happened to the GOP? If Palin is the best we can do then we are in big trouble.

In response to stndtDvr’s statement that Palin is “a moron”, that idea is the most moronic statement I have heard anyone make concerning Palin! If she is a fool, May God grant us a nation filled with them!

I can just visulize Palin’s nomination speech. It would begin with “See spot run” and go downhill from there..

quote: “”Catastrophic” for Republicans”"
A fabulous improvement for the country.

I only voted for McCain because of Palin. Otherwise everyone I know would not of voted. Palin carried the Republican party on her shoulders as the VP and the lifting was just too much.

The disaster for the GOP is McCain and the RINO’s who think the GOP needs to be Demoncrat light. They really all need to follow the example of Benedict Specter and strip off the mask so the GOP can offer an alternative rather than a complement to totalitarian socialism.

Sarah Palin if her party’s nominate her for president in 2012 It would be the final down fall for the GOP! People out here that I have talk with said she not very smart has no brain’s went broke and stole money from her state while being Gov.
She had a lot of court problems in her state of ALASKA.
But they would vote her because she was pretty and very sexy !
Does the GOP really need that way of thinking from the people in a presidential Race ? I don’t think so!
TO THE GOP IT WOULD BE SUICIDE FOR OUR PARTY!

Let’s see..Steve Schmidt ran a terrible campaign with a terrible candidate against a candidate surrounded and advised by racists, radicals, and the corrupt Chicago machine. The ONLY thing that energized his campaign was Palin. She’s the only reason why I (and many others) voted for McCain instead of not voting at all. “This idot Palin” has an unpublished book at number 1 on Amazon right now. People want to read her message. We don’t wnat more of the same Washington crap that’s destroying our country. How’s that O change working right now??? Forgot, if it’s not working as promised, it’s Boooosh’s fault or we’re racists. Go Sarah, go!!

Dave
I have watched in wonder since Palin’s intro last year at all of the horrific comments made about her by other WOMEN (with zero outrage from supposed “women’s groups”).
I am a woman and I think it is long past time that we have a woman in the White House as President. A smart intelligent woman who has the skills, experience and demeanor to execute the job of President of the United States. Sarah Palin is not that woman in any way, shape or form and if you think she is I really feel sorry for you. This woman did a lousy job as Gov of Alaska. How do you find that out? Read what the people of Alaska have to say now that she is out of office there and can’t use it’s power to come after them. God help us all if she has the power of the US Government fully behind her. I shake to think of how she could abuse that power and cause a world catastrophe. The Dems are not scared of her. They are not Palin haters. This woman truely is ignorant, dishonest, and inept. The Dems know one thing…even if Obama turns out to be a horrible President, Sarah Palin will not win the election for the Republicans in 2012. If the Republicans do not get people like her out of the party it will be destroyed for years to come.

Sarah Palin would get about 20% of the vote, from the same people on whom Fox News and Limbaugh and Beck have a lock. They love her for her sexy buns, her chirpy voice, and her ability to speak the truth to power so eloquently. Here’s her explanation of why she quit on the day before a major holiday. “July 3rd is the eve of Independence Day. It is meaningful to be able to say: Look, there needs to be freedom all the way around here to progress.” Her future is in journalism. She’ll make millions on the lecture circuit and then settle down as a TV host on Fox News.

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No, I’m afraid of her because she’s insane. Just like Bush and Cheney were and I think I can do without another dose of that thanks so much.

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Seems to me that Bush was the one who was actually considering putting the election on hold. He would have been the one who would have declared martial law and was even in the process of making such things possible. We lived under eight years of near dictatorship and you’re worried about Obama? Trust me, he’ll leave office fair and square. Were you people living under a rock this past eight years?

I don’t think I need to watch David Letterman to know an airhead when I see one. Let’s face it. The woman is stupid. Not to mention that she tried to get her sister’s ex-husband fired from his job because he wasn’t getting along with her sister. That isn’t corrupt?

Yeah, Palin would be a train wreck. We really need someone who’s IQ is “off the charts”, someone who speaks fluently and articulates themselves well.
Wait, we already have a moron like that, who has screwed up the economy, making a train wreck out of health care reform, creating a potential disaster out of Afghanistan and was a miserable failure in bringing home the Olympics.
Tell you what, I truly believe that Mickey Mouse would be a better president than the current one. So it is almost impossible that Palin could be worse. So let’s try this….let Palin be president and Obama could be the new host of The Biggest Loser!

Obama will be in charge in Dec 2012 so I think the Mayans may have known what a moron Obama is and predicted our end due to it. BTW, Nostradamus predicted that Mabus (who happens to be the name of Obama’s Navy guy) will be killed and that the Anti-Christ who Nostradamus called the dark one will attack. Dark one? Who will become anger and launch us into war? Sounds like Obama to me and I am not even a believer in this type of stuff.

Funny how the bots pick on palin for pointing out that Russia and Alaska are within eyesight of one another but give the moron Obama who thought that there were 57 states in the US a pass.

I know many republicans that would not vote for her no matter what these millions of her fans think. They still find her tactics repulsive, and her intelligence below that required to hold the office of president. The GOP put that to the limit with Bush, and look how that turned out. A Rogue president is not what we need at this time, or any time in the future. Being Rogue will destroy any and all of the cooperation we are now just seeing repaired after Cheney and Bush destoyed decades of work of presidents of both parties to maintain the reputation of the United States as a diplomatic and admirable, and respectable nation. Palin could destroy all of that with one ill concieved speach. That scares the hell out of me and it should scare all Americans. Her fan base is just that. Sort of the same fan base of Beck, Limbaugh, Colter, and Graham. Easily influenced, egotistical, self righteous, and very extreme.

“Palin is far better educated than either McCain or Obama. Obama thought “the bomb” was dropped on Pearl Harbor..how stupid is that?”………… This spoken by a person that spells their name potatoE?

“McCain Campaign Chief Says Palin 2012 Could be “Catastrophic” for Republicans”
What else would you expect a Rockefeller Republican to say? Doomed to forever being a minority party w/o the social conservatives. LGBT idiots apparently exist in both parties, regardless of their educational background.

I would love to see Palin win just so the Obama haters and Republicans can talk cash junk about her. I would love to read the comments. It would be hillarious!!!!! Also, Obama haters and Republicans, Quit saying the democrats are afraid of this woman. Afraid of what? Afraid she will open her mouth to speak again? That alone is enough to scare you.

“The only reason she is still relevant is because she is beautiful. If she were ugly she would have been thrown in the garbage heap.” ===========
Probably some truth to this; she wears too much make up for my taste. The best line I’ve hear so far this year…..”If she looked like Golda Meir, no one would pay attention. Of course, Golda was a brilliant politician.

I’m new to this forum, and relieved to read it. I am fiscal/legal conservative, I don’t push my religion on others, don’t worry about gays. I want a smart president and we now have one after 8 years of a damaging authoritarian puppet show that moved all the money to the top 1% with unfair Irag contracts, etc. Palin is at least one boob. Who supports her and why? Who are the idiots buying ammo? Who listens to limbaugh/hannity? Extremists all. They don’t matter. Senibility, fatherhood, wisdom, fairness and love matter. If there is to be any “Republican” party, they’d better step that way and dissavow the extremists. Step one; deport Rove to Iran.

A word about Hyperbole;
Please look it up if you don’t know the definition! Now’s the time.
Lots of entries here, many are full of it. Many declare outright lies. Some just are incorrect. Some are “frothing at the mouth” nuts.
A lot like what we see/read in the media.
Here’s a fact; we need less of it.
Wouldn’t it be neat if, even just in THIS forum, the incorrect crap could be red-striked out, and the person who entered it banned from further input?
Wouldn’t it be neat if that included the nutsy hyperbole?
I enjoy most of the comments, but the herd could be thinned.
The Republican and Democrat party members have become cartoon figures in all the extremism. The frantic tugging has polarized moderates who are afraid of the screaming crazies on the other side and move to help drown them out with the screaming crazies on their nearest side.
So now Republicans become little Hitlers, and Democrats become dopey Hippies. Were not. Well, most of us.
Republicans have become known as rabid “win no matter how wrong” Rovites. They don’t care what they are fighting for; that’s immaterial. It is an extremist “worship winning” perspective that trashes Fairness, Justice, Morality, Law, and Integrety.
They mis-see it as “Strength”.
It bleeds into kid’s sports and you get the raving coach or fan that starts kicking and punching if a point is not made or is made by the other team.
What we, as Americans, need to do is to call people on this behavior. Don’t remain silent. Show disapproval. Be brave and have some nads. It might make you unpopular, but I have sworn that if my Dad can live out of a foxhole in Anzio for three months fighting for America, then I can afford to be found “unpopular” (OMG!!) in a buffet-filled, climate-controlled gathering.
Last time I checked, we have free speech here. And let’s add Responsible to Free.

Who cares what John McCain’s campaign manager said?? He ran a losing campaign and is looking to shift the blame on anyone but himself.
It’s time to stop with the Sarah Palin obsession. If republicans have any chance of regaining lost political footing, they need to stop this in-party bickering and start uniting.

“I like Sarah Palin, many of you who criticize her so viciously are probably either less educated than her, men who can’t get past her being pretty or you graduated from an ‘Elite University’ and the thought of an average college graduate is beneath you.”
less educated than -she-
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