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This type of comment I find funny. Let's see. Before Palin was picked, McCain was behind by 20. After he picks her, he finished behind by 5. Ya, I guess she hurt him, if you use Democrat math.
Anybody ever stop to think the problem was McCain? Maybe if the Republican party would stop trying to become moderates and would decide to be conservatives, they might win again. Anybody remember a guy names Ronald Regan? A conservative who beat Carter to a pulp and squashed the type of liberalism we have now. The guy who Democrats loved, because many Democrats are conservative, too.
This type of comment I find funny. Let's see. Before Palin was picked, McCain was behind by 20. After he picks her, he finished behind by 5. Ya, I guess she hurt him, if you use Democrat math.
Anybody ever stop to think the problem was McCain? Maybe if the Republican party would stop trying to become moderates and would decide to be conservatives, they might win again. Anybody remember a guy names Ronald Regan? A conservative who beat Carter to a pulp and squashed the type of liberalism we have now. The guy who Democrats loved, because many Democrats are conservative, too.
After the Republican convention she got him a bump....from there (And they finished behind by 6 and polls are a joke) the numbers did nothing but drop. She was 90% of that. McCain in the end is at fault for her being selected (by him or him allowing the RNC to strong arm him), for her not being vetted properly and for her being allowed to do what she did.
The biggest problem with Palin is that she was only good (and that is a stretch) when she was given a strict script to use and she repeated it over and over and over again. The winking turned off voters. The catty attitude and terrible responses to Couric and other interviews turned off voters. The fact that while we only knew her for 60 days and the issues/possible corruption came to light in a major way is what finished them off.
She thought she was bigger than the party itself and that is what hurt them. When you are VP you have to realize two things. 1) Your opinion means nothing so play ball and 2) Until you are President by death, vote or impeachment you are just another name on the ticket and she was not that kind of person.
Will she run? Probably not and that has to do with putting her kids in the spotlight again, feeling more comfortable in Alaska (if they take her back) and she has a lot to learn before thinking about running. Unfortunately politics is a game and Obama knew how to play. Chicago politics is cutthroat, Alaska is not.
I hope she runs in 2012. It would make an Obama landslide all the more likely.
She wouldn't chance it. Losing with McCain as the Presidential candidate is the same as her losing as the candidate. McCain probably would not make 4 years (maybe he would) but people did not see her as Presidential material and until she gets her winking under control, her brain able to come up with correct answers on the spot and a cleaner background she may as well go back to Alaska.
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Maybe if the Republican party would stop trying to become moderates and would decide to be conservatives, they might win again. Anybody remember a guy names Ronald Regan? A conservative who beat Carter to a pulp and squashed the type of liberalism we have now. The guy who Democrats loved, because many Democrats are conservative, too.
