I didn't go back and read every single post on here, but I don't think any single respondent has indicated that Palin was qualified to be President or that anyone wanted her anywhere near the ticket for repubs. Maybe there was one. Yet lots of you seem to be carrying on and on about how unqualified she is. You are preaching to the choir and acting like you have converted someone. This whole thread sort of follows my earlier post on the subject that 100% of the talk about Palin is made up of 5% on the right and 95% on the left.
Earlier this year, she was polling as well as anyone among the GOPs. She published a book and dramatically resigned the governorship. She puts herself in the news and there is evidence that she may be a viable candidate for the GOPs. If she had no support on the right, had not made herself a news story twice this year, I doubt the left would have had anything to say about her. I believe your estimate about the right is wishful thinking. Maybe not wishful thinking, but perhaps an honest attempt to explain how this nobody remains in the news. I think you're off on your estimate of why she is. I don't think the person who started the thread is of the left, btw.
I'm not a fan....she's too shallow. She has no business running for President. She's basically Barack Obama without the smooth condescending delivery.
we are only talking about her because of an old man's brain fart. I hope she goes for it in 2012, though. If she goes as a R, the primary debates will be great. If she goes as an I - really going rogue, ya know - well, hell, I might just vote for her!
i find it singularly illuminating that a thread about sarah palin turns into a thread about obama. sad the amount of dissembling involved in such a ruse. palin is bad for america. palin is even worse for the republican party. and the party is eating her up like candy. i'm not talking about the party intelligentsia. i'm talking about the rank and file voter: they LOVE her. also, and to me this is very important, her endorsement for rick perry is newsworthy. why does perry need an endorsement from a quitter governor of a backwater state? because she's still very relevant to many republicans, especially the far right, typically religious republican so prevalent in texas. as she seems to have become the face of this branch of the party, and right now the republicans have no one else (jindal? hah) that seems sane and relevant, she's going to continue to cultivate grassroots support. this is bad for republicans, but those who support her are too myopic or too singleminded to care. the country needs a strong republican party. that means jettisoning the crazies that they've treated as a "base" for so long and go back to a core of fiscal conservatism, expanding freedoms and protecting freedom, and government responsibility. instead, they are focusing on gays, guns and god still, and the generation that appeals to is dying off.
The country doesn't need a strong republican party any more than a strong dem party. For so many years, what has been needed is for all parties to be weak.
So you are making fun of someone for a partisan comment, yet state that you always vote for one party? Rings kind of hollow