After watching your press conference, and listening to your rambling, disjointed, schizophrenic rationalization for bailing on your elected obligations as Governor, I have just one thing to ask: please...PLEASE run for President in 2012.
I'm completely serious. I'm not going to be getting out of the house much in 2011-12, and will be in desperate need of the hilarity a Palin campaign would provide.
Sincerely,
A Member of the American TV Viewing Public
I agree completely. Between the apoplectic spitting and hissing fits of the left, and the moist handed, tie-adjusting, grin-and-eat-the-shitball-sandwitch justifying of the right, a Palin candidacy will make for great theater.
Which is all I ask of my government. Or expect.
I must disagree. Palin would be a horrible and damaging president. Putting her opposite competent opposition makes it less likely she’d win, but there’s a still a chance she’d win, and that’s too much of a chance. Also, the track record of the Democratic party to front competent opposition is not good.
Obama has been pretty good, but he’s really just one sex scandal away from end-of-term-Bush levels of public approval. If it came down to Obama vs. Palin, and evidence came out two months before the election that he’d been unfaithful, are you really sure he’d win? Are you confident enough to risk everything on the idea that Obama won’t slip up in some way and send the undecideds in the direction of somebody else, even if that somebody is crazy?
My interest in a Palin candidacy is largely based on the probability that she wouldn’t be the GOP nominee. The Republicans know she’s a a liability, especially those trying to staunch the exodus of moderate, non-Bible thumping party members, and I just don’t see them embracing her after the stuff we now know about her fights with McCain’s people and…uneven behavior during the 2008 election.
I don’t know if her resignation is prelude to a permament vacation from elective politics (which I doubt) or the beginning of a lucrative career as a speaker and author, with a possible exploration into running in 2012. Part of me refuses to believe she would ever be elected, especially when her own party most likely wouldn’t unite behind her, but I should’ve been more specific by saying I’d really only want to see get humiliated in the GOP primaries before eventually losing the nomination.
This is the best quote on the matter, from one Erik Erikson at the Redstate conservative blog:
“I’ve had this running thought all day, perhaps because I was watching it on TV in HD for the first time, that this is kind of like Ben Kenobi letting Darth Vader strike him down…by doing this she can now become Barack Obama’s worst nightmare, and help rebuild the opposition….” (http://tinyurl.com/nd3ash)
Glorious.
Couldn’t agree with you more. What a whiny nutbag stupid bitch. Just the albatross the right wing needs to hang from its neck. What’ll be interesting is to see how the Republicans fracture between those idiots that like her and those that see her for what she is.