57 Replies to “I Can See 2012 From My House”

  2. She had better – I have no confidence in the other
    contenders. Not in their conservatism (for some) or
    their common sense (for others).
    Sarah Palin’s delivery has changed over the last year, and not in
    a good way. But she has the experience, the intelligence, the
    almost magical skill to crystallise a movement out of a chaotic
    mix of sentiments. She has lived in the eye of the storm for
    three years now. She can run, and win, and probably govern
    well; and there is no one else who can do that.

  4. I have no doubt she could do a good job as president in a very troubled time, but I don’t think she can win. She has the conservative base but the swing vote? Those people can be turned one way or another fairly easily, and all the forces that hate her will do their utmost to turn them.
    I think she’s uncertain of her ability to win too, which is why she hasn’t declared yet.

  5. but, can she count to 14 trillion from her house?
    Wasn’t she the hundred thousand tax dollar a year hair and make-up girl.

  6. She’s only going to run under two conditions:
    1. She thinks she can win – perry and Romney are both formidable opponents. If perry stumbles…
    2. If no one she thinks is worthy is running. She has waffled on perry and clearly thinks romney should not win. If Christie or Paul Ryan get in she could possibly back either (or none at all)
    I just wish to god she would take understanding foreign affairs and ecOnomic issues more seriously and study up on them.
    I want her to be more of a student on policy – Reagan sure as heck was – it is an essential element to being a successful POTUS.
    There are a lot of issues on which I differ with romney, bit I think were he to be faced with an issue or crisis he would have the discipline and methods to get to the correct response quickly. Palin has shown little in that regard and nil interest in engaging in discussions of it.

  8. She is a rock star.
    I mean that in a good way.
    She is a populist leader. Whether she runs now or remains on the sidelines, she galvanises the American electorate and reminds them of why they need to survive as a nation.

  9. “Dirtman”‘s comments are certainly true and decisive in any
    normal time. These are not normal times, however. We are, worldwide, pretty much in a
    depression. Unemployment in part even of the US is very high.
    Inflation is ramping up. I don’t think that there will be much of
    a swing vote a year from now.
    Obama is such an awful President – in good times his narcissism
    is merely annoying, but when he takes a long vacation among
    the prosperous when people are lining up at job centres; when
    his sole policy concern now is with his reelection; when
    “Fast and Furious” reaches public notice; and when his foreign
    policy idiocies come home to bite; there will be few swing
    voters.
    Much will change in a year, and the odds are it will not change in
    the Democrats’ favour. They have “sown a wind, and shall
    reap a whirlwind”; and who shall best ride that whirlwind?

  10. As much as I admire Sarah Palin, I think she’d have more influence from the outside rather than being the Republican presidential nominee or running for vice-president.
    My personal preference for POTUS is Ron Paul but I don’t think he’d be electable. I’d be quite happy with Pailin as POTUS but, while she’s likely to do better in an election than Ron Paul, I don’t think she’s electable either. If she became VP, then I’m not sure she’d be as effective as she is now.
    Perry is probably the most electable of the Republican candidates, but I’d be very concerned about him being a RINO. What’s needed now in the US is someone who can make some really drastic cuts to the federal government and I think Sarah Pailin would be far more effective as the spokeswoman for the TEA party keeping whoever is elected in line.
    There seems to be a uniform effect of capital cities blunting politicians desires to reform a dysfunctional system whether the city is Ottawa or Washington. I liked PMSH a lot more when he was head of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and he seems to have morphed into something foreign once he began to reside in Ottawa. So, I think it’s necessary to have a very strong popular movement pushing politicians in the right direction even after they’ve been elected. The other option is to use neutron bombs on both Ottawa and Washington and restart the whole political process but I think this methodology won’t get much support.

  11. You betcha!
    She won’t end up being the Republican nominee but she’ll be the kingmaker, probably for Perry.

  12. I was hoping that John Bolton would run for President, but so far he hasn’t declared.
    Sarah Palin is a spark plug, but in my view she’s as polarizing as Obama and she lacks the depth of knowledge and experience required of a President.
    Obama is a dud.
    The Canadian media (except for the good guys at SunTVNews) gentle him to a disgusting degree.

  13. What EBD said. Oh please not Romney; then they’ll never shoot Obamacare with the silver bullet. Perry/West, Perry/Bachmann or Perry/Palin.
    Please remember that Ron Paul, however wonderful he may be, is not electable. He’s too weird. I’m sorry, I suppose KevinB will hate me, but it’s true.

  14. She doesn’t need the old school Rep’s. They need her. She’s going to be the People’s nominee, albeit wearing a Rep hat. The “independents” That every one worry’s about are hers for the picking. Same thing with the Military.
    Wait till the vetting starts full fledged on Perry (it’s already begun)and the others. She has enough ammo on the others to render them useless in a primary season.
    Kingmaker my butt! Even Rove is scared about the way this is playing out.
    She’s in it to win it!

  15. This is about the third attempt for Romney? If he keeps it up he will need Bob Dole’s fridge cart so they can wheel him out. If I could I would vote for Palin. sick of the media trying to paint her for me.

  16. Palin or Ron Paul
    Perry is the Democrat who ran the Goracle’s campaign. He looks like a snake oil salesman.

  18. Bob Rae was a dipper in 1990, but that was long time ago. He is now a moderate Lieberal.

  19. It is interesting how so many people still attempt to qualify their remarks about Sarah Palin, almost always injecting the line that she is not qualified.
    It is always a statement delivered as though there is ANY truth to it.
    Which there is not. She is completely qualified, in some instances MORE qualified than any in the running for the Republican candidacy and imminently more so than that dud Obama, who has made a complete mess out of the country BECAUSE he is totally unqualified for ANYTHING.
    Yet he continues to carry on, with complete support from the media and those who seem to think that because he is president, he is somehow qualified as an extrapolation.
    It is clear he is not and it is clear the kind of damage that has been done.
    Mr. Romney , Mr. Perry and Mrs. Palin are all more qualified than anyone because they have all run a state as Governor.
    It is one of the reasons more governors get elected president. If you have run a state , you can run the ship of state.
    Not only did Sarah Palin run Alaska successfully she took on her own party to do it.
    Enough of the uneducated blather about her qualifications. I sincerely hope she does run.
    She is not afraid to take on the tasks needed to save the country from this unabated destruction inflicted by Obama and his stooges.

  20. ROMNEY – Obamacare designer, we don’t want him.
    PERRY – In politics forever, status quo RINO – we don’t want him.
    RYAN – Awkward and unknown. Unelectable.
    BACHMAN – Offputting and out of touch with swing voters and independants (sorry John Lewis – you’re right about very small swing vote at the outset – but Bachman would create one). Unelectable.
    Palin – Superstar! Gains support as Obama loses it – as the electorate sees the MSM for what it is. The next POTUS!

  21. I don’t think she will run, but will have a big say on who does.
    And it ain’t gonna be a DC Republican insider either!!
    That’s why they hate her.

  22. That was a Conservative election video, and a good one.
    An important thing to remember is that Presidents don’t make policy. Policy wonks make policy. The President sets the direction of the policy and tells the wonks what the end result is supposed to be.
    Barry seems to have told the wonks his desired end result is a pile of smoking rubble in 2016, so he can take over as President For Life at the end of his term and run the place like North Korea.
    Palin says she will set a different direction, one of tax cuts and less government. Her record in Alaska reflects that. None of the male candidates have that record, they are to a man RINOs and/or weirdos.
    Bachman’s looking a little strained under the media beating. She let Newsweak, AKA “nearly insolvent DemocRat yellow rag”, run a hideous picture of her on their cover. She’s not a natural leader, from what I’ve seen. What I’ve seen, obviously, is the hatchet job the MSM has performed on her. She’s not making her qualities shine through the media hate. Palin is. She’s a star even with the insane hate from the MSM.
    So Palin can beat Bachman.
    Palin can beat Obama. Easy. Bachman can beat Obama. Even weirdo Ron Paul can beat Obama. I’m of the opinion the DemocRats won’t even nominate Obama, they can see the letters of fire written 100 feet tall in the sky the same as the rest of us.
    If you listen to the business news in the States, Bloomberg and CNBC are both solidly in the tank for the Dems. Both have their regular staff and guests openly mocking Obama and saying “WTF is this fresh hell?” every time Barry opens his yap, which is daily. “Are you kidding me?!” is getting to be a catch phrase out there in business media.
    Guess who listens to Bloomberg and CNBC? DONORS.
    IMHO, as a non-expert, Palin can beat any of the current Republican candidates on name recognition and presentation alone. She can beat that chicken-in-every-pot socialist Romney. She can beat Barry. She’s proven she can beat the media, they’ve been left flapping in her dust since 2008.
    I don’t know if she could beat Hillary. That could be a problem.

  23. If I remember correctly, she was the ONLY candidate in 2008 on both sides who had executive experience. And she was the ONLY candidate who actually had a record of cutting corruption and getting things done for her state. I also believe she was the only candidate who actually ran (and still runs) a business. And if the reaction of a gym full of American soldiers was a hint…she was the only one who exuded the type of leadership soldiers respected and would follow.
    So to all the detractors, this isn’t 2008 anymore, you’ve shot your load. The general public (perhaps not here in Canada where the CBC still feeds the masses left-wing propaganda dressed up as fact), knows what Sarah Palin is about, what she has done and if past performance is any indication–what she is capable of doing.
    @Osumashi Kinyobe: you asked where today’s Reagan was going to come from a week or so ago. Here she is, however, she has taken the precaution of setting up the Congress to be more conservative than Reagan had in the eight years he was president.

  24. In most things in politics the most powerfull person in the room wins. There is one person in the race already that fits that reality is Rick Perry, and when Sarah gets in there will be two and one of them will be President. It has nothing to do with who you like personally it is a fact of human nature.
    If you put Mitt, Ron, Michelle, and all the rest in a room talking to the folks and Sarah and Rick entered the room the others disappearer.
    As far as Sarah goes she came within 6 percentage points of beating Barry last time. Without her John – I was the deciding vote to ban drilling in anwar Alaska – McCain would have lost buy a landslide.
    So sit back get some popcorn and enjoy the show because the left is about to be hammered.

  25. The only hope for Obama is if he makes Hillary his VP (that was the deal)Notice how she gets to speak (all pumped up) for the Administration and the MSM notes how presidential she IS…
    If the Republicans are smart Palin will position herself as the VP nominee & King Maker…The contrast between Palin & Hillary (White house pimp) will blow away the Dems..House/Senate/WH

  26. Black Mamba, I like the alliteration of a Perry/Palin ticket.
    I love Sarah Palin, but I don’t think she’s got what it takes to be POTUS: She’s got the passion but not the foreign policy smarts she should have to be POTUS.
    But, VPOTUS. You betcha!

  27. Sarah wil run and win.
    All those who say shecan’t have been under the subliminal message machine of the MSM.
    She will go out to the public and discuss her plans as president and no MSM will be able to destroy her.
    The PEOPLE will see the truth and will vote her in.

  28. Sarah Palin’s hair and makeup.
    Adding zeros to make things sound more like urban legends than reality isn’t a wise rhetorical ploy:
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2008/10/22/cbs-sarah-palin-under-fire-spending-clothes-hair
    Male commenters:
    It is impossible for one woman to spend $100,000 annually on hair and make up unless they are manic depressive and in a manic phase, filling up entire buggies as Shoppers Drug Mart with never to be opened mascara and shampoo.
    Folks may not like Palin but I don’t think that’s an apt diagnosis for her.

  29. I think she should run and that she can win. She has what it takes: a clear understanding what the problem is and how to solve it. Perhaps a Perry/Palin ticket would work.

  31. My fervent wish is that Palin run for the Democrats instead of the Republicans. That way the Presidential Race would be between Palin and Perry. That way the biggest winner would be the USA.

  32. Actually, I think Palin would be better than Obama on any file, including foreign policy.
    I refuse to succumb the Left biased media in the US and here. I unashamedly would support Palin if I were a US citizen.

  33. I’ve always like Sarah Palin, but I don’t think she has the right combination of winning traits. The folksy/feisty thing works to a point, but after everyone has had a good chuckle and tweeted, the remaining impression of her is “entertainer” rather than leader. I hope I’m wrong. I think she would be good for the country but she would be sabotaged at every turn by those faceless millions who would have good reasons to see her fail. She arouses a lot of jealousy and wariness even within her own party. She is more effective as a maverick, speaking her mind pithily on various issues and lending her support to those who would have the subtlety, knowledge and gravitas to do the job.

  34. Snowbunnie — I agree with a lot of what you say — especially regarding Palin like being more qualified than Obama. Unfortunately, I think she is also “tainted” — as a traditional woman she is seen as a “lightweight” intellectually. I am not saying she is, but too many people view her this way. Men, don’t seem to have to deal with this, so it is much easier to get even a marginally qualified man elected to office. The other reason for this is that she has been torn apart by the media and will be again should she decide to run. I too would prefer to see her as a champion for American values and a catalyst for change, rather than a Presidential candidate. An embarassing loss for Palin would undermine the Tea Party movement.

  35. “She is more effective as a maverick, speaking her mind pithily on various issues and lending her support to those who would have the subtlety, knowledge and gravitas to do the job.”
    rita, EXACTLY.
    Snowbunnie, you wrote: “Enough of the *uneducated* blather about her qualifications.”
    If you’re trying to speak with educated authority, you might add the fact that Sarah Palin quit her term as governor half-way through. I know her reasoning behind doing that, but the media will use it to beat her about the head. I just don’t see her as having what it takes to fill the Presidential role. She’s a good campaigner, but is she electable? I don’t think so.

  36. Very good point favill. I’d also like to add that if she does decide to run, she’ll be the most vetted candidate ever. That would also help her win.

  37. With regard to Perry, I have a good number of friends in Texas, some of whom have the same Libertarian – conservative leanings as myself. Without exception these hate Perry. They have been betrayed by him time and again.
    They say he is completely phoney and as much of a panderer to special interests and manipulator of policy and law for his own advantage as that state has ever seen.
    I would be extremely wary of him as president. For now, the Republicans remain without a good electable candidate.

  38. @ lori, and Old Lori:
    Agreed and well put. Perry makes me nervous, quite frankly reminds me of another Bush RINO.
    Ron Paul is only weird because he has a significant track record of sticking to his principles. He’s probably be the best president with everyone remembering that the president is significantly restrained in many ways. But it would sure be nice to have someone serious about real cuts for once. Secondly I think he is very electable because he has traits that appeal to both sides and therefore could command the swing vote.
    Sarah Palin is still a bit of a joke in my mind. She was made to appear uneducated to put it mildly early on and so far hasn’t done much to pull out of that impression. Not good candidate material for the necessary undeclared vote.

  39. Osumashi Kinyobe
    “She is a rock star.
    I mean that in a good way.
    She is a populist leader. Whether she runs now or remains on the sidelines, she galvanises the American electorate and reminds them of why they need to survive as a nation.”
    Yep and the “american idol fans” who voted mindlessly for OBOZO will doubtless become her fans.
    There are increasing signs that his base,the blacks,are greatly disappointed in him…he hasn’t paid their mortgage and made their car payments…in fact 40% unemployment in that element is a big factor.
    The other part of the base the hard left are disappointed that he has not taken the US far enough to the left…

  41. The US needs a Thatcher or Reagan to recover from the Democrat majority rule. No RINO will do it. Ron Paul might, but he (and some of his more fervent supporters, especially) gives me the heebie-jeebies. Cain might, but isn’t an effective speaker to the undecided. Palin has the effect of electrifying the bases – that’s right, plural. Anyone who drives your enemies bat-schtick crazy like that deserves a second look, I think she’s the best bet to turn things around.

  42. She will be able to deliver the tough love Americans need right now, and still be re-elected. She is an anti-establishment candidate, and folks hate the establishment right now.

  43. To further highlight her anti-estblishment credentials, she’s running a presidntial campaign without official nomination. She is going it alone; probably the official RINO candidate will end up being her VP.
    This lady has balls.

  44. Oh please, oh please, oh please…Palin and/or Bachmann in 2012. Crazy Eyes and Ms. Maverick. The ensuing hilarity will be unparalleled in the history of the universe.

  45. That’s right Iberia, we’re all going to have a good laugh at your hysterics when they win… by the largest margin in history.
    /.snark./

  46. Palin has more sway as a Tea Party person than if she where President. She will be a King maker though.
    I think & to be honest usually wrong on these things., It looks right now, like a Perry swing with Bachman as VP.

  47. I am still amazed at the amount of nay-sayers out there that still state that Sarah Palin doesn’t have the experience after watching the community-organizer-in-chief in “in-action”. I am also rather dismayed that those of the female persuasion are the first to dis her, especially those five foot mouthpieces who always seem to be flogging their books.

  48. Yes she will.
    As a matter of fact its important to have as many candidates in the running as possible. That way the dems havev’t a clue who to attack and when one of them starts to show momentum, they go on the attack.
    Palin, because she has the ability to build such huge momentum, will force the democrats to use up a huge amount of capital campaigning against her. The trick is to get them to use up most of it prior to the RNC convention.

  49. There are a lot of great comments above.
    Palin/Bachmann ticket for me. I do not trust RINOs.

  50. Ken Kulak @ 9:42
    Indeed, No Rino’s should be our first qualifier.
    I still like Cain/Palin, or Cain/Bachman

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