Sarah Palin – Ron Paul 2012?
I only put that headline up to drive hits. TSO is pimping himself and me to glean comments but if we ever want to get off the Wendy’s dollar menu, we need hits and nothing (other than porn) gets more hits than a combination of Palin and Paul.
Now to the real post.
I have two brothers that are PHDs and though I have a Masters, it’s a money-grubbing, evil Republican MBA, so I always like leaning on them for great deep thinking issues.
The issue of discussion was Sarah Palin. We agreed unanimously that her recent resignation will definitely have the left/MSM labeling her as a quitter. That’s already happening folks, so let’s not argue that point.
The question remains; how does she counter that label?
My older brother suggested that she should interject herself as much as possible in the 2010 elections. She is a money making machine and will need significant support from the RNC later on. She should select races where a conservative has a very good chance of knocking off a Democrat or RINO. Unless there is a better than 50% chance of success, she should avoid that race like the plague. (Read that as don’t touch Florida, that’s firmly in the RINO column.)
She has already endorsed Rick Perry for governor in Texas (where he has a solid lead). If she next goes to New Jersey and Connecticut where two more Democrats are in real trouble, her strategy may become even clearer. If a major shift in favor of Republicans materializes, she can take credit for it and emerge as a national conservative leader.
My take: This is a plausible strategy and could very well turn out to be what Palin is planning. This would solidify her bona fides with the conservative base but is the conservative base enough to win the Presidency? This strategy doesn’t seem to do anything to reach out to the independents and right of center Democrats. This strategy makes sense for a Republican primary but what about November?
My younger brother opined confidently, November doesn’t matter. The big question for November will be if Obama can eclipse the futility of Jimmy Carter in 1980.
In fact he is very likely to face a serious primary challenger just like Carter did with Ted Kennedy. His train wreck prediction isn’t going to help Obama at all.
Cap and trade will fail. Health care will either fail or be so watered down that it fixes nothing and simply raises taxes.
Unemployment will hit 11% and if the Congress decides to raise the minimum wage and tax health care benefits it will 13%.
The absolutely irresponsible bailout mania has severely undermined the value of the dollar and the economic killer called inflation is just around the corner and it is going to be more vicious than we have ever seen. If Republicans don’t take the congress in 2010 we will likely see double-digit inflation with energy leading the way.
Three years from now one of two things will have happened in the Middle East. Iran will have a nuke denoting an epic failure of the Obama theory of appeasement or Israel will strike Iran and spark a regional war sending gas prices soaring to $10 a gallon.
A quick preview of the buzz primary candidates for 2012.
Palin – Probably already in.
Romney – In but he has the Albatross of the catastrophic Romney Care scheme that he left in Mass and still those nagging flip-flops on abortion.
Pawlenty – In but needs to get his name out in a big way.
Huck – Too early to call. Definitely wants in but he knows he’s unelectable.
Newt – Totally unelectable.
Jindal – Probably in and probably the strongest candidate in the field.
I don’t know if Fred Thompson reads TAH but if this scenario develops he might want to consider getting into the game a little earlier. Okay, a lot earlier.
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Another headline like that and I’ll quit clicking your links and nobody will be eating off the dollar menu this month!
Well, if she runs in 2012, Sarah Palin will have my vote and every dime I can spare. She’s the only one right now with enough common sense, intelligence, and moral authoprity for me to cast my vote for.
I’m as serious as a heart attack now. I will NOT vote for anyone again just to keep someone off the ballot. If Huck or Pawlenty, or that greasy-haired car salesman Romeny are in, then I’ll stay home and not vote.
I am absolutely done with supporting a candidate that I can’t stand just to keep someone out of office. Elections have consequences, and if the voters refuse to support good candidates and let the two parties keep putting up thugs, senile b@satrds and sound-bite snake-oil salesmen, then they will get what they deserve.
My vote is simply too sacred to me to waste it on the lesser of two evils. Palin, Jindal, Thompson,… those I can support. the rest can pound sand.
OMFG, Palin and Paul!!! That’s like the “Finger of God” Category 5 of blogging.
(insert shitty Helen Hunt acting here)
COB6, you’re better at bringing in traffic than you realize. Look at our number one search term for the last four months.
Those two are about as far apart as heaven and hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you republicans pair them two together, it will be comitting political suicide!
COB6 Wrote: Paul, did you read the post?
Sarah & Bobby would be a much better pair to run.
COB6, you’ve unleashed the cyber Pandora’s box on yourself and the Ronulans are coming along with their 9/11 “troofer” buddies, the Stormfront dickheads, and other assorted vermin. For the love of God, man–WHY?
That being said, I concur with AW1–sadly, the MSM is going to appoint another GOP candidate before the 2012 South Carolina primary. Bastards.
If Palin and Jindy are out best shots then we’re absolutly screwed.
COB6 Wrote: Who would you suggest is better than a Palin-Jindal ticket?
I’d like to see the George Allen candidacy resurrected.
ALLEN/PALIN 2012. Ron Paul is not a Conservative on too many issues.
Fred Thompson? So we can send more money to a candidate while he sits in his hammock…
I’d love to see a President Fred Thompson giving an address to the nation from the Oval Office with a cigar in one hand and a glass of bourbon on the desk. 🙂
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I don’t think stumping for other Govs will do much to improve her cred. There is another problem in that she resigned in part due to her kids. So she mixed the message. The only way I can see for Palin to get around being a quitter less than half-way through her term as gov is to do something with broader impact for the country as a whole or for Alaska specifically. She could run for senate or take on a high profile position with one of your PACs or think tanks.
While on the subject, the Palin/Jindal ticket plays well to your base but doesn’t really bring in conservative dems or independents.
Sarah Palin would be making the biggest mistake of her political life, if she throws her lot in with that nut-job Ron Paul.
Gaaahhhhrrrrr! (Teeth gritting from nails scraping blackboard).
I read your headline & almost had a stroke from high blood pressure. Had to calm down and then finish reading the rest of the blog.
I agree, in principle, with most of the top half of your post. But I DON”T agree with this:
“This strategy doesn’t seem to do anything to reach out to the independents and right of center Democrats. ”
We’ve had too much whining about reaching-across-the-aisle, and being center-moderate, and kumbyah-blah-blah-blah. And see where it’s got us. Ever since President Reagan left office in 1989, we’ve been moving more and more to the left.
Whenever a Democrat/RINO/liberal/leftist hold out his hand, it’s to move to the left. Whenever a Republican/conservative holds out his hand, he’s called a meanie, and his hand is bitten off at the wrist by the D/R/l/l.
No more centerist BS. If Sarah (by a long list of miracles) becomes President, she should stick to Conservative principles. And she should attack the D/R/l/l the same way they attack her.
She has the cojones to speak her mind. She just needs to study all the issues, and learn how to speak more concisely and effectively. Imagine – – a woman politician who’s a cross between Barry Goldwater & Ronny Reagan . . .
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If Palin is the answer, it must have been a REALLY stupid question…
Duncan Hunter and Bobby Jindal
Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal
Mutt and Jeff
Tom and Jerry
All viable and more desirable than Palin in the White House…
Palin and ANYONE, in any combination, and you’re just asking for 4 more years of the Halfrican… And remember, you heard it here 1st…
Sorry TexasFred,
But anything less than a ticket with Sarah in the first position is a damned stupid idea.
Sarah Palin is the only possible answer to who should be the next president of these United States. Anything less is caving in to MSM pundits, and the Kossites who fear her.
And those who believe she is unqualified have only to look at the current @ssclown-in-Chief to understand what a truly terminally-ignorant choice the voters made this last go round.
Those who voted for the Obamanation are living proof of the absolute need for voter ID and poll tests.
LMAO… Yeah, shes a really qualified QUITTER… Look, Obama is a waste of air and skin, I have no use for the guy but if Palin is the best the RNC can run, we need a viable 3rd party and we need it NOW…
And I don’t mean Dr Moonbat…
COB6, yes, I DID read the post, and like I said, those 2 are as far apart as heaven and hell is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah Palin supports the troops AND THEIR MISSION…..he doesn’t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEED I SAY MORE????????????????????????????????????
I’m still waiting for the republicans to throw his ass out of their party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To thebronze….I agree with you 100% 😀
For you Ron Paul haters…tell me ONE thing he has said that is wrong. I think you dislike the man because he IS outspoken and clear concerning what’s wrong with this nation and what needs to be done. You CAN’T find anyone, ANYONE, more specific as to ideals than this man. Grow up, think and focus, if you have the frontal lobes to do it with.
The Fed is an independent, untransparent, political cabal and is as powerful as our government. The Fed, the I.R.S., the Homeland Security thugs, F.E.M.A., the United Nations, the I.M.F., a prejudicial Supreme Court (which is about to be even more biased), a Congress of wimps, T.A.R.P……..who else would you suggest to take on this swamp of leftist cretans? It takes balls and he’s gottem.
Robert Taylor/Horseshoe Bay, TX
Jonn wrote: I’ve always said that Paul is right on domestic policy and absolutely wrong on foreign policy – so wrong that being right on domestic policy doesn’t make him at all attractive. Oh, and the slobbering allegiance he garners from his acolytes is downright frightening. But you’ve heard that all before, haven’t you? In fact, you knew that would be the answer before you typed a word.
“While on the subject, the Palin/Jindal ticket plays well to your base but doesn’t really bring in conservative dems or independents”.
Thanks so much for your concern, but no thanks. We let the dems pick the nominee last time around and we got what? John Rino McCain. If it’s just the same to you, Charles, this time around, we won’t let the dems pick our nominee, thanks just the same. And, in reality, it’s way too early to worry about 2012, there’s a lot of work to be done for 2010, we need to get rid of Reid and Pelosi to start. Or, in Pelosi’s case, make her irrelevant, the SF’ers will still vote for her botoxed a$$.
Sorry, #23 was my post, I don’t know how I managed to screw that up so that I became “anonymous” but I’m not.
as mentioned earlier.. the underrated Duncan Hunter: I hope he runs again. I disagree with him on trade (I am much more of a free trader), but he is a solid Conservative and would support him if he ran again.
I’m always surprised at the vitriolic sentiments regarding Dr. Paul expressed by so many of what some would call main stream conservatives. I submit two possible explanations.
1) Resentment that the congressman predicted the financial collapse, while the “conservative standard bearer”, John McCrazy, suspended his campaign in order to lend his support for legislation that was essentially the largest single act of corporate welfare in history.
2) Some partisan Republicans lack the inclination to think critically, and model their political thinking from sycophantic bullies syndicated on AM radio, such as that “great American” chicken hawk, Sean Hannity. Or, as I refer to him, the Forrest Gump of talk radio.
Seriously, anyone who knows the politics of the founders would have to arrive at the conclusion that Dr. Paul’s political philosophy is much more in line with those beliefs than any of the “conservatives” mentioned as possible candidates, which should make him the most “conservative.”
Of course, today’s political lexicon is something of a semantical nightmare. I guess now a “conservative” is one who favors massive foreign imperialism and nation building, a Keynesian economic model, and a police state at home, complete with militarized cops and a onerous justice system. The irony is that this is completely in conflict with what conservatism used to mean, much as liberalism once meant a political system that maximizes economic and social freedom, and now means a sort of soft Marxism.
Brownstain…I suggest another theory…the one that Paul is a nutjob, as are most of his followers.
Remember Fred Thompson’s line in Red October. “The Russians don’t take a dump with out a plan”. Sarah Palins is alot like the Russians, in that statement. She has you beat and you don’t even know it! She pulled the rug out from under her attackers, they have very little traction now and she has all the freedom to pump her popularity. If, Sarah is a smart as I think she is, she will bring Fred along as chief of staff and simmer on her choice of VP.
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