Republicans May Support Palin, But Americans At Large Disagree
Bad news for Governor Sarah Palin:
A new Public Policy Polling survey found that 55 percent of Americans think Sarah Palin is not fit to be president. Thirty-seven percent think she would be able to do the job.
As for her announcement last week that she was resigning as Alaska governor, 57 percent of respondents said that made them less likely to support her for president while 30 percent said it made them more likely to do so.
The poll of 923 likely voters was taken July 6-9 and has a margin of error of 3.2 percent.
That truly is bad news for her, of course. If she does not succeed in convincing at least 6% of voters that they are wrong (which is far from easy), she has no chance whatsoever of winning a national election.
Let’s say she runs against Obama in 2012. Even if a majority of Americans disapprove of his policies, he’ll beat Palin, smply because voters consider her incompetent. They may say they disagree with Obama, but they do not think he’s unfit to be president. An incompetent candidate always loses from an unpopular one; that’s basically how George W. Bush beat John Kerry in 2004, remember? He was a ‘flip-flopper’ while a president should be steadfast. In other words, he was not fit to be president. The result: the man who led the country into an unpopular war won.
Palin has to do something, and she’d better do it fast; the first primaries for the Republican nomination for the elections for president are a mere eighteen months from now.
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Gee Michael when did she announce her candidacy?
I don’t think she has any intention of running for president. She will support selected candidates for office and speak out on the issues. People will listen and she will always draw an audience. Thats why the left is afraid of her and wants to destroy her.
2004 can not be summed up so simply. Senator Kerry would have won if he carried Ohio with 60,000 more votes. Yes, there was an attempt to paint him as unqualified, but close to half the population did not by into that premise. Bush won because he was a war time president and his team had been able to instill enough fear in the population, to register enough concern about “changing horses in mid-stream”.
As for Palin, I think she will have a very difficult time convincing a majority of Americans that she is actually is qualified to be president. She comes accross as emotional and superficial.
Reagan and Nixon accumulated experience after their defeats, so I doubt Palin’s career as some sort of reliably right-wing traveling pundit is going to impress anyone outside of her clique by 2012.
I support Palin only in the sense that she was raked over the coals by the opposition and anything that annoys the Democrats right now is okay with me. Yet I cannot take my eyes from the most destructive facet of this Congress and Administration.
Cap and Trade and a national health care in the midst of humongous budget deficits and the worse recession in 3 decades and perhaps since the great depression.
People do not understand that if cap and trade is passed along with this health care plan that it will most likely send America reeling into prolong recession and put us in the midst of flirting with recession.
I wonder if the Comedians that the American public elected to put in office really understand anything but partisanship anymore?
I’m begining to think no. We need a congress that says NO Mr. President. Not rubberstamps buffoonery!!!!
Eighteen months is a lifetime in American politics these days. A great speech here, a scandal there and careers can be made or lost. I wouldn’t rule Mrs. Palin out quite yet. All we know right now is that she resigned her current position. We don’t know what she’s planning to do next and that might make her a stronger future candidate for national office.
We can be confident that Biden is so much better.
… .or maybe not
Depends whether this is a low point in her career. I think she could be a fine leader someday, if she works at it, but right now I’m not happy with her. Quitting her job as governor says that she’s neither serious nor committed.
She has the charisma to rebound, however, and the truth is that politics, foriegn policy, etc., is not rocket science. It can be learned and rather easily, compared to other fields of work. Palin isn’t qualified to be president today, but then again, neither is the president.
Palin isn’t qualified to be president today, but then again, neither is the president.
ROFL. Indeed.
But I agree with your assessment of her quitting. She took an oath and made a commitment and then bailed out on it — and come election time, quitters are remembered for quitting. Her main utility to the GOP now is as a base-rouser and fund-raiser and “point man,” and as a provoker/target of/for deranged and rabidly frothing “progressive” hate-rants in order to alienate more indies from the Dems.
The focus of the GOP should be to take independents away from the Democrats by not appearing as the party of no but by offering alternatives that work.
If the democrats appear to want a VAT then the GOP need to say no but if a VAT is instituted then the VAT is to be used to pay down the debt so that the 400 billion per year that is saved now and the 800 billion per year that will be saved in 8 years under Obama can be used to offer a National health care.
Notice Obama comes up with 760 billion in savings to pay for national health care and YET….the national deficit remains at a staggering 1.7 billion per year. Not acceptable.
Our deficit was barely 550 billion prior to Obama. If he can come up with these savings then get em……..and balance the budget.. Then a national VAT to pay for Health care and to pay off the debt both in the same time.
The facts of the matter are simple that the Democrats under Obama have gone mindless and are in a spending frenzy that they know will never offer itself to us again.
Its Christmas time in America!!!!!………….SPEND…SPEND…SPEND…dont worry the hangover will only last……
The REST OF OUR LIVES!!!!!
OH yeah About Palin? Let her write her book. Theres more important things to worry about then Sarah Palin quitting as Governor of Alaska.