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2010-02-07 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2010-02-07 06:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I do like her charm and wit, but she needs to be a cabinet official in a new administration before she runs for Pres. She certainly wouldn't get the kid gloves treatment by the press which the Kid in Chief got.

Posted by HammerHead 2010-02-07 10:00|| 2010-02-07 10:00|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-07 11:39|| 2010-02-07 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Clean-up, aisle 2. Aching for the hook

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-07 11:48|| 2010-02-07 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I say the "clean-up" is in Washington, not aisle 2. I've venture he'd receive no challenge in a face off. It is what it is. Let the man speak his mind freely.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-07 11:57|| 2010-02-07 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 If he dis speak his mind freely, he'd get the hook for sure. Either one.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-07 12:03|| 2010-02-07 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Jim: don't do that again. You've been warned.

So has everyone else.

AoS

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-07 12:11|| 2010-02-07 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 I do NOT want to see Palin run for president in 2012. Although she's more qualified that Obama to be president (I mean who isn't), I don't think she can win. Between the (continuing) hatchet job the media will do and sabotage by supposed "allies" in the GOP she'd end up losing. And this country will not survive eight years of an Obama administration.

Posted by DMFD 2010-02-07 13:00|| 2010-02-07 13:00|| Front Page Top

Redneck Jim, you're skating really close to being banned. There are very few things that get people banned here. One of them is repeated race baiting of the not so subtle sort you're indulging in.

Enough.

And Besoeker coy little periphrases around racist language are out of bounds at Rantburg - by anyone.

Posted by lotp 2010-02-07 13:24|| 2010-02-07 13:24|| Front Page Top

#9 jeez. I'm ignorant. I had to look it up

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-07 13:56|| 2010-02-07 13:56|| Front Page Top

#10 That's not a sign of ignorance, Frank - it's a sign of decency.

Posted by lotp 2010-02-07 13:58|| 2010-02-07 13:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Palin at this point is nothing but a distraction. The liberals were wholly effective in destroying her image when she ran last year. Of course, she enabled them with some of her extremely weak responses. She serves no one but the left who use her as a charicature of a conservative, pushing that charicature forward in order to hide or obfuscate the conservative message. The more she stays in the background the better, although I doubt her ego will permit that.

Posted by remoteman 2010-02-07 14:11|| 2010-02-07 14:11|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-07 14:13|| 2010-02-07 14:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Mrs.Palin is following as similar trajectory as Ronald Reagan. She should continued to hone her communications skills in mass media as she has started to do already.

If she is good for 2012, she should run, but my gadvice would be she should continue in the mass media until 2016. By then she will be unstoppable.

Posted by badanov 2010-02-07 14:25|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-02-07 14:25|| Front Page Top

#14 couldn't disagree more, remoteman. I'm with Bad on this, but I think 2012 is way too early for her. She should build her credentials, learn, and build her party stature and base

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-07 14:32|| 2010-02-07 14:32|| Front Page Top

#15 periphrases - English plural of periphrasis from Greek peri around, near and phrasis speech . FWIW

It's been 37 years since I took classical Greek as an undergrad, but I do remember the basics.

Posted by lotp 2010-02-07 14:36|| 2010-02-07 14:36|| Front Page Top

#16 This is Sarah Palin's "GE Speaking Tour" moment, for those of you who remember the real Ronald Reagan.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-02-07 14:48|| 2010-02-07 14:48|| Front Page Top

#17 She has a whole lot of work to do IMO to establish her credibility. Quitting as governor was not something that did that for me.

Posted by remoteman 2010-02-07 15:04|| 2010-02-07 15:04|| Front Page Top

#18 She has a whole lot of work to do IMO to establish her credibility. Quitting as governor was not something that did that for me.

It's called shaking loose of your attackers and IMO it was a non-obvious and necessary tactical move on her part, one which yields nothing but benefits.

Posted by badanov 2010-02-07 15:07|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-02-07 15:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Obama tries to counter Palin's popularity:

Obama-Palin

In case the pic does take

Posted by badanov 2010-02-07 15:13|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-02-07 15:13|| Front Page Top

#20 Reagan spent years doing his GE speaking tours. Palin has a long, long way to go to come even close to his body of experience. She is light.

Posted by remoteman 2010-02-07 15:28|| 2010-02-07 15:28|| Front Page Top

#21 I also didn't know what it meant either. I take it doesn't mean Hockey Night In Canada....

I think she should wait and hone her media skills and simply _show_ people she isn't the bimbo the media portrayed her as. Between that and get a top notch team.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-07 16:45|| 2010-02-07 16:45|| Front Page Top

#22 I take it it doesn't mean Hockey Night in Canada

No, it doesn't, especially when tagged as an 'old southern joke'.

Posted by lotp 2010-02-07 17:09|| 2010-02-07 17:09|| Front Page Top

#23 Reagan had Screen Actors Guild Presidency, then GE under the tutelage of Lemuel Boulware (for whom Roger Ailes may prove to be a stand in, and then 8 years as Governor of California. That's a lot of experience. Few are in that league. Palin certainly isn't. Which is too bad, because she appears to have her head screwed on straighter than anybody since Reagan.

(I had to look it up too, which really surprised me as I do know what HCMFIC stands for.)

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-07 21:46|| 2010-02-07 21:46|| Front Page Top

#24 I like Palin better than anyone else in the hunt for 2012. We could pick much, much worse...and usually do.

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