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Mixed emotions on Palin in 2012

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 11:16am.

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By Steven C. Day

Let's face facts: the chances of Sarah Palin ending up as the GOP nominee in 2012, of lightning actually striking, are probably pretty close to zilch. To begin with, she probably won't even run: she's plainly a gal who likes easy money more than hard work. And even if she does decide to take the plunge, it's hard to believe she could survive the primary fight so as to actually claim the nomination of even as mentally unbalanced a party as is today's GOP. As to this, I agree with Steve Schmidt, McCain's former campaign manager, who recently said that nominating Palin would be catastrophic for the Republican Party.

Still, lightning on rare occasions does strike (just ask Chicago about 1871 . . . oh, wait that was a cow not lightning wasn't it?).

Anyway, what's most intriguing about this for me involves the question of just exactly where my rooting interests should lie. Do I want Palin to win the nomination?

I mean, if she were to score the nomination it would make Obama's reelection a virtual lock. On the other hand, if elected she would make George W. Bush look like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and FDR all rolled up together in comparison.

So do I want Palin to be the nominee because of the high probability it will help keep the GOP out of the White House? Or do I want her to crash and burn short of the nomination so as to preclude even the small possibility she might actually get elected?

I'm frankly undecided.

LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE

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Easy Cash Plan

Submitted by skyreader7 on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 4:14am.

Isn't the name of the game to keep her name in the spotlight so she can continue making the "easy money?" Then she will run, but it will be for show only.

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Bet the farm that the ...

Submitted by quousque on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 10:00am.

... 2012 GOPer candidate will be an Americanized version of Hitler.

Lettece spray that the odds of her/him/it being elected are less than the percentage of our fellow citizens resistant to reality and incapable of rational thought.

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Wouldn't chance it

Submitted by smchris on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 7:30am.

The media have three more years to build the idiocracry base.

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What's Barry Done To Deserve Palin 2012?

Submitted by neoconned on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 4:49pm.

The tragedy inherent in the idea that Palin is a serious 2012 candidate has to do with the growing fact that Obama doesn't deserve to be re-elected. He's done little but waste time on surrendering to the minority party, squander the American treasury, get us deeper into two wars with the possibility of expanding into as many as three more, all as the American people sink deeper into a morass full of GOP vipers about to poison them with hatred and racist vitriol.

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PNAC - 2012 - stakes are too high

Submitted by Atmost11 on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 3:39pm.

Palin or any other Republican President would certainly try their very hardest to carry on with PNAC, Project for a New American Century.  A dumb leader for a dumb plan, to plunge America into wars so big that the blowback and resulting opportunities to take advantage of the blowback in order get rid of the Bill of Rights, couldn't be stopped.  Iran is the bathtub where Conservatives hoped to drown America economically.  2010 is another matter - in 2010 if the Democrat Majority gives us the mandate and no option, forget it, Democrats weren't planning on using their majority anyway.  Zero Support in 2010, Joe Wilson for Judiciary in 2010. 

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