It is Official: Palin is Running in 2012 against Obama.

[SuperTrouper]

She is talking as if she were the nominee. Seriously, it looks like she is setting up her platform. McCain is just an after-thought. But she won't make her to the GE 2012, she'll be in jail or soundly defeated in the Primaries. Thanks but no Thanks Sarah...

[Callalily]

1. Well in reality, I think

she's running for Prez right now. She is totally dillusional.

[Orangepeel]

2. Hah! Well, we'll see if the rest of the republican herd rolls over for her

That might be an entertaining primary.

[SuperTrouper]

4. I think Kay Bailey Hitchison will definitely run and so will Romney, Huckabee

Ghouliani, and Jeb Bush, too. it will be so wonderful seeing our favorite a-holes killing each other...

[stolivodka]

5. The fiscals would start walking and never look back.

Sarah Palin doesn't have the mojo to break the Reagan Coalition. Her "broad support" among Republicans is just partisan mindhos playing pretend that they like their ticket as much as we like ours. Palin will go back to AK, get censured, and then lose the next election. If she's really, really lucky, she'll get that corrupt AK senator's seat when he goes to jail. More likely, she'll leave politics and go back to not raising her kids full-time.

[Orangepeel]

22. She'll be a pundit on Fox.

[Essene]

38. they already have...

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7397118#7397136

[immoderate]

7. That's what I was thinking.

She'll have to take on the gauntlet of Republicans. If Obama is doing well, it will be the second stringers (except they're all second stringers.) If Obama appears vulnerable, she will have to take on their best in the primaries. Can she do it on her meager talents? :rofl:

--IMM

[still_one]

3. If we win, palin is finished. The transformation of the republican party into

the hard right neocon body that it is will be out of power for quite some time

It will take them years to regroup

God help us all if Obama and the Democrats don't win the White House and Congress

[StreetKnowledge]

44. Don't worry.

The Democrats already own the House and Senate. When Obama wins the White House and we have 60-65 Democratic senators, the GOP will have to go back and regroup. It'll take a while to flush the garbage out of the system there. The only candidate this time around that could possibly make it is Romney, because at least he has something of a brain.

I'm hoping Washington has the smarts to tell Dino Rossi to f*** off again. That's my primary concern right now.

[ClarkUSA]

6. Good luck on her getting through the GOP primaries... they won't observe any niceties

Her record makes Romney's flip-flops look positively statesmanlike.

[ShortnFiery]

8. She doesn't have the intelligence and/or capability to think on her feet. She's a puppet. eom

[BearSquirrel2]

34. Since when has the japetto factor ...

Since when as the japetto factor been a problem in GOP candidates. Reagan, Quayle, Bush Jr. ... They prefer them stupid. They're easier to overwhelm with information and control through sheer incapability.

[ginnyinWI]

9. Oh bring it on!!

She is currently running a negative-20 in approval ratings. Favorable: 36, Unfavorable: 56! :rofl:

[gauguin57]

10. Well, the National Enquirer will now have four years to keep digging.

If they can get more info on Palin's affair with her husband's business partner, maybe all those family-values Fundies will look at her in a different light.

Shit, I forgot. She's a Republican. She can f*ck anyone or anything she wants, and they'll find a way to forgive her/excuse her (while still pointing fingers at Bill Clinton).

[Generic Other]

11. Republicans are stupid but are they THAT stupid??

She's a loser. By 2012, everyone will know it.

[tosh]

13. I predict - by 2012 she will be forgotten.

[stuntcat]

48. YES!

lol, Yay finally a question I know the answer to :blush:

She IS a total loser, just not to THEM.

[GalleryGod]

12. She's the Flavor-of-the-Month Snowbilly Pole Dancing Douchebag

Sure! I'd like her to get the nomination!:applause: :evilgrin: :bounce:

[dkofos]

14. She will be out of politics after she is impeached as gov.

[rurallib]

17. In the current repug party, that would only give her more cred.

[Maestro]

15. Well she may lose whatever "looks" she has left

and therefore will not be popular with repukes as they only vote on image any way. They like their PILFs (Politicians I'd Like to @#!$). :eyes: Oh and the world ends in 2012 too. :sarcasm:

[treestar]

31. Yeah, exactly. She'll be 48 and on the verge of menopause.

She'll be having hot flashes, not running for Prez. Her fan base will have discovered someone sexier by then.

[Retrograde]

41. Hillary Clinton's 60

and a fine looking woman. I know many fine-looking older women. And menopause isn't the end of a woman's life: if nothing, I think women become more capable leaders as they mature: maybe it's compensation for no longer being breeders - they have to get by on brains and abilities :)

No matter how old she is, Palin will still be a self-centered, ignorant ambitious twirp. A combination of Bush's intellect and Cheney's ruthlessness - the worst possible mix.

[treestar]

45. I agree with all that

I was pointing out the idiocy of the right wing base and their attitude towards women.

[npincus]

16. can Rich Lowry hold an erection for that long?

[SuperTrouper]

19. Not even Cialis can help there...

[rurallib]

20. he probably has taped all of her appearances just in case.

[Higher Standard]

18. After dragging down the ticket in 2008

I think the Republicans are going to spend the next four years trying to put as much distance between them and her as possible.

[Bensthename]

21. Romney will run too. She wont make it past him,

[Essene]

24. I fully expect Romney to trash her in the coming 3-4 weeks.

And i mean... TRASH her. He will try to utterly destroy her credibility.

[SuperTrouper]

26. And Pawlenty will bring long and sharp knives to put the Perra down

You know that Pawlenty feels that Perra stole the VP slot...it was all his, even Scumborough told him so in his show Morning RNC

[Marsala]

27. I think he'll wait until just after the election

Then he'll bash the hell out of McSame AND Failin. Romney will attempt to paint himself as the closest thing to the "true conservative" the right wing believers wanted.

[Essene]

37. yes, unless it becomes 100% sure mccain will lose... then he strikes early

because it looks less reactionary

[Seen the light]

40. You don't understand the Republican Party then

Palin will win Iowa, Romney will win New Hampshire, Palin will win the tiebreaker in SC like McCain did against Romney and that will break Romney's back again.

It's Palin's to lose. If she wants to be the nominee then she will.

[polichick]

23. She represents the fringiest of the fringe - hopefully 4 years of...

...an Obama presidency will render extremists like Psycho Sarah something of the past.

[Overseas]

25. Or her Reality TV show, Governor Barracuda, premiering January 18th

will be such a big hit that she won't need politics any more?

Or I suspect that part of her agenda is to push Drill Baby Drill to get that pipeline going so she can get her perks from that.

But the Palins aren't hurting. http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/102345

Here's a clip from the Alternet article:

4. Sarah Is a Totally Down-to-Earth American (Who's Got More Than a Million Bucks)

In these times of financial crisis, many politicians are scrambling to seem like one of the people, folks who understand the hardships of economic struggle. Sarah Palin is no different, except maybe that she isn't having that hard a time of it. With her roughneck, sea-fishing, moose-hunting Alaskan image, many people don't find it hard to think of Palin as working-class. And she's milking that image for all it's worth by calling herself an "everyday, working-class American."

Too bad that's total B.S. The governor of Alaska gets paid $125,000 annually (a paycheck that isn't exactly working-class), and according to the AP, she and her husband's combined 2007 income and estimated property and investment values are worth at least $1.2 million:

The Palins' assets seem enviable: a half-million-dollar home on a lake with a floatplane at the dock, two vacation retreats, commercial fishing rights worth an estimated $50,000 or more and an income last year of at least $230,000. That compares to a median income of $64,333 for Alaskans and $50,740 for Americans in 2007, according to the Census Bureau.

Show me a millionaire who claims to be working-class and I'll show you a liar. Show me a self-described "working-class" person with a plane, and I'll show you somebody with burning pants.

[krawhitham]

28. please, after this election we will never hear of her again

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

29. Based on your subject line...

I was going to ask you what flavor of crack you were smoking.

I agree, she THINKS she's a viable candidate for 2012. But the fact is she's going to get her ass handed to her in the 2010 Alaska governor's race, and she'll be a political footnote (like Geraldine Ferraro) by 2011.

[lumberjack_jeff]

30. The next four years will make that idea a joke. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

32. Well, golly gee whiz, that's just such a mavericky thing to do, God Bless her, you betcha. nt

[BearSquirrel2]

33. Look at the signs closely ...

Look at the signs closely and you'll see that "Palin" is written in a slightly larger font than "McCain".

[SuperTrouper]

35. You're right, now I notice them. McCain is toast

[Bryn]

36. I highly doubt she'd be running against a democrat candidate

She will not be able to run against other republicans. She'd get knocked out quickly by other republicans even before votes in the primaries. She can try for our amusement, though :+

[ZeitGuy]

39. If she lasts that long as a politician (which is doubtful),

...she'll never make it out of the primaries in one piece. There are as many establishment moderate rethugs that fear her ascent in the party as there are Democrats and progressives.

[SuperTrouper]

42. She'll try but she'll fail. Remember how badly Quayle fared? She is worse than Quayle

[ZeitGuy]

43. It boggles the mind and strikes fear into the heart.

But it's true...Lawd help us.

[Matariki]

46. In four years, she'll be four years older.

And since she's running on her looks, her snark will be even uglier by then.

It's simply not going to happen. She was a has been last week.

[TwilightGardener]

47. She'll be a joke in four years. And a footnote.

[Ilsa]

49. Smart, Republican women like KBH will eat her lunch.

I bet the talk in GOP women in politics is that they don't like her as a candidate, having not paid her educational and political dues. She's a flash in the pan. The only way she can run is to graduate from one of those evangelical law schools with low bar pass rates.

[d_b]

50. heh.

She's an expendable nobody.


Romney '12.

[WinkyDink]

51. She's a one-off.