What A Sharp GOP Senator

An interesting quote having nothing to do with Palin from this item. An anonymous GOP Senator opines:

One GOP senator questioned whether Palin has enough gravitas for voters to trust her in tough economic times.

“If the economy implodes, I don’t see her as having much of a chance,” said the lawmaker, ...”

If the economy implodes?? What an idiot. Next time please identify them so we can make their particular economy implode by putting them out of a job.

As for the Alaska Gov, I've no idea if Sarah Palin is viable for 2012 and don't really care about any potential candidates for now. There's too much else going on in the interim. However, I certainly don't want a GOP establishment with the smarts of the anonymous Senator to simply sink Sarah Palin for their own motives. Obviously, some of them have precisely that in mind, or we'd be reading their names.

Comments

[Ragspierre]

Hmmm... Last time I checked, Alaska's economy seems to be doing so well, they give money back to citizens. That sort of seems like a recommendation or something.

There were a lot of "anonymous" Senators shooting off their blowers about Palin last night. Reminds me of a bit of wisdom about the Senate: 100 wannabe presidents, all thinking they are the heir apparent.

[mark l.]

a little more of the quote from the same unspecified senator...

---said the lawmaker, who noted that Palin’s national political ambitions have caused her political troubles at home. “She has also taken on water up there in Alaska.”

hmmm...

"Sarah Palin's Approval Rating in Alaska is Crashing. When Will the Burning Start?"
The last poll numbers we had showed Palin's approval rating at 59.8% (sum of very favorable and favorable ratings) and her approval index (very favorable minus very unfavorable) at +14.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/sarah-palins-approval-rat_b_198658.html

so huffington post is providing links to the crash and burn of sarah palin, pointing to the fact that she has a 59.8% approval rating.

realclearpolitics has obama's average, today, at 59.6%.

great. we have a gop senator who reads the liberal blogs, and BELIEVES them.

[Evil Red Scandi]

In any event, trying to pick a good Presidential nominee for an election three years out is like trying to pick the Superbowl winner 3 years out: it's purely an exercise in mental masturbation.

[syn]

"If the economy implodes,"

Obviously the anonymous Senator has no idea what means Gordian Knot; the one Obama created as his means to economic stability, the one which will choke him to death well before he can figure out which rope to cut to get out of his self-made financial catastrophe. Only once can he get away with '1.2 million jobs lost BUT we saved 150,000'

Instead of chocking the American people with his Gordian Knot Obama should done what Calvin Coolidge did...understand that the job of the President is to get out of the American people's way.

[Dave]

Hmm... on one hand, if the economy's still in the tank in 2011, a lot of Republicans will see blood in the water, and it will be a tightly contested GOP primary. On the other hand, Palin is still by far the most charismatic national figure in the GOP, and she's more able to see 'we told you this wouldn't work' than anyone else.

[eaglewingz08]

That GOP Senator was probably Arlen Spectre or Olympia Snowjob. And I bet those two would say Obama had the 'gravitas' for fixing the budget and/or economy. Yet Gov Palin has balanced her budget, created energy programs for Alaskans, reduced tax burdens on her constituents and slashed needless government spending, but she doesn't have 'gravitas', which must be a code word for being a RINO like Schwartzennegger.

[Wally Sandaber]

Eagle. I am not sure if you have heard the hot off the wire news but Arlen Specter left the GOP.

Also, there are two reasons that Alaska can keep spending and reducing taxes: 1) enormous oil reserves and high taxation of the oil industry, and 2) more federal largesse (AKA earmarks, pork barrel spending) per capita than any state in the Union. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-03-22-earmarks_N.htm

I myself want a viable two party system with a thoughtful Republican opposition. But rooting for a charismatic and attractive but petty, anti-intellectual and jingoistic governor will not bring the Republican Party back to competitiveness. Now, that strategy did actually did work pretty well from 2000-2008 but after the foreign policy and economic disasters of that period, can you tell me why moderates are going to go for that flavor again in the near future?

[Dave]

The idea that Palin is petty, jingoistic, or anti-intellectual is entirely a creation of left-wing activists and the mainstream media, who try to typecast popular conservative figures as morons or cynical manipulators so often that it's a reflex action at this point.

[Wally Sandaber]

Pretty easy to typecast Palin with the following well known facts.

Palin is not petty? As newly elected Mayor, Palin fired every single City department head (which had never had such a political spoils system ever) if they had not supported her in the election. She tried and failed to fire a librarian for not burning books. Palin has tried to destroy her ex brother in law AND a kid, the guy who is the father to her grandchild.

Palin is not a jingoist? Palin issued an anti abortion hit piece to be elected Mayor in previously non partisan election. Palin threw red meat at campaign rallies - "Obama pals around with Terrorists;" "As Putin rears his head over Alaska..." Palin has tried to tar other people as insensitive to special needs children after she cut Alaska's special needs budget.

Palin is not anti-intellectual? She could not name one periodical that she reads. She bumped around from lousy state university to lousy state university. She is probably the most inarticulate politician on the national scene since well, ever. Palin actually believes that (after campaigning for it) that she actually was against the Bridge to Nowhere.

Please, please nominate her. I am fascinated by her. But if you do, the wandering in the wilderness will continue.