Poll: Palin is still Republican's pick for President

[ElNono]

I'd like to see actual proof that independents suddenly started to like her. I don't know anybody that changed the way their think about her since last year's election.

[Spurminator]

Ok, a lot of this post is true about the childish insults and bashing just to bash Palin.

But for you to insinuate that there are only a "few compelling arguments" against her as a credible politician is laughable.

Yep. I think it was a bold last-ditch effort by the GOP to nominate Palin, knowing that the inevitable onslaught of media scrutiny of her personal life and qualifications would embolden a good number of Republicans.

For a while I thought it might work.

[coyotes_geek]

I'd like to see actual proof that independents suddenly started to like her. I don't know anybody that changed the way their think about her since last year's election.

Ditto. As an independent I'm not buying that she's suddenly becoming popular with independents. Those on the far right that love her and those on the far left that love to hate her are keeping her in the spotlight, but that has nothing to do with indepenedents.

[EVAY]

Unfortunately, this is true of Palin too. She is more thin skinned and even less substantial, ideologically speaking, than Bush. And she lacks his political cunning. Her Republican opponents, should she choose to run in 2012, will tear her to pieces in the primaries.

Palin is a quitter and an airhead. She should rest content with the fortune celebrity brought her. Very simply, she lacks the mettle and judgment for higher office. Beside the financial fracaso last year, Palin is the main reason John McCain lost to Obama. She put off GOP realists and independents. She will again, if she runs.

I actually think that she IS content to pursue the fortune that celebrtiy brought her, and that is the reason she left the Alaska Gov. office. You are right on in your assessment that she lacks the mettle and judgment for higher office, and you are correct that McCain's wretched judgment regarding the financial mess and the Palin pick is mostly what doomed his candidacy.

She does not care about governing, as evidenced by her decision to leave office when it got tough in favor of 'cashing in' on her fame with books and speaking engagements. She can make a potload of money catering to the populist extreme right ( see Limbaugh, Beck, etc.), but that does not mean she wants to govern. She just wants to make a lot of money for opining. And the extreme right will support her in that endeavor. Playing coy about a possible run in the future for higher office keeps the far right interested and willing to continue to pay to hear her. They have that right. But I really, really believe that the Republican Party will not allow her to be their candidate.

If, for some incredibly stupid reason the Republicans actually DID pick her as a presidential candidate, I would be forced to do something that I have never in my life done prior to this moment...I would be forced to give financial support to a politician...whoever ran against her.

[EVAY]

Sounds very similar to McCain's jaundiced reasoning for picking Palin - because the media had betrayed such sexism towards Clinton, the electorate would naturally transfer their affections to Palin, regardless of her ap ude. It was cynical then, and still is. She is wholly unqualified for office, regardless of gender, and most sane people see that.

You know I was struck by the cynicism of the selection at the time, also. I thought I was the only one who recognized it. McCain really, really blew it badly with that pick, and with his position during the fiscal crisis.

Some Republicans want to believe that the public was infatuated with Obama and that is why he won. Actually, I think that a lot of us who had voted Republican in the past were so appalled at the last 8 years of Republican misrule, and at the decisions McCain made repeatedly during the campaign, we voted against him to try to communicate something to the republican party.

I have tried over and over again to convince Republicans that the last vote reflected more anger at Republicans than it did endorsement of democrats or Obama.

I have to say that I think they've missed the message, however.

[AussieFanKurt]

Palin. What a ditzy