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Palin: Looking to 2012?

Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:24 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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Politico’s Roger Simon asks: Is Palin prepping for a bid four years from now? “Sarah Palin may soon be free. Soon, she may not have the millstone of John McCain around her neck. And she can begin her race for president in 2012. Some are already talking about it. In careful terms. If John McCain loses next week, Sarah Palin ‘has absolutely earned a right to run in 2012,’ says Greg Mueller, who was a senior aide in the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes. Mueller says Palin has given conservatives ‘hope’ and ‘something to believe in.’” 

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and we all have seen how successful Buchanan and Forbes were in their bids...people can't accept her as vice president, let alone president.
Now that we have had a chance to see the Gov. of Alaska..it only goes to show their is a defined reason why people from Alaska endevour for the things they have and cling on to..The fit for the rest of nation is not a match at all. Sarah Palin has no position on hi-tech commerce, trade, education, defense, agriculture, HiWays and infrastructure, healthcare, the elderly, stem cell research, advanced research, National Security, Americans affairs, foreign affairs, military affairs, prison systems, pollution and environment, energy, NAFTA, CAFTA, labor .......just to mention a few...I least I never read or heard of any..she sure knows how to
stroke McCain and criticize Obama and Biden...
Give me a break!  This woman has no need to continue in political life.  This is the best the Republican party can offer?  Lies, abuse of power, more lies.  Nonsensical talk.

Obama/Biden '08
Never gonna happen.
This lady has only been governor for about a year...Mueller, Buchanan, Forbes are acting like school boys in love with the pretty high school cheerleader.  They're drooling all over themselves. Although the chances of her being a VP this time around are looking bleak(thank God)there is still a long shot. This lady has to go back and study a bit and do her job for a while.  She needs a bunch of work before she'll be ready to be president, or VP, for that matter.  
Sarah should run for the new country of Alaska.  She and her hubby want Alaska to succeed from the union anyway.
Are you serious? Run for what? She has no experience, no mind of her own, not even a classy family or style! Just like McCain has been saying about the whole $150,000+ on clothes, she got thrown into this race and wasn't prepared fashion wise or intelligence wise! She will fade away after they loose.
hilarious.....bozo the clown 2016!!!!
This woman is leaving behind her a sick feeling in the pits of stomachs, conservaive and liberal. The republicans know if they let this woman scratch her way to the top of their party, they are lost. The part of the republican party that is in love with her are the worst, extremist of all negative types. Low information voters , voters with a lack of education and extream religious views. The real conservatives, the smart people who sit in the back ground and make money cant stand this bimbo. They thought they could control her because she is stupid,(like Bush). Not Sarah, no one can control her, she is going to stupid all over the place and no one will remember her name
in 2012. Forget her ,shes trash

Obama/Biden
marty
It will be interesting to see how she fizzles while running her own campaign so that the delusional people who still believe that she is qualified to run anything can finally see for themselves what kind of a leader she would make.  Also, wouldn't she have to keep her job in Alaska before she could be remotely considered as a viable candidate for 2012?

Carlos Jean-Gilles
Saint Louis, MO
OK I screwed up.  I always said women are a bane and good for you know what!  Hey, she's eye candy.  I wanted Joe but everyone was screaming and blah blah blah about this and that and all I want is the big chair.  What is wrong with this country?!  Maybe I should get dual citizenship like all Bush and Cheney's buddies.  There's gotta be a country I can win somewhere.  
Once upon a time John McCain’s albatross was George Bush...then it was  Sarah Palin...then it was George Bush....then it was Sarah Palin.  He inherited George Bush...he chose Sarah Palin!!!

The fact that John McCain invited this barracuda into our living rooms has diminished him.   And now this barracuda has left McCain in the dust and she's begun her bid for 2012, there is no doubt. Her albatross...John McCain!  This campaign has officially imploded.
Nov. 5th, 2008 agenda start campaigning against Palin for 2012.
she won't have John McCain as a Milstone around her neck, she will troopergate as her milstone. She is not the reformer the gop makes her out to be. When the elections are over Palin is not going to have all the gop lawyers blocking reporters from digging into her past. No one as ever quetioned her association with the Alaskan indepence party, or the fact that the Alaska Pipeline deal was structured to eliminate all but one company "TransCanada". Her political career is dead. Palins'skeletons are waiting to come out.
Vomit!
We can hope Mueller will be every bit as effective on behalf of Palin as he was for Buchanan and Forbes.

It remains unclear, though, whether McCain or Palin is the millstone around the other's neck.
Palin is the BEST the republican party has to offer?  Really????

You know, I heard on t.v. the other day, someone saying that the republican party needed to re-invent itself.  It could either choose to become the party of Sarah Palin, or it could choose to go back to the small government, fiscal spending party it used to be.  What they chose would make the difference as to whether there will be a republican party left in the future.  I can't help but agree.  I live in a very republican area, and my husband was also republican.  He is voting for Obama this year and has said exactly the same thing as stated on t.v.  He is tired of the republican party pandering to the Christian right neocons.  He said the party is no longer the party he used to believe in.  It will be interesting to see what happens.  I cannot believe that someone who is so uninformed and so ineligible to be president is now being touted as the next republican candidate!


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