The Silver Lining

The ticket in 2012:

We survived two terms of Bill Clinton.  We survived Jimmy Carter.  We survived LBJ.  We are the greatest country on God's Green Earth, and we will survive the next four years.  We simply need to stay true to ourselves and to our principles.  Our time will come.

More to follow over the next few days...

Comments

[MizDi]

That is exactly the ticket I told my mom we should watch for last night. I hope to God you're right. I only wish I had a countdown clock so I could see when the Obamaniacs finally have their "Ah Ha! Moment" and see what they're responsible for.

I'm definitely grieving today.

[Yomi Mizuhara]

It took me 4 hours to go through all 4 stages of grief.

My only prayer is that something good happens in regards to the job market. If that works, then things will be fine.

Thankfully, I won't have to worry about caring about politics from this moment on.

[joshreynolds]

2012? How about 2010. With DeFazio practically announcing he is running for Governor, the R's have the opportunity to take another congressional district in the 4th in 2010 with Mayor Leiken likely to run.

[Patrick Joubert Conlon]

Meanwhile Palin or Jindal for chairman of the RNC?

[Gullyborg]

Neither. They need to do EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING, that is, GOVERNING.

Fred Thompson for party head. Put Romney in charge of fund raising. But keep Palin and Jindal doing real work and gaining real experience.

[Yomi Mizuhara]

Gully, I have info.

Expect Palin to go after Murkowski in 2010.

Expect Jindal to run in 2012 with someone from the Senate that's either elected in 2010 or a high ranking house member.

[Gullyborg]

Palin might run for the Senate. Or she might just run for re-election as Governor. That will depend on who else does what in Alaska.

Jindal might run for President in 2012. Or, he might skip the primary and lobby for VP. My guess is he does the latter, because if Palin runs, she wins the primary without much contest. She will get pretty much every Republican woman to vote for her, plus a chunk of the men. There is no way she can lose, especially if more than one man is also in the race.

Of course, that could change depending on what happens over the next two years. Palin might fall off the radar due to something unforeseen, or another candidate might suddenly surge ahead.

But odds are, Palin clears the field in 2012 and the real battle is the battle for VP. I'd like to see Jindal. But Palin might wind up with an "elder statesman" to balance her ticket. It's hard to predict. But my choice is Jindal. He is a policy wonk who can bring the best ideas to the ticket, he is YOUNG (no more old fuddy duddies please) and he brings color to the party.

Best thing for him to do is lay low during the primary, then energize the campaign with a sudden appearance on the ticket the way Palin energized McCain.

Seriously, Palin was the only reason McCain even kept it close. McCain could have won this race by doing two things differently:

1, stand up against the bail out by offering troubled banks (and everyone else) a corporate tax reduction instead, and

2, unleashing Palin instead of holding her back

Hmm... unleashing Palin... scratch what I said before about Palin governing. She NEEDS to run for the Senate in 2010. Unleash her on the Congress and let her be like Newt in 1994.

Yeah. Senator Palin. Then President Palin.

I'm liking this!

[OuiOui]

Palin? That's the best you can come up with? The provincial dimwit who thought Africa was a country and who couldn't name the members of NAFTA? Good luck with that. At least she's bulletproff when it comes to witchcraft... or so I heard.

[Yomi Mizuhara]

Hey, WeeWee, since when do you believe anything or everything coming out of the news?

Kill yourself, please, you lemming.

[Gullyborg]

This from a guy who thought a serial rapist was ok even though he lied about "never having sex with that woman."

Just remember, the dimwits all thought Reagan was an idiot. They said he hurt the GOP in 1976 and would never win the nomination or the general election in 1980. The dimwits told GHWB the best thing he could do would be to distance himself from Reagan - making him a one-termer. The dimwits told the GOP the best chance of winning this year was ignoring the conservative base and going for the mythical moderate independent swing voter.

Look how well the dimwits did in all these cases.

Palin could very well be the next Reagan. She has four years to gear up for it. Consider this: a year ago, if you had said to her "you will be on the ticket this coming election," she would have laughed. Being VP was not on her radar at that point in time. So when folks started to seriously consider her for the job, she was underprepared. Yet, when crunch time came, she delivered. She proved she is politically capable, a quick study, and able to adapt rapidly to a national campaign.

That was with months, not years, of prep work. Compare her to people like Hillary Clinton who have been preparing to be President since before attending Wellsley College. Now think what Palin can be like four years from now, now that the conservative base has embraced her and is eager to nominate her. She'll have four years to immerse herself in every national policy issue. And, assuming she runs for Senate in 2010, she'll have two years on the national stage in D.C. to learn the inside details. Best of all, if she is a sitting Senator for only two years before running in 2012, she still has her "outsider" appeal and can run as a true reformer instead of a corrupted insider.

It's a good thing. And while Obama spends the next four years being blamed for everything (no more Bush, no more Cheney, no more Republicans to kick around), Palin can stay outside attacking for most of it. And it will be awfully hard to criticize her so-called "lack" of experience if she runs as a sitting Senator and former Governor and Mayor. That will be a better resume than Obama had this year, for sure.

Oh sure, you can attack her because she went to Idaho U. instead of Harvard. But then, GWB went to Harvard and Yale... just like most of those people who caused the banking meltdown. I think America is ready to give up on the merits of elite education - at least in the context of the national popularity contest known as elections.

So bring it on, liberal barking moonbat. Bring it on.

[OuiOui]

It doesn't matter whether or not the stories about Sarah Palin are true or not. Perception is reality, and the Republicans most of all should understand that. After all, they managed to get this country into a war based on the _perception_ that Iraq had WMDs. Perceptions are powerful things. The whole WMD thing has been debunked for years but a sizable portion of the public still believes we were days away from a mushroom cloud over an American city. Heck, I'd bet you're one of them. Four years from now Palin will still be remembered as that clueless MILF from Alaska.
The Republican Party is going to do what every party in trouble does. It's going to let the hard liners into the driver's seat, and this doesn't bode well. We've already seen a primary debate where half the candidates raised their hand to indicate they didn't believe in evolution. If the Palin wing has its way what will the 2012 primaries look like? We'll probably witness a candidate express his doubts about gravity. My bet is on Joe the Plumber. Ya betcha.

[Gullyborg]

You must REALLY be afraid of a ticket with Palin on top to be attacking the not-even-existing ticket this far out. Obama hasn't even been sworn in yet, and you are already afraid he'll have his ass handed to him on a platter in 4 years.

[Yomi Mizuhara]

Hey, asshole WeeWee:

Iraq DID have Weapons of Mass Destruction. It's been proven! We found some! And there were current as well. It was reported by Reuters!

You're a scared little man who needs his nuts chopped off.

[Gullyborg]

Easy, killer. Let's beat them with a positive message and intelligent ideas.

[Yomi Mizuhara]

That's difficult to do when your opponent has neither intelligence or positivity.

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[Born Skeptic]

Sarah Palin may be a viable national candidate in 2012, but she has a tremendous amount of homework to do for that to be the case.

Let's face it, she was not ready for a national race this time around.

The questions she flubbed with Katie Couric shouldn't be that hard--answering a question about which newspapers and magazines she reads with "all of them" is a big-time rookie mistake.

Presumably she now has a better idea of what a national race is all about.

I wouldn't rule her out in four years, but she has to show more than she has to make it a slam dunk.

[Born Skeptic]

Sarah Palin may be a viable national candidate in 2012, but she has a tremendous amount of homework to do for that to be the case.

Let's face it, she was not ready for a national race this time around.

The questions she flubbed with Katie Couric shouldn't be that hard--answering a question about which newspapers and magazines she reads with "all of them" is a big-time rookie mistake.

Presumably she now has a better idea of what a national race is all about.

I wouldn't rule her out in four years, but she has to show more than she has to make it a slam dunk.

[Bill Holmer]

The proof of Sarah Palin's viability as a candidate in 2012 is the way Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, Jack Bogdanski, and the rest of the looney left, continue to bash her, three weeks after the election. If they weren't worried about her, they'd ignore her.

[Reality Bites]

Sarah Palin is about as likely to be elected President in 2012 as Bill Sizemore.

So much for Bill's "vindication".

The question is, is it going to have ramifications for Parks and Wendt? If they contributed to a "charity" that they new was a sham to be used for political purposes, they could be on the hook, too.