November 24, 2010
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Sarah Palin Vs. President Obama
Recently in an interview, Sarah Palin indicated she thought she could beat President Obama in the next election. Here is the link: Link
Do you think Sarah can beat President Obama?
Recently in an interview, Sarah Palin indicated she thought she could beat President Obama in the next election. Here is the link: Link
Do you think Sarah can beat President Obama?
Comments (75)
I cannot answer. This is a scenario too horrifying to consider.
@ZombieMom_Speaks - Agreed. I’m officially going to have nightmares.
At this point, Obama couldn’t win anything even if he only ran for dog catcher. That’s the issue, not Sarah Palin.
If she ever wins, well that’s it. I’m buying me some potassium cyanide.
i agree with my brother in that sarah palin isn’t real, and she is just a running tina fey joke that will not end until palin wins an election and tina can reveal herself and make a mockery of the intelligence of our country. =]
Not a chance. Palin probably lost McCain three or four states just for being the VP on the ballet. I can’t imagine how swing states would react to her as the actual presidential nominee. Not like there are many other viable candidates on the Republican side…
PALIN 2012!
Nope. She’d quit halfway through her campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcmmLvAYqkI
watching everything go will be interesting. It’s kind’of like the forth of July. There’s a psychological high in losing everything.
A pollster announced today that Huckabee would be Obama by 6% and Obama would beat Palin by 6%. Palin and Huckabee v Obama and Clinton? Hmm…
In 2012 maybe. Not in 2010.
@GodlessLiberal - The issue is Obama, not Palin. Obama is a complete loser and Democrats everywhere are getting that sinking feeling because they know that to be true. Nobody takes him seriously anymore. Abroad he’s a laughing stock. And at home he’s a complete catastrophe. After what’s happening at our airports thanks to the TSA how can anyone look at Obama and not laugh?
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i know that if she does i am moving out of this country.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - I wish I could like comments lol
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - And how can anyone look at what happened at airports under Bush and not weep?
@bluepillorredpill - Democrats just don’t like democracy.
No problem at all.
If she gets the Republican nomination, I’m fleeing the country.
I don’t know, but if she does win, can you imagine her inauguration ceremony?! Remember Bush’s? Unlike walking to the White House like past presidents in their inaugurations, he had to stay in his car. It was almost a huge riot out there! Now imagine her inauguration? Good Lord!
@GodlessLiberal - Bush is long gone. And it’s long past lame to keep blaming him for Obama’s incompetence.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - I was blaming Bush for his own incompetence on this one. Frankly I think the current TSA scenario is horrifying. I do think a precedent was set by the Patriot Act that paved the way for things like this.
@GodlessLiberal - As usual, when faced with reality, you begin hallucinating a change of subject.
I don’t think that Palin will be capable of leading this country by then. She has no foreign policy experience, minimal experience working in US politics, and would not even finish her term as Alaska’s governor. Her cult of personality is the only reason that she will make it to the Republican nomination. Giving political speeches and wearing posh glasses does not a Presidential candidate make. Between the two, Obama would win.
People who don’t listen to the FOX machine and have actually had the time to pay attention know that Obama has done quite a number of amazing things to keep this country from falling into total economic collapse. This year corporations posted their largest 3rd quarter earnings ever. As more and more of the health reform bill kicks in people are liking it more and more. Today a piece of the bill kicked in that requires health insurance companies to use at least 80% of premiums paid by people for healthcare, putting a cap on how much they can use premium money for advertising, bureaucracy and executive bonuses. The majority of Americans are already happy their kids can remain on their policies until age 25 and loopholes allowing healthcare companies to drop people or deny coverage based on preexisting conditions are no longer a worry. General Motors is alive and well and profitable and going public which was the plan from the beginning. It was never a government takeover of the company. It was assistance to keep it alive until it could get back on its feet. Ford Corporation didn’t take a bailout but was behind the bailout of General Motors, realizing that if GM went under suppliers who also supplied Ford with parts and raw materials could not afford to stay alive either. Ford would have likely gone under. Women now have legal support for equal pay for equal work. The TSA is now reevaluating its use of these scanners, something Great Britain had taken 4 years to test before dropping them but let’s not forget 9/11 occurred when airport security was privatized. People on the left and some in the center are disappointed that Obama hasn’t done more, like getting a public option through but there is legislation in the works that will allow states to do that if they can do so viably like Massachusetts has done for example. A group from within the wealthiest people in the country has formed and is coming out in support of allowing the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy to expire. They call themselves “Wealthy Patriots”. Obama has worked his butt off in the face of opposition that only wants him to fail as they stated early on and repeated recently and he has gotten more legislation through than any other President. I don’t think a quittinghalf-term governor has a chance. At least I hope not.
I wouldn’t vote for either of them.
Defer to TheSutraDude for my answer.
Palin doesn’t have a chance and I don’t even like Obama.
Dude, I’d rather @LoBornlytesThoughtPalace be president than that crazy bimbo.
Sarah Palin could beat Barack Obama. However, I think the GOP can do better. I like Sarah Palin, but her resigning from office in Alaska just can’t be overlooked. She made a commitment to the folks in our 49th state that she would be their governor for four years. They were willing to release her to be vice president, but she basically left so she could cash in on her fame and avoid further scrutiny. Republicans have a host of good candidates who could end Obama’s regime including John Thune, Mike Pence or even the Huck. Obama has been such a disaster, not only his policies, but he was personally unqualified to hold his present position and is basically incompetent. Any good GOP candidate will defeat him in 2012.
We are who we vote… So those of us who are concern, seriously, need to get out there and inspire our friends to vote, and read the paper, watch a variety of news sources. If you say you don’t have time, then you don’t have time to whine either! Democracy takes an educated public and that TAKES TIME! So make it, or we will be flaking it to the bitter end!
If the American public had seen a undistorted picture of both, Palin would win. But what we see through the lens of the media is extremely distorted. If one could control what the media focuses on and talks about, it would be ridiculously easy to make Palin look like a borderline genius and Obama as a complete dope (Lord knows he’s supplied enough material for a daily “Obamateurisms” calendar, maybe two of them). The reality is that they are both very smart people who care a lot of this county, but nevertheless human. But the media is still invested in their 2008 portrayals, and they still default to Obama as the sophisticated supergenius and Palin as the mean girl. And they don’t dare give those up, or they might damage their credibility in their own eyes.
@ItIsAllGravy - Gee Wiz, Gravy! Is that the primal scream of the Apocalypse or what?
@Katseye4pirates - I absolutely agree Bryan.
@TheSutraDude - Wait. What? He’s a president who’s doing as much as he possibly can with what he has to work with? I can’t imagine how hard it’s going to be to get anything done if the new House is as uncooperative as I suspect they’ll be, simply because of party line politics.
@ItIsAllGravy - At least she would be entertaining!
@kristinabean - I agree. It’s going to be much more difficult. Republicans said in the beginning their primary goal is for Obama to fail. Mitch McConnell restated this only a couple of months ago in saying that is his party’s number 1 priority.
@TheSutraDude - It makes me so angry. I don’t understand the kind of thinking that puts the interests of a political party (or any one entity) above the welfare of our country. From an international standpoint, if he fails, we fail right along with him. I am incapable of following the logic. Cutting off the proverbial nose, I guess.
@kristinabean - Exactly.
I think Barney the Dinosaur could beat Mr Obama in the next election.
@GodlessLiberal - 100% agreed.
@ZombieMom_Speaks - I second this.
@TheSutraDude - I also second this.
@ZombieMom_Speaks - which, the thought hat she might be in office, or the thought that they would be our only two choices?
@lostonlove - The thought of that mentally ill woman getting elected.
Gosh, SOME people need to stop drinking the Obama kool-aid. Obama’s done “quite a few amazing things”?! Yeah, like trying to turn our country into a socialist society. Trying to tear us down in general. I don’t consider that amazing unless you want to see the USA fall.
I don’t know much about Sarah Palin really…. but let me say that I do think there are probably more qualified people out there to run against Obama. If Obama were to get re-elected I think I’d truly fear for where the US would be by 2016. He does NOT have the USA’s best interests at heart.
yes. and this proves – despite the claims of whiny america-hating liberals – that anything is still possible in america.
what people don’t realize about obama is that #1 it’s difficult trying to… ya know, run a country where #2 you’re caught in a dilemma where half of the people love you, and half want to burn you alive. so whoever thinks palin will win probably watch slyfox and … oh nvm i don’t wanna get attacked today.
no, palin will not win. i’m pretty sure everyone on the planet thinks she’s a moron. who makes up her own words. and can see russia from her backyard. most people don’t want an idiot like that to uh.. protect us.
Nope.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - What are you talking about?
I would move to Canada. really.
@imperfect_smash - I’m talking about reality. Obama ruining this country is happening right this very second. Sarah Palin is a delusional hallucination in minds of deranged liberals. She can’t destroy your health care. She can’t tax you into unemployment and financial ruin. She can’t send you to war. She can’t command a federal agency to stick their fingers up your ass.
Obama can. Obama is.
Obama could be beat by Charlie Brown at this point. The liberal propaganda machine did such a good job on Bush that everyone learned what you need to do to defeat an opponent that thinks different than you. Just consistently insult and joke about and everyone will eventually think it is true. Bush was not an idiot, I didn’t like his policies on immigration and he was a big government moderate, but he was not stupid. Sarah Palin is in the same situation. She has a down to earth, relaxed way about her and she speaks with an accent that is neither east coast or pretentious. So people make fun of the way she speaks and her mannerisms. She is a regular person with some great ideas and to be honest, if Newt or any of the other conservatives get elected they will come in with the same good ideas that Palin has.
It doesn’t matter who wins the primary on the republican side, they will demean them and say they are ignorant and throwbacks from the slave days. Liberals have no way of defeating truth so they just throw slurs and racist comments around at conservatives and think that is going to win them elections. Not anymore, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and Lars Larson are all on patrol and the truth is going out to millions everyday.
I really. Really. REALLY. Hope not. If that ever happened, I’d pack up and move to Canada. Seriously.
Way to give me nightmares.
@kristinabean - I don’t understand that either. You think that they would be more in the interest of cooperation for this country but noooooo..just pettiness all around.
Oh god no. I hope she doesn’t get elected.
I didn’t think anyone actually like Sarah Palin…
… I thought everyone thought she was a bit of a joke…
I can’t answer, mainly because I’m not very in tune with the political world. I don’t even watch the news.
I would probably kill myself if she became president. I mean, it would be cool to have a first woman president… but from my own feminist standpoint, I’d truly be upset because she isn’t interested in what most women need or want. She’s really a horrible role model for women in general, not to mention a fame whore.
There, I’m done! lol
@TheSutraDude - Amen brother! Good to see not everyone in America is a Tea Party nut job out to get Obama. Health care reform, financial industry reform, helped saved the American car industry from going under and help stablized the banking industry to bring economic recovery (albeit slower than some would like)…any one of these items would be a defining acheivement for a presidency and Obama isn’t done yet. Throw in repelling Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, ending two wars and moving the country towards the future of renewable energy to his To Do List and then you’ll be able to get the full scope of his goals. If anything, you might criticize Obama on being TOO ambitious.
@nonurbusinessyo - Thanks for adding more to the list. There’s lots more even. Returning credibility in the eyes of the world was no small accomplishment either. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson suggested Bush could be arrested for war crimes were he to enter the U.K. because of his admission to authorizing waterboarding. Boris Johnson is a conservative. Also citizen arrests would be legally possible as well if officials didn’t arrest him. That’s quite a situation.
Might be the only way Obama gets reelected, she’s one republican I just can’t see much positive with,
It is sad that we’ve come to this, but I sure fucking hope so.
Palin gives us comic relief but she’s a quitter as Katseye4pirates stated. McCain evidenced senility for even considering her as his running mate.
However, there’s a segment of the population that likes sensationalism and parrots Windbag Rush. Even before Rush, Jimmy Carter’s brother was mocked relentlessly and keeping up with that hogwash was more important to a lot than paying attention to the serious business of government. How about letting someone with a problem deal with it in peace and privacy instead of making like a flock of vultures circling overhead? Did anyone listen to Ross Perot when he said that giant sucking sound were all the jobs going out of the country? That was George H. W. Bush’s baby. And when Hilary Clinton wanted to tackle health care, the negative press stirred up so much crap that she didn’t stand a chance. We could be years ahead of where we are if she had been helped instead of hindered. Then we had Dubya, a wetbrain who has left us with more problems than one man could hope to remedy in only two years.
I see that Obama has turned over all the email correspondence pertinent to the BP oil spill so an accurate picture can be gotten of the information he was given from Day One. Good for him! If you don’t like him and can’t see where he’s been doing anything right, at least be constructive about it. We need to get behind him and do whatever we can to help because he didn’t create the mess we’re in. Bush may be gone but his legacy is going to be with us for a long time, so put the blame where it belongs. I’m proud to say I didn’t vote for him.
@TheSutraDude - finally, someone has spoken up coherently for Obama. Thank you.
@bekkabrutality - You just did too. Thank you.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - You’re mistaking Obama for the younger Bush. He’s not laughing stock overseas… Maybe, I should post for you the applause America received when we elected an intellectual LEADER, not an ignorant, lucky FOOL.
As for this post, Palin doesn’t have a chance, the tea party is already falling apart within the Republican party as they are attacking each other. Obama has a great chance in 2012, especially after the greatest IPO of a company (GM) ever. What he’s done and will continue to do is going to give back 10-fold in one year, let alone what it will give back in two.
@xOlonely_dreamerOx - Liberals have a habit of hallucinating alternate realities. Bush and Cheney commanded world wide respect because, for whatever their policies, they were competent. Obama is an inexperienced lop-eared boob who can’t string one coherent thought together without a teleprompter.
He has succeeded in unifying a bunch of go-along-to-get-along politicians (Republicans) better than anyone has done since Newt Gingrich, while at the same time destroying his own Democrat party. Over 680 Democrats were voted out of office on November 2.
That’s the reality that all liberals find themselves dealing with right now.
HILLARY for 2012 – thumbs up to make her the world’s most powerful women – lolz…
Nope, and that’s why I hope she wins the republican primary. But maybe I have too much faith in the American people (which is hard to believe).
Palin will never win. Ever. But then, Obama won’t either. I’d still rather have him than her.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - Both presidents are fairly incompetent; Bush because he was an idiot and Obama because he hasn’t done anything. It’s funny that he calls himself a Democrat when so many of his policies aren’t Democratic at all, but then, all politicians are the same, aren’t they? Wait, don’t answer that; you’ll tell me all Democrats are the same kind of evil and all Republicans are the same kind of heaven-sent warriors of liberty or something.
Also, seriously, Bush was laughed at. Whether he was competent or not–which is highly debatable–he was still a joke. Saying he commaned “world-wide respect” is a hallucination in and of itself.
@typewriterss - You don’t know whether Palin will win or not. You’re just engaging in wishful thinking. At this point Palin has just as good a chance as anybody. Additionally Bush was exceptionally competent. The way he achieved total victory in Iraq is but one example. Just because we may disagree with his policies, has no bearing on his intelligence.
Conversely, Obama has had trouble with ever aspect of his presidency: making appointments that wouldn’t get shot down because of corruption, keeping campaign promises (he hasn’t kept one), keeping his administration from descending into chaos (almost everyone of his immediate staff has quit), constant, verifiable lying, the inability to lead and form consensus, failure to address economic and foreign policy issues without making them worse, etc.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - You’re right, I don’t know; I guess I thought people would assume the “I think” that goes in front of my sentence. However, I have to disagree that she has as good a chance as anybody; she does have a large opposition. It’s still unlikely she would win anything.
I didn’t mention his intelligence. I mentioned that people thought he was a joke, which is undoubtedly true. Actually, why do you assume I think he’s unintelligent? I don’t remember saying anything to that affect.
Obama is certainly not the best President; I won’t argue there. I personally don’t like him, for one of the very reasons you mentioned: he hasn’t kept his promises. Whether it’s because of opposition from the Senate or the House or whoever, or because of his own incompetency, it’s still true. However, I think by this point any politician would be unable to fix this mess we’re in, or at the very least it would be extremely difficult.
@typewriterss - You not only mentioned Bush’s intelligence, you assaulted it. In your own words:
Both presidents are fairly incompetent; Bush because he was an idiot and Obama because he hasn’t done anything.
Words mean things. If you call someone an idiot you are referring to his intelligence.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - Haha, I completely forgot about that. Yeah, that was my bad. Completely. Sorry about that. I probably should’ve reread my comment to make sure I hadn’t mentioned that, but alas, I didn’t.
Regardless, for the sake of the discussion, I know nothing about his policies; I base my judgement on the ridiculous things he spewed while on office. It’s called a Bushism, and it’s hilarious, and it obviously didn’t come from an intelligent man.
@typewriterss - Bushisms? How about Obama saying we have 57 states and needing a teleprompter to talk to 6th graders? Every president makes faux pas (though Obama & Biden are in a league all by themselves). It comes with the territory of having to speak while under one whole lot of pressure. Liberals are very cavalier in demonizing and denigrating the opposition. That’s why you conveniently forgot that you called Bush an idiot.
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - You seem to forget that I completely agree with Obama is inept. He’s really not done anything for this country. But then, Bush wasn’t so great either. I only talked about Bush not being the smartest because you already said Obama was unable, and I didn’t want to repeat you.
You’re right, I forgot about that, but I’ve already taken ownership for that mistake. Oh, and I’m not a liberal, but thank you for grouping people together. That’s not bigoted or anything
@TheSutraDude - Well said, and I agree with you. So many people are too busy to find fault and fail to educate themselves and find out what is really going on. The mainstream media in this country is also seriously flawed which I think is a huge factor….
That being said, all this is nothing new, with each president, with each generation there is always spin and confusion.
Good grief. Perish the thought.
@mammaquiet - True. There always has been spin and confusion. It’s so important to check facts. The ability to think critically doesn’t hurt either.