Who do you WANT to win the GOP nomination?

[JJones]

Pawlenty

[Jasengle]

Romney

[TheGreatOne]

Right now I will go with anybody but Thune and Palin (even Obama over Palin).   

[nhmagic]

Marco Rubio - but he's not running til 2016 at least

Of the people we have, Palin, shes the only one who can match key Obama strengths in money, enthusiasm, and get out the vote potential.  She's also the one that most rats hate the most - which means she is the one we should pick to be our candidate.  If they hate her, its because they know she's the one who can beat them.  She's not as articulate as I'd like, but we have an articulate, arrogant and incompetent president now.  As long as she's competent in governance - like she was in Alaska - I'm not really concerned about the flaws.

[Poundingtherock]

AZ,

She's clearly getting better though in the way she expresses herself.  Check out her tough interview with Wallace last Sunday (kudos to Wallace for pushing her as well).

[zorkpolitics]

In order of preference: Pawlenty, Thune, J Bush, Romney, Pence, Daniels, Palin, Gingrich

[ScottM]

AZ,

She's clearly getting better though in the way she expresses herself.  Check out her tough interview with Wallace last Sunday (kudos to Wallace for pushing her as well).

That was a great interview. Wallace practiced real journalism, and I really do think Palin handled herself well.

[useful idiot]

AZ,

She's clearly getting better though in the way she expresses herself.  Check out her tough interview with Wallace last Sunday (kudos to Wallace for pushing her as well).

"How's that hopey changey thing working out for ya?"

Get real....she sounds like the moron that she is. She couldn't even name one of the founding fathers for Beck, and then when Beck actually called her out on it she mentioned George Washington because he had said he admired George Washington fifteen minutes earlier. Nominating Palin will make the Republican Party completely unelectable nationally.

[TheGreatOne]

Marco Rubio - but he's not running til 2016 at least

Of the people we have, Palin, shes the only one who can match key Obama strengths in money, enthusiasm, and get out the vote potential.  She's also the one that most rats hate the most - which means she is the one we should pick to be our candidate.  If they hate her, its because they know she's the one who can beat them.  She's not as articulate as I'd like, but we have an articulate, arrogant and incompetent president now.  As long as she's competent in governance - like she was in Alaska - I'm not really concerned about the flaws.

Sarah Palin isn’t just inarticulate.  She is ignorant, uncultured, dumb, and annoying.  You can tell whenever she speaks that she has no idea what she’s talking about, and her main ideas have absolutely no substance.  She is clearly not well versed in Federal politics, and her alleged strength in energy is a complete myth.  For example, what does Sarah Palin know about nuclear energy, turbines, wind power, and solar energy?  I can tell you right now that McCain, Obama and Biden all surpass her knowledge regarding this subject.  What is her feeling about our current Federal tort system?  In this case, Obama and Biden clearly have superior knowledge over Palin.  How about inner city poverty?  Obama knows much more than Palin about this.  How much does Palin know about Russia, China, England and Germany’s system of government, besides her opinions that each of these countries are socialist and communist?  She has never thought about any of these things during her time as Governor.  Many of the programs she is credited for have absolutely nothing to do with her.  Worst of all she quit because she couldn’t handle the media and wanted to become filthy rich.  Therefore, she is still unqualified to become President, because she quit after two years of Governor and has a limited knowledge on every issue.  
In addition, her interview skills are absolutely horrible.  She was on Glen Beck and she couldn’t answer who her favorite Founding Father was.  Glen Beck called bullsh**t and she stuttered like a dope and then said George Washington because Glen Beck had just mentioned him.  She was on Opera and she couldn’t tell us her favorite book.  She clearly hasn’t improved since the Katie Couric interview.  Worst of all she claims that she was caught off guard by the question, “What’s your favorite News Paper?”  It wasn’t like she was asked, “Who played center for the Giants in 88?”  Simple questions confuse her because she doesn’t think when she speaks.  She tries to remember what she was told before the interview or what the party’s platform is.  Palin is a joke and I don’t think she has the intellect to greatly improve.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Newt Gingrich

[useful idiot]

Haha, I would love a Paul-Nader ticket.


You seem too smart to be sporting red avatar at this point. Why not break free and change to a green independent avatar?

The red avatar is too aesthetically pleasing to give up

[TheGreatOne]

AZ,

She's clearly getting better though in the way she expresses herself.  Check out her tough interview with Wallace last Sunday (kudos to Wallace for pushing her as well).

lol softball questions and she still sounded like a dope.  Palin needs to be interviewed by other television stations besides Fox News and come out of it sounding good before we can say she improved her skills.

[Poundingtherock]

Softball questions?

Even TIME thought Wallace was a complete professional who pushed her really hard.  Did you even watch the interview?

That's probably the toughest interview anyone has gotten all year except for any Chris Matthews interview with a Republican.

[TheGreatOne]

Softball questions?

Even TIME thought Wallace was a complete professional who pushed her really hard.  Did you even watch the interview?

That's probably the toughest interview anyone has gotten all year except for any Chris Matthews interview with a Republican.

I could care less what TIME magazine writes.  I watched that interview and Wallace laid down and didn't ask follow-ups that were sufficient.  Some of her answers were completely hypocritical.  For example with the abortion question.  She said she wanted to empower woman.  It made no sense because the Federal Government is not giving woman any power.  The Federal Government is getting into the lives of women by taking their right to privacy away.  Chris Wallace didn't follow up with any good questions.  He did nothing to trip her up, and she won't get that on Fox News.  She will get that on CNN or MSNBC.  Just like I think Obama would get it on Fox News.   She also said she wanted Holder to step down because of political differences, which is just absurd.  When she said that Rahm Emanuel should step down because he said 'retard' that when Wallace should have said, "Well your being accused by your son in-law of calling your son a 'retard.'  She also said that Rush Limbaugh was allowed to say  'retard' because he was being satirical even though Rahmwas being satirical.  She's a dope and apparently a hypocrite, but I could have told you that before this interview.

[TheGreatOne]

Palin is not going to be challenged as much on Fox as she would on MSNBC or CNN.  That' s just a fact.  Just like Obama would be challenged more Fox than on MSNBC.

[Poundingtherock]

So you really have a problem with what she said, not how she said it and how she asserted control over Wallace.  That's called interviewing technique.

Of course you are going to disagree with her assessment of politics.  You have a different ideology.

Nobody is claiming that Wallace didn't push her except for you.  She just prevented him from getting the upper hand and that's what all good politicians do to their interviewers.  They take advantage of them and move the interview in their direction.

[Poundingtherock]

For example, there were rarely any of the pauses, stumbles, umms, uhhhs, or improper uses of the word of "like" that Obama often uses in his unscripted interviews.

[Poundingtherock]

Wallace didn't ask her about her son-in-law's comment because there is no proof that she said it besides his word.  Emmanuel admitted that he used the word at issue.

If you have no proof and there has already been a denial on her part, why would Wallace ask it?

It would be akin to someone asking Michelle Obama if she used the word "whitey."  There's no proof that she did, so why ask her?

[Lincoln Republican]

ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY   

[Mr. Morden]

Wallace did OK in terms of how he handled personal questions, like double standards over the use of the word "retarded".  But all of the policy questions were paper thin, and he never really challenged the premises of her answers.  The closest you get to a tough question in a Chris Wallace interview is something like "Don't you think President Obama deserves some credit for the recovering economy?"

But then, most of the rest of the media isn't much better in this regard, so there's no point in singling out Wallace.

[nhmagic]

Lest we forget - Obama didn't give policy specifics all the way until his convention speeches.  Even then, his version of change was unclear to the populace at large.  We knew (it was Marxism), but the public didn't and that's why he's getting such a backlash now as they realize it.  Palin's not being specific until she runs in 2012.  On the campaign trail she's going to take off the kid gloves and reveal what everyone's been waiting for.  She will have articulate policy positions, real plans and in the end, if our country is still being run into the ground by Obama, she will be the next president.

Watch the old debates when she was running for governor of Alaska.  She was fast, intelligent and very articulate.  She beat two people and won the governorship in a year when a democrat should have won against a popular former governor and a conservative independent who took votes from her.  Palin is lowering expectations big time in preparation for her run against Obama.  This hand notes thing was a total fake out - she did it just because she knew she would get attacked for it, and the White House fell hook, line and sinker for it.

[Smash255]

Lest we forget - Obama didn't give policy specifics all the way until his convention speeches.  Even then, his version of change was unclear to the populace at large.  We knew (it was Marxism), but the public didn't and that's why he's getting such a backlash now as they realize it.  Palin's not being specific until she runs in 2012.  On the campaign trail she's going to take off the kid gloves and reveal what everyone's been waiting for.  She will have articulate policy positions, real plans and in the end, if our country is still being run into the ground by Obama, she will be the next president.

Watch the old debates when she was running for governor of Alaska.  She was fast, intelligent and very articulate.  She beat two people and won the governorship in a year when a democrat should have won against a popular former governor and a conservative independent who took votes from her.  Palin is lowering expectations big time in preparation for her run against Obama.  This hand notes thing was a total fake out - she did it just because she knew she would get attacked for it, and the White House fell hook, line and sinker for it.

Ahh yes this stupid act is just some elaborate plan by Palin so people think she is dumb, and then all of a sudden she can show how smart she is.....  Yes and I suppose that Couric debacle was all part of this plan as well....

[nhmagic]

Lest we forget - Obama didn't give policy specifics all the way until his convention speeches.  Even then, his version of change was unclear to the populace at large.  We knew (it was Marxism), but the public didn't and that's why he's getting such a backlash now as they realize it.  Palin's not being specific until she runs in 2012.  On the campaign trail she's going to take off the kid gloves and reveal what everyone's been waiting for.  She will have articulate policy positions, real plans and in the end, if our country is still being run into the ground by Obama, she will be the next president.

Watch the old debates when she was running for governor of Alaska.  She was fast, intelligent and very articulate.  She beat two people and won the governorship in a year when a democrat should have won against a popular former governor and a conservative independent who took votes from her.  Palin is lowering expectations big time in preparation for her run against Obama.  This hand notes thing was a total fake out - she did it just because she knew she would get attacked for it, and the White House fell hook, line and sinker for it.

Ahh yes this stupid act is just some elaborate plan by Palin so people think she is dumb, and then all of a sudden she can show how smart she is.....  Yes and I suppose that Couric debacle was all part of this plan as well....

I think the Couric interview is a legitimate criticism, just as legitmate is the way we criticize Obama for saying "corpseman" and saying there are 57 states.

[Poundingtherock]

I'll give Obama a break on corpseman.  But it's just pretty bad for a guy that the military families already disdain (see the Quinnipiac polling) to make that type of mistake.

[TheGreatOne]

So you really have a problem with what she said, not how she said it and how she asserted control over Wallace.  That's called interviewing technique.

Of course you are going to disagree with her assessment of politics.  You have a different ideology.

Nobody is claiming that Wallace didn't push her except for you.  She just prevented him from getting the upper hand and that's what all good politicians do to their interviewers.  They take advantage of them and move the interview in their direction.

No, my problem is that she hasn't been in a tough interview.  She only dominated because Chris Wallace let her bullsh%t.  That would never have happened on Chris Mathews.  There would have been 3 or 4 tough follow-up questions and Palin would have been forced to give us substance or look like an idiot.  That's not going to happen on Fox News.  And I"m not saying she did a bad job because of policy differences.  I could care less about abortion or political correctness.   Take off the Palin goggles and start analzying things with some impartiality.