(CNN) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's rock-star status could solidly position her to lead the Republican Party in four years, but former top Bush aide Karl Rove said the "marketplace of ideas" will ultimately decide her political future.
"Republicans believe in markets, so the marketplace of ideas will decide what the answer [to her future] is," Rove told NBC Tuesday. "These people are going to get out there, campaign, offer their ideas, offer themselves."
Palin has declined to say whether she is officially interested in seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, but has left open the possibility. Palin's popularity among the party's base and firmly established name-recognition would likely mean instant top-tier status should she decide to throw her hat into the ring.
But ultimately, Rove said, Republicans need more time to get to know Palin before embracing her as the party's future.
"Remember she was on the stage for nine weeks in the general election - that’s not a lot of time," he said. "Now we are going to get to a chance see her over a longer period of time."
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Time to start the hateful comments, lets go everybody have fun.
The pill-poppin' pig and the lipstick-wearin' pig. What a pair. There you go, GOP – the future of your party.
palin go away!!!
My hope is that Gov Palin be the great hope of the Republican party!
I mean......if she's the best they can come up with, they are pretty much nullified as a viable party for a good generation or so (LOL) !
GWS, Republican party!
Karl who?
Karl Rove is irrelevant. Why is he getting any press at all? He should be brought up on felony charges in connection with the Valerie Plame outing.
This country will never be ready for a person like Governor Palin to be our president.
Thank goodness!
Palin and Rove. Trailer trash and just plain trash.
If she is the party's future, it will seal their fate. What happened to all of the smart people in the GOP? Did Bush throw them out?
Some people are expectin' her to learn somethin' in the next few years. Good luck with that.
Sara is the best hope for the U.S. and the Democrats. It will keep the country on the upward swing if she gets the GOP nomination in 2012 as the exposure will highlight the Republican objectives.
Please Republicans run Governor Ding-Bat in 2012. I'm not in the mood to see Obama in another competitive race.
First IMPRESSION is what counts and Sarah Palin's was HORRIBLE.
Rove is obviously feeling as useless as he is. Who cares what he thinks Sarah Palin's future is in the Republican party? Why doesn't he do something besides sit on the sidelines and throw out his self-appointed important opinions? He has done nothing for this country, that's for sure.
Palin need to stay in Alaska and fix her daughter problems who is really Bristol baby daddy the true will come out soon. Palin go home we dont need you in Georgia.
Why hasn't Rove been arrested for contempt of Congress??
If anyone who posts here ignored a subphoena, you would have the authorities knocking at your front door in no time flat. Rove is an ordinary citizen who is not above or beyond the law or the Constitution.
Rove and Palin are a perfect match.
No integrity or honor, spewing and supporting hate and division
in our country, phony and will try and do anything to further their
agenda.
Their middle name is sleeze. Their actions and words are lies.
Sara, go and stay home, Rove, go to prison where you belong.
Why does the media keeping reporting on what Karl Rove has to say? Has he did enough damage in the past eight years?
Why must CNN report on what Karl Rove says once or twice a week? Seriously? He is now irrelevant to today's news.
I have a market place idea...Obama should appoint Rove as emissary to the most remote place on Earth...the South Pole!
And the Moose Lady as emissary to Santa Claus.
What a barnacle.
Oh please just let her go away!!! At least for a couple years – maybe in that time she can learn the English language (although as a journalism major – you'd think she would be well spoken), learn that foreign policy knowledge is just that – knowledge about other countries, that the lower 48 don't have huge oil revenues to distribute to their citizens thus guaranteeing a huge approval rating, that they also have poverty, crime, environmental problems as yet unseen in itty bitty Alaska (the population...), that you can't govern a country with the same skill set you govern Alaska.
I have a market place idea...Obama should appoint Rove as emissary to the most remote place on Earth...the South Pole!
And the Moose Lady as emissary to Santa Claus.
Get a conservative to run for once.
It's been a long, long time since we've seen a real conservative run for President.
BTW Sarah you are not conservative. Not even close.
get rid of the Bible Thumpers and look "conservative" up in the dictionary.
I just hope Rove gets to see the inside of a prison for an extended time.
Rove is actually right about this one. She's too gimicy and shallow to be considered a serious contender and the republicans can do much better. If they can't then the GOP is a lot of trouble or they've overlooked a gem.
Sarah Palin was not qualified to be President then, she is not qualified now, and she will not be qualified in 2012.
Why do the Republicans STILL insist on perpetuating this lie?
"Marketplace of ideas"? In the [R] party? Man, that is way funny...did Rove steal that phrase from Robin Williams? The republicans consistently put up intellectually diminished candidates, and they want us to believe that there is a thriving marketplace for the analysis of their inanity? What a fairytale. I think there are healthier intellectual marketplaces going on in kindergardens throughout this country.
A [R] marketplace of ideas...now THAT is pig with lipstick!
Just like Palin, CNN appears to have a love affair with Rove too.
Why they give any attention or credibility to what this criminal thinks
is beyond me.
Time to move on CNN. The republicans lost, regardless of your
undying support.
It won't make any difference.
'Stupid is as stupid does'
'First impressions matter. '
'You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear with lipstick on it.'
See Sarah Palin..................... I can talk in 'Bumper Sticker' too.
Loser only has one 'O' people.
Looser is when something is loose, just like Palins shifting opinion
about whether Africa is a country, or whether Homosapians and Dinosaurs lived at the same time.
Anyone who can't see through this spoiled child is an idiot. She does not care about the USA. She just cares about herself. WAKE UP
why is Rove not behind bars yet???
But Palin doesn't have any ideas, just talking points. Her followers are downscale whites with no education or they are religious fanatics. That's not enought to win.
Honestly, and I am an Obama voter and two-time vote-against-bush voter, Karl "Turd-Blossom" Rove has seemed much more reasonable of late.
One thing I cannot believe, is that Palin could POSSIBLY lead the Republican ticket. The only way I see that happening, is if things get much better over the next 3 years and there is no way for Obama to lose re-election. Then they might make her the sacrificial lamb.
Turning her into Presidential material would be like turning William "The Refrigerator" Perry into a Wide Receiver (and I mean now, not even when he was playing)
HA....... 'the marketplace of ideas"!? What ideas did McCain or any of the Republicans offer ......... other than the usual, lies, hate, fear and division?! ALL we heard from the Republicans were attack ads, vile lies and division mongering!
Rove and the rest of the Republicans will not "get it"! They are too blinded by ambition to ....stop......and THINK. Republicans can not win with the vile politics, it will backfire every time.
America IS SO sick and tired of the Limbaughs, Hannitys, and OReilly's that have kidnapped the Republican party! These mindless talking heads with their narrow small minds WILL destroy what's left of the Republican party! We are already seeing what their vitriolic speak has done to the GOP.
Until the Republicans reject hate, lies, fear and division, they WILL continue to LOSE! And.........Palin is a joke.
A little-discussed problem with the "marketplace of ideas" catchphrase: the marketplace of ideas determines only the monetary value of ideas, not their objective value.
I for one wish that Gov Palin would go back to Alaska at least for a while and regroup. Here is a mother with a special needs child, a young pregnant daughter who is supposed to get married in a situation where statistics show such marriages fail and I'm sure her state needs her there. I think it should be "Mommy Time" for her since they are always talking about family values. You put Country First, then Politics First, then Family on the backburner? She is caught up in the lime light and can not seem to let go. Go home for a while Gov Palin..maybe even read "Joe the Plumber's" new book. She is going to wear out her welcome soon and that may not be good for the GOP.
This dedicated public servant has not been in the capital of Juneau since she was placed on the Republican ticket. Hummmm...everybody bashing the intelligence of the folks in Alaska may have to rethink. Sarah's down here and not up there!
I would think any endorsement by Rove would have to be the kiss of death for politicians these days. But the "King of Lie/Deny/Blameland" has proven to be pretty slippery before!
In the "marketplace of ideas", Sarah Palin represents all those useless items hawked by the likes of Billy Mays and "Vince for ShamWow".
I know enough about her already to know that I will NEVER vote for her.
2012? That is when President Obama's second term begins! Who does she think she is?!
WHY is she popular? The woman can't string together a coherent sentence.
Please Dear God let her run in 2012! Palin is a caricature and there is nothing she can do, short of getting a doctorate from Oxford, that will change that fact.
Republicans are morons if they think that is the future, and if 2008 taught them anything it should have taught them that the base is NOT enough, and is shrinking with every year that goes by.
If Republicans are looking for new ideas, Palin is not the answer. All she can supply is lies, innuendos, and smears.
Sarah has a track record from losing the 08 election for the republicans. I can see why they would want her to be "their new face".
How can this mother of a serviceman justify campaigning for Chamblis? I would not be surprised to learn that she doesn't KNOW what he did to Cleland. I truly believe her to be the most ignorant politician in this country.
She is a looser.
This is an indication of how light-weight the leading candidates are for the Republican leadership, going forward and further evidence of how badly the Party was damaged by "W's" discombobulation and incompetance.
Enough of the idiocracy, Republicans. Americans deserve better!
Roger May
Toronto, Canada.
She need to go back to school and learn geography, history, political science and who and what present and past politicians have done so the next time they interview her she will be able to to response without any problems.
Good luck to her!
She is much better than Obama, as a human being with character, integrity and morality, traditionally. Only time can time, given all the problems, at home and abroad. Obama only politicized the economy for personal ambition, not much more. We still do not him, his past and all the skeletons in the closet, as well as we know John McCain, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy. Voters beware, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Peolosi, Micheller Robinson Obama and so on have their own ambition, in the long run, and human nature is imperfect! They are no angels.
Will some one please stick a fork in this trailer trash Wasilla hillbilly – she's done on the national political scene and is of no use to anyone, even the GOP...
It makes sense really for Palin to run in 2012. If Obama runs for re-election, the Republicans will need a sacrifical lamb in the election.
This way, it gives Republicans 8 years to figure out who will lead them out of the abyss they're in right now.
You simply cannot fix stupid.
As a liberal I sure hope she runs in 2012, the GOP is going to be in the wilderness for the next 8-12 years, so please GOP nominate Palin.
The GOP is so out of touch and for Palin to be the face of the GOP says it all. Mainstream America is in a polar opposite of her position.
Good luck in 2012, well I guess she's need it or whoever the GOP nominee is.
Palin is the bet thing that's happend to Democrats in years! Look's like my community dog catcher has a real possibility of leading the Republican ticket in 2012.
I dont know or maybe its just me...anytime Gov Palin talks without reading from prepared script..I could make any complete sentence out of whatever she says...I stand corrected..If others can understand her.
The message to Mr. Rove and Ms. Palin is the same.
GO AWAY!
If there is a marketplace of ideas as Rove suggests perhaps she should be consigned to the livestock section. If not perhaps she would have a hard time gaining admittance since admission would require ideas of some kind– not her strong suit.
I would love it if the repubs nominated Palin for president. That way us rational, intelligent Americans can reelect Obama. Karl Rove is a pig without lipstick.
We have seen all we need to see of Sarah Palin. There is not much substance there at all. She won't be presidential material, even in 4 years because she will not be able to handle the problems facing this nation and she has not convinced anyone she even has a brain. We can't get through our troubles because she is "popular"
First of all, Karl Rove is a disgusting human being... why does he get any media coverage at all?????
Secondly, I can NOT believe any thinking Republican would even consider Sarah Palin for the 2012 Presidential nomination. This woman barely has a brain– why on earth would you consider putting her in any position of responsibility.
I'm guessing if Alaska held a Governor's election again right now, she would NOT win it. I think the good people of Alaska have seen she really is a somewhat of a joke. She may have given out big oil rebate checks this year, but wait until they see what happens next year with the price of oil down 50%. She literally raided the state treasury to bolster her popularity, and it will come back to haunt her next year.
To think that I once thought Karl Rove was intelligent.
"Remember she was on the stage for nine weeks in the general election — that’s not a lot of time,"
Only 9 weeks! It seemed like an eternity! I hope to God we never have years of it.
9 weeks was more than enough to last a life time.
Palin will have to do so much to counter all of the "questionable actions and statements" she has made before reasonable people will even consider thinking about her as a candidate for anything national. She is just an ideologue who doesn't really demonstrate that she knows what she is talking about. I would be surprised if she did run for the nomination. If she did make it any where for the nomination (or got it), there would be no way that she could win it unless the Democrats did something really stupid.
the mccain/palin ticket lost so why does the media continue to push her forward like she really has the potential to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land – it's not palins fault that she thinks she's all that....it's the medias – quit writing about her and she will go away!
God Bless President Obama, VP Biden and the First Families
The world already know that Rove is an idiot, so who cares. God please let's not get started on the other idiot from Alaska.
Who cares what Karl Rove says....
I hope Gov. Palin is the new face of the Republican Party. I sure as heck hope she runs for President 2012 or any year. She is the best case ever to keep the Republicans home.
What is wrong with Tim Pawlenty? Even as a dem I like him.
Much respect and admiration for Ed Rollins, I can honestly believe what he says
Enough has been said about Palin. It would please me if she dwindled into obscurity...where she belongs!
Marketplace of ideas? Please.
Her mind is as empty of ideas as the Alaskan wilderness is of skyscrapers.
Unless you want to count unvaunted, overweening ambition as an idea...
ENOUGH ABOUT PALIN..... FIND SOME NEWS TO REPORT.
She's about as interesting as a desiccated moose turd.
So far Sarah Palin has "said" nothing. She just rambles on and on jumping from one thought to another without finishing a complete sentence! Why, oh why, would anyone actually think this person should be the next president! The right wing evangelicals (religious "sheep") who don't think for themselves just jumped on the bandwagon because she's against abortion and "professes" to be a religious person. Please...this woman is a disgrace to any religion, is stupid, self-centered and a complete narcissist!
If you can't say something nice about Sarah...
Market place of ideas? Like fear? Like thanks but no thanks then again run Palin she helped the dems quite a bit. Rove is a pardon away from being in prison and when W leaves he is fair game.
Palin doesnt have a fate or a future in the Republican Party,she just doesnt get it ,shes just being used like a cheap diaper.Momma said to come home and eat our supper now Carl,before they take you to prison
First impressions aren't everything. A lot of us spent weeks of observation learning that what Sarah Palin has to offer isn't right for us.
She seems to stand mostly for ignorance, superstition, and mendacity, and America's pretty full up on that stuff.
Republicans believe in markets? I think it's more like Republicans believe in rigged markets, particularly those that favor them!
Sarah Palin will make a great president! Rove is right, she needs to focus on getting her message out. She also needs to focus on gaining foreign policy experience by running for the open AK senate seat in 2010.
Palin/Rice 2012
If she's the Republican's leader, I feel sorry for them
(for once).
As any dem worth their salt will tell you, having Palin in the spotlight is the best thing that ever happened...for Obama!
she is popular with racist, bigots, hate oreinated people, the very things that are what america does not stand for, be wise republican party, get rid of this mill stone. SHE IS A RACIST!
This is what I think of Ms. Palin's fan base...
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
Those with just half a brain can see through to the heart of this nimrod. Keep your eyes on this snake, boys and girls. She is a danger to our very existence.
"Rock star status?" So is Palin the GOP version of Brittney spears? Maybe they could appear together as part of an attempt to revive their sagging careers. Or maybe they could compare notes to see who is the most vapid, how loud the wind whistles when it blows through their ears, etc.
The Republicans just don't get it, do they? They keep throwing her up there like she's the new face of the party and we'll just keep smacking them down. I guess they didn't take enough of a trouncing on election day!
What does he mean they don't really know her? They were supporting someone to be a heartbeat away from running this country and now they say that they ( Republicans) don't know her? So does that mean they were setting us ( US ) up with someone whom they don't know? Who is this Republican Party? What do they want? What are they trying to do to this country?
As a self-professed Christian, I don't see how Ms. Palin could run again.
She herself stated that God's will would be done in the election. Barack Obama's landslide victory was as clear as statement of his will to Sarah Palin, Pat Robertson, Hagee, and anyone else as that Burning Bush was to Moses.
She herself prayed that God not let her "miss an open door". Well, he closed the Ted Stevens Senate seat "door" pretty firmly to Ms. Palin's attempt to sty relevant on the national stage.
Sarah, you had very little credibiility some 12 weeks ago. If you put forth God's will as your justification for running but then God clearly does not bless your path to National political office, and yet you still force the issue, you have ZERO credibility with any religious American.
Let it go lady ...
I definitely support Gov Palin's bid in 2008. In fact, the Republicans should run her uncontested.
I can't wait to see how this nation will react to another "airhead" presidential candidate from the party that brought us that dummy demagog: George Bush Jr.
The majority of the country have Carl Rove's number and the ironic part is Sarah Palin helped make that happen. No one cares what he thinks or says anymore, his days as as a power broker are gone for ever. Sarah Palin is like a car I had once, looked good, but didn't work worth a dam. The country needs a intelligent ,articulate team building President like Obama not a hockey mom from Alaska. This woman got lucky and got elected governor and that is where it should end.
As a self-professed Christian, I don't see how Ms. Palin could run again.
She herself stated that God's will would be done in the election. Barack Obama's landslide victory was as clear as statement of his will to Sarah Palin, Pat Robertson, Hagee, and anyone else as that Burning Bush was to Moses.
I suspect that once the Republican Party has a chance to regroup and look more closely at potential leaders, they'll find they can do much better than Sarah Palin.
Seen her, don't like her and this country don't need her and her ideals. This woman is a racist to the core. This is a better country with her in Alaska. Stay home Sara.
I'm republican and I can tell you that this Palin crap is getting old. No, she is not our choice for the future and no, a lot of us didn't think she fit the need this first time.
We don't need popular people in office, we need intelligent, hard working individuals of character.
Rove keeps making these insincere, controversial statements just to keep himself in the news. Sad. It's also sad that the media cover it.
I'm just wondering where she's going to find a stand-in baby to pose as her "grandchild". Isn't the daughter supposedly due in a couple of weeks? Palin's been using little, (what's-his-name?), oh, yeah, "Prop" as her campaign slogan, forgetting that she'll have to come up with another baby for the daughter to fill in the blanks of the story.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave Sarah....
She's a joke, a nobody who never would have been picked except for her half-way decent looks and willingness to say mean-spirited things in a snarky voice.
She's not a role-model: she went back to work 3 days after giving birth to a special needs child; she's got a teenage daughter who's pregnant out of wedlock; she ran a small town and left it $20 million dollars in debt; she has absolutely no ideas of her own; she ignorant of most of the world; she's an intellectual pigmy (who takes 5 years and 4 schools to get a Journalism degree?!?).
Are these personal attacks? You betcha – and all are documented fact, not some made-up smear like the ones she so blithely spews from her pitbull lips.
Enough already – GO HOME, SARAH!
This woman is absorbing all this attention (Her 15 minutes).....But in the End I am sure people will put all the pieces together and find she is just a fool in nice clothes
Karl Rove is sucking up to Sarah Palin because she's the female version of George W. Bush: a hollow vessel, easily manipulated who can bring the "religious right" vote to the table.
If only he would suffer the fate of his mentor, Lee Atwater ...
Good, that means the Dems will win again. This woman is a loser and I love the fact that she's the new face of the GOP.
I think the marketplace of ideas has already spoken about Palin.
It's just that certain Republicans don't want to hear it, and want her to run in 2012 anyway.
In the Marketplace of Ideas, Sarah Palin would be out of business because she does not offer any ideas to anyone. No offense, but this person is as sharp as a bowling ball. There a lot of smart GOP governors and bright young GOP minds out there, but this one is a flickering 10 watt bulb.
For all of you Palin supporters (that would be those who lost this election):
I do sincerely wish that you are able to have Palin run for President in 2012. Sincerely.
"But ultimately, Rove said, Republicans need more time to get to know Palin before embracing her as the party's future."
Wow. But she has 80% approval rating right? How could you guys not really know this broad?
so when is a loser commenting on another loser news?
i have never seen anything like this in all of my put together. what is wrong with people can;t anyone say anything good about . anyone. take a look at yourself and then tell me are you perfect
Excuse me while I go throw up. The only place this woman is a "rock star" is in her own otherwise empty head. It's truly beyond all comprehension how any serious person of any level of intelligence could possibly think that Palin should EVER fun for POTUS. I'm completely dumfounded by the notion.
Hmm, Obama's so-called celebrity status was one of the big negatives among Republicans, I thought, anyway. I love how the media uses the term Rock Star with Palin (vs. celebrity). But, I guess f anyone was more of an approximation of Paris Hilton, it would be Palin.
The best thing the GOP can do for Palin is advise her to get an education as well as her husband and children so they can get off welfare. Palin is way out of her league and how she ever began a governor is very questionable.
Dress Palin is shorter skirts and lower tops and she will be a hit with more guys. The girls already dislike her because she is so stupid and that's a reflection on them and they don't like it. Again, give the boys some more skin and watch her ratings go up. On a serious note, Palin stay in Waselo and watch accross the water at Russia for us so they don't snick up on us!
Palin will do what Palin will do. Why is that spawn of Satan, Rove, doing still in the lime light of the media?
From what we saw in those 9 weeks, it will take at a minimum of 4 years for her to even come close to knowing what she should have known to even attempt a presidential run. That she also bashed the democrats as she did will not win her any votes from them or the more moderate independents. The GOP is on a road to failure with Palin at the top. I just don't understand why any of the top republicans are so afraid to say anything negative about this woman since the election is over. Talk about a bunch of loosers.
Mooseburger
Well, if Palin's ideas are what gets her into the White House the country has nothing to worry about – she has no ideas!!! All she can do is criticize Obama and divide the country with her ugly rhetoric.
Maybe if she took the time between now and 2010 to read a book or two, she might actually have something to contribute. (I say 2010 because that is probably when campaigning for the next election will begin – UGH!), she
Palin is the current standard bearer for the Republican party. She represents style over substance, negative campaigning, pork barrel politics, big government socialism, bigotry and censorship. That is apparently what the party believes in and that is what they will need to run on in two and four years.
Palin has no ideas. She talks fast with no substance. She can't think for herself. No thoughful ideas, just sound bites repeating what she has said in the past. She lacks critical thinking skills. She is the person who talks loud just to be heard and loves listening to herself speak.
Mooseburger is extremely popular with the basa of the Republican Party – a party which is shrinking on a daily basis and has over the past two years lost control of the House, Senate, Presidency, Governors and a ton of state houses/senates and cities.
This is the main problem with the Republican Party – unless you are a far right wing "Christian Evangelical" you can no longer stomach being part of the Party.
Palin should build her resume for 6 years and run in 2016. She can play kingmaker in 2012, which will also increase her stature.
Of course, this means she will have to find a cause other than ambition, book-banning, and energy company profits for 6 years.
And you, Mr. Rove need to be indicted for the crimes you committed against the country. Besides that, you are irrelevant.
Now that we finally have ousted gwb & Co.- can we stop reading what kommandant karl thinks? Please?! He should be in a jail cell!
In the so-called "marketplace of ideas", Palin's will be the only store that has no inventory.
Sarah will have to do something like, find the cure to everlasting life or something like that for me to ever think she is a nothing more than an empty headed barbie who con'd her way into power by using her looks and flirting with the right people. She will never get elected President. Like I said when The Republican Leadership uh I mean when McCain chose her, if you wanted to show diversity and show that women can lead, there were so many other choices out there, Kay Bailey Hutchinson for an example, that would have been a logical choice. But instead, you decided to pick the dumbest, most racisit, most ignorant woman you could find. Good looks and so called small town mentalities will not get you elected President of the United States. And now you are parading her around as the next great thing in the Republican Party???? It's almost if the Republican leaderships want's the Republican Party to disban but instead of just saying it, you do things to make people leave, like promote a unqualified, not so smart, lying, racist, excuse for a woman to be the next leader of your party. That i swhy America is scratching their heads right now.
Rove is a smart man, and I am one who does listen to what he has to say. But regarding Gov. Palin, here rise to fame will be quickly followed by a crash back to obscurity.
If she is the brightest in the marketplace of ideas, Republicans will be waiting 8 years before getting a chance to win the White House.
to know her better is to know what a dumb idiot she is! she is clueless now just like she was clueless for 9 weeks. republicans need to move on or they will never be in control of our country again.
Rove—Palin, from bad to worse.
Rove, whose head is always full of ideas, most of them awful, cannot be seriously considering an empty-head like Palin, who can't string together one coherent sentence, let alone an idea with many coherent thoughts, to lead the GOP.
I mean: Is that the best or even the only person they are considering for this important post?
Sarah Palin must know that one never gets a second chance at a "first impression" I'm not sure she truly understands that her time came, and she blew it.
Sarah Palin is a no show politician who is using her beauty for political gains. My advice is go to Hollywood, Sarah. You will better compete with Paris Hilton and Britney. Don't foul yourself, Miss Alaska, by trying to engage Obama or Biden.
Who else better than to pontificate about the future of the GOP than the guy who helped engineer it's destruction?
All Democrats switch to Republicans to vote for Palin in the primary. This Obama will have a cake walk.
If PEOTUS Obama has a good first term and is highly favored to win reelection (think Clinton 1996) then the republicans may just go ahead and nominate her anyway figuring that they have nothing to lose since they have to run somebody. If she gets slaughtered then they can tell her "hey you had your chance now go away".
What about Bobby Jihal? That is someone who I can respect but of course they will go with stupid Palin because she is white and pretty. Let's see if the republican establishment has the guts to put someone like Jihal on the ticket or are they too scare their own base won't support him and say all those awful things to him that were said about Obama.
She indeed belongs in a market. A turkey market !
Who is taking care of business in Alaska while this hack is running all over "the lower 48"?
Look at the adoring idiot trying to touch the sacred woman's garment hem...
Sarah 2012, counting the days!
The market of ideas will only find bankruptcy in Sarah Palin. She is an anti-intellectual populist demagogue, the high priestess of neo-McCarthism.
If she is the future leader of the Republican Party, you can kiss the GOP goodbye. She is the final nail in the coffin of the GOP. Surely, they can't be serious running this self centered, poorly informed nut case. She can't even manager her own family..
Please, the moment that Palin surfaces in a Presidential discussion, her rivals from both sides of the aisle will continue replaying her constant debacles from '08.
I hate to break it to the Republican party, but just because your candidate is popular doesn't mean that they can be elected President. You've got to have have a head on your shoulders with a brain inside of that head and I'm afraid that is something Sarah Palin lacks.
Why is anyone giving Rove any press?
What ideas, the republican ideas when it comes to the economy have led us into the reccession and hopefully Obama and the democrats can keep us out of a depression.
As evil and corrupt as I believe Karl Rove to be, I never thought he was particularly stupid... until now.
Or maybe he's insane? Does he really believe this spew? Come on, Karl...
Either way, I wish the Republicans would stop trying to push this dimwit down our throats, but if you insist? We'll just reject her again, so whatever.
I have an idea for Gov. Palin:
GO AWAY. Or better yet, stay in the public eye. Let the public get so sick of you that by the time 2012 rolls around you'll be toiling in irrelevancy.
Enough of this woman already! She's about as much a NON-FACTOR as one could possibly get! Let her go CNN let her go!!!!!!!
Haha...I hope she does run in 2012 and guarantee the Democrats another 4 years!! Honestly, the right-wing religious fanatics of the Republican party need to understand that they are the MINORITY in this country. Find someone with intelligence to run in 2012 and maybe I'll come back...
Future? For the Repubs to consider her the "future" is just totally sad to me. Are you telling me that there are no well educated, well versed, competent, & forward thinking people in that whole party? Are you telling me that Palin is better than Guiliani, Huckabee, & Romney? Have all of their contributions to this party been in vain, because this woman can wink, recite practiced comebacks & speeches, & look nice is borrowed clothes? This is ridiculous!!!!
If you are working the gender issue, I know for sure that Rice could of done a better job than Palin while sleep walking. Clinton was able to stand on a stage of men and hold her own. Can all of you Palin supporters say the same? Clinton never used sexism as a crutch not to answer the hard questions, so come up with another excuse for Palin's incompetence.
One thing you can say about Rove is that he is no fool. He probably sees her as another lemon that he can rework and sell America like he did with Bush. Think about it.
Why hasn't Rove been run out of town on a rail yet? This guys is one of the most destructive & divisive political influences in recent history. I don't know anyone who gives any value to what he says anyone......thank god.
She's an idiot and as a fan of Barack Obama, I'm hoping with all my heart for Palin to be the GOP Presidential nominee in 2012!!
"Marketplace of ideas?" He's kidding, right? Sarah Palin has no ideas of her own. She's hardly a serious intellectual (think Adlai Stevenson), lifelong student of world affairs (think George Bush 41), or ideological visionary (think Ronald Regan). She's just kind of there and gotten ahead thanks to favorable circumstances and popular anti-intellectualism. You can't bash people with ideas and win in the marketplace of ideas. Don't take my word for it. Conservative writers like George Will and David Brooks agree.
Republicans, please please nominate Sarah Palin in 2012! This will ensure that Obama/Biden get reelected, and they can continue to rebuild the country after the past 8 disastrous years.
I really wish these two people, Palin and Rove, would just go away.
1. Why is it necessary to report on every word Karl Rove has to say. Hasn't he done enough damage not only to himself but more importantly the country? Can't we finally retire him to the ash heap of history.
2. Will this woman ever go away? How anyone in their right mind could even remotely believe she has what it takes to be POTUS must be living in a drug-induced nether world. If the media would stop reporting on every little thing she does, perhaps she would go back to Alaska and do the job she was elected to do!!!!
Diva is back...
Where is common sense? Where is judgment?
It disgusted me to see her "energizing" the party by blinking and winking..
Yeah, you know...should take about 8 year to fix the country. Then we can get another moron to mess it all up again. Great plan.
if moose sarah palen is the best republicans can come up with.fo 2012.ONLYTHING I CAN SAY.IS BRING THIS WITCH FROM FAR NORTH ON.PITTIFUL JUST PITTIFUL
I am again reminded of the words of the famous polymath Benjamin Franklin "not all conservatives are stupid people, but most stupid people are conservative". The fact that we are still seeing Sarah Palin in the news, and being touted as a future leader is living proof of his wisdom, and a sad testimoney of the idiocy of a portion of our population. And we wonder why our country is in an economic quagmire – really does anyone think she could provide even one solution of merit for the current economic situation, let alone lead anyone out of it?
She's too far right, she'd start WWIII or isolate us futher.
Is Karl Rove a CNN Contributor now??? .. seems CNN has nothing relevant to report
she would be the final nail for the republicans after bush placed them near the grave. the republicans need a new fresh face
I got this cool Karl Rove decoder ring, and this is what it says his comments mean:
"King makers like me run the Republican party. The only idea we care about is power. If the empty suit that is Palin is popular in 2012 we're run her, but if another more attractive empty suit is better we'll go with that. Either way it will be a toady who will rubber stamp the wishes of the party rulers. You know, like what McCain turned into after he won the nomination."
Will Sarah Palin run as a Republican Party or a Alaska Independent Party member.?
And by the way, who cares what Rush Limbaugh has to say. He has the morals and brains of a rock!
She is a political lightweight..........if the GOP is looking to her to lead them out of the shadows, they are in worse shape than I thought. And I already thought the GOP is on the brink of extinction.
Rove and his ilk never bought a thing at the "marketplace of ideas," which is why the GOP is bereft of them now...and why an empty suit like Sarah Palin is even being discussed as future Presidential timber.
If the GOP clings to her, it will only show just how utterly clueless they are about this nation and the wants and needs of its people.
I have faith the Republicans will serve Sarah Palin well. She is still a little rough around the edges but she knows how to get things done who cares if she isnt as articulate as "This one over here" her record shows results not great speeches!
Just what the republican party needs – another moron.
I equate Palin with Jeff Foxworthy's "You're a Redneck..." This is the face of the New Republican Party.
It is really sad that Palin is the best that the GOP has to offer. Can't they find someone with even a little bit of brains and intelligence. It speaks volumes about a political party that is willing to be represented by a brainless airhead who cannot even string a group of words together to make a coherent sentence.
I guess as long as someone is able to spew hate and division they qualify to lead the GOP.
Go for it guys. Hope you will like it in the political wilderness.
I found it very interesting how abruptly (and easily) Rove switched into partisan mode when asked about Bush. Up to that point, he actually sounded thoughtful and intelligent.
Who cares what Rove says about anything or anyone?
My hopes and dreams of not having to hear about this woman anymore are lost.
The only good news is that is she is indeed the future of the republican party, then the democrats will control our country for the next generation.
Governor Sarah Palin is one of many bright young people in the GOP. She has the integrity, courage, strength, charisma, intelligence, down to earth wisdom and perseverance to continue to be a servant leader.
Sarah Palin has a record of reform that will only grow. She walks the talk and connects with people. She does not play the palm greasing game.
I am a former democrat and Hillary supporter, and I am encouraged by the many transformative, young leaders in the Republican Party.
She really needs to be investigated just like Stevens was for her house. Seems fishy with her ending the permit structure then building a house where supplies were donated. Where are the receipts for that house?
It must be galling to somebody with dignity and integrity, like Mitt Romney, to see a nonentity like Sarah Palin crowned the new "standard-bearer" for the GOP. Fight back, Mitt! Don't let your party go down the tubes in 2012 like it did in 2008.
Rove is still listened to because he has contracts and proteges all over the place. Palin is still of interest because she's a good-looking moron... everyone's waiting for the next misstep. It's kind of like why Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan still frequently make the news. While we're at it, let's give Rush Limbaugh a big bottle of Vicodin and set him adrift on an iceburg with an illegal alien iceburg-keeper... Eskimo burial style.
I guess cheesecake is more palatable to the Republicans than meat these days........that is ALL Sarah Palin is.....swagger without substance!!
This is hysterical....WHAT interviews are they watching that give her ANY credibility??
Wow... that was a ringing endorsement from the sleaze-meister. Not.
49 days till the end of the Bush administration.
The 'Marketplace of Ideas' for the Republican party is apparently the Wasilla Walmart.
All the publicity has gone to her head–and she's become quite uppity. Now, everyone is watching to see when she falls and burns. We love soap operas and this is a grand one where we ask ourselves, how far can an empty-headed motormouth go before falling flat on her face? And Rove is wrong, for it's not the marketplace of ideas that will determine her fate–for she has no ideas in her head–but the marketplace of idols.
Brian, the dog from Family Guy is more articulate and better spoken than Palin!The woman is clueless. I hope she runs in 2012. That will be great for Obama.
Rove should know. He already got one moron into the White House.
OMG we the people are SICK of hearing about this women already !!
Please Palin, for the American people's sanity, please go away!
Far Away !
The Pillsbury Doughboy and Caribou Barbie–the fact that these two idiots have any public forum is a sad commentary on the state of our country.
If we allow the free "idea" markets to handle this.... I'd say few ideas and very little demand won't push her value/values very high.
To Republicans, Obama's "rock star" status is a negative. But it seems a positive when referring to Palin. Go figure the GOP would be mired in hypocrisy.
Just look at Jeb's comments earlier about having a "shadow government" to oppose Obama's policies. Just a few short months ago, the GOP called someone who opposes the President a "traitor" and "unpatriotic." Now, it's sound policy.
Funny..."Marketplace of Ideas" in reference to Palin. One thing's for certain: the "marketplace of ideas" in Palin's head suffers from severe recession and provides a fantastic analogy to what's going on with our economy right now.
And as much as everyone should consider Rove to be a blight upon our political arena, he's anything but a fool. He knows darn well she's a disaster waiting to happen in 2012 but can't say it because it would offend too many of his employers.
Go ahead though. Run her in 2012. We dare you.
Please go away and stay away!
In addition, Rush Lumbaugh can do the same!
It's very interesting that Mr. Rove chose to use the phrase, "Marketplace of Ideas." Historically, this phrase was often used to justify the act of not punishing people for their unpopular ideas with the understanding that if they truly are bad, the American people will weed them out through robust debate. Examples include the Ku Klux Klan and the Tinker case in the Supreme Court. Mr. Rove's use of the phrase seems to suggest that he dislikes Palin and is cautioning the Republican party against putting too much stake in her.
PLEASE! Someone teach her grammar and proper use of punctuation before subjecting us to more of this woman and her inane ramblings, endless sentences, and odd insertions of the words "also, too". It might also be pointed out that many words that have "in" near the end, also have a "g". Boy, Howdy, she sure is somethin' and really ought to run in 2012 just for comic relief in what might be another 2 year campaign.
I don't much care about Rove's opinions or comments. The fact remains that Ms. Palin from what I have seen of her throughout the election is not upto becoming president of the USA. Her intellect is questionalbe.
She is a like the pop star with all looks and no talent but they give her a record contract because she's cute. This women needs to be in Alaska learning how to govern on a national market, not out marketing herself. I bet if you asked these people who love her what she would do about the economy, terrorist in India and Pakistan, and why she doesn't reverse the law in Alaska that make rape victims in pay for their own medical exams when they are the victims, they couldn't come up with anything other than campaign reteric if they have an answer at all.
Can any hate-mongering liberal out there name one issue that they disagree with Sara Palin on? Of course not. They are all here just repeating what others have poured into their brains...Sara is stupid. Sara is useless. Sara is expletive. Unfortunately, people are often more than we give them credit for. Sara Palin is one of these people. She has real ideas (unlike a certain president-elect) and is a true champion of the people. I look forward to hopefully having someone we can respect in office in 4 years...not another Kenyan national who refuses to share a real birth certificate.
Why is this man still talking?! Just like Sarah, Go Away, Rove!
I think “Marketplace of Ideas” is Rove’s code for: we will see how marketable Sarah P. is. Because, right now, Rove realizes that other than “the base” (code for the southern Republican brothers), she is really not all that marketable/appeal able. Both Republicans and Democrats know they have to appeal to moderates in order to win.
While I am decidedly not in any way a fan of Karl Rove, he has been the point man for winning elections. He, like his teacher Lee Atwater, wants nothing other than to win elections for their side and hold power. Do you all not think that a comment like "the market place of ideas" will hold Palins fate is not code for she has no future? I think that this is exactly the message he is attempting to send to the party faithful. Even if you do not like the man, you must not think he is stupid. He KNOWS that she has NO chance to be POTUS and thus sets the wheels in motion for her to slowly fade away. The hard core right wing nutters may want her but Karl KNOWS she will never win outside of that particular box of rocks. Stop focusing on Sara she is not the prize. Look instead at what the other hand is doing, do not fall for the magicians trick of look at the right hand while the left pulls the trick. SHE IS THE DISTRACTION who is the trick?
Hmmm...Sarah WHO ? She is stale news. Why does CNN insists on finding something to say or report about this incomprehensible barbie every other day ?
Note to all Republican crooks: There will be no more re-writing of history. Obama has empowered too many people, and too many people are now staying INFORMED. If any of you think people 'buy" the Palin as a leader line, think again. We just like watching her screw up constantly.
I think after the next four years ,anybody that wants to be the president will have a cake walk to be elected,the fight from the Democrats will be nonexistent ! I am afraid of what damage these people are going to do to our country will take decades to fix.
I think we already know everything we need to know about this woman. If it wasn't for her so-called good looks we wouldn't even been talking about her.
Why can't she just stay in Alaska. It's obvious most people don't like her. Most hate her!
You go Sarah girl! If we are still here in 2012, I will vote for you again like I did this past time. Your morals are great and with your experience that is what makes a great leader! I for one look forward to hearing more about you in the future!!!
can somebody do something with this fool–get to go her away somewhere anywhere
She should be kissing McCain's feet right now.. thanking him for making her a star. Now she can upgrade from Moose Burgers to Kobe Beef
I thought she was going to donate those clothes to charity.
She is the biggest freeloader, always having bags of stuff in her arms when she was not on the stump.
Go back to school Gov. and then come back and talk to us.
Rove said they will all get out their and sell their ideas. In that Palin is out, she has no ideas, no experience and no knowledge. That was his nice way of saying the same thing. He knows the truth about Palin as well as everyone else. She is a spectacle, nothing more.
It's easy to trivialize Palin. Yet sooooo many people out there look to her as something special. It says more about these sooooo many people than it does about Palin. They seem to think fluff & buff can replace true substance in politics. Unfortunately that's the state of American education, culture and politics.
If Sarah is the best the GOP has to offer, they are in BIG trouble. With an IQ of 116, don't expect her to be able to learn much in the next 4 years, or ever. Sarah, stay in Alaska where they don't expect much of you, and you'll dto fine.
i am sick of hearing this woman on the news day in and day out, why can't she go home and leave the lower 48 alone in one peace?
Sarah Palin has obvious appeal (not to me, of course, but to some people). If she can learn to do a non-soft-toss interview, she could win the republican ticket. She also needs to come up with her own platform.
She's too much of a polarizing force and I believe that she would set us back decades.
Plus I can never understand anything she says. It's annoying.
Ok, democrat here, but I have to say, there are still some good GOPers remaining. They just need to emerge more prominently on the national stage.
I will own up to by and large really liking my GOP governor, Charlie Crist and choke, gag, I can't believe I am typing this, but if nothing changes his positions and leadership for the worse in the next two years, I intend to vote to re-elect him in 2010 (and I've never voted GOP in my life).
I'm sorry Karl, Palin doesn't appear to have any ideas, just a nasty lipsticked bulldog attitude that is falling out of fashion. As a cute, spunky bubblehead, she appeals to the Republican base, but the Republican base won't get her elected.
It's a marketplace of ideas and Sarah Palin is having a clearance sale.
No one will give this woman a thought–she is an airhead
Sarah WHO is like one of those circus animals that you feel the need to bring your children(who doesnt know better) to watch when the circus comes into town. Once you have seen it, you ask yourself – what on earth was the fuss ? it is just another trained animal performing for the audience. Can the circus animal perform without being trained to memorise the sequence of events ? Can the circus animal perform new tricks by using its brains ? Can the circus animal perform without the fake applause and clapping ?
Liberals are so afraid of this woman. My guess is because she has actually propelled herself in her career without relying on her husband a la Hillary Losers
I think if the rest of you do what I have been doing and not respond to palin's topics, CNN will stop reporting on the idiot.
It is difficult to know what I feel about the thoughts of Karl Rove, the late Lee Atwater's disciple, and we know what kind of filthy campaign he ran for the first George Bush. However, having said that, it is not what these individuals think in and of themselves, it is what the American people and electorate think and decide ultimately. It is at the moment when they pull the lever in the voting booth that counts and that dictates whether they believe in sop stories and lies of the politicos or do what is right for the country. If America will ever think Sarah Palin would be a good representation of their values, principles, and dignity, there will surely need to be some serious soul searching. Honestly, I really don't think we will have to worry on this score, it is likely the presence of such a lightweight on the McCain ticket that brought it down, unless she takes Katie Couric's advice and educates herself and learns how to govern, this issue will not even leave the starting gate, except to join the ranks of Brittany Spears and Paril Hilton.
Why don't we not respond to any palin topics. Maybe CNN will stop reporting on the idiot.
stop reporting on the trailer trash.
As a lifelong Dem, I should jump for joy at the notion of the Repubs believing Gov. Palin is their future. However, all I can think is what an insult this is to Govs. Pawlenty, Crist and Jindahl. They should be the future of the GOP.
In response to Lynn's comments, the smart Republicans left the building before it burned down. They are sitting around now waiting for the last remnant of this bunch of bogus Republicans to die off or go away so the REAL Republicans with true historical values of truth, honesty and care for the people of our country, reappear. Lord knows George W. Bush and his bunch had no clue what those values were or meant.
Why are we talking about her?
WHY do we keep hearing from this GOP thug. Enough already, next time I see his name, I change channels!
Ideas such as give the rich huge tax breaks and the money would "Trickle Down" to the rest of us. We are still waiting for that to happen Mr. Rove.
Spending America's money that we don't have leaving to payments for our children's children tp pay.
When republicans are out of power its balance budget and fiscal responsibility, but once in office its out with the printing press and spend baby spend. Those ideas Mr. Rove?
The GOP had some smart people back in the old days of the 1960's and even 70's.
It seems that their are no more smart people in the GOP.
In four years if Sarah is all the GOP has left forget a Primary debate at all.
The GOP will be put to rest RIP for good .
It's amazing how people become so famous. All of a sudden now since Sarah Palin didn't win the Vice President role she now becomes a rock star! It's crazy how they are blowing her up like they did the goober "Joe the Plumber"! Nobody ever heard of this woman before and now we can't stop hearing about her. At least Joe isn't so famous anymore! Give us a break...PLEASE!!
That is funny, the commentor who stated palin talks fast with no substance, has anyone heard Obama stutter all over himself while he speaks without preset statements. uhhhh, well, we uhhhhh.....
At least Palin is upfront and replies that she is not going to answer questions and does not answer them, she is not stuttering all over herself, making it look unpresidental - stuttering steven we should call obama.
Hasn't anyone in the GOP noticed that this woman hasn't got the brains she was born with?
All you haters out there need to get a life!
" And I already thought the GOP is on the brink of extinction."
You live in California. Did your state ban gay marriage? Which party supported that amendment? Face it, deep down, even California is socially conservative at its roots. Americans like political promises, and the Dems are offering tons of them today. Much like FDR and the New Deal. Let's see if they're worth the paper they were written on before we determine that one party will now rule the country forever.
Are people really this ignorant?
katiec, sounds like you have some hate issues yourself. Bunch of narrowminded, automated liberal hypocrites here.
No, Bush isn't perfect but come on people. Enough with the superficial attacks on someone that might actually have a good idea or two if you would just stop judging her and listen for a minute.
Guys, ever notice how your wife or girlfirend always criticizes other women for the most petty things, like what she was wearing? Women can be some of the most loving and the most hateful creatures on earth all at the same time. Women hate each other, that's all there is to it.
Karl Rove should be in jail along with bush and his henchman. Palin should make like a tree and leave the lower 48, go home and study real moms and try and be one for her children and grandchildren (born and yet to be born)
Why is everyone so obsessed with this light weight?
"Now we are going to get to see her over longer periods of time".....Swell.Once again,if the GOP are set on riding this woman into the future,they better look over their shoulders,the past is gaining on them.
The Palin "marketplace of ideas" is surely headed for bankruptcy.
Oh Gawd...please run in 2012 Jaws!!
I'll personally help you with that last shovel full of dirt that finally buries the Conservative Southern Racist Party (GOP) for good!!
Palin is a bad dream that just won't go away. Would someone please slam shut that "door of opportunity". America doesn't need the likes of Palin. I don't understand how she got elected in Alaska. She'd be worse than Bush, if such a thing is possible.
HEY EVERYONE – Have you noticed that if you say something positive about a Republican CNN will not post it. I'll make this short. Palin – HONESTY, INTEGRITY AND GOOD OLD DOWN TO EARTH COMMON SENSE. SHE SAYS WHAT SHE THINKS. I LOVE THAT IN A PERSON. PALIN 2012.
Maybe she will take advantage of all these comments about her lack of intellect, lack of curiosity, and incredible provincialness to heart and make some changes. I am opposed to almost all of her positions, but i dont think she is stupid or in any way lacks intelligence. She has accomplished a lot – being governor and all – but to be taken seriously onthe national stage, she needs to have a grasp of the world as a whole. She doesn't seem to care. What struck me was her answer about why she never traveled. Instead of just admitting she didn't have the money when she was younger and then got married, had kids, and life just got in the way, she had to act as though there was something mean and elitist about those who have traveled. That was really telling to me – she has no interest and does not see the importance of learning about people different than she is. A common failing among the hard core so -called Christian right, unfortunately.
Jesus is a friend to the friendless! Sarah, you need a True friend! Try being real for a CHANGE! Get it?
"marketplace of ideas"? Good one, Karl.
Clearly intelligence isn't the price of admission to be a Republican leader.
THE SARHA PAKIN DUMB DUMB POEM
MY HEAD IS MADE OF AFRICAN IVORY AND TENNESSEE MARBLE
IT SERVES AS IMPENETRABLE BARRIER
FOR THOSE WHO SEEK THE INTER CONVOLUTES
OF MY POOR CEREBRUM
IN OTHER WORDS AMERICA
I AM DUMB
DUMB DUMB
AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND
We are republicans but Palin is a full blown idiot. We did not vote for McCain nor her as they both are just as bad as the village idiot that is currently in the white house. Like many thousands of Americans we wish the the current idiot in the white house would get out before January 20th along with his cronies. Impeach them then put them in prison for what they have done to this country, the world, and us Americans Jim Hall Kansas City, Missouri.
If intelligence is the price of admission to a Republican leadership position, Ms. Palin is broke.
It would be nice if Rove and Palin would just go away. Why does the media listen to or print what Rove's opinions are? He wouldn't talk when it mattered, exept with lies through his serpent like surrogates, and now when he doesn't matter he won't shut up! And no matter how many words Palin says she never makes any sense. She needs to go back to Alaska educate herself in a more worldly way and he just needs to find another slimy rock to get under.
Why is the media acting like this woman can sincerely do and be anything in government? She's stupid, and I like most of the rest of the people in the country are sick of her. So what she's the Gov of Alaska! Most of the people in Alaska didn't even know who was running for president until she got in the race. Shut up about her!
*Sigh* She can run all she wants in 2012 but if she doesn't get any smarter it will be to her detrement...I would like for all this talk of her and her plans to end however...we haven't even got the new president in yet before people are trying to measure the curtains for her...ewww gross!!
Shhhhhh! Jeff!! You obviously do not remember 1985...
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Jeff in Illinois December 2nd, 2008 12:13 pm ET
Turning her [Palin] into Presidential material would be like turning William "The Refrigerator" Perry into a Wide Receiver (and I mean now, not even when he was playing)
Democrats should not put Gov Palin down for lack of experience or intelligence - just look who they put into the White House for Land's Sake!
You can see the obvious reasons the Republicans are pushing for Palin in 2012. They will not win, regardless of the candidate, and the serious candidates will sit out 2012 and use Palin as nothing more than a sacrificial lamb. As they say, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and at the end of the day – even four years from now – Palin will not be qualified, and probably even voted out of office in Alaska.
I cringe every time I see or hear this person. How can we make her go away?
Can't she just go away?
As a democrat, I for one would love to see Sarah Palin run. She will win the Primary decisively – almost 70% of Conservatives LOVE her. Of couse, far more then that of democrats and Independants DON'T love her.. and it's not something that is bound to change over 4 years. Pro-Life Hypocrites who want to continue to destroy the enviornment and have little concept of International Policy don't seem to draw a lot of votes outside of the Christian Conservative platform.
Yes Sarah – please.. run!
Here's an idea I'd gladly put into the marketplace:
GO AWAY.
Anyone with an inkling of intellect is wondering how in the world did this woman get elected as governor of a state in the United States of America and then to have a very senior State Senator, who was the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America , select her as his running mate; then they both campaign stating their opponent, PEOTUS lacked experience; yet, after winning, he is putting together what appears to be a great cabinet; and has held a meeting with all of our States governors – something that has NEVER been done before.
Having said all that, my question is "has Rove lost his mind?" There are some many more intelligent Republicans who do not need to be "prepped" to lead the GOP; they are already politcally savvy.
The Governor needs to attend to her family; and speaking from a women's perspective, she best take care of her husband; absence makes the heart grow lonely – not fonder.
Karl Rove. And why does his opinion matter? The architect that doomed the Republican party in the first place. He mistakenly asked Kennedy to run in Louisiana. Why should anyone care what he thinks.
The problem for the GOP is that Palin doesn't have any ideas that will sell in the marketplace. Like Bush, Palin is devoid of any intellectual discipline.
Today's headline: STUDY FINDS 1 IN 5 YOUNG ADULTS HAS PERSONALITY DISORDER.
That finally explains some of these eratic, babbling bloggers!
Oh, Pleazzzz
Sarah Go Back To Alaska and learn how to form a coherent sentence.
Has She Figured Out What The Vice-President does yet?
Lynn says "What happened to all of the smart people in the GOP?" well they voted for McCain; too bad there are not many smart people and the dumb ones outnumber them and got to elect our president...
The GOP would tear her to shreds during a presidential primary....that is one of many things she never had to encounter in her little 9 weeks of spotlight.
Why oh why does ANYONE think that this woman could be President? I actually broke out in cold sweats before Nov. 4 at the thought of a woman who graduated with a 2.2 gpa and an I.Q. of 83 running this country. Do you guys realize that below 70 is a low moron (that number might be too kind, though, so don't quote me. Just know that Palin is as dumb as a box of rocks).?
IF SHE IS THE BEST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CAN OFFER IN 2012 THEY ARE DEEP DO-DO. SHE BETTER TAKE CARE OF HER FAMILY AS THEY NEED GUIDANCE WHICH IS A MOTHERS JOB.
She would still have to make it through the primaries...not EVEN likely.
She should run for beauty pageants and Ms Alaska again
please put palin on the gop tix.
Carl Rove need to shut UP. Shouldn't he be in JAIL?
She won't run in 2012, but I could see her (possibly) running in 2016. By then she will have been a Senator for several years, have acquired some real experience, developed core policies of her own, and re-invented herself (as all politicians do). Right now, she's just too young and naive, but couple her charisma and energy with some real experience and she could be a force for the Republicans in the future.
Also, in 8 years, Americans will be tired of the Democrats. I'm sure by then the Democrats will have misused their majority of power and corrupted themselves much like the Republicans did over the last 8 years. Absolute power has a tendency to do that (don't ya know).
Having good looks, a great smile and a cute wink hardly qualifies
one to be President. I hope the Republican's keep pushing folks like her Dems. will hold on the the White House for many years to come.
WHY – Mr. Rove ?
Why do Republicans need to know her more – wasn't she vetted ENOUGH???
Also what do you think about the other smart and upcoming governors?
you guys are ALL morons – it is her who caused some extent of your failure
- God took us to Iraq!!!!
- God will help us with Israel and Iran!!!!
C'mon this is the height of non sense I have seen our party take the religion to??
I don't think any more IQ for her is going to change it – it's just the way she believes... we have made ourselves NOT ONLY a mere idealogical group of people but also IMPRACTICAL...
Lisa M, I am a liberal and I totally agree with you and I would welcome a real challenge from a real conservative. That way, even if the "other side" won, I would feel like their ideology was at least based in facts and the real world we live in.
I have nothing against religion, but I am really, really sick of other people trying to cram theirs down my throat.
Lisa M said:
Get a conservative to run for once.
It's been a long, long time since we've seen a real conservative run for President.
BTW Sarah you are not conservative. Not even close.
get rid of the Bible Thumpers and look "conservative" up in the dictionary.
The Palin marketplace is bankrupt. Good riddance, Palin, and go away F O R E V E R !!!!!!
While I am decidedly not in any way a fan of Karl Rove, he has been the point man for winning elections. He, like his teacher Lee Atwater, wants nothing other than to win elections for their side and hold power. Do you all not think that a comment like "the market place of ideas" will hold Palins fate is not code for she has no future? I think that this is exactly the message he is attempting to send to the party faithful. Even if you do not like the man, you must not think he is stupid. He KNOWS that she has NO chance to be POTUS and thus sets the wheels in motion for her to slowly fade away. The hard core right wing nutters may want her but Karl KNOWS she will never win outside of that particular box of rocks. Stop focusing on Sara she is not the prize. Look instead at what the other hand is doing, do not fall for the magicians trick of look at the right hand while the left pulls the trick. SHE IS THE DISTRACTION who is the trick?
GAG !!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO AWAY PALIN!
Please embrace her, Republicans. Please. Mollify your wingnut base and kiss 2012 good bye. She's perfect for you. What are you waiting for?
katiec...please get yourself some help
....or go on a vacation, it will make you happier 
"Marketplace of ideas"?
Sounds like he is trotting out this year's new toaster. This, Mr. Rove, is the problem. Leadership is not a commodity, it is a gift and a responsibility. Treat it as such.
EW 2:16:
Please tell me you are not serious. Did you SEE or HEAR anything Sarah had to say on the campaign trail? Yeah, politics is rough but the hateful things she spewed were insane. You would have thought that when some idiot shouted out, "Kill him", she would realize she wasn't Pontius Pilate.
Yes, Palin!!! PLEASE run. Please, please , please. Your party needs you. There is no one else in the repub party who is qualified over a Joe six pack, soccer mom. Slather on more lipstick, brush up on who and what is a country, and while standing once again in front of the turkey slaughtering machine – announce your run for 2012! Morons unite – you can elect one of your peers.
I feel for Republicans. Not seriously but still................
CNN! Stop covering this bonehead Rove. He has been the "brain" behind the greatest political disaster in American history. Why do we still have to listen to him? He should be in jail.
Who on earth cares what he thinks of Sarah's future?
Hey, when are the Palin nuptials anyway? I've already got my moose ears ready in front of the TV.
I always thought that in the U.S. ideas were FREE, you know FREEdom of speech, FREEdom of religion, FREEdom of expression. When did we have to go out to the marketplace and buy them? Is there a marketplace for ideas because no one can think for themselves anymore? Or is this just more of Mr. Rove's bad FREE ideas? Sorry, fellow Republicans but the truth is the truth after all and Mr. Rove's has had some tremendously BAD ideas of late.
I'm so hoping, and for the people, that she runs in 2012, in this great country of ours and also.
Sarah Palin is a real personification of what is wrong with a large segment of the Republican Party today. As she has clearly and repeatedly demonstrated she is arrogant and brazen, she is bold and aggressive, she is totally self-focused and grossly dishonest, she is a phony and a taker, she is sociopathic (without any conscience) and she will say/do whatever she thinks is to her advantage, and besides all of that she is vastly under qualified and just couldn’t care less. Those who tout, support and are trying to sell her to America literally want her to be their next puppet, to have her continue where GWBush left off.
If Palin runs in 2012 then President Obama will be re-elected with over 100 million votes!
Has he read her latest ramblings? I read those quotes atleast three times because I seriously thought I had lost my place in the sentence and started over... but no, it was her repeating the same thing multiple times in each sentence! Honestly, people who claim english as their second language make so much more sense then her!
The woman is ambitious. Good for her, but I ain't gonna vote for her though. I need someone like really smart to run our country.
Why oh why do they keeping giving her a mike. she is dumb as a stump. she is bush in a shirt. her popularity is dropping in alaska. i guess they got a good look at her down in the other states and could not believe they elected her govenor. what makes people think (desparate repubs) she can run this country. are they sure she graduated from college. i know she attended 5 colleges in 6 years or 6 colleges in 5 years. but did she get a dipolma? my 5 year old nephew has a larger volcabulary than palin. maybe he should run in 2012 against her.
She really needs to be investigated just like Stevens was for her house. Seems fishy with her ending the permit structure then building a house where supplies were donated. Where are the receipts for that house?
Man these posts are harsh. Of course, none of them are untrue.
Hasn't the "marketplace" given its verdict already? She doesn't really HAVE any ideas other than those of the soundly rejected radical right-wing GOP's.
Sarah Palin is a female George W. Bush.
Why to all of you "liberal", "ideological free thinkering", "love everyone" types want to see someone put in jail when NO real crime has been committed. The only "crime" in Rove's recent history is not thinking like you do. This is America, people there are no gulags here. Only real "haters" want to throw people in jail for their thoughts. And you call Republicans "the bad guys". Shame on you! Or should that be "McShame" these days. Please tell me how to think, I would "hate" to be Karl Rove's cell mate, I'd be bored to tears.
We Dems will have a slam-dunk election in 2012 if you GOP-ers are dumb enough to pick Palin. It's true, she does energize the base, but unfortunately for you, it's the liberal Democratic base.
Please pick her. Pretty please!
The repugs must believe in "STUPID" in a big way! Don't they have anyone "SMARTER" than Sarah? Seriously, you pushed Bush twice, got him through and see how that worked out! Even if you wanted a woman, which would be nice, there are many smarter woman on the repug side.
Wait for it ...
OBAMA '12
People, quit wasting your time and energy on that moron! The more attention the media gives her, the longer she stays in the spotlight... and as most of you can read, we all want her to go away!!!
I can't believe Palin is the best the Republican Party can do. She's clearly out of her league and totally not qualified to lead any party let alone the United States of America. She's simply imcompetent.
Haha, if this women is the future of the GOP they are in BIG BIG trouble. She appeals to the GOP base, which clearly isn't big enough to win an election anymore.
Let her run, that will guarantee President Elect Obama another term and this country will be so much better for it. I would love to see a debate between the two of them, he so eloquent and well-read, and she not even able to define what a "precondition" is. It would be rich, indeed, and the best free entertainment around, as she was during this past election cycle.
The day Sarah Palin is elected president of the United States would be the day I would move to another country. Palin talks in circles and is totally ignorant of our constitution and the laws that govern our country. I turn off the TV when she appears on the news. If she is the best the GOP has to offer I can understand why they are in serious trouble.
Beauty fades but dumb is forever. And she isn't even that good looking...
Sarah Palin only has an IQ of 83? Nonsense. And Palin haters? You don't know her any better than you do President Elect Obama. Vile comments from ignorant mean people.
Of all the smart people in the GOP, they pick a dummy to lead them–what fools they are.
How, in 2008, with a world of media and opportunities to get informed from more sources than ever, can people be so reckless, and have such low standards? Sarah Palin is a creative, ambitious individual. Fine. She is also inarticulate, backwards, uninformed, and on the fringe of a troubled, ethnocentric ideology which is on its way out of relevance. Simply stated, she is not qualified to lead the US. A small town in a small state, and maybe the state . Let´s get real. Please! Stop the nonsense. The entire world laughs at the fact that she gets any attention by the US population. Are we just short of intelligent conservative politicians? I don´t think so. For some strange reason, Palin has achieved some bizarre "rock star status." Not unlike some of the American Idol rejects (William Hung).
Just let the markets sort it all out the Republicans say. If they are so into markets why dont they all resign as public servants and get a job at Goldman Sachs. Oh I forgat they do that after they develop their contacts.
PA-LEEEEEEEZ!! If this is ALL the GOP got than elect ME!!!! PA'IN is not presidential!!!! No matter what you do with her – she will NEVER be presidential!!!! If she had Hillary's STYLE – then maybe. Even WITHOUT Hillary's BRAINS, she MIGHT get over.
She lacks STYLE – POISE – SERIOUSNESS – she's DUMB and use improper English – "U BETCHA" is not getting over when speaking with foreign leaders!!
She should "continue" slaughtering turkeys on camera and pardon them at the same time.... JEEZ!!!!
Please stay in Alaska!
As long as the GOP have people like Palin, I know that the Democrats will have clear sailing for the foreseeable future which makes me so so happy. I will give the GOP a hint: Get ride of the far right agendy and you might win again sometime in the future like 2024.
Lots of personal issues here – and no ideas. Why rabid-liberals awash with hateful and petty zingers think their opinions matter to the GOP is beyond me.
@EW December 2nd, 2008 2:16 pm ET
Problem is we do listen and all we here is (certainly probably) incoherent sentences. Plus it’s an exercise in futility trying to decipher ideas from “sound bites” because there’s never any.
I am so sick of Palin. At first I could put up with the stupidity and write it off as a bit of eye candy at best. Prolonged exposure has resulted in an absolutly sick feeling whenever I see this woman.
Karl makes a good point about only knowing Sarah Palin fo 9 weeks.
In those 9 weeks we heard more guff about her than we know actual facts about Obama today.
We're going to learn a lot about both in the next few years, much to the chagrin of the Liberals.
Faith in Der Messiah will crumble like pie crust.
I can't even keep up with how many campaign promises he's already broken and he's not even the President yet.
Let the denial begin.
Republicans are just wasting time to think about this woman. She is not worth it.
Personal to NY Republican:
If you want to post on the blog, please do yourself a favor and get a handle on the facts.
Rove ignored a subpoena because the Bush White House told him to do so. After Holder gets in as Attorney General and digs in, I hope he goes after all the Bush Cabal because they deserve it – BIG TIME!!!!
As for the Palin backers sipping the "she energizes the party" kool-aid, just wait until the regulars in the GOP go to town on her – and they will. You can make book on it!!!
I predict that as soon as our new president is in office, we will hear no more about Caribou Barbie. I am really looking forward to that day.
Who cares about what Karl Rove thinks? Bush bought his ideas and now has the lowest approval rating ever. Karl Rove is irrelevant, and quite frankly so is Sarah Palin. The media loves her because honestly they don't know what she might say. Rove is so hated, anytime he is on television all people can see is the arrogance of the last eight years in GW Bush. Rove is a contributor on FOX news, what a surprise they would find room for him. Rove and Palin both need to go off into the sunset.
The "marketplace of ideas" will likely have her voted out of office in 2010 and she can go back to shooting moose from an airplane.
Please, pls, pls. nominate her. She will guarantee an Obama second term because she is brainless*
How much more time do people really need to figure out that Palin is a total moron?
Hell, even some of us Republicans are willing to admit that. We will never again be close to any kind of power if we keep propping up idiots and never admit mistakes.
Palin in 2 words:
Trailer Trash
Should she run in 2012 ?
Of Course !
Why do we care what he thinks or says?
Get serious. We Republicans got the whooping we so soundly deserved for fielding a terrible ticket. Never forget "you can see Russia from my State" as Gov. Palin's trump card on foriegn policy. Let this fuse burn out, and 4 years from now bring out some new blood with serious credentials.
Rove: Another person who should go away, and be in jail for that matter.
why don't you take a look at who this woman draws to her, hotheads, RACISTS, bigots, all the things that goes aganist the very core of america. no more palin, i'm totally fed up with hearing about this woman, no more posts for me until this woman goes away.
To John,
You said:
"Lots of personal issues here – and no ideas. Why rabid-liberals awash with hateful and petty zingers think their opinions matter to the GOP is beyond me."
Unlike "rabid-conservatives" who are awash with love and kindness? Have you listened to Limbaugh, Coulter, Savage and Hannity the last 8 years? And apparently the American people thankfully didn't think those "rabid-conservatives" rants mattered on November 4.
this is like one prolonged joke – but instead of laughing I'm in tears to think this person gets so much press – and she simply a joke
GOP is in trouble because to many of them acted like Democrats, that is why we need someone who doesn't. Don't care who it is, somebody resurrect Reagan, I guess the only one who could do that now is the annointed one, and he'd just throw him under the bus once he picked his brain.
To Tom in Delaware - When was the last time anyone under 90 used the word "guff'? I think you need to take a look at what Sarah Palin has actually said instead of attributing criticism of her as "guff." I think that in her 9 weeks on the stage she proved that she can parrot what has been fed to her by her Republican handlers and that she doesn't really understand most of what she is saying. She is intellectually a lightweight and doesn't deserve the continued attention she attracts.
Tom –
I hear Walmart has tissue paper on sale – boo hoo hoo
WRONG, PALIN'S ILLITERATE MOUTH WILL CONTROL HER FATE.
"Remember she was on the stage for nine weeks in the general election — that’s not a lot of time," he [Rove] said. "Now we are going to get to a chance see her over a longer period of time."
It was only nine weeks!? It seems like a lifetime!
She's beautiful, but she's a con artist capable of saying only what is on the pre-recorded CD they put in her head.
This is not an intelligent woman and someone needs to teach her how to carry a child. A mother NEVER hauls her infant around with his/her back to "Mom". The child has no one to hold on to.
Please! The thought of the state of the union address in that whiny voice is enough to give us all nightmares.
Its obvious CNN can keep its ratings high if they keep reporting about Palin. We all like to read about her stupid comments. I am already missing her.SNL is getting boring. Come on GOP, Palin's lower IQ is not her fault, its God's fault. I hope she wins 2012 GOP nomination.
Is this women not ever going to just go away and leave the lower 48 alone. Does she really think that she is going to be prepared by 2012 to hold a national office. That's a lot of cramming to do in 4 years!
A Rock Star in the republican party's eyes is a bozo like Palin and I am glad Karl Rove has such good standing in the media. He is a criminal and like many in the Bush Administration, he should be tried and imprisoned! There is plenty of misdeeds in the Bush Administration if just someone had the guts and decency to pursue them!
She should just head back to Alaska, and leave the lower 48 in peace! If she doesn't start spending more time doing her day job, they may just get sick of her, like we did.
So tired of hearing about this idiotic woman.
To Tom in Delaware:
Who's in denial? Palin is an obvious incompetent, both in knowledge of politics and even in just basic...speaking! TO even consider supporting her would be like supporting a more vapid version of The Deciderer.
Palin Supporters: Dumb and Dumber.
The fact that so many Republicans have made a "rock star" out of Palin makes me doubt their intelligence even more than their support of Bush did. How they can be so enthusiastic about someone who's so obviously an incompetent and amazingly corrupt dullard is just unbelievable.
It's like they're all yelling, "Hooray, we've found a turnip to be the head of our party!" You have to wonder at their level of intellect, giving savior-status to this annoying, inarticulate, sociopathic dimwit. The only hope left for the Republican party lies in those few Republicans who recognize Palin for the joke that she is. She's not even qualified to be governor of her state, which has a smaller population than Austin, Texas... much less president or vice president of this country. I'm starting to think that Republicans don't even UNDERSTAND things like economics, foreign policy, etc., and vote ENTIRELY on someone's stance on abortion. Their enthusiasm about Palin robs them of integrity.
Sarah Palin is an old republican relic. Four years into the future, we will be more evolved then we are in this cycle. If she thinks she will be viable even after the innauguration of Obama, she's wrong.
The only saving grace that the republicans have is to get rid of their religious right, anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-ignorance and fear mongering–a la Rove, and move themselves into a more centrist direction–I think Bobby Jindal is a much better choice if they ever hope to have a future in politics. Sarah is white trash, and the smell is going to start getting pretty bad......
Bring her on. It will mean Democrats will stay in the White House for another term!
Oh my, must this go on & on & on?? I couldn't stand 9 weeks of seeing and hearing her during the 2008 campaign; now they want to keep her in our faces for 4 more years, then perhaps another campaign!
God help us all!!!!!!!!!!
Rove is not answering to a SUBPEONA from the Senate; isn't that a criminal offense? Why is anything he says quoted – he should be in jail for manipulating the DOJ for political ends.
As for "Para Sailin" – not as fun a wind surfing – she needs to just go to college now, as Katie Couric said. Just go to college, dear, and learn something about the world.
Wow, the GOP is going to be out of power for a long time it looks like. What do you not get about the general election? Conservative policies are a joke? Look at the mess the country is in after nearly 8 years of conservative policies.....
does the GOP really need another imbecile on the scrapheap ?
As the only other person to get completely fooled, mocked and punked by the Montreal radio "Masked Avengers", besides Brittany Spears, Palin would be perfect to lead the Whig, er Rushpublican, party.
Karl Rove is about as adroit as a pig with a pocketwatch.
Who is Sarah Palin? Who is Karl Rove? These two people are now completely insignificant; thank God. The Republican Party is now a dinosaur fossil; something to look back on, something to study in order to learn about how things were in the 1950s. Rich old white people. The GOP is a fossil. Good riddance, y'alls. Stick to NRA memberships and Golf Clubs. Our nation's government no longer has room for you.
Worship Obama. Or else.
OK. Everybody knows that Palin has entertainment values but nothing else. She may be a GOP cheerleader but totally out of touch of the world and its needs.
Rove needs to weigh in on himself... Because he is corrupt and needs to be jailed...
Remember Operation Chaos where Republicans were voting for Hillary? Hmm now that there is no democrat primary in 2012 and only a Republican one I wonder if we can vote for Sarah Palin in the primaries. Thank you Rush Limbaugh for a great idea. Yes what goes around come around. Palin 2012. I am sure she can talk this time at her concession speech.
Palin is enamored with her own reflection and I dont anticipate she will be out of her own spot light in the near future.
She enjoys her reflection too much.
It would help if the media would stop making it easy for her. We have much bigger issues to deal with then bothering to even discuss Palin.
Please, please, please choose Palin in 2012!!
She is the gift that keeps on giving to all but the most conservative of Republicans. Palin is so stupid, she makes Lindsey Lohan look like an Einstein. Britney Spears must think, "oh my gosh, someone stupiderer than me!"
If the Republicans wish to win elections, they need to find someone who is articulate, intelligent and can form complete sentences. Furthermore, someone who is engaged with the world around them, Palin plainly, is not.
say it ain't so...
When will we start hearing about substance, issues and fundamental policy positions rather than marketplace, saleability, rockstar status and the "next big one"?
Let her run, so Obama can destory her as he did John McCain.
Do Republicans really think the cabal of Romney/Huckabee/Giuliani are going to step aside for this woman? I think Palin is in for a rude awakening about how nasty politics outside of the frozen tundra can get. If people thought Charlie Gibson was hard on her (he wasn't), just wait until these men get their chance to expose her as a lightweight.
Palin is suited for a radio show. That is what she enjoys and is good at: talking. The right wing Jeff Foxworthy you're a redneck if... would be thrilled.
Have any of you met a republican? Jesus Christ, Mrs. Palin is at least 10x smarter than 75% of those dumbells!
Sarah Palin...to bad Sarah isn't black. Had she been black, there never would have been all the sexist ,slanderous remarks made of her. Had she been black, the media would have been sucking up to her rather than taking pot shots at her. Even Leno would have been good to her. I personally think that the level of hostility was due to the fact that the Democrat nominee was black and the media needed a scapegoat or target to shoot at and didn't dare say or do anything that would reflect poorly on themselves.
Maybe obama can get impeached fairly early on and that will open the door for Sarah because no sane individual would vote for biden.
Chief Editor Korir has shocking tape! Would release but afraid of secret forces! Help CNN!
Today I am torn between wanting more Palin skits on Saturday Night Live and her just going away and never having to hear or see her again.
On a bright note, she might be just enough to help Chambliss lose Georgia.
If she is the rockstar of the GOP, what does that say about them??
Also, while I'm thinking about it, why doesn't Sean Hannity just stop too. He is full of bs. Its funny watching him get owned.
I have read negative comments about Sarah Palin for a few months and have elected to ignore the hate-filled messages. What are you liberals afraid of? It is quite simple.
During the campaign, Obama lost his way and thought he was campaigning against Sarah Palin and not John MCCain. After a few weeks of his ridiiculous behavior, it then became apparent to his campaign staff that they needed to change direction. Liberals may view her as "dumb, stupid, etc." However, give this some thought.
Sarah was living in obscurity in Alaska and in a heartbeat was thrown on the national stage. The McCain staff did not manage her effectively and fed her to the liberal wolves. Unfortunately, since they did not prepare her for the Katie Couric interview, she has now been labeled, unfairly I might add. To be fair, take a hard look at her track record in Alaska, rising to the National stage and handling all of the criticism to her and her family, tell me she doesn't have what it takes. Obama doesn't have experience but that didn't seem to matter. However, he has done what Sarah will do; surround themselves with a team who are savy and knowledgeable. It doesn't take a genious to figure out that you need to hire people smarter than you.
Please, give me a break. Sarah Palin is not a joke but a legitimate contender in time. I also take exception to the comments regarding the intelligence of the people who reside in Georgia. I am an executive with a publicly held company and live in a community of executives, doctors, etc., so we are all not ignorant in Georgia.
Palin is the American Idol of politics. She was an unknown, she was shoved into the spotlight by the Republicans and told to sing.
I want change in Washington but I don't want a minor leaguer with no real experience in world politics to have an office anywhere near the White House.
I couldn't read the whole article. Just the sight of her name makes my skin crawl. I wouldn't vote for her to be the person that waters my plants while I'm on vacation.
ew
You'd think that the media would want to focus on intelligent opinion and astute observation, especially in these difficult times. The love affair that exists with Palin is only perceived through the media filter. Most of us simply tune her out. She is not relevant.
Mumbai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CNN. They came from Karachi, but only one needs to live there.... Most of them no Doubt came from Britain....
Bob Jindal 2012
Yea sure the republicans believe in markets. They have easy access to them. Sarah Palin should be at home in Alaska being it's governor and taking care of her children. She should not be flying hither and yon visiting folks that apparently can't resist a reactionary.
LOL-LOL-LOL. Is this the best the GOP has to offer? Oh yeah, I keep forgetting; they are mostly boring old man whose base got excited by a Caribou Barbie. They don't want brains; they want tight skirts. ROFL!!!
Like to see her make it but she doesn't have what it takes and her dipsy doodle la la way will start to bore. I think she has a future in comedy by just being herself like a Mrs. Bean or something inane like that.
First off – Why is'nt Carl Rove behind bars instead of giving interviews.
Second – the more Sarah talks the more people will realize its an empty wagon, a flash in the pan.
Sarah Who?
The Republican Party is not what it use to be.I was one for 75 years but not any more. The Republican party is now made up of childish, infantile babies who do not know who they are –like Sarah Palin. No thanks Palin I and sick of you. Go home and take care of your family like any decent mother would do.
some sorry folks...'the base' racist right wing nuts, self righteous,non-inclusive, zealots, who say they're followers of Jesus Christ. SURE
Obama is more of an example of Jesus Christ
Yesterday was the first time since the election that Sarah Palin wasn't in the news. Boy, that was refreshing!! Now, here she is again. Thanks again Mr. Rove, who got pardoned for dirty dealings be his good-old-boy pal George W...When will it all end??
A "Marketplace of ideas" will never exist in the Republican Party, who does Karl Rove think he's kidding!
Hateful ideas? Like the hateful lies that Palin yelled from her "bully pulpit" on the campaign trail? Yea, you could call the "hatred" against Palin karma, or payback coming to haunt you for all of your evil deeds.
Rove, Palin, Marketable ideas? What a joke! Is the RNC planning on buying the "ideas" for Palin, because she is incapable of thinking of ideas for herself!
Who cares what Rove has to say, his fat cheeks are flapping so hard these days they are going to slap him and knock him out! Too much GOP PORK!
In four years Ms. Palin will be an afterthought. Todd will have left her for one of Willow's friends and she will be living in a trailer park outside of Fairbanks with her 25 year old boyfriend, Bud.
Palin may be intelligent....but she is uninformed.....because she does not read. Nor has she ever participated in any meaningful dialogue as evidenced by her lack of intelligible sentences.
I can't believe that fellow Americans, even though they are Republicans, have put their faith in someone who has repeatedly demonstrated that she lacks the information needed for critically thinking about the needs and responses of our country.
In additiion, the population of Alaska is only slightly more than a half a million. Being elected gov. of this state is not a good, solid test of capable statesmanship.
Sarah Palin, Republican presidential nominee in 2012?
Let's seeeeee......she seems to know very little about the world in general and appeals mostly to dimwits and religious fanatics.
She was narcisstic enough to have a concession speech of her own when McCain lost the presidential race.
Sarah seems to crave attention, though that personality defect should be apparent from her beauty pageant past. So why does the press feed her addiction to the spotlight, anyway?
Please let the sun set on this woman with the sub-par intellect: she will never be fit to serve as president in another four years or four hundred.
I hope she keeps awarding major pipeline contracts to Canadian firms.
Karl Rove is the man whose "vision" of a permanent Republican majority is what ultimately led to the GOP's near destruction. I'm not sure why anybody is the least bit interested in anything this incompetent says.
I'm curious to hear opinions from others as to whether or not they feel a huge factor in Palin getting as much support as she did, especially considering her disasterous interviews, had to do with the fact that she's good looking? Think of those disasterous Palin interviews and gaffes but picture them coming from someone who looks like Janet Reno?(apologies to Janet Reno). For example, imagine someone who was plain and overweight trying to claim they had foreign experience because they could see Russia from their house? Were this the case, that Sarah Palin was plain and unattractive, the Republican base that embraced Sarah Palin would have jeered and laughed at her instead. There are certain people who are just don't have the necessary tempermant or qualifications to hold a high position such as VP or President and never will, I know that I'd never be up to such a job. Sarah Palin is one of those people. I'm not saying this to be hateful but she simply does not have the qualities she needs to hold such a high position, she's not stupid but she's intellectually lazy. Even as Governor she was considered a lightweight by most of her peers. This is just an honest observation, not a tirade against Sarah Palin.
"Sarah Palin…to bad Sarah isn't black."
So then she'd just be stupid and black. What's your point?
I'm an Obama supporter so, please, yes, let Sarah Palin be the Republican standard-bearer in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. That would be totally awesome!
Her ignorance, mangling of the English language and complete dis-regard for the state of our decrepit, Bush policy-riddled economy perfectly captures the far right wing's image of what the U.S. should be.
Unfortunately, that does little for real Americans. But it should ensure Obama's re-election. Palin as the GOP nominee in 2012.
Yes. Let's do it, America! Let's do it until the GOP coffers are bare and Sarah Palin and her family own every designer outfit in New York City and beyond!
The best way to stop this is to never click on an article with her name in it; never leave acomment; just ignore
To show you what shes all about, the flake is in Georgia supporting someone who smeared a vietnam war veteran hero who lost both legs, and a arm, and smeared him as a draft dodger.. If all of you republicans want this flake to be your leading contender for the presidential nomination in 2012, by all means, knock yourself out!
Marketplace of Ideas = My way or the Highway!
sorry – didn't get this one : which market place??
probably not even Nasdaq even it is sinking below 1400.... oh yeah, the junkyard – that's where crap is listed!!!
This woman has no political future. She is an extreme right winger. Majority of Americans do not want to see a republican in the White House for a long time. She may be ready to run for office when pigs fly and wear lipstick.
BTW – why is Karl Rove's head shaped like a toaster? And is it just me, or does he look exactly like the Nazi whose face melts off near the end of the movie "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
In the marketplace of ideas Palin's shelves are bare.... she is truly the future of the Republicans, bereft of ideas, shrill and fixated on a single issue (abortion)
Less we all forget: our current President Elect was propelled to victory in November after he gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention as a state Senator just a mere four years prior. It is not unlikely to suppose that history could repeat itself. Evidently, four years is plenty of time to be vetted on a national scale, and I would argue that she has a leg up on Obama given the executive experience she continues to accrue. Not to mention that she is as eloquent, if not more so then Obama, when reading from a teleprompter. There is high probability that Palin is more then a candidate in 2012, but is the nominee.
Why does anyone care about Rove's opinion? He's a has been. He should be in prison not being quoted as if he's a respectable citizen.
So sick of this trash Palin and her counterparts like Rove's criminal behind.
After she goes back to school then come out like an educated person, then I would consider her.....
i feel sorry for the republicans and speciially for the peopek who flock to see her! Don't these people have a life and real issues or do they feel a compulsion to see a woman who obvioulsy has no knowledge of international / domestic issues. God help the Republicans and these lost souls!!
Please please,
Rove, Bush, Palin.... Please go away!
Not exactly a ringing endorsement from Rove.
WOW! I thought that once the Dems won – they might tone down the hatespeak. Guess that was wishful thinking.
I understand that Palin hasnt been in Juneau since Sept – remember that is where her day job is. Maybe she should do the one she was elected for and get some "executive experience" before campaigning for the next.
Subtext: Come up with an idea Governor Palin and maybe someone will buy it. She has a great many opinions but they don't seem to add up to a point of view.
Not sure who is making the decisions among Republicans to fly Palin around the country as the face of the party.. but as long as she is propped up to this position it will ensure Dem control for quite some time. Palin= Rove politics, shallow understanding of the issues, playing to the base, etc. If Republicans want to be taken seriously again after the Bush fiasco they need to return to the center and focus on reasonable conservative POLICIES– not one-liners,a pretty face and this "I'm a true American" BS they've been playing up for the last couple elections..
I wish the media would stop talking about Sara as if she was relevant to the political future of this country. She is not!. This woman is a political lightweight. Seriously. She only appeals to a selective group of clueless conservatives, who believe the office of the president should be occupied by an average person like them....."oh, I love Sara because she like me" Please!
Are you people that insecure? Do you feel like underachievers?
This woman will never appeal to independents, hispanics and blacks, so dream on!
Good, let her run. It will mean 4 more years of Obama. Unless, she seriously starts running from the middle. She is way too extreme for most Americans.
We get to see her for a long period of time....Oh this is going to be fun!!!! I can't wait to laugh. Tina Fey might as well give up 30 Rock and become the permanent Bablin Palin..... This will be great for comedy!!!
Are the american people, and that includes the supposedly intelligent news reporters that f-– St-- in thinking that this want to be is actually intelligent.Move on folks and work on a credible story.Is she paying you for this publicity one way or another.Have another drink before you write any further stories about this big earred,non intelligent person for a better choice of words and get over it.But then again after you have all had a few drinks maybe it is the topic of conversation.
CLEAN UPTHE ACT FOLKS unless you need another drink.
Sad to say it, but I have more confidence in George Bush than with Sarah Palin-
Joe,
apparently the "base" is not tired of Bush, since Palin is essentially an even more dumbed-down version of him in a skirt....
Her daughter will have a baby this month. Bristol and Levi are planning to get married in June next year?
The day Ms. Palin becomes President will be the day I become a Canadian Citizen.
In response to LIP: This has nothing to do with color of the skin. Sarah is charming, but a dim light upstairs...She can't speak properly; her education is nominal at best; her wordly knowledge is poor. So don't bring up the race issue.
Along the same lines, Condie Rice, if only I hadn't disagreed with her ideas so much, I'd vote for her in a minute, because she is a very intelligent, very accomplished woman. What we are looking for is an intelligent leader; race and gender don't matter.
There was a young woman named Palin
Whose politico sidekick was ailin'
Said she with a fliar, I'll unfurl my hair
And give my poor sidekick a flailin'
And what happens when Republicans get to know her and decide she is their future – that their future is rather bleak? We've already seen what happens when we elect someone of her ilk – disasterous ruin on every level. I can only hope we learned that lesson well.
Thanks for the bad metaphor alert...feels like Plane Palin is just taxiing though..not really going anywhere...she is like Bush ..a symbol of something... but what ..sound bytes and simple aphorisms and then NOTHING ! Keep on running Sarah..oh and lighten up folks about the suggested 'misogyny' i am just glad Palin did not have an opportunity to DO to the nation what Bush DID to it for eight years !!!
This is the best the Repulican party has to offer? Hmmmm...you know, I've always wondered who are those 25-30% or so Americans that have approved of the job the president has been doing. They must be the same ones that believe that Governor Palin is the party's future.
OMG, really?!!!!
I personally hope the Republicans DO embrace this idiot as their party leader. It would only be fitting.
I've seen enough of Plain and voted on November 4, 2008 (Obama/ Biden)...No Way, No How, No Palin...EVER ! I'll choose intellect over cheese-ball game show host every day. Sorry, (somewhat) pretty does not help me pay my bills.
NY Repub-
Maybe Rove did not commit any crimes in outing Valerie Plame.
But I would like to have heard it from him when he was called to testify.
Is this corrupt A–H- going to write a book.Yah You folks will buy it.
@ LIP
Seriously, you people whining about Palin getting a raw deal need to shut up and start doing some soul searching. Nothing sexist was said about her. NOTHING. The lipstick on a pig "scandal" was fluffy hype. The $150K spent on her wardrobe was fair game because nobody else spent that kind of money on their wardrobe...it's ridiculous and shows a lack of sense of scale and fiscal responsibility. And perhaps most of all, calling someone out on being a borderline retard may be offensive to retarded people, but it's not sexist.
Tom in SA wrote: "Don't care who it is, somebody resurrect Reagan".
Tom, that's exactly what Palin tried. It didn't work out too well. Here's hoping backward-looking Republicans try it again. As a Democrat, I'd love to see Palin on your ticket in 2012
If one person insults my wife I'm kickin' some...
This is a joke, right? If it is, I don't get it.
Barack Obama will be fine. I was a Hillary Clinton supporter in the beginning -but I don't think anything is lost with an Obama win (as a matter of fact it might be some gains). The problem that I see is that a lot of people continue to underestimate him. They underestimated him through the primaries... through the general election... and still underestimating him now through his potential presidency. I think you all will be proven wrong once again!
Also it appears that a lot of repubs think that it's going to one day be Sarah Palin on the throne. I don't know if (or think)it ever will be, but right now the only ones that seem to be smitten with her is the base and she needs more than the base to win the presidency.
Who really listens to Karl Rove? What he did to this country, he should be in jail.
Hopefully a judge will be deciding Karl Rove's fate in the near future.
In the marketplace of ideas Karl Rove is morally bankrupt. Does he actually work for CNN now? If he does I think it is a good way for you to make your other commentators look more honest by comparison. Do you have to pay his bail?
Sorry, LIP. Gov. Palin exposed herself to be clueless about national and international affairs outside of Alaska. She also repeatedly demonstrated a lack of depth and intellect. It had nothing to do with her gender or race, but her die-hard supporters might feel better to believe so. At least Senators Hutchinson, Snowe or Dole can deliver coherent, intelligent commentary on a wide range of topics.
Quit "IMPALIN" America. She's truly an insult to all women. How she ever was elected Governor is beyond me.
Just like Bush who told us to go shopping after 9-11 she really took it to heart and spent like there was no tomorrow.
This is a recession not your recess. Get back to work. We made our choice. Deal.
It continues to amaze me how much space and coverage you and the other media give this person Palin. She's a bad joke gone on too long. Just let her go back to Alaska and "govern" or whatever she does there.
Quoth "Blue is my favourite colour:" "Sarah Palin is an old republican relic. Four years into the future, we will be more evolved then we are in this cycle. If she thinks she will be viable even after the innauguration of Obama, she's wrong.
The only saving grace that the republicans have is to get rid of their religious right, anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-ignorance and fear mongering..."
Couldn't have said it better myself–in fact, I wish I had.
Somewhere along the line, the Republican Party got hijacked by people like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, "Christian extremists," differing only in details and degree–and not a whole lot of that–from the kinds of madmen who attacked Mumbai and blinded some Afghan schoolgirls for daring to try to get an education.
The "religious right" is a scary bunch–almost as scary as the "Islamic right," or any other kind of self-righteous, unreasoning, fanatic.
I never register for any party, just Unenrolled...but I'll tell you this: I'd register Republican just to be able to vote in their primaries for Palin in 2012, then de-register as a Republican and go back to being Unenrolled once she gets nominated.
I am sick and tired of this woman and her ramblings. Go away Sarah Palin, we intelligent decent folks have had enough.
It means that her celebrity status continues to appeal to the conservative and still further right of the GOP (Gobsmacked On Palin). Those fringies in Georgia (and everywhere else) have had little to rally them this election season, so they follow their rock star. Palin graduated from the University of Idaho on the fifth try (she attended several different colleges before Idaho granted her a degree - maybe to get rid of her?). Will Obama, superbly educated in the Ivy League, highly articulate, smart as a fox and the incumbent president have anything to fear from a beauty pageant bunny? Oh, please, please don't throw Sarah Palin into that political briar patch. PLEASE.
And stop comparing Obama to Palin, for heavenly sake!
Why would you listen to Rove! He's run the republicans into the
mess their in. Why do you seek his opinion,he's liar and he exposed a covert C.I.A. agent among other offences. Isn't their a more respectable person to seek opinion.
Marko
Qualifications to be a Democrat. Be hateful, Be racists, Get personal,
Be dumb. If you meet these qualifications you will be a great Democrat.
Sarah Palin...I find it interesting the amount of fear one sees in reading these blogs. For a nobody, Sarah Palin managed in two months to pull together 57,000,000 votes. Had she had the two years that Obama had, do you think she would have beat him? I think so and these blogs are a reflection of the fear that Democrats are voicing.
I think that she should look at the qualifications of people being nominated for cabinet positions, then, look in the mirror and truly ask herself "can I even come close to being qualified for this kind of job." Scary who she would be nominating to post positions to lead this country and her agenda. I hope she goes away, or maybe not. I think the Republicans can write off their future with her in play.
Rowe? Palin? Who's next? Nancy Reagan? Get over it CNN. The Republicans lost and lost good. We don't care about these out-of-date, mean-spirited has-beens.
I never register for any party, just Unenrolled…but I'll tell you this: I'd register Republican just to be able to vote in their primaries for Palin in 2012, then de-register as a Republican and go back to being Unenrolled once she gets nominated.
Yeah, I hate the GOP that much.
re Fenarkleman's comment about rove's head.....:; rove's mother must have had an uncomfortably difficult birth.
I honestly think from talking to alot of my friends in the republican party, and myself personally, that we did not vote for john mccain because sarah palin was his vice presidential pick. I personally would have voted for him had he have picked a more moderate and skillful politician as his running mate, and a person more capable of taking the highest office in the land in the unfortunate event of his death.
in the event that sarah palin runs in 2012 would be just more proof that the republican party is continually kicking a dead horse and further out of contact with mainstream and moderate america. This would only further alienate the moderate conservative base from the republican party, and winning back the moderate conservative base is key to a republican come back IF we ever see it. But i at this point really am not counting or caring about that
Here's an IDEA from the Marketplace, Frog- March Karl Rove to Jail!
Well, depsite the fact that she is smarter, nicer, has better morals, and yes, is better looking than Hillary, Palin still needs that one thing to make her a serious contender. She needs to go someplace like Iraq and do one of the following:
1) Claim to be under sniper fire when there was none in the area.
2) Have her aircraft be forced to land due to bad weather, but turn around and claim it was because it came under attack.
I mean hey, if it worked for Hillary and Biden, it might be worth giving a shot. As a majority of the American voting public proved on November the 4th, impressing voters with the truth is nothing compared to dazzling them with bull.
The hate coming from Democrats will not stop because it is working for them. Al Gore still introduces himself as the person who use to be the next President of The United States. The next 4 years should be interesting.
25 years as a staunch republican, she flipped my switch. I voted Obama and am changing my party to Dem.
Is she the best the GOP has to offer?
A hockey mom and a mayor of a small village? Is that who we want to run the free world? Nice person but I don't think so.......
Marketplace of Ideas?? Maybe if she had "any" that might be one thing but someone who went to 5 colleges in 6 years shows that she has no ability to focus, she has yet to make a single statement in English that makes sense. Ideas?? Does she even have an IQ to produce ideas??
I hope the media will stop paying attention to the likes of Rove and Palin. We really don't care what either one of them has to say anymore. Been there, done that. They are has-beens, irrelevant, and out of touch. Let's move on to more constructive times, people.
Please, please, please run Sarah. Slam dunk for Democrats in 2012!!!
the democrats didn't want to win, They just want to whine - above Rove, Palin, etc. Geez, where's the change we need?
I just can't understand why should we have to listen to anything that Karl Rove says. He has not done great or good things, so why should we have to listen to what HE has to say? Who respects his opinion – sure is not I!
GOOD LORD, ENOUGH ALREADY! Why can't she just go away??
Sara, like all ideologs left and right, is to shallow and narrowly focused. The last 233 years in the U.S. show that narrow interests consistently lose over time.
America is a democracy, centrist and progressive by nature. That is writ large in the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and the amendments to the Constitution.
Pre-Revolutionary Europe is not America's future.
I think Sarah would do great as an anchor woman. She loves the spotlight.....She has neglected her state and family since she has been getting this special attention from the media and book deals and movie deals. Maybe politics is not her calling.
We just elected a president, can we not at least give it until he is sworn in before we are debating who is going to run against him in 4 years??
I am so glad that Sarah Palin has inserted herself into the main stream political scene. I have never been so politically entertained in all my life. She is even better than Jon Stewart and she doesn't even have to try. I hope she sticks around a long time. We'll always have a plethora of Palinisms to laugh at. The cherry on top is that she will divide the republican party for many years to come. Keep it up Sarah. This democrat loves you...
If Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP, then I'll drink to that...
...and oh yes, GOOD RIDANCE REPUBLICANS.
carl rove sucks,bill oreilly sucks hannityandcolms suck, newt gringhig suck, greta definatily sucks, your all losers who think you know what your talking about and don't, so to all of fox news team go suck on a egg.
Gosh darnit, Sarah Palin is a hockey mom, and by gosh, I think we finally need a hockey mom who believes in pro-abstinence and anti-abortion and anti-gay causes legislated by the federal government. And shucks, it's about time someone stood up for the good common folk gosh darnit. It's about time someone spoke out about the sanctity of marriage and how it should be forced on unwilling teenagers.
In other words, the neocon movement is over, and Palin is past.
One question for all of you.
If Sarah Palin was an unattractive over weight woman with the same intelligence and ability where would she be?? What office would she have been elected to and what would she have accomplished.
It's a pretty easy answer to the question.
You and I would have never heard of her. Could you imagine any other female politician getting away with that lack of knowledge. I can't, and I can't imagine any male politician do it either.
It is troubling to see people who support Palin so disconnected with the issues facing this country. Statements like "she is just like me" "she has five kids and I can relate to her" and "she is such a warm person" are pretty scary.
RUN SARAH RUN – ROVE IS ON YOUR SIDE
Oh I forget for a minute – they deserve each other and my man will soon be in the White House
Palin would make an imbecile seem brainy. I have a suggestion – let us ALL stop posting to any website or blog that even mentions her name. Oxygen only keeps the misery going and she is NOT worth it.
I hope she does run. She provides excellent and free entertainment. Case in point: post-turkey-pardon press conference in front of turkey slaughtering. You can't make this stuff up!!! I think Americans deserve some free entertainment.
I am glad to hear that the marketplace will decide. It is soooo obvious that she has no goods to offer! The right wing conservatives will be lined up at the table waiting for something to sow up from Sarah, unfortunately (for sweet Sarah) the mooseburgers and venom sandwiches will not be attractive to most folks!
Sarah Palin is polictically smart. If she decides she has higher ambitions she will remake herself : learn how to answer questions asked in an interview, speak before selected audiences with their pro-Palin signs, and raise money from right wing groups. Months from now people will forget her support for the bridge to nowhere, her comments that Obama "palls arounds with terroists", and all the other ridiculous statements she made during the campaign. She will strike a conservative tone and people will believe she's "one of us". If she enters Republican primaries she will confirm herself to whatever the wind happens to be in the Republican Party at the time in order to win the nomination. Just like McCain did-- turned right to get the nomination. Only Sarah will turn to the center- portray herself as a right of center moderate. After 4 years, no one is going to believe President Obama is a socialist.
She needs to stay at home, in Alaska and hunt moose. She's pretty good at doing that. GOP have been bullwinked, if they consider her for 2012.
Palin will fade just like any shiny, new toy.
Her time would be better spent taking care of the home front in Alaska, both personally and politically, for the next 8 years. Only then, with some real accomplishments in her resume, would she have something of substance to package and sell.
Wow, not many left in the Republican party. The real reason they keep bring Palin up? She doesn't even know Africa is a content and South Africa is a country.
Wow, I guess you don't need to know world leaders names, types of governments or location of countries to be a politician. You get just beat your eyes, say slang and smile at the camera.
I BEG OF YOU SARAH PALIN - GO BACK TO ALASKA. I HAVE TO RUN TO MY TV EVERYTIME YOUR NAME IS MENTIONED TO TURN IT OFF BEFORE I HEAR YOUR WHINY VOICE.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE PATHETIC IF THEY CAN'T COME UP WITH BETTER THAN THAT!
RUN SARAH RUN – OBAMA 2012 WILL BE A SUPER LANDSLIDE IF YOU'RE AT THE HEAD OF THE TICKET.
JOKE IS OVER.
CNN! I think I missed that comment of Nikson... Joe Biden.... I Cut the Sound.... When will The News Media admit, they just wasted peoples time.... Barack Obama maybe your next leader... To me! Nixon was a fool.... But Nothing like America today...... Your were stupid.... Not you personaly... But This is not your finest Hour.... Beware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have just been invaded...
The dem party is owned by the left wing kooks. Hateful unhappy people.
Kristi,
It takes an impeachment AND a conviction to remove a president from office. I bet that Sarah doesn't know that either!
Plain go away!!. Iam sick and tied of you. You are a disgrace to women.
Please go and hide. Republicans should know better to tell her to go and hide herself.
CNN and other news people should please stop talking about this idoit.
"But ultimately, Rove said, Republicans need more time to get to know Palin before embracing her as the party's future." [Carl Rove]
So let me see if I have this straight – NOW the GOP needs more time to get to know Palin before they embrace her as a GOP leader, but they knew her well-enough to offer her up as a nominee for the position that is one heart beat away from the most powerful job in the world.
Hmmmmmmm. You Betcha by Golly Gee! Sounds like they really put a lot of thought into it there also.
I say, let her keep right on talking her fool head off – round and round we go; what she's saying, no one knows!
Someone! Please read through these comments and tell me why liberals are so filled with hatred!
Methinks the emperor has no clothes.
I agree with Dan, why all the hate? I feel all warm and fuzzy about Palin now that she's been sent back to Alaska. There's still a lot of buzz about her, but that's fading, and in a few years she'll just be an unpleasant memory.
Quoth "Blue is my favourite colour:" "Sarah Palin is an old republican relic. Four years into the future, we will be more evolved then we are in this cycle. If she thinks she will be viable even after the innauguration of Obama, she's wrong.
The only saving grace that the republicans have is to get rid of their religious right, anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-ignorance and fear mongering..."
Couldn't have said it better myself–in fact, I wish I had.
Somewhere along the line, the Republican Party got hijacked by people like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, "Christian extremists," differing only in details and degree–and not a whole lot of that–from the kinds of madmen who attacked Mumbai and blinded some Afghan schoolgirls for daring to try to get an education.
The "religious right" is a scary bunch–almost as scary as the "Islamic right," or any other group of self-righteous, unreasoning, fanatics. All the justification they need to inflict, perhaps violently, their life styles on anyone is a delusion that their mythical god told them to do it–and who, among the so deluded, is going to argue with a god? Such people, sure in their own rightness, are conscienceless–they, in their own minds, can do no wrong.
Response to John,
We are fully aware that the GOP doens't care what any of us think, except for radical, extremist religionistas. Just look at the last 8 years and the most recent campaign and it's results. Go Obama!
Last I heard lying can get you impeached. (Ask Bill Clinton). He lied about adultery–no real harm done, just to his marriage. Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, all lied about WMDs, and this has cost the country dearly. We have lost thousands of American lives, innocent Iraqi's and the financial strain on the country has only begun to rear its head. Thet should all be tried for lying. Even after being told by the UN inspectors that there were no weapons in Iraq, Bush still declared war. They had NOTHING to do with Sept. 11, 2001. Please stop making light of this. This is a serious crime. If you had lost a loved one due to this, you'd feel as strong as I do about this.
Nobody should care what Rove has to say about Palin. We know how he masterminded to put another intellectual low volt into the White House and look what a disaster that was. My heart aches when I think about the mess that Bush & Co unleashed on this world. It was done by stupid men that were blinded by ambition and political opportunism with no regard for reasonable and sober governance. Palin is cut from that same cloth. Rove should be speaking to the prosecutors that should be appointed to hold him and his cronies (Bush & Cheney included) responsible for their crimes against humanity.
Remember this - hundreds of thousands of innocent lives weren't lost, the economy didn't tank nor did anti-americanism spread around the world because Ms. Lewinsky spent an afternoon or two pleasing the president.
"Marketplace of ideas..."
hmmmm... well, that disqualifies Sarah Palin from every winning the White House. Her "ideas" consisted of mud-slinging, winking, dividing the country and lying about her opponent.
America has moved waaaaay beyond the Rovian politics of the past.
Except with the staunch republican base who does not care about ideas. They only care about ideology.
In the "marketplace of ideas" this today's Plain contribution.
“When much of the economic problem that we are facing today perhaps was caused by too much debt, that solving those problems will not come from incurring more debt so we do have some concerns about these. This is going to be a matter of re-prioritizing federal dollars though and putting them to use in the wisest fashion for taxpayers, for constituents.”
Deep thinker that one.
Does anybody really care what Rove thinks?
Also who cares about Palin?
Please, Sarah...please, please please run for President in 2012! We really hope you get the nomination! We support you for the nomination all the way!
Signed,
The DNC
Dear Suburban Sue,
I cannot agree with more! Excellent.
Why not and have Rush Limbraugh as her running mate.
In all honesty; you've got to be kidding me.
Well, i guess she loses then if it's a "marketplace of ideas".
This woman has no idea what the hell is really going on in the real world.
Pretty obvious when you can't even name one news source that you get your info from.
Oh yeah, that's a "gotcha question."
All the people on this board referring to "bitter liberals" make me laugh. We're not bitter. We won, remember?
Why anyone in their right mind would even consider this apocalypse of mediocrity as taking center stage under any circumstances is the clearest indicator of how low the GOP has sunk.
In 4 years she will be almost 50 ... once the "hot" factor is reduced, so will America's interest in her. I still haven't heard a coherent, constructive thought issue from her mouth. It's still the same GOP "fear fear and more fear" crud they've heaped on America over the years and which finally spilled over and and smothered them. If she can reinvent herself into someone smart...I'll consider her. Until then she's a flash in the pan.
She attracks th BASE and thats all! She is polorizing. She is trailer trash. She was knocked up when she got married, like mother like daughter!
Her future is at the "Base" and nothing more! She will NEVER moderiates to cross over, and thats what it takes!
Rove, Palin, go away once and for all!
the republicans are soar losers, yall mad, because you're all eating President Obama's dust, Get over it. and to all of fox news God don't like ugly, so you can't mess with his people. I'm wondering greta on fox must really think she the stuff, she looks like a man dressed as a woman and she has the audacity to talk about my new President woman please, and oreilly if you do read this email, watch keith oberman you might learn something.
kristi December 2nd, 2008 4:19 pm ET
I have come across dumb comments in the message boards. But none dumber than kristi .
Wonder where these kind of people got their education (Provided she has any)
She sounds dumber than Gov.Palin
ROVE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A VIETNAM DRAFT DODGER, JUST
LIKE ALL THE OTHER REPUBLICANS, WHY DOES CNN GIVE
HIM AND THE HILLBILLY PALIN SO MUCH FACE TIME?
Can we drop Sarah noise for a while?
We're still 5+ weeks away from the person the country elected
Palin is the best the Republicans have to offer? Really? Palin needs to go back to Alaska and address the problems in that state. Let's see if the people in her state are even interested in re-electing her. This is not about being mean-spirited. It's about having the most intelligent of individuals lead our country. Palin is an opportunist. The woman can't string two coherant sentences together. IThat's not being mean-spirited; that's what she has shown. If Palin is the look of the Republican Party, and if Karl Rove still has any credibility among them, it is a sad party, indeed.
It's amazing how the Republicans are always willing to put into office the most uneducated, war-mongering, hate-speaking, nation-dividing, lying-tongue, type of people in the world. It baffles me how Americans can support such hateful candidates.
There have got to be willing, qualified, republicans out there who respect all Americans. Where are they?
Perhaps McCain will make another run – without Palin. However if Palin enters the race her baggage will be well known.
WOW Dan! We waited for 8 years for the repubs to stop the hatespeak....but they never did. The worst was during the 90's when the Clintons couldn't even walk out the door with a republican led witch hunt. Aren't you lucky you had a congress full of repubs who let W go from disaster to disaster? Look what you and your cronies have done to this country. Discraceful.....you republicans should be ashamed of yourselves! But wait....you are incapable of ideas without ideology.
One has to ask what the effect might be of the years of the Obama presidency. If he succeeds in redefining the presidency as the management of the marketplace of pragmatic ideas then I think the appeal of Palin will dramatically shrink. I can't see her every really being a policy wonk. I believe she can only soar in an environment where the culture wars are still important. I hope that's not the case. I hope that NOT because it will keep her out of politics because it will mean we will all have grown up a bit and are working on problems rather than just screaming at each other.
I am bewildered just seeing people flock to her. I have never seen anyone with such limited intellect get so much attention. What does that say about the Republican base? Not much at all!! Very sad!
The simple fact that she remains popular among the GOP base just proves, again, that they are all a bunch of Ricky Bobbys.
Actually, it would be nice if Karl Rove and all he represents would disappear back into the darkness from whence he came.
The market place of ideas has already spoken about this trainwreck. It has said, "don't call us, we'll call you."
Sarah Palin would be a wonderful choice to be the Republican nominee for the office of president in 2012, and every four years thereafter – just so long as one wants to guarantee – and very properly so if she nominated – that a Democrat is elected each time.
The market place of ideas has already spoken about this trainwreck. It said, "don't call us, we'll call you."
I would love to see Senator Palin. It would be worth it just to watch the far left kooks.
Translation from Rove: Read between the lines folks...no glowing reccommendation here...She's an idiot with no experience and the more people see of her the more stupid she will look.
Being Canadian and unable to vote in the U.S. elections I still found it interesting to follow. During this time I would say I was a strong Democratic supporter until this election. What I have observed is that the Dem supporters have so much to be proud of, yet take the low road and seem to take pride in cutting down and tearing people apart. Such a sad and disappointing state of which I would be ashamed to call myself a Dem if I resided in the U.S.
Sarah Palin was thrown into a situation that most would jump at given the opportunity and actually did a very good job handling herself through the process. If those who criticise actually took time to research what they are so quick to cut down they would find that most negative remarks about Sarah were fabricated and in accurate. Americans should be proud of this individual and expect more from their news reporters and media in general to report the truth.
Rove said that the Republican party must get to know Palin, that she was on the stage for only nine weeks. Yet he and every other republican probably voted for her to be vp. DOesn't make sense.
Hey OBAMA GIRL,
Stop being an Obama Bimbo.
Yes Yes.. More Sarah. She is perfect for the GOP. She can lead them further into the political void .Embrace her GOP. She is the future of the GOP. gosh golly wink wink you betcha
It's hard to believe that a person without any experience outside of Alaska and the education of a Malamute will have much to contribute to the marketplace of "ideas".
Ignorant, Evangelical Taliban. Dangerous to the Country and the Constitution no matter how you slice it.
The women is dumber than a box of rocks in addition to the fact that she does not even speak correct Engllish.
Was it the "marketplace of ideas" that determined she should be the VP running mate? Look at that success! Can this Rove go away and take this moose hunter soon to be grandma with him?
As a committed Democrat, I urge Republicans to support Palin. Nothing would be better than a Palin nomination for president, skipping over truly qualified Republican candidates.
I'd love just one day without hearing from either Rove or Palin......
I was really hoping that this woman would just go away.
she so gets under my skin with that voice of hers... man crap... how much of her must i have to keep on putting up with
"Remember she was on the stage for nine weeks in the general election — that’s not a lot of time," he said. "Now we are going to get to a chance see her over a longer period of time."
No thanks. 9 weeks were a pretty long period for me.
TO LIP:
Had Sarah been a BLACK WOMAN running around the country with a pregnant teenage daughter would have been enough to run her out of town and disgraced. This woman is a poor excuse for a mother. Her children have no home training which tells me everything I need to know about Sarah. Got to go, need to go spit shine my daughter's hair.
@LIP – Too bad Sarah was too dumb; too bad Sarah was too stupid; too bad Sarah couldn't name one newspaper or magazine she ever read; too bad Sarah could see Russia from Alaska; too bad Sarah race-baited and got a bunch of ignorant folks riled up; too bad Sarah said only "small town folks" were "real" Americans. Too bad for you, Sarah. Thank goodness you are not our Vice President. I'd vote for Biden any day over you. Heck, I'd vote for just about anybody over you.
Just goes to show how desperate the republican party has become. She lost McCaine the election and rep still have no clue!
Don't you just love to read the hate filled rants by the "tolerant" left wing nut jobs. They go on and on about Palin's lack of experience, even though she has MORE experience the "Vote Present" Obama. Democrats cater to the ignorant and uninformed, and the left wing hate speech on this forum confirms it.
Oh well, by March we should all be able to quite our jobs, sit in circles and sing Kumbau because we'll all be rich with the money Obama sends us. No more terrorism either. (At least thats what the left believes.)
WE NEED PEACE IN AMERICA
GO AWAY
WAY WAY WAY SOME WHERE
JUST GO
APPALING WOMAN
Here's to hoping that the Republicans do nominate Sarah Palin. Choosing her is like handing the ball to the Mets bullpen - game over, other team wins. I considered myself an independent until Sarah Palin was called a Republican - I could never vote for someone so undeducated and close-minded, and a governor of a state of only 650,000 people.
Understandably, no Republican wants to state the too obvious truth about Palin's competence, so they skirt the issue. Look at Newt's recent statement, now Rove's: the implications are obvious.
Let's stop talking about Sarah Palin! She represents a small minority of people who were officially reminded that America is a changed, reformed and enlightened nation. Sarah Palin represents a segment of the population that is being left behind.
If the Republicans really want to fall further into the bowels of despair, they should continue to let Sarah Palin steal meaningful headlines. I think they are too smart, but if not, then let it be.
Someone like Sarah Palin IS president of the USA G W Bush is just like herbut he was handled by Carl Rove and his Dad had been President, so he had a voice early on. But the American people and yes some Dems thought he was OK tell me why we all act like none of us voted for Bush some of us had to have gone over to the dark side . and I predict they will clean her up and give her a brain and we'll see her in 2012. Hope we all feel good about Obama and can vote AGAINST her then. PLEASE GOD no more double talking happy speak from her, I can't stand it.
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For heaven's sake, HALF of the people in this country voted for George Bush TWICE. This tells me Palin's chances are excellent.
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Exactly. And this country is FULL of such people who care nothing except that their candidate is "like them" – meaning not exceptionally intelligent or interested in the world around them.
Please Sarah, run for nomination in 2012. You have solid following in the Republican base so you should win the nomination. Then you have ZERO following outside the bse, so you should lose miserably to Obama. So please please please, run for 2012.
Obama '12
Now that Carl rove has had his say on this last subject, can we just forget about his sorry butt? Thank you very much.
SARAH SHOULD STICK TO PORN!
NAIL'IN PALIN WAS A GOOD MOVIE....
HA HA HA
REPUBLICANS ARE A JOKE!
Anyone who considers Palin a potential presidential candidate should look closely at her anti-wildlife stance. There are few people who would be considered worse for the environment and wildlife then Bush and she is firmly in that camp. Her latest campaign to allow additional trophy hunting access to polar bears says it all. Add to that aerial hunting of wolves and she is just the poster child for appalling. I think more then a few hunters would even have a problem with her.
If you would like to see more about her policies please visit the Defenders of Wildlife website.
Can't we all just get along!! She's a joke, but she'll provide fodder for the comedians. We all need a little mirth. If the Repubs put her up again they deserve the drubbing they'll inflict on themselves. But we'll all suffer with such a miserable alternative to the Dems, to keep them honest. We'll need a third party worse than ever.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Shouldn't we wait to see if her own state likes her well enough to re-elect her as their governor before we even go talking about her running for the presidency.
why aren't Sarah and Rove going out on a book tour for "Joe the Plumber"? They seem to not to be able to get out of the news anyway.
Listen to all the people that NEVER WERE, AND NEVER WILL BE!!
While I sit "Bitter and Depressed" clinging to my guns and religion,
these panseys sit in Daddy's basement clinging to the worthless
sheepskin that Daddy spent his retirement fund on. So now all the
little cowards can do is hide behind their computer screens and
send out hate and scorn against a woman that is already more
than these little whimps will EVER BE! BE AFRAID YOU WORTHLESS
EATERS, IT WILL BE SARAH PALIN IN 2012!!!! THANK GOD!
RALPH L.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Palin's future ideas will only be the ideas advisors can put into her head so she can learn her talking points and read her teleprompter. We already know the real her – the negative woman on the campaign trail and clueless one in the Katie Kouric interview – and obviously the majority of Americans didn't like what they saw.
I have no idea what Rove meant in his statement about marketplace of ideas. Maybe the gobbledegook he talks about is one reason why the Republicans fared so bad. No one understands the message. In 4 years Rove will probably be a "nobody" anyhow.
I think there's a lot of Republicans and conservatives who would express distaste for Bush and McCain and palin now.
By eleminating all 3 will do them service to rebuild the party!
Sarh Palin is attractive, physically speaking. She is not attractive in
1) keeping friends – see the former mayor who she ran against and allowed smeary things to be said about him while claiming to be his friend; see the fomrer Gov who she befriended and then ousted.
2) in her ideas – even in case of incest, I believe in life. Those are her words, not mine.
3) speaking of words, she's got to do a better job of making coherent sentences as opposed to just putting words together (see the Katie Couric interview when asked about the bailout)
4) bringing people together – "It's good to be here in this part of Virginia where there are pro-Americans."
But after that, she could work. Or, Tina Fey can continue to make a LOT of Money. Or, instead of impersonations, Palin could keep the money herself and keep doing "skits" like the one where she pardoned a turkey only to then go outside and stand right in front of an area where turkesy are slaughtered. And then have 2 turkeys actually be claughtered right behind her on camera. That was a skit right? I mean, that didn't really happen. right?
I consider myself a moderate who voted for Obama and was no fan of Palin. That said, why are people bashing her so bad at this point. The election is over. While she certainly has many shortcomings I do not see the value of the hateful rhetoric I see about her. The next election is 4 years away (unless she runs for a Senate seat). Why not wait until another election to pounce on her. To do so now makes people look mean, shallow and ignorant.
If Palin is the fate of the pubs, then we welcome them and their wackiness. Its an easy win in '12.
Apparently not knowing her well enough was good enough for Republicans to put her in 2nd place to lead our nation. Now they don't know her well enough to lead their party? So careless it's scary.
IMy hope is she will FINALLY fade gracefully into the sunset as she has had significantly more than her fifteen minutes of fame.
The anti-intellect wing of the Republican Party is having its day.
Unbelievable!
In the marketplace of ideas, Palin needs a bailout.
Some say you should not judge a book by its cover.
Go back to Alaska and stay there!
Where's the Mac in all of the this? What does he think of a President Palin in 2012? I actually think he would vote for Obama.
Palin gets her idears at the two-fer-one sale at the Idear Barn. Wink, wink.
Palin is nothing more than boob bait for bubba's. She lacks cultural intellectual and academic curiosity. Sometimes you can hear the shrill wind blow through her ears.
I have never seen anyone so uneducated and unprofessional on the political scene like this Palin. Amazing!
Who is Rush to weigh in? Does he have a suitcase full of VIAGRA he is sneaking into a country somewhere to take care of?
**I can't stand Rush Limbaugh who owes President Elect Obama an apology for saying he was lying about his grandmother being sick. That will never happen.
Funny that Rove speaks about a marketplace of ideas appealing to Republican voters. I thought fear and divisiveness where the tools he used to get Bush elected in 2004. McCain and Palin went to the same well this past election too.
Boy this little old gal has really got the libs on edge!
Palin, go home and stay there!
Would the Mac still think she's a "wonderful reformer" and "a breathe of fresh air"? I doubt it, he would vote OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!
My husband and I hope she disappears into the oblivion of Alaska.
White trash!
gee, I thought the Dems won the election? Why are you people so worried abotu Sarah Palin? You have to be, that is the only common sense answer to why you have to insult, slam, and lie about Sarah.
You have to toss comments about her family, her to be grandchild, her way of talking.
Childish at best.
I have to think, deep down, you people want to ridicule Sarah Palin so bad, because you do NOT WANT her to run against Obama in 2012.
I think your all scared to death of Sarah, her connection with the blue collar america. Her freshness, her abilty to creatt he rock star attitude. Pretty much the same way Obama has.
So continue on children, act like your ont he school playground picking on another child. Because Sarah will still be around, and you just might see more of her in the future.
I hope she gains speed, takes on the republican party, and the Democrats in the next election,,, see you all in 2012,,,, you betcha.
Karl Rove should be in prison, and Sarah Palin should be laughed out of office. The GOP is finished as we know it. G.O.P. = Greedy Old Party!
What is most important at the moment?
Sarah Palin
Karl Rove
The Economy
Pick One!
Yes, you Betcha!! I hope she runs in 2012. She is the best news the Dems could ever wish for.
She's as dumb as Joe the plummer and his $40,000 a year job masquerading as someone that is buying a $260,000 a year business. Hey, Joe, your parents used welfare not once, but twice and you hate socialism?
...yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
karl belomgs im prision and palin belongs in he fifth grade grlw up a lot.
Price for mother of bride’s dress for wedding - $1.372(purchased in August at Neiman')
Price for wedding gift certificate to Macy’s Bridal - $1,500(Thank you note will be addressed to the RNC)
The joy of watching Breeze or Tundra(who can remember?), her 17 year old daughter walk down the aisle in a black empire gown because she is 7 months pregnant, while followed by all 6 groomsmen forcibly carrying the soon to be loving husband Lie or is it Eli, to the alter to happily join in wedded bliss - PRICELESS!
After all these nice comments I see, I sure can understand why God doesn't feel like BLESSING AMERICA any longer and its not just about Sarah Palin because the same is true about the other side with their comments about Obama and others. America has been going in the wrong direction for over 30 years. Why would God Bless this nation when we kick him out of our public schools back in the 70's? About the same time the SAT scores started to fall and the divorce rate started to increase. America is in a STATE of CRISIS and it started long before Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, it was obvious to our Founding Fathers to put their faith in Jesus Christ each and everyday.
So I invite everyone who reads this to pray each and everyday and leave the hate mail to Satan.
To NY Republican: idealogical differences aside, Rove DID commit a very despicable crime - he "outed" a CIA operative for political purposes. Now traditionally, compromising national security is something Republicans wouldn't stand for. Except this time, it was one of their own, so all we here are technicalities as to why what he did "might" not fall within the letter of the law. Can you imagine of this had been done by a Clinton operative during his administration? Do you really mean to tell me you would have been sympathetic to him?
To John,
You said:
"Have any of you met a republican? Jesus Christ, Mrs. Palin is at least 10x smarter than 75% of those dumbells!"
With such an insightful and statistcally accurate post as yours, I have no doubt that you think Mrs. Palin is smart. And extrapolating Mr. Bush is the second coming of Einstein. LOL!
BTW, did you notice that people like "Fenarkleman" are socially retarded people who do not work and watch movies all day in mommy and daddy's basement?
I am so tired of the Palin reporters calling Democrats "hateful" or "afraid" or "shaking in their boots." I mean are you people stupid?? We don't like Palin for many good reasons. There are more important things to being a world leader than being folksy or anti abortion. She simply is not worldly, or smart enough and if you think these attributes are not important, then you aren't too smart yourself. She is not a well spoken woman and would not be taken seriously by world leaders which in today's times IS IMPORTANT. Sarah Palin will never be elected president of this country. It won't happen. The percentage of you who think she is capable of that job is thankfully very small. It isn't hatred or scared to express our views. You sure express them about Obama and I might add in very ignorant ways.
If Sarah Palin becomes the new leader of the GOP party, it will only further secure Obama's renomination in 2012. Americans will not elect this ignorant redneck. Contrary to popular belief, those who believe in the idea of a Christian theocracy are in the minority; not all of us are so hateful, racist, self-rightgeous, and narrow-minded. So go ahead- Keep talking about Palin. Keep running stupid news stories about her. The rest of the world is laughing at her, and so are intelligent Americans.
GO AWAY!!! PLEASE!!
nooooooooo.
just go away, sarah. we need to get WORK done to fix our economy, not look at pretty faces
She is nothing but an airhead, a space cadet and a bimbo! I hope she does run in 4 years.
It's disgusting to see that mostly potty mouths are the only ones that make comments here. Look you, or most of you are just as brain dead now as you were during the election. Palin didn't pick herself to be McCain's running mate. She got thrown onto an international stage with a bunch of sheep like you folks and a media that inflames you lemmings as easy as striking a match. Plus the media needs a clown car to keep things interesting. Thank goodness most of you don't have to make any decisions greater than finding the bathroom in your own house.
Please, Please, PLEASE let the GOP nominate this lame brained numbskull in 2012 ... it would be an out and out guarantee of another 4 years in office for Barack Obama (can you imagine Caribou Barbie in a debate with Obama?)!
AWWWWW!!!!! After years of gloating it's now time for the poor little Repugs to take a bite of the crap sandwich and they don't like it.
With the line up of losers currently "front-runners" in their party they'd better start acquiring a taste for it, they are going to be dining for quite a while.....and it's hilarious!!!!!!!!
karl rove and his hateful divisive slanderous campaign tactics saddled us with 8 years of the worst president in the history of ever!! He should have less than zero credibility, or as much as this proudly ignorant holier than though non reader who believes the rapture is coming to Alaska! Why did GOP let itself get hijacked by wingnut idealouges?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let Sarah Palin be the Republican candidate in 2012!!! GW Bush killed the GOP. Sarah Palin will bury it. I mean OH NO I'M SO AFRAID OD SARAH PALIN!!! NOOOOO!!!
This woman is the PERFECT face for the GOP – an angry, condescending, arrogant, empty skirt that lies like a rug.
An idiot with name recognition is still an idiot.
I love all the 'Dumb Palin' comments. Our President elect thinks there are 57 states, doesn't know which states border Illinois and stated we 'live in the greatest nation in the world. Join with me as we try to change it.' Our Vice President elect thinks the word 'Jobs' is a three letter word, and it is patriotic to pay taxes. I can't wait until Jan 2012.
I think Rove's comments seem very fair. Certainly not an enthusiastic endorsement, but that wouldn't be appropriate right now anyway. Palin should keep up with her appearances and let the American public see her for who she really is. Then, in 2012, the voters will decide if she is the future of the party – but right now, she's just Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
This just in. We can now report that Sasquatch is alive and well and living in Alaska. The proof has been confirmed. The fact that Sarah Palin was elected to the top of the Alaskan political food chain indicates there are thousands of the species living in quiet and remote villages, throughout Alaska. The manual dexterity and mental acuity of Sasquatch is evident by the fact that thousands of the Sasquatch village dwellers were able to find and pull the voting lever for Palin in the last gubernatorial election! The intelligence of Sasquatch has also now been confirmed, they can successfully run the state without the state idiot.
Stay tuned for further updates!
This is the main problem that the GOP has, they only want aim their campaign to certain part of the population failing to understand, that an elected position is a customer service one and their customers are all of the the citizens that pay their collective salaries. They cannot exclude anyone.
LIP – Had Sarah Palin been black and running for vice president with a Journalism degree with an emphasis in broadcasting, married to an oil field worker/sleigh champion, five babies (one special needs), pregnant daughter and performed the way she did on interviews and in public – God help her. She would have been destroyed by now. But, we all know that it would have never happened because the Republican party only has 35 terrible negro members.
LOL, "marketplace of ideas" like he is some kind of intellectual. The reason the Republicans lost was no bad shopping day in the "maketplace of ideas." it was the politics of Rove himself. gutter hate pure and simple.
I am so tired of tuning into CNN ticker only to see another Palin article. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!. She and the Republican Party lost the election....who cares what her ambitions are.
Run Sarah run, please.
If the republicans choose her, the next sound you hear is the wheezing death knell for the white people's party of America. Tell me how difficult is it for a semi-attractive woman to garner attention from men in Alaska? That would explain her election as governor. The rest of us are not so hard up. The other 49 prefer a little intelligence in their elected officials not just a pair of legs. Although there is no accounting for Texas and the other cracker states that continually elect republicans regardless of the intelligence level of the people that party runs for elected office.
Please let this woman go away. She has not got what it takes.
Why can't people see that? The news and media needs to stop bringing her up. I am sick of her. Give it a rest.
Once Palin's sad attempts at coddling the far right are looked at in the marketplace of ideas, smart folks everywhere will (again) realize that she has none.
Palin is my girl. Why does she get under liberals' skin? Mmmmm....
Sarah Palin does not have rock star status. What she has is a corporate-controlled media that is telling us she's has rock star status. Big difference. She just toured the state of Georgia stumping for Saxby Chambliss. While this is sure to help him in his run-off bid, the largest crowds that Palin drew were in the range of 3,000. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, filled entire auditoria when he visited. Rove speaks of a "marketplace of ideas." Well, the GOP has been been devoid of ideas for nearly a generation now. Rather, they've offered nothing but buzzwords, empty rhetoric and misrepresentations of their "values." Sarah Palin is that kind of Republican; the kind of Republican that America just rejected in a landslide. She has no future unless she undergoes a political metamorphosis. Don't look for that to happen.
The reality about Sarah Palin is that if you put her on a stage with Mike Huckabee and they are talking religion, she loses in a landslide! If you put her on a stage with any generic Texas Republican (Kay Bailey Hutchinson, John Cornyn)and they are talking energy, she loses in a landslide! If you put her on a stage with any generic conservative and have them talk about generic conservative principles and policies, she'll lose in a landslide. Republicans forget that Palin only ran in a general election where she was compared to Barack Obama, Joe Biden and ultimately for the base, John McCain; compared to those guys, she was conservative catnip, but compared to the rest of the loony right-wing, she's just another spokesmodel pushing conservative catch phrases like the spokesmodels at the local carshow!
Romney and/or Ridge will destroy her at the first debates in the 2012 primary season.
Just like Karl Rove and Sarah Palin alike...... Put them behind us!
SARAH WILL LEARN FROM OBAMA HOW TO GET ELECTED.
SHE REALIZES THAT OBAMA DOESN'T HAVE ANY MORE EXPERIENCE THEN SHE DOES.
SARAH WILL HANG AROUND FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS.
BRUSH UP ON GIVING BETTER SPEECHES AND SHE WILL WIN!!!
THE CLINTONS ARE GOING TO BE RUNNING THIS COUNTRY ANYWAY. ALL SARAH NEEDS TO DO IS USE ALL THE OBAMA PROMISES AGAINST HIM AND TAKE HIM DOWN.
I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!
The lady has no intellect, no vision and is just a self serving narcissist.
Hard to believ we are even still reading about her or that ANYONE is considering her for ANYTHING
Palin showed us the "hate" in her heart....she would do or say anything to stay in the public's eye. Rove...well Rove has lost his MOJO and should now be forced to come out from behind Bush's skirt and face the music.
All this anger toward her and she's not even our President. Liberals...seems a bit irrational don't you think?
Maybe because this brand of anger stems from fear. You fear her because she almost single handedly gave BO a run for his money and she might do this again in the future (yes, if you are being honest a lot of you were afraid when her popularity was clearly evident)?
The venom that many of you display would make an outsider wonder if Obama really did win the election. I thought this Obama man would make you happier people, but I guess not all of you?
Personally I would rather have my guy lose an election and be a happier person in life, than be like many of you perpetually pissed off, angry at others even when your guy wins.
They need to change so they won't do the same things when they're back in power. They must first change if they want to be back in power. The Republican Party deserves no consideration unless it changes significantly from the radical, fringe party it has become.
They also need to put Palin back in Alaska!
I remember when the media had a blackout on Paris Hilton because she was a talentless, media grubber with nothing worthwhile to say. When the cameras went away, nobody missed Paris at all.
I wonder why Sarah Palin made me think of that.
Quayle/Palin in 2012 and 2016..
The Republican dream ticket. Intelligence that suits the party.
Democrats may also gain the other 40 Senatorial seats!!!
So when Bush won with 50.7% of the vote, THAT's a mandate. They couldn't stop screaming "mandate, mandate, mandate!!!! Bush has a mandate! America has spoken!"
Now, Obama has 52.6% (and 4 million more votes), but that's NOT a mandate? Let's remind them.
BTW: "we failed to articulate a message of why we were the party for limited government, small taxes, and keeping government out of our sights, and that's why we lost."
No, you failed to prove it.
a) Limited government: Bush increased spending faster than any president in history. So much for limited government.
b) Small taxes: Only for the wealthiest Americans. Obama promised to lower everyone else's taxes.
c) Keeping government out of our sights: Remember Terry Shiavo?
YOUR PARTY DOESN'T STAND FOR ANYTHING THAT IT SAYS IT DOES. MAYBE THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
What was Palin running on apart from demonizing Obama......What will she run on 2012 when obama will be seeking reelection?
Go Sarah I will vote for you again in 2012 if ever you decide to run for presidency.
Hypocritical on just about every issue. Tax and spend Dems? The GOP borrowed and spent! Pro-life? Only from 0 to 9 months gestation. Then, baby and mother, you're on your own! Hockey mom veep candidate who talks about the "real America?" Sure, if you mean one who hits Neiman-Marcus and Saks in the "fake American" big cities and picks up more than $150,000 worth of clothes for herself, her hubby and kids - even their underwear!
Note how Sarah talks about a 2012 "opportunity" for "me, my family, my state and the country." Whom does she put first? ME. It's all about her. Obama talked about his campaign being about "us." The people of this country. No wonder his message resonated. People can see Palin is in politics for herself, not to serve others. She has a lot to learn. Maybe she should try being a community organizer.
Sarah Palin is not Sanjaya. She is Britney Spears, another trainwreck of an attractive woman who is attractive but NOT thoughtful, wise or deep but who has had a taste of the limelight that has her addicted, like that first hit of cocaine. Sarah, you need fame rehab so that when you emerge, you will have the sense to go back to your old life and leave the lower 48 alone.
Rove & his student Stevie-boy tried to shove Palin down our throats with the con that she is qualified to be a heart beat away from a 72 year old President .... But ... NOW ... Rove says, "But ultimately, Rove said, Republicans need more time to get to know Palin before embracing her as the party's future.
"Remember she was on the stage for nine weeks in the general election — that’s not a lot of time," he said
Rove is a real con-artist piece of dung.
As a Dem I have followed Karl Rove a long time (Atwater incarnate). I agree with those that said it was code for no future. Many people have counted Rove out when he should have been watched.
Please put Palin on the ticket with Romney. If the worst happens and they win the Rep's could have another VP running the Executive Branch.
I'm telling anyone who will listen put Palin on the 2012 ticket. Please let her talk maybe it will register that she doesn't have anything to say and the true right wingers will come out in the open.
Don't underestimate the IQ's who will vote for this woman, fortunately it appears they are becoming the minority in more ways than one.
PS. Dem's, Ind's, Lib's please buy guns and ammo if you don't only neo-cons and rep's will have guns.
Hopefully, republicans (not the brightest bulbs in the political package) will see that she is a pretty much a dimwit and has no business considering herself qualified to hold the most powerful office in the world.
#40 must be experiencing motion sickness in his grave
whenever Palin's name is mentioned.
Sarah Palin gets under the left wingers skin for several reasons but number one is she is to smart for them to understand what she says. Number two she is a beautiful woman and that has to drive them nuts when they think about the beauties in the dems corral, ie, Obama's monkey, Pelosi, Waters, McKinney, Reno, Albright, what a bunch of losers.
Sarah is here to stay dems and get over it!!!!!!!!!!
IT AMAZES ME HOW LOW AMERICAN CIVIL SOCIETY HAS CONDESENDED THEMSELVES SO LOW IN SHOWING HATRED TO THIS GOD FEARING WOMAN WHO IS NOT FEARFUL TO EXPRESS HER BELIEVES AND FAITH DURING ALL THESE ELECTORAL PROCESS. YES SHE MIGHT NOT BE A GENIUS IN SOME ISSUES, BUT THAT DOES NOT GIVE ANYONE THE RIGHT TO CALL HER AN "IDOIT" I AM TOTALLY ASHAMED OF WHAT AMERICANS HAS TURNED INTO, THIS IS A LAND THAT SUPPOSED TO UPHOLD THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. IRONICALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO HAS LABELLED SARA PALIN WITH DIFFERENT NAMES WILL NEVER IN YOUR LIFE TIME GET TO THE POSITION SHE HAS REACHED THROUGH HER HARDWORK.
I wish Palin would just go home and stay there.
She is worse than HORRIBLE. She is a DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tina Fey runs circles around Sarah Palin when it comes to intelligence. Perhaps the Republicans should have her run in 2012!
She should definitely run in 2012. I can't think of a better way to insure a 2nd term for Obama.
Jesus......I mean.....God, or whatever........
Enough of the Palin hype CNN! What the hell is wrong with your online news reporting? LISTEN: No one cares about Sarah!
Though......how are those wedding plans coming along between her daughter and Levi? Can you PLEEEEEASE give us a report on that? I bet they don't get married!
Republicans.......what a farce! LOL!!!!!!!!!!
i think they should collar and tag her and send her back out into the alaska wilderness
to LIP: Seriously?? The media did not 'suck up' to Obama because he was black- he has transcended the race issue and ran an intelligent campaign and will do the same as President. Nor did they pick on Palin because she was a woman – Sarah Palin could not put two coherent thoughts together on her own because she's IGNORANT! and how many GOP pundits thought she was awesome based on her looks and 'sex appeal'? THAT is sexist.
I'm sorry, but Palin is the true epitemy of "lipstick on a pig". She's simply a repackaging of old republican ideas that have no relevance to today's society.
So, Rove... you can put a pretty face on the "new republican party", but people still won't buy it.
We've all had more than enough time to get to know Gov. Palin. In the "marketplace of ideas" she couldn't be more glaringly bankrupt.
Enough! Please, somebody, get this woman off stage. Like William Hung, The New Coke and other curiosities, once the fizz wears off, what's left is...nothing. She would be destroyed in a general election and we would have a one-party system.
One other thing: her voice may be the most annoying I've heard since Lily Tomlin as the switchboard operator, Ernestine. Who can listen to its shrill, proudly ignorant emptiness for a minute more?
I don't know why I am giving her an advise, but here it is anyways Gov Palin.... Learn from Britney Spears. That is right. I said it.
When things went bad for Britney, everything she did to shake things up and clear her image, they ended up backfiring. So what does she do? She went totally off the radar. Media kept following her around for few days and eventually gave up on her. That gave her chance to recover in many way. When the time was right, she came back and got her career back on track.
Gov. Palin, if you want to be successful on national scene, I strongly recommend you do the same. I am no fan of Britney or Gov. Palin. I am not even comparing the two in any other way. Instead, I am simply trying to make a point.
We've seen more than enough of Ms. Palin already...................
Shouldn't Rove be in prison already?
The woman is a moron, maybe she is the perfect person for this outdated, nasty party!
abhijeet
We are happy. We can't believe you repubs think this women is competent. Almost single handley beat Obama!!!!! Are you for real?
She only appeals to your wicked base, and that will not get her in the Whitehouse.
Sarah Palin was bragging about her knowledge of state capitals. She proudly says, 'Go ahead, ask me... I know 'em all. I won't fall for any of those media trick questions."
A reporter says, 'OK, what's the capital of Wisconsin ?'
Palin replies, 'Oh, that's easy. It's W.'
abhijeet,
I don't fear Palin, I despise her. Big difference. She's not intelligent, cannot verbalize a complete sentence, is totally ignorant of national and international politics, and is playing her "base" like a fiddle. She appeals to those who are like her, because she obviously distrusts and dislikes those who are not like her. So, if your name is any indication, you should probably be wary of her, yourself. She represents a major step backward in learning to overcome bigotry, cultural profiling, and ignorance.
Mr. Rove – Isn't there a saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
Cobra
Are you serious? My cat has a higher IQ
Too late, Sarah. From the botched McCain campaign, the entire country already knows that you don't have a clue about whatever comes out of your mouth.
Stick to being a hockey mom and being "folksy". That's obviously enough to get you elected in Alaska, but makes you a laughing stock in the rest of the world.
We are not afraid of Palin beating Obama there is no competition in that arena. We are just tired of hearing her continue to campaign about her experience and Alaska. We didn't know her before and I betcha we won't miss her when she is gone. We hope she runs for President in 2012, remember Palin didn't talk about the issues she just tried to attack Obama's character and that was fatal for her party. She can learn from Obama because he is showing everyone he is a 21st century President – elect and he along with most of Americans are tired of the same old same old boring Republicans. The offer nothing new. Missouri, Georgia, and South Carolina will be the same backward or should I says back woods States afraid of change.
cobra,
Too smart for us to understand????? Yep, this said of the woman who couldn't name a single Supreme Court case (including the Valdez case) and didn't know that Africa was a continent, not a country.
Nevermind. If you aren't intelligent enough to understand why we dislike her, you aren't intelligent enough to understand the rationales, either.
None of us heard of Palin b4 McCain picked her as his running mate. Now we all get to hear how this soccer mom and Gov. from Alaska is in the headlines accross the country and around the world. She had photo ops w/world leaders and was not allowed to speak for herself in the beginning of her VP race. Did McCain pick her because he saw how moved the country was behind Sen. Clinton, and with her not winning, try to capitilize on our emotions? WHO IS SARAH PALIN? Do we really want to know???
Sounds like the Republicans are already conceiding the next election.
DID ANYBODY NOTICE . . .
President-Elect Barack Obama and V.P.-Elect Joe Biden won the leadership post without firing a shot at V.P. candidate Sarah Palin. There was a couple times Biden defended himself and Obama from Palin's direct attacks (e.g. "Paling around with terrorist"), but other than that both Obama and Biden gave Palin a wide berth.
Now after Palin called Obama a 'Communist Marxist' and 'Terrorist Lover', she wants a position in Obama's cabinet as Energy-Czar.
People have some nerve . . .
GOP leaders need to re-think their idea of Palin being a Rock Star and to also lead the party. I heard that voice screeching last night on TV and just had to change channels. I'm sorry folks but that woman does not have the qualifications. But, if you insist....put her out there to ruin the party again. The Demos will be pleased. The GOP has turned into a bunch of uneducated people with not one ounce of wisdom in the whole lot. It was proven during the elections. Just leave her in Alaska!
Palin is not the answer. She appeals to the uneducated bunch of people. She aint had no learnin is what one day they will wake up and realize. Why can't you choose someone like Romney? Huckabee isn't all that bad either.
All of these negative comments on Sarah Palin. I am wondering how all of you people know what she can do and cannot do. How long was she in the campaign eyes and already you know her inside and out? Please spare me your ignorance. You know her by what you hear other people say about her. Let's face the facts. The press or the Democrats did not like her. So everything they said negative against her you agree. Did you bother to check out the truth or facts first? No, you just take people by their word.
How many of you have spent time with her or know her as a friend? You cannot judge some one with out knowing them first. Look how many people voted for her Governor?
I hope she does run, SNL and Tina Fey will have 18 months of comedy material to choose from...
Awwww, Karl...Don't shoot down Democrats' hopes...PLEASE, we would love to see Sarah Palin as the Republican Presidential candidate in 2012..."4 more years, 4 more years"...
Rove is correct, but the "market place" of ideas will come from the American voter, not the Republican Party and from what I've seen, she doesn't have a clue or a chance to lead America.
For all the "rock star" appeal Palin has, she has shown time and time again that she has little or no grasp of the issues or the big picture of problems facing our nation. For Republicans to keep propping up this "straw woman" is an absolute joke. A month after getting their clock cleaned in the general election, Republicans still don't get it!
I welcome Sarah Palin running in 2012 because when she and the Republicans get their clock cleaned, the former can slither back to Alaska and moose hunt, never to be heard from again!!
Bring it on. Just another 4 years for Democrats if so be it!
The difference between gov. Palin and president elect Obama can be summarized in one word; INTELLECT.
He has it and she, no matter how hard she tries, will never have it!
"Cobra" – "Dems get over it"? Uh huh. You just wait until the real repugs get going on her if she runs. THEY.WILL.SHRED.HER. The REAL Republicans don't think highly of her at all. She only identifies with her "base" which happens to be a certain segment of society, sorry to say. I never say never, but I would place money on it that she would never make it past the primaries in 2012 or 2016. It will be fun to watch.
yup, a left wing site, you can tell by all the intelligence they spout!
Hey, for the person who typed in all caps and is blogging under the name "just4uliberaldemhaters" I think it's interesting that you mispelled "idiot". No worries. I'll spell it for you here. It's spelled "Palin". And just to help you a little further, I have voted Republican my whole life until this election. Why did I vote Democratic this time around? Palin.
Karl Rove is likely an un-indicted co-conspirator in Plame "outing" thanks to the obstruction of justice by Scooter Libby.
Why do the networks continue to pay attention to Bush's crooks? Who cares what Rove says.
Cobra
Take off your white sheet so you can see and hear how un-intelligent Sarah Palin is. She has nothing on Michelle Obama. Her SAT scores
would not have gotten her within 500 miles of Harvard or Princeton.
Can you imagine Sarah Palin doing what Obama has been doing in helping to correct this huge economic issue? This is really a world issue. I dont think so.... Sarah Palin does not have the brain, the intelligence to deal with such issues.
The woman is illiterate, she never reads,she does not know what is going on. She went to 6 universities before getting a "degree". I dont know how she became Governor of Alaska, I guess that's not very hard considering who voted for her.
UUUUUHHHHHHHH, does wnyone really beleive she has a chance at the 2012 bid???? Seriously folks, didn't the GOP watch the election. Palin did not give Barrack a run for his money...the results conveyed what the american people wanted, plain and simple!!! Belevie it or not we actually got smarter since bush took office and are very tired of the BS the GOP tries to make us beleive. It's like a kindergardners magic show, they can blow the minds ot the kids (republicans) who are sitting in the front row but the parents (democrats) are standing in the back of the room laughing at how stupid their rabbit trick really is.
It just boggles the mind that this is even an issue. People need to realize this is not American Idol, the country is a mess and we need real leadership, and inspired thinking not an unqualified "rock star" status hokey hocky mom in charge.
One thing needs to be made clear. Democrats are NOT AFRAID OF PALIN, nor are we "angry" at her. We realize she is capable of rousing the "base" of the Republican Party, which is small and shrinking. She has no clout on the national stage, especially with the crucial independent vote, and with moderates.
Frankly, we are sick of hearing about her. She is simply not a smart politician.
Fine with me if she runs...
Obama-Biden for 8 straight years!!! Yea!
Aww nooo.... I want to see LESS of her. Please go home to Alaska and vanish from public eye. ugh. Our Republican party needs a more credible, SMART, and someone who can speak complete sentences!
much thanks to john mccain for taking one for the country in his "nomination" of sarah palin for vp. does anyone seriously believe this selection was made to win the election?
and that's all i got to comment about that.
Does Alaska even need a Govenor? They must not if Palen can be away from her job for months at a time, with no apparent impact.
This is a woman who just wants to be in the spotlight – any spotlight will do. She failed to get the number one spotlight as a beauty queen, so she tried broadcast journalism. She failed to get much attention at that so she tried politics, in a state where men far out number women, she finally found some success, quite obviously because of her looks.
If she had the brains and ability to back up the pretty package, it might work on the national stage.
Alaska called and wants Palin back....Just kidding....Maybe the lower forty-eight would like to keep her. Better yet, why is there no "Palin" Barbie doll for all the little republicans to find under the Christmas tree??
Gawd, how much more do you people need to see? Those two Katie Couric interviews should have been enough.
Knew Palin is the gift that keeps on giving just didn't realize Rove is as well. Never ever trust either of them. Or underestimate them either. My bet is he is already woring under the radar for her.
Oh, Sarah, as a newly minted Democrat, please run, do it!
We have deemed the Republican party as obsolete, and will destroy it . Our scans detect no intelligence within the party.
Palin doesn't get under liberals' skin. They really appreciate all she has done to elect their candidate President Obama. The marketplace has spoken.
For all those who believe liberals are afraid of Palin, many of us liberal actually want her to be nominated. But until that actually happens we are just tired of her.
Why not Palin? She will definitely rally democrates and independents agains her and guarantee another Obama win. I have never seen any politician as stupid and narcissitic as she is. Go Palin!
If I had the money, I would pay her to stay in Alaska. If she ends up getting the Republican nod in '12, I will volunteer all of my waking moments to the Obama campaign. She should never be allowed in the White House for ANY reason whatsoever.
I would seriously think about putting my German to good use and crossing the pond if she won a presidential election here.
Yes, I fear this woman. Not because of her extreme fundamentalist views, not because she is unaware of how dangerous and ignorant she herself is, not because she represents all the divisive and negative politics of Rove and Bush and not because her views of America differ from mine in virtually every way (although any of those would qualify). I fear her because she appeals to those same idiots that re-elected the worst president ever. She appeals to the same idiots that think dissent is unpatriotic. She appeals to the same idiots that value form over substance. She appeals to the same idiots that would blindly destroy the country I love. So yes I fear her and all the idiocy that she represents.
Palin's appeal is difficult to explain and even more difficult to understand. Neither side has been able to adequately explain to detractors why she is so reviled or admired.
I think she speaks in a simpleton language that insults American's. Whether this is by design or truly reflective of her thought process, I'll leave for others to decide. I don't want a leader that speaks and behaves like everyone else. I don't want a plain jane, hockey mom speaking for me.
If she is representative of the best and the brightest this country has to offer, then I think we are in bigger trouble than we realize.
If Rove and Co. want to rebuild the Republican party they should draft Tina Fey, join the Democratic party and cease to exist.
Is everyone forgetting that Sarah Palin LOST the election? She lost badly. Why would anyone want a loser campaigning with and for them, or returning as their leader in 4 years? She's a LOSER! And she will lose again, only worse. The republicans seems to ignore everything and forge ahead aimlessly. How pathetic.
We Dems don't FEAR her. We laugh at her. Her garbled words, her inability to answer political questions. She presents herself as someone who wouldnt know what to do in office but say to the media shes a Maverick and wink into a camera. Go ahead, have her run in 2012 so Obama can win and give us 4 more years, hahahaha.
Palin needs to start Grammar school first. The woman knows zero about the US Constitution. The woman is ignorant.
Palin as President in 2012, give me a break, the woman is ignorant, she makes a lot of noise, no substance. All those lies about how she and McCain get along. He is also a liar.
Sarah Palin should go back to Alaska and stay in Alaska, get her children back in school where they belong.
this woman needs to go back to school, study government and how to give effective speeches. Give me a break.
To all complainers of the Palin jokes: Remember, Palin was the first to take the gloves off.
I believe that if the Democrats offered Sarah a position of bright light, she would accept, because I believe that Sarah just likes to see and hear about herself in the news.
Can we do a do over. Make her go away!
Please, Gov Palin do not make us endure you as a choice again in 2012. Not because you are a woman, not because you are an idealougue, not because you are a liar (by reframing), and not because I am jealous of you and your accomplishments (LOL). Nope it is because you incite people. Your words inctie violence and hatred from your supporters who might otherwise still be hiding in the shadows cloaking their venom. Please don't make us feel like that again...we are still recovering and it has been painful.
An America targeted by you and your supporters.
If she's lucky to get the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, she will be running against Barack Obama, who for sure will run for re-election. It looks like BO will be doing a good job and has a big chance to be re-elected.
Doesn't Sarah Palin (or her GOP backers) realize this. I think there are more more qualified GOP contenders who can challenge BO in 2012. Enough of this lady PLEASE!!!
Anyway, if she will be BO's opponent in 2012, she will be helping the OBAMA ticket get elected again.
With this idiot leading the GOP you will have to travel to a zoo to see a Republican within twenty years.
Keep her in the news!
Palin gets under the Dems skin because she ranks with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and we all want them to vanish from the media as well!
Palin doesn't have the stomach for an 18 month candidacy with many interviews, debates, and gotcha moments.
She was a Johnny Come Lately for this election-She was on the radar for 3 months. She will wilt like a weed under intense media scrutiny next time around.
Besides, Crist, Jindal, Pawlenty, etc. will make her look like a dumb-dumb. (Which she is.)
But go ahead Republicans! Pretend she is your future. You have lowered your standards!
Run Sarah Run! I want to see you make a fool of yourself again-except this time for 18 months!!!!
Please!!! Let's hold off for a few years before we start discussing the 2012 election. Give us a break!
Palin is a gutsy, smart woman with an eye on the main chance. She's not really been in a job long enough to gain any of the skills needed to become a major figurehead in this country but she certainly has a good marketing team behind her. It's a bit like selling any commodity: it's all in the packaging and promotion, doesn't matter whether or not it works.
You mean, anyone still cares what Karl Rove thinks? I thought he had been finally exposed as the national disgrace now. As for Palin, I agree with a certain editor who states Palin is so bent upon remaining in the public eye that we can soon expect see her opening supermarkets.
I will not vote for her even she is the last political person on earth because of the same reasons people comments above.
As Republicans calculate the damage Kitty Palin did to their ticket, they will act accordingly: give her some sort of figurehead position with no real power. There are still a few Republican stalwarts with their pragmatic wits about them.
DID we not get the news YESTERDAY?/?
**************************BREAKING NEWS******************************
The Country is now OFFICIALLY in RECESSION!!!!!!
Now why would we pick her as President? let alone Vice President???? She is not Qualified AT ALL! and if she ever comes so close to the WHite house i will be moving to a different country!! I rather take my chances n RUssia!!!! (i kid! I kid) but i would be really scared if she was ever nominated, elected for anything besides GOVERNOR of ALASKEEE!
karl rove?if he's a strategist then stupidity must be the tactic!
Are we out of canidates? Do I really have to watch this person carry on again?
Who was she before August 08, no one knew, no one cared.
Maybe she should try a few years in Senate first.
Come on! She cant even complete a sentence without....you know...hesitating....and then ....using that time....to try and pull it together because she was cluesless and had no real answer.
haha Never! No way! Go away!
OMG please go back to alaska and run your state. You have problems such as how your statesmen are going to deal with paying their home heating bills. Do what you were elected to do be Governor of Alaska.
... and the nine weeks onstage showed what a disastrous candidate she is. Even campaigning in Georgia yesterday, she stuck her foot in her mouth AGAIN:
"We want to make sure we have at least 41 Republicans in the United States Senate to make sure that we shape bad legislation."
At least she's more honest these days.
the stupidity of the American voter will determine Sarah Palin's future. How many dumb people would actually vote for this airhead?
Pretty funny someone's comment of Palin in two words: Trailer Trash. She sure dresses up well but there's not much in that brain other than an amazing ability to railroad right over anyone who is in her way.
If she didn't present such a respect for life while ignoring environmental concerns, having wolves shot from the air, and shortchanging the plight of the polar bears, I might dislike her a little less, but not much. No, on second thought, she's already made her impression on me and there isn't any good in it at all.
Sarah who ???
I'm not too interested in a Sarah Palin run at the presidency and I'm from Alaska, but saying she doesn't give a good speech is ignoring the facts. She had a larger viewership for her acceptance speech than Obama did. Saying she knows nothing about the constitution is interesting coming from a Dem because if you knew anything yourself (Micheline) you wouldn't be a dem! Remember it was Justice Thurmond Marshal (Dem) who said the constitution was nothing more than a rag written by a bunch of white slave owners. The only thing Dems use the constitution for is to protect sin (various types) and the only freedom they support is the freedom to sin. "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" they are not interested in that stuff.
Just what we need to lead the Republican Party – simple-minded ideologues. Great!
Palin is sooooooo unqualified and ignorant to have anything at all to do with American politics. GO AWAY SARAH
ObreakUS won ONLY because of race. He doesn't have the necessary experience to be a Senator much less President of the United States! Give it a rest people.
My hope is that all of you who voted for ObreakUS will be the FIRST to suffer under his stupidity!!
Palin has SOOOOOO much more intellect that 'That One'. HA
Jan. 20th – ObreakUS slithers into office.
Jan. 21st – Impeachment proceedings begin to kick it out!! Yes.
I thought the "fat man" had already sung. I must have missed that last aria. Palin and Rove have quite a bit in common. By choice I will not bore anyone with the details, just to say, enough already with these two misplaced petenders.
What ever happened to all the clothes (including underwear!) which, according to Palin, were forced on her, her husband, and their children by the Republican National Committee? And how about the charges she requested on staff members' credit cards?
By ALL means, let's hope the Republicans rally around Palin as their standard bearer – for years to come. Let's keep her deeply intelligent and erudite responses on the front page of the Politics section. Maybe we can get daily weather reports for Russia from her. Let's not forget for one moment just how close we came to having this moron one geriatric heartbeat removed from the Oval Office!
If she is the Republicans future, we have just become a one party system.
Sarah has more immediate and complicated issues to deal with, a son with Down Syndrome and a teenage daughter who is about to give birth to her first, albeit premature grandchild.
It is my hope that the media and the Republican party leave her and her family alone to give them time to adjust to some major family adjustments, which are going to be painful as well as inevitable.
I too have a son with Down Syndrome, and parenting a son or daughter with a disability is a challenge. It is not a death sentence, but it is a challenge. Add to that the advent of a son or daughter of your teenage child. From a parental point of view, with the combination of a vice presidency and family dynamics, this could be a small, but very disastrous family tragedy. From a very personal viewpoint, I am glad that she lost the election. Her family should come first.
I voted for Obama for many reasons, but this is one of them.
From someone who has been there for 32 years.
She will NEVER be president.
Sorry but Karl Rove is a bloming Anti-American Myopic idiot. The only reason he may appear to be a brilliant strategist is because the American public was asleep in 2000 and 2004. In 2008 they woke up. His only claim to fame should be that he recognized this.
Market place of ideas ???????????? .....NONSENSE Karl .......Palin's fate will be predicated on the four "R's"......... RED NECKS, RASCISTS, RIGHT WING RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS and RELIGIOUS FANATICS. The absolute WORST and most HYPOCRITICAL of American society !!!!!!!
Go away.
Remember, roughly 30% of Americans still believe George Bush is doing a good job as president - proof that at least a third of our country are morons. She'll play well with them, you betcha.
By the way, Sarah Palin is now my litmus test for whether or not a person is operating with a full deck of cards. I immediately write off anyone who is for her.
Those of you who are Democrats and complaining about Palin running in '12 are being short-sighted. Dems will have the White House for the next 8 years if she runs, so I say, "Sarah, go for it!"
everyone is ripping her but she did a good job as mccain running mate she brought the base together. her approval rating in alaska is over 80% wat other governor can say that no one. she might not know alot about foriegn affairs now but she will in 2012. obama is going to fail as president he going to raise taxes on us. he going to invite bin laden over for tea and cookies and tell him its ok u a terrorist i still love u
The word "ideas" in the same sentence as Palin is almost as ludicous as the word being uttered by Rove!! Great for the Democrats if these are the two "minds" that spell the future of the Republican Party.
i wouldnt dismis palin running in 12. and i wouldn`t think for a minute she is stupid. she ran as a vp, just like biden and both were the wolves. stand back and look at both sides of a coin , before you buy into something. i believe palin is smarter than most will give her credit. i hope that she runs in 12 because then we will all see the real sarah palin. not the puppet mcains camp made her. and you folks that voted for obama hold so much hatred toward people its un believable. and you same people expect others just to jump on your bandwagon ....ya right. you trash rove for voicing his opinions, but are more than ready to force yours on others. and there is actually 3 sides to every story thiers and theirs. then the truth. so if you expect a ounce of agreement then atleast open your mind to the other side 1st. CNN IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU STARTED 1ST.
We also have to remember that in 4 (or 8) years, pretty Sarah will not be so pretty anymore. Sorry to say it, but it is a fact of life that in the years between 45 and 52, a woman's body undergoes some fairly signficant uncontrollable physiological changes. She's a babe now, whcih is much of her appeal, but once that fades she truly will have nothing left
Michelle and Barack should keep their re-decorating to a minimum as they'll be out of the White House in 4 years.
Obama will fail to revive the economy and we will be beset by Mumbai type attacks-both of these things leading to his loss in 2012'.
See you in 2012 Sarah!!!!!
I just read the previous 340 comments, and I'm amazed by the incivility and hatred expressed. No ideas, just more bashing. This is "change"?
I love it when Republicans say that the people who are anti-Palin are threatened by her. Did they not realize how many people dislike this woman by the sweeping victory that Obama received on November 4th?
Palin can cram on foreign policy, domestic policy, etc. for the next 4 years and then pretend to be so worldly in 2012 but we will see right through that. Please pick Palin in 2012 GOP. That means another Obama win in 2012!!! THANK GOD!!!
Hey cobra, your a tool. It obviously shows that you know and care nothing about politics since your only comeback is how Democrats have ugly women (although intelligent women) in there party. Sara Palin is simply not smart enough about politics, or even life it seems considering her neglect of her family situation, to ever become president. She cannot even answer simple political questions correctly when interviewed. By the way did I mention that your a tool since you put beauty ahead of intelligence. I'm sorry, she may be nice to look at, but she has nothing to offer this country.
Rove? Who cares, he is and has been irrelevant for about two years at least....
Palin, who cares about a "mindless" idiot who has "delusions" of grandeur.....
Apparently Palin is still wearing the STOLEN clothes that were to be returned to the RNC. Or did the RNC bribe Palin to go to Georgia if she could keep the stolen clothing.
Palin, a liar, Palin a thief of state and federal party coffers, Palin a thief of Alaska coffers-being paid for a job she is never present to do. Palin, a negligent mother. Palin a phony christian hypocrite!!!!!
And the liberals keep bashing Palin, because they're so terrified of a woman who doesn't agree with them. Pathetic.
Hey, CNN, how about putting half the effort you've put into covering Palin into covering Obama's background? You've already done your part in helping him get elected.
Sarah Paline and the Republicans=Racist Bastards
tee,
So what are you saying, if someone does not have an Ivy league degree they are not smart.
Are you saying because I am a hard working blue collar person with mub on my boots and blisters on my hands but have I never went to Harvard, I am not smart?
Sarah Palin is one of us, the majority of the people in this country. Blue collar, hard working, we do not need a college degree from Princeton to tell us we are smart.
All you left wingers want to trash Sarah Palin saying she has no experience, well if you will think just a little tiny bit you would realize she has more experience at running government than any of the other three. You would also come to the conclusion that Obama is probably the least qualified of them all. He is a slick snake oil salesman and you dems bought into an empty suit. Look at what is going on now, he is pulling up all the Clinton losers, don't it make you wonder what the change is he talked about.
what i have noticed is Democrats hate her because she's a real person....unlike Democrats!
P.S. Sarah Palin is the equivalent of fingernails on a chalk board. Annoying and absolutely brainless.
History does not treat those who have lost elections well. It is a rare occurance for a candidate to come back from a lost election and win in the next one. I'm sure Ms. Palin thinks she has a shot at the presidency in 2012, but that is just the daydreams of a woman who has made herself a legend in her own mind. If she manages to get into the primaries then, she'll be bumped in the first few rounds. She may be evangelical. She may be a hockey mom. She may be the governor of a state that has a smaller population and a budget smaller than most medium-sized cities in the lower 48, but she has no relevancy to most of the people in the US. Other than entertainment value similar to Britney Spears or Michael Jackson, she doesn't have much to offer.
Rove is a has been. He's a turd too.....
Just4uliberaldemhaters-if she's so "God fearing" why did she say nothing during the campaign rallies when people were yelling "terrorist", "kill him", "traitor", "Al Qaeda" about Obama? was she afraid that God would punish her if she said "NO" to hate, racism and bigotry. Fearing God is not what it's about. it's about love and peace. and until this nation can cure itself of hate and racism God will indeed be sad and disappointed in US. she represents some very narrow views of some very hateful and hurtful people and she does not represent God, nor does the Republican Party.
I would think the people here would not like her, she is not black,she's not gay,she has a real family,she has a job,she's honest,she's involved in her community,and her state,she wants to do the best for her country,her sons in the military,she believes in God. I 'm sure it's easy for a Democrat to hate her.All of the things you are against ,she represents.
Yes, yes, yes!
Keep Sarah on the top tier!
Hopefully the young people in the mid-West and the South will become educated enough (beyond the educations of their parents) to see this bimbo for who she is.
A bimbo!
To those of you blogging from your Grandpa/Grandma's basements in pijamas, hear this...
People fight against what they don't know, and you can hardly win war against what you don't know.
People fight against what is above them, and not what is under them.
People criticize others who are doing what themselves cannever attempt to do.
Everybody is afraid and fighting Gov Sarah Palin because she is above you all.
She didn't beg to be John McCain's VP pick, so she is not hungry for any limelight.
Afterall, she is the Governor of the GREAT STATE OF ALASKA. God bless her forever.
If you go by the comments in this forum, I think it shows that the media has already decided Palin's fate and the CNN fan base has bought in hook, line and sinker.
Oy Vay! No Way!
"Remember she was on the stage for nine weeks in the general election — that’s not a lot of time," he said. "Now we are going to get to a chance see her over a longer period of time."
Please Karl nine weeks was torture enough, a primary and a general election with this woman and her brood in tow, talk about cruel and unsual punishment. You guys spent $150,00 for clothes for 2 month, an 18 month run could bankrupt the party. On second thought I will buy earplugs, please Sarah believe the hype and run.
You have to admit, Sarah Palin is hotter than your average politician. She's nice to look at, but problems begin when she opens her mouth. This woman doesn't know her a$$ from a hole in the ground. America, after the last 8 years, do you REALLY want to elect another idiot? I don't care how hot she may is, I wouldn't want her as president. She's sort of like one of the pretty girls we slept with back in college but wouldn't dare bring home.
Unlike fine wine and cheese, she is not better "aged." The straw that broke the back of any Republican chance in the the 2008 election was choosing her for a running mate. Hopefully, Alaska will be a better state with her leadership, but I am one conservative that will not vote to move her seat 3,000 miles east to the White House.
The fact that Palin is even being vetted for a Presidential run in 2012 just proves how desperate the GOP strategy is. Look, she may be qualified to be Governor of Alaska, but her ties to the secessionist group, her lack of experience with the 'lower 48', and her nasty and disrespectful rhetoric about 'the pro-America parts of the US' isn't something that will help the GOP. She may be attractive, but a good politician she's not. If the GOP want Palin to lead the party, they are going to have the same thing happen that happened this year. They will lose. What they're trying to do is copy the strategy the Democrats had. Run a candidate that will make history (ie: a woman, or ethnic minority), elevate her popularity with elaborate backdrops (like the pillars Obama had in his events), and finally make people believe that she has ideas. We saw Sarah Palin, and despite John McCain who is actually a good candidate, she proved she knows very little about the world she would have 'led' if McCain were to get elected and (God forbid) die. She has a lot of learning to do, and the American people rejected her rhetoric, overwhelmingly. Vetting her to lead the GOP is a mistake for the Republicans. Nice lady, but grossly under-qualified.
If the Republican party feels that they need Sara Palin to get thier party back on track, it clearly shows how off track they really are. This woman is the worst political bumbling disaster since G.W. Bush!!! Frankly, I feel that she actually shouldnt even be Gov of Alaska. If I were Russia and wanted to invate the US..well, I'd be thinking..better invade Alaska first...thats trully the weakest link!!!
To LIP: If Sarah were black, she would have been "welcomed" in the south by sheets and cross burnings vs. large cheering crowds.
I cannot believe mature, supposedly educated, adult men think this woman is a viable candidate for anything except dog catcher. I think they're all afraid to speak their minds because she's a woman and don't want to be labeled as a misogynist (which by the way is a word I never heard of before this election).
I love Sarah so much I wrote a song for her:
(To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy)
I'm votin' fer Sarah Barracuda!
She's really kinda cute-ah.
Sarah Barracuda went to town riding a sparkle pony
that's all you need to know!
I wouldn't let her teach Kindergarten. The kids would learn more about the Universe from watching Gilligan's Island.
Please please please tell me where I can contribute to get this housewife on the republican ticket. What a ditz.
Alaska the lower 48 is begging you, please let your idiot come home.
If the repubs run with Palin in 2012 they will get whipped again. Unless she does an incredible amount of homework, she just doesn't have what it takes starting with common sense. The United States is a lot more diverse than Sarah Palin's world. This is not an educated conservative that can go toe to toe with other world leaders and make wise informed decisions. This is a gum ball chewing, clever egomaniac that needs to be put out to pasture.
I long for the day when Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Joe the Plumber and Billo the Clown will all be nothing more than bad memories.
In the marketplace of idea's Palin is in a recession
if it is between palin and obama we all know it will obama will have a second term
Your argument of Democratic jealousy regarding Palin are specious at best. We find her banter and ignorance mere coffee table fodder. Her lack of rhetorical prowess and her misplaced self-confidence make her a celebutant, but not a serious intellectual leader.
She's SUCH an a$$clown. A completely clueless, almost deliberately obtuse, bigoted, self-righteous and self-centered attention wh0re.
She is too self-serving to do more than "progress" herself and her family – and the family ONLY because they're sort of already there. She will never be good for this country. Ever.
Go Away Already!
leave her in Alaska where government handouts are rule.
You know how you Republicans keep asking how you can bring the party back and change your image and recover from all this Bush/Cheney business....well I will give you one BIG hint......pick someone to support who is admirable and smart.....this leaves Palin out. Every time you guys show up at some event and scream your lungs out over this person it just reminds me how very unRepublican I am. Pick someone admirable to scream over for heavens sake.
Rove has blinders on. Over the last 15 years the GOP ceased to be a 'marketplace of ideas.' It has become entrenched in rigid ideology, well echoed by Gov. Palin in her initial appearance at the Convention.
About 23% of the U.S. population supports that ideology. Not enough to elect a candidate to National office.
It's the platform people!
Wow, for people who claim to be so open and free-minded, it certainly does not appear so by these posts. Oh yeah, that reminds me you all are liberals and liberals are best at saying they inclusive and free minded, but really they are opposite.
No Bias!!!! Does America know what that means? I don't think so...
You are where I was fifty years ago.... The World looks for Weekness... Still you live in @#$%$##^^$$#%%%$#%^%^$$..... Whar does that mean America .... Geriatrics...;..
I betcha she'd make a great president. What the heck, ....there............ also...... I'm thinkin' she'd represent all those "Joe the plumbers" there and umm hard workin' real Americans that.. um also are relatin' to her darn tootin' .. I mean, It's all bout, um, not, you know, pallin' around with terrorists darn it! I'll have to get back to ya in 2012.
Oh by the way the last commnet from number 400 is a joke. Russia is not going to invade Alaska, they would be fools.
Republicans need more time to get to know her??? He actually means she needs more time to catch up on the nuts and bolts of politcs, government, geography, ecomomy....like another life time.
send her back to Akaska, who wants to listen to her high shrill voice any more
Let's face it. Ultimately it's the people's decision.....look who they picked this time.
SARAH 2012!... Dems are sure to win again because 60% of Americans think she is not qualified to be VP, but you think we are stupid enough to vote for you for Pres? NOT! Republican party needs to wake up. You are a bunch of old men (or men dressed up as gals)You betcha!
Let's me put it like this. We've had an idiot for eight L O N G years in the White House. Do you really think I want to hear about another idiot wearing lipstick? Enough of Palin already, she's had her 15 minutes of fame. Let her get back to work in Alaska and actually do something noteworthy. I can't bear to hear another non-ending, non sensible sentence exiting her mouth.
Palin is worthless as a Governor / or any other thing in the political arena, period. Shall I say more ??
She wouldn't be smarter than the mayor of a dog house.
It will be 2020 before a Republican takes the White House...
Larry
Houston Texas
if obama can do it she can do it .
Matt, San Diego, CA December 2nd, 2008 7:30 pm ET
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Matt, what the HELL are you talking about? And who are YOU to talk about it? Just WHAT are your credentials? Mom and Dad still paying your way, no doubt. Just one great, big LOUD MOUTH, as nauseum, who spends his time on these tickers instead of working for a living!!!!!!! Get a life!!! Take some responsibility for yourself!!!!!!!!!!
Shouldn't Palin be taking care of affairs in Alaska? What about her young disabled baby and her pregnant unmarried teen? Doesn't she have enough on her hands without parading around the country saying absolutely NOTHING!
Palin, Bush and the Joe the Plumber – uninformed losers!!!!!! – These are now the voices and faces of the Republican Party – pathetic!!!!!
CNN please, stop putting that woman in the spotlight. The nation has seen the light. No dumb Presidents in the White house anymore.
Just when you think the Repubes couldn't possibly come up with a bigger idiot than Dumbya........along comes Sarah Palin, riding her white Polar Bear to save the U.S. from the evil Liberal and Media Elites!!! Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!! ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!
GA vote-count is going on so I want to know what CNN wants to say about and also your readers here. Our beautiful state will show the nation how we have to vote. Take a lesson. CNN is not showing vote-count on their site because they are based here and it is shameful for them. It is better if they go to California or somewhere else.
If the GOP has Sarah anywhere near the front of the pack then they learned nothing from this last election.
Sarah betcha WHO is like one of those cute circus animals that you feel the need to bring your children(who doesnt know better) to watch when the circus comes into town. Once you have seen it, you ask yourself – what on earth was the fuss ? It is just another trained animal performing for the audience. Can the circus animal perform without being trained to memorise the sequence of events ? Can the circus animal perform new tricks by using its brains ? Can the circus animal perform without the fake applause and clapping ?
Palin is not yet fit to be a candidate for the President of the United States. She definately needs quite a bit more time in office. She also needs to learn proper PR. She may be a good mayor, though.
manolito hernandez December 2nd, 2008 8:02 pm ET
if obama can do it she can do i
My God! Your comparing Palin with Obama. Are you nuts
Karl Rove's belief in the Market's ability to determine futures was disproved mid-way in September. Why does he insisted that Palin will survive becasue she is marketable when the proof of marketing healthcare is failing before our eyes, the proof of marketing a war is failing, and she herself has a politician failed. It was not because of her ideas; they weren't her's in the first place. They were the republican line, we haven't even met Sarah Palin yet. Maybe it's because somethings exist and function outside of the market sphere, like healthcare, like freedom, like faith in our religions, and in our politicians.
Nominating Sarah Palin for President will ensure the Democrats have eight more years. Come on the Republican Party you can do better than this – and if you can't, you deserve all the scorn and derision you get.
I can't believe the republicans are actually going this direction and giving the idea of Palin as president credibility. Rove is showing the ignorance that we all expect from a college drop-out like him to have. This is the best news the already dominant democratic party could receive.
She should have stayed the mayor of Wisilla. I'm sure she was a good mayor. Also, it probably didn't take a lot of communicative skills.
Palin == fail
I certainly hope she is on the GOP ticket. Looser. looser.looser
Please, somebody, help Sarah find her Ruby Slippers so she can go home!
It's time for sarah palin to go away.
@Sarah is the one in 2012
Michelle and Barack should keep their re-decorating to a minimum as they'll be out of the White House in 4 years.
Obama will fail to revive the economy and we will be beset by Mumbai type attacks—both of these things leading to his loss in 2012′.
See you in 2012 Sarah!!!!!
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To my knowledge the White House is redecorated every 4-8 years depending on the circumstances. Michelle and Barack have every right to redecorate as they see fit. They will be in the White House for another four years so she should buy kids furniture that they can use in their teenage years.
Sarah, the buffoon, will be as close to the White House as she is to her English book, which she probably NEVER opened.
Don't get me started.
Why are we quoting Karl Rove.... ?
Why do we care what he thinks about anything, anyone, OR Palin?
Pardon me....? I'm confused...
Is Karl Rove the Voice of the GOP now? Really scraping the bottom of the barrel, arn't they?
If Palin is the best the GOP has to offer, then I would suggest that the whole party fold up and go home..... the way is wide open for a new party!
jen,cali, your a LOON! Matt, you are 100% correct! Palin is a know nothing joke that is using her celebrity like sam welterbacher aka joe the plumber did, but you see that it wont last. She is a joke among every one except the deep base, the fringe of the repukes. She SHOULD run for pres though, only problem is enough high ranking repukes would stop her from getting far, they dont want her to run against Obama in 2012 r Clinton in 2016, because she would make the GOP look even MORE ridiculus than it does now...
The Great White Dope. Surely the GOP can do better than Sarah.
Obama supporters watch for all the hell on earth that is yet to come, via YOUR president
Jen in Cali: What the hell are YOU talking about? Matt was making an informed post and was spot on in all his observations about Palin. I don't see where you felt the need to attack his character. One has to wonder you are so angry about...
Please... can she stay in Alaska? I don't want to have to hear her talk (not to mention make very little sense in the process) for the next 4 years.
I am glad that Palin has finally left GA. Never come back again!
Rove's comment was humorous considering that Palin has never had a clue, let alone an idea.
Amanda, GA,
I just looked up the current vote count on CNN's site just a minute ago; I also just saw it on Brown's show just before that. I voted for Martin, even though I know he doesn't have a snowball's chance.
Amanda-Ga, Georgia BEAUTIFUL!?!?!?! When I was there I kept looking for the handle to flush it!!!! You're probably one of those who think it's a compliment when someone refers to you as a redneck......let you in an a little secret....it's not, you know how you Good ol' Boys refer to African-Americans when they're not around...you know the "N" word, well, when someone referes to you as a redneck.............
To all of us recently diagnosed with Acute Palin-induced Emesis (the condition of retching uncontollably at the name "Sarah Palin") – let's all remember: The longer she stays in the news, the more people develop our condition, and the lower her chances are in 2012, or anytime.
Stay in the news Sarah *retch* – I will gladly sacrifice my gastric comfort to guarantee that you will never have a chance.
I would like to see Sarah Paln run in 2012-She is great !!
Governor Palin is utterly convicted that the signs in the sun, the moons, and the stars should be imminent.
Ahhh, the air of change and the warmth of inclusion.
So refreshing!
Sara Palin may be many things but so far she is not a political prostitute. sorry about that.
Sarah is going to get a real test in Alaska now that oil has dropped below $50 a barrell. It was easy for her to have a sky high popularity rating in Alaska when the state was giving every citizen in the state $1,300 check. Now, she is going to have to make tough decisions because of the decline in oil revenue and that is sure to make people angry and test her mettle as a leader in her home state.
To America:
While I do agree that Sarah Palin needs to do research to learn how to be a more affective politician, attacking her personally is stepping out of bounds just a little bit. Even Obama proved that to be true today when he met with all of those governors to discuss the economic crisis. He may not agree with her politically wise, but he is willing to put that aside and work together with her. Sarah actually said herself,when she met with him today, that she is impressed with all the bi-partisan ideas that Obama has come up with to help the country. Saying all that, what I am really saying is that it is okay to criticize her politically, but attacking her personally is out of character and not what America needs. Lets move on America and try to get done what needs to be done to help us.
WHEN Palin runs in 2012 she WILL get my vote and my money. It gives me something positive to look forward to. The woman is brilliant, an achiever, and squeaky clean.
As for Obama.....well, he can just keep "the change." He's not MY president. I didn't vote for him. I don't want him. I ignore him.
All that from a lifelong Democrat (until June 2008)....and a card-carrying Mensan who didn't buy into Obama's empty promises that were totally lacking in substance. I still think he's "dirty."
Sara Palin may be a lot of things but so far she is not a political
prostitute.
Ross
Okay, I have tried to be polite . No longer . This women is an idiot . Plain and simple.
Palin believes that God is on her side, and that everything she does is "God's will". Therefore, in her mind, she can do no wrong. She also follows the extreme right-wing Machiavellian mantra of "if it gets me elected, it's all good."
This is a very dangerous mindset to have when in a position to shape social and foreign policy at the national level, and for these reasons, I pray that Alaskans will have enough sense to prevent her from ever being elected to the Senate. I have every confidence that the American people will prevent her from ever residing in the White House.
Why is what Karl Rove still news? Didn't he write a full page article in Newsweek on how Hillary "will" win the nomination?
Marie in California December 2nd, 2008 8:43 pm ET
...........All that from a lifelong Democrat (until June 2008)….and a card-carrying Mensan who didn't buy into Obama's empty promises that were totally lacking in substance. I still think he's "dirty
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Which goes to show that even a Mensan can be an idiot (LOL) .
Major Accomplishments Mrs. Palin...best wishes for the future...your a Republican Hillary...youll be either loved or HATED tremendously...I love you Hillary!!
485 comments on Sarah Palin so far--30 times more than anything else on the Ticker right now--
Last week she drew 1,287 comments-perhaps a record-
Youy guys just can't get enough of her, can you-you know you dig her but since you can't have her, you diss her.
You are pathetic and laughable.
As an outsider and a conservative it's painful to watch so many Americans ooh and ahh over Ms. Palin. There is a certain shallowness to American politics – I imagine if Sarah was 200 lbs and not quite so "hot", she'd still be an unknown. Her verbal prowess and intellect leave something to be desired, though she does appeal to the "average Joes" (again most likely based on her looks). While not a huge fan of Obama, the man is smart, has surrounded himself with qualified people and will ultimately be a pragmatist I believe (e.g. Gates). This may infuriate a lot of left wingers that want "change" (i.e. free money from the government), but may lead to him surviving another term and developing from a merely a good speach giver to a good leader. The Republicans could use someone with the integrity and smarts of a Romney. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
even if sarah palin is the leader of the republican party in 2012 only the republicans will vote for her; she dumb also I'am sure not many if any african american will vote for her, black people have shown that we can not be tricked anymore.
What makes Palin think she could run this country? She can't even manage her own family:
Teenage daughters should not be getting pregnant.
Women should not be conceiving children at age 44. Was she hoping to have a child with Down Syndrome?
All of this from a group that claims the right to say they have "family values".
This registered Republican is going to reregister independent.
I'm sure most Democrats would love to run against Dan Quayle/George Bush in a skirt.
Obama, the Great, is offering to sit down to tea and crumpets with the terrorists of Mumbai-–he will offer them health insurance if they stay away from our shores-this will work, NOT.
In 2012, when Sarah Barracuda takes over from the Great One, she'll stick her AK-47 up the terrorist's noses and then we'll see what works and what doesn't.
If the "market place of ideas" will decide her fate she has no chance. She is a moron who did nothing but spew hate and lies during her so called campaign! She has no ideas and is merely a right wing nut job puppet! She has declared war against intelligence just like George did and look where that got us!
Sarah has the courage and instincts to deal with Al Qaeda that Obama is missing. Obama likes to write speeches and make phone calls and that just won't have an effect on the terrorists. He's a woos and Al Qaeda knows it and they've already started to mock him,.
In four years Sarah will KNOW more about every aspect of government ,and leadership,then the entire liberal Democrats all combined will ever know,actually she will probably know that little bit in a few months.
She appeals ONLY to the Republican base and the Republican party is dying.
There must be a qualified Republican out the who can at least structure a proper sentence. She is just not smart enough to be President of the USA.
Don't get me wrong...I would love it if they put all their eggs in the Palin basket but get real here.
The majority of women will never get behind Palin. She is too extreme in her views and still has not been vetted. There is a lot we do not know about this woman and there will be ton of time to expose her. In 2012 she will just be a bad memory.
Dear GOP,
Please DO run your lame horse Gov in 2012 AND in 2016. That way in 2012 it will be an EASY RE-election for Obama/Biden. 2016...we can all enjoy watching as Hillary cleans her clock and shows Palin what an educated, REAL woman is!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 voters:
MOST Dems
MOST Indys
"REAL" Repubs (the one's who jumped ship when McCain picked Palin)
Repubs who voted for McCain but said, "I can't stand Palin but I'm voting for McCain anyway".
Anybody with an IQ over 20
Palin voters:
FAKE RepubTards
Evangelical nut-job bible thumpers
Morman wing-nuts
Stupid People
GAME OVER!!! OBAMA/BIDEN win with 80% popular vote!
Hillary vs. SaRahRahRah 2016 voters:
Clinton voters::
*see above Obama/Biden voters*
Palin voters:
FAKE RepubTards
Evangelical nut-job bible thumpers
Morman wing-nuts
Stupid People
GAME OVER!!! HILLARY WINS BY A LANDSLIDE!
There are too many highly educated, talented men and women in the party for Mrs Palin to be considered for national office.
So cobra, you can call Michelle a monkey, and it's liberals who are the problem because we expect a candidate for VP to actually be able to speak proper English, respect ALL of the country, and have an original idea in her head instead of spouting every lie that Rick Davis gave her about Obama with a gleam in her eye and a smile on her face? That is not integrity. Integrity would require her to research her speeches before she yells them; know what she is talking about, and then stand her ground. She didn't even research the job she was after.
And she truly does not speak coherently, and anyone who actually thinks they understand her should try to diagram ONE of her sentences. Just one. I don't think you can.
"Remember she was on the stage for nine weeks in the general election — that’s not a lot of time," he said. "Now we are going to get to a chance see her over a longer period of time." – Karl Rove
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Hey Karl, honey, are you forgetting that the MORE we saw of her, the MORE we realized that there's just not much there. Americans are too smart to think that governing can be done with a wink and a smile. Sarah is a joke!
Whether or not America is ready for a woman president isn't the issue right now. The issue is whether America will want a woman in four years!! OH YES!! It'll happen!
It's curious and frightening that the Republicans have to think about whether they want Palin to lead their party – have to watch her over a longer period of time – - Didn't even elect her to a prominent position among Republican Governors. YET, they were willing to have her as VP and potentially President of the U.S., just a few weeks ago.
Republicans are certainly NOT COUNTRY FIRST.
Palin who???
these comments are some of the nastiest that I have ever read!!Shame on you!!