If she is even on the ballot, I would say goodbye America hello Canada.:jointsmile:
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If she is even on the ballot, I would say goodbye America hello Canada.:jointsmile:
That would've been a credible ticket. I didn't think Palin was a bad choice, but she destroyed the ticket. The McCain campaign made some erroneous decisions and utilized her in the wrong way. Her own ego also clouded her judgement and she tried to promote herself more than the party or the ticket. Palin has that diva but not the strong woman Condolezza is. Why didn't McCain think of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
McCain probably didn't want to tie himself to closely to the Bush administration, and IIRC she wasn't all that enthusiastic about being VP anyway. Plus, McCain wouldn't have been able to lock up the racist vote.
I think Americans have a favorable enough opinion of Condoleeza Rice that she'll have a future in politics in the US. She's the most powerful black woman in the US (with the exception of Oprah ;)) which is no small accomplishment.
we'll see how you all like the anointed one a year from now
I'm sure they'll nominate Dan Quayle first ;-)
You mean, the elected one. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by justanotherbozo
first to address the capslock. shipping jobs overseas is not a liberal or conservative thing, it is a rich people thing. you think mccain, or any president for that matter was going to make so much as a dent in globalization you are crazy. i don't like it either, but it is here to stay.Quote:
Originally Posted by maladroit
second, palin is not wise on energy. i dont know where you got that, from what i have seen the most intelligent thing she has to say on energy is drill baby drill. nuclear baby.
i honestly wonder if she could have gotten away with the airhead routine as long as she did if she were ugly.
Alaskan governor will consider presidential bid if God wills
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
CBC News
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she wouldn't hesitate to run for the U.S. presidency in four years if it's God's will, even though she never thought the 2008 campaign would be "as brutal a ride as it turned out to be."
In a series of interviews in the wake of last Tuesday's election, Palin said she had no problem with Republican presidential nominee John McCain, but that she resents rumours she said were spread about her and her family by the Arizona Republican's aides. She emphatically denied that she was a drag on the Republican ticket.
"I think the economic collapse had a heckuva lot more to do with the campaign's collapse than me personally," the governor said in an interview broadcast Tuesday on NBC's Today show.
Palin also said: "There were a lot of times I wanted to shout out, 'Hey, wait a minute, it's not true.' It's pretty brutal."
Nevertheless, the relatively obscure governor of Alaska, whose selection for the ticket by McCain last August brought excitement â?? and controversy â?? to the campaign, said she would be eager to do it all again under the right circumstances.
"I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door," Palin said in an interview with Fox News on Monday. "And if there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door."
In the wide-ranging interview, Palin said she neither wanted nor asked for the $150,000-plus wardrobe the Republican party bankrolled, and thought the issue was an odd one at the end of the campaign, considering "what is going on in the world today."
"I did not order the clothes. Did not ask for the clothes," Palin said. "I would have been happy to have worn my own clothes from Day 1. But that is kind of an odd issue, an odd campaign issue as things were wrapping up there as to who ordered what and who demanded what."
"It's amazing that we did as well as we did," the governor said of the election in a separate interview with the Anchorage Daily News.
"I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10-trillion debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we're talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican party at the time had been representing," Palin said in a story published Sunday.
Palin has scheduled a series of national interviews this week with Fox, NBC's Today show and CNN's Larry King Live. She also plans to attend the Republican Governors Association conference in Florida this week.
Actually I have heard the GOP is looking at Michel Steel as it's flag bearer. He is a Black man and ran for a US Senate seat in Maryland in 2006 and barely lost.
Ironic, since if what you say were to happen, it would be 100% the Dems fault since they are, and will be in control of the gov't in 2012. Palin would not be inaugurated until Jan 21, 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by dragonrider