Sarah Palin is amazing. She’s amazing because so often her comments cut through all the noise and hammer down to the truth of the matter. Remember “death panels?” You know Obama does.
This is one of the reasons I’m nervous about Palin running for President. She just speaks truth. And more than anything I’d worry that we’d lose her voice if she ran for President.
Look at what happens to presidential candidates, they often have so many consultants whispering in their ears. They’re overcoached, overpolled, and underwhelming. And you can’t just say that Sarah shouldn’t listen to consultants because while consultants do tend to overmanage they are there for one reason -and that’s to win. Often in a campaign, there’s truth that just takes too long to explain so you have talking points. And in order to win elections, candidates opt not to speak truth but to speak in talking points. They do this because they think it’s important that they win. And it is important.
But this is Sarah Palin speaking truth:
During a speech in Dallas on Wednesday night Sarah Palin attacked President Obama for being the “most pro-abortion president to occupy the White House” and warned that health care reform would lead to more abortions in America.
“It is even worse than what we had thought. The ramifications of this legislation are horrendous,” Palin said at an event hosted by Heroic Media, a faith-based, non-profit group that is working to bring down the rate of abortions in the Dallas area.
The 2008 vice presidential nominee urged the newly elected Congress to repeal health care reform, which she called the “mother of all unfunded mandates.”
“The biggest advance of the abortion industry in America has been the passage of Obamacare,” Palin said.
Although President Obama signed an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortions, the former Alaska governor said it was nonbinding. Palin also noted that the administration later allowed federal funding for some “high risk” insurance pools in states that allow elective abortions.
I saw a new poll that has Palin leading in some key states in primary polls.
So like I said, I’m nervous about Palin running but I’m not at all excited about someone like Mitt Romney having a clear lane to the nomination. In fact Romney kinda’ scares the heck out of me and I’d rather pretty much anyone other than Romney. I think Romney would be a disastrous candidacy for conservatism.
November 15, 2010 at 12:34 am
The government is ALREADY funding abortions big time . . . . the US government gives millions to Planned UNParenthood now.
November 15, 2010 at 1:10 am
So what's this about getting the government out of our lives and yet forcing your vision on abortion on other people, worse declaring it a law?? Shooting docters who work at an Abortion Clinic? Let women decide for themselves.
And I think the same applies to euthanasia. It is something privat between you and your God.
And as for Sarah Palin: she's a great entertainer, a star in the media world. You people scar me to death if you take her serious about any political statement. Who does she think she is??
November 15, 2010 at 1:41 am
You can die of scarring?
November 15, 2010 at 3:23 am
FWIW, I believe Palin is smart enough to know she's unelectable. My money says she'll continue learning how to be "kingmaker" (her picks in this last election might have been as much a learning exercise as anything else). Once she feels confident, she'll come out for someone who shares her views but is MUCH more likely to be elected.
What's in it for her? She's an old fashioned patriot who desires the good of the country over her own gain. It's a sad commentary on our times when I have to pose and answer that question. But there it is.
November 15, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Part of me fears that Palin will run in 2012 if she sees the door open to her nomination. Too much of the country sees her as crazy, scary, and stupid right now. While I would more gladly than vote for her than Romney and she could easily win a split primary, she somehow needs to win back 6-8% of the people who have made up their minds about her.
I think it would be better that she do that over the next 16-20 years than 16-20 months.
The thing is, the field will likely contain Romney, Huckabee, Newt, Santorum, Pawlenty, and (possibly) Ron Paul. Daniels might make a run, too, although he killed his chances of winning a few months ago. Talk about a group with baggage. Pawlenty has the least of the bunch, but he's basically known as the guy from MN who people think will run for president. I don't think any of them are seen as a grassroots conservative hero by many people.
I feel like Palin could walk in there and easily win a 25% share against that bunch, until it's just her, Huck, and Romney. I think Paul Ryan or Chris Christie would mow that entire group down, but I don't get the feeling they are running. Bobby Jindal would excite a lot of people (including me), but having seen him speak on many occasions, I don't think he has the speaking and debating chops to get through a group like that. It was Huckabee's golden tongue and genuine social conservatism that moved him into the top 3 in 2010. Jindal might start with momentum but move back once the campaign starts.
The more I think about it, unseating Obama after one term might be harder than it looks.
November 16, 2010 at 12:11 am
"…unseating Obama after one term might be harder than it looks."
Very true, those of us with conservative values should stop counting chickens that haven't even hatched.
November 16, 2010 at 7:00 am
None of this conversation is about the BIG issues, like the shrinking middle class, and the Middle East crisis, and China and India's rise, and severe weather resulting from our huge carbon footprint, and the demise of public school budgets while the military pays for every little trinket a soldier may want, and software, but schools can't afford pencils!
November 16, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Possibly because several of those don't exist….