Could Palin actually win in 2012 Y/N??

[Ozmar]

Where's the option for "hell no?"

 

[elvis]

The country would have to be in total ruin for her to have any chance at all. as in 25 percent unemployment....

So you're saying that Palin would be better at getting the bad economy going than Obama is. You're right.

I'm not saying that. I'm saying for her to have any chance at all from the voters' perspective, the country would have to be in complete shambles.

 

[zzzz]

What did carter do that was bad?

The Right doesn't know the real Carter, as he was always a trope in the manufactured Reagan narrative.

Carter was an evangelical who deregulated transportation and communications. He was socially to the right of Reagan (not the manufactured Reagan, but the Reagan who never set foot in a church and instituted California's most liberal abortion policy). Carter's foreign policy was closer to the sober isolationism of the prewar Right (whereas Reagan was a Truman/Cold War liberal who thought Washington was competent enough to save the world from evil, i.e., he didn't just want Washington to run the United States; he wanted a government big enough to reconfigure the globe on American principals. Ronnie put the U.S. on a path of bankruptcy with absurdities like Star Wars. And he had the criminal bravado to hide the money off-budget in emergency spending measures. Study what the CATO Institute said about how the Cold War and War on Terrorism has grown government more than Johnson's Great Society. Reagan, unlike Carter, spent us off a cliff. He was the first Republican president to completely abandon pay-as-you go. He wanted to cut taxes and choke government revenue while expanding defense spending, thus creating deficits as far as the eye could see).

Carter got energy right, saying we needed to decrease our dependency on oil, lest we go bankrupt in a never-ending Middle East quagmire. Reagan said he was a crazy lefty using that devil science to control American consumption habits . . . and then he proceeded to radically increase our military investment in the Middle East, providing endless support to terrorist nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia. He even removed Hussein's Iraq from the list of terrorist nations. Compared to Carter -- who was socially on the Right and fiscally in the center -- Reagan was a fiscal disaster who not only got energy completely wrong, but strengthened radical islamic elements in the Middle East. We are lying in his bed.

The Right has always lived in a hermetically sealed bubble when it comes to Reagan and Carter. They revise history in order to bolster their current ideological hand. They want to construct a histroy where they weren't big spenders who grew the size, power, and debt of government. Unfortunately, their well-meaning base is too historically illiterate to pierce the Reagan mythos.

Carter: double digit inflation, lost Nicaragua to the Sandinista's, lost Iran to the Islamic fundelmentalist's (We are still paying for that today), the hostage situation there, to name just a few of the bad things. Yes he is a good person but he was a bad president.

 

[Gatekeeper]

Palin or anyone else can win the 2012 election it would appear. This clueless president Obama has less leadership than a one legged headless chicken on an ice rink who's only focus is "its only money, we print it everyday" add to that his arrogant self righteous attitude and refusal to budge on just about anything HE doesn't like, we are screwed.

He was elected for only ONE REASON, leadership NOT being at the head of the class, only the ability to be a first class BS'er, I mean orator.

Healthcare, under the Obamacare label,'we'll have lower costs'......what an idiot!,our co-pays up 300% alone.

Won't budge on Tax cuts....what does he care, he, and his 'pals' are all set for life.
Obama calls for compromise, won't budge on tax cuts - TheHill.com