She will be the top of ticket. The GOP learned absolutely ZERO from McCain's primary victory in 2008. The early GOP contests are still (as of the last time I checked) winner take all. She'll sow up the nomination by Florida. The field will be too divided between Romney, Huckabee's doomed attempt, Pawlenty, and the random Senator. She cruises to a crushing nomination win by only winning 45% of the GOP votes.
Then, a few months later Obama sails to a clear victory in the general. Election night 2012 will be over by the time the midwest turns in their numbers.
That's a bold prediction, Dr. T.
I agree that if Palin is at the top of the ticket she gets flattened in the general.
You big bad men need to remember something here,
WOMEN make up over 50% of the vote in this country, and millions upon millions of women are ready for a WOMEN President. Does that have you shaking in your big manly boots.
In fact, I still think that if women ran the world, we would have never had the wars that we have had. Women value life, we are protective of other women's children. We would have worked out our differences over a cup of tea and the world would have been better off for it. We have a much gentler nature and we are much more respectful and tolerant of diversity.
Where I am definitely ready for a woman running the Oval Office, leading the country, and could see Hutchinson, Snowe, or Collins leading a Republican ticket, there is absolutely no way that I would ever vote for Palin. She could not manage her own family business, even with Todd's help. By comparison, on the other hand, with all she has had going on in her life, including a husband who behaved like a total butt, Hillary Clinton raised a daughter who has always behaved quite well, has gotten a degree from Stanford, attended Oxford, and is now studying at Columbia, is not in scandal, and has had sense enough to manage the responsibility of not producing a bastard. In other words knows what birth control is, and how to use it! She knows how to manage a personal life. She got the importance of education
first. A
thinking sort of human:
Chelsea [Clinton] and Marc Mezvinsky have been friends since their childhood and had attended Stanford University together. Chelsea, [a] 29-year-old, is now living with Marc in New York where she is also studying at Columbia Universitys School of Public Health. She is pursuing a graduate degree while Marc Mezvinsky is working as an investment banker at Manhattan hedge fund.
and on the other hand:
Even her mom wasn't sure the teen would rebound and finish school after having Tripp, but the Palin daughter told People she was determined to graduate. "I knew it would be hard work, but I knew I was going to do it," she said.
And as for mom Sarah, she said: "It's been a challenging and exciting year her senior year and I'm just so pleased that we are where we are today."
Bristol Palin who has cut off contact from her baby's father Levy Johnston says she will continue her work as an activist to help educate young women and prevent teen pregnancy.
To paraphrase from another group of CONSERVATIVE women: "Women Deserve Better" - than Sarah Palin!
She isn't qualified, and where she may be somewhat attractive in a "Desperate Housewives" sort of way, if this board is any example of why men would vote for her, I don't think male imaginings of being seated in the POTUS chair while the POTUS does a "lewinsky" from under the desk qualifies as a reason to have her running the US's business. I think for that reason, men would not really vote for her.
No insult to males, they react how they react, but smart women know they will fantasize about and will "do" whatever, but when it comes to serious business, who they marry, who they want for the mother of their children, who they want a lifetime with apart from a mental flight of fancy, they choose another kind of person entirely. When choosing for serious business, they usually put real consideration behind it!
Maybe the R party has sense enough to get it, and to exercise some control over the fringe. If they do not, if they continue to be exclusionary, well then, perhaps their course is totally run. We will see.
