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Showing posts with label 2008 democratic race. Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008 democratic race. Sarah Palin. Show all posts

Friday, September 17, 2010

Tea Party Puffery, just how many Independent candidates are actually going to be elected as Independents?

I'm confused about the tea party movement, but I refuse to spend time researching it. Aren't the tea partiers just going to end up becoming republicans?

How many INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES are actually going to win races in November?

It seems like the political system is rigged against independents. These pre-November political races are simply to elect the main political opponent to the politician in office. Even if the politician in office loses during their own parties nomination, it is still to another candidate from their own party.

If an Independent candidate can only knock off a democratic incumbent by running as a democrat, or by defeating the democrat in the fall after first knocking off the republican favorite, I consider the tea party movement to be a whole lot of puffery because they have to become part of the very parties they scorn, to have an impact.

Yes, some incumbent democratic candidates have decided not run for re-election, but once again, where does the independent candidate fit into the picture?

When November comes, isn't it possible that "rogue republican voters" will vote democrat because they don't like the tea party candidate that defeated the more well known republican earlier in the year? Isn't it also possible the democrats will vote democrat out of fear of the "crazy" tea party republican candidates?

If republican and democratic voters actually saw the word INDEPENDENT next to a political challenger's name, then I could see an actual tea party movement happening. But if tea party candidates are simply infiltrating either republican or democratic parties, it seems to me they could be defeated by a loose consortium of democrats and republicans who don't want tea party change.

Sarah Palin should have run for governor of California this year, won, and then proved to all of us that she can handle a big state. I know Bill Clinton governed a small state, and Barack Obama has never even governed, but Sarah Palin burst upon the national scene and was kind of forced to "fake it" in the heat of the moment, kind of the way Barack Obama did in 2008.

Until I see Sarah Palin actually govern when all the focus is on her, I'm not sure she is actually ready to be a viable president. A perfect example of only leading when the focus is not on you, and then becoming president is, Barack Obama.

Barack Obama may have used his street smarts and deep pockets backers to get elected, and Sarah Palin may have her snow smarts, but neither at this point is what this country really needs in its next leader.

I just don't think Sarah Palin is remotely qualified to be president when I compare her experience with that of Hillary Clinton's. I feel Palin is leading a "movement" that isn't genuine when an independent is forced to call themselves a republican to win.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Hillary Clinton was supposed to quit the 2008 democratic race, but Sarah Palin is called a quitter, Disingenuous games the Obama supporters play.

Hillary Clinton, according to Keith Olbermann and many many Barack Obama supporters, was supposed to quit the 2008 democratic race well before the end even though the race was too close to call.

Apparently, it was ok for delegates to switch from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama, but under no circumstances were delegates ever supposed to switch back, even when Hillary Clinton won over 54% of the vote over the final 10 weeks of the democratic race.

Barack Obamomentum knew only one direction, and to imply delegates, even those who were actually in districts that voted for Hillary Clinton, might decide to actually vote for Hillary Clinton, was tantamount to racism.

Sarah Palin was coming under increased surveillance, attack, and scrutiny by the media. When she saw that she was not going to be able to lose the media by jumping on her snowmobile and getting the media to go left when they should have gone right, Palin resigned.

Palin is now called a quitter by some Barack Obama supporters for her refusing to be skewered by the media while trying to govern Alaska.

In both situations, the Barack Obama crowd used the quit card to once again demean and diminish female candidates. Isn't it ironic that Hillary Clinton was supposed to quit the 2008 democratic race, yet Sarah Palin was not supposed to quit her governorship even though the media was making it difficult for her to just do her job?

Whatever either female candidate chose to do at critical moments in their career, it appears Barack Obama supporters were simply going to demand both candidates do the opposite of what they did, or be skewered in the media.

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