Sarah Palin’s way back
Over the weekend, Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard — a fan of Sarah Palin — wrote that the Alaskan governor’s abrupt departure from office doesn’t bode well for her immediate political future:
Forget about Sarah Palin as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and probably ever. She may have no interest in seeking the GOP nomination. But if she does, her chances of winning the nomination have been minimized by her decision to resign as governor of Alaska.
But Barnes spots one way back for Palin that seems within the realm of possibility:
[W]in Alaska’s lone House seat in 2012 and oust Democratic senator Mark Begich in 2014. A term in the House and another in the Senate–nothing would do more to groom her for the White House than this and transform her into the best Republican candidate for the presidency in, say, 2020, when she’d be 56.
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Copyleft
July 6th, 2009
2:59 pm
Well, there’s a FEW things she’d also need to qualify her as the “best Republican candidate” even in 2020.
For example, she’d need to read a newspaper and understand what it said. She’d need to visit a foreign country without accidentally starting a war.
And she’d need all the more intelligent Republican candidates (yes, there ARE some!) to die mysteriously….
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 6th, 2009
3:38 pm
Fred Barnes, raised to be a Roman Catholic propagandist in Arlington, Virginia, is now a soldier on the frontline of Rome’s treasonous “Fifth Column.” Sarah Palin rose to power fronting for Rockefeller/Roman Catholic Big Oil, just as Newt Gingrich fronted for Pierre DuPont to rise to power, and has now converted to Roman Catholicism.
“They” know what they’re doing; shouldn’t We, the sovereign People of America?
Will Jones - No-man
July 6th, 2009
4:50 pm
I wish I could go to a rally where Barnes is so I could spit on him like I do others that I disagree with.
johnathon
July 6th, 2009
5:33 pm
does she have a political future after this?
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 6th, 2009
5:36 pm
Barnes is one of the Roman Anti-Christ’s “Fifth Column” operatives. He is a traitor against the American People. He deserves much more than to be spat upon.
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 6th, 2009
5:57 pm
And I know, I am a professional conspiracy kook and traitor spitter.
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 6th, 2009
7:50 pm
Thomas Jefferson, 5jun1824: What a conspiracy this, between Church and State!
Since, at the time I didn’t know your “hero” was a “Fifth Column” traitor, and that he attacked me even though I hadn’t spit on him, I still wouldn’t have spat on him so that I could hold the legal and moral highground. I would, however, have responded to his Aggravated Battery, had I known what damage my “gently” rebuffing him, with more extreme measures.
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 6th, 2009
7:55 pm
my “gently” rebuffing him would incur on my shoulder, with more extreme measures…particularly if his plainsclothes police officer accomplice and radio sidekick weren’t around to respond with deadly force.
G-d willing, American Patriots will rally in Atlanta and Georgia and put Max Cleland in our governorship so more carpetbagging papists like your traitor-”hero,” and the rest of his 9/11-committing closet-queen Bush-supporters can also be induced to get out of Georgia.
Pope Juan Busho Clintano XXVII, Rome, Italy
July 6th, 2009
8:59 pm
We are keeping records Will. Soon Rome and and all the papist will be ready.
Wackolibhack
July 6th, 2009
9:01 pm
It is Bush’s fault that Will Jones is coo coo bananas and that Max blew himself up while d!cking around drunk in Vietnam. I hate Bush!!!!
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 6th, 2009
9:31 pm
Lying about a Silver Star-winning, 9/11 Commission-quitting Georgian of proven integrity makes “Wackolibhack” no Georgian and no Patriot, without honor or morality. May he be accursed and denied redemption forever.
Pope Juan Busho Clintano XXVII, Rome, Italy
July 6th, 2009
11:15 pm
According to Will Jones, who is completely nuts, I should excommunicate Wackolibhack for telling the truth about ole Max “Hey watch this trick with a live greneade” Cleland.
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 7th, 2009
1:07 am
The Marine who dropped it has identified himself. You are beneath contempt and no American.
Will Jones - Atlanta
July 7th, 2009
11:19 am
Yes, his name was Max Cleland.