Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Palin running for president?
In a recent interview with NYT's, Sarah Palin stated that she is strongly considering running for president in 2012. She only has a handful of trusted aids and most of them don't have strong political backgrounds to run a nationwide presidential campaign. Palin is on the outskirts of the G.O.P and in recent polls, if she went head to head with Obama at the time of the midterm election (2 weeks ago), she would be the only G.O.P canidate to lose to him. She currently has a 52% unfavorable score while only having a 40% favorable score. And is constantly seen part of the Tea-Party movment which is seen as a highly polarizing movement. Her lack of experience seems to trouble many people, she was mayor for a very small city (Wasilla only has 10k people), she became governor of Alaska and ended up resigning before her first term was over. Since we will be able to vote in the 2012 election, will you vote for Palin if she ran for president? I know that most students have a liberal view on life but if she came up with good ideas and she ran against Obama do you think she would win? Or is it just a waste of time?
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I would definitely vote for Palin. As Jesvin brought up in his previous post, Palin exhibits many of the qualities necessary in a leader including the boldness and Independence characteristic of so many of our greatest presidents.
We must also remember that her resignation was pretty much completely due to family and personal needs, and in part due to her own ambitions to be president. Presidents need to be able to give up some things for the greater goal, and this is something that Palin has shown she is willing to do.
Also, I believe that the unfavorable rating is still going off the coattails of her performance in the theatrical presidential election of 2008, so they probably are not an accurate prediction for what will happen in 2012.
Vote for Palin.
Well at least now I see how the world is going to end.
Honestly, I don't know how Palin is aiming for success 2012 after what happened in the 2008 election. Most people gave up on her during 2008 and why should people look forward to her in the future? Not to make her look even worse or anything, but she's got very little experience running for president, ideas and views questionable at best, and just sort of awkward in general. All in all, she's just not fit for president. Maybe for a governor or mayor, but not something quite as prestigious as a president.
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