Truth is stranger than fiction - The Sarah Palin Chronicles

[Kirkland Laing]

They'll definitely give her the opportunity though. One in three voters near enough will definitely vote for her. If they can graft a bit of substance, a bit of gravitas onto the you betcha she could change people's perceptions of her, win a few independents and centrist voters. They did the same thing with Nixon when he originally quit in the sixties and he managed to win. She's actually very similar to Nixon but without the smarts, they both use resentment as their main issue. And the guy who masterminded Nixon's return from obscurity currently runs Fox News.

meh, irrelevant. One in three voters would vote for anybody over a Democrat, another one in three would vote for anybody over a Republican. But the middle one in three would never vote for her. So I have to agree with Spicoli. They won't give her another chance at VP, let alone president.

One in three voters would run through a brick wall for her. The people who win elections are the volunteers, the people who do phone banking, door-to-door canvassing, driving old/incapacitated people to the polling stations on election day. The GOP depends on getting social conservatives to do these jobs for them. the GOP is a very right wing party dedicated to serve the interests of corporations and plutocrats (although the Democrats are fairly indistinguishable these days) and its policies historically are worse for the majority of people than those of the Democrats, the average American doing much better financially under Democratic presidents than Republicans. For the GOP to get enough people to vote against their economic interests to win elections they need to appeal to certain cultural groups, especially social conservatives and Christians. Somebody like John McCain isn't acceptable to the conservative base, the people who volunteer and phone bank for the GOP at elections, who potentially can turn out in enormous numbers but don't because they never get what they're promised. They see Sarah Palin as one of them and guarantee her a fanatical truly formidable election machine should she run. If the GOP chiefs can graft a bit of substance onto her, change peoples' perceptions of her, they make her an almost unbeatable opponent for any Democrat. They can easily do that by 2016 if she's capable of slowly changing. They'll definitely give her every opportunity.

[CGM]

Well, I guess we'll see then. I don't mind if she runs, it'll be entertaining, but there's no way in hell she'll win. Gawd, I hope not.

[Kirkland Laing]

Well, I guess we'll see then. I don't mind if she runs, it'll be entertaining, but there's no way in hell she'll win. Gawd, I hope not.

It's the energy she'd create among the base. People tell pollsters they'll vote for such and such but the question is can they be arsed to spend hours of their life actually voting on election day. Potential GOP voters look at somebody like Mccain and think he'll cave in to the liberals on abortion, religious issues, gay rights etc. just like every other Republican I voted for did. But Palin is one of them, the first one of them that's had even a sniff of the White House. Harnessing the energy among liberals created by eight years of Bush gave Obama a huge election machine and put him in the White House. If Obama wins in 2012 imagine the energy in the GOP base waiting to be harnessed in 2016, a more refined version of Palin would be a shoo in.