Palin says 'absurd' not to ponder presidential bid

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin says it would be "absurd" for her not to consider running for president in 2012....



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What is even more absurd is some idiots will vote for her.

 

The most absurd thing would be if she runs, and stops using her star power to raise money to support conservative candidates, nationwide.

She could do more good that way, than running for office herself.

 

Her speech was reminiscent of GW. We don't need another compassionate conservative.

I am trying to decide if the tea party started as an independent party and was hijacked by Republicans or just was grass roots Republicans to start with.

 

I don't think it was ever really a "party" nor do I think it should be. It should be a movement, that backs conservative candidates and if a party wants to adopt those conservative ideals to get the backing of the movement, so be it.

I think it was truly grass roots and the GOP are trying to court them, finally.

 

Do the tea partiers recognize the rate of government growth under GW? Do they know that the state of Alaska's spending per capita went up 30% in two years under Palin? If they do why are they so enamored with her? Are we gonna have another Republican nominee who is simply a big spending social conservative?

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsid=31

Palin has the same social conservative background that got GW the Republican nomination, her record on economic issues is much more liberal than Bush's was in 2000.

 

The guy you copy/pasted that from forgot to account for inflation.


If we eliminate your false assumption of the oil sale money being part of welfare, then Sarah's record is a lot more conservative than even Newt before he took the trip to Washington.


As I keep pointing out, your taking completely rediclious possitions against Sarah and it seems to me your trying to justify why you did not vote conservative in the last election.



You independents love to claim your conservative but you voted for Obama instead, that is not the act of a conservative person. I know, you guys figure you will voted Liberal if the other guy is not what you feel is a good enough conservative but what I can't understand is why.......


McCain was not my first choice for President, but he was about 6 thousand possitions above me voting for Obama.

 

to be fair... nobody voted for a conservative candidate last election.

 

Even if McCain was only 50% conservative, that is still better than 100% socialist liberal like Obama BM.

My point is while McCain was not someone I wanted, I wanted pure socialist less.....Call it the least of two evils while the worse evil was 100 times more evil than the least evil.

 

I'll continue voting Libertarian until the Republicans nominate another Reagan.

Ronald Reagan

 

You mean like Ron, Jr.?

 

Ron Jr. would make his father puke if he saw him now.

 

So you voted with the rest of the libertarians and put Obama into office, why?

You guys are a contradiction, you pretend to be conservative but vote pure socialist whenever you do not like the Republican. I did not like McCain either, but I hated what Obama would do, or at least try to do, You guys are the very definition of contradiction.

 

Until conservatives realize what made Reagan different than the other Republican Presidents we are doomed to continue down the road to serfdom.

 

So you will help speed it up by voting for the socialist......now that makes sense....

 

Rep worthy.

 

I'm sure that's what she means by if it's good for the country. She'll back the best canadate.

 

Geeze hugo can you get of the Bush bashing bandwagon and look what's happing now.
Obama is more of a socialist then all of them put together.

 

But independents like hugo can't do that.....because they put Obama into office. Hugo is just following the anti Sarah Palin playbook, make any conservative who could win a popular vote "look" like Bush. Hugo is following the marching orders of the liberals now.




That is why I say hugo is a contradiction, by attacking anyone who could actually win an election and has at least "some" conservative values, he is helping the liberals win. People like hugo divide conservative groups against each other and that can only help the socialists.



And while I do not like hugo for doing this I know he is not stupid, he can understand that what he does is really going directly against the things he 'claims' to want so the only other explanation for why he is so against every conservative who runs for office is that hugo is really a closet liberal.



Think about it, hugo is always comming up with irrational excuses to put down people like Sarah, there is no reason anyone who is a real conservative would not want Palin to run against people like Obama unless they like Obama right where he is.