:-)

-Dave

cs89 on February 28, 2009 at 4:58 PM

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t bother commenting on it earlier. Palin’s popularity is about more than just her looks, but her UNpopularity seems overly focused on that very thing.

Michael Steele makes RNC chair, Colbert challenges him to a rap-off; Gov. Palin get the VP nod and Andi Sullivan suddenly can’t stop thinking about vajayjay.

And conservatives are supposedly the racists/sexists. Right.

Thanks. From where I sit, “neck and neck” is just a common term for a close race.

Whatever.

with a caption like that, it’s a shame the poll didn’t show a close race between Palin and Ann Coulter.

There’s a choice delicious enough to make a vampire faint.

/chauvanist

Care to enlighten this conservative rube?

cs89 on February 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM

Hint: the caption goes with the picture.

Stating the obvious: Gov. Palin’s got an attractive neck.

OK – I got all the way through page 1 and not one commenter picked up on AP’s “neck and neck” joke. I guess the GOP really is the party of Kenneth the Page.

rhodeymark on February 28, 2009 at 8:15 AM

????

Care to enlighten this conservative rube?

You-Eh-Vee on February 28, 2009 at 12:12 PM

My guess would be: No. Get a grip.

Must be jealous of Palin and hate your country.

This is the exact bullshit I was talking about.

Anyone who doesn’t think Sarah Palin is the Republicans savior is automatically labeled with intellectually lazy insults.

Jealous? Because they didn’t vote for her? Hate their country?

Are you serious?

Save your tripe for another blog.

VFT on February 27, 2009 at 7:38 PM

Quite simple: Huckabee has taxed the hell out of his constituents; Palin has not. Moreover, their “populist” messages are totally different. Huckabee’s message totally turns me off – attacks on the successful. Palin’s attacks are on the elitists (mind you, not the elite, but the elitists).

Also, Huckabee’s thinly veiled religious attacks on Romney were unacceptable.

Exit question: Think with me here for a minute. If The One gets the economy on track by 2011 and it looks like he’s waltzing towards reelection, wouldn’t Huckabee actually be a good pick for the nomination?

I doubt Christians will be here by 2012, which changes everything about this question. There’s a good chance the world will have entered into the 7 year Tribulation period by 2012, but in the event Christians are still here, Huckabee is the GOP’s most exciting candidate unless another God-fearing, pro-life, pro-gun rights, less taxes, securing the borders, fighting terrorism, etc., etc. kinda candidate comes along. I say the sooner we get Huck in a debate with Obama, the better. Don’t wait.

Granted, he’s white, southern, and evangelical, none of which screams “big tent,”

I think where people go wrong with this kind of philosophy, that being a white, southern, Christian, is a drawback in national politics (won’t attract enough people). I think where they’re wrong is if you look back to the 2004 election the liberal media did everything they could against (Christian, so-called) President Bush in his re-election. They used all kinds of attacks and it didn’t work. So who’s to say it’s gonna work with Huckabee. If there is a Huckabee matchup with Obama who’s to say it will work that time around. The more the MSM beats the anti-Christian drum, the more the Christian vote turns out. That’s what 2004 proved! That was the greatest turnout in this nations history in votes one both sides of the fence!! So I would encourage people to try and change their mind on this. The more the mainstream news media are anti-Christian the more the Christian right will turn out, and they will rally around Huckabee. There is a golden opportunity here.

but he’s also charming, media savvy, good on race, and comfortable with middle-class economic messaging in a way that Romney, say, isn’t.

You betcha.

If he does that, I want him gone.

Palin or Jindal 2012. That’s all, that’s it, anyone else will be uncivilized.

And Atlanta Voter can go get him/her/itself stabbed in the street.

How can you say Huck would “sew up the south” when he didn’t win the GOP primary in most Southern states this time around? I’m not sure which states you’re counting as southern, but he didn’t win AZ,NM,TX,OK, MS, Fl, SC, NC, VA, or KY.

I’m originally from the South, and am an evangelical Christian. I voted for Thompson in the caucuses, and Palin is at the top of my list right now.

Huck turns me off because I think he’s insincere, appears to want to attack others (for examples, see the Mormon issue, attack ad he “didn’t air” but showed to reporters, etc.), and seems to use his faith as a crutch to gain support (the “cross/bookshelf” ad). I think he talks a good conservative game, but I don’t trust him to follow through.

If Huck does decide to run in 2012 though, he would be the best selection. He has the most experience as a Governor, he’d make Obama look silly in debates (McCain lost in the debates), and he’d implement actual conservative policies such as stopping government overspending, implement the FairTax, and implement the Human Life Amendment.

I just can’t WAIT to see Huckabee and Obama debate the 2nd Amendment!

Whoever was still saying that they had a problem with Huck over illegal immigrants’ education and the Wayne Dumond issue…please look into it further…Huckabee made it clear that AS GOVERNOR OF A STATE, who couldn’t get the Federal Government to do their job right, he was already forced to allow the illegal immigrants’ “anchor-baby” children to attend his state public schools, despite the fact that he’d prefer deportation of the parents. He had only suggested that it made sense that these children be qualified for the same scholarships that their peers were qualified for, given the fact that they could not be deported with their parents. Wayne Dumond was released by a group of Democrat parole board members who were ALL appointed by Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker. Only 2 of them made the wild accusation that Huckabee somehow pressured them into releasing this guy (who had also had his testicles cut off with a pair of scissors during a breaking-and-entering incident while he was awaiting trial and his testicles ended up in a jar on the county sheriff’s desk). Now, if you really believe that a newly-elected Republican Governor is going to successfully pressure a room-full of Arkansas Democrat parole board members, then you really should vote for Huckabee, because he’s an awfully powerful man who could magically get the Dems to take actions that they don’t want to take.

As an aside, that Benny Shakar feller, as his name implies, is either a stinky Bedouin (that’s what his name means) or a stinky Bedouin wannabe. Probably a Lawrence of Arabia fan or something. Probably Anti-Israel too. An understanding of his name makes it easy to understand the source of his diatribes.

1. Before Palin came aboard, McCain was only able to attract crowds of 500 or less and was just about out of money. Palin brought crowds, contributions and volunteers.

bw222 on February 27, 2009 at 9:52 PM

Not one longtime conservative voter of my acquaintance — not one, mind you — was donating cash or volunteering time and energy to McCain’s lukewarm, lackadaisical campaign, prior to the addition of Sarah to the ticket.

Post-Palin, in direct comparison: great, re-energized and newly enthused swarms of them stampeded to do so.

God alone knows that the absolute last thing a radically diminished and (for all practical intents and purposes) powerless GOP really needs is someone like THAT anywhere on the national ticket versus the hyper-popular Obama, come ’12! /sarc

I stayed home – mostly because Palin was on the ticket.

Atlanta Voter on February 27, 2009 at 5:14 PM

Enjoy your tax rates over the next four years, Ms. Parker.