Hard to believe anyone thinks of Sarah Palin as a real canditate for president.

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Boggles the mind.

[struggle4progress]

1. She's not a serious candidate. But her pretend campaign will fundraise from the suckers

and the money will be used to promote rightwing causes

[CTyankee]

19. Somone on the television machine said that she was running for "billionaire" and

and that as long as she can pretend she "might" run for president she'll be in the spotlight and make money...it's all about her own personal wealth.

[Arkana]

20. Bingo.

Actually, I think it was Joe Scarborough who said it best--"She's running for billionaire, not for President."

Sarah craves attention and saying she is not running would make people stop paying attention. Ergo, Sarah will be tight-lipped right until zero hour, then reluctantly bow out in a hilariously melodramatic fashion after bilking her drooling moron legions out of millions.

[hlthe2b]

2. Reminds me of high school...

I can recall a few very nasty, yet popular girls that behaved as she does. For whatever reason, they typically got their way in that very "small pond" and acted as bullies towards others, especially those they felt had offended them in some way. One would think Sarah would have learned the lesson that her looks or money or whatever made her feel so superior was not enough in the big wide world.....Of course Alaska is still fairly isolated. She still acts as though still the privileged cliquish "nasty" girl of high school.

[Tunkamerica]

8. she doesn't have looks! she LOOKS like a bobble headed stepford wife.

Make-up and hairdos do not equal beauty.

[hlthe2b]

9. Agree... but obviously that "look" attracts her followers...

:shrug:

[golfguru]

3. She is laughing all the way to the bank as a pretend candidate.

Her book deals and sales have netted her millions.
Mock run for president keeps her mug on TV which brings in
more dollars from Fox News and the realty show. She will make
a quick exit from the primaries.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. If you mean could she get herself in primaries throughout the nation...

and maybe pull enough votes to win the Republican primary. If she hired the right campaign manager, yes she would be a real candidate and everything.

A more concise question would be, "Is Sarah Palin a credible candidate?" I'd say no to that. But Bush ran and won the White House twice by getting the right people in his campaign.

Never underestimate the stupidity of the majority of American voters.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. The "right" people in his campaign

Like a campaign co-chair who was also in charge of counting the votes in a strategic state, and a brother who was governor of said state.

[Demit]

6. And the right people on the Supreme Court

Don't forget the strategic vote that stopped the counting.

[Ozymanithrax]

13. Yes, but only in part...

People like Dick Cheney, like a number of retired CIA agents who worked for Bush's dad that did work for him in Florida. Like the people who ran his campaign. Like the Congressional aids who broke down two doors in that building where votes were being counted and stopped the counting. (That, by the way, was a coupe-d'etat.) Like the very slick add campaign that too a wealthy not to bright business failure son of a wealthy very bright former President and leader of the CIA into the guy everyone in American wanted to drink a beer with. Like the "Compassionate Conservative" campaign. Like the nearly half of American Voters who voted for Bush twice.

Never underestimate stupidity.

[AlinPA]

21. Yes. She can do it in this environment. People are dumbed down by Fox "news" now.nt

[Golden Raisin]

7. Who would have thought

she'd get as far as being a candidate for Vice President? I'm still reeling from the fact that the Republicans actually nominated her for the position that's "a heart-beat away" from the Presidency, particularly with an old coot like McCain. I do not discount her. I do not laugh at her. I find the phenomenon of Palin and her supporters disturbing and rather scary. I'm not saying she's smart but she's proved shrewd enough to be making a lot of big money these days and is laughing all the way to the proverbial bank. Frankly, after Ronald Reagan and Bush the Younger I am convinced the Presidency today is attainable by almost anyone. Particularly when we have a Supreme Court willing to step in and coronate if there's a tight race.

[abq e streeter]

10. Yet millions do. .H.L.Mencken is appropriate to once again quote here

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

[AlinPA]

22. It Can Happen Here. nt

[DrDan]

11. I remember reading the same thing about Rand Paul a few months back

"no way he can beat a Dem" . . . .

[Phx_Dem]

12. Seriously. I think most people have seen the light though. n/t

[mtnsnake]

14. During the course of the week when I'm doing business out and about

I run into someone once in a while who thinks she is the best thing since sliced bread. These people are usually the most shallow people you'd ever want to meet. So far, the ones I've met who love her are usually 50+ years in age and cannot be reasoned with one bit. Most of them think Palin gets a raw deal from the press. Imagine that.

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15. after shrub should anything surprise you?

[rhett o rick]

16. She is a red herring. Rove will tear her to shreds when Jeb is ready to enter race.

Rove will tell republicans that Palin is whacko and we need to get back to the sanity of the Bush Family. Wouldnt Liz Cheney be a great running mate for Jeb? The repukes could still use their Bush/Cheney bumper stickers.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. "She's a candidate for billionaire" -- I think it was Lawrence O'Donnell who said that.

(If not, I'm sure some kind soul will correct me :))

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18. I felt the same way about Nixon, Redink Raygun, Pappy Bush, and especially Dimson. n/t

[Jim Lane]

23. Shhhh...... let the extreme right enjoy their delusions.

If the Republican nominee is anyone other than Palin, then it proves they're all RINO's. We true conservatives must show our disdain for the traitorous, unprincipled Republican establishment by voting third-party in 2012. We must not vote for a RINO like Romney or Huckabee or the like.

At least, that's what my persona on Free Republic will be saying in the fall of 2012.