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Right-Wingers Only: Would you vote for Sarah Palin in the primary?

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JC Callender said:
Other than being uncomfortably hot, no:)

It is supposed to go back down into the high 60's, low 70's later this week though. I prefer the 50's and 60's for working.
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I had a guy doing some work outside today, repairing a fence, and he only worked three hours before he called it quits! Too humid, he said! He was red-faced and perspiring! That's why I asked how it affects your work. :shock:
 
I'm in good enough shape that I can go all day in the heat, I just have to stay hydrated. Once it gets over the low 90's, I start soaking my t-shirt with cold water, which works really well to stay cool.

polgara said:
I had a guy doing some work outside today, repairing a fence, and he only worked three hours before he called it quits! Too humid, he said! He was red-faced and perspiring! That's why I asked how it affects your work. :shock:
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JC Callender said:
Yes, I have a little landscape business. Everything but cutting lawns. We did a lot of mulching in the full sun today, then trimmed a couple of small trees.
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There's nothing wrong with a man who works outside with his hands! ;)
 
JC Callender said:
Yeah, Huntsman has a chance against Hillary:roll:
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A better chance than Palin I'd think, but I don't think Huntsman would do much worse than any other Republican and I agree with him more.
 
upsideguy said:
Take that up with Todd.

Glad to see that, as of this writing, nearly 65% of Cons say "no way" as I was beginning to wonder if the Cons had lost all sense. This, at least, suggests that intelligent life remains on the other side of the aisle.
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Same, same. Was actually afraid to click "view poll results." :lol:
 
No, you're pretty much a right-winger.
 
Sarah Palin for Commander-in-chief? How could you even consider that Palin has a clue what to do? I bet she would be impeached within 6 months after she got a bunch of troops killed from being the moron that she is.
 
Josie said:
Fast forward to 2015/2016 and imagine Sarah Palin runs for President. Would you vote for her in the primary?
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I'm not a right-winger, not even an American, but I'd vote for her if I could. I'd vote for Dubya for another term if I could.
But not McCain. He was scary. Push-the-red-button, apocalyptic-end-days and all-holding-hands kind of scary.
 
Grand Mal said:
I'm not a right-winger, not even an American, but I'd vote for her if I could. I'd vote for Dubya for another term if I could.
But not McCain. He was scary. Push-the-red-button, apocalyptic-end-days and all-holding-hands kind of scary.
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Sorry, but I'm glad you aren't American, and even more glad that you can't vote.
 
Superfly said:
Sorry, but I'm glad you aren't American, and even more glad that you can't vote.
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Me too. About the can't vote thing, I mean. I have enough problem with Canadian politics, trying to find a reason to participate, but US politics is 'way more polarized and strident and over-important. Hell, a guy could get caught up in it all and start thinking it mattered.
About the being American thing, I think I could work around that. I wouldn't have to learn to yodel when I was singing, would I?
 
JC Callender said:
Actually, I can't think of a better person for the Tea Party movement, I mean, how many did she help get elected? Don't you like Ted Cruz.....well then, thank Sarah Palin. Maybe you just don't have the stomach to stick with an influential candidate.
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Well, I am not a conservative, I am a libertarian. Ted Cruz is a strong ally on some issues, but no more than that. The tea parties had started off as a populist-libertarian movement, and then - after showing their potential as a political vehicle -had been hijacked (on the level of national coverage) by Republican pols who have no libertarian bone in their bodies. I call it "bachmannization".

Now, Palin is not the worst of these opportunists, by far. But objectively speaking, she had helped both to caricature tea parties as a horde of dimwitted reactionaries and to attract people who don't give a hoot about the initial Number One Rule: Tea parties are about fiscal responsibility and limited government; take social conservatism, anti-immigration rants, etc elsewhere.
 
Grand Mal said:
Me too. About the can't vote thing, I mean. I have enough problem with Canadian politics, trying to find a reason to participate, but US politics is 'way more polarized and strident and over-important. Hell, a guy could get caught up in it all and start thinking it mattered.
About the being American thing, I think I could work around that. I wouldn't have to learn to yodel when I was singing, would I?
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You're right about that. Nothing we do matters. Nothing. We kid ourselves by thinking that our votes count, and what we do matters, but honestly, it just doesn't. Our votes don't matter. Our voices aren't heard. I've become very cynical about the entire notion of democracy.
 
Superfly said:
You're right about that. Nothing we do matters. Nothing. We kid ourselves by thinking that our votes count, and what we do matters, but honestly, it just doesn't. Our votes don't matter. Our voices aren't heard. I've become very cynical about the entire notion of democracy.
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Democracy might work on a municipal level but it can't survive party politics. If you vote, you're not voting for someone to represent your constituency, you're voting for someone who represents their party. If their party line disagrees with what's good for your town/county/state, too bad. You have no representation.
Aah, geez, don't get me started...
 
Grand Mal said:
Democracy might work on a municipal level but it can't survive party politics. If you vote, you're not voting for someone to represent your constituency, you're voting for someone who represents their party. If their party line disagrees with what's good for your town/county/state, too bad. You have no representation.
Aah, geez, don't get me started...
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True. By the time the politicians get to the national level, they are way too far gone.
 
Who is going to get away with running for office on two simple issues?

It's simple standing by candidates who've never been tested because they never came close to having a shot at the presidency.

Cyrylek said:
Well, I am not a conservative, I am a libertarian. Ted Cruz is a strong ally on some issues, but no more than that. The tea parties had started off as a populist-libertarian movement, and then - after showing their potential as a political vehicle -had been hijacked (on the level of national coverage) by Republican pols who have no libertarian bone in their bodies. I call it "bachmannization".

Now, Palin is not the worst of these opportunists, by far. But objectively speaking, she had helped both to caricature tea parties as a horde of dimwitted reactionaries and to attract people who don't give a hoot about the initial Number One Rule: Tea parties are about fiscal responsibility and limited government; take social conservatism, anti-immigration rants, etc elsewhere.
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Josie said:
Fast forward to 2015/2016 and imagine Sarah Palin runs for President. Would you vote for her in the primary?
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Yes, unless there was a "tea party" type that I like better.

Oh wait...

I can't vote in the primary.

All my voting life, I have been a registered as "not affiliated."
 
JC Callender said:
So you don't believe her reason for leaving her job in Alaska?
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I do, actually. I think it was a good decision all the way around for her, and for the state. That she was unable to handle things isn't a personal failing in my view - just a bland fact.
 
No way. No how. There is no circumstance under which I could ever vote for Palin for any office.
 
So, just let her family and the state get steamrolled by lawsuits? I liked her idea, she took away their target while leaving her state in the hands of someone who would run it pretty much like she did anyway. Then she led the charge in getting people elected in the 2010 midterm blowout. I don't think Obama, Rahm, and co. were hoping for those results, do you?

humbolt said:
I do, actually. I think it was a good decision all the way around for her, and for the state. That she was unable to handle things isn't a personal failing in my view - just a bland fact.
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