After months of political strip tease, Sarah Palin finally decided. She won’t run for president after all. Her explanation is that she puts her family, God and the country in that order. Far more likely she looked at the data and threw up her hands. She has the highest unfavourable ratings of any politician in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Palin’
WHY DID PALIN CHICKEN OUT?
October 6, 2011WILL PALIN RUN?
May 31, 2011Sarah Palin is back in the news with her One Nation tour to historic monuments. Aptly named Rolling Thunder. Now all the questions are back too. Will she or won’t she? On the negative side, she has little or no political infrastructure, not even a formal committee to raise money. Nor has she campaigned in [...]
SHOULD McCAIN REPLACE PALIN?
October 1, 2008A growing number of columnists are raising the question of whether Sarah Palin could be president if anything happens to John McCain. Given her disastrous series of interviews that is not surprising. What is surprising is how many of the columnists are true-blue conservatives. The distinguished conservative columnist for the New York Times, David Brooks, [...]
IS SARAH PALIN GEORGE BUSH IN A SKIRT?
September 16, 2008What politician believes that God guided the war in Iraq; that tax cuts for the rich will trickle down to the poor; that climate change is not man-made; and that it is better to be obstinate than candid? George Bush, you say. What about Sarah Palin? Or to put it succinctly. Isn’t Sarah Palin just [...]
SHOULD PALIN HAVE ACCEPTED?
September 2, 2008A debate is now raging — among women more than men – about whether Sarah Palin should have accepted John McCain’s invitation to become his vp. Interestingly, it is conservative evangelical women who are circling the wagons to defend her and professional and working class women who are questioning her appointment. (For more on this [...]
CAN PALIN HELP McCAIN?
August 29, 2008Palin? Who he? Duh. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice to be vice-president, has served on a town council, as mayor of a city of 9,000 and has been serving as governor of Alaska for less than two years. Today, on his 72nd birthday, John McCain put Sarah Palin, 44, a heart beat from the presidency. [...]
