McCain– Palin can beat Obama
Someone, somewhere has to understand that whatever John McCain says, one should bet their house on the opposite:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has said he thinks Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in next year’s presidential election, but he’s far from certain that she will actually jump into the race.
The GOP’s standard-bearer in 2008 also shrugged off his former running mate’s poor standing in many polls, saying she would have the opportunity to turn that around if she did make a bid for the White House.
If Newt Gingrich has more baggage than Delta Airlines, Sarah Palin isn’t far behind. Not necessarily because she earned all the baggage, although she’d done her fair share of contributing to the pile, but right or wrong, she’s loaded with it. While she is and can remain a force in GOP politics, the presidency isn’t in her future. And that’s especially so if John McCain, whose campaign was instrumental in helping the woman begin her baggage collection with the inept way she was handled, says so.
Frankly I’d love to see someone on the Republican side drive McCain to an early retirement (ok, not so early, certainly not early enough, how about just retirement). He’s had his day and needs to be out of the scene. A man more concerned with “campaign finance laws” than free speech has no business in government in a free country.
As for Sarah Palin – rabble-rouse lady, make the left squirm, do all the things you do so well right now. You do that well and I love to see them prove almost daily that they embody what they claim is endemic to the right. The irony is sweet. But run for President? That type of movie is still running in Washington DC as we speak and I don’t care to see a sequel.
Somewhere out there in this great land there has to be someone better than the present GOP field, with or without Sarah Palin. Adding her to it doesn’t improve it one bit. John McCain saying she could beat Obama is as ignorant as many of the other things he’s said in the past, to include saying he prefers clean government over free speech.
Why anyone would give it credence at all is beyond me. All I can figure is Palin must have some pictures she’s holding that has McCain by the short and curlies.
I don’t know of a single well constructed poll anywhere which gives Palin even a ghost of a chance against Obama. So all one can figure is McCain pulled this out of the place his head usually occupies.
~McQ
Twitter: @McQandO