Here they come again! Racist on the horizen

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Originally Posted by Anya/Georgia

I wish I was a sure as you that Palin would not be elected. George W. Bush got elected & I spent 8-years after that, marking off each day on my "Bush Count-Down Calendar". That calendar was filled with the most unbelievable, idiotic comments Bush ever made. Someone, somewhere, is probably making a calendar for Palin, as we speak (or write, as the case may be).

Quite honestly, I don't think Palin *wants* to be President. It doesn't pay very well, she would have to bone up on subjects like geopolitics, economics, etc. and she would have to behave like a responsible adult. I think Sarah Palin has found her calling as a conservative celebrity. She can play the aggrieved victim day and night and pretend to being just your average, ordinary hockey mom with her own airplane and her own TV show. You know, just like all those folks you see at the little league or soccer game who fly to and from in their airplanes before rushing off to film another episode.

What's more, being President isn't fun. I'm sure that the first week or two is a blast as you get to ride on Air Force One etc. After that, though, I suspect that it stops being fun real quick. Look at how that job ages people.

I may be wrong, but I just don't see it. Palin seems to have realized that after Bush we Americans may have decided that perhaps we *don't* want our head of state to be the guy we throw back endless beers and tequila with and would prefer someone with gravitas. Palin has not been trying to develop her gravitas and without that, I just don't see her making it through the GOP primary (which she hasn't gotten in). Lastly, traditional conservatives would crucify her. She is *not* a conservative, she's a radical--a right-wing radical but a radical nevertheless.

There are, perhaps, two conservatives in the entire Republican field--Romney is one and Huntsman is the other. The rest of them are all some form of right-leaning radical.


Cheers
Aj