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Hank| 11.16.09 @ 5:52PM

Ideally, she would be running the RNC.

MOswingvoter| 11.16.09 @ 6:43PM

Yes. That would be perfect. A Republican Howard Dean.

kerry| 11.16.09 @ 10:13PM

you read my mind. When I heard steele was given the job, I thought "here we go". Because he is a nice guy, but doesn't have any charisma and certainly is not a true conservative. Sarah would really bring in the dollars, and "sense" too!

Leslie| 11.17.09 @ 10:35AM

That's what I think. Can you see her on Sunday morning shows stating the conservative position? And what a fundraiser!

Stephanie| 11.16.09 @ 6:19PM

I'm not sure how I feel about Palin running for Pres. in 2012. I certainly think she'd make a terrific President (certainly can't get any worse than what we have now). But on the other hand, I think that being President would constrain her from being able to get out and fight for conservative candidates and ideals. This is what the country needs right now, true conservatism. If she decides to run in 2012, she'll have my full support. But I still think she'd be better off campaigning for conservative candidates and speaking about the need for conservatism to be in Washington.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.16.09 @ 6:38PM

Mr. Klein
You write brilliantly day after day. Here though, you have been as stupid as a dog looking for a fireplug.
Please sir, don't write when you need to go relieve yourself!
Then I won't laugh at your words.

On the other hand, thank you for your "before bathroom" blog. It gives me the opportunity to give my take.
I just watched the Oprah interview with Sarah. Darn it, I like the lady. You policy wonks don't quite get it...yet...but policy wonking won't get our country bck.
LEADERSHIP is needed to get our country back!
C'mon dummy, get smart enough to understand the audience Sarah was addressing.....moms...and me. (I sneaked in, heh).
...first time I ever watched Oprah on purpose in my life.
Before you start wonking...listen to/watch Sarah on Rush tomorrow, and learn a thing or two.

Jim Cox| 11.17.09 @ 9:34AM

Sarah believes in National Security, protection of the unborn, the Constitution, including the Second Amendment, and the greatness of America. She's over 35, intelligent, and a proven leader. She more than meets the qualifications to get my vote should she choose to run in 2012.

Yesterday was the first and only time I've watched Oprah, and although I'd have preferred more political and policy questions, the interview showed Palin to be extraordinarily likable. Let the libs rant as they wish; the more the public sees of Mrs. Palin, the more popular she will become.

Thanks you Nelson Rockefeller| 11.16.09 @ 6:46PM

yeah, people used to say the same things about Reagan

weak post

unseen| 11.16.09 @ 6:53PM

Very weak post. sarah Palin connected on many levels with this interview. I don't think many politicans could or would come across this refreshing in this type of setting. She handled a lot of tough personal questions. this was not and never menant to be a "policy" interview. Oprah would never allow her show to be a platform for policy against BHO. Oprah concentrated on the personal side because that was the safe play that was what her audience tunes in to see. They do not tune in to see Palin's policy on offshore drilling.

Dennis D| 11.16.09 @ 7:02PM

I love Sarah Palin and think she certainly can help our nation in some capacity. But Presidential material she is not. At least not yet. I would like to see her run for Senate and spend at least 6 yrs in Senate first.

Lew| 11.16.09 @ 7:53PM

Oh, I hope she doesn't become a member of Congress. I think I can still trust her. I've given up on my Congress members.

Sam| 11.16.09 @ 7:57PM

All of you conservatives are so good at pointing out the liberal bias of the media and some of the ridiculous stuff the left keeps doing. That's why I go to this website.

But why do you continue to back Palin? She has conservative credentials, but so do many others. She isn't terribly intelligent though, as we discovered during the campaign trail. (failure to name a single supreme court decision apart from Roe v. Wade).

Cmon people let's get with the program. There are other conservative candidates with similar styles who are far more intelligent and honorable than she is.

Someone please defend her lack of intelligence.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.17.09 @ 10:17AM

Sam
I will take you on smarty pants "Mr. intelligent".
Sarah does not need defending. Certainly her native intelligence does not need defending.
My college Latin fails me, but something to the effect: "Qum demonstratum est" which translated (sorta) means QED "the reality is self demonstrating"....dummy.
The entire media mafia has attacked her to such a degree that even some TEAM AMERICA members have grumbled about this lovely young mother.

I think, she has demonstrated a splendid honor, and in fact, remarkable raw intelligence that still drives youall crazy.
My final proof is immediately below, from the brilliant pissant WESLEY MOUCH.
What truly angers me though is little pissant you challenging her honor. Your honor, cowardly, sniping sir, is not a wart on her butt.
You hide behind a computer. She puts her life on the line in public, beginning again this week.

Sam| 11.17.09 @ 1:19PM

Ken,
The only thing she's actually done is voice the gripes and concerns of conservative America. And don't describe her as a 'lovely young mother'. For one thing, she has chosen, as a politician and author, to put herself in the public light. There are benefits, but also costs to this so don't act as though she is a victim any more than other public figures. Second, she's 40 years old! That's not a young mother at all! Perhaps you mean Bristol, her daughter, is a young mother!

And I am perfectly free to question her honor. She is no better than the typical politician so don't act as though she is some kind of a saint.

And stop using sayings like 'wart on her butt.' Newsflash Ken- we're in the 21st century. No one says that anymore. But I guess you expect some backwardness in Texas...

Wesley Mouch| 11.16.09 @ 9:01PM

They did this last week, you can find it through the search function real easy. They love that lady here man. I am totally with you on finding someone else.

J.C.Eaton| 11.16.09 @ 9:06PM

Sam, you are playing a silly game. You aren't interested even slightly about Palin's intelligence or even your belief of her lack of it. You're a Lib with time on his hands and not much useful to do. Actually, if not knowing Supreme Court precedents is the sine qua non 0f intelligent candidates, your congressional majority is out of your league. Why, I'd bet you can't even name two Supreme Court cases analyzing the Third Amendment. Best

Pete2| 11.16.09 @ 9:07PM

Considering we had G.W. Bush as president, McCain as a candidate, and a few other losers on the tickets, how in the hell can you come up with this garbage, Klein? As for the other Palin bashers on here, she has more experience running Alaska than this current "president" has running period. Don't you people get it? We, The People, are fed up with the likes of you "experts". We rather have the likes of Sarah Palin running things...she sure can't screw it any worse than you wonks have. You still backing Newt?

bill| 11.16.09 @ 9:10PM

I love the way liberals keep mocking Sarah's intelligence. I don't know any supreme court decisions either, but really is it intelligent to be a liberal.

Jim Hlavac| 11.16.09 @ 9:34PM

If Palin is good enough to get support from a bunch of gay Hillary supporters in Chicago, who apologized to Bush for having said bad things about him, who trash Obama and are just fed up with the Democrats -- and urging every gay man in Chicago to get their brains back in gear and out of the president's rear, then Palin has a lot more going for her than anyone thinks. See hillbuzz -- a feisty little blog.

Northern VA Patriot| 11.16.09 @ 9:58PM

She's running for President - 2012.

Using Oprah first does a bunch of things. First it pokes at Obama & his team. The Morining-O needed the ratings so she thru Pres-O support under the O-bus for ratings. Sarah's back inside the heads of Team Obama from Morning-O's chair. She beat Pres-O's team in her run for Governor - check the record - Anita Dunn was the Dem comm stategist or something in Alaska. Using O, she reaches an audience of mothers as a mother. The first rule of politics, be liked. Be liked by lots of people. She's working that. By morning-O she softens her image and can set the media trap - you can't attack a good mother. With 5 kids, one of whom is special needs, she's a good mother. Watch how unfair media attacks on her post Morning-O will backfire as mothers reject and hammer those 'men-in-media' who attack a fellow mother. Why do you think Glenn Beck kicked off the 9/12 mother's group?

For all who think she's not bright, I would only note that from a handful of facebook posts she: re-steered the debate on health care, was elevated to presidential level by the President in a Joint session of congress, and she has out fought the media over the last few win her meassage war.

While governor, she defeated the Alsakan, old-boy republican network and the oil companies.
So maybe I'll conceed she's not bright, but for someone who is not bright she sure seems to win a lot. He ronly loss is when she was tied to that brilliant\sarc moderate John McCain.

So...keep looking for the folks using the term common sense - I suspect you'll be surprised in Nov 2012 - SP will be President.

les grossman| 11.16.09 @ 10:03PM

And you forgot to mention, Mr. Klein, that Palin the candidate will make things so much harder for Mitt Romneycare, T-Paw the Wonderboy or some other hopeless RINO to win the nomination.

Nick| 11.16.09 @ 11:06PM

The last senator to be elected President was John Kennedy. He spent 14 years in Congress.

President Dither spent 14 months in the senate before he started running for president.

Sarah Palin took out the sitting governor Frank Murkowski, who was senator for 20 years. She was a very successful governor for over 2 years, until slimy liberal democrats did everything they could to impede her progress.

For those who put so much emphasis on "intelligence", remember that Peanut-brain Carter was a nuclear engineer. He was considered the smartest president of the 20th century, and turned out to be one of the worst.

The people with PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) hate her mostly because she didn't kill Trig when she found out he had Down's. They either have done it themselves or know someone who did. So, every time they see Trig, they get a gut-wrenching reminder of what they did.

When I saw bobo Brooks yesterday ooze his contempt of Mrs. Palin on Stephi's show, I wondered if he made his wife abort a "less than perfect" child or was it someone he knows?

Roland| 11.17.09 @ 4:19AM

Not at all surprised to see the usual suspects are out bad mouthing Governor Palin, not to worry though, they ain't seen nothing yet. Palin the williwaw is about to be unleashed out of the northland like a force of nature upon the political world and, few in the lower 48 know anything about the overwhelming power of a williwaw. On a calm sunny day, out of nowhere, it can wreak havoc and destruction upon the unwary, demasting their ships in thought to be safe harbors and heeling them over, to sink into a watery grave.

Bielie| 11.17.09 @ 6:41AM

Mr Klein

Repeat after me: "President Palin"

Practice that twenty times a day. You'll need it.

Warren Piece| 11.17.09 @ 7:34AM

Once again, the usual suspects are arguing and bitchin' over who isn't the dream candidate. Geez. Give it a rest.

It is a long time before the first primary vote is cast and by then the political landscape will have changed. Who? Who predicted we were going to get a President Obama three years before the election? Who? Who predicted that Rudy G. was going to flame out so quickly on the campaign trail?

So stop trying to be the smartest guy/gal in the room.

Besides, Mitch Daniels will be our next President; so stop wasting your breath.

MKS| 11.17.09 @ 8:35AM

To pray for our current President is the right thing to do.

But I would much rather have a beauty queen as President than a community organizer.

DrTomVoter| 11.17.09 @ 9:35AM

Her critics have her exactly where she wants them.

Stormin| 11.17.09 @ 10:02AM

I'm sure BHO can name a lot more supreme court
decisions but I would not expect Palin to nominate someone who will get it wrong just about every damn time like he did.

Stephen Zierak| 11.17.09 @ 10:53AM

Yeah, all you conservative pseudo-intellectuals, just keep piling on with the MSM. I recall another Republican who was too dumb to be President. I believe his name was Reagan. Sarah Palin is the first natural politician we have had since Reagan, so of course we should participate in her destruction as we back such world beaters as the flipflopper from MA, the phony conservative from Hope, Mr. Boring from MN, the baby killer apologist from NYC, and other assorted riffraff. Wake up, conservatives and libertarians. Sarah Palin is special and she is real. She understands American values, and the need for limited government, a strong defense in a dangerous world, and respect for traditional Americanism. Of course she may not be as bright as Bushes 1 and 2, or the fabulously intelligent Dole McJerk losers we insist on presenting to the public. Sarah knows more about what makes this country great than any of those political hacks. And, when unfiltered, speaks to the yearnings of real Americans.

Tim| 11.17.09 @ 11:36AM

I too have mixed feelings about Palin as Executive. However, I revel in the anxiety and outrage she instills on the Left.
They fear her. They believe that as unlikely a candidate as perhaps she is, Palin could still fly in under their guns and blow up their Democratic Deathstar.

Oldefarte| 11.17.09 @ 1:26PM

Philip, Palin is just getting started, and her book is just a warmup [and a reflection of her personal life]. When she eventually becomes unhinged from the chains of a McCain type campaign, she rip liberal politicains to shreads and leave them bleeding their liberalistic bile in the political streets [which is WHY she is so feared by them]. The contest has just begun, and the best is yet to come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Margie| 11.17.09 @ 3:34PM

Audio transcript of Sarah on today's El Rushbo's show:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ho.....guest.html

Daisy| 11.17.09 @ 4:01PM

Klein, I'm absolutely sure Sarah has been waiting with bated breath for your advice. You're just another RINO; thanks, but no thanks, for your stupid sentiments.

Bob Belvedere| 11.17.09 @ 8:04PM

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