DISQUS

The Colorado Independent: Conservative columnist urges Palin to drop out

  • Jake1964 · 1 year ago
    My goodness, she doesn't even make sense. She just seems "loopy." Why would McCain not have done a better job of checking out Palin before he chose her? or if he did, how could he have decided she was the best choice? it really reflects poorly on him. I haven't thought being 72 years old was really that big a deal, but maybe I am wrong. His decisions remind me of my grandfather's forgetful stubborness.
  • Major Tom · 1 year ago
    Palin pushed me into Obama's camp, after always voting Republican. If she is out of the picture, I would consider voting for McCain.
  • Nancyf · 1 year ago
    Hmmm.....thinking, thinking....well; I like her accent!
  • JerryC · 1 year ago
    Palin has a good understanding of conservative principles, and a good head on her shoulders. If she were in a difficult situation I am confidant that she could come up with good solutions.
    Sitting in an interview and coming up with an answer off the top of your head for a very difficult problem is basically impossible. After all, 535 members of congress have debated it all week and still have no solution. Palin may be brilliant but even she cannot solve a problem this big at the drop of a hat.
  • cornagainst sorcery · 1 year ago
    Sorry folks, but that's what happens when you ego-trip. Believing you have Jesus inside you does not automatically qualify you for the tough tasks of VP. That's not a knock against faith, faith in our savior the Lord Jesus Christ is sublime thing and leads us to wise decisions and good judgment. But I think this, to say it another way, is precisely what happens when you confuse faith for hubris. Let me put it this way. According to scripture Jesus blinked before the crucifixion. He went out to the garden and meditated and asked the Lord, "Why must I do this?" There was a temptation to say no. But if he said "no" he would not have been Jesus. But, if he had not blinked, there never would have been a true choice on his part to become the Savior. Jesus blinks, then commits to the mission.

    maverick? I think gambler is more like it
  • DickG · 1 year ago
    Ms. Couric should have asked her for moose recipes.
  • cornagainst sorcery · 1 year ago
    One more thing. Nobody has asked her to solve the problem. Only to answer a question coherently and evidencing some inkling of knowledge. Yeah, congress takes time to deliberate and discuss complex law negotiations, but at least when they come out to talk about it I understand what in the frack it is they're saying.
  • JerryC · 1 year ago
    Did you criticize Obama when he said "kids with asthma need a breathalizer, no I mean inhalizer," but what he meant to say is inhalor . Obama is the presidential candidate, Palin is the VP candidate. Its about time they crack down on Obama and not always Palin.

    What about Biden asking a senator in a wheel chair to stand up. Or when he said during the market crash in '29 Roosevelt got on TV to address Americans. Hoover was president in '29 and there was no TV. So Palin isn't the only one. If you want to look at imperfections look at the Democrat candidates.
  • YB · 1 year ago
    Apples and Oranges there.....give it up. She is clueless!
  • Eric Dondero · 1 year ago
    The elitist wing of the conservative movement has always been wary of us libertarians coming into the GOP. Sarah Palin is one of the top elected libertarian Republicans in the country, (along with Idaho's Gov. Butch Otter, and Cong. Jeff Flake of AZ).

    Of course, she's going to make some conservatives nervous.

    They are wary of her libertarian cultural views. This is the woman, after all, who famously fought back against social conservatives in Wasilla who wanted to run all of the bars and taverns out of town.

    They even started a whisper campaign in Alaska during the 2006 primaries that Sarah wasn't really a Republican, but rather a "closet libertarian." She had attended a couple local Libertarian Party meetings seeking their support.

    But what she loses from the social conservatives, she gains 10 times over in libertarian votes.

    Figure, Libertarian Bob Barr was polling 6% nationwide in mid-summer. As high as 10% in New Hampshire. And post-Palin he's now down to 1%.

    Ever since Goldwater the eastern establishment Republicans have distrusted Western cowboy individualists in the GOP.

    With Sarah Palin, the libertarian wing of the GOP has finally arrived. Of course, that's going to make some other Republicans nervous.

    Get over it Conservatives, THE LIBERTARIANS HAVE ARRIVED!!