I can't think of anything the republicans could do this time to get
elected and their strongest people would not even step up and try.
This is a repeat of 1976 except I think Bush may have a lower
popularity rating than Nixon had when he resigned and that was
reflected on the GOP and Ford.
The flip side of that is Obama is coming in with a lot on his plate
right away. If he doesn't turn things around by the mid term he will
lose the senate and maybe a big chunk of the house. Congress under
Ried and Pelosi have a lower popularity rating than Bush.
I find it hard to believe that anyone still believes Palin "has what it
takes" to hold high elective office in this country. She is an absolute
dunce. While no one expects a president or vice president or U.S.
senator to be expert in everything or even most things, it is reasonable
to expect that those who hold such offices be smart enough to understand
their briefings, be intellectually curious, and have judgment enough to
make the "right" decision most of the time.
We've just been through nearly eight years of a presidency led by an
intellectual dunce, by a man who could be led by the nose by advisers
with neocon global and overly harsh domestic agendae. Palin would have
been the same sort of vice president/president, but worse, because she's
even more of a cipher than Bush.
The picture the media has painted of Palin shows her exactly as she
is...a fool wearing the clothes of the empress. That interview by Katie
Courie will live in the annals of political journalism forever, a
reporter asking perfectly reasonable questions of a candidate who was
and is absolutely clueless.