Sarah Palin's First Hundred Days*

And considering Palin’s well documented ability to turn on a dime and adopt any talking point that seems to ‘work’ at the moment what makes you think she would push through such tough reforms?

Yeah, I’ll have some of whatever got slipped into your water bottle.

Hey, I get to agree with Boonton! My impression of Sarah Palin is she’s about as power hungry and status obsessed as they come. If she manages to ride the wave all the way to Washington, she’ll fit right in by the time she gets there. I admit I’ve not followed her closely, maybe I’m being unfair.

Is it just a ridiculous idea that all banks should be entirely privately held? I remember reading about J.P. Morgan putting down his own cold cash to quell a market panic. Sounds good to me.

Palin would rage quit in the first hundred days.

Can we just say ‘Unnamed Republican President’, so we can still have hope.

Too bad there aren’t more people with principled ideas like that, only with loads of personality too! At least in the present. Hey you could always run for president…

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Let me see. The ‘nationalized’ auto companies have repaid the loans that kept them out of bankruptcy, with interest.Same with the banks. People in this country deserve health care, and were we not paying for Bush’s unfunded tragedies abroad, there would have been no problem obtaining the health care bill Obama and progressives wanted, and this country needs. It is stunning that the right is SO very concerned about keeping troops everywhere at a million dollars a year per soldier, caring for them forever when they come back mentally and physically wounded for life, and continuing to produce outdated planes and ships for inflated contracts that even the military doesn’t want, but just suggest helping one of their fellow citizens, and oh, my, we can’t afford that! So, good Christians that you claim to be, why haven’t you read the New Testament recently? You know the parts about not hoarding your God-given riches, and loving your neighbor? And Palin, the part about not lying would be good for you to recall. Daily.

As far as Palin taking the oath of office, it won’t happen.
#1 She’ll never take the pay cut.
#2 She’d have to work for a living, all day every day for 4 years or until she became the first President to quit (and that could be soon when she realizes you didn’t make her Queen Sarah.)
#3 She can’t operate without Todd, and there’s no way he’d be allowed in Cabinet meetings or to be copied on official emails.
#4She’d have to hold real live press conferences with real live journalists who don’t take their marching orders from Murdoch.
#5Name one Republican man who would run as her second? Anyone?
#6Republicans are nowhere near ready to have a woman at the top of the ticket, and if she announces, watch the fur fly. It isn’t only the left who has questions for Ms. Ethically Challenged.
#7She might have to sit down with a journalist and be interviewed without having the questions a week in advance. Horrors! Call Meg Stapleton quick…where did Reagan go to college again?

You’re assuming she spends an entire hundred days in office.

It would seem to me that the Democrats are the ones who aren’t ready for a woman to be President. Didn’t they choose the man over the woman in that last election?

I guess if Hillary had won, that would have made Democrats the anti-black party.

The fact that a female and a black candidate both ran so well is evidence that the Democrats are willing to nominate them. The Republicans have not seen any serious female or black Presidential candidates defeated because they have never had a serious female or black Presidential candidate. (To be fair, neither did the Democrats before 2008). The Republican sample size of 0 may be partially because potential female/black candidates didn’t think the Republican electorate would be willing to nominate someone of their sex/race. (Indeed, this was a major reason that Colin Powell chose not to run in 1996).

Sarah Palin seems to draw either strong support or vicious criticism. She probably deserves neither.

What does stand out is how superior her abilities and achievements are, compared to an Obama, a Biden, a Pelosi, or a Harry Reid. So while Palin is not particularly outstanding as far as competence is concerned, she still towers over contemporary political leaders.

The obvious conclusion is how feeble our current political leaders are. While our challenges are enormous, our political leaders are extremely unimpressive.

You sound just like my most progressive friends did when they projected all their hopes and dreams onto Obama before the 2008 election. They are rather disappointed these days.

Hard to imagine a more complete repudiation of the values of the American elite electing her president.

The vast majority of Americans view her negatively, view her as an empty suit devoid of intelligence or original ideas. Who is it that keeps presenting her as a leader despite the fact that she was only able to win one relatively obscure major electorial office and wasn’t even able to handle the job for the full term?

Why its the ‘American elite’ my friend. It is their idea of what the typical ‘regular American’ will go for. Young, good looking, given to vapid remarks devoid of substance but sound good in 15 second increments (but not optimalized for anyone willing to spend 60 seconds examining them in more detail on Google)…. To boot she comes packaged as some type of rebellion against the ‘elite’! It’s like kids who go to a US shopping mall and lay out $20 for t-shirts with Che or ‘Fight the Power’ on them!

Don’t believe me? Who was the key force in choosing her to be the GOP VP candidate? McCain? No he wanted his friend Lieberman, who whatever you think of him has a long history of being in the same mindset as McCain and has worked with him closely. It was the GOP ‘elite’ that said no way. In fact, it was a New York Times Columnist, Bill Kristol!

Yea, a big snubbing of the ‘American elite’ indeed. If you send me $50 I’ll get you one of those Che t-shirts too!

If Palin gets anywhere near the White House I will shoot myself.

I think that Palin’s big focus in the first 100 days would be on energy. She says it’s the key issue and I agree with her. She would be increasing investment in ‘all of the above’ with domestic production and jobs being the center.

I personally think we spend too much time talking about spending and taxing as the only tools. Actually encouraging business and industry, yes actually building things, can generate revenue. If some of the burdens on industry as well as the overt hostility toward manufacturing by the environmental movement could be modified we would see jobs, growth, and lowering of deficits. It’s not enough to just lower taxes, you have to let people actually build facilities and hire people.

Two words, ‘Paul Ryan’.

Exactly,Palin has the Backbone to do it.If there’s one thing I know about Sarah Palin,she likes a good fight and the Democrats are going to try to block everything she tries to do to no avail.
I would vote for her,she walks the walk and talks the talk.

I like your article. I think it is interesting how the Palin haters repeat their classic anti-Sarah lines. Few of them will admit that the Democrats in Alaska loved Sarah until she was picked by McCain. It’s funny how that selection suddenly made her “stupid.” I think perhaps the reverse is true–her selection made many liberal incapable of intellectual thought.

Excellant insight.

I’ve been a contributor to Sarahpac since day one. I’m voting for her. Some of my friends and family have already made plans to work for her in Iowa. That is where the revolution will begin to become an unstoppable force. Make it down. You’ll see the heads of the fat cat wing of the GOP explode. Party’s over boys.

There are millions more like me who are tired of the ruling class inhabiting the Boston-NY-DC corridor.

Hahahaha, I’m picturing the look on the democrats’ faces if the republicans put a Palin/Rice ticket on the ballot. Or it could be Rice/Palin since Condoleezza Rice has the “intellectual requirements” that so many speak of.