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not contradict mccain s and as much as possible needed to reinforce mccain s if she had been in her normal lead role i have a feeling yes an unsupported feeling that she would have done much better you are entitled to whatever feeling or guess you would like and i say that with no snark or sarcasm however you have to admit that that is thin gruel upon which to base let alone win an argument beyond that i have as i am sure you have been watching politics for some time i have never seen a vp candidate so unprepared for the press yes vp candidates are constrained by their supporting role but that does not explain palin s lack of ability to speak cogently about basic issues reply to dr steven taylor comment by dr steven taylor friday november 7 2026 5 26 pm i m with dr taylor in that i think it s pretty silly to say that obama hasn t given serious thought to the issues the problem for me is that his thought has taken him to places that i am sure i disagree with at least with palin i don t know what i m getting that is preferable to me than what i know i m going to get from obama still i had hoped that with the election settled we could rid ourselves of these comparisons as they are no longer relevant to anything palin vs biden vs mccain vs obama no longer has any use for good or ill we elected obama biden and so mccain palin are really only relevant in that for now mccain is still a senator and palin is still a governor so if we re talking about the senate or the alaskan goverment well and good but beyond that what s the point really i think it s a sad state that all we have are two choices for 4 people the process should be more accepting of alternatives to the gop and the dem parties reply to captain d comment by captain d friday november 7 2026 6 09 pm i can wholly understand someone voting for mccain palin i can wholly understand preferring mccain to obama i can understand discounting if not ignoring palin s shortcomings since she was the 2 on the ticket what i honestly have a hard time with is any defense of her as actually ready to be president of the united states i just don t see any actual evidence to support that position reply to dr steven taylor comment by dr steven taylor friday november 7 2026 6 43 pm i can agree with that statement that there is no evidence that she is ready to be president if we re looking only at the empirical i can accept that position as not only valid but a very strong position maybe an unassailable position her popularity i think shows that the empirical is not always the first thing on the electorate s mind charisma goes a long way in our politics not long enough when your opponent is a bit more qualified in ways that are empirically measurable but it goes a long way i still think that were it not for the palin pick if mccain had gone with romney or pawlenty that the election would have gone even worse for him and he might not have ever pulled ahead in the polls at all i do think that the gop needs to figure out a way to legitimize sarah palin with the public and by legitimize i mean that i was wrong about a lot of things about sarah palin she needs to be exposed to national politics she needs to expand her sphere of knowledge and concern beyond energy policy which is about the only area she has any real credibility that matters to the centrists and swing voters who decide elections it s already established that she s a pro life social conservative what the she needs is some federal political experience that will expand her knowledge of federal issues and also perhaps tone her social conservative ness down a little bit she has the charisma and the tv presence to be a truly formidable figure in politics perhaps even a defining figure the problems with her as she is right now are twofold she lacks experience with federal concerns and she is a highly polarizing figure the latter can be overcome barack obama proved that i would argue that he is a polarizing figure as well or that he was before the election started a very successful campaign was able to re define him as a very generic agent of change and by generic i mean that his campaign was able to cast him as the anti bush as well as the solution to everyone s problem whether you re worried about melting icecaps a melting economy or the war in iraq obama has an answer not everyone accepted the answer indeed i would hardly call his victory a landslide with so many states winning by single digit margins but it seemed pretty clear to me that obama as a polar leftist sort of got lost during the campaign even though his record speaks volumes to him being that i think his victory showed that if you run your campaign well you can be a polarizing figure and still come out ahead i think he needed to be a polar leftist to get through his party s primary he then re defined himself quite successfully and won so really what palin needs if she is to become a national political figure is to enter the arena of washington politics in some way i think the folks who want her to run in 2026 need to take a reality pill and realize that the only way she would be a viable candidate then would be if she somehow entered the national arena and gathered up some credibility between now and then if that happened i do believe she would be a powerful figure to contend with i ve heard the idea floated that she might appoint herself in ted steven s job should he be ejected from the senate i m not sure how such a move would be received certainly if she was a successful senator for four years if she was successful being the key phrase and managed to wiggle her way onto some relevant committees foreign relations would be especially helpful it would be very difficult to assail her on the basis of experience as she would have both executive as a governor and mayor and legislative as a councilperson and senator experience all scattered across the spectrum of federalism local state and federal experience her record would come under intense scrutiny but again if that time proved formative and productive and she learned enough in that time which i don t see as implausible obama seemed to pick things up pretty fast being in the senate only 2 years i think she would be a real threat in 2026 especially if the economy is still floundering indeed if the economy does not improve and improve enormously by 2026 obama will be in serious trouble and if it hasn t improved at all or if it is worse than it is now it will be impossible for him to achieve re election he absolutely positively must figure out a way to work a miracle with the economy or he s gonna be a one termer if palin and her peeps are serious about running her they should really think about how they re going to get her in the national spotlight and get her fully educated on what it means to be there i think this is possible in four or eight years very possible but it would take very deliberate maneuvering to accomplish it reply to captain d comment by captain d friday november 7 2026 8 44 pm yes she clearly needs to enhance her resume and her knowledge base if she wants to run in 2026 ted stevens senate seat perhaps my guess btw is that if she does run in 2026 and is actually in a competition with other republicans rather than with democrats many of the reps who currently now adore her will find that she isn t as good a candidate as they thought she was competing with other pro life social conservatives will expose many of her flaws to them in ways that that they were blind to in the midst of a race against democrats reply to dr steven taylor comment by dr steven taylor friday november 7 2026 8 51 pm dr taylor let me play the foil to your position it is your opinion that her thinking has been confined to alaska and issues that impact that state but isn t that exactly what the voters of alaska elected her to do is it not fair to argue that her focus was exactly where it should have been to discharge her duties to the office that she held and continues to hold were she to have been focused on foreign policy issues she would have done a disservice to the residents of her state an individual who discharges his her duties with vigor and determination will educate himself herself on the duties and responsibilities of a new office you argue that it is clear that pres elect obama has thought more about these issues and i will not dispute that assertion yet as the chair of the senate foreign relations committee subcommittee on european affairs he neither held any policy hearings nor traveled to europe other than in his role a candidate in this sense he had a affirmative duty to the senate and to the nation to be knowledgeable on europe and to help craft and support legislation that would affect policy in that region and he did not use the authority he had to perform that duty this concerns me equally if not more that when he had responsibilities he did not fulfill them it makes me wonder if he is really taking into account the facts as they change or whether he has made up his mind and the facts will not change that time in the office will necessarily reveal more about him so we will see i must admit however that seeing gov granholm of michigan among his group of economic advisors today did not inspire confidence with respect to his judgment or the policies he is considering reply to ts comment by ts friday november 7 2026 8 56 pm one more thing she needs to learn how to interview she needs to realize that with the exception of fox news the media will do its best to paint the democrat in a positive light and the republican in a negative and she needs to learn how to get through an interview without falling into their traps yeah i know shame on me for believing that there is a liberal bias in the newsmedia but i really believe it s there and for a republican to be successful they need to know how to deal with that bias simply calling it for what it is doesn t work as they did that throughout the mccain campaign there may come a day when the population is so jaded with the media that a republican politician can just ignore most of them and get away with it we re not there yet that is abundantly clear to me after this election so it follows that a republican candidate needs to know how to deal with a hostile media palin scored an f minus on media relations that won t fly if she wants to run for anything outside of alaska as a republican reply to captain d comment by captain d friday november 7 2026 8 56 pm ts i don t think anyone can seriously argue that palin has not excelled at everything she has done so far she was a great mayor and a great governor if there was any dirt to be found the people sent to alaska to dig it up would have found it i don t think dr taylor is arguing that she didn t do her duties as a governor he is arguing that doing your duties as a governor does not provide empirical evidence of fitness for the oval office she has a real record of blooming where planted one could theorize based on that that she would become a good president if there was a need i think that it s a sound and reasonable theory but we can t really prop it up with anything even those of us who like her and think she has great potential have to concede that we can t prop our theory that she would be a good president up with anything concrete hatchet jobs they might have been but she flunked her interviews and while i thought she performed well in the vp debate it wasn t a knockout punch it was a close match won by decision i personally think you re right about obama he spent more of his time as a senator planning to become president than he did actually doing his duties i ve been through the senate floor records for the last couple of years every page his absence from most of the important debates is frightfully conspicuous and it is one reason i worried about the guy it appeared to me that he viewed his seat in the senate as a stepping stone and treated it that way and when he did speak up on the floor it was without the articulate and confident wording that he has had since becoming a presidential candidate if i were to look at the words he spoke on the campaign trail and the words he spoke on the senate floor without knowing any better i would guess them to be from different people in any case i think what i ve finally come to agree with dr taylor on is that obama did go out and prepare himself for the national spotlight palin didn t we can get into a debate about whether or not obama should have taken his senatorial duties more seriously if we want to but it s sort of a separate issue one of duty and ethics and there is a lot of wiggle room for people to have differing opinions on that but that he did preparet is not in question and it should be quite obvious that palin did not the consequences speak for themselves reply to captain d comment by captain d friday november 7 2026 9 10 pm i never argued that she was unqualified to be governor of alaska just unqualified and unprepared to be president in re obama let s put it this way he went through a two year job interview and was able to seal the deal with those with the power to hire him that may not satisfy those who think him underqualified but at this point that issue is moot i personally think he demonstrated enough skill knowledge and evidence of forethought on the right issues and btw let s stipulate for the sake of argument that media has a decided liberal bias and that they will do their best to make the reps look bad however even given that i have seen any number of reps give really good interviews over the years i have rarely indeed perhaps never seen anything like what palin did the evidence simply doesn t stack up just based on what other reps have done in interviews with the liberal media that the main or even best explanation for palin s poor performance was media bias reply to dr steven taylor comment by dr steven taylor friday november 7 2026 9 14 pm i m not looking at the msm as the primary cause of the failure of the mccain palin ticket or as the primary cause of palin s poor interview performance i m looking at it as an exacerbating cause it made worse problems that she already had and took into the interview room with her i don t feel like i made a statement to the contrary of what you just said i simply said that navigating the bias of the media was one of palin s problems the others i cited were a lack of knowledge and experience dealing with federal matters and her extreme social conservative ness i did not mean to elevate the media bias over her other faults in fact i mentioned the other problems first and only added the problem of media bias as an afterward i think it exacerbated what was already a problem republicans can give good interviews in spite of bias palin doesn t know how to do that but even if she did she would not have interviewed well because she lacked the fundamental knowledge of federal issues that she needed my 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