The mysterious "silver knight on the white horse"

The debate continues on whether Sarah Palin is electable or not.  We had some pretty heated comments here, with arguments both for Palin's  electability and against.  It's not just readers here at Right Truth that have strong feelings about Palin's electability, or unelectability, it is some in the Republican Party and even Charles Krauthammer and George Will.   We are told there are polls to back them up.   But if not Sarah Palin, then who?   Surely not Mike Huckabee, or Mitt Romney, or any number of re-runs. 

Is there a silver knight on the proverbial white horse out there somewhere ready to ride into the Conservative political landscape and save the day?  Doubtful.  One thing is for sure, Mitt Romney is being pushed on Republicans as the front-runner, and Conservatives should promptly reject that idea. 

George Will says Sarah Palin cannot be elected President, calls her  “the President’s secret weapon”: Sarah Palin's inability to be elected:

“The President’s secret weapon may be the Republican nominating electorate… There is one person, high in the polls, Sarah Palin, who cannot be elected president because she cannot compete where elections are decided. In the collar counties outside Chicago, Montgomery County outside of Philadelphia- just can’t compete there.”

Charles Krauthammer not a fan of Palin:

On Friday’s broadcast of “Inside Washington,” Krauthammer offered several reasons why Palin shouldn’t be considered the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election.  [snip]

... Krauthammer has previously downplayed Palin’s chances and indicated he favors Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. [snip]

“Her negatives are over 50 percent,” Krauthammer said. “She has no chance of winning a general election. Why would you want a candidate who is going to lose against a Democrat who is going to be vulnerable and who is also extremely ideologically ambitious?”

Bogdan from Australia says:

This is all a self-defeating and self-destructing CRAP about alleged unelectability of Sarah Palin.

There is also something slimy, creepy and outright morally repugnant in suggestion that she should move to the sidelines in order to pave the way for the mysterious "silver knight on the white horse" who will suddenly emerge from the obscurity to lead the Conservatives to a sure victory.

Here here!  There is no silver knight on the white horse that will suddenly appear for the Conservatives in this country.  Yes, a lot can happen between January 2011 and November 2012, but as we saw in the 2008 presidential elections, our candidate was chosen for us before we had a real chance.  As Paul at Powerline points out, Mitt Romney has problems:

One of them is that he is suspected by the Republican base of not being very conservative, and this suspicion coalesces around a vital issue -- health care reform. In addition, Romney ran unimpressively in 2008 against a rather weak field. [snip]

Thus, if one believes that next year's Republican primary dynamics will resemble those of 2008, then it is quite reasonable to view Romney as the frontrunner. However, 2010 has conditioned many of us to believe that the dynamics of the Party have been transformed. If so, then Romney's problems may well be different in degree than those confronting his most serious rivals, and he is probably miscast as the frontrunner.

AF Ticker, who I usually agree with, says:

Palin is unelectable. The independents who are the swing voters, regardless of what the religious far right thinks and frankly who gives a rats butt what they think, will not vote for her. She has no foreign policy experience at all and we have seen what that means before.  [snip]

Now find someone who can win and forget Palin, forget the Huckester [Huckabee], forget Romney, we had a chance to win with him and the religious far right blew that one as well, so he's old news and many independents won't vote for him either.

Do we really know that Independents won't vote for Palin against Obama?

Always On Watch, also who I generally agree with, says:

I agree with Ticker: Palin is not electable.

But she is a great cheerleader and an excellent gadfly. Let her serve those purposes.

Meanwhile, the GOP had better start finding a viable candidate for 2012. Otherwise, BHO will get elected again, IMO.

R.J. Godlewski says:

I think that we've all realized that who we elect as president no longer seems to matter. It's WHO they surround themselves with that makes all the difference in the world.

This is what made Reagan good; he surrounded himself with people who fought for this country, knew the principles of economics, and were all proud patriots.

And what makes Obama so bad? He's surrounded by Maoists, Islamists, Socialists, Tyrants, etc.

MK says:

One thing i know for sure, the only way obama will win 2012 is if republicans give him the victory.

And i think we all know, those idiots are perfectly capable of it. The only thing that stands in their way is the TEA party.

If these comments prove anything, it is that the Republicans are in real trouble if we cannot find and get behind one candidate.

Skunkfeathers on the media and Palin:

She will for sure outperform Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich, Pawlenty in the primary debates as every argument she uses she shall be able to back with her own real experience.  [snip]

This current crap of media, you will note, attacks the things they fear the most: Sarah Palin, Christianity, conservatism. They plump for things they feel they can defeat or control.

Romney flopped in '08. What dunderhead thinks Romney is the answer in '12? RINOs and the media. If the media considered Romney a threat to Zero, they'd be tearing him down, not plumping him up.

Republicans better get their act together soon.  I'm looking over the horizon and I don't see any white horses... But I notice this in the news today:  Are RNC Chair Candidates the Last Five Republicans Who Think Sarah Palin is Electable?, from Mediaite by Tommy Christopher.  Funny how in a debate, when Republicans want to win points, they turn to Sarah Palin...

Related reading:

Zogby Interactive: Christie Trumps Field Of Potential Presidential Candidates; Only One Who Beats Obama, from Zogby International: Polling News , New Jersey Governor Leads Obama, 43%-40%

Rasmussen poll shows GOP lead on party affiliation at 6 year high, from Hyscience

Europe - Governments Seize Private Pensions To Cover Budget Shortfalls, from J O S H U A P U N D I T by Freedom Fighter

Snort: Now the Dems are worried about wasteful “witch hunts”, from Michelle Malkin by Michelle Malkin

CHANGE: Tea Party Already Changing Spending Culture In Washington…., from Instapundit by Glenn Reynolds

Comments

[Sue]

My choice, at this point, would be my Representative, Mike Pence...Not my Gov. Mitch Daniels.

[Debbie]

Sue: I imagine the group running will be large and varied at the beginning, but as we've seen before it will be thinned out quickly and we will be stuck with those left standing. I can only pray it is the right people/person.

Honestly I don't know who that would be at this point.

[Grouch at Right Truth]

If they flop out Gingrich, Suckabee, Romneycare, or any other watered down re-run, I'm gonna vote for Obama, just for spite.

You've been warned!

[Debbie]

Grouch: You finger would rot off before you would vote for Obama, I know you too well.

[Howard Larson]

One criteria mentioned above is the candidate has to in favor or repealing Obamacare. But, let's not forget the EPA; we need a president that is willing to reign in the EPA and their regulation of CO2. A columnist over at the Blaze wrote an article that seems to be a trial balloon for Jon Huntsman Jr. Huntsman, as governor of Utah, jumped on the Climate Change bandwagon so he definitely out.

[Skunkfeathers]

If we're throwing out names to see what sticks, howz about Gov. Chris Christie, NJ, with Sarah as his running mate?

[Scott Kirwin]

Bring on the fat man, Chris Christie. Anybody who can tame New Jersey can handle the country.