Palin: Obama could win reelection if he ‘played the war card’ and declared ‘war on Iran.’

[democracy1st]

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Palin: Obama could win reelection if he ‘played the war card’ and declared ‘war on Iran.’


This morning on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace conducted a 25-minute interview with Sarah Palin, a paid contributor to Fox News. Palin told Wallace that she doesn’t think President Obama will win reelection in 2012 if he “continues on the path he has America on.” However, Palin indicated that his chances of winning would dramatically change if Obama simply declared war on Iran:

WALLACE: How hard do you think President Obama would be to defeat in 2012?

PALIN: It depends on a few things, say he played — I got this from Buchanan — say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel–which I would like him to do. That changes the dynamics of what we can assume will happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, Obama would not be elected.

WALLACE: You’re not suggesting that Obama would cynically play the war card?

PALIN: I’m not suggesting that, I’m saying if he did, things would dramatically change if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and secure our allies. I think people would shift their thinking a bit.


Palin appears to be fine-tuning her position on Iran. Late last year, Palin mistook Iraq for Iran when she suggested that the U.S. has to crack down on Iraq to prevent nuclear war in Iran. In 2008, Palin appeared to claim that the U.S. needs to “win” the non-existent war with Iran. During her interview with Wallace, Palin also confirmed that she would consider running for President in 2012 and that it would be “absurd” not to.


http://thinkprogress.org/


The genius speaks! :nuke:

[LatteLibertine]

1. LMAO

Mr. President, please do not take advice from Ms. Mooselini.

[athenasatanjesus]

2. How can one person say so many stupid things in so little time? nt

[juxtaposed]

36. you got to love her!!! Ihope she is there choice!!!

[nytemare]

3. LOL.. Hey, it worked for Bush.

Funny stuff.

[quark219]

4. That question and its response were clearly scripted ahead of time.

So it's official: for whatever reason, Roger Ailes is now turning the propaganda crank to get us to wage war on Iran.

Next, we can expect the wide-eyed hosts of "Fox & Friends" to show images of Ahmadinejad while exclaiming over their coffee mugs about how beady his eyes look and how they would never let him babysit their children. This will be followed three hours later with an official FOX NEWS report:

"A chorus of voices in the mainstream media have been raising serious questions about the evil nature or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and loudly wondering how America can continue to tolerate his presence on the global stage....."

Turn the crank, Roger. Turn the crank.

[scarface2004]

5. obama just declared....the nukes are away!!!!

you happy now you effin idiot!!!

[perdita9]

6. Will Somebody Please...

...take the microphone away from this woman. She's an embarrassment to the entire human race.

[OHdem10]

7. Create Instability in the Middle East---The Neiocon's Darling

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. Oh dear God, I'm laughing hysterically here

Trying to catch my breath...:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[rocktivity]

9. Rocktivity: Obama WOULD win re-election if he played the war card

and declared war on the Republicans.


rocktivity

[TheEuclideanOne]

10. She is showing that not only does she know the difference between Iran and Iraq now

but also that we would have a 3rd war on our hands if we had a, :gulp:, Palin presidency. It also shows that if we did have a war in Iran, it would be completely unrelated to needing to go to war. Instead, it would be simply for election purposes to raise her poll numbers if her poll numbers were down.

[W T F]

11. Oh yeah, sure ....and if Obama did that,.........

the cost of the war would increase the deficit and the GOP could criticize the president for that.
And I'm sure the American people would back any plans to invade Iran because there's poll data to support it. Right? I mean she just wouldn't make that up.
:rofl:

[suzanner]

12. noted that she now 'reads'- a novel idea for her

and then she has to be so shallow as to insert it into her answer! Sad like a teabagger.

[winyanstaz]

18. yes I noticed that she is reading things written on her hand...

[burning rain]

13. "I got this from Buchanan"?

Palin needs to stop relating her and Pat's pillow talk. It has no public relevance. People say all sorts of crazy things whilst getting hot sex.

[tomm2thumbs]

16. just shows where her mind is - in the racist toilet with Buchanan

she just is smarter than the rest of the teabaggers to hide it under her tongue

[ro1942]

14. What does this say about the American people

this woman is taken seriously.

[Guilded Lilly]

22. I used to have faith in peoples' inherent intelligence...

that would prevail over and above the general moronic hum of political blowhards...but not now. Not in this age of Palin and Bush and Limbaugh,Beck,O'Reilly and hell, all of Fox News and a huge chunk of Congress. It's not gender specific, it's just...outrageously pathetic.

The leaders of the Dumbing Down of America movement are scary, but far scarier and more dangerous to the diminishing of this country...are the massive followers of just plain dumb-ass, hateful, mean-spirited, brain-dead thinking.

This political circus is like an edition of Mad Magazine gone viral.
"What, Me Worry?"
Damned straight.

[sasquuatch]

28. The television has erased our intelligence.

.nt

[protocol rv]

30. Americans tend to love war

I'm afraid the majority of Americans love war. They are very irresponsible as a people, are arrogant, and they allow their government and media to lie to them all the time. It is sad, because both major parties do the same things. The warning to Americans is to remember you are not completely blameless, you are starting evil wars you can not really justify, and these sick politicians you have are just pandering to your lusts and your insanities. If you keep going this way, you will be like Nazi Germany. And the world will have to destroy you to save itself from your sick behavior.

[Robbie88]

15. Wow....

The title of this thread seemed so outrageous (even for Palin) that I thought maybe her words were being somehow distorted; after all, it doesn't seem like anyone could possibly be stupid enough to actually believe that a war with Iran is something that the American public would enthusiastically rally behind (or that it would be a good thing for the world and our country, for that matter), but damn, she's even more insane than I thought... :scared:

If this lady ever gets anywhere near the presidency I'm going to start work on a fallout shelter...

[winyanstaz]

17. oh you betcha! War with Russia too :)

Someone duct tape this idiots lips shut. Cut that mike! Erase the answers written on her hand! Turn off the friggin cameras already!

She quits everything she starts. Why won't she quit making stupid statements?

Russia has made it abundantly clear. They will stand behind Iran...and they have enough nukes for both of them.

Iran has made it perfectly clear. ANY attack on Iran and they will wipe Israel off the map.

This pee-brain numb-skull wants World War 111 to break out for sure.

Speaking of which...exactly how many more wars do we have to be fighting to make this a World War?

[Old Time Pagan]

19. China would weigh in as well

Now there's a scenario, we take on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and China.

At least it would end the suspense as to whether we can pull out of our economic nose dive. With the world in flames and major American cities destroyed our current economic dilemma would become small potatoes.

Thanks Sarah, what a great idea.

[winyanstaz]

27. Yup...The Quitter in Chief of the Tundra has no clue......

[AsahinaKimi]

44. I think the rightwingers want

To start as many wars as they can, after all to them Armageddon is a good thing. It means they will be raptured up and sit by their God's side while the world dies in flames below them.

These people are beyond scary.

[earcandle]

20. what people is she talking about? the rapturists? The ones who want us all to die?

[Plucketeer]

21. Fox should work on her image....

She needs bright, orange-red hair - a white-face paint job - a bulbous red plastic nose - a red and white-striped shirt - some bright yellow, baggy jodphers and some outrageously oversized shoes. Then her appearance would be in step with her political savvy!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

23. How does starting yet another war "secure our nation"?

Seriously Sarah- You really just don't get it, do you? Bush's wars are a big part of why we're in the mess we're in today. Maybe you think starting another war will decrease the number of terrorists trying to blow up our airliners? And what if the Russians decide it's enough and intervene for Iran? You think we're just going to kick their asses too?

[CAG]

24. So... Obama should "get tough" and kill more dark-skinned people, but that would

be "playing the war card" according to Sarah, so which is it, is she saying she would hope he kills people by starting an unnecessary war for political purposes or that it would show "he's tougher" than what her klan thinks? Now we know why she supported *, I guess... because he played the war card really gooodddd.....

[husky92]

25. Cuckoo...Cuckoo...

Okay, let me get this straight. Palin claims if Obama attacks Iran he'll get re-elected. Brother!

Let's see...we're trying to rebuild a semblance of credibility in the Middle East and she wants us to attack Iran. No problem. Let's fight a three-pronged war and ask the soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan to do a tour or two of Iran while they're at it. Let's just snap our fingers and get a couple hundred thousand new soldiers. WTF!!!

Sadly, a segment of our population would love this. Like the neo-cons who swore we'd go into Iraq and mop up and be out of there is a few months and be welcomes as liberators (Hello, Dick Cheney!). Why don't these nut-less nut jobs at Fox News question her theories. I know she is being paid (actually stealing money) by them, but come on. If Obama ever thought of attacking Iran this country would go crazy. Another war is the last thing we need. I know conservatives love the old bang-bang-bang theory, but screw them.

Let's get our other messes in the world straightened out before we start thinking of something someone like Palin thinks is a good idea. Obama has a little more smarts than this moron.

[bitchkitty]

26. Bloodthirsty and stupid -

not the best way to go through life.

How do people like her get elected to anything, much less governor of an American state?

[bunkerbuster1]

29. This is her idea of sounding intelligent

See? I can pundit just like the big boys!

[GreenTea]

31. Man, it's so obvious, the fucking republicans want to bomb & invade Iran so badly....

every republican is giving Obama "advice" bomb Iran and get re-elected....

Cheney has wanted it for years, so have the oil corporations who drool over those Iranian oil fields, the weapons makers are also drooling over the aspect of huge profits as are the two hundred plus other corporations who have been makings outrageous profits keeping wars going....they want Obama to do their dirty work.

Just as they wanted president Clinton to invade Iraq (better to have a Dem start a war). But if the Dem won't do it, the republicans will certainly come up with some "terrorism" excuse to convince people we need to bomb and invade another sovereign nation....the more unrest in the region the more profits and non-accountability.....

Republicans want wars for profits, and they want wars for the trillions of dollars in oil and they want war for their military & weapons and to keep us in fear and wars of imperialism WILL create even more terrorist in that region, as we bomb & kill civilians.

Republican warmongers love the thought of more terrorist....it makes the republicans & corporations job easier and gives the republicans an excuse for their wars for profits, and it keeps the American people in fear and wanting to support a trillion dollar military budget every year...not to mention the corporate profits made on the military, CIA world imperialism....The republicans love and create the terrorist.

[big lu]

32. Yeah he should push us into an even bigger war than the two we are juggling right now,

in the middle of fixing an economic collapse that, in the first place, was caused partly by having to invest in those other two wars.

Yeah that's brilliant, let's go into North Korea as well. That would make Obama a shoe-in for a second term ...

She's a dumb, yet scary, woman

[inna]

33. OMG - can we just stop posting about/giving publicity to this idiot/sociopath???

enough is enough.

[Canuckistanian]

34. YOU play the "war card", Sarah. See how far THAT gets you.

Campaign on it. Lobby for it. Glorify it.

Then sell it to the American people who are ALREADY FUCKING INVOLVED IN TWO WARS!

Good luck with that.

[juxtaposed]

35. Pistol Palin has all the answers just like her boss did

What ever happened to McCain and his ( when I'm elected I will get osama bin laden) and when pressed on the issue he states that he knows how to get him and where he is.. Well why haven't we heard about laden being off'd and Obama saying if it wasn't for McCain we would have been destroyed by terrorists.. It bothers me that dip-shits say things like (I know how to get bin laden)

[PSzymeczek]

39. Because he died

just over 8 years ago from kidney failure. That's why.

[Webster Green]

37. "The War Card"...like war is some kind of fucking game.

It's perfectly OK to use war as a political tool in this idiotic fucking bitch's world. :puke:

[Barbara2423]

38. She can't think for herself. She sites another person's thought.

[applegrove]

40. "POLLY WANTS A CRACKER!!!"

[StreetKnowledge]

41. Yeah, have that many more Americans come home in body bags so your friends can get richer.

Kiss my ass, Falin'.

As the best friend of a guy in Afghanistan right now, the son of a man who fought in Vietnam and grandson of a WWII vet, war is something that should be avoided at all costs. But not to the neocons, because its never any of their children going to war. If one of theirs was drafted and sent to Afghanistan, these chickenhawks would change their tune real fast. But since the majority of soldiers are generally from poorer background,who gives a fuck, right?

[Tx4obama]

42. Here's a link to a GREAT analysis of the Palin/Wallace interview

http://www.newshounds.us/2010/02/07/palin_on_fox_news_sunday_says_namecalling_unnecessary_its_inappropriate_but_just_seconds_before_calls_liberals_kooks.php

[Grassy Knoll]

43. OMG.........

Hows that " Fear, War, and Paranoia " working for your party ?

[grassfed]

45. Neocon's Eliza Doolittle - Bloody Sarah