Who is likely to connect with voters?

[AlanC]

This column by Mark Styne is interesting for several reasons. I think it points out some of the real advantages to the Palin selection and the problems it will create for the Obama campaign in the fight for those uncommited voters.

Remember how awkward John Kerry looked trying to immitate an "average" guy? Well Obama looks that bad and worse. The picture of him trying to look like Joe Sixpack with a bowling ball was just hilarious.

From NRO online (http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODNhOTk2YTU0NWY4ZjY5ODNhZTgyOWZkNjY5YjFlMmY=)

This quote is especially telling if you think about it.

And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.

And this one.

Third, real people don't define "experience" as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong.

[potter]

Remember how awkward John Kerry looked trying to immitate an "average" guy? Well Obama looks that bad and worse. The picture of him trying to look like Joe Sixpack with a bowling ball was just hilarious.

From NRO online (http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODNhOTk2YTU0NWY4ZjY5ODNhZTgyOWZkNjY5YjFlMmY=)


This seems like an odd criteria for selecting a president.....maybe it's just me......

[AlanC]

This seems like an odd criteria for selecting a president.....maybe it's just me......


You mean people being turned off by candidates who are so obvous about trying to appear as something they are not for the sake of pandering for votes?

Maybe, but it happens.

[potter]

You mean people being turned off by candidates who are so obvous about trying to appear as something they are not for the sake of pandering for votes?

Maybe, but it happens.

No....that too many people vote would for someone based on such shallow reasoning.

The problem is not enough people recognize shallow pandering for what it is.

[AlanC]

No....that too many people vote would for someone based on such shallow reasoning.

The problem is not enough people recognize shallow pandering for what it is.

Actually I think that most people recognize it for exactly what it is .... and don't fall for it.

It simply makes the politician doing it look foolish.

[potter]

Actually I think that most people recognize it for exactly what it is .... and don't fall for it.

It simply makes the politician doing it look foolish.

I hope you're right. The last two elections haven't been encouraging.

[bishop]

there are also some images that many won't be able to connect with - like palin at the firing range. not sure if that's something that will win over soccer moms.

[AlanC]

there are also some images that many won't be able to connect with - like palin at the firing range. not sure if that's something that will win over soccer moms.


I think you underestimate those women.

[Stoner]

I hope you're right. The last two elections haven't been encouraging.

We've had one of the best POTUS's this country has ever seen from the last two elections. You can't let the drive-by media, Moveon.org, Kos and Air America dictate your thoughts. Indipendent thinkers see Bush's two terms for what it was...a huge success.

[NoMoreDems-Reps]

Nader would connect most with voters ! (If given a "Fair" playing field)

Now if you are asking "Who will the common American "RELATE" to most", that would
be Palin or Obama.

But if you are asking which candidate will address the "ISSUES" in a way that
most Americans would agree with (With exception to hot button issues) I think that
Nader is by FAR the better candidate. If he were to be able to debate I bet this would
be crystal clear to all American!

I'm not saying Nader is perfect, at all, but he addresses the bigger issues and has better
solutions that the REPS&DEMS more often than not! (That's why they don't want to
debate him.)

[Phyxius]

We've had one of the best POTUS's this country has ever seen from the last two elections. You can't let the drive-by media, Moveon.org, Kos and Air America dictate your thoughts. Indipendent thinkers see Bush's two terms for what it was...a huge success.

Yeah, OK - you've officially jumped the shark with that one... :madlaugh:

[I Like Beer]

We've had one of the best POTUS's this country has ever seen from the last two elections. You can't let the drive-by media, Moveon.org, Kos and Air America dictate your thoughts. Indipendent thinkers see Bush's two terms for what it was...a huge success.

LOL... with Bush's having the highest disapproval rating for a President ever, hitting 69%, (http://www.gallup.com/poll/106741/Bushs-69-Job-Disapproval-Rating-Highest-Gallup-History.aspx) I guess a lot of Republican's have been getting their news from the sources you describe above.