Drive your Repub co-workers crazy with this question: "How would Palin have done in the primary if

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she had run with McCain, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani, Paul, Tancredo, Hunter, etc.? Who would she have beat and who would have done better than her?"

I have asked two Repubs this question, and both were flummoxed at first but both eventually admitted with some chagrin that Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani, and even Paul would have eaten her alive.

[livetohike]

1. Great question!

:hi:

[NYC_SKP]

2. You just blew my mind.

I'll use that if I run across anyone who loves her.

[H2O Man]

3. Perfect!

Thanks!

[Overseas]

4. Yes please do ask them the question ! //nt

[Skwmom]

5. I tell them, Huckabee was sane but they had to pick the lunatic.

The nuts have taken over your party. For the sake of our country, take back your party by voting for Obama.

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7. One of my two Repub co-workers said "she's Huckabee with tits instead of a record of accomplishment"

[Blondiegrrl]

8. Huckabee doesn't have that nasty, condescending attitude she exhibits towards anyone who disagrees

with her.

Sarah Palin is WAY worse than Huckabee.

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9. True. He also has a record that's more than five times deeper that Porkbarrel Palin's slim record

[Kutjara]

6. They wouldn't have even bothered to eat her alive.

She'd have been a "Mercer-grade" candidate, good for five minutes of light relief at the end of the evening news, and the butt of jokes on blogs. I doubt if any of the front-runners would have deigned to mention her.

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10. You're probably right; they probably would have ignored her like they ignored Tancredo and the other

extremist nutjobs.

[CarbonDate]

11. She had just barely taken office....

...when the primaries started in earnest.

Even Tommy Thompson (four term governor of Wisconsin, former HHS Secretary) would have taken her behind the shed, and he was laughed off the stage.

[Kixel]

12. Another one...

Please name a less qualified Republican Governor. That's fun.

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15. excellent question!

[Generic Brad]

13. That only works to a small extent

Because they could very well reverse the question and ask the same about Biden. And we all know how his run for the presidency turned out this last time.

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16. But we don't have to "defend" Biden; he's bit weak, but he's neither unknown nor 100% unqualified

[chill_wind]

14. Good question/talking point!

K & R