Howard Dean says Palin could defeat Obama in 2012
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeHoward Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012.I think he is right. Obama will be on the defensive this time. Liberals have a tendency to underestimate conservatives like Palin. They operate under the conceit, that if she were really smart she would be a liberal Democrat. But Palin is much more intelligent than many in the liberal and conservative side of the media credit her with.
Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year.
“I think she could win,” Dean told The Hill in an interview Friday. “She wouldn’t be my first choice if I were a Republican but I think she could win.”
Dean warns the sluggish economy could have more of a political impact than many Washington strategists and pundits assume.
“Any time you have a contest — particularly when unemployment is as high as it is — nobody gets a walkover,” Dean said. “Whoever the Republicans nominate, including people like Sarah Palin, whom the inside-the-Beltway crowd dismisses — my view is if you get the nomination of a major party, you can win the presidency, I don’t care what people write about you inside the Beltway,” Dean said.
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Just this week some were chortling over what they thought was a gaffe in description of Paul Revere's roll in history, but she turned out to be right. Not only did he warn the Americans that the British were coming, he also warned the British that the Americans were waiting for them, which caused a retreat.
It is not the first time that some in the media have made a fool of themselves while attempting to discredit Sarah Palin. They seem to be playing into her theme about the "lamestream" media.
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