Posted on 05/07/2010 5:08:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
TOP 5 REASONS WHY PALIN ENDORSED CARLY FIORINA
Some conservatives are angry at Governor Palin's endorsement of former Hewlett-Packard Executive Carly Fiorina. In a way, this anger is understandable, given that Chuck DeVore is the Tea Party favorite and the true conservative in the race, and Palin stated that she would support conservatives regardless of party.
Principles are important, but in certain circumstances they take a back seat to pragmatism. You can't implement your principles if you don't win first, so here is why Palin endorsed Carly:
Money. Chuck DeVore is a fine conservative, but he doesn't have the money to compete with Boxer. California is an expensive media market and a huge state requiring lots of travel and lodging. DeVore would need a minimum of $20 million just to keep his head above water, and God Bless the Tea Parties, but they'd have to hold a thousand money-bombs for DeVore, and in this economy it simply ain't happening.
History. Boxer is a POS Senator with an IQ of a bathtub ring, but she's a ruthless campaigner. Those of you screaming we need a true conservative to face Boxer - I humbly offer you the remains of Matt Fong and Bruce Herschensohn, both staunch conservatives who got shredded by Boxer. Boxer either used their conservatism against them and they apologized like dummies, or she made up some crap at the last minute which got her votes, as in the case of the strip club allegation against Herschensohn. She can't do the same to Carly.
Polls. DeVore has been running for almost a year now and yet he still can't break 20% in the polls. This with the Tea Party movement and voter discontent at Washington. He should be leading, yet he's not. That falls more on the candidate and the campaign he's running than on the political environment.
3-person race. Governor Palin was faced with what is known as a Buridan's ass choice. She can't support Campbell because he's too liberal; yet if she support the conservative, DeVore, he would lose. So she had to choose someone who represented the greater good, and that choice is Carly.
Mitt Romney. Carly has a much better chance of becoming Senator than Meg Whitman has at being Governor. Endorsing Carly neutralizes CA support of Romney in the event the two of them face off in the state. Also, it kills the canard that Palin can't attract independents and moderates (never mind that she worked with Dems in Alaska and was pretty much a pariah in the state GOP). Palin can't be stereotyped as a right-wing religious kook by endorsing Carly.
Nobody's saying Carly is the 2nd coming of Thatcher. She might become the West Coast version of Olympia Snowe, who knows. But what Carly represents is a new type of blue-state Republican in the mold of Scott Brown and Chris Christie: Someone who meets the minimum conservative threshold and will focus on taxes, spending, health-care and other big-ticket issues, and not get into pissing matches about social or other issues that the majority doesn't care about right now. Sarah's endorsement is strategic and makes perfect sense.
Strategy. But I thought Palin was stupid.
Well written. I don’t know enough about the races to know whether I will agree, but the article seems to be very informative.
1. Fiorina paid the money.
We also don`t like her endorsing a leftist wanna be like Juan McLame, she`s only digging herself deeper into that liberal hole she seems to want to be in. But hey, if you`re comfortable,go there and dig in.
Playing chess while everyone is upset she doesn’t move her pieces like checkers?
It’s a simple political calculation, who can win, giving the Republicans another vote for majority leader.
Actions speak louder than words.
Too generous. Way too generous.
It does seem she is building a winning ‘army’ that has all flavors of the right. It is how the Dems have always played politics, do what every they need to do to win, then, once they get power, kick everyone in line with their positions.
Frankly I haven’t known a lot about this particular issue but one thing I do know, if you don’t win you can’t affect policy and Sarah is supporting the best chance to get rid of Boxer without simply replacing her with a liberal with a R after his name.
Sarah has the guts to take a stand and this makes a lot of sense.
Ok, Purist...go ahead vote for the person who has NO CHANCE of beating that B*tch Boxer!!
Sarah did the correct thing. The smart thing. But let’s not pretend about Fiorina. Fiorina sucks. But we can’t have a pro-jihad liberal republican win. We can’t abide another 6 year of Boxer. If Fiorina wins she’ll sicken us numerous times. But that is still light-years better than Campbell or Boxer.
I sent money to DeVore. But he’s just not cutting it. He does not have a realistic shot at winning. His candidacy is splitting the conservative vote which could result in Campbell winning the primary.
And there’s hope that a President Palin can lead Fiorina and other weak-kneed republicans on the right path.
Why do so many Palin supporters look like they just fell from a bag of Rold Gold Pretzels?
Bingo.
Dang, and I thought we wanted conservatism.
Fiorina has 0 chance of winning, period.
None of those are good reasons.
Still not liking Palin’s decision. Fiorina is rolling in the mud with 25% of the polling vote, which means 75% of Republicans are not satisfied with her. A lot of votes are still up for grabs and turnout is the key. This being a primary race, DeVore is close enough to pulling an upset...and I believe his supporters to be more likely to vote. Who knows, with Palin’s support, maybe that would’ve been enough to put him over the top.
Power Politics Palin Style.
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