Posted on 10/13/2010 9:22:26 AM PDT by techno
Three bits of information need to be seen in a holistic fashion rather than analyzed separately:
a) The Rasmussen poll released Sept. 20, 2010 which showed Sarah Palin's overall F/UF at 48/49, with INDEPENDENTS at 52/47 and with the GOP at 76/22. And in the second part of the poll when asked the question which person best represents their views (values), 52% of respondents said Palin, while only 40% said Obama.
b) Three MSM polls (Fox News, Marist-McClatchey, and Bloomberg-Selzer) that show Palin trailing Obama in a presidential matchup by 13, 15, and 16 points respectively.
c)Several polls in the last few months that show Obama would command only 40-42% of the American electorate in his re-election bid and thus be denied a second term.
Now you might ask what the Christine O'Donnell-Chris Coons Delaware Senate race has to with MSM's desire to take down Sarah Palin in 2011 and 2012. Imho, it has everything to do with what the Democrats and the MSM's master plan they want to implement to destroy Sarah Palin once she throws her hat into the presidential ring sometime early in 2011. The O'Donnell-Coons race is a proving ground or dress rehearsal to see how effective the strategy will be.
Notice how the MSM has unleashed a relentless, daily attack on Christine O'Donnell's qualifications for office by calling into question her background, her past comments and her political viability by claiming she is a kook and an extremist.
And notice how Karl Rove and other members of the party establishment have called into question O'Donnell's qualifications for office and her past supposed indiscretions. And in contrast surprisingly what is absent is much input from the Left regarding O'Donnell. That is the brilliance of the Coon's campaign. Coons stays out of the fray as an innocent bystander and gains in his lead against O'Donnell while a pack of ravenous dogs in the MSM and the GOP party establishment pick away at O'Donnell's flesh and bones.
And now Obama is coming to Delaware with Rush Limbaugh claiming that Coons is in trouble. Could Obama instead be interested in widening the Coons lead so that instead of the Democratic candidate winning by just 10 points he blows O'Donnell out by 25 points or more which the MSM will then run with into the GOP primary season and beat the same drum over and over again that if the GOP primary voters are as stupid as the Delaware GOP primary voters to foolishly vote for O'Donnell over Mike Castle and thus handing a sure GOP pickup in the Senate away to the Dems they will also vote for Palin who is unelectable over candidates who the MSM promote as or the polls prove are more electable or worthy such as Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich, Thune, Daniels, Barbour, Christie or Jeb Bush.
And the MSM argument or anti-Palin narrative will become more potent or plausible if Coons blows O'Donnell out on November 2nd and that again is the primary reason Obama is going to Delaware to campaign for Coons besides the fact that the winner will be seated immediately and could influence Obama's agenda in the lame-duck session. It has little to do with O'Donnell and mostly to do with stopping the ascendancy of Sarah Palin in 2011 and 2012 by bashing O'Donnell and elevating Coons.
So assuming Coons blows O'Donnell out here is one of the primary strategies the MSM will use to take down Palin in 2011:
a) As with Christine O'Donnell the MSM will on a daily basis and with relentless vigor question Palin's background, her past comments, qualifications for office, paint her as a kook and extremist and thus claim she is unelectable. Fortunately Palin never was a guest on Bill Maher's programs.
b)Enlist party establishment types to bash Palin on a regular basis once she declares to throw her off her game. Many pundits argue that O'Donnell's deficit in the polls has been caused mainly be Karl Rove's attack on her credibility and not much by anything that the Dems have done to marginalize her. In other words our party and Beltway elitists have done the Dem's dirty work for them. In 2011 the Dems expect the GOP and its operatives to do so again against Palin so that she is marginalized from the base of the GOP and the Tea Party movement.
c)The MSM will then pound the American public with poll after poll showing Palin with extremely high unfavorables and trailing Obama by double digits in head to head matchups as opposed to other candidates who are do not invoke such antipathy and either are trailing Obama by very narrow margins or even ahead of him in a presidential matchup. And they will reinforce the narrative by emphasizing the proposition that the American people as evidenced by polls do not want Obama to have a second term and if the GOP were smart they would nominate someone other than Palin who would win in a cakewalk against a vulnerable Obama in 2012. Don't be so stupid to nominate Palin; you saw what happened in Delaware when insanity ruled and Mike Castle and a sure Senate pickup were disdained in favor of conservative principle which has been proven not to be a winning formula in the general election in Delaware. So the moral of the story for the GOP in 2012 is to nominate an establishment candidate or moderate that will be more acceptable to the "broad middle" and independents according to the MSM.
And fellow conservatives, this is how the MSM aims to convince conservatives of all stripes, evangelicals and Tea Partiers to abandon their political beliefs and personal convictions and instead vote for the "electable" choice, and based on 2008, I wouldn't put it past the MSM and its propaganda to succeed in swaying our side to accept the idea that "discretion is the better part of valor" and that Sarah Palin is the anti-Christ.
I guess the question has to be asked, "After what happened in 2008 and our knowledge of how the MSM elevated John McCain to being the GOP nominee, are we really going to fall for the same ploy and trap again?"
Are we really that stupid and naive?
linky no worky
This seems backward.
The MSM isn’t going to pull an O’Donnell on Palin. They’ve been pulling a Palin on O’Donnell. (and it hasn’t really done much good, anyway).
I can’t see what more Palin could have thrown at her, at this point. Not that they won’t try.
“She’s a witch! Burn her!”
Actually, it’s not a bad strategy when you’ve got the MSM behind you.
There are many better and more viable Conservative options than Sarah Palin. She is not God, she is not the be all and end all of Conservativism. I supported her in the face of what the media did to her in 2008. However, she is now damaged goods, like it or not. The fact that some of Palin’s supporters are trying to run the narrative in the OP is telling as to how damaged she is. I’ll be supporting another good candidate in 2012. Thune, DeMint, & Pence are all good alternatives.
An Obama visit will not help Coons. He is underwater in Delaware just like he is in Illinois. Christine does need to hammer Coons and she has started into what will be a series of ads. Christine has to do two things to win. Hit Coons and win over the GOP that is holding out from supporting her.
This is just what they’ve been doing all along. . You’re saying they’re testing how that is working? They can test it any time already.
Delaware is about the only place Biden and Obama both have positive approval ratings.
That’s the main reason they’re campaigning there together.
And she’s still standing.
That would be David Brooks, Kathleen Parker or any number of McQueeg advisors who are irrelevant now that the tea party is in charge?
But it is my contention that in 2011 that the MSM will get serious about taking down Palin and that we have not really seen anything yet. So far they have toyed with the idea around the fringes but after Palin declares for the highest office in the land all bets are off.
VANITY - not Rasmussen
I think this is a fair analysis of what is going on. The radical left and their buddies in the Republican establishment are using O’Donnell as a tune up for their attack campaigns against Palin. We all know the dingy-dumb duh routine will be thrown at both of them, as a variation of the theme real blacks aren’t conservative. In this case, it’s smart women aren’t conservatives. Of course the joke is that most women who can qualify as smart, are conservatives. They are also better looking than most of the mentally challenged dingbats on the left.
Chris Coons poisons people for money.
Democrats don’t much like being poisoned.
At the same time, Palin is watching this race closely herself.
It’s a dry run for her as well. Will Christine survive? I think so, just because she’s stronger than Coons. A better candidate. It is an incredibly Democrat state though.
O’Donnell wins, and it’s pretty much President Palin - with a few caveats.
Total, unadulterated crap. Balderdash!
for months you anti-Palin bots kept pushing the “but, but Palin has been Dan Quayled” meme, despite massive evidence to the contrary. This year, she has proved to have more political power than any other politician in the entire country(including 0bozo himself), with her game changing endorsements, which have had the power to change election outcomes more than any politician I have ever seen. So now that your “Palin s another Dan Quayle” meme has been destroyed, you come up with this pathetic, loony left talking point garbage again? Let me know when you are ready to wake up from loony left-land and face reality will ya?
It may just be me, but, why don’t you wait until we have candidates declare and campaigns and little ole stuff like that.
Maybe throw in a primary or two.
workerbee:
The key difference in the line of attack is they have the specific case of a sure Castle victory in the Delaware Senate race if he had won and a sure loss for the GOP because O’Donnell prevailed.
The Castle-O’Donnell scenario is tailor-made and irrefutable evidence (according to the MSM) to be exploited against Palin in reference to her more “acceptable” or “electable” opponents. That is the key difference in the previous attacks on Palin and the future attacks on her.
If Coons wins big, the MSM will beat Palin over the head questioning her judgment in endorsing of Christine O’Donnell and then hang Palin out to dry with the O’Donnell-Coons result warning the GOP what to expect in 2012 if they dare nominate such a flake like Palin.
LLS
MSM get serious? are you kidding? There’s been an op-ed/article, hit piece everyday on the front page of one major or another since 2008. They’ve been grooming the publik for the very numbers those polls cite. Should she win the nomination those numbers would change in my opinion.
Unlike Thune, DeMint and Pence, Palin draws a large crowd and has name recognition.
And it would be historic!
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