Posted on 01/03/2011 9:59:10 PM PST by unseen1
amen
you and the author are right on the money !
Your problem here is respecting Erick Erickson opinion here. He has been very wrong before and I don’t see the empirical evidence of what he is selling this time.
I’m not the writer. I just posted the piece. My take away line of the post was this:
So my message to Mr. Erickson and all those people who believe in Governor Palin is to help Governor Palin push back against the false narratives, help us get the truth out, and help spread Governor Palins message instead of conceding to the ridiculous smears. For too long, we have stood by at the sidelines and allowed the media and the elites to tell us what to believe and what to think. Stand up for your country, stand up for your constitutional rights, and stand up for what you believe in. If not now, when and with whom?
Dont retreat, reload!
I hope Palin does run, if only to make the other candidates go to the right with her. Her problem is that, although she is far from a right-winger, as her support for moderate candidates in California and Arizona showed, she is to the right of everyone else, and they don’t want the public to know it. I take her as basically a libertarian whose life experience made her pro-life and patriotic.
I second that.
Erik is like Hugh Hewitt imho. They’re so poll driven. They’ll the type that will settle for a RINO to win an election, then whine about how the government dont govern like conservatives
I hope she run and even if she loses, I hope she run again and again til she win and she will prove everyone wrong by the way she govern, that she’s a great Executive
That is a very simplistic comment. If you don’t support Sarah then you like Clinton, Bush and O’Bama. Sarah’s problems are much deeper than this article would have you believe. She is not at this time electable because the college educated, white middle/upper middle class conservative white voters aren’t comfortable with her. And if she can’t win the suburban counties around your major cities which are the stronghold of Republican and moderately conservative independents she can’t win the election. I live in one of those counties. Every 2 years we send one of the most conservative members of the House back to DC. We overwhelmingly supported our conservative governor twice and are as a group small government, low tax, pro-gun people, but most of my neighbors have told me they will not vote for Sarah in 2012. They want a candidate in 2012 that is competent, conservative and accomplished and see Sarah as only one of the 3. They want Sarah to do exactly what she is doing now. Campaigning, fund raising, working to get out the vote. Without these people the GOP loses in 2012, I don’t think they are in the no mood to vote for the lesser of two evils. They will sit out the presidential election if they are not happy with the candidates they have to choose from.
Good point.
So let’s just assume Palin were to become President. ..what would happen? We’d have a President with rock-solid Conservative principles, a proven ability to get things done without compromising them or “reaching across” BS, a person who even her enemies have to admit has uncanny political skills, and a Mom in Charge. What’s not to like?
And to those who endlessly post things like “I don’t see any candidates I like”, in all humility: “get over yourself”.
I read your take away and understood it perfectly.
My point to you is not to care what the CNN conservative is thinking and look at what people are thinking in states that matter. Sarah is very competitive in polling. We will take the reigns and get her moving through the primaries and let George Will and Erickson catch up when they clue in. Ericksons cute hedging at the end of his piece offended me personally.
I don’t know if you remember Reagan running in ‘76 and ‘80 but there was absolutely no following for him early on except for grass roots activists. There is a Tea Party dieing for her to run. We start from there.
I want her to run because she is courageous. She has heart. She has nerve. As good Queen Bess put it: she has the stomach of a king.
Your comment makes no sense. either you believe in Reaganism or you don’t. Gov Palin is the only Reaganite in the race. Failure to support the Reaganite in the race means you would rather support the bushie.
ok misunderstood you then. I can agree wth this statement.
Good assessment. The only criticism I have of Sarah is, she needs to take voice lessons. IMOHO
He is someone I wouldn't want on my side when the going gets tough. I was really pissed off after his BS Speech.
Listen to her on the audio book of america by heart. you will change your mind.
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