Posted on 01/30/2011 7:22:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
RENO, Nev. -- More an international big game hunting organization turned out by the thousands to hear a speech by former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
The Reno Gazette-Journal says more than 2000 people paid $100 each to attend the fundraising dinner for Safari Club International where Palin was the keynote speaker....
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Enjoy life in Alaska, make big bucks, and nudge the country back to sanity! What's to argue with???
Egypt needs a version of a Sarah Palin.
Right on!
Ex candidate???
You mean she’s already president???
America could be a possible worse situation in the future without Sarah Palin as a peoples choice should America become a dictatorship.
And smart people know its a lot closer to truth that technically we are experiencing an usurper that answers to no law challenging him, his questionable past, his ineptness, his favoritism.
With Egypt they have nobody speaking for the people and thus they may actually succumb to a leadership controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt is an educational lecture of what can happen when the people fail to decide ahead of time who is to be the future leaders.
Screw Egypt...we, the U.S., needs a version of Sarah Palin!
I suggest Sarah Palin consider a trip to Egypt, or at the very least consider some political suggestions by twitter or facebook, the Egyptians are getting the internet back.
Oh I can just imagine the dialogue should for some obtuse reason Sarah Palin shows up in Egypt and THEY elect her President!
Oh the irony, she can throw sand in obamas face for the next two years.
When it comes time for the people to vote for Sarah Palin to be President there will not be enough.
She MUST win by a landslide, anything less the left will just buy, bribe and intimidate mor votes.
And so far her popularity is just not quite...large enough.
The once and future candidate.
While I would support her for President, I would do so knowing that it was a Quixote’ type quest. Realistically, while she appeals to us, there are many who are turned off by her (including independents) and I’m sure pollsters remind her of this fact regularly.
Most of her detractors are working from a position of ignorance. They haven’t read her books or studied her life in Alaska. If they had, they’d realize what an opportunity her candidacy offers conservatives in a huge victory in ‘12. This will be the tea parties greatest test.
CARTER NOW FAR AHEAD OF BOTH REAGAN AND BUSH
"President Carter so dominates the American political scene now that his margin over Ronald Reagan in a post-Iowa trial heat has risen to an overwhelming 65-31 percent."
Also, Time magazine ran a big story in March of that year basically saying Reagan was unelectable. Gallup had a poll in that time frame with Reagan down 25 points.
ABC News - Harris poll: FORD LEADS BOTH CARTER AND REAGAN, ALTHOUGH STILL UNDECLARED CANDIDATE
"Former President Gerald Ford is the first choice of Republican and independent voters to head the GOP ticket, even though he has not yet declared himself a candidate for the Republican nomination.
Ford also leads President Carter among the general electorate."
Historic Whispers: Ronald Reagan Had Little Chance of Winning the Primary
White House political strategists have concluded—regretfully—that Ronald Reagan is fading and will have little chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination in 1980. Why the regrets? Because Carter's aides are convinced that the conservative, 68-year-old former California governor is an easy target. (April 2, 1979)
Like they loved John Connally and Howard Baker in 1979. Anybody but Ronald Reagan back in those days. Same ol', same ol'....
"Although the Gipper had a near mystical hold over grassroots conservatives, he was still not held in high regard by the power brokers of the GOP. In the spring of 1979, a survey of leading Republicans showed John Connally to be their first choice for GOP nominee in 1980, with 31.9 percent of the vote; Howard Baker came in second with almost 18 percent; Reagan was essentially tied with George Bush at 11 percent."
-- Craig Shirley, Rendezvous With Destiny, pg. 36. (Citation to U.S. News article from April 16, 1979)
...some poll had Reagan even losing his own state California Primary!
Another blast from the past, Sept. 14, 1979 Field poll in Reagan's own state of California:
KENNEDY SWAMPS REAGAN AND ANY OTHER CANDIDATE IN CURRENT TESTS OF STRENGTH. CARTER ABOUT EVEN WITH REAGAN BUT TRAILS FORD
"When matched in a trial heat against the leading GOP presidential contender Ronald Reagan, [Ted] Kennedy has a 29 point bulge over the former Governor (63% to 34%) among potential California voters."
In the same California poll Reagan had a 1 point lead over Carter 48-47.
You’re barking up the wrong tree on this site. It’s Sarah or nobody here. It’s just not grounded in reality. The people who like her LOVE her.,..but there’s just not enough of those people. Maybe she’ll surprise everyone, I don’t know. Personally, I don’t think she’ll get the nomination.
I love her as well and hope that folks will come to support her overwhelmingly, we’ll see...
I love her as well and hope that folks will come to support her overwhelmingly, we’ll see...
I’ve been reading some of the folks on this thread and some are embarrassments. I understand if someone wants to support someone other than Palin but when I hear someone talking about how she doesn’t have the support or can’t get it I keep thinking about Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Sharron Angle, Toomey, Ron Johnson, Ken Buck, etc. Did anyone think McCain was going to win the nomination? No. Did anyone really think Obama had a chance in hell? Not really. Those who wish to write Sarah Palin off really don’t understand campaign dynamics. Given their quickness to declare her defeat I have to wonder is it because they just don’t want her to even try or is it because they don’t believe in the worthiness of the cause. We didn’t win all the Senate seats we wanted to but even so even Sharron Angle did better in Nevada than John McCain. Who in the world would’ve thought that would happen? Charlie Crist was a shoo-in but where did he end up? Rand Paul was too radical? Where are these people now, some of them are the same naysayers in this thread some of them are pining over Romney, Huckabee, or worse some narrow conservative that doesn’t even have a financial base to even run.
The single biggest thing that Sarah Palin has going for her is that she has a potential small donor base that will rival anything that any other candidate has even Ron Paul or Obama has had. Sarah Palin gets people excited who are not excited about anyone else. Polls are a bit misleading because Palin is so polarizing but there are a lot of people who like her but just won’t commit because they think it isn’t the right answer because 24x7 the media, the elite commentators etc tell them she isn’t. The elephant in the room is that Palin has a huge potential backlash banked because her critics have been so over the top, so intellectually dishonest that Palin only needs to prove their caricatures wrong to open up main lines to new voters.
She is going to appeal to the independents, she is going to appeal to libertarians, she is going to appeal to evangelicals, she is going to appeal to men, and women and she is going to have an unlimited amount of money to do it with.
The key thing is that if the people on this thread are real conservatives we need to commit to coalescing behind the conservative that rises to the top. Palin I believe will but if it is Jim DeMint, if it is Michelle Bachman, if it is someone who is truly a conservative then we need to commit ourselves to back that candidate or we will be stuck with some establishment hack who doesn’t have a any intent of respecting the constitution or protecting liberty or respecting the founding principles of the Tea Party.
Those here who wish to parrot the media, the “experts”, the same ones who told us Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and others were sure things and better than sliced bread. Well you are already defeated. Better you stay out of the fray if you can’t at least be honest with who you support but instead would rather take the cowards path of sowing derision as if you would really like to support Palin but don’t believe she can win.
Winning is the result of doing. It is not something that comes from hard work. It is not predicted by media love or news pundits. If it were we’d have had Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton. Don’t forget on the Republican side Reagan was too extreme, Bob Dole was the perfect candidate to defeat Clinton, and John McCain was so much better a candidate than George W Bush.
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