Posted on 07/08/2009 4:35:21 AM PDT by free me
NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was driven in part by her wish to help Republican candidates across the country, associates say.
But in New Jersey and Virginia, both of which have competitive governors' races this year, the prospect of a visit from the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee has so far drawn a muted response from the GOP contenders in both states.
In Virginia, a historically conservative state where Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate since 1964 to win, Republican Bob McDonnell said Tuesday his campaign had had conversations with the Palin camp but stopped short of saying whether he wanted her help.
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It should be by Beth Foo-ey. She’s an Obamaton.
I heard tha the Va. gubernatorial candidate would be most happy to join him on the campaign trail.
make that “have Sarah” join him on the campaign trail.
We’d love to see Sarah here in Virginia again.
She’s a Palin hating obamatron for sure!
I think Sarah will be very welcome in VA.
I wish Christie would beg her to come to NJ so I had a reason to vote for him and mostly so I could go see her in person!
I am from NJ, and I can tell you, Sarah’s appearance beside our candidate would have a rousingly positive effect. Christie is not Lonegan, but Lonegan is also behind him.
I knew Sarah would probably be doing this in the wake of her stepping down as Gov. I also knew the MSM would wring every bit of ambiguity out of it as a way to cast aspersions. The campaigns of these two male candidates might not want to be overshadowed by her, tho.....it’s a bit of a trade-off.
Christie would sooner have Obama campaign for him than Palin.
Good analysis, I agree.
That’s too bad for him then, her endorsement might be the only thing that could get me to vote for him.
Yeah fine. Christie can shun Palin and keep touting his go-green nonsense. Let us know how that works out for you.
Yeah fine. Christie can shun Palin and keep touting his go-green nonsense. Let us know how that works out for you.
I am a total Palin fan. I was hoping McCain would pick her WAY before he did it.
My concern of her has nothing to do with her brilliant move on July 3rd. My concern is that she might be a supporter of our lousy RINO gov., Charlie Crist.
If she can even think of supporting Crist, I seriously question her conservative credentials.
Crist has completely “Schwarzeneggered” our state.
Albert Einstein definition of insanity " doing the something over and over and expecting a different result. Keep electing Democrats. The State that brought of Jim Mcgreevy ,Bob Torricelli and current Flake Jon Corsine.
Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate: Palin Welcome to Campaign for Me
McDonnell is welcoming to Palin!
Christ? I barely want her to support Christie!
I don’t think she’ll be helping twinkletoes. Maybe Rubio will get her nod.
As you can see, the fabricated stories regarding Governor Palin continue.
Yeah I thought I read that somewhere. AP Fooey is an obamatron so it figures.
Any Republican who is “afraid” of Sarah Palin is not “true Republican”. A “true” Republican would be looking forward to ANYTHING or ANYBODY that would get the present administration out of power. To “be suspect” of anything that might help just means they are the enemy in a Republican cloak. (Like Powell?) The “moderate” Republicans are about to lose their power (their power to get Dems elected).
see post 14, you heard right.
The libmedia knows Palin is going to get on stump and help candidates so they’re trying to stir up some meme that Palin is toxic.
Total Projection.
New Jersey is not exactly a hot-bed of conservatism so Palin would likely turn off more people than she’d attract. I mildly surprised by Virginia reaction, though. Maybe it really has gotten less and less conservative over the recent years.
Palin should ditch the GOP and start a real conservative party. The Republican party is the biggest impediment to conservatism.
B.S., Republican Bob McDonnell said he would love to have her come campaign with/for him. He has my vote.
“GOP candidates in Va., NJ wary of Palin”
Headline should read “Left Wing AP Terrified of Palin”.
I’m no huge fan of the Gov. from Alaska, but why DO the heathen rage?
Christie is not going to ask Sarah because he your typical NJ GOP Rino. It’s common knowledge that Rino’s (NJ is full of them) hate Conservatives...they scare them.
“McDonnell, a former state attorney general, is in a tight race with Democrat Creigh Deeds to succeed outgoing Gov. Tim Kaine, a moderate who now chairs the Democratic National Committee.”
Obviously Ms. Fouhy has not seen, or is ignoring, the latest polls out of Virginia that show McDonnell leading Deeds by 6, and those numbers are from PPP, a dem polling company. Wake up Beth, smell the coffee!
No way, she is a Repub and will always be a Repub, and she’s said nothing to the contrary. Nice try.
I would go so far as to predict that one of the next lines of attack against Palin by the RINO establishment is to try and influence both candidates to shun her in a big way this fall.
I guess they don’t want tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters at their rallies, who needs all that noise, and all those people, traffic congestion, they’d rather have McCain size crowds or less.
If they don’t invite her to come, she should accept invitations to other events in VA and NJ to coincide with some of their campaign events, and suck all the air out of their sails. They’d draw a couple of hundred, and she’d be addressing thousands, and even tens of thousands. Then watch them beg her to show up and campaign for them.
I get your drift but if McDonell is in a tight race as the fall progress do not be surprised to see Gov. Palin on the last day of campaigning in Va. Just ask Chambliss in Ga what a influence Gov. Palin had. Gov. Palin would be gold in the southern and western part of Va. Military vote should be included as well.
If Christie deliberatley distances himself from Palin, I am sitting it out in November.
I agree, Reagan. This will certainly show whether Palin’s conservativatism is a show or if it runs deeply through her.
I’d love to see her on the campaign trail beside Rubio.
Four months from now, when inflation and unemployment are both up, Chris Christie will be begging Palin to come in to help him out.
Best,
Chris
I agree, Reagan. This will certainly show whether Palin’s conservativatism is a show or if it runs deeply through her.
I’d love to see her on the campaign trail beside Rubio.
Sorry for the double post but it doesn’t hurt to say it twice.
“Maybe it really has gotten less and less conservative...”
Yes and no. I am a native Virginian, I lived there for 35 years. (Including a 6 year period in Northern Va.) When I go home or talk to friends from the southside/southwest part of the state, I don’t see a swing to the left. I think it boils down to demographics. Northern Virginia (metro DC) is huge in terms of population - and it is completely different from the area of the state where I was raised. I was truly surprised Virginia went for Obama. I have been gone 15 years, it didn’t seem things had changed. They may not have changed as much as the pundits would have us believe. Think back 20 years to the election of Douglas Wilder, the first black governor. I don’t know, but I would bet he carried the counties and cities with a large black population and areas with a high amount of transplants from other areas. I would also be willing to bet that if you compared that with the areas Obama carried, it would be very similar. I don’t know what the percentage of blacks are in regard to the total makeup of the population, but with a black democrat on the ticket for a major office, they evidently turn out and go overwhelmingly for that candidate. Also, look at the coalfields of southwest Virginia and West Virginia. They both have been traditionally democratic, but they went for McCain/Palin. I think because of the fear of gun control, (we do love our hunting and firearms), but also, despite the democratic label, most of these folks are fairly traditional and decent people. I am not trying to make this a race thing, although there is a component of it among both black and white. Mainly, it’s demographics. And more than the black vote, it is the transplants who are turning Virginia left. The black vote is merely the tipping point. Not trying to be regional or racial, just calling it as I see it.—JM
The writer for the AP-Obama is either lying or incredibly obtuse. Let’s see what Bob McDonnell said about having Governor Palin campaign for him.
“Republican Bob McDonnell told the folks at ABCNews.com yesterday that Gov. Sarah Palin would be a “good spokesman” if she still wants to come to Virginia to campaign for him this year.
“She was a successful governor in Alaska,’’ he said. “She was a popular governor in Alaska, got a lot of things done on taxes, and government regulation and ethics, and you know, those are some of the things that I’m interested in getting done here in Virginia.”
Reagan99,
I don’t think it’s fair to judge Palin’s conservative cred based on whether or not she campaigns for Rubio against Crist. Crist is certainly a RINO but he campaigned hard alonside her in 2008 and Palin considers Crist a friend. For that reason, I can’t see her campaigning against Crist even if she does prefer Rubio’s politics, as we all do. My guess is that she’ll avoid that race. She does, after all, have a sense of loyalty.
DB
Let's hope she "crosses the Rubicon" and endorses Marco Rubio.
And Kaine sure as hell ain’t no moderate - he, like Warner before him, scammed big time and has done nothing to relieve the tax burden or solve transportation etc - yet are CONSTANTLY called “moderates” - geeeeez....
I also think Kaine’s and Deeds’ opposition to offshore oil drilling, which McDonnell enthusiastically supports, is really hurting the dem candidate.
Rudy supported Christie during the primary and Rudy is a friend of Sarah’s, so anything is possible. Though Christie is better than Corzine, he is not exactly the kind of candidate I expect Governor Palin to get behind.
Well that’s encouraging - if he hammers illegals, lower taxes, cuts in spending, transportation emphasis, school vouchers, etc, we may have a winner!
Is this story factual, or is the AP just trying to drive the wedge a bit deeper between Palin and the soft wing of the Republican Party that the Dems love to target? I’m betting they are just making this stuff up.
See post 14
I know you can ~always~ trust the AP, but they’re implying things that McDonnell didn’t say...
Didn’t I read somewhere where before Tuesday McDonnell had said he’d love to have her campaign for him, but he didn’t know if that would fit in with what Palin would be doing?
I could see some RINO Pubbie consultants being nervous for a day or two about Palin, but I think you’re right, she’d be a help.
In the last week of the 2008 campaign, Obama drew 60,000 people in Northern Va.
There will be a tea party in DC on 9-11-09. The DC tea party organizers ought to book Palin for the event. It will be a major media event and let’s see if Palin can match want Obama drew.
Palin / McDonnell 2012
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