Posted on 10/08/2009 7:22:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
She's poised to become the best-selling author in the United States, has a devoted base of conservative supporters and is considered a front-runner to lead the Republicans into the next election in 2012 - and yet key party strategists are tormented by the popularity of Sarah Palin.
The very notion of a Palin candidacy has been derided in recent days by some of the brightest minds in the Republican party even as the former governor of Alaska outlines her policies on Afghanistan, energy and other issues of national importance.
"Were she to be the nominee, we could have a catastrophic election," Steve Schmidt, John McCain's presidential campaign manager last year, said recently.
He was backed by Mike Murphy, a Republican media consultant who also made a point of chastising Schmidt for his role in Palin's rise to international prominence to begin with.
"Steve Schmidt correct about Sarah Palin and '12," Murphy said by way of his Twitter feed. "Shame he didn't feel same way a year ago when he was lobbying McCain to choose her as VP."
John Weaver, McCain's closest political adviser for years, also weighed in earlier this week about a Palin candidacy.
"It would surely mean a political apocalypse is upon us," he said.
Yet from her unlikely pulpit - Facebook, and not the governor's office in Wasilla, Alaska - Palin is getting her message out on everything from health-care reform and energy while assailing President Barack Obama for his position on Afghanistan. Many of her 900,000-plus "friends" on the social networking site are cheering her every word.
Her star quality is undisputed - a Canadian is so confident of her popularity that he's selling an Xbox 360 autographed by Palin for US$1.1 million on eBay.(continued)
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lol They should be worried. We are sick of them, too!
Were she to be the nominee, we could have a catastrophic election,” Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s presidential campaign manager.
LOL, thats pretty funny when you read it again and realized who said it.
She’s the ONLY reason Juan McCrazy didn’t have a McGovern-like implosion.
“Were she to be the nominee, we could have a catastrophic election,” Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s presidential campaign manager last year, said recently.
Good grief! We have a catastrophe right now because she wasn’t elected to office.
I don't consider the people who advised a looser like McCain to be key Republican strategists"
LOL, thats pretty funny when you read it again and realized who said it.
Yah, fairly 'catastrophic' for the political class .... /LOL
Republican strategists (RINOs) persistent fecklessness chafes key Palin grassroots supporters.
There. Much more accurate. And meaningful.
All Palin has to do is post a Facebook note on which city she'll be in to give a campaign speech, and the people will go in droves. It will drive the MSM bonkers because they can't ignore 50,000+ people attending a Palin rally.
More and more, it makes perfect sense for Palin to abandon the Stupid Party and run as a true Independent. She has the record of reform and she has the voters who are angry at both parties. She doesn't need to go through the puppet strings of the primaries only for liberals to crossover and vote for the most RINO candidate because the Stupid Party is too stupid to fix their primary system.
Moderates and liberals hate conservatives.
Again I have the extreme honor of sending a post your way...
I’m just going to repeat my last one...
“If anyone would know...you would..I cant think of a better endorsment”
some people think the reason the establishment GOP doesn’t like Sarah is because if she were to be elected she’ll expose their own corruption and/or stop their gravy trains.
But i think it is because the establishment is in agreement with the RATS on how to change the country. Look how they shoved McCain down our throats when there were so many other contenders that the party electorate liked better.
Maybe but these "strategists" haven't really proven lately that they know anything about strategy, have they?
I agree. Great point.
What an idiot.
Naaa, she is much hotter than RR.
45 years ago..
Nelson Rockefeller told his staff that, in the words of his public relations head, Stuart Spencer, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
Purveyors of hate, declared Gov. Scranton about Goldwater and supporters. George Romney agreed stating, "There is no place in either of our great political parties for the purveyors of hate who, from time to time in nations the world over put on their brown or black or red shirts, flex their police-state muscles and cry for someone's blood."
Today..
Chief RINO tells his staff, "We have to destroy Sarah Palin as a member of the human race."
'dem liberal guys don't change do they?
Who was the sage that said “without Palin, Barr would have come in second?”
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