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Posted on 11/07/2010 7:37:25 PM PST by Anamnesis
Governor Palin needs to hear from you.
She needs to know YOU want her to run for president.
Go buy a postcard that has a nice picture of your hometown on it. Print one if you know how to do that. Make sure it is a picture of your hometown, home state.
Then, send the cards to Governor Palin at the addresses below. Yes, both addresses. To SarahPAC and to Wasilla.
I have a feeling these cards will end up in her presidential museum someday…as the reason she gave for entering the 2012 race.
[wink]
SarahPAC PO Box 7711 Arlington, VA 22207
And…
Governor Sarah Palin PO Box 871235 Wasilla, Alaska 99687
On a more comic note, they have an absolutely hilarious page where they compare Moochelle's frumpy clothes to drag queens' costumes, and another where they compare her to other First Ladies.
Yes she does, but thanks for the post.
I love Hillbuzz.They got their eyes opened wide in ‘08. Thanks for posting.
Yes, you’re right, she does.
I love Sarah, but if she runs, we lose.
This is political calculus, not my opinion of her.
For better or for worse, the McCain campaign trotted her out too soon and unprepared. She permanently injured herself and resigning as Governor cemented the deal.
She is unelectable.
It doesn’t matter what I think of her. It doesn’t matter what we at FR think of her. What matters is what most of America (think the Independents that went Republican this go-round an, frankly a good part of the base) think of here.
This requires cool calculation, not hot-blooded emotionalism.
Given his actions of the last 2 years, tin-eared reaction to this election cycle and arrogant posturing, there is no way the TOTUS-reader cannot lose. Given the current array of possible Republican candidates, there is no way we can win. And hillary is a wildcard in the deck.
My 2 cents.
Supposedly the Hill Buzz guys no longer like Hillary. The guy hates the whole Dem party because they let Obama destroy. Something I said before 2008 election. If the Dems want to save their party they needed to vote for disgusting McCain...the lesser of two evils.
Yup, McCain would have been a good ol' small-p transnational progressive Democrat. Trumanesque, perhaps.
I must agree unfortunately.
I love Sarah but my boys run in the other direction when she’s on TV..
I guess that means she sounds like me!
Horrible accent.... I know ...I have one!
Will not the primary season take her out if she is such a flawed candidate?
I’m just asking, folks, and I am deadly serious.
If she can make the case for her vision of America, and she can rack up the victories early on, what does that say about her would be voters? Are they just Palinistas who are idol-struck and non-thinking?
Everyone seems to forget that the primary process isn’t just a couple of weeks of intense ad campaigns and then ZAP, off to the voting booth. There are going to be debates, dozens of them. Interviews with the various local medias will be held by all contenders. There will be local campaign headquarters and precincts all over the fruited plains filled with loyal volunteers doing all that they can to see that their candidate comes out on top in their respective states.
Palin will not be able to win by hiding out on Facebook, Twitter, Fox News, or any of the friendlier talk shows. She is going to have to move beyond her base and tackle those souls who don’t pay attention to politics to the same degree as those of us on Free Republic, Hot Air, Ace of Spades, Red State, and all the rest of the blogs. And if she were to WIN those voters, what speaks louder, the fact that she can capture such votes or that the rest of the GOP voters in that state were not sufficiently motivated enough to vote for anyone else?
The candidate Palin becomes after emerging from the primary process (assuming she enters and wins) won’t be the same Palin that everyone is talking about in this thread. She will be a battle hardened, well versed, b@lls-to-the-wall competitor who won’t be a wallflower in the fall campaign season.
Lest we all forget, it was about this time in 2006 when we all thought that the 2008 Presidential run was going to be a New York affair between Rudy and Hillary. My, that seemed like an ice age ago.
Clinton was tough, but she never got the anal exam that Palin got.
So before we all start dismissing that “Caribou Barbie” as being a) unintelligent, b) unqualified, and c) unelectable, remind yourselves as to what they were saying about Reagan back in 1978.
I should know. I was there to watch it all unfold, and they were far worse on him than even on Bush-43.
For my money, I will entertain no such talk about how Palin can’t win, so she must be stopped before she even decides to run. That kind of thinking is for half-hearted Conservatives who don’t dare recall the stakes involved, and how this country can’t handle another four years of Obama. If we are going to correct the mistakes of the current administration, we don’t need a wimp, but a warrior who has already been baptized by the fire of unrelenting assault by just about everything in the universe.
Chris Christie has already declared that he isn’t running.
That only leaves Sarah Louise Palin. If she throws her hat in the ring and wins it all during the primary season, it will be through the sweat of her efforts, and the hard work of the people who will walk through fire on her behalf.
All (who calls themselves conservatives) that elects to sit at home or vote for Obama in November 2012 rather than pull the lever for Palin are, in my mind, misguided and short-sighted. The nation has already seen what happens when statists are given unchecked power at both ends of the Mall in D.C. To allow it to happen again is tantamount to abandoning the political battlefield so close to victory because you have issues with the person leading the charge.
It is not just a matter of Obama vs Palin, Left vs Right, Statist vs Conservative, but that of the US as fading light going the way of Europe, or the US as the bright beacon of light being the last, best chance of hope of Western Civilization in the new millennium.
If 2010 is considered to be the most crucial mid-term election in history, 2012 is going to be remembered as the most critical election in our lifetimes. For the sake of our progeny, I hope we all get it right, lest the future historians talk about this period of the world in Mandarin Chinese or some other tongue.
Palin is no goddess, nor perfect. But she is a patriot, deserving of the same chance to run for the highest office in the land if that is what she chooses. Let’s see what happens, and let history attend to itself.
Actually, they are FORMER Hillary supporters. They wouldn’t support her again for anything...they hate everything democrat.
They don’t make a big deal out of their gayness...they do want to burn the democrat party to the ground and are HUGE Sarah Palin supporters. They back the Tea Party and have some very interesting political commentary.
It is great reading some of their ideas on how to destroy the democrats...and right now they are fully engaged in stopping Rahm from becoming Mayor of Chicago.
>>Palin is no goddess, nor perfect. But she is a patriot, deserving of the same chance to run for the highest office in the land if that is what she chooses. Let’s see what happens, and let history attend to itself.<<
You have a more optimistic view of the electorate than I do. Think of the stupid things that have ended political careers.
But I agree, let things sort themselves out. But we need a combination of true conservatism AND electability. Which rules out every single Republican candidate in 2008. We need a new slate. Demint? Perry? Bond? I don’t know but can’t be Huckabee, Romney, Paul (elder or younger), et. al.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
ah the old “She is unelectable” meme...
Your political calculus is too close to that of the mainstream media...and they told us Obama was a leg tingle inducing Messiah. In other words, they are often wrong, as you are about this.
Sorry, it’s just not true. She will be our next President, but fear not, this wave is still building.
Romney-ites will just have to accept it.
>>ah the old “She is unelectable” meme...<<
It isn’t a meme — it is a fact.
I love her yet in 10 minutes I could create a campaign against her, using every dirty trick the dems won’t hesitate to use, to ensure that mainstream America would never come near her.
I think she is more useful as firebrand than the one who got the TOTUS-reader his 2nd term.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yes, facts in the face of emotion never do well.
But I usually associate that with liberals, not Conservatives.
Well, I believe a campaign of falsehoods and dirty tricks can be beaten by the right candidate.
I’d be interested in hearing your ideas that would be so damaging...she’s a quitter? She’s dumb? She doesn’t have the experience? She’s too pro-life? She’s not pro-life enough? She thinks Africa is a country? She can see Russia from...? All this crap has been in circulation, it’s easily refuted and is going to be meaningless by 2012.
We’ll just have to see how it plays out, but I hope you try to keep an open mind...just in case.
Spot on! I wish I could put everything you wrote on that postcard to Sarah. However, I will tell her that I would walk on glass to help her win the Presidency.
>>I’d be interested in hearing your ideas that would be so damaging...she’s a quitter?<<
That is a very good start. She did a TERRIBLE job of clearly explaining why she left the Governorship. I understood it, but her message was muddled. She also will never get rid of the taint of a hypocrite (a ploy the libs never hesitate to use) — it may not matter to you and me, but that isn’t the target audience.
And yes, the fact she came across as more ideological than thoughtful will weigh on her as well.. And, believe it or not, more than 1/2 of Americans (wrongly) believe she said “I can see Russia from my porch.”
She has so much negative baggage that I doubt any campaign she runs can overcome it. She has the Right, but I seriously doubt she can get the center.
And there is too much at stake to let a fatally flawed candidate lead us to a second TOTUS-reader term.
And I am not alone. You can yell at me and deride me all you want. That means nothing to the millions of conservatives who think exactly as I do.
We need new candidates. Mrs. Palin just isn’t the one and is more of a liability than an asset as a Presidential candidate.
But FWIIW, I give it a 4-1 against that she will even run, so maybe all this is moot.
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