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Palin's erratic behavior mars 2010 elections (Attacks beginning already!)
The Washington Post's Post Partisan ^ | November 2, 2010 | Michael Gerson

Posted on 11/02/2010 12:36:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For many Republicans, the bright, golden haze of Election Day is marred by a thunderhead on the horizon -- the increasingly erratic political interventions of Sarah Palin.

In the past, Palin embodied the populist style of the Tea Party movement while espousing a fairly mainstream Republican ideology. On economic, social and foreign policy, Palin seldom strayed from a simplified, popularized Reaganism. The mama grizzly may have been ferocious, but her talking points came from the Heritage Foundation instead of from darker corners of the right.

But this election season has called that perception into question. Palin's endorsement of Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Republican Senate primary revealed a preference for a shallow ideological purity above achievement, qualification or electoral success. And on Monday, Palin issued a robocall for Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo in Colorado, one of the most divisive figures in American politics.

Tancredo has made a career of fanning anti-immigrant resentment and lobbing ideological grenades. The people who voted Barack Obama into office, in his view, "can't even spell the word vote or even speak English." America would be better off with a "civics, literacy test" for voting. The National Council of La Raza is "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses." Miami is a "Third World country." Pope Benedict's embrace of immigrants is all about "recruiting new members," in an attempt at "faith-based marketing." "The guy sitting in the White House," says Tancredo, is a greater threat to the Constitution than al-Qaeda. "If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don't we just send him back?"

It would be the worst outcome of this Election Day if the conservative wave were to carry Tancredo into office. The replacement of the supremely decent Colorado Governor Bill Ritter with a nativist...

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Colorado; Connecticut; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; backstabber4romney; backstabberromney; gerson; gerson4romney; karlrove; logcabingop; operationleper; palin; rinos; romney; romney4romney; romneyattacker; romneybot; romneyflak; romneypimp; romneyprrep; romneyvsgop; romneyvspalin; saboteurromney; sarahpalin; surrogate4romney; tancredo; teaparty
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Mr. Gerson is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Karl Rove protege.
1 posted on 11/02/2010 12:36:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ROFL! They can’t even control themselves until tomorrow.


2 posted on 11/02/2010 12:37:06 PM PDT by jazminerose
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Translation: Palin’s ability to motivate the conservative base screws up all our plans.


3 posted on 11/02/2010 12:37:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Government has no other end, but the preservation of property." --John Locke)
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It would be the worst outcome of this Election Day if the conservative wave were to carry Tancredo into office.

It would be the expression of the will of the people. I understand why one of Rove's minions would hate that.

4 posted on 11/02/2010 12:40:11 PM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow,these people really are afraid of Palin.
But then they should be..


5 posted on 11/02/2010 12:41:16 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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"None of our low blows and cheap shots had any effect because she wasn't acting like a typical Republican."

Yeah. She was acting like a Ronald Reagan.

6 posted on 11/02/2010 12:41:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s a little rino....a roveien rino

Career Prior to joining the Bush Administration, he was a senior policy advisor with The Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy research institution.[3] He also worked at various times as an aide to Indiana Senator Dan Coats and a speechwriter for the Presidential campaign of Bob Dole before briefly leaving the political world to cover it as a journalist for U.S. News & World Report.[4] Gerson also worked at one point as a ghostwriter for Charles Colson.[5]
In early 1999, Karl Rove recruited Gerson for the Bush campaign.[5]
Gerson was named by Time as one of “The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals In America” in the magazine’s February 7, 2005 issue of the magazine, listing Gerson as the ninth most influential.[3]
[edit] Speechwriter


7 posted on 11/02/2010 12:42:04 PM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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One wonders whether Karl Rove's misogyny is rooted in closeted homosexuality or rooted in his divorce. Regardless, his efforts to destroy Palin will fail.
8 posted on 11/02/2010 12:42:27 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Washington Post should from now on always be referred to as The Irrelevant Washington Post.
9 posted on 11/02/2010 12:43:09 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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Gerson’s a Johnny One Note. Immigration is his thing and he hates Tancredo.

This is so predictable.


10 posted on 11/02/2010 12:43:25 PM PDT by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, whatever, libtards. The only thunderhead on the horizon is the one barrelling toward the polls today. Heads up, dummies. You’re gonna get drenched.


11 posted on 11/02/2010 12:43:25 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why are people so afraid of this woman?

I read a blog from a liberal leaning acquaintance of mine who posted about her family Halloween party talking about her dad’s charcoal grill coloring the hot dogs as “black as Sarah Palin’s heart”.

NUTS!


12 posted on 11/02/2010 12:43:36 PM PDT by Infidel Heather (In God I trust, not the Government.)
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ROVE! You malignant bastard, I will not read your book!


13 posted on 11/02/2010 12:44:34 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: jimbo123

Watch Rove start turning up in New Hampshire over the next few months...


14 posted on 11/02/2010 12:45:38 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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ROVE! You malignant bastard, I will not read your book!

Wish I could say that, it was boring anyway. It went in the garbage when Tokyo Rove stepped on his Johnson bashing Christine.

15 posted on 11/02/2010 12:47:16 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Stick your gravitas Tokyo Rove! SeeBS are "corrupt Bastards"! (Palin/Cheney 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reads as if it could have been ghost written by Has-been-Rove


16 posted on 11/02/2010 12:47:31 PM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012. Kill "Obamamosque"@ Ground Zero)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ROTFLOL


17 posted on 11/02/2010 12:48:24 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Infidel Heather

I don’t understand it either!
She is not even running for office and they act like she’s a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Meanwhile, the beast Pelosi really IS a couple of heartbeats away from the presidency.

SHE MUST BE SENT PACKING.


18 posted on 11/02/2010 12:48:43 PM PDT by a real Sheila (TODAY IS THE DAY WE TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!! DO YOUR CIVIC DUTY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Palin has been touring the country building a base to take back our country.

What have have Karl Rove and Company been doing to stop the Europeanisation of America?

19 posted on 11/02/2010 12:49:55 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Notice that Gerson also did name his “sources”. I wonder why?


20 posted on 11/02/2010 12:50:09 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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