Posted on 12/29/2012 3:45:16 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Just before the Christmas break the Boston Globe published a lengthy postmortem on Mitt Romney’s massive failure as a presidential candidate. Between this, and the constant hand-wringing by Geniuses of the GOP™, I think we have beaten this dead horse to a pulp, but there was one thing that came out of this article that has me as angry as I have ever been over a politician.
Before we get to that, let’s step back in time to 2008. Like 2012, the Republican Party didn’t exactly put forth an all-star field of candidates for voters to choose from. In the end it came down to Mitt Romney, Corupt-o-crat Mike Huckabee, and John McCain. With McCain in the lead, and on a bit of a winning streak, Romney did the right thing and bowed out. Huckabee hung on a little longer, for no particular reason. McCain became the nominee.
As you know, McCain had been running his campaign on a shoestring, at one point he was flying commercial and carrying his own bags. Obviously, the situation improved. But McCain was short of campaign staff, so here comes Mitt Romney and his people to the rescue. All well and good, so far. McCain still had problems and was down in the polls until he picked his running mate, Governor Sarah Palin. It was after Sarah was chosen that things picked up, considerably. Massive crowds started showing up, volunteers showed up to man local GOP offices, and money came pouring in. McCain’s choice of Governor Palin was brilliant.
Dishonest media hacks have tried to sell the lie that Governor Palin cost McCain the election, something many in the GOP, especially those loyal to Mitt Romney, have parroted non-stop for the past four years...
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You should go back and read my post, and see to which post that it is addressed to.
So you say. And yet, her actions also evidence a concerted effort to support strong conservative candidates.
You might also claim that she is a devoted fisherman/hunter, spending much of her efforts filling the family larder.
In truth any imaginable claim can be made based on a person’s actions.
Your opinion of Sarah’s actions speaks volumes about your own mindset and not at all of her motivation.
“You should go back and read my post, and see to which post that it is addressed to.”
This is your post:
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Latest Romney Revelation Has Me Incredibly Angry
Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:48:21 PM · 92 of 122
ansel12 to wtc911; Timber Rattler; Louis Foxwell; ought-six; hope
Your lie is extraordinary.
Palin is the most influential republican politician in America, she is doing more to reshape the office holders in America, to her individual liking, from the Congress, to the Senate, to Governorships like Sanchez and Haley, than any other politician in America.
Not only did she play a role in about 60 races in the history making victories of 2010, but in this election, while you Romney lefties were having your head handed to you, Palin gave us our only Senate pick-up with Deb Fischer, and gave us Ted Cruz of Texas over Dewhurst, Palin had a good election.
Now look at post 86, which it was addressed to, and at the first name on my list of addressees.
My post 92 was not to you, it was to post 86, I merely pinged you thinking that you might be interested.
Are you following this thread? Can you tell who the players are and what our views are?
No politician has faced the adversity that Palin has, strength, leadership, and indestructibility is what she is rightfully known for.
Personally, I think that she had no choice but to resign, to fight her total destruction at the hands of the media, the GOP, and the democrat party, all of the lower 48 states, who all lived and controlled public opinion, thousands of miles from her Governor’s office.
There is no way that Palin could fight the national media, the national Democratic party and the national Romney/Rockefeller branch of the GOP from the governor’s office in Alaska, she could not have traveled to the states and helped restructure the GOP in a more conservative mode, she could not have fought the Obama administration and Washington DC, from the remote distance of Alaska.
Alaska and Hawaii are not the places where a sitting Governor can make and maintain a prominent national presence in the New York, Washington DC, dominated mainland, and if you are the person that the mainland media has launched the most vicious, carefully coordinated media attack against in history, then you and your conservative movement would die on the vine in remote and distant Hawaii or Alaska.
So far, since 2008, Palin has been the leader of the conservative movement and the most effective, most party shaping republican since she went national in August 2008, before that Palin was our most effective Governor, and probably the most popular Governor in American history.
Palin even had a good year this time, giving us our only Senate seat pick-up, and giving us Ted Cruz over Dewhurst, and helping us with the congressional races while staying out of Romney and Rove's debacle.
With her massive effect on the history making 2010 election, and her involvement in about 60 or so races that election, no one in America is having the effect that she is, in moving the Governorships, the Congress, and the Senate, to the right.
You mean the GOPe with the gut feeling that Romney was the only one who could “win” against Obama?
Or conservatives with the gut feeling that there was no way a liberal like Romney ever would be able to beat Obama.
If I were you, I would go with the ones who proved to be right.
Dems were able to get low info voters because they appealed to their base. An excited base works harder to draw low info voters. Romney specifically worked against his base to go after the moderates and independents. According to Rush Limbaugh, the dems had already learned that was a losing strategy. They found that appealing to the base brought in more voters.
I guess now we know who was right.
I guess you missed the fact that the state of Alaska was forced to deal with each of the frivolous accusations against her and the state had to devote time and money away from their operations to do this. Certainly I’m sure you believe it would have been so much better if she had remained in office and tied down Alaskan government with these attacks against her.
Then you would be indignantly crying, “Well see what she’s done to her state. She has no concern about what this situation is doing to the state of Alaska. She should have resigned long ago for the good of the people of Alaska. Blah, blah, blah, etc. etc...”
You are so transparent. Why don’t you go constructively help your socialist loser Romney and his next in line JEB! Oh, excuse me. I forgot. The only way you know to help your elitist GOPe friends is to tear down conservatives.
Democrats fear Palin because democrats fear conservatives. Republicans hate Palin because republicans hate conservatives. They both blame their failures on conservatives, sabotage and try to destroy conservatives, only difference is, ironically, democrats are more up front and honest about it. They don’t pretend to be a conservative party while putting a knife in the back of conservative leaders.
Palin has done more for conservatives and created more fear among liberals than all her repub detractors, put together.
You have NO clue about what you are talking about. The financial attacks on the Palin family were organized and coordinated out of Pete Rouse's office in the White House and funded (under the table) by the DNC and Soros front groups, using local Alaska "blogger" hacks to do the dirty work.
By a well-meaning quirk in Alaska law (which the Rats exploited), she was unable to defend herself or her staff members. Even her legal defense fund was deemed illegal by the Rat-run "ethics" board, even though it was set-up by the same lawyers who had done the legal defense for Hillary and Kerry. When Palin resigned, she was already $500,000 in debt, with no end in sight to the continuing Rat attacks on her personal finances.
And where was the GOP-E, which should have been helping her fend off Rouse's wrecking crew? It sent her a $50,000 bill for her own vetting as a VP candidate, and then left her twisting in the wind, while the Rats (and Team Romney) took her apart.
You and ansel12 are talking past each other....he’s one of Sarah Palin’s fiercest defenders on this board.
One thing I do know is that Obama is a very evil man and we are a nation of idiots to have reelected him. I am heartsick over our dilemma. Our country is being forever transformed.
Over ten million dollars last year and she's out in the woods all day hunting moose to feed her family?
You are one funny chick.
That’s one of the problems: wtc911 had several posts. There is no way of knowing which one your were responding to. When you show my moniker in the address list, I have to assume you are, indeed, addressing it to me. Well, I’m glad you clarified it. Thanks.
“You and ansel12 are talking past each other....he’s one of Sarah Palin’s fiercest defenders on this board.”
That’s nice to know. But you have to admit that when my moniker is in the address list, and his post (as intended for the address list) starts off with “Your lie is extraordinary....” it’s natural to assume he is stating that to those in the address list, including me.
But he later explained why my name was included in the list, so all is copacetic.
I didn’t need to clarify anything, I posted to wtc’s post 86, as clear as day, post 86.
As is usually done on FR, after the primary recipient’s name I added further pings, one to the person who he had been posting to, and then to others who might be interested in my Palin defense, you were fourth among the people pinged to that post, yet you decided that the post was to you and about you, for some reason.
Weird.
Well, shit, bubba; when a post is addressed to me, I necessarily assume it was directed to me. Who knew?
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