Never mind, I got it.
Posted on 05/09/2012 8:26:48 AM PDT by superdad
Sarah Palin has picked sides in Nebraska's Republican U.S. Senate race. She's backing State Sen. Deb Fischer of Valentine.
The Fischer campaign announced the endorsement in a Wednesday morning press release that quoted a letter from Palin.
“We admire your conservative principles and know that you will not go to Washington to amass great wealth or power,” Palin wrote. “You will go to Washington to serve the people of Nebraska, protect our Constitution and work for common sense solutions to help restore America. We are happy to support you and have asked SarahPAC to send a financial contribution to your campaign.”
Fischer is running in the GOP Senate primary against Attorney General Jon Bruning and State Treasurer Don Stenberg.
Go Fischer. Go Sarah
Why couldn’t she pick someone in the presidential primaries?
HA! I slay me!
Go Sarah!
It will be interesting, as Palin doesn’t endorse candidates she doesn’t think can win. Yet Bruning has a lot of cash - as well as a lot of baggage. From the interview I saw, Fisher is pretty sharp, and as a Cornhusker native I’ve learned never to underestimate Nebraska farm (or ranch) gals.
Is there something bad about Bruning or Stenberg? Why did Sarah choose Deb versus these guys?
This is just some “spitballing”, and I may be wrong but this may be purposeful waiting...another smart move, imo, by Sarah...she has waited to give this endorsement in the final few days....
Sarah apparently has realized/learned that this will mobilize and highly motivate Tea Party sympathetic voters and give the opponents very little time to respond.
I would suppose by NOW the campaigns have a lot of things on their agenda scheduled tightly...and her endorsement throws a monkey wrench in the campaigns of those she opposes.
Did Sarah endorse Murdock (sp?) early on, or did she wait?
In August of 2011, the Omaha World-Herald reported that Bruning had purchased a lakeside house near the Platte River (valued at $675,000) in partnership with two Nelnet executives almost a year after he and his office had been accused of acting favorably toward the student loan company by not enforcing payment of a 1 million dollar judgment awarded to the State of Nebraska when Nelnet was under fire for alleged improper business practices.
Palin really does not like people who play the corrupt good old boys politics.
Because it is a woman...
Her endorsements always do seem carefully timed for the most impact, and I think your reasoning explains why. She’s aware of how not just the liberal media, but also the GOP-e, would try to undermine her picks, to discredit not only her, but the whole Tea Party movement. She has to strike at just the right moment to help build momemtum for the nominee, before countering forces can effectively react.
She made it clear that Newt was her choice, she gave several informal endorsements of him and had Todd formally endorse him, and but the “Bloody Thursday” pile on in Florida took place before it was time for her to do a formal endorsement.
Nonsense, we have had to deal with that kind of nonsense from the romneybot crowd before, it doesn’t hold water.
Maybe, like many of us, she was not thrilled with any of them (although Todd endorsed Newt.
Read my posts, I am about the furthest from Romneybot on this site.
It is nice that Sarah is supporting her but this stops short of an endorsement, no? This is the campaign reading a letter of support. Wouldn’t an endorsement by Sarah have to come from Sarah’s mouth?
And perhaps, just possibly, oh I don’t know, it may have something to do with the other guy’s having shilled for Eric Holder’s nomination.
Perhaps, just possibly, that had more to with it than her gender.
Maybe.
Ya’ think?
I know that you are not a romneybot,I was pointing out that we have gone through all this nonsense attack stuff on Palin from them, I don’t know why you jumped on the anti-Palin, conservative woman bashing, band wagon.
I’m not anti-Palin at all, just observing that she is building a like-minded woman coalition. Nothing wrong with that.
I don’t think so. She backed Mourdock.
I know you’ll call ME a Romneybot, because you are predictable.
The question is, why Fischer rather than Stenberg?
Stenberg has an A rating from the NRA. He has been endorsed by many conservatives, including the following people and organizations:
Rand Paul
Nebraska Right-To-Life
Club for Growth
Senator Jim DeMint
Senator Mike Lee
Mark Levin
So, maybe it is reasonable to conclude that, given two apparently solid conservatives (Mark Levin isn’t endorsing a RINO, right?), that the deciding factor for Sarah Palin was gender.
This happened once before that I can remember, where Jim DeMint endorsed the male conservative, and Sarah Palin the female conservative, in New Hampshire I believe.
And some other freepers, but NOT ME, argued that her California endorsement was at least partly about gender, since there was a more conservative male candidate she passed over. I went along with those who argued she picked the most electable conservative, not the best conservative.
I guess you can just dismiss and comments about Sarah you don’t like as RomneyBot-inspired, but it’s not much of an argument, nad it’s pretty useless in a real discussion.
The Mourdock thing was a triumph for her. Mourdock was only slightly ahead of Lugar. Once she announced her support, the TEA money flooded into that race and an Establishment SuperPAC pulled out. Lugar’s position collapsed.
Downticket Republicans know that a Palin endorsement is a lot more valuable than anything from Romney or Santorum. Given Burkmans baggage, I would not be surprised to see Palin’s choice start to go even or pull ahead over the next week.
In an era of complete phonies, Palin’s authenticity is golden.
Best,
Chris
Is there a risk now that, with different conservatives backing different conservative candidates, they will split the conservative vote and give Bruning a plurality victory?
No, you are wrong in your claim that she endorses candidates because of their sex, that is what we had to argue with in 2010 with the moderates and Romneybots.
Why start off a post with a personal insult?
As freerepublics top romneybot, and a correspondingly, consistent anti-Palin poster, why don’t you just lay off the tired baiting for a while.
That may be her ploy here as well. Fischer was 3rd in polling behind Stenberg and Bruning, but Fischer had an internal poll she claimed moved her into 2nd place, and other polls suggest that Stenberg might have hit a wall of support.
So maybe Sarah is thinking she can push the momentum to Fischer — together, the conservatives are far out-polling Bruning, but they are splitting the vote and Bruning is holding 1st place in the polls.
I don’t think it’s all that often though you see Sarah Palin on a “different” side than Mark Levin.
Yep, her endorsement is the best there is. In an era of complete phonies, Palin’s authenticity is golden.
It wasn’t an insult. Certainly YOU don’t consider it an insult, because you did exactly what I said I knew you would do. If I know what you are going to say, and call you predictable, and then you say it, how is that an “insult”?
You might as well be “insulted” that I say your freeper name is ansel12.
You are entirely false about me being an “anti-Palin” poster. I am a pro-Palin poster. I sometimes am “anti-Palin-Supporter”, when those supporters subvert what Palin says, put words in her mouth, or claim to “know” what she is going to do, or what she thinks, when she hasn’t said so.
It always amazes me when people who claim to be strong Palin supporters act like she is incapable of speaking her own mind. For example, it is clear Palin can say the words “I endorse”. She DIDN’T say those words with Newt Gingrich, but many of her supporters insisted she MEANT it.
I choose to believe that Sarah Palin is an excellent communicator who doesn’t play around and keep people guessing, and if she wanted to say “I Endorse Newt Gingrich for President”, she would have said it — and therefore, it is an insult to her for her “supporters” to pretend she endorsed him.
Of course, there’s also the equally insulting claim that Todd Palin can’t think for himself, and that his endorsement was actually dictated to him by Sarah Palin.
Anyway, feel free to refute my pro-Palin credentials by posting a link to anything I said about Sarah Palin that was a personal attack on her.
As an admitted troll who admits to doing stuff like this, it looks like you showed up here merely to get into some personal fight with me, while combining the usual pro-Romney, anti-Palin, tone.
Try to back off a little, your trying to hijack this thread into a Palin bashing thread is looking overly strained and overly ambitious even for you, your long wide ranging posts are way, way, off topic and obvious.
Because Stenberg is a multi time loser? Good guy though. And certianly better than Bruning.
She endorsed several weeks ago, not super early, it helped solidify support at the right time for him, made it a blow out rather than a simple win.
It does look as though it is shaping up as a Fischer vs Bruning race.
She still has a big gap to close.
I like Sarah not because she’s a woman, but because she’s a hottie.
[ducking!]
The first couple of months in 2008, we had to learn to deal with her good looks and our impulse to wisecrack and wolf call, by reminding ourselves that she was a married, devout, Christian mother, and a conservative leader, Reagan in a skirt.
I don’t think many people had heard of her “the first couple of months” in 2008. I guess I also forgot you have no sense of humor. None. Sorry. Sarah Palin would have been the first to chuckle at my comment, but you? Never.
Never mind, I got it.
You better watch out...ansel12 the humorless will gripe you out for that picture.
Huh? Was your original post meant as some sort of set-up, a dig at me? You just made a very dour, and humorless personal attack, which now seems to have been your original purpose, which I missed entirely in your first post.
I WAS chuckling at your first post, I said “we” and was agreeing with your, what I thought, was a humorous, light post.
As far as the ‘first couple of months “IN” 2008’, it didn’t occur to me that here on FR, that a freeper would not know that I was referring to OUR first couple of months of discussion about her here, after she was announced on August 29th, 2008, not January and February of 2008.
Wow, now an attack post against me without pinging me?
What in the world are you doing? Fill me in, do you have some sort of personal history with me that I am not aware of?
Your definition of “troll” doesn’t fit the standard. You are the one who turned this into a personal assault, I just tried to save you the trouble of calling me a Romneybot by pointing out that you would do so, as part of discussing the PALIN ENDORSEMENT, which is the topic of the thread, hardly trolling.
I feel I need to do so, because pretty much EVERY time I respond to a post you make, you respond by calling me a Romneybot. Then you usually call me other names as well. I was hoping I could just “stipulate” that you would call me names, so we could discuss the actual issue.
It’s nothing personal, you have every right to name-call (well, there is the “no personal attack” rule, but I certainly don’t care about your insults, and that rule rarely enforced, so you get the point). I certainly have no desire to get into a “personal fight” with you, but it has been my observation that you like to fight me whenever I post responses to you.
So, if you have decided to stop trying to pick fights with me everytime I make an observation about something you say, I apologize for assuming you would continue in your long-standing practice, and look forward to being able to hold productive, issue-based discussions with you in the future.
I still have no idea why you classify anything I said here, or anywhere else, as “Palin-bashing”. I didn’t accuse her of anything, I certainly didn’t speak negatively about anything she has done. And in a thread about a Palin endorsement, it certainly is not “wide-ranging” or “off-topic” to discuss the Palin endorsement and the reasons for it.
The only thing “off-topic” in my subsequent posts are my responses to off-topic things YOU said. If you are so upset about off-topic discussions, you probably shouldn’t start them — because I will readily admit that I like to respond to things that people post.
Yes, we have history, but I can’t recall exactly what, and it was not bad. I’m just being a crank.
I think you turned me on to a really good LED pocket flashlight or something else non-political.
(I was a fan of Sarah Palin about a month before she broke out on FR, as my wife can attest. I liked her before liking her was cool.)
In regards to ROMNEY:
To: CharlesWayneCT
And a RomneyBot chimes in.
34 posted on 08/01/2011 9:39:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
In regards to PALIN bashing or “PDS”:
To: CharlesWayneCT
Sorry, pal, your RINOism and PDS shines through your spin.
88 posted on 08/01/2011 10:45:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I can tell you that I am a very lazy writer, and that on the internet I seem a lot drier than I really am, the warmer, friendlier tones and gestures that one can see expressed non verbally in person, are just too taxing to attempt to express in print for a person who is as lazy as me with words, and the whole internet typing thing.
It does seem he’s having trouble getting traction. And I certainly haven’t heard anything bad about her. I was just surprised because everybody conservative was on the Stenberg bandwagon so I hadn’t really paid any attention to her.
What can I say, Jim isn’t omniscient.
As I said, if as you claim I regularly bashed Palin, you should be able to find a post where I bashed Palin.
I certainly didn’t do it in this thread. And while I have probably attacked everybody about something at sometime, as a Palin supporter it bothers me that you keep claiming without evidence that I oppose her. It is one thing to be attacked for someone I supported in the last election, but it’s much worse to be attacked for “opposing” a candidate I supported consistantly for the past 3 years.
Sometimes, it’s just easier to use labels like “PDS” than to have a conversation.
I was hoping that your previous response indicated that you were weary of always attacking me, and were ready to move on.
To: CharlesWayneCT
As I said, you’re a deranged idiot.
119 posted on 08/02/2011 12:12:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
In regards to ROMNEY:
To: CharlesWayneCT
And a RomneyBot chimes in.
34 posted on 08/01/2011 9:39:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
In regards to PALIN bashing or “PDS”:
To: CharlesWayneCT
Sorry, pal, your RINOism and PDS shines through your spin.
88 posted on 08/01/2011 10:45:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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