"We'll keep our God, our guns and our Constitution."
Posted on 07/15/2012 6:34:16 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
[T]he Romney campaign has not asked Palin to speak at the convention nor contacted her about even attending the party’s marquee event in Tampa. Queries to the Romney camp about any possible Palin role at the convention meet with a stony silence. Palin does not seem surprised. “What can I say?” she responded in an email from Alaska, when asked by Newsweek about the convention, just before heading to Michigan to deliver an Obama-thumping speech. “I’m sure I’m not the only one accepting consequences for calling out both sides of the aisle for spending too much money, putting us on the road to bankruptcy, and engaging in crony capitalism.”
Romney was the choice of the party’s elites, whom Palin has regarded with open disdain ever since her rough treatment during the 2008 campaign. They are some of the same people who anonymously disparaged Palin as a clueless bumpkin, and some of them are now helping to run Romney’s campaign. When unnamed Romney aides tell reporters that Romney will likely go with a “safe” choice for vice president because of the 2008 “disaster,” Palin notices.
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The Romney camp will not comment on Palin, or on plans for the convention, but one adviser associated with the campaign suggested that Palin would be prohibited from speaking at the Republican convention by her contract with Fox News. “It’s true I’m prohibited from doing some things,” Palin says, “but this is the first I’ve heard anyone suggest that as an excuse, er, reason to stay away from engaging in the presidential race. I’m quite confident Fox’s top brass would never strip anyone of their First Amendment rights in this regard.” (Fox says her contract would not prohibit speaking at the convention if she sought permission.)
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Not me.
And yes I have a big girl crush on Palin..........((((sigh))))) ;-)
A very interesting post, and your historical summary is intriguing. Not sure I follow you on this though:
“Our political system is reaching a point where, as a complex system, it will have enough energy injected into it to begin bifurcating like a chaotic system, and we’re going to see our system drop over to a new strange attractor.”
Please explain. My take is simply that there is no need for two leftwing, big government, small liberty parties. Unrepresented people will go elsewhere. Obviously your analysis is more complex and I would like to understand it.
:....., and even nominate Palin as his VP.”
Palin would never accept a offer of a position from Romney. He burnt his bridges in 2008, and now has to spin Palin as a McCain mistake, when any fair observer would have noticed that Palin singlehandedly almost dragged a whinning, crying, and moribund McCain accross the line. Good thing that there were Romney folks on hand to save McCain from Palin by making sure he lost....lolololol
You’ll notice that Palin never endorses Romney directly keeping to the ABO meme......Doesn’t take much to see that Romney has earned himself a lifelong adversary....To my mind he deserves all the grief that Palin will undoubtedly heep on him. Good for her! Karma time for Mitt.
What goes around, comes around.......
“If not VP a cabinet post...She would really take a whip to energy.”
I fail to see how a stint in the Federal bureaucratic caverns would be anything other than determental to any long term political goals Sarah may have.
She’s fine where she is now, in the public eye, developing a public trust of her vision.....Her day will surely arrive, just as Reagan’s did, and a meaningless detour is not in the cards.
You have to adopt something like the party-list voting scheme popular in Israel, or the variation of that found in Denmark, or in Nederland.
Although these systems seem extremely different, they have been used in the USA in the past. Indiana used to have a system where no state legislative district could be smaller than a single county. That meant that 25% of the members were being elected from one district ~ (Indianapolis/Marion County) and another 20% were elected the same way in Vanderburg, Allen and Lake counties (Evansville, Fort Wayne and Gary/Hammond/East Chicago)
We survived, and smaller factions were able to work outside the two main parties to get their candidates elected ~ when you have 25 positions available in a single district a faction as small as 2.5% of the voting population can regularly win at least one position.
The math's different, but what happens under these other schemes is the factions making up the parties as we know them simply move out on their own and reserve their coalition activities for the legislative body.
The GOP-e would not survive multi-member districts.
I suspect it is bunk too. It would demoralize those who might support the Republican candidate. Just the trick if you ask me.
What? The word is getting out that only the RINOS and fearfilled are voting for Romney, and the s.o.b. conservatives are not?
About time. Hope the GOPE notices that 3 or 4% of us, or whatever it actually turns out to be, may matter in the end.
Probably they should have thought this problem through, before they crammed Romney down our throat. A socialist on a Republican ticket is no way to get my vote. EVER.
They are done with us and it’s quite clear our vote will be replaced by the 3/4% of socialists who are out of work. We are banished. But for the suckers who will vote Establishment.
Ick.
When you have single member districts any representative system of governance is going to end up with two parties, each of which is dedicated to getting 50%+1 of the votes so they can put their guy into office.
That's why there are two major parties ~ with only a thin fringe around them.
The shape of America's political spectrum is what is known mathematically as a BI MODAL SADDLE.
The upshot is that the coalition building politics commonly found in European parliaments is done BEFORE the elections in the USA (and Canada and Mexico).
The problem for many of us comes from the disruption created by a dominant, but other wise small and otherwise meaningless and insignificant minority like the GOP-e who are able to control the donations streams!
Democrats have the same problem where a 15% minority of Democrats ~ the Far Left ~ have seized control of the organs of governance.
The GOP-e is, at most 5%, but in affiliation with the business class, can mount about 20% of the vote and regularly stick us with a congenital loser as our top end standard bearer.
Things are better down in the legislative districts, but not much.
Analysts used to look at this GOP-e phenomenon and describe it as the "Presidential Republicans". Today they're known as the Mittbots ~ and they've added a church to their internal power structure. I see a night of the long knives ahead for that mess.
They will never, ever, EVER forgive her for that.
” Because too many of us will STILL march into the voting booth and vote for who they tell us.”<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Amen, brother! Amen!
Let me risk repeating myself: There are conservatives who are more RINO pragmatic than conservative, and there are conservatives who are more afraid than conservative, and then there are the s.o.b. conservatives who will cross the line. No surrender. These are the ones I want to hang with.
Romney. in a thousand ways, has already told us to kiss off.
I intend to oblige him.
Well said, my FRiend.
The Republican Party is rotting from within. I wish Sarah and other like-minded politicans would flip the elites the bird and all join another party, like the Constitution Party.
They all are so clearly not welcome, as are the rank-and-file conservative, it just doesn’t make sense to waste time with them.
Conservatives are the only political opponents Rinos have. They love the socialists. They want to be like the British Tory Party and name all the opposition haters and terrorists.
[ Romney was the choice of the party’s elites ]
Actually too many conservative candidates was what selected Romney.. The conservative vote was watered down.. It was not party elites at all..
Unless some of the candidates were the party elites..
Romney is and was known to be a RINO... still is..
Too many conservatives is what selected Romney..
Some conservatives are not conservatives..
Whats needed is a radical.. not a conservative..
It would take a radical to restore this Republic..
Radical change is needed..
The word conservative is nebulous..
I remain praying for a miracle in Tampa.
Hope she’s ready!
I remember when Glenn Beck was talking about how the progressives and communists had taken over the Democrat party and were starting to take over the GOP and I thought to myself “Nah, not the GOP” but these RINOS they act just like the Democrats too. I can say one thing that the Dems do differently than the RINOS do in our party, they don’t eat their own. You’ll never hear any Dem trash Wasserman Shultz even though she is a walking epic fail of stupid..but with the GOP elitists, for some reason, love trashing Conservatives. If Romney had ANY brains in his head, he would have invited Sarah a long time ago, even if he doesn’t like her, he could have used her support, by doing this, all he has done is alienated a large portion of the GOP, is Romney THAT desperate for Independent voters that he will throw us down the shaft
OK, so I haven’t read all 90 plus posts but I imagine that many of us are saying something like: Palin is our favorite leader in the party. She draws the largest crowds since Reagan. She is a great speaker. She is supporting Romney.
SO, if she isn’t invited to speak, I will not be watching any of the convention.
Why are they demotivating the base?
Yep.
I love your screen name.
Sara Johnson super detective and international spy............ ;-)
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