Posted on 12/07/2008 6:51:31 AM PST by Bill Dupray
And here you have the best reason for Sara Palin to keep doing what she is doing. She helped get Saxby Chambliss elected. She was the first to accept the CPAC invitation for next year. She is playing for keeps. If Rush has her back in 2012, the Conservatives will be there too, and she will be tough to beat.
Video at link . . .
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And let me add, she must:
END all banking privileges, including, but not limited to: checking & savings accounts, credit, loans for mortgages and autos, and wire transfers for illegal aliens.
Because our sovereignty, national security, AND ECONOMY depend on it.
I’ve got nothing good to say about Bush and regret that I voted for him twice. His pandering to illegals through his ‘Ownership Society’ efforts have destroyed the economy and his refusal to effectively secure our borders has left wide open the possibility of losing the WoT in our own backyards.
I fully acknowledge the MSM’s role in belittling and ridiculing Sarah and trying to make her look like a buffoon (my head is not buried in the sand), but I truly believe the GOP has to behave like a football team that missed the playoffs who focuses on its own needs in trying to improve its performance rather than what the opposition is doing to combat its improvement and performance when it competes again. With that in mind I read that Sarah is currently looking to form a ‘kitchen cabinet’ to advise her and to consult with economists from the University of Chicago and to bone up more on foreign affairs by consulting with statesmen like Henry Kissinger; in addition the RNC head is up for election early in the New Year. Hopefully a dynamic candidate can be chosen. Finally if the base of the GOP can come together early in the primary process or even before it begins then the GOP will be better prepared to compete with Obama in 2012. I haven’t taken a poll of the base but I suspect that if any pollster did they would find this sentiment prevalent among a vast majority of party members. To put it another way they don’t want to see another McCain scenario where a moderate comes up the middle between many conservative-leaning candidates.
This cannot be true! Rush isn't speaking out 24/7 about the "birth certificate" and that proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he is "RINO" and out to smear Sarah Palin!
Agreed.
I think Governor Palin is wonderful and an excellent role model for young women. Any time she appears in public, in any capacity, it benefits America. I hope she will do what you suggested and also study how RR managed to get elected despite the media.
However, I think the media/internet has taken the game to places RR never even imagined. It’s a different world. She’ll have to master that.
I didn’t support Hunter, but I agree with you 100 percent. Palin was silent on the border issue. And she needs to bone up on international issues and drop the tendency to stick “also” at the end of every sentence she says before she runs a national campaign again. She would have major obstacles to overcome, particularly her cartoonish image as a lightweight ditz with a clothing fetish. The only way she could defeat Obama is if he has a series of major blunders and the economy is still in the toilet. And he would have had to lose the adulation of the MSM. I don’t see any of that happening. The guy is way too slick and cunning.
“And Palin would get more than 45% of the vote if the RNC did not get in her way.”
Possibly.
Republicans aside though, I’ve yet to meet any middle of the roaders or liberals who even like her. Most have said to me that, for whatever reason, they absolutely hate her.
In spite of all this Sarah is still the most popular candidate of the base of the party to run for president in 2012. Sure there are other candidates for the conservative mantle but to date Sarah has performed way beyond expectations. That is why she is so vilified by the MSM and why she must be defended by the base of the party. If Sarah wants it, she is definitely in the mix for 2012. Folks, Sarah is not going away. She is no flash in the pan; Sarah has to much charisma, charm and elocution to be discounted or dismissed.
1) Sarah negotiates the Highway Alaska Pipeline that had been stalled for 35 years due to the good ol’boy network between the 3 big oil companies (ExxonMobil, ConnocoPhillips, BP) and the Alaska oil and gas commission. This will increase our natural gas supply by 6%-8% and thwart the emerging natural gas cartel of Russia, Iran, and Qatar. Sarah wins a geopolitical economic and energy war against out enemies -- we will not at their mercy in the future.
2) Sarah thwarts a super majority in the Senate by getting Saxby Chambliss reelected to the Senate. Obama didn't even try to get the Democratic opponent elected in fear of losing against Sarah, thus tarnishing his image.
I'd say that is quite something to be proud of and for the other side to fear!
Liberals also hated George Bush. Don you really think they would like any conservative Republican leader? As for moderates, I believe some can be swayed by issues such as the economy and standing up for individual liberty and freedom but there is always going to be a good number of moderates who are going to vote Democrat. it is what it is!
I wonder what they would have thought of Hunter.
Palin could become a strong contender, but I’m confident that Huckabee will again be there in 2012 to siphon off enough evangelical votes to make it extremely difficult for a true conservative to win the nomination.
I think Huckabee is the perennial spoiler, one who will never quite win the presidential nomination himself, but who will screw up the field for conservatives.
Those, my friend are not Republicans or Conservative. They are Democrats or liberals who have not come out of the closet.
What is not to like about the woman. She connects, conservative, pro life, NRA supporter and a good Governor. Now if you do not like that you are a what? LIBERAL!
Expect every Democrat in the country, including the Democrat MSM, to spend the next four years saying and doing whatever they can to demonize her. It will be an all out, continuous effort.
A recent poll by Kellyanne Conway and Celinda Lake found that 64% of women, many of whom voted for Obama, nevertheless thought Palin got a raw deal in the press. This suggests to me that minds are open to be changed about her. Quoting from an article about this:
But while devoted Republicans to this day still think Quayle got a bum rap from a hostile media, most other Americans did not. That does not appear to be the case with Palin, at least among women, who are a permanent majority of the American electorate.A big majority — 64% — of the women surveyed by Conway and Lake said they felt Palin got more negative media coverage than other candidates did because she was a woman. That was more than twice as many as the 31% that said the same thing of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sympathy toward Palin stretched across ideological and party identifications with many women who did not vote for Palin saying she was unfairly covered because of her gender. The poll of 600 women, taken Nov. 21-24, had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Probably the same thing. But since I come in contact mostly with women, I’m probably getting more of the ‘catty’ hate remarks than I’d hear from men.
>Rush is one of the few people who can hold his own with ANYBODY! He practices 3 hours a day.<
(and) If he doesn’t like the way the debate is going he can always shut off the caller and pick up the next one or go to a commercial.
By the way, I also supported Hunter. He was in my opinion by far the best man running. It was enormously frustrating that he couldn’t get the time of day from anyone, and in the end we get stuck with a guy like McCain.
It still makes my hair hurt.
>It won’t be love until I hear her talk about immigration, and a couple of other issues.<
I was wondering how long it would take before we had a thinker say something. Too many FReepers enthusiastically jumped in to support Juan McCain to convince me that they all will support Sarah. There’s still some socialists in this forum, IMO.
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