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Governor Palin - Going de Gaulle?
The Aged P blogspot ^ | 02/03/09 | sussex

Posted on 04/05/2009 5:31:26 AM PDT by sussex

The one thing that Gov Palin has not been short of since the election has been advice from Republicans and the media – stand for governor again in 2010, go for the Senate, go for POTUS 2012, wait until 2016, write a book, go into the media, give up politics and concentrate on her family – the options are endless.As an outside observer, however, it strikes me that she is intelligent enough and shrewd enough to make up her own mind. I think that maybe she has already decided on a course – I believe she is going de Gaulle.

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De Gaulle took a gamble - that his name was so potent, so symbolic that, after several years of being ignored and disdained by the French political and media establishment, one day at the hour of need, they would plead with him to return. Do the sarcastic and demeaning comments from the RNC indicate that they feel she no longer has traction? Or is it the Governor who has the real power amonst Republicans?
1 posted on 04/05/2009 5:31:26 AM PDT by sussex
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To: sussex

The GOP is never short on RINO’s to backstab real conservatives. Palin is a power who will not go away.


2 posted on 04/05/2009 5:34:40 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: sussex
Do the sarcastic and demeaning comments from the RNC indicate that they feel she no longer has traction? Or is it the Governor who has the real power amonst Republicans?

That's a good question. My guess would be that she's the one with the power. We know she propped up McCain like nobody's business. Maybe they're trying to get all her dirty laundry out now, so it's out in the open and they'll have nothing new on her for the next election.

That being said, i'm giving the GOP the benefit of the doubt that they really want someone like her representing them. She's too conservative and i don't believe that's the direction the GOP wants to go in.

So that wasn't a helpful answer at all was it?

3 posted on 04/05/2009 5:36:23 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Always Right
This article, (or whatever blog entries are called), isn't at all a stab in the back to Gov Palin. It compliments her nicely.


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4 posted on 04/05/2009 5:39:37 AM PDT by jla
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To: sussex

Palin and de Gaulle have at least one thing in common, that’s for sure: womanly hips.


5 posted on 04/05/2009 5:42:30 AM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: sussex
But the Governor does not need any of that – like de Gaulle she is so deeply impressed upon the public’s imagination that she needs no PR, she is simply there.

Interesting analysis. My only problem with the DeGaulle analogy is that he was a self-centered jerk who ultimately used his power and influence in France to regularly poke America in the eye.

6 posted on 04/05/2009 5:48:42 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: sussex

If Sarah Palin has the real power among Republicans, she will recognize that she can do no right as far as the media is concerned, so she might as well do the right thing all the time. Too many conservatives worry about media approval, and that’s how we ended up with John McCain as the candidate in 2008. We need to avoid making that mistake again.


7 posted on 04/05/2009 5:52:11 AM PDT by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: Always Right

The GOP/RNC is a spent, elderly, money and power extracting organization. Naturally those that are long and deeply invested, want to keep their position and power. Anyone who possibly can succeed without them, is a threat.

The GOP/RNC is not about Conservatism, or even RINO Republicanism. It’s about them, first and foremost. It is about money and power.

This is very ordinary organizational behavior.

Palin get’s more keep here distance from the RNC, than being tainted by it.

In a way, this was McCain’s way.

Also, the GOP/RNC didn’t get Reagan and he brought in his guys, and the GOP ‘establishment’ did as much as they could to thwart Reagan while in office, and then after that they all said they were Reagan men all along. But, that’s what fag, limpwrist Washington butt sniffer do.( apologies to homosexuals for comparing them to the GOP/RNC ).

So, like a chess board, what’s next. If the rest of the Washington Mafia sees their co-thieves getting whacked by Palin, then the supposed RNC and DNC guys will team up, overnight, like side switching Afghan tribe leaders. And like medieval Italian politicians, they will swear they are loyal and they have no idea where the blood covered knives in their hands came from.

We are talking big big money her folks. Big power. So long as you understand the racket, these people don’t care who is swiveling in the Presidents chair. So long as the money and the power is sloshing around Washington like an overfilled septic tank, they’ll happily fight amongst themselves for the spoils. But, if the money and power doesn’t keep a steady flow, if anyone threatens these fat rats, eating the thick creamy floating blocks, then watch out.


8 posted on 04/05/2009 5:52:42 AM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Abbeville Conservative; gimme1ibertee; ExGeeEye; euram; william clark; Clyde5445; brushcop; ...

PING!

Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.

9 posted on 04/05/2009 6:11:47 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: celebration
Cannot we find a more intelligent Republican candidate than Palin!?

Sure. If you can name anyone else that rose from the ranks of housewife to being selected as a Vice-Presidential candidate without any handouts or organizational backing, let me know.

11 posted on 04/05/2009 7:05:04 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: celebration

Bush Yale, Harvard MBA, Clintons Yale, Obama Harvard Law. How are the elite institutions doing so far? Vs. Reagan, Eureka collage.

There is an old saying that some things are so stupid you have to be educated to believe them.

How educated do you have to love freedom? Liberty? How hard is no?

After four years of ‘Read My Lips’ Harvard/CIA HW Bush, eight of Yale Clinotons, eight of Harvard GW Bush think, and now four, or more, of Obama,( 24-28 yrs ) you the usual badges have any credence? Can you see a pattern here?
What are you, still a loyal Renault owner?


12 posted on 04/05/2009 7:21:57 AM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: celebration

Sarah is plenty plenty smart. She has charisma and principles. The left sure sees it.


13 posted on 04/05/2009 7:28:43 AM PDT by libbylu (Sarah - the light of the midnight sun)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
My only problem with the DeGaulle analogy is that he was a self-centered jerk who ultimately used his power and influence in France to regularly poke America in the eye.

Well, he was a poser but a French nationalist. He sought to keep France from the subordinate role the rest of Western Europe was playing under the American security umbrella.

DeGaulle was the force behind Nixon closing the "Gold Window" making dollars no longer redeemable in gold by foreign banks.

14 posted on 04/05/2009 7:35:32 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: sussex

By 2012 Palin will have gone through so much fire that she will be like fine tempered steel.

All my donations are going to SarahPAC until she announces she’s running for president, then they will all go to her campaign fund.


15 posted on 04/05/2009 7:36:29 AM PDT by euram
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To: Leisler
Yes, the einsteins from the Ivies have done a sterling job leading this nation the last tweny years. Maybe somebody from a nowhere school-- say eg Eureka College, just to pick one at random, wherever that is, should have a try at it.
16 posted on 04/05/2009 7:40:07 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: celebration

How’s the temp at the DNC?? Nice signup date.

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Continued Failure


17 posted on 04/05/2009 7:46:28 AM PDT by bray (Join the Rebel Republican Movement!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

William F. Buckley thought so, what, 40 years ago? And, no one can accuse him of class or status bigotry.


18 posted on 04/05/2009 7:49:45 AM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: celebration
Cannot we find a more intelligent Republican candidate than Palin!? Yes, we can. Comm’n, guys, think with your head, not your hormones.

I've kept a sharp eye out for intelligent, charismatic, honest, conservative, America-loving leaders since I became interested in politics as a kid 5 decades ago. Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan are at the top of my list, but thanks anyway for your insulting "advice", noob.

19 posted on 04/05/2009 7:50:02 AM PDT by Al B.
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To: celebration
Cannot we find a more intelligent Republican candidate than Palin!? Yes, we can. Comm’n, guys, think with your head, not your hormones.

Who you gonna support...America's Hottest Governor. Or some dweeb with a high IQ......... both my brains and my hormones say sex with brains sells.... and she has both in spades......Go Sarah.

Dr. Ron Paul (aka dweeb)

20 posted on 04/05/2009 7:59:37 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady of the North")
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