Posted on 10/17/2009 6:24:51 PM PDT by Al B.
Sarah Palin could make a huge difference in the NY23 special election, and everybody knows it. I hinted at this earlier today -- "Lipstick, baby!" -- and as I like to remind my readers from time to time, there are no accidents.
Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is in the fight of his life against the GOP establishment's hand-picked RINO, in a crucial election that Hoffman's media coordinator Rob Ryan says is "a referendum on the future of the Republican Party."
One point to make clear: No official in the Hoffman campaign has said a word to me about Sarah Palin. But some of Hoffman's supporters are heartbroken that Sarah -- whom I dubbed the "Sweetheart of the Heartland" last year -- hasn't joined the fight against Dede Scozzafava, whom Michelle Malkin has described as "ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing." Allow me to address myself directly to Mrs. Palin:
Doug Hoffman is your kind of candidate, his supporters are your supporters, and the people at the RNC and the NRCC who are siding with Scozzafava . . . well, ask around, ma'am. Your enemies are Doug Hoffman's enemies.
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Maybe the Hoffman people haven't asked, but a facebook posting would be good, as Stacy McCain suggests.
That would be interesting
Someone should contact her and let her know about this election. Perhaps she is not aware of it
Maybe Juan could appear instead?
I think she should go raise money for him. Stick it in the old gop old boys faces.
Get over it, Sarah Palin is not the cure for what ails the Republican Party and I doubt she has the time to campaign for everyone all over the country.
She’s interesting and certainly a lightening rod but the Big Question is what is her role?
I would imagine her book will sell well and she will command great fees on the speaking circuit but then what?
Does she want to be a serious candidate or a wall flower?
Stacy McCain has a pipeline to Sarah through his good pal Lynn Vincent. I'm sure she knows about it. It's possible Hoffman isn't interested in her campaigning there. Who knows.
Why don’t the voters just go out and vote for the conservative? Do they really need Sarah to tell them that? Elections are not won or lost if Gov. Palin speaks up or doesn’t.
I suspect Sarah is keeping her powder dry. A misstep at this point would be difficult to overcome. Was it Mark Twain to go where you’re wanted much, little and where you’re wanted little, not at all?
I agree with the poster that said she’s not a cure all for the GOP. No one has ever contemplated getting into the run for the POTUS with so much already working against them. Hopefully her advisers are helping her keep a low profile while she gets her message together and ready for prime time.
And it could also be that she sees the GOP as a dead horse.
Palin is no magic wand that can make anyone win. Just ask John McCain.
I don’t fault Palin for “sitting this one out”, if that indeed is what is going on. In the first place, she may know nothing about the candidates and the issues in this race. In addition, even if she did have some sympathies with the Hoffman campaign, if I were advising Palin I’d advise her at this point to get involved in campaigns only in those cases in which she can genuinely affect the outcome. If Hoffman’s campaign is ultimately likely to be unsuccessful, even with Palin’s help, she would only dilute her cred by stepping in. Look what happened to Zero when he swooped in to try to help Chicago win the Olympics.
I think she is aware of it. She is probably mulling it over. Hoffman wrote a peice for the Malkin website today, so the word is going to reach her sooner or later.
Perhaps not, but that one action would jump-start the 75% of Republicans who are represented by FReepers.
Like nothing else.
Face it, it’s been a very discouraging several years. First the guy who was supposedly on our side, turned on us. Then it happened with the candidate who was supposedly on our side.
After a while, that starts to wear down even believers.
Somebody needs to shake things up. Can’t think of anyone more able to do that, more easily, than Gov. Palin.
Al, I might be wrong on this one, but I’m still not convinced that she needs to get herself involved with perpetually dirty New York politics.
I think Sarah is done. She’s making the same mistake Rudy made last year. I’m not saying I was for Rudy, I’m saying he mad a fatal mistake in disappearing for too long.
Phooie.
Is that you Mitt?
I don’t fault her either. To tell you the truth, I have no idea who any of these candidates are. I don’t know anything about the NY23 election and she probably doesn’t either. Since everyone here seems to be supporting Hoffman then so am I. Maybe he doesn’t want her help, who knows. Hopefully if he does want her help, he will contact her. Just like she is doing for Rick Perry, I read a few days ago she will start campaigning for him very soon
So Sarah is supposed to be Joan of Arc and save the !@#$% GOP from itself...again?!?! These whiners should grow up.
Uh, she hasn’t disappeared at all. Jeez, she’s got a National Review article coming out in print, and has been hammering Obama on a weekly basis.
Some folks are going to have to get a grip and recognize the fact that she cannot do everything at once and be everywhere all of the time, especially since she is currently repairing the financial damage done to her and her family by those frivolous ethics complaints.
Also, she is busy following all the free advice she got about building her foreign policy credentials and laying low to avoid overexposure at this early juncture. Is all of that forgotten now?
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