Posted on 05/07/2010 5:08:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
TOP 5 REASONS WHY PALIN ENDORSED CARLY FIORINA
Some conservatives are angry at Governor Palin's endorsement of former Hewlett-Packard Executive Carly Fiorina. In a way, this anger is understandable, given that Chuck DeVore is the Tea Party favorite and the true conservative in the race, and Palin stated that she would support conservatives regardless of party.
Principles are important, but in certain circumstances they take a back seat to pragmatism. You can't implement your principles if you don't win first, so here is why Palin endorsed Carly:
Money. Chuck DeVore is a fine conservative, but he doesn't have the money to compete with Boxer. California is an expensive media market and a huge state requiring lots of travel and lodging. DeVore would need a minimum of $20 million just to keep his head above water, and God Bless the Tea Parties, but they'd have to hold a thousand money-bombs for DeVore, and in this economy it simply ain't happening.
History. Boxer is a POS Senator with an IQ of a bathtub ring, but she's a ruthless campaigner. Those of you screaming we need a true conservative to face Boxer - I humbly offer you the remains of Matt Fong and Bruce Herschensohn, both staunch conservatives who got shredded by Boxer. Boxer either used their conservatism against them and they apologized like dummies, or she made up some crap at the last minute which got her votes, as in the case of the strip club allegation against Herschensohn. She can't do the same to Carly.
Polls. DeVore has been running for almost a year now and yet he still can't break 20% in the polls. This with the Tea Party movement and voter discontent at Washington. He should be leading, yet he's not. That falls more on the candidate and the campaign he's running than on the political environment.
3-person race. Governor Palin was faced with what is known as a Buridan's ass choice. She can't support Campbell because he's too liberal; yet if she support the conservative, DeVore, he would lose. So she had to choose someone who represented the greater good, and that choice is Carly.
Mitt Romney. Carly has a much better chance of becoming Senator than Meg Whitman has at being Governor. Endorsing Carly neutralizes CA support of Romney in the event the two of them face off in the state. Also, it kills the canard that Palin can't attract independents and moderates (never mind that she worked with Dems in Alaska and was pretty much a pariah in the state GOP). Palin can't be stereotyped as a right-wing religious kook by endorsing Carly.
Nobody's saying Carly is the 2nd coming of Thatcher. She might become the West Coast version of Olympia Snowe, who knows. But what Carly represents is a new type of blue-state Republican in the mold of Scott Brown and Chris Christie: Someone who meets the minimum conservative threshold and will focus on taxes, spending, health-care and other big-ticket issues, and not get into pissing matches about social or other issues that the majority doesn't care about right now. Sarah's endorsement is strategic and makes perfect sense.
From one blogger who has a clue
My opinion changed today after Sarah Palin gave her endorsement to DeVore’s challenger, Carly Fiorina. It wasn’t Governor Palin’s endorsement that got me to change my mind about him, it was his reaction to the endorsement that served as a big red flag warning to this man’s leadership capabilities.
Plain and simple, Chuck DeVore is no statesmen. The statement he allowed to be released by his campaign was immature and derogatory
Something I think she could accomplish is to establish residency in a state where she could run for US Senator with a reasonable chance of winning. Maybe Idaho, where she has roots. But I'm no better at reading her mind than those who want her to play the role of Political Messiah.
I am certain of only one thing. Sarah Palin will be on the political scene for a long time. She has the war chest to do what she wants, and she is about 20 years younger that Hillary, whom we should never dismiss lightly.
Fiorina’s Conservative beliefs
Carly Fiorina has been endorsed by the National Right to Life, the California Pro-Life Council, and the Susan B. Anthony List.
She is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-military, and pro-strict border security and against amnesty.
She is against Obamacare and will vote to repeal it and prevent the government takeover of private companies and industries.
Carly is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. She is a member of the NRA, has a 100% NRA rating, and she and her husband are gun owners.
She is pro-energy development and believes as I do in an all-of-the-above approach to energy independence. She is against cap and tax. And most importantly, Carly is the only conservative in the race who can beat Barbara Boxer
wrongo.....she DOES have a chance especially since she’s not a PURE CONSERVATIVE, but she’s as close as you can get for SOCIALIST CALIFORNIA!!
She is whoever she wants to be. I’ll say nothing more on this thread as there is nothing left to say.
extremely well written and I grudgingly agree with the gist of many of your points. I vehemently disagree with the statements above which sound like they were written by some NE RINO. "Some" conservatives are angry? How about all of them are angry? "2nd coming of Thatcher"? Phoney strawman ploy that insults the intelligence of FReepers. Just be honest and say a RINO is better than a liberal and leave it at that.
And THAT is the most important thing that so many here forget: control over the chairmanships. Yes, we may not get all the legislation we want passed with moderates, but we can darn sure keep OUT the legislation we don't want. Look at how Reid and Pelosi can simply lock out ANY Republican legislation, even if that legislation has no chance of passing.
Majority status confers a MASSIVE amount of power, even if you don't have the votes to do much. Because you have the control of the committees, you can decide just what legislation can even be considered for a vote. THAT is when Snowe, Collins, McCain, and - Lord willing, Fiorina and Rossi (in Washington) - will give the GOP and the Republicans. The ability to dictate the debate.
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Update by Sarah on her Facebook page:
Update: I’d like to add a few things about my Carly endorsement because some reaction right out of the chute calls for more information:
Carly has been endorsed by the National Right to Life, the California Pro-Life Council, and the Susan B. Anthony List. She is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-military, and pro-strict border security and against amnesty.She is against Obamacare and will vote to repeal it and prevent the government takeover of private companies and industries. Carly is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Like me, she is a member of the NRA, has a 100% NRA rating, and she and her husband are gun owners.
She is pro-energy development and believes as I do in an all-of-the-above approach to energy independence. She is against cap and tax. And most importantly, Carly is the only conservative in the race who can beat Barbara Boxer. That’s no RINO. That’s a winner.
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l. Because, when the going gets tough, she is a rino.
2. She is impressed with Carly’s fawning over Van Jones and his water melon agenda.
3. She is a globalist at heart and wants more limo liberal globalists in the Congress in the Senate to push through the NWO.
4. She thinks the biddies from Maine need some company.
5. She feels sorry for twinkletoes Graham’s isolation.
6. She has no standards and any Republican will do at this point.
7. She does not really have a well read and anchored understanding of politics and society. Just another pretty face that can pray.
8. The global government is to be capitalist!
I`ll vote for the person that best exemplifies my beliefs. Ever heard of that?
Well, she ran alongside this leftist wannabe in 2008 and I'm sure you complained then, right?
Carly Fiorina discomforts me because of what she did to Hewlett-Packard.
How so? Carly has millions of dollars to compete with Boxer and her stint at HP will get the Silicon Valley vote and other support from CA businesses. Boxer will say that she ran HP in the ground but Boxer is running Washington into the ground, and voters care more about the country as a whole than about one company.
Sorry, but she has taken some shine off of her star in my eyes!
DeMint and Bachmann in 2012, if by God’s mercy we should survive that long with elections still an operative option!
Yes I did, but at the time, I was told to believe that she was a CONSERVATIVE and that they were ,essentially,the “LESSER of TWO evils”. Ever heard of that term before?
There always seems to be a great excuse to support the RINO-du-jour. Unfortunately, I think Sarah may have finally lost my vote/support on this one. Supporting McLame was gratitude. What is this one?
Why not just support Mitt, DeMint did
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