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.
DeVore has a communications director and a campaign manager, but apparently he doesn’t think it’s necessary for his campaign to pay them because California taxpayers are picking up the tab.
Both of his senior campaign aides are state employees. An independent group, California Citizens for Ethics in Government, has called on the California Attorney General and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate whether Chuck is using public dollars to subsidize his campaign.
Screw your "hope". I've had a bellyfull of hope, not to mention change, thanks to idiots voting for RINOs and/or not voting. This isn't just an election coming up. It really IS life or death for a lot of people in America. Maybe even for MOST people in America. If Sarah Palin really is our last, best "hope", she damned well better support ONLY like-minded conservatives from here on in.
Good post. This was a smart endorsement. Unfortunately the Plain bashers try to deflect the real reason: Campbell is a liberal hack.
Maybe these trolls are Romney supporters, or liberal trolls? Who else would support Campbell?
In that case, let’s vote for the Rino, globalist communist friend of Van Jones! That settles it!
Who are you going to pick? Standing on principles is nice but in the end you're still on the outside looking in.
Yes, that is exactly my point. We need to get in the game and keep building.
The way we are headed is disastrous.
The smart thing to do to stop a llberal hack disguised as a republican candidate from being another Specter - Campbell?
A wilful misrepresentation of Rush. I don't think Rush likes losing for no good reason. Do you?
Which is your way of admitting that,”GOP is liberal lite”. If you guys would simply admit that, and appeal to us that way, we could dispense with all the cr@p WE Conservatives are tired of dealing with in regards to YOUR party and it`s latent love of progressives.
Oh, I understand pragmatism full well. I also understand the same damned “”reasoning”” that got us Barry Soetero aka Barack Hussein Obama as President.
Do YOU understand the definition of insanity? I would say that it is doing the same thing, over and over again, and expecting a different (better?) result.
I keep reading posts that claim Fiorina is not conservative, but she is definitely pro-life,pro-family, pro-gun, pro-border control, etc., as you’ve listed.
I have not seen one comment or link that details any reason to believe that Fiorina is not Conservative.
California and especially the Republicans Party would have been far better off with anyone else.
What is not conservative about Fiorina? She’s pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-2nd Amendment, advocates border control.
I agree re RINOs everuwhere. Although Fiorina may or may not be a decent republican and/or conservative Senator, Campbell will certainly be a major problem. DeVore cannot win the Republican primary. It's nobody's but his fault ... he's had considerable support the past 8 mths. No use flogging a dead horse, and he is now a spoiler.
You see this correctly.
Fiorina’s key views are conservative and speaks well on her feet.
The type who can take on Boxer and beat her.
The others, DeVore goes through melt downs and is
under investigation for having Calif. taxpayers pay for his staff.
Campbell has too many radical Muslim friends and money from them. Also very liberal.
Actually, that's looking like a better option day by day. Something, gut feeling, just makes me wonder about the judgement of someone that now/still supports Juan McLame for President.... when they actually DO have another choice other than Zero.
You are asking for a female version of Arnold to be elected? Why do we need a female global socialist in Sacramento?
You’d vote for a candidate selected by the economic rapists Goldman Sachs? Why? How do you think it will benefit freedom and California?
Oh...and PS.....
putting politics above principle is what got us BHO and this collossal economic FUBAR/mess we're in now.
Sorry, but....yeah....I'll "pick" principles this time. What the hell.
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