Posted on 05/29/2010 9:20:24 AM PDT by curth
Yesterday, I was interviewed by a reporter for CBS, for a story on the diverse groups of people supporting Sarah Palin online. The reporter authored a book on Palin last year, after being embedded with her vice presidential campaign, following a stint covering Mittens Romney. I can’t imagine how many cucumbers-and-mayonnaise sandwiches this guy had to eat on the Romney Express (to nowhere), but I gave him the same kind of awed respect I grant anyone who’s ever spent more than half an hour with Tim Pawlenty — and didn’t succumb to T-Paw induced narcolepsy.
We (the reporter and I, not Tim Pawlenty or Mittens) met up at Nookie’s Tree in Boystown and talked about Sarah Palin over coffee. Doing enough of these interviews over the course of the last few years, and being interviewed by some great people like Andrea Shea King and Tammy Bruce, I can usually spot the story the reporter wants to tell by the way his questions unfold and what he keeps coming back to whenever I take the conversation on one of my tangents about how terrible the current administration is. The story CBS wants to do on Palin’s supporters appears to be something in the realm of “an unthinking, personal, and emotional defense of a woman they love”. It’s not a negative story, and the reporter doesn’t seem like the kind who would write a hit piece, on either Palin herself or on me as a Palin-supporter, but the impression I got from him was that he’s projecting the Left’s Obama cult of personality onto Palin supporters — when nothing could be further from the truth.
Most of the questions asked of me were in the vein of how I felt whenever Palin was attacked, and what makes me defend her.
(Excerpt) Read more at hillbuzz.org ...
Who in the hell is Minnie Pearl ?
If Mitt tries that strategy it will backfire on him, though.
He didn't run for reelection as governor in 2006, but hightailed it out of the state to mount his 2008 presidential campaign.
That's not so far from quitting, especially since he was already more than half-way out the door in the last year or two of his term.
Jim DeMint.
“Despite the impression we may get on Free Republic, Sarah Palin appeal is limited in the Republican base. It is limited to a portion of the conservative base and not all the conservative base let alone the moderates Republicans and independents who vote Republicans where her appeal is rather small.”
Replace Palin’s name with Reagan, and your quote PERFECTLY describes 1978, an election year that I remember VERY WELL. In that year, I was one of those people who thought that Reagan was too extreme and that Bush was just right...so I voted for Bush - but Reagan got the nomination, and I came around to him...particularly after looking at the alternative.
Conservatives make up 40% of the country, Independents 40%, and liberals 20% (roughly speaking). Conservatives, of course, have never liked Obama, but Independents did like Obama - but now they’ve flipped, and I suspect that many of them (i.e., the ones with good health plans) will think VERY HARD about voting to re-elect Obama, regardless of who’s on the ticket from the Republican side (just like me in 1980).
The only question left open is whether Palin can get the base out. If she behaves like a conservative - she owns them - if she gets flaky, then she’s no better than Romney. Romney himself will NEVER get the base out, so he’s hopeless. Newt is simply a flake. Someone like Duncan Hunter - who knows - he certainly didn’t have any luck in 2008 firing up the base. But Palin ALREADY has the base, she only needs to keep it. And that is what scares the daylights out of the Dems.
So what are you saying? It would be a Palin, Romney show down?
I admit, on many levels it's a dilemma but the point I tried to make is that it so much reminds me of the "dilemma" faced in the late 70's, i.e. the "safe" choice of GHW Bush vs. the "risk" of running a former B movie actor whom the press had labeled "stupid" and likely to set off a nuclear war his first day in office.
Mitt has the elites locked up or at least most of them. there may be some faction forming to go head to head with him but as of now he has the backrooms locked to his support.
Palin has the people or at least enough of them to stop others from getting a huge following which they will need in the primary. For another candidate to come along and get that type of support will require millions in ads, stellar debate performances and a sterling public record. Not impossible but extremely difficult.
You can consider 2010 as “prepping the battlefield of 2011 and 2012”
Palin and Mitt are doing the prepping. All other candidates at this stage are deciding to join the battle on their own, pick a side, or sit out. Palin and Mitt have in military terms again stolen a march on their enemies.
Hmm. That's what I used to say about McCain.
Neither one of them will be the nominee.
Using Romneys logic, if Palin is a quitter then he in turn is a proven loser.
A little more left off from the summary here...
“In talking about Romney, the reporter gave me a little insight into him as a man, which confirmed what I know firsthand from all the Romney guys here in Chicago: he will never accept being VP, to anyone, and believes he is destined to be president. I’m amazed no one surrounding Romney, not even his wife Ann, has the clarity or good sense to tell this man how delusional he is. Romney believes the “it’s his turn” mentality of the Republican Party is going to hand the 2012 nomination to him, the way this same thinking gave the GOP the stellar campaigns of Bob Dole ’96 and John McCain ’08. ”It’s his turn” is a steaming pile of moose droppings.”
“Both the reporter and the Romney Guys here in Chicago believe it’s an effective attack on Palin to criticize her for leaving the governor’s office last summer. These guys are CONVINCED of this, and they honestly believe Republican voters in 2012 aren’t going to support her because she made the executive decision to remove herself as a target for Democrats nationwide to attack in our northernmost state. Palin removing herself from the governor’s mansion eliminated a means for DNC-funded lunatics like Andrea McCloud to file nuisance ethics complaints against her office every day, in a clear effort to cost Alaskan taxpayers an enormous sum of money and prevent the governor’s office from doing the work the people of Alaska needed the Governor to do.”
Romney’s ego is inflated exactly like Obama. Romney wants to do whatever it takes it win just like Obama including breaking rules, laws and smearing all. I see a dangerous parallel. It can only destroy the Republican party. If I am correct he will treat Palin, should she run, the same as Obama did Hillary. That will not fly. It will destroy the party. This won’t be like the left, which is going to blow itself up anyways when Conservative take back the congress this fall and Obama keeps on falling apart.
Must do whatever it takes to stop Romney. He is just as much the problem as Obama.
1. Copernicus "quit" believing the sun rotated around the earth.
2. The American Revolutionaries "quit" being subject to England.
3. Abraham Lincoln helped America "quit" practicing slavery.
4. Thomas Edison "quit" using the oil lamp.
5. The moon landers "quit" being stuck on the earth.
6. Bill Gates "quit" using the typewriter (and also quit Harvard).
7. Michael Jordan "quit" the Tarheels (and the Bulls, and then came back)
8. Ronald Reagan "quit" acting.
9. Russia "quit" the Soviet Union.
10. Carly Fiorina "quit" having cancer.
Not a single one is a truthful "quit". Pretty pathetic attempt to delegitimize the issue but it actually shows that this is a real issue and for many, many Americans a deal killer.
FROM HILLBUZZ!
See what Romney plans to use against Sarah in his run against her ~ PING! ~
“Hey, can I call you Willard?”
LOL.
Team Romney has been working hard to destroy Sarah Palin ever since McCain formally introduced her as his VP running mate on August 29, 2008.
He’s another one who will have to finance his own campaign, just like he bought enough copies of his own book to make it number one on the NYT best seller list for one week.
What a fraud.
All DOA.
The only people who like Romney are the Palin Haters.
They can’t say why he would be better only he will run against Sarah Palin. Mitt sunk his gig on RomneyCare aka ObamaCare.
Romney’s 5 sons are (quitters)when it comes to supporting
America when the Terrorists hit 9/11. They all sit home
while Sarah Palin’s son serves in the Army and a year in Iraq.
You just do not pop your head up in 2011 and expect to get the nomination. there really is no such thing as a dark horse esp in the GOP. Now the dems are more willing to give no names a shot. Mostly because the known names are already outed as marxists/socialists by the time they get to national politics.
the GOP voter just does not do hail Marys very often. name one person that got the GOP nod in the last 60 years that was a dark horse and came for nowhere? (Ike, Nixon, ford, Reagan, bush, dole, bush 2, McCain all were front runners and nationally known prior to running for the nomination) Dark horses just do not happen in the GOP.
Of course there is always a first time for something but I doubt 2012 will be that first time.
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