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Former Romney Staffer: Palin Has Most Potential to Win Iowa Caucus in 2012
Conservatives4Palin ^
| 08/11/2009
| ak267
Posted on 08/11/2009 8:04:03 PM PDT by ak267
http://www.dmcityview.com/cover.shtml
What made Palin popular with Iowans was not her resume of experience in Alaska. Those who cheered her in Sioux City last fall, with the most vocal applause for a Republican I saw in Iowa in the 2008 presidential cycle, knew little about it.
"There is little doubt that she still carries with her enormous admiration from the GOP grassroots," says Iowa Republican strategist Tim Albrecht, Mitt Romney's communications director in Iowa for the 2008 cycle and the founder of TheBeanWalker.com, a conservative Web site The Washington Post ranks as one of the top conservative online venues in the state.
In an as-of-now ranking of the chances of prospective candidates, Albrecht, who is in free agent status for 2012, lists Palin as No. 1 for potential to win the Iowa Caucuses.
"The second she touches down in Iowa, you can bet throngs of supporters will be there to greet her," Albrecht says. "She very much excites the base, and should she decide to run, will generate enormous interest and influence on the race."
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012gopprimary; ia2012; iowa; operationleper; palin; palin2012; projectleper; romney; romneyantigop; romneyantipalin
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posted on
08/11/2009 8:04:03 PM PDT
by
ak267
To: ak267
"The second she touches down in Iowa, you can bet throngs of supporters will be there to greet her," Albrecht says. "She very much excites the base, and should she decide to run, will generate enormous interest and influence on the race."This much any rational person has to agree with, whether or not they think she could or should get the nomination in 2012.
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posted on
08/11/2009 8:10:15 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
To: ak267
Looks like someone is applying for a job with Palin.
To: Tanniker Smith
Well, that’s why we have campaigns :)
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posted on
08/11/2009 8:16:15 PM PDT
by
ak267
To: Tanniker Smith
Yep, I’ll agree. She’s certainly favored in caucuses for that reason.
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posted on
08/11/2009 8:18:59 PM PDT
by
Arguendo
To: ak267
D*mn Romney staffers, always bad-mouthing Palin and trashing her to build up their candidate.....
Oh wait. Never mind.
To: ak267
“There is little doubt that she still carries with her enormous admiration from the GOP grassroots,”
He has that right. Now if the RNC would just get its act together.
To: CharlesWayneCT
D*mn Romney staffers, always bad-mouthing Palin and trashing her to build up their candidate.....
Oh wait. Never mind.
Wow!
You found one out of how many staffers?
To: ak267
The dems know this. That’s why they are so afraid of her.
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posted on
08/11/2009 8:56:39 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
( I hate all politicians. Including republicans.)
To: Parley Baer
If she goes to the people and they connect with her and they trust her (she has to overcome the doubts with the Curic interview), it will not matter if the Rinos want her or not.
She will be like running third party within the GOP. She won’t look and sound like the petty, stupid Rinos which will draw the majority to her. She is unique.
To: ak267
Well, I wish Iowa wasn’t the first contest. Why do we have to get stuck with candidates that do well in that stupid caucus and quirky NH? Seems to me these NH folks just want to vote for some underdog or GOP rebel.
Also, I just hope we don’t have 5 or 6 conservatives split the vote in the primaries and end up with another McLame type again.
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posted on
08/11/2009 9:43:40 PM PDT
by
mtrott
To: ak267
The McCain/Palin ticket was up 8 pts. days prior to September 18th.
Obama was losing until the DNC played their October surprise on the economy
and the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.
David Frum: "Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."
David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."
David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."
Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"Im told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palins people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romneys former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Heres what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they dont do it to her, shell do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."
"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the Diva leak was Nicolle Wallaces husband."
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
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posted on
08/12/2009 1:40:54 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: Diogenesis
Forget a closing HTML tag???
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posted on
08/12/2009 12:04:21 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
To: ak267
Nice results from "Most Influential People on Right". Note where Myth Romney & Sarah polled
23) John Stossel 4
23) Mitt Romney 4
23) Daniel Hannan 4
23) John Bolton 4
16) Fred Thompson 5
16) Antonin Scalia 5
16) Glenn Reynolds 5
16) Bobby Jindal 5
16) George W. Bush 5
16) Sean Hannity 5
16) Tom Coburn 5
14) Victor Davis Hanson 6
14) Dick Cheney 6
12) Ed Morrissey 7
12) Ann Coulter 7
10) Jonah Goldberg 8
10) Newt Gingrich 8
9) Jim DeMint 9
7) Mark Levin 10
7) Glenn Beck 10
6) Charles Krauthammer 11
5) Mark Steyn 14
4) Michelle Malkin 15
3) Thomas Sowell 17
2) Sarah Palin 20
1) Rush Limbaugh 24
LINK
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posted on
08/12/2009 2:41:07 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Terry Mross
Which is why Gibbs tried to throw her under the bus again this morning.
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