Posted on 01/27/2010 2:10:57 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
Bob McDonnell, an anti Palin Republican is giving the rebut to the State of the Union tonight.
McDonnell, Christie and Scott Brown all avoided her like a disease in their respective elections.
She has signed a tv deal with FOX. And shes goes on the Oprah show with a 60s hairstyle. And she is going to campaign for McCain. I don't see where she has any plans to come to swing states yet.
What is going on here ? What is the plan ? Where does Sarah stand in all of this ?
Why is the GOP leadership trying to avoid her ?
It’s the inside the beltway country club republicans versus the more conservative states rights republicans. The exception seems to be Juan McCain, for whatever reason.
Palin is campaigning for Rick Perry.
Point taken.
They should be embracing her now that she is endorsing one of their fellow Republicrats.
I have attentionally avoided the war going here on FR over Palin’s campaigning for McCain. People on both sides tend to go to extremes-—yes we conservatives do it too.
In any case, Sarah Palin is a truer Maverick than John McCain ever will be. Anyone who reads her book will come to realise she plays by her own set of rules which is why both establishment parties hate her guts.
She has always trusted her political instincts and relied on Todd to keep her focused and well grounded. Being a devout Christian woman, she believes in a certain “manifest destiny” in her life.
Having said all that, supporting McCain or not, CBS poll or not, wanted by McDonnell, Brown, Christie or not-—she is still the only GOPer than can unite both the Tea Party and the Republicans, bring in her fair share of Libertarian independents, steal a bunch of Hillary PUMAS on a national level in 2012.
I don’t know what Cuda will do in the foreseeable future, but no matter what the paranoid media polls say, if she runs for the GOP nomination, I see her as the only one who could take the nomination in a landslide......McCain support or no McCain support-—and that’s just the reality of the way things stand right now——so I’m still on board the Palin Express.
The same person who gave that awesome speech at the Convention in 2008 is just going to retire from politics ? Shes only 46 or 47.
Some on here say she is unelectable. I believe the President is right there for her taking. She has to reach out and get it. I am now afraid she is going to let us down.
It is a tragedy. In a time such as this. If someone with her talent and her charisma just wastes it. because of the media. or for whatever non family or health related reason. It is a tragedy if the party never gives her a chance.
McDonnell, Christie and Scott Brown all avoided her like a disease in their respective elections. ............................ Look at the states and their constituents. Any NE politician has to be looked at carefully. Even Brown. Politics has a habit of corrupting politicians and changing them once they get into the halls of congress. Brown came roaring in like a lion, as far as I am concerned, he’s just another lawyer in politics. We will have to watch him carefully.
Brown would have been crazy to want her in MA, where do you get that from?
Maybe she’s not interested in running. She had the perfect steppingstone in the governorship. I think she’s just enjoying time with her family, doing her book tour and her fox news gig. Just trying to lead a normal life after all the bs she’s put up with.
You are looking for a problem that isn’t there.
She supported McDonnell, Christie, and Brown
She knew these states have a majority of Democrat voters.
A Conservative Republican campaigning in the state would
turn off the democrats and moderates who are fed up with Obama and voted Republican.
Not all states are alike and different times bring various campaign styles.
Also, don't offer him any opportunity to deflect the public's wrath of his faults and failures onto you, your people, your allies, or your weapons systems.
The same person who gave that awesome speech at the Convention in 2008 is just going to retire from politics ? Shes only 46 or 47.
Did I say she was going to retire? I said I think she’s out of elective politics for herself through 12 and maybe 16. What she does beyond that is another situation. Her family will be basically grown, she’ll have done many other things, made a hell of lot more contacts around the world, put her family in a more comfortable financial situation, etc. etc. It takes a special person to become wrapped up full time in elective office. I personally don’t see how they do it. But yes I did say that I think she’s out for at one, maybe two presidential cycles.
Someone posted an article where Brown was quoted as saying he’d love to have Sarah campaign for him.
I agree. I gig on Fox news and a book doesn’t make one smart, electable, or someone that can lead the US. The GOP doesn’t want to put all their eggs in one basket and neither should we.
It is way to early to start endorsing 2012 candidates. A lot can happen before then.
That said, she isn’t hurting the conservative movement, just tugging on the right wing pendulum.
Black?
Balling?
Why how very racist and sexist of you!
It seems a lot of posters here are forgetting that she backed STEELE...
It must really stink to not have all the answers RIGHT NOW especially when you think you deserve to understand everything.
More telling about C/conservatives is the notion that Palin or anyone else must do exactly as they think she should or else they want to toss her under the bus.
Some faith, some loyalty.
Oh, that just won’t do: you are making too much sense.
Even if he said it I don’t think he meant it. He was rightly meticulous in keeping anything of a pure Republican, even national milquetoast party, flavor out of the state. Only one in 10 voters identify as Republican there, and the consensus view there is that Republicans generally are as evil as Yankee fans.
60’s hairstyle? What the heck are you talking about? No one wore hair like that in the 60’s. I wasn’t even there and I know that.
Palin 2012.
Come on, politics isn't a love fest. Congressional Republicans are able to dis her because she simply hasn't -- or isn't able to -- demonstrate the political power everyone attributes to her. Without an authentic demonstration of her raw political power, she will be increasingly brushed aside as a political nobody by the power elite until it surfaces, if it ever surfaces. In fact, there really hasn't been any demonstrable objection on Mrs. Palin's part to the rebuke we all know she has suffered from the Republican Party leadership -- none.
Quite the contrary, far from cracking the political whip over their heads with the type of people power Sarah Palin is capable of commanding over this transgression, she has signaled to her Republican handlers she is only too willing to accept such rebuke by kneeling down and kissing the feet of John McCain with her endorsement of him in the AZ primary.
If Mrs. Palin thinks she can gain anything from the Republican power structure by playing nice, perhaps she had better learn a stark political reality about power...it is never given. One must always take it.
ex animo
davidfarrar
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