Sarah Palin to speak at RPOF Nov. 3 “victory dinner” fundraiser (Florida GOP)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2795878/posts
Maybe Sarah Palin Was Right About Death Panels
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I am glad that your seeing things in a different light right now. I understood how upset you were that she wasn’t going to run. I was upset too but understood why she did it. She did what was best for her family. She will do everything she can to ensure that Obama is a 1 term President(Can we get him out of the White House NOW!) She will work hard in 2012 so that we take back the Senate and get more seats in the house. Your absolutely right about the RINOS and the elitists in the GOP like Rove, they would never have allowed a Palin Presidency to take place, they would vote for Obama no doubt in my mind.
I also have no doubt those types voted for Obama in 2008, McCain threw the election and Sarah busted her ass for that man only to get screwed over in the end, its those kinds in the GOP that would have made things VERY difficult for her. She saw that and knew she could do better without having to run. She will run for President one day, she is young, she has her whole life ahead of her
I hope that Sarah will compete in a Presidential election in the future, but in the meantime, she's content to help other conservatives get elected.
>>> I believe she would have won the nomination.
Not a chance.
By 72 percent to 24 percent, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents do not want Palin to run for president in 2012. Even among tea party supporters - a group that likes Palin - 68 percent do not want her to run.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/20/v-fullstory/2417008/poll-finds-obama-losing-ground.html
She said she would run if no one else espoused clear Conservative thought....I paraphrase, and along came Herman.
We have hardly heard from or seen articles about Palin since she announced she wasn’t running, whereas this place was Palin Central before she announced she was not going to be a candidate. This speaks to the power of her celebrity.
Her true value, though, is when the MSM aren’t around, and she’s doing the hard, boring work of party-building.
Just because we like someone doesn’t mean he or she could or should be president. Someone who’s great at something won’t necessarily be great at everything. I think when people cool down they will see Palin, like every human being ever, had flaws alongside her qualities.
Unlike 99% of folks who run for president, though, when that is off the table, we don’t just stop thinking of her as a political entity. She can and does articulate conservative positions with a fierceness the wusses in DC simply do not have.
We need to turn the GOP into a conservative party. It is a place for the Bob Doles and John McCains now, and it shouldn’t be. Once that is remade, then we will see more true conservatives running for office.
Just as with Christine O’Donnell, when someone is no longer running (or isn’t running when we hoped they would), we cool down and see them with clear eyes. In O’Donnell’s case some of us, at least, see what a truly horrible candidate she was, and what a horrible politician she’d have been. In Palin’s case, some of us may see she is still just as talented as some thought, but her talents (as she proved in 2010) are in party-building, and that could be her true calling.
I for one am very glad you have given this some more thought. You are a valuable part of this board, and being in NE KY I was looking forward to working with you on the Palin campaign, and since that wasn’t happening, perhaps on the Cain campaign. I hope we get to meet at an event soon.
I was very dismayed at the way you felt about Sarah’s decision, and afraid you would lose hope.
We still have tons of work to do. I am signed up on the Cain site to work in the trenches, and I’ll let you know if were doing anything down here “across the river”. Please do the same. If you need any help over there, the wife and I will do what we can.
rino expect the conservatives to rally behind their rino if they win the primary, which is true because conservatives end up holding their nose and vote for them then whine about their candidates not being conservative enough
rino don’t rally behind the conservative if they win the primary. This has been proven so many times. They seek to sabotage the conservative
Good thinkin’. And if we respect Palin, we owe her the courtesy of taking her at her word, as to the reason and that “you don’t need a title or office to have an impact”.
It’s time to get behind Cain.
“If the party then united behind her”
That was N*E*V*E*R going to happen. EVER. It is the same reason Herman Cain will not be allowed to win. The political ruling class will elect the other party before they elect an outsider.
Don’t believe me?
Watch what the GOP insider do to Cain. They will sabatoge his run. I have ZERO doubt about that.
If she had run I would have emptied my bank accounts, walked and knocked and delivered food to any operation of her candidacy when I could.
Life moves on and I have as well.
Still LUV her. XOXOXOXOXOX!!!
You were right to be upset, and I still am.
Palin QUIT.
Proving all her detractors, absolutely correct.
And letting down her armada of enthused, rock-rib supporters.
Palin didn’t reload. She retreated. And yes, I’m still upset.
I like Palin, but she has not matured to the point where she can handle debates with hostile press people. She is not a stupid person, is highly intelligent, right on the issues, but needs proper coaching. Thus far she has yet to received it.
The current GOP establishment needs to go. They are too comfortable with a live-and-let-live philosophy with the Democrats. The only way to really deal with those people is to fight them with the goal of totally destroying them.
I’ve said it before, the only way Obama can win is to make the election about whoever is running against him, not his miserable record. And the GOP establishment has permitted the leftist media to do just that by these farcical debates where the candidates maul each other instead of attacking Obama’s record and allowing the voters decide which anti-Obama approach is best.
I too am glad to see you have reevaluated the situation. Perhaps someday we’ll know why she chose not to run, but I have my own theories that are best left unsaid.
Regardless, she is and will remain a force in Conservative politics. The lack of ‘Palinmania’ lately on FR is of course partly because she’s not on the roster, but she has only put out a couple comments since announcing she was not running. And don’t forget that a ton of the Palin posts were either PDSers spouting BS or the rest of us countering them.
She’ll be around, making a positive impact and doing the job she’s chosen to take on. The detractors can get over it because whining isn’t helping themselves and it’s not hurting her. So what’s the point?
I’ve thought about that, too. A significant portion of the “Old Guard” GOP would be trying to submarine and kneecap her first term, at least until she whipped ‘em for it publicly. I don’t believe that would keep her from running. She stepped down for her family.
Your theory as to why she decided not to run is close to the truth, imo. If Palin got the nomination, it would have been on the strength of the tea party voters. The GOP establishment elites would not have supported her in the general election. They would rather see her and the tea party lose as they despise us more than they do Obama. Palin isn’t willing to let that happen. We’ll need to work hard to send many tea party patriots to the House and Senate to negate the power of the GOP elites. Should the country elect a Romney as president, I’d like to see a primary challenge in 2016. Maybe it’ll be Palin. We’ll see.
However, I wouldn’t rule out a new party forming to challenge both the Democrat AND Republican parties. They’re both corrupt.
We all need to work on finding good candidates with a broad appeal. Christine O'Donnell was a flake, and if we allow ourselves to nominate more people like her because they chant a Tea Party mantra, we will continue to lose. I'm not sorry that we didn't elect Mike Castle, the liberal Republican who ran against her in the primary. On the other hand, if the Tea Party had gotten behind someone who could win in Delaware but wasn't a liberal, we could have done the country some good. Christine O'Donnell would be a flake in any state, but we can't expect to elect another Jim Inhofe from Delaware. We could have used the momentum last year to elect someone who would be reasonably right of center.
OMG, enough already.
Why isn’t a moderator deleting these inane vanities as soon as they appear?