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New Narrative for Sarah Palin -- The Wasilla Machiavelli
Yahoo! News Contributor Network ^ | February 18, 2012 | Mark Whittington

Posted on 02/18/2012 2:22:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

One of the more fascinating aspects of writing about Sarah Palin is how other people react so irrationally to her. Julianne Moore, an actress who is purported to play her in an upcoming HBO film "Game Change," does not like her one bit.

Big Hollywood has reported how the actress has trashed the politician she plays, claiming she was "unqualified" to be vice president.

Now a new narrative is arising about the former Alaska governor that is more suggestive of Machiavelli than of a bimbo.

The U.K. Daily Mail suggests, ever so gently, that Palin might be maneuvering to have herself nominated at a brokered Republican convention in August, thus avoiding the messy primary process that has not been edifying for any of the candidates involved.

The Week echoes that view and suggests, by quoting Jim Newell of Wonkette, that a brokered convention has been Palin's plan all along. How else to explain her wish that the primary process continue, by slyly hinting support for Newt Gingrich. The theory is this is less a play to help Gingrich than it is a way to stop Mitt Romney from clinching the nomination.

The scenario works like this: None of the candidates comes to the convention with sufficient delegates to clinch the nomination. The convention becomes deadlocked with ballot after ballot failing to pick a nominee. Then Palin and her activist army goes to work, cutting deals in the great tradition of "The Best Man" and becoming the compromise candidate.

One of the candidates who actually ran -- probably Gingrich -- is given the vice presidential nod....

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To: GVnana
36 years. Prior to that was 1940, I believe. Another 36 years.

36, then another 36. Coincidence? I don't know, but I do not tend to believe in coincidences.

41 posted on 02/18/2012 3:18:03 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"that Palin might be maneuvering to have herself nominated at a brokered Republican convention in August"

Best case scenario at this point.

42 posted on 02/18/2012 3:25:11 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Everything you said. Amen.


43 posted on 02/18/2012 3:26:58 PM PST by Mach9
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To: NoGrayZone

Hmmm. I know about the Tecumseh curse, but the Republican convention curse?


44 posted on 02/18/2012 3:27:10 PM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: GVnana

This is just silly. Before the primary, her chance of winning was very high. Why drop out of the primary when she had at least 50-50 chance, and go for the 1% chance of a brokered convention. By going for that 1% chance, she’s leaving her chances to the Gods


45 posted on 02/18/2012 3:30:41 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: GVnana

I don’t believe in curses, nor do I believe in coincidence.


46 posted on 02/18/2012 3:35:06 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s no question that Sarah would make the best possible candidate. Also, that the GOP establishment would rather shoot themselves upside the head than let her win.

But who knows what the convention delegates from 50 different states might do, if the convention is deadlocked?

I’m inclined to agree with those who have already commented that it seems as if, at this point, we are in the hands of God. Because nobody else is capable of straightening this mess out. But this is probably our last chance to do it.

Let us pray.


47 posted on 02/18/2012 3:36:39 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Jack Hammer
Slowly, but inexorably, the nation is dividing into two camps - those who love the United States and what she has represented to the world, and those who hate America for resisting the flight to One World, socialist dogma.

Well, that is the choice. We might as well find out now where we are.

48 posted on 02/18/2012 3:53:03 PM PST by HIDEK6
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To: Cicero
I’m inclined to agree with those who have already commented that it seems as if, at this point, we are in the hands of God. Because nobody else is capable of straightening this mess out. But this is probably our last chance to do it.

Let us pray.

Amen!

49 posted on 02/18/2012 3:55:52 PM PST by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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To: sand88
Mitt would love a brokered convention. The GOP-e working with Rick would seal the deal for Mitt.

IF that happened, if it was a Romney/Santorum ticket, I'd pass. If it was a Santorum/Romney ticket ... horrible. There'd be expanding socially-directed government via "compassionate" big government "conservatism" at the helm, with four to eight years more waiting in the wings ala Romney. Pretty bad risk.

Santorum without Romney, I'd go for that, though he'd be a place-holder at a time when place holders are getting riskier and riskier. Can we afford another four or eight years of Dubya reincarnated as The Church Lady? Gingrich is risky, but he's the clear choice for pressing on, calculating to advance an overhaul in the name of limited government to rebuild American prosperity and reduce government "severely."

Gingrich is risky. Santorum is riskier. Romney presents no risk -- he is a SURE bet for failure and malaise.

50 posted on 02/18/2012 3:56:03 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not happy with our current crop of candidates, and I think a brokered convention could be good depending on who we nominate.

Let’s for a second say Sarah still doesn’t want to run. Who are possible alternatives besides Jeb Bush and Mitch Daniels?

Jindal?
Paul Ryan?
Gingrich?
Perry?
Huckabee?
Pawlenty?
Petraeus?
Demint?


51 posted on 02/18/2012 4:00:16 PM PST by WPaCon
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To: GVnana

Great, make it a trifecta, throw in the third less likely republican to win - Romney, Gingrich, Palin.

What a bunch if clowns. Hopefully Santorum can win this nomination and give us all a better chance to eliminate the Alinsky socialist dictator. Not my first choice, but compared to the other three, the best chance.

Of course the idiots could still panic and throw Jeb Bush in there.


52 posted on 02/18/2012 4:01:58 PM PST by Beatthedrum
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
From the series Kung Fu....

Grasshopper, seek first to know your own journeys beginning and end. Seek then the other journeys of which you are a close part. But in this seeking, know patience. Wear that travelers cloak, which shelters and permits you to endure.–KF

She may have seen all the destruction coming her way. I have said it before, IMHO she may payback Romney for all he and the E-GOP did to her in her family in the last 3 years.

This unconventional you speak of CNN was the same unconventional when she left to Governship. It hit me then, my friends thought I was nuts, I said she is running and maybe go Indy. She didn't but in a way she has run and gone independent from the EGOP.

My wise old Conservative and Jewish Professor friend last week said he is praying for a brokered convention and has noticed film footage of her wearing The Star of David and the Jewish Flag in old photos in her Gov. Office. Yes, he is that sick of the oatmeal mush that is our field...

CNN you maybe onto something, your ready? Heck my better half might diss-own me for all the time I would spend volunteering for her, that is how ready I am...

53 posted on 02/18/2012 4:05:26 PM PST by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Jack Hammer

Thanks for that post. I share your admiration of Sarah. Had the privilege of visiting Skagway where she spent her years as small child and then went to Wasilla. I remember thinking about her as I walked where she had grown up and served, and wondered if our nation would ever be worthy of such a leader again.


54 posted on 02/18/2012 4:12:33 PM PST by conservativejoy
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I’m completely against it. I have noticed for awhile that Palin is strangely non-committal. I haven’t really seen much in the way of “leadership” from her, but definitely lots of commentary. She says things, but then doesn’t take it to its logical conclusion. She makes points about what candidates need to do, and then suggests that none of the candidates have done them. She bashes Mittens, but she softens it later and doesn’t really stick her head out for one of the candidates. She then promotes the idea that this brokered convention could actually be a positive experience, even though there’s no evidence that some RINO isn’t going to cheat his way into the Presidency. I assumed it was part of her contract with Fox that she had to be utterly objective and avoid bashing any one candidate too much, since I had no other explanation for her commentary. However, the thought did occur to me, even before this rag picked it up, that maybe she thinks she has a chance at the nomination in a brokered convention.

I am utterly against it. I do not believe that the convention is guaranteed to go her way even if she believes it. And number two, I’m against the idea of some candidate getting the nod who didn’t participate in this bloody primary. It seems unethical.

I am not a mind reader so I can’t say anything with any certainty, but her commentary certainly would leave some paranoid people, such as myself, just wondering where she stands. She might not be an evil Machiavelli, (and yes, Machiavelli actually was a supporter of a Republican form of government and a great historian. I consider his Discourses on Livy to be required reading.) but she has a lot of supporters who are in her ear telling her that she can take over at the convention.


55 posted on 02/18/2012 4:13:44 PM PST by Apollo5600
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To: Cicero

“There’s no question that Sarah would make the best possible candidate. Also, that the GOP establishment would rather shoot themselves upside the head than let her win.”

Where is the evidence of this? Keep in mind, I was a Cain supporter. I value ideas. What would Palin’s platform be? What would her tax plan be? What would her social security plan be?

I find the idea offensive that she could possibly sweep in and take a nomination she didn’t fight for, and she certainly wasn’t involved in fighting for a good candidate when she had the chance. She’s not leading, only providing commentary. Does someone providing commentary deserve the fruits of a victory she earned through simply being as neutral as possible while making sure no single candidate got too much momentum?


56 posted on 02/18/2012 4:20:46 PM PST by Apollo5600
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To: Apollo5600
I’m against the idea of some candidate getting the nod who didn’t participate in this bloody primary

Between Soros and his minions, the EGOP, and various nuts ( because what I list below had to be from some evil characters) look at what has happened to her in the last 3.5 years as to prevent her from running...

* Someone burnt her Church to the ground.
* Endless media bashing...
* Going after her kids ergo the bar scene with her daughter.
* Her parents lives threatened.
* Rumors just before she was possibly going to annouce that had her rattled.
* Having McGunniess live next door for a summer...

Compared to this ( and these are a fraction of them off the top of my head ), maybe the Run would have been a cake-walk, but has she not been "bloodied"?

57 posted on 02/18/2012 4:22:55 PM PST by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Apollo5600
Pail 'n cane

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58 posted on 02/18/2012 4:23:03 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Works for me”...I was thinking that as read the article. :)


59 posted on 02/18/2012 4:24:46 PM PST by luvie (Never surrender...don't give up. We WILL take our country back, one vote at a time!)
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To: Beatthedrum

How much executive experience, if any, does Sen. Rick Santorum have? Didn’t we just go through this in 2008? What has he EVER accomplished, other than getting Sen. Specter re-elected and getting beat like a drum himself? Buehler? Buehler?


60 posted on 02/18/2012 4:25:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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