Posted on 07/11/2009 8:16:27 PM PDT by DavidFarrar
Michael Steele wants Sarah Palin to reorient" the party and grow it. Interesting
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Nope, we need her to help us take it back.
Read DavidFarrar's post #80. That's exactly what I mean.
You got it.
Then they'll begin to realize just how small a part of the party they truly are.
I may be wrong here, but isn't the object to get Sarah Palin elected as our next president in 2012?
The way I hear some of you talk, it's like all is lost. We have to reinvent the wheel here before we can go on, yada, yada, yada.
All I am saying is Steele started out by suggesting Sarah Palin should take a hike until 2016 or 2020. One day later he is inviting Sarah Palin to reorient (it's a word. Look it up) the party and grow it.
Okay, so maybe he's throwing her a high, inside, fast ball. But what the heck; she's a heavy hitter. I say take a swing at it -- it's the only way to score.
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davidfarrar
All I want is to see Steele go away. Pronto, Vamoose.
All I want is to see Steele go away. Pronto, Vamoose.
Sarah definitely wants to run for President, but I also think her priority right now is helping advance the Conservative cause. She knows that if we can bring Conservatism back, that we have a great shot at taking back the White House. First things first. Sarah will run, just a matter of time. She will take things slow and see what happens, especially in 2010. If we can win back the Senate, or at least make it competitive again, she will run.
Sarah’s been twittering. I guess the wedding ended(She was at a wedding earlier this evening, hope she had a great time) check out her latest tweets..
More talk of #2 “Stimulus” Pkg? Please no- for so many reasons- incl the 1st one hasn’t done what’s promised, & debt forced on AKn kids is..
selfish & immoral bc it robs their future opportunities!”If there is trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”Thomas Paine
Yes, that’s wise counsel. But in the long run, say as long as 2012, would she be better off helping advance the Conservative cause, even by supporting fiscally conservative Independents, fiscally conservative Democrats and fiscally conservative Republicans as a party chair or outside of the party structure?
Keep in mind, if FC Independents and FC Democrats see her supporting them as a Republican Party Chair, they will see her also changing the party as well. But if she goes at it from outside of the party, her efforts may be looked upon as counter-productive by many Republicans, enough, perhaps, to lose in a close race.
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davidfarrar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhmtg64h6vI&feature=related
(Oriental video)
Disclaimer, please only watch if you like watching incredibly talented, smoking hot Korean singers.
Just saying. :)
Toc toc toc.
PALIN: Youre fired. Perfect. ;)
Steele sees a few possible future scenarios, and one likely one involves the new GOP majority getting behind Sarah Palin to pretty much the exclusion of all other candidates.
In an effort to revive himself as “relevant” , Steele wants to be in on this development, create the perception that he has seen her importance from the beginning, and make a new job for himself, since his “title” has seemed to amount to nothing for him politically. It is ONLY popular support at the voting booth that “decides” who has the power to re-orientate the Party. I believe Sarah Palin has that right now......she just has to hold onto it/
Do YOU realize Sarah Palin resembles Teddy Roosevelt in only one aspect... her ability and passion for the hunt.
T.R was NO Conservative politically. The BULL MOOSE Party was only a name fitting who she is... Pick any 3rd party name you want.
The polarization of our political system today is ripe for a REAL movement BACK to Reaganism. RepubliCAINS will never be a majority party again.. that's painfully obvious. Sarah is a new way back to the vision of our founders and the Republicains can go the way of the Whigs.
That's not reforming from within... That's capturing specific groups.. even socially conservative democrats as few as there may be.. add them to the truly disaffected conservatives, like me and I suspect you... in the old and now defunct Republicans along with independents leaning right and you have the NEW major party strong enough to defeat socialism.
RepubliCAINS are FINI
Wasn't she involved in some way in the McCain campaign? And what did she get for it?
If Sarah Palin can win this intra-party battle by 2010, she can resign her chairmanship position at that point and quickly move to center stage as the Republican Party's presidential nominee standard bearer, with the whole party behind her as her just reward.
His earlier comment about 2016 or 2020 not withstanding, I think this may be what Steele is now offering Palin at this time.
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davidfarrar
Agreed, but I dispute any scenario where Michael Steele
“offers” Sarah Palin anything. THAT is not within his power to do. There is a “new ballgame” forming, and few people see it clearly enough to want to comment on it, but many millions of us feel and sense it. Michael Steele is a virtual hologram as far as his “influence” with voters goes, though, obviously he has some status ( as his job title suggests) with this abstract entity still called “the GOP”. The “official” GOP is fading fast , and is becoming a relic. IT IS THE VOTERS THAT MATTER-—people that don’t take their cues from even FOX NEWS as to who the real “Contenders” are for the Republican Party. Most of the “pushing” against Palin has come from the Left, of course, and we all know why they hate her and resent her. My point is, it will be clear to Palin supporters over time, that an equal amount of pushing against Sarah will come from whatever is left of the Republican Establishment, a political entity that means absolutely nothing to me, and millions like me. THere is bound to be a serious backlash against them as this effort to devalue Sarah becomes clear as an “unofficial co- project” of both GOP Establishment,
and the DNC. They (the RINOS) had better get smart and step aside, if the scenario I see as likely actually unfolds/
Is it a political gamble? Of course it is. But things have changed. She is now a heavy-hitter, not a political neophyte. She can afford to take a swing now. If she misses, she is strong enough to recover. But if she hits, she can have the whole ball of wax, re-orientating a major political party in the process.
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davidfarrar
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