Posted on 05/15/2010 12:02:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That’s why the Democrats are scrambling to give amnesty to 20-40 million illegal aliens so they can vote this Fall and in 2012!
Exactly.
Sarah is supporting other woman candidates which Hillary is real weak on. That is because Hillary is all about Hillary. Sarah is about a much larger purpose.
God willing, I will get to pull the lever for Sarah in 2012!
“She might have been able to do that with the California race, but she had no choice but to give McCain her endorsement when he asked for it. Had she failed to do so, it would have forever marked her as a backstabbing, betrayer.”
She didn’t have to campaign for him. I’m glad to see she hasn’t returned to AZ to campaign for him. I think she’s not immune to adjustments - that’s great news.
Well, you and I aren't privy to the intimate details of their personal relationship, or what reasoning McCain may have used to compel her to stump for him in his Senate race.
However, looking at it purely from an objective viewpoint, it would have looked pretty odd if all she'd done is give him the nod after all they went through as running mates on the national ticket. I think she had to make at least a few appearances on his behalf.
I'm sure she'll be glad when it's completely passed, and she can put her full concentration on future endeavors.
I personally believe that the Dem party machine will push Hillary to replace Plugs as the VP. No way will they risk ticking off the Black voter, IMO.
I have an email list of over 60 conservatives I send blast to on interesting topics. I may have to send a link on this one.....
it would have looked pretty odd if all she'd done is give him the nod after all they went through as running mates on the national ticket. I think she had to make at least a few appearances on his behalf.She didn’t have to campaign for him. I’m glad to see she hasn’t returned to AZ to campaign for him.
I agree that Gov. Palin had no choice but to campaign for McCain enough to make us all uncomfortable.I'm sure she'll be glad when it's completely passed, and she can put her full concentration on futureThe reality is that Palin and McCain were always an odd couple - he a RINO and she a conservative. That is the way national tickets can be - recall Ronald Reagan and his VP picks - plural, because he not only picked GHW Bush, but in '76 when he was achingly close to snatching the nomination from Gerald Ford, he announced that he would name some guy from Pennsylvania, it think it was, who wasn't a conservative. Again, GHWB went for a more conservative VP than himself when he named Dan Quayle (if Quayle had proved the equal of Sarah Palin on the campaign trail, GHWB woulda thought he'd died and gone to heaven).
I certainly hope and believe so. Again, Sarah had to stump for her erstwhile odd couple running mate, but McCain and Palin are the opposite kind of "maverick. While McCain is a political "maverick" in the trivial sense of being the prototypical RINO, Palin is a maverick in the sense that she came to prominence as a reformer - an actual reformer, not a "reformer" - within the Republican Party. A reformer who was more Republican than the others, and was willing to make the unconventional moves of running against Republican incumbents and of resigning from sinecure positions.Maverick McCain skates on issues important to conservatives, maverick Palin is more of "an extremism in defense of Republican values" kind of person.
IOW, had she grown up in Arizona she might have run against McCain in the Republican primary years ago. That she now finds herself backing him instead is a historical irony.
I enjoyed your post. Very well said...
What just occurred to me today is how she is preparing the field for her 2012 run, and she WILL run. Sarah sees who she will probably run against in 2012 and it is not Obama. It is Hillary.
The Dems will probaly see that if Sarah runs, her toughest opponent will be Hillary, not Obama. They will push the “First Woman President” as their prize, not Sarah’s.
Sarah is grabbing the title as the nation’s formost woman candidate from Hillary by her real support of woman candidates. Now this is not gender politics. This is strategy.
Hillary claims the role as the formost woman’s candidate by just being a woman. That is no longer enough. Sarah is supporting other woman which Hillary is real weak on. That is because Hillary is all about Hillary. Sarah is about a much larger purpose.
In the process Sarah also eliminates woman Dems as the article points out. Also as 2nd DivisionVet notes Sarah is also targeting the Dem Feminazis. Both in turn cut down Hillary’s power base.
I personally believe that the Dem party machine will push Hillary to replace Plugs as the VP. No way will they risk ticking off the Black voter, IMO.Sarah is a fine stategic thinker. She has a plan and she knows where she is going.6 posted on May 15, 2010 4:13:07 PM EDT by Solar Wind
That would appear to be true. As much as I like the above argument, the Democrats are in no position to dump Obama and expect to win in '12; it would constitute a coup against its most loyal constituency which would be likely to have long-lasting effects on the party.OTOH the Democrats also depend on women for their margin of victory, when they win. And Sarah is attacking that flank of the Democratic Party. Biden is old enough that he probably could be eased out in favor of Hillary in '12, but if in fact Obama is in as much trouble as we hope he'll be, Hillary as VP won't be enough if Sarah is running against Obama after having dramatically reduced the lopsided ratio of Democrats to Republicans among women in high-profile politics.
I think that historically Palin bears some comparison to Richard Nixon, who was targeted just as viciously by Big Journalism and "liberal" Democrats as Sarah has been. And yet he won the presidency - and in historical perspective, definitely was the victim of a coup. If you compare Watergate, bad as it was, to the scandals of the Clinton presidency (think, FBI Filegate alone - let alone lying under oath and pettifogging in front of a Grand Jury) you have to conclude that if Clinton couldn't be convicted, in retrospect the charges against Nixon were a joke. How different is that, after all, from what has already happened to Governor Palin in Alaska?And of course, Nixon proved his superior patriotism twice - once in declining to contest the 1960 election which was a real squeaker, in contrast to Al Gore's scorched earth post-election campaign in Florida, and again by resigning rather than dragging the country through an impeachment trial as Clinton did.
I am not a big Nixon supporter as some I know are, I have heard some say that he was our greatest president but I still remember his wage price freeze and other things. Having said that let me add that he truly seems to have been a mixture of some bad qualities and some very fine qualities. He certainly was not one dimensional at all.
Quoting has been Patty Schroeder is too funny. Politico really makes a reach.
Ronald Reagan he wasn't - but then, Reagan was good enough to make you want to vote for him - not mostly just against his opponent. And that kind of candidate is thin on the ground. But in context of the times and the alternatives, I'm not sure that I need to apologize for have voted for the man 3 times.But you're right - Nixon has wage/price controls and the EPA on his record, and he didn't recognize that Vietnam was, politically, no longer winnable by the time he took office (I didn't know that at the time either, tho . . .). And in a better world, Watergate was an impeachable offense. It's just that what the opposition was doing (Nixon was preceded in office by LBJ and his catastrophic "Great Society," after all), and still does today (can you say, "Government Motors and the destruction of health care freedom?") was/is worse.
In comparison Gov. Palin is a saint with an unblemished record, and extremely little policywise to complain of. Assuming that she has learned from her mistake of allowing herself to be Alinskied with bogus ethics complaints - in the real world, you can't give "whistleblowers" carte blanc, she should do fine.
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