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Will rivalry make Sarah Palin run? (Beyond ridiculous)
The Politico ^
| June 9, 2011
| Professor Mark J. Rozell and Paul Goldman
Posted on 06/09/2011 8:17:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Will Sarah Palins intensifying rivalry with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) cause the former Alaska governor to run for president?
The first female Republican vice presidential nominee clearly believes she is the one who has paid the heavy dues by bearing the brunt of the liberal elite attacks to help build the tea party, social conservative wing of the GOP.
Palins bus tour had some of the hallmarks of a primal scream: I built this constituency, not Bachmann, not anyone else, she said. Looking at it through her eyes, she has a point.
But in 1932, former New York Gov. Al Smith must have felt a similar jealousy believing he tilled the fields four years earlier only to find his protégé Franklin D. Roosevelt positioned to reap the rewards.
In this same way, certain elder pols clearly felt that Sens. John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama had not waited their turn and leaped over more deserving, seasoned leaders. Though the Democrats are far more likely to jump the line than Republicans traditionally have been. And that must make all the latest attention on Bachmann doubly infuriating to Palin. Republicans are expected to wait their turn!
But Palin clearly understands that her brand would be threatened if a presidential campaign by the upstart tea party sweetheart gets traction.....
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TOPICS: Minnesota; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: bachmann; enemedia; goldman; palin; politico4obama; politico4romney; politicomisogyny; pollutico; rivalry; romneydirtytricks; romneysorostricks; romneyspew; rozell; sarahpalin; smellthefear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Being so accustomed to have robots as constituents, again the media and the left try to "assign" personality traits to people to serve their propaganda purposes.
After days of the media not knowing whether to scratch their ass or wind their watch in trying to keep up with Palin, all of a sudden this numbnuts thinks he's got her all figured out. However, democrats prove daily that their claim to elitist mental prowess is part of their utopian dream.
I am convinced that Palin knows full well what challenges she would face as President - especially in era of a hostile American media. Don't think she hasn't had the time and drive to analyze it from most every angle.
They're down to reading her emails now to try and find the final "got'cha", as everything they've tried so far bounced back in their faces.
Comedians are threatening to assassinate her, the GOP good 'ol boys are in the smokey back rooms trying to figure out how to keep a "girl" out of the boys club, and the media is (get this) "feeling disrespected" by her. What a hoot.
Whether she wins - or even runs - the spectacle of her driving them bananas with a big grin on her face is one to behold.
It's become like a give scavenger hunt for the MSM of "who will find the fatal blow on Sarah". They've tried most every angle, yet she just gets more popular, and more powerful every day.
As Alaska's governor, she cleaned up her own party first, no doubt the looming dread hanging over the GOP-E (elites) like Karl Rove, et al.
If she wins, proper protocol will naturally dictate that more female Secret Service personnel will be buzzing around the White House - just keep them at a safe distance from Bill Clinton and for God's sake don't give Anthony Weiner their Twitter ID's.
So, as a motorcade of media tag along behind Sarah's bus - cussing her all the way for starting a "media frenzy" - we can witness the opus of the sissified and cowardly males left in Congress who just can't bring themselves to say "no" to the democrats.
But Palin will not tell them "no"...she will tell them "hell no".
But for now, Br'er Sarah...she lay low....
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:09:49 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
To: Tucker39
I beg to differ with the first sentence. There has been no mounting competition from Sarahs standpoint. Sarah has not hired a viscious old RINO retread to attack Michelle. Its just the opposite. Michelle has been paying for a hatchet job to be done on Sarah, who has not yet even declared her candidacy. If there is any blame, or anything untoward going on, the criticism should be aimed at Michelle; not Sarah. The opening sentence, as-written, seems to be blaming Sarah for whatever increase in tensions there may be. Neither one, has ever said anything negative about the other, and they have both suggested that they are friends (which makes Ed Rollins idiotic rant even more stupid).
Bachman herself has always said positive things about Palin, and vice versa, this is pure stupidity.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:51:45 PM PDT
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: ari-freedom
Its bull, here is a Palin response....
http://sarahpac.com/posts/setting-the-record-straight-about-false-quotes-attributed-to-governor-palin
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:59:11 PM PDT
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: PaleoBob
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:00:26 PM PDT
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: Venturer
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:00:53 PM PDT
by
Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
To: Sonny M
of course, the “quote” will be repeated as fact by thousands of bloggers and journalists...
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:10:44 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(All we are saying....is give the military a chance)
To: ari-freedom
Yep, utter junk.
Occasionally they do hit one that is right, but the odds are very bad.
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:23:30 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: ari-freedom
of course, the quote will be repeated as fact by thousands of bloggers and journalists... And then believed many many more who will never see the retraction that that lib rag the Politico will surely make only after the damage has been done.
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posted on
06/09/2011 11:37:50 PM PDT
by
Doofer
To: ari-freedom
Isn’t it libel to claim (with quote marks) something said which wasn’t?
Sarah should sue.
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posted on
06/09/2011 11:38:51 PM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, WI. It starts here. It starts now.)
To: Doofer
Man that post of mine didn’t come out right, but you know what I mean...
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posted on
06/09/2011 11:39:14 PM PDT
by
Doofer
To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Politico knew they likely wouldnt get a quote from Sarah Palin for the latest hit piece they published so they made one up. One of the authors is the former chairman of the Democratic Party of Virgina.Politico wrote: Will Sarah Palins intensifying rivalry with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) cause the former Alaska governor to run for president?The first female Republican vice presidential nominee clearly believes she is the one who has paid the heavy dues by bearing the brunt of the liberal elite attacks to help build the tea party, social conservative wing of the GOP.Palins bus tour had some...
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:18:51 AM PDT
by
Syncro
(Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
To: Sonny M
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posted on
06/10/2011 2:18:44 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's been Michele doing the backstabbing (through Ed Rollins), not Sarah. I have donated on a fairly regular basis to Michele Bachmann in the past but will never do so again.
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posted on
06/10/2011 10:13:02 PM PDT
by
bwc2221
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