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The great Sarah Palin-for-president joke (Smell their fear)
The Los Angeles Times ^ | November 20, 2012 | Paul Whitefield

Posted on 11/21/2012 2:11:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Caught “Game Change” on cable the other night.

Read Charlotte Allen’s Op-Ed article, “Hey, GOP, take the Palin cure,” in The Times on Sunday.

And what did I learn? Well, something doesn’t add up. Or, to paraphrase “I Love Lucy”: “Charlotte, you got some ’splainin’ to do.”

In her Op-Ed, Allen serves up equal parts lemonade and venomade in making her case that Sarah Palin should be the Republican presidential candidate in 2016. In Allen’s view, Palin has it all: She has blue-collar appeal, she’s “tough as nails,” and best of all, she’s a woman, which, in Allen’s world, gives her this advantage: “Men love Sarah Palin, and she loves men.”

Yep, just what the GOP needs: a Marilyn Monroe who hunts moose too.

Now, Allen also likes men, but there are some women she’s not too keen about. Take Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom she describes as looking “like Brunnhilde in a small-town Wagner production.” Or even fellow Republican Peggy Noonan, whom Allen lumps in with those “snooty East Coast Republican intellectual types … who look down their noses at a woman who doesn't shop at Neiman Marcus and didn't attend an Ivy League university.”

Anyway, you get the picture. But for good measure, Allen takes this plunge into mythology at the end:

Some Republicans will say Palin has too much baggage from 2008, and we need to look for a new Sarah Palin. But I don't see what's wrong with the one we've got. Ever since the 1990s, Republicans have been looking for the next Ronald Reagan. Reagan is now revered in bipartisan circles, but during his presidency he was, like Palin, ridiculed by liberals. They cited "Bedtime for Bonzo" and sneered at his no-name college degree...

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KEYWORDS: 2016; obama; palin; sarahpalin
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The Chris Christie reference tells you everything you need to know about Mr. Whitefield.
1 posted on 11/21/2012 2:11:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah will probably wait until her contract with FOX is settled/renewed. Sarah should be full go for 2016!


2 posted on 11/21/2012 2:15:35 PM PST by biggredd1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Calif4Palin; carjic; CatDancer; caww; chickpundit; Christie at the beach; Chunga; ..
Sarah Palin's Ping List

She grew up, they never will.

3 posted on 11/21/2012 2:19:02 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for the post, 2ndDivisionVet. Actually, just knowing the article is from the LA Times tells me all I need to know. LOL!


4 posted on 11/21/2012 2:19:02 PM PST by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: Pray for the America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The sandwich industry is slowly coming back.

What she needs is an affiliation with a big-time sandwich entity.


5 posted on 11/21/2012 2:21:47 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: onyx

May we always be happy and our enemies know it.


6 posted on 11/21/2012 2:35:56 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

SARAH IS THE BEST


7 posted on 11/21/2012 2:35:56 PM PST by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: onyx
Hang in there, America. Fight for what is right. Don’t look to government or any politician to solve your problems. Government can’t make you happy, healthy, wealthy or wise. Obama is a master at reading the right “soaring” words fed into his teleprompter, but actions speak louder than words. So, hold tight to 2 Corinthians 4:8 because we’re in for a wild ride. We must survive. United. One nation under God.
“We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed.”
~Sarah Palin


8 posted on 11/21/2012 2:37:57 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: onyx

Thanks for the ping!


9 posted on 11/21/2012 2:41:43 PM PST by TheConservativeParty (Barky's evil deeds: terrorism is alive, but The Twinkie is dead. 1448 days until Nov.8,2016)
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I stopped reading at “Caught ‘Game Change’ on cable the other night”


10 posted on 11/21/2012 2:52:01 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield ("Hate standing in line at the Post Office?, wait until ObamaCare is implemented.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WOW the left is truly terrified of Sarah Palin..thats all they think about..they are THAT scared that she might run and win it literally makes them poop bricks


11 posted on 11/21/2012 3:09:51 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m hoping it will be her time, she makes good decisions and is a true conservative AMERICAN LEADER.


12 posted on 11/21/2012 3:12:00 PM PST by DCmarcher-976453
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To: The Wizard

13 posted on 11/21/2012 3:13:44 PM PST by mcmuffin ("236 Years- Only In America")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ever since the 1990s, Republicans have been looking for the next Ronald Reagan. Reagan is now revered in bipartisan circles, but during his presidency he was, like Palin, ridiculed by liberals. They cited "Bedtime for Bonzo" and sneered at his no-name college degree...
14 posted on 11/21/2012 3:17:26 PM PST by McGruff (No New RINOs!)
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To: biggredd1

I just love Sarah who WOULD be a Reagan-esque President.

That said, it’s all meaningless re: Sarah if Comrade Obozo grants amnesty to 30 Million ILLEGAL CRIMINALS and the DNC/Marxist party would have a permanent voting majority.

May God save America....


15 posted on 11/21/2012 3:24:49 PM PST by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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Some Republicans will say Palin has too much baggage from 2008

Hell, Obama had baggage from September, but HE still got elected!

16 posted on 11/21/2012 3:29:36 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whatever


17 posted on 11/21/2012 3:32:29 PM PST by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx

I’m not going to bother to READ these idiot articles, but there sure are a lot of them, and that seems significant. It’s clear that the loony left fears Sarah more than anyone else.

As a conservative, I think she’s the best potential candidate I can remember seeing, ever. The only one with the guts, the principles, and the smarts needed to start straightening our country out, before we finish committing suicide.

Too bad the GOP doesn’t understand that, as the left clearly does. The pork guzzlers and corrupt lifetime power grubbers who run the party fear her even more than the left does, and with good reason.

I was very disappointed when she got crowded out this last time. Here’s hoping that the true conservatives and patriots in our country see the light, and gather behind her this time.


18 posted on 11/21/2012 3:35:27 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In before the Mitt lovers start trashing her?


19 posted on 11/21/2012 3:38:36 PM PST by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: trisham; Sarah Barracuda; onyx; DCmarcher-976453; mcmuffin; SuziQ; Cicero; APatientMan
You all are 100% Right on!

Go Sarah!


20 posted on 11/21/2012 3:50:47 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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