Posted on 11/06/2008 7:01:49 AM PST by ODDITHER
To the McCain staff and Republican Party leaders:
My family has been Republicans since before the civil war. One of my ancestors lived in Arkansas and is described as a Moral Abolitionist. Originally from South Carolina he brought his Family to North West Arkansas and started a community named The Lord’s Vineyard. Here he taught both his children and the slaves he brought with him as well as the slaves he inherited or bought in South Carolina to read and write. Once they reached 21 and were able to read and write and had learned a skill, he gave them a piece of property and helped them set up a business. He once said that his children were no more prepared to live in a world without slaves than the slaves were to have freedom. He is it was his duty to ensure that both could be free and successful. He created uproar when he gave one of his slaves a business before his son, because his son had not become sufficiently humble.
I believe through my family, I have earned the right to speak as a Republican and believe my thoughts reflect many other Republicans.
The McCain staffers who did not agree with Sarah Palin, would you please just Shut Up!! You must understand that most of America loved Sarah, she energized long time Republicans who like myself was not enamored with John McCain as the candidate. When he won, I had decided to sit this election out, I would vote for him because he was the lesser of two evils but I was not going to walk the streets and volunteer my time and money. Sarah changed that for me. I worked harder to get Senator McCain elected than I worked to get George Bush elected. If you’re an example of what the insiders in Washington have become, we deserved to lose!!!!
Americans are starved for someone that can clearly articulate our agenda of lower taxes, limited government, protecting the unborn children and our personal freedoms. Sarah Palin is that person and you are trying to destroy her. We will not allow that to happen, not this time. She will not become a George W Bush because you have hurt feelings. Our message was schizophrenic at best and liberal at worst. We must get back to being the party of ideas.
We must accept the fact that when liberals wage a campaign of personal destruction they win. They not only have the backing of the press but many in Europe. People who want to see American power in the world diminished back the liberal agenda because they know that liberals are the best avenue to destroying everything we hold dear. When liberals are forced to wage a campaign of ideas they lose. American values are center right not left. Every liberal that won, did not discuss issues but instead focusing on their opponent’s personal life and distorting their values. Republican’s who wage a campaign of personal destruction always lose.
If we move to the left, Americans will keep electing Democrats, we need to unite, and start presenting our party as the party of ideas and taking our case directly to the American people. We need every Republican united in that cause.
Shut up and get to work or get out of the way.
Sarah will survive. Her stature will only increase as time goes on. Those who are sniping now are the ones who will eventually be pushed to the side and out of the way.
The reality is, we need more people like Sarah and less of those who led us to this electoral disaster in the first place.
Not according to the battle ground poll. For the longest sort of a while, 60% have called themselves conservative. I’ve heard some say they switched to UHHbama to drive home a point to REAL conservatives, of which group McCain aint. Bush either.
“New Gingrich ought to be chairman of the DNC.”
Indeed. After his capitulation to Clinton that’s where he belongs.
“They actually managed to lose to a one-term Senate Marxist with open and unapologetic terrorist ties”
You forgot the islamic heritage and name part too!
No,, i didn’t call him a muslim, i said Islamic heritage and name,, thats enough for me.
I was watching Fox and Friends this morning (my mistake I know) and they were talking about how the McCain crew said she was a diva and a hick and that she lost the election.
The one thing that stuck out in my mind is that at one point the McCain staff went to her hotel room and she came out in just a towel (or a bathrobe?) and they complained about that!??!?!
Who would complain about that???? and why couldn’t I get a job on the McCain staff???
Blame game?
Oughtta be UNDER the damned thing. ;)
u wrote:
“But conservatives are a minority in America”
You evidently did not see the exit polling data in relationship to political slant.
You nailed it!
The Anchorage Daily News does not support her as like the liberal part of Alaska, they want to burn her at the stake.
Its historically proven that mobs that act like this are bound by superstitions, these liberals cry for change but when someone actually can make a change they are afraid of them.
America and even in Alaska has retrogressed to the days of the Salem witch hunts, its a frenzy fueled by fears of being ignorant, unwilling to listen or learn.
I like Sarah a lot on a personal level. I don’t think she is a strong candidate though. Just being honest about it.
Ted Stevens, newly convicted felon, was just re-elected to US Senate from Alaska. Surely, once sentenced, he will be forced to step down. Can/will Sarah as Governor of Alaska appoint herself to replace him in the Senate??
It would be a great resume builder and give her much greater visibility on the national stage.
Can you give the reasoning behind your take that she is not a strong candidate?
Yeah, just like Reagan. "Mr.Reagan, can you name a SCOTUS decision that you disagree with?"
Um, uh, er, uh.
Sounds just like Reagan. Maybe she will be effective. That remains to be seen. Here's hoping we find two or three other quality prospects to compete against her, so we can maybe get the best possible candidate. Smitten is no way to go through politics.
“I like Sarah a lot on a personal level. I don’t think she is a strong candidate though. Just being honest about it.”
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I’ll have one of whatever it is, you’re having.
But I think I’ll wait until this evening, to actually drink it.
The only political thing I caught yesterday was a few minutes of Greta with Karl Rove.
Rove said that before Sarah the GOP was just barely keeping their volunteer positions filled across the country. As soon as she was chosen they had a flood of volunteers and ended with a surplus of volunteers.
The day after she was chosen the GOP received $40,000 in UNSOLICITED contributions.
I think I clicked on Greta when I did for a reason.
Conservatives are less than 50% but so is every other ideology. The bulk of Americans are too busy living their lives they feel. Conservatives win when they get their message out but the Republican Washington Elitists are not going to permit a straight forward person such as Sarah to gain a forum to bring her message to the American People that is why they are doing what they are doing.
My suggestion is that the Conservatives that are really for limited, NOT elitist, Government ask Jim Robinson if we can do our best to make this site the Sarah Palin News Network. Get her message of public service, anti-corruption and limited Government out. She and perhaps Jindal need to lead a new party that is all about Constitutional Principles of Government. The Washington Republican Elitists are not going to let you use the Republican Brand for Conservatism ever again. IMHO
Ravenstar
So I guess conservatives are a minority, but it's a larger minority than liberals, and there were also a lot of people that were not strictly conservatives that found Palin appealing.
The far left hates Palin, and many RINOs in places of power in the Republican Party fear her almost as much as the liberals.
I don't remember seeing any polls on the popularity of Palin in the later days of the election, but I would not be surprised if she had a high approval rating, though if the question were worded to indicate an approval of her ability to act as President I suspect the numbers would be lower because of her relatively weak resume.
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