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Will Governor Palin Become Senator Palin ?
Politicallore.com ^ | Nov. 07 | Irishr

Posted on 11/07/2008 1:39:53 PM PST by DecoyJames

"It is very possible, but only if Ted Stevens, the Alaskan Senator convicted for corruption, is able to hold on to his slim lead in this election. Which brings us to some very strange scenarios."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicallore.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: mccain; palin; sarahpalin
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To: SmokingJoe

My bad. :( I thought you said Palin, after re-reading, I saw you actually wrote McPain.

I apologize.


61 posted on 11/07/2008 2:03:41 PM PST by papasmurf (Impeach the illegal bastard!)
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To: pissant

I want Sarah and Duncan Hunter to spend some time chatting. That’s what I want.


62 posted on 11/07/2008 2:03:41 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: AHerald

She’s a big girl and, I’m told, owns a whole drawer full of “big girl” panties.

She will decide whats in her interests and it coincide with ours. I’ll support her decision.


63 posted on 11/07/2008 2:05:46 PM PST by papasmurf (Impeach the illegal bastard!)
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To: truthluva

Cool facts, thanks.

I stay by my basic conviction, that she is better as Gov.


64 posted on 11/07/2008 2:06:24 PM PST by edge10 (Sarah Palin in 20??)
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To: DecoyJames

No way she should go to the Senate. The last two Senators who were elected were...Obama and...JFK. She should stay two terms as governor if she has to.

We need governors to run, not congressman. Governors are more capable executives and are by light years.


65 posted on 11/07/2008 2:07:04 PM PST by texmexis best
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To: CaptainMorgantown

“If she stays governor of Alaska, even a quite successful governor, the left will paint her as a foreign policy lightweight in 4 years”

******

Easy.
A few well times, well publicised trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, inluding photo ops with her son who is in service, plus “consultations’ with the female German Chancellor Angella Merkel, the conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy (who thinks she’s great), etc etc in the next couple of years should take care of that issue.
Hey, Comrade Obambi did the same thing in that trip of his and became a foreign policy “expert” in just one week didn’t he? (tongue in cheek).


66 posted on 11/07/2008 2:07:21 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: realcleanguy

If Stevens is expelled, then can Governor Palin appoint a new Senator? If so, then it would be better for Alaska if she appointed someone other thsn herself.


67 posted on 11/07/2008 2:07:47 PM PST by KriegerGeist (Hey Hussein! REDISTRIBUTE THIS!)
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To: RightWhale

You said — “A special election will be called. Appointment is not possible.”

Governor Palin said (on a radio station in Alaska) that this was an issue that was in dispute and she was waiting for a legal answer to that from the Attorney General.

She said that Alaska should not go without representation and that she would like to seat someone there for a temporary period of time and then have an election for choosing the final candidate.

At this point, it may or may not be possible...


68 posted on 11/07/2008 2:08:02 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: MountainWoman

Yes, that’s right. Then Sarah could run for the Senate seat. Of course Stevens would first have to resign or be kicked out of the Senate. The reason Sarah has to be coy about her intentions now is she doesn’t know what is going to happen to Stevens or when it will if it does happen.


69 posted on 11/07/2008 2:08:34 PM PST by techno
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To: papasmurf

That’s ok.
No problem at all. :)


70 posted on 11/07/2008 2:09:07 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Desron13

You said — “Only if she wants to.”

She indicate in an Alaska radio station interview that she did not want to. There was something about it being something against her principles and some problems there in Alaska from that past (that I don’t understand, not being privy to it). So, by her own words, she will not do that...


71 posted on 11/07/2008 2:09:47 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: cotton1706
She doesn't need to "brush up on issues". She lives them!
72 posted on 11/07/2008 2:09:57 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: DecoyJames

The Stevens issue is a no win for Alaska. The Dem Senate under the color of “integrity” will be expelled.

Having Gov. Palin assume the senate seat is the worst possible thing if she chooses a national career. She will lose at every turn. It places her in a perpetual whipping boy corner. Her press coverage will be nill unless she speaks out.

She has nothing to learn there but the politics of abject Republican compromise. She already knows the extent of the corruption, so that’s nothing new.

And worst of all, she would be under constant pressure from McCain and his inept machine.

Alaska needs her and she can hone her governng skills all the more.

The election hasn’t truly shaken out yet. A serious after action analysis needs to be done and RINOs must have no part in this.

Her family, as strong as it is, remains wounded from the onslaught of the media and the backstabbers here and in the GOP. Healing time is in order.


73 posted on 11/07/2008 2:10:33 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: ConservativeMind

You said — “Let her nominate her husband for it and she can keep the governorship.”

Well, because of past political problems of that same nature, she made it clear that she was not going to do something like that... LOL...


74 posted on 11/07/2008 2:11:02 PM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

She was only talking about the interim post of appointing herself, not about the special election that would take place when the election day is set.


75 posted on 11/07/2008 2:11:15 PM PST by techno
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To: SmokingJoe

Joe, you are correct in your assessment that this is a poor idea.

Semper Fi,


76 posted on 11/07/2008 2:11:22 PM PST by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: AuntB

Indeed.


77 posted on 11/07/2008 2:12:05 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

as much as i would like it, i don’t she’ll ever be president... but i was telling my friends that she would make an excellent Majority Leader in the Senate someday...


78 posted on 11/07/2008 2:12:32 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: DecoyJames

I can’t vote for her as Senator but she has my vote as POTUS.


79 posted on 11/07/2008 2:13:02 PM PST by VairyAngel (An army of ordinary people, A kingdom where love is the key, BO AND MO WILL MAKE US PO.)
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To: latina4dubya

Why will she never be President ?


80 posted on 11/07/2008 2:13:12 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (Our party is at war. and those who do not support Palin will be backed into the ocean.)
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