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Chambliss: 'Dynamite' Palin Turned Out the Vote (take note GOP leadership)
The Hill ^ | Posted: 12/03/08 10:29 [ET] | By Klaus Marre

Posted on 12/04/2008 8:29:42 AM PST by lewisglad

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To: pallis
If we keep Sarah and other conservatives up front, we’ll win in 2010 and 2012.

Yeah, it's a shame that a guy like Chambliss, who voted for the $700 billion bailout, had to use Palin's conservatism to get reelected. Try being true to Conservatism, Saxby. It'll do wonders for your political career......

21 posted on 12/04/2008 9:08:58 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. - B. Franklin)
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To: Cicero
Sarah helps stave off the looming Dem super-majority, and Chambliss now owes her next time around.

I'll be watching the actions of the Pubbie Senators from the Northeast. It appears to me that Susan Collins was shocked, and visibly perturbed, by her "good friends from across the aisle" campaigning so vigorously against her. I'm sure Judd Gregg, Olympia Snowe, et.al. paid attention to that as well.

I could be wrong, but I don't think they'll flip to the Dems so easily in the next legislative session.

22 posted on 12/04/2008 9:09:24 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me...I voted for Palin!)
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To: ccmay

President-elect Sarah Palin....has a VERY NICE ring to it!


23 posted on 12/04/2008 9:13:29 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (This nation must not die on our watch.)
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To: bobjam

McCain campaigned for Chambliss a few weeks ago, drawing a crowd of about 2,000, and I believe he did a fundraiser there too. Gov. Palin drew the biggest crowds on either side during the runoff. The Dems big gun, Bill Clinton, drew a crowd of 3,000 in Atlanta. Gov. Palin’s crowd in Duluth was about 6,000.


24 posted on 12/04/2008 9:15:29 AM PST by euram
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To: Night Hides Not

Yes. I’ve often said that Snowe and Collins are good RINOs, meaning that they vote liberal most of the time to please their constituents, but in the past voted with the leadership when it was absolutely necessary—unlike traitors like Lincoln Chaffee, now fortunately no longer with us.

Maine is liberal, but I don’t know how much they’ll like Obama when they’ve seen him in action for a while—or Pelosi. Hopefully you are right, and Snowe and Collins will be back on board, doing the right thing in the crunch. The real crunch will be the SCOTUS nominations and the FOCA bill, I imagine.


25 posted on 12/04/2008 9:24:35 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: lewisglad
Palin probably had a positive impact, but the much greater impact was likely the absence of Obama on the ticket (ie. lower black turnout).
26 posted on 12/04/2008 9:38:18 AM PST by MBB1984
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To: MBB1984

Sarah Palin gives me goosebumps. I LOVE HER!

God, if you’re listening, please help us get a President Palin in 2012!


27 posted on 12/04/2008 9:46:09 AM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
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To: Cicero
The real crunch will be the SCOTUS nominations and the FOCA bill, I imagine.

FOCA is the linchpin for me. I don't want to seem like a one-issue voter, but it's secondary to none for me.

28 posted on 12/04/2008 9:49:55 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me...I voted for Palin!)
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To: domenad
Did Palin really increase turnout?

Chambliss got 500,000 less votes in the runoff than the general, but more Republicans than Democrats turned out so he won. I don't know if that's considered increasing turnout since the numbers went down
29 posted on 12/04/2008 10:06:35 AM PST by houston1
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To: lewisglad

Of course, you realize, Jim Martin came to the show with some REAL HEAVIES; Cong. John Lewis, ‘Little Cheezy’, ‘Whack-yo-mama’, ‘Hip-Hop Mop’, ‘RAMMA-DAMMA-DING-DONG’, Etc. Really an upscale, Atlanta-friendly, bunch.


30 posted on 12/04/2008 11:03:28 AM PST by catchem (NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN VOTER.)
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To: Liz
More from Squire Saxby opining on Governor Sarah Palin. (Mr. Perry in Texas would do well to emulate the gentleman from Georgia)
31 posted on 12/04/2008 11:57:28 AM PST by jla
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To: All

"Chonny and Wooty, you two losers bettah make udder plans.
I gotda funny feeling the Republican Potty tinks you guys are pure crapola."

"Me, I'll kiss anybody's tookus so's I can git federal tax dollahs to bailout
bankrupt Kaliforneeah."

32 posted on 12/04/2008 12:32:22 PM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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To: Condor51; calcowgirl; Just mythoughts; jla
Palin said recently she wants the Repub Party to "stand by its principles" and if they don't she has "better things to do."

FIRST OFF Palin needs to disassociate herself from the pukeneos AT ONCE---before she gets the virulent pukeneo compulsion to kick conservatives to the curb and religiously cleanse the party.

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN Pukeneo William Kristol, Weekly Standard editor and Fox pundit has pronounced the death of the conservative movement. “Leaderless, rudderless and issueless, the conservative movement, is finished,” Kristol pontificated.

ROTFLMAO. That's what YOU think, you stupid puke.

Kristol and the pukes have this cockamamie idea to have the US invade countries all over the world to establish “national greatness”........... as opposed to what they regard as the standpatness of conservative Republicans (another slap at conservatives).

Pukes depraved secret strategy. National Greatness entails a greater role for the federal government and more---much more--extensive intervention throughout the world to "promote" American values. Notice that the idiotic “national greatness” thingy was NOT ever mentioned in McC's campign speeches. The pukes tightened McCain's leash and allowed him to make ONLY pre-selected statements.

Hey, the nincompoopneos play rough if you don't obey.

McC was allowed to campaign for Big Government and issue criticisms of the role of religion in public life (religious cleansing is a pukeneo fave) . McC read from the puke script---sucking-up to pukes bigtime. McC supported endless war, US intervention........BUT only in places Kristol approves. Plus environmentalism, gun control, gay rights, anti-tobacco legislation...........

...... and.... (drum roll, please).... amnesty.

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Kristol and his pals are not satisfied with the trillions of US tax dollars and young blood thrown down the snake pits of Mideast hellholes. The little jerk Kristol see himself as another short guy with a height complex---Napoleon Bonaparte---or maybe Little Ceasar (and I do mean "little")?

These destructive termites have been eating away at the party structure far too long. We demand David Frum, Michael Gerson, David Brooks, Billy Kristol and his Daddy, dumbhead Douglas Feith, and that whole disgusting cabal of pukeneos, get out of the party.......and stay away from the leadership and influencing the party leadership.

33 posted on 12/04/2008 1:11:01 PM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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To: bicyclerepair

Yep, me, too! She is awesome! Definitely a Rising Star in the Republican Party! Check out TeamSarah.org!


34 posted on 12/04/2008 1:26:24 PM PST by LallyG (Vote for More Change in 2012)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

In years, the ‘only good thing that McCain did’ will be seen by conservatives as the springboard to its imminent resurrection and increased prominence in 2010 and 2012 and the eventual salvation for the conservative movement. Whether Sarah leads the movement in 2010 and 2012 is still up in the air, but so far so good.


35 posted on 12/04/2008 2:20:00 PM PST by techno
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To: Liz

“Palin said recently she wants the Repub Party to “stand by its principles” and if they don’t she has “better things to do.”

What?! When did she say that?!


36 posted on 12/04/2008 6:43:24 PM PST by redk
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To: redk

Said to Fred Barnes when asked about her future.

(paraphrasing) “Uf the party is true to its principles I may have a future as a national candidate. If not, I’ve got better things to do”.


37 posted on 12/05/2008 3:04:33 AM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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To: Liz

OMG! That’s awesome!!


38 posted on 12/05/2008 3:25:22 AM PST by redk
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