Posted on 07/04/2009 7:04:31 AM PDT by skimbell
Rather than a blow to a career, Sarah Palin's decision to resign underlines her self-awareness, writes The Daily Beast's John Batchelor. She is now unmatched for the 2012 primary. The early excuse for the Republican circular firing squad of the holiday weekend is that Weekly Standard editor and party brainiac Bill Kristol claims that pugnacious McCain campaign enforcer Steve Schmidt has been caught gossiping to Vanity Fair’s Todd Purdum about Sarah Palin’s rambling and incoherent vice-presidential campaign last September and October...
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Git ‘em, Sarah. If you really go after these creeps, a huge portion of the electorate will support you.
let us not forget about Mr. Conservative himself Rush Limbaugh.
It fit!
This is the best move she could have made for America.
Usually it takes a candidate time to get the base in their corner, but the vast majority of the Republican base went to her last fall. As far as I am concerned, I worked Srah during the election not McCain. He was along for the ride.
The 2010 election is going to be a lot more interesting with her in the lower 48 campaigning, making speeches, and kicking the GOP Men’s Club who want to control everything to the curb. Same group that dried up fundraising for Dr. Coburn in 2004 and the OK Grassroots went to work and he became our Senator. Same GOP Men’s Club behind the endorsement of Crist over Rubio even though Crist is not an incumbent Senator. Then there is the endorsement of Arlen Specter and a few weeks later he turns Dem. She just blew a large hole in their ship yesterday!
As far as I am concerned she is the head of the GOP just like when Reagan lost the nomination in 1976, he started working to get the nomination in 1980 and collected IOU’s all over the Country.
These are not normal times with ZERO in the White House marching this Country toward socialism so it took a bold move out of a Republican that understood what is happening and decided to do something. Sarah made that bold move and with the move put herself in the lead role in the GOP. People listen when she speaks and she excites crowds like I haven’t seen in years.
Woke up this morning with a smile because the GOP finally has their spokesman who is not afraid to tell it like it is.
Happy 4th of July!
Compared to Sarah-cuda, Romney and Huck, one’s a pretty boy leftie, the other though sincere does not match her rock solid conservative values. Besides Huck attempted liberal-lite with AR’s “health-care” system as well.
ROFL
from the very beginning, when McCain announced her as VP pick, the left went after her with such ugliness, due to the fact that she lives the American dream, shoots guns, is pro life AND is entirely beautiful, I knew that she would someday become Prez..
I still believe that. Her enemies are very powerful, but she has a secret weapon, and that weapon is her own exceptionalism.
I do wonder though, if we all have it wrong, and that she is just fed up, and plans to make a large income, giving speeches, with no more pursuit of political office.
What is the difference between Gov. Palin stepping down before completing her elected term and Gingrich stepping down before completing his elected term? Why is hers so damning to any future, yet his is not?
The years that have passed since he did resign, maybe??
It is - isn't it!!
” let us not forget about Mr. Conservative himself Rush Limbaugh.”
Radio support - Rush, Wilkow, Church
Print- Thomas Sowell, Coulter, Malkin
Let’s see how many line up with her
hey ... Newt has a proven success record in national politics...I like his depth.... unfortunately, Romney is the next man up on the Repub list...do you agree with that, given how Repubs usually nominate??
Difficult, yes... however her book deal will cover it ... and I thought she should have opened her defense fund to bigger contributions,,, the Clintons never folded ... it’s hardball politics... I’m hopeful she won’t fade out... strict conservative voices are few lately...
Extending Palin’s basketball analogy:
I think she’s attempting to execute a political “give and go” or a “backdoor cut.” You pass the ball to a teammate and cut hard towards the goal. The tendency of the defense is to play the ball, not the player. If it works, you get a wide-open layup. If it doesn’t, you circle around the basket and set up on the perimeter for another play.
Also, one basket doesn’t win the game. You need to score repeatedly—but you can’t do that if the other team is double-teaming you all the time, so you HAVE to pass the ball—”hit the open man.”
Finally, sports-related, Palin is a marathon runner. She knows something about pacing herself.
I’m guessing many of Palin’s detractors have never played or even seriously watched and analyzed any kind of sporting event.
Her opponents remind me of a bunch of three year olds playing soccer. They just run after the ball in a big herd—there’s no strategy there, just a lot of shouting and futile effort to get to the ball. Only the older kids grasp things like spacing and passing and set plays.
I think Palin understands political spacing, passing, and set plays, in a way that lots of Beltway people just don’t. It’s a different kind of politics from the smashmouth variety they’re used to.
It’ll be fascinating to see if Palin’s kind of politics can work on a national level as well as it did in Alaska.
Yes. But, we gotta get out of that box
I hope she stays in the game... this just makes higher office much harder to attain for her now... maybe 2016???
I also believe that, like a mama bear, she is defending her cubs...her children have been hurt intentionally by the media...I cried when I read the Huffington Post article yesterday with its degrading references to Down Syndrome children...the media has been attacking the Palins for having let Trig survive the pregnancy...IMHO what they’re really afraid of is the statistics about the number of Down Syndrome kids being aborted every year in the US...close to 90%...this from the party who ‘cares’ so much about the disabled...Sarah should become a true voice for the disabled and tie it to Obamacare where I’m sure abortion is considered the intelligent decision for a Down Syndrome pregnancy...she can breathe new life into the ProLife movement and use her own experience to give the message true force. The use of sonograms has already begun to erode the abortion anywhere/ anytime wing of the abortion movement.
[Should Sarah Palin want to be] a candidate, she begins the nomination hunt with a formula that none of her rivals can match, not even Mitt Romney, not only because she gave up something in order to go for the White House but also because she reached this decision by being drafted.Something I swiped from a Tweet yesterday describes Sarah's attitude with her indomitable flair:
Sarah Palin has just taken the "political box" & decided to do a little origami!
Go Sarah, and God bless your journey!
I hear ya ... Missouri is still running 50-50.....we’re trying to hold the line.... very concerned about the Bond vacancy ... if MO goes to two Dem senators, I’m afraid that state government will follow...
A great analogy- thank you! I get sick of the "she's a quitter" comments on here!
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