The Education of Sarah Palin

Would like to see Ron Paul take her under his wing.
Let’s face it, if GB can suck up the truth anyone can!

No one is talking about Romney and Huck, because noone cares about them. Little support, little threat.

Couldn’t Palin have tried to do the same in the last six months? She gave not a single serious policy address. Her atrocious staff bollixed up or delayed multiple invitations to speak to sympathetic audiences.

Hey Rubin, read THIS...

A Map-Based Answer to the Palin Question

OK, that’s IT!!!! I am SOOOOOOOO sick and tired of both lefties AND some righties bitching about Palin being not intelligent enough or not getting the cheap shots right fast enough (”Bush Doctrine”????) during the campaign when Obozo cites 57 states, etc, Biden is a constant gaff machine, Clinton pushes the WRONG button with the Russians, a dope of a dem is put in the senate by Minn, AD NAUSEUM!!! Geez, it couldn’t be more obvious that this woman is a HUGE threat to all libs and is being eviscerated because of her effectiveness. Let’s get some BACK BONE and call it for what it IS!!! *rant over*

Beware of Romney. He’s doing the things quietly out of the public eye that you need to do to become a party’s presidential candidate. It served his purposes quite well for Palin to be the lightning rod for the state-run media/entertainment complex. She absorbed all of the negative energy from the left and he was left unscathed. Huckabee has become a talk show host; that’s not going to win votes or support for himself but would make him an excellent platform to provide support for others.

Romney will be the GOP candidate in 2012. I’m not a Romney-bot; didn’t support the guy last time. I’m just calling it as I see it. I may hold my nose and vote for him, I may decide the Republic is dead and not worth the effort to go vote. Who knows? Things can change; lots of time between now and 2012.

I’d be happy to go more in depth if you wish, but this article, if read from the Romney perspective instead of the Palin perspective, outlines the reasons why pretty well.

Slick Willard is certainly the anti-Palin.

And that is NOT a compliment!

Mitt Romney has been MIA during the Sarah Palin fire storm. He could have done himself some good with conservatives had he stepped up to defend her, but as JAP (Just Another Politician), he thinks it is fine to sit silently by and watch the hyenas on the Left attack her. That is ungentlemanly, cowardly and unhelpful to his ambition to get conservative backing in ‘12.

She never overcame the doubts about her knowledge, credibility, and seriousness about policy

She never overcame doubts but BamBam did? What kind of bizarro world do we live in? Far better to have a partial term as a junior senator and to spend most of that time running for the top job than to be a state governor. Why don't they just admit it's all style over substance, (with a dash of racism thrown in) add to that a one sided press and look what we get.

Thought McCain was no threat either until he became our unelected candidate.

stupid.

no one says the same about john mccain.

This is a Romney PIMP thread.

The citation deserves a BARF.

It states:

"One can’t help but think Romney is a grown-up,
someone who has thought about the issues and is at least trying to formulate sober responses to the Obama left-wing agenda.
Yet the most important thing Mr. Romney is doing may lie elsewhere, in the air miles and shoe leather he is investing to help fellow Republicans.
That is the kind of loyalty-inducing investment that can come back to benefit a presidential candidate.”
Romney and other Republicans running or potentially running for higher office may not have the raw political charisma or engender the populist adulation that Palin does.
But they are pleasing personalities, articulate, and bright.
They sport compelling biographies and, most of all,
are clear on a central truism... (ignores real record yada yada.

Bzzzzt. Romney has NO loyalty.

Willard Brutus Romney

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

"Schmidt was importuned by several of the Republican aspirants for president earlier this year.
Mitt Romney sent him an antique chair to symbolize a seat at the table."

"Romney would not say whether he’d been vetted,
but did insist that the vice presidency was a subject he had never even so much discussed with McCain,
with whom he often tangled bitterly in the primary campaign.
So I tried another tack, recalling that I had been in a car with McCain and his then aide John Weaver,
reporting a piece for V.F. in the fall of 2006,
just after McCain delivered an address at Boston College’s opening convocation.
Weaver’s phone rang, and it was someone at B.C.,
informing him that Romney’s office had just called to ask when he would be invited to speak."

"Texan helped McCain secure Romney endorsement
AUSTIN – The decision by Mitt Romney to endorse John McCain didn't just happen, of course. It took a Texan who knows something about uniting fierce political rivals.
John Weaver, Mr. McCain's former political guru, was the intermediary who initiated talks between the two sides that led to Mr. Romney's announcement of support.
...Here's how the two came to make a joint appearance Thursday in Boston: Last week, Mr. Weaver got a call from McCain aides Charlie Black and Steve Schmidt, who asked if he would help broker an endorsement.
Mr. Weaver, who had left the McCain campaign in last year's shakeup, is a longtime friend of Beth Myers, Mr. Romney's campaign manager.."

Jonah Goldberg: "A Letter to Sarah Palin
Mitt Romney, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, Louisiana governor
Bobby Jindal, and other hands-on types are what the party wants and, frankly, needs."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

Scumbag 5th-columnist who attacked Gov.Palin, in the 6 weeks before the election,
throwing Election2008 with the rest of TeamRomney.

David Frum: "Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

I don’t blame her for qutting no matter what the reason. It’s typical leftest and rino b.s.

Hillary quit to run for President. Not one person said “She quit because she doesn’t want any senate votes to come back and haunt her” or “she quit because she knows she’s not intellegent enough.”

I will never again hold my nose and vote for a crazy man like McCain. (I voted for Sarah.) I’ll find a 3rd party candidate whose views are in line with mine, or I’ll stay home. Plus, I really don’t think it would make 2 cents worth of difference if Romney gets elected or Obama gets re-elected. As said earlier, look who Minnesota put in the senate!

This country is in trouble when the government owns the media. How does msnbc stay on the air? I’d bet there’s government money flowing in by the millions. The “experiment” is over. It was fun while it lasted.

This is a Romney PIMP thread.

I wonder if JR and the mods are aware that AJKauf has, for a full year, been pimping Pajamas Media in the News/Activism forum and a brief search finds no replies, just articles posted.

It looks like a clever way to mine FRee Republic for blog hits at Jim's expense. At the very least, these articles should be in the Bloggers forum.

Pajamas Media Pimping on FR?

Ok...where’s the barf alert for this Romney tripe?

I think the author has it right. She gives her enemies more than enough quotes to paint her as a whiner and she hasn't done anything yet to remove the "stupid girl from Alaska" label that's been hung around her neck. That perception is reality for many voters.

Charles Krauthammer said on Fox:

Krauthammer: Now, as to Palin, I agree entirely with what Mara [Liasson] said -- she is, she has star power without any doubt, she has an extremely devoted following, but she is not a serious candidate for the presidency.

She had to go home and study and spend a lot of the time on issues with which she was not adept last year. And she hasn't.

She has to stop speaking in cliches and platitudes. It won't work. It could work for eight weeks if you're the No. 2 candidate, as she was last year. But even so, she got singed a lot in that campaign. You cannot sustain a campaign of platitudes and clichés over a year and a half if you’re running for the presidency.

Now that she soon won't be Governor, perhaps she will address some of these points so that at least some of her detractors, as well as those on the fence who really don't pay any attention to politics, will begin to see her as her supporters do.

I have to agree on both points

Her staff is 3rd string - at best

She has not given a speach of any substance at any forum, even tho she had more than one chance.

Pretty lady, yes. Nice lady, yes.

Solid and smart politician? Not that I can see.

Solid and smart politician? Not that I can see

And I would have to totally disagree.

Her resignation, her reasons behind it, and how she communicated it were masterful.

She is a way better communicator than Mitt "The Socialist" Romney.

“...Her resignation, her reasons behind it, and how she communicated it were masterful...”

And...her leadership of Alaska was better leadership than Massachusetts, California, or America as a whole has enjoyed since at least 1988.

More anti-conservative work from the pro-Romney side.