Mike Murphy: To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell

The New York Daily News ^ | July 9, 2009 | Mike Murphy

[DouglasKC]

Gov. Sarah Palin is the political train wreck that keeps on giving. First, she was an awful choice last year as John McCain's running mate. I came to this conclusion with regret - I am one of McCain's biggest admirers.

Stop right there. The author is either a democrat or a rino....

[dforest]

Is this guy for real? Hey Mike, you offer up another sickening RINO and I will not vote for the GOP this time, I am sick of ya, ya losers.

[PhiKapMom]

I admit up front I have been anti-Romney from Day One but then we have had our share of his consultants in Oklahoma so that wasn’t a hard decision plus when he headed the Olympics, he got his buddy, Cong Istook, to divert road and bridge plus light rail funds to the Olympic Committee from Oklahoma.

Then his campaign dissed the State Convention, then his first Town Hall in Oklahoma City they would only let Mormons or staffers ask questions. Some of the OK activists attended the Town Hall to ask a question and found out they couldn’t ask so they left and next thing we knew we had emails detailing what happened.

That’s also when I discovered that during the Reagan years in disgust he registered as an Independent and when running for MA Senate, he ran to the left of MA.

That told me all I needed to know and have been anti-Romney since because I don’t think he has core values of a conservative on 80% of issues — he really is put a finger in the wind type and that is the last thing we need. The so-called Power Brokers of the GOP that he is playing up to is not going to work.

Knowing the people he would surround himself with in the WH, he would be bad for America.

Time to have someone who comes from every day America not an elitist as our nominee.

[Grampa Dave]

Is this maggot another Log Cabin maggot, who hates Sarah 24/7?

[MrB]

An elitist.

They are the true opponent, or even enemy, if you will.

I am choosing the latter description more and more often because of their desire to enact policy detrimental to me, my family, and my children’s future.

[Antoninus]

Just another GOP establishment hack playing pile-on. Here's some advice from John Ziegler's latest article:

"Regardless of what you think of Sarah Palin, every single conservative who attacks her by buying into media-created falsehoods so they can curry favor with the media elite should be seen as traitors to the movement. You have been duped and used as cover for a public lynching."

The more of these articles I see, the more I'm convinced that the GOP establishment losers are scared stiff of Gov. Palin.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Did you hear the latest about Romney? He wants to spread his Romney-Care throughout the US [if the report is accurate]. Yeah, that’s what we need. Maybe Romney could team up with Powell in the primary.

[Grunthor]

“Mike Murphy: To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell”

Mike is a well-known liberal Republican. As such he may, at any time, piss off.

[Theodore R.]

Has Murphy ever worked in the beginning for the candidate who was nominated?

[Theodore R.]

McPain from the start wanted to join the “D to D List” — Dewey to Dole.

[chris37]

I didn’t read your tag, that’s true, but I’m not trying to criticize you or anything, just trying to defend my use of “old white guys”. I too am a strong palin supporter.

I am just a bit disillusioned with the republican party at this time, because, as I see it, at every election they offer the exact same candidate, which is some old, white guy, and they do not seem to deviate from this, even if their is a better candidate. Now I am not accusing them of racism or even sexism, I think that they are just stuck in their ways so to speak. Otherwise, I cannot understand whom within the party apparatus thought that Bob Dole and John Mccain had any chance win.

Another thing that has me down on old, white men, to quote myself there, is that they seem to have been beaten down into a state of useless timidity by those who engage in political correctness as well as outright reverse racism. They don’t seem willing, at least to me, to stick their necks out for what is if critical importance. They have lost their potency as I see it. This does not mean that their potency can’t return, or that perhaps there are others who can be elected who do not behave in this manner.

I also agree that palin’s gender is not a factor. She just so happens to be a female, but her more important characteristics are her honesty, her decency, and her unabashed conservatism. This is why I support her, not for any other reason. I believe that our government is so corrupt and evil, that only a person of palin’s character has a chance of turning this thing around before it’s far too late.

I didn’t mean to come across as antagonistic in an away. Perhaps my original post was poorly worded. My use of the phrase “old white guys” is just frustration, I suppose, with the treatment of palin by certain repubs, including Mccain, and the party’s apparent desire to continue to overlook her as a serious contender.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

go away.

Palin is electable. she is more qualified than Obama.