Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Posted on 07/10/2009 10:31:14 AM PDT by SolidWood
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's abrupt announcement that she intends to leave office 18 months early caused plenty of GOP operatives to wonder aloud whether she will be dismissed as a quitter if she makes a bid for the presidency in 2012. But the road to the White House runs through Iowa and New Hampshire, and grassroots activists in both kickoff states generally give Palin's decision more-positive reviews. Her prospects seem especially bright in Iowa.
"She's still tremendously popular here," said Mary Ann Hanusa, who chairs the Pottawattamie County Republican Party.
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"I heard a lot of comments [such as], 'I still like Sarah. Sarah's my girl.' Her well of goodwill is still very deep in this part of Iowa."
Hanusa said that the party activists she talked to accept Palin's explanation for stepping down -- that is, to spare her state the distraction of what she views as frivolous ethics complaints filed against her and to shield her family from merciless press scrutiny.
"I haven't heard any second-guessing," Hanusa said. "People think she's been treated abominably by most of the mainstream media, and they don't like it. If anything, it's more of a sympathetic feeling, in that they understand that she would have every reason to try to protect her family and step aside."
Hanusa attended the 2008 Republican National Convention as a delegate for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who swept the Iowa GOP caucuses last year on the strength of his appeal to evangelical Christians, the kind of voters drawn to Palin's social conservatism. Hanusa hasn't picked her favorite for 2012 and wouldn't predict which of those two potential contenders would capture the Iowa caucuses in a showdown. But she said of Palin's prospects, "All things being equal, I would say she would do quite well."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Wait a minute! The Hill article said that GOPers would be wary of Palin. /sarc.
No surprise about this quote coming from this person: “”By looking like she’s sort of rootless and mercurial, she almost disqualifies herself,” said Iowa GOP strategist Doug Gross, who chaired former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2008 caucus campaign but is uncommitted for 2012.”
July 27th will be the day the Palin Revolution begins.
They would literally jump off of buildings. WOW, so it would be win/win, Sarah would be in the White House, and these leftist scum so-called journalists would all commit mass suicide..NICE!!
Sarah will now get her book out, go on tour, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disater and gain great political capital in the process. Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning run for the Presidency in 2012.
Sorry, Andrea Mitchel and David Frum said she was done.
Here’s the money line: “72 percent of surveyed Republicans said they were likely to vote for Palin if she seeks the presidency in 2012”. Uphill battle for Romney and the others.
Morning Cuda!
Well look at the bright side if they jump...think of all the money we'd save on healthcare (they wouldn't have to kill the rest of us), as well as the reduction in what they call a pollutant - CO2! I see win, win! And your namesake in the WH - EPIC Win!
Fixed it
Hell yeah I’ll sing to that :-)
No doubt. We've badly lost the presidency and both houses of congress. We're barely clinging to some form of balance in the Supreme Court.
The people responsible for this state of affairs see no reason to change course.
So I guess, in response to her speech, that makes 4 "yeah's" and two "HELL yeah's"! :)
TRIPLE HELL YEAH!!
While I certainly don't have that kind of luck, I certainly agree with the sentiment.
I received a call a few minutes ago to donate to RNCC; before I hung up I said when the GOP gets proactive and in the faces of the dems and I don’t hear anymore dising of Sarah Palin by people afraid to campaign with her then they can call me back.
“...it [Sarah’s resignation] was the subject of endless discussion in the places where her national constituency gather and live...at backyard Fourth of July barbeques, in the bleachers at Little League baseball games, at small-town fireworks displays, in the kitchens and around the dining tables of family gatherings over the holiday weekend. These are people who don’t obsessively follow politics, but are beginning to awaken with a deep sense of disgust for the condition of our national political discourse...and an equally deep sense of disgust for the politicians of both parties that have brought us here, and for the media that enabled them. To these folks, who often refer to Palin as “Our Sarah,” each attack by the Beltway class simply slaps another layer of concrete on their support for her.
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...There is a deep fracture in the Republican Party; this is a situation that anyone can see. Palin didn’t cause it, but she has come to symbolize it...because she is loved by the grassroots of the party, and that same grassroots has come to despise the party leadership. While professional GOP politicians in Washington engage in games of incumbency, triangulation, and vote-buying, conservatives across the country have never given up searching for another Reagan - a conservative politician who can imbue optimism, carry forward a message of pride in our country, strong national defense, and fiscal conservatism - thus reuniting the traditional factions of the party. Many already believe that Palin is that person, and will accept no substitute.”
-—Tim Lindell
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/palin-watch/1282-palin-is-now-free-to-exercise-her-real-power-
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