Posted on 12/08/2009 9:44:37 AM PST by Lou Budvis
Allahpundit has this in the headlines, and it’s worth having the audio up here to catch the heavy qualifications Sarah Palin gives Lars Larson in this radio interview from last week. Larson asks whether she’d be willing to launch an independent run for the presidency if Palin was dissatisfied with the GOP, and while she didn’t say no, the conditions she lays down to remain within the Republican Party seem rather easy to meet (via The Right Scoop):
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****why the country club set up their think tanks.***
Where is this group? How powerful? How active?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy
The CNP describes itself as “an educational foundation organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We do not lobby Congress, support candidates, or issue public policy statements on controversial issues. Our over 600 members include many of our nation’s leaders from the fields of government, business, the media, religion, and the professions. Our members are united in their belief in a free enterprise system, a strong national defense, and support for traditional western values.
Have you ever played poker or been involved in formal negotiations? Its tough to succeed if your opponent knows exactly what will be your next move.
Does that mean she doesn’t get your vote?
Sadly, I know a LOT of GOPers that will never vote for her. I love SP, but we need a uniter.
Sarah, if you are paying attention, don’t do this unless you want Obama to have another term, because that is all it will accomplish. It’s good to wake the Republican Party up to the political realities of turning its back on conservatives, but we need to do it like Reagan, not like Perot.
No.
Not much of a poker player but I do know the Joker is the third party candidate. Let the Left play with that card. Given our current hand, we would be foolish to go any where near it. Imagine a conservative Third Party is formed. Guess who will be funding it? Another person here got it right when he said George Soros.
Primaries need to be close otherwise the Democrats can give us another RINO. With open primaries that people can go to the poles switch their party affiliation. It will be hard to keep a RINO out unless there is overwhelming conservative turn out
That doesn't make any sense what so ever. All 49 "third parties" together gained a total of less than one half, of one percent of the vote last year.
There isn't a winning mass of Democrat and Independent conservatives waiting to vote against the GOP by voting for yet another conservative "Third Party" candidate which exist in every election, including the 2008 election when Alan Keyes got fewer than 48,000 votes.
Palin running "third party" would merely guarantee Obama reelection and a chance for the Democrats to shift funds to the congressional and senate races instead of having to fight for the presidency.
I agree that WE must be the party, the party of conservatism. I sometimes wonder about some of these third party types. I think many of them are well meaning but misguided, but I have the sneaking suspicions that some of them are 5th column Alinsky acolyte trolls spreading confusion.
We cannot afford mere moral victories. We must take back OUR party and win with a conservative message and follow through with conservative action.
Exactly. And if I were George Soros, I would see to it that their third party was generously funded.
I give up.
Sarah Palin is a uniter, only a Governor that is a uniter could win 93% approval and have the highest approval rating of any Governor in America, and be recognized as the most popular, elected official in the United States.
Dividers win narrow victories and hold on due to small, intense margins of favor, they do not become beloved by almost the entire electorate, Palin has a long political history as a uniter.
That being the case, what, exactly, is the loss? What is the downside?
Besides, they have almost 3 years to get the religion.
If Palin is so anathema to them, what, then is the appeal of Romney, Huckabee, or any other DIABLO? Why would the rest of us vote for these boobs, when we can go out and vote for the real thing (any Dem)?
Those “GOPers” you're lamenting about will soon face the prospect of “fish or cut bait”. I fail to see their value in the party.
And should they remain intractable in their anti-Palinism, then in the end they'll just end up voting Democrat, only to be offset by the rising number of Indies and conservative Democrats that find Palin appealing.
Change, whether they want it or not, is fomenting nationwide, and a goodly number of them must realize as presently constituted the Old Line Republican Party is a thing of the past. They can either get with the program, or get washed away by the inevitable tsunami.
I'd be happy either way.
CA....
Hopefully that means you agree with me then.
My support for SP ends if she tries a 3rd Party (which she won’t). Simple math. If 33% of the people want a conservative candidate, and 33% want a center-right candidate, but 34% want a hardcore leftist (0bama), guess who wins.
“Anyone who refuses to vote for her if she does go third party has proven themselves to be GOP Firsters.”
This is why some people here bristle at the over the top Palin worship. First, you have unmitigated gall to TELL me whom to vote for. Second, you throw in a back handed insult to those who don’t follow the “party” line and may find another candidate to support who is similar to Palin on the issues. Third, you don’t even recognize the hypocrisy of condemning the “GOP elitists” who jam a candidate down your throat then proceed to do EXACTLY the same thing with your “preferred” candidate.
Don’t tell me who to support, don’t tell me who to vote for.
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