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Can Sarah Palin lead US Republicans to victory?
ABC ^ | 12-21-09 | Michael Brissenden

Posted on 12/21/2009 2:10:35 PM PST by euram

The expansive asphalt parking lot in Fair Lakes Shopping Center in Fairfax Virginia was full and there wasn't a single Prius in sight. This is SUV territory and the campaign sticker on the back window of one big Ford summed up the mood: a play on the Obama campaign mantra of hope, this one said simply - "Nope".

There are not too many Obama fans in Fairfax but there are hundreds of people prepared to line up for hours in the snow for a chance to meet the one political figure they believe might still be able to rescue the nation from "socialised medicine", "Liberal intellectuals" and "elitist" newspapers like the New York Times.

Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue is the publishing sensation of the moment here.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; obamacare; palin; palin2012; sarahpalin
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To: euram

Can’t tell yet but I’m pulling for her. Seems like she has fewer bashers, or maybe they see that their own audience has growing respect for Palin.


121 posted on 12/21/2009 4:52:50 PM PST by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: ansel12

And the list has absolutely nothing to do with anything of importance. But it does help them, the pollers, determine what the people answering the questions really think.


122 posted on 12/21/2009 4:55:16 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: OldDeckHand

Are you saying that most here believe in style over substance? I pray that you are wrong.


123 posted on 12/21/2009 4:57:06 PM PST by Josephat
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To: OldDeckHand

Hitler was persuasive and eloquent and we know how that worked out.


124 posted on 12/21/2009 5:00:36 PM PST by Josephat
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To: RoadTest

fix the absentee ballot system. We absolutely need to have every serviceman and woman participating. The absentee ballot has been a sham and a shambles for years, we can’t let them not be counted and elections stolen anymore. NO MORE!!!


125 posted on 12/21/2009 5:07:51 PM PST by SueRae
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To: discomatic
I like her but she has some explaining to do about her resignation motivation/strange resignation speech.

I keep hearing this. Words like "rambling", "dazzlingly incoherent", "bizarre bailout", and I can only wonder "are Americans really that dumb?"

To me one of Sarah Palin's strengths is that she knows how to structure a speech, and her Lake Lucille announcement (18 minutes, delivered without teleprompter or notes) is a great example. It tells you exactly why she got into politics, why she resigned as governor, and what her future intentions are.

126 posted on 12/21/2009 5:16:02 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole)
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To: OldDeckHand
Do you want a surgeon, or a defense attorney or an accountant "who speaks like an average American"? Or, would you prefer to have someone who speaks much more eloquently and persuasively than the average American

I am not impressed nor fooled by someone's 'eloquent' language...You can learn that in any school...And because you know the language, it doesn't make you any smarter...

My Surgeon and my Dentist may talk shop talk to each other but when they talk to me, it's in 'my' shop talk...And that's the way I like it...

127 posted on 12/21/2009 5:18:43 PM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: OldDeckHand

It’s delusional to believe that Palin doesn’t face a strong headwind. The fact of the matter is while she’s incredibly popular with the base, especially social conservatives, she does have a “Dan Quayle” problem with the general electorate.

And your evidence of this “Dan Quayle” problem is what exactly? Book sales, Oprah ratings, Facebook supporters? 50/50 approval among Independents?

Dan Quayle never got deafening applause walking on stage of The Tonight Show either.


128 posted on 12/21/2009 5:19:27 PM PST by Palin_in_2012 (Anyone else is a guaranteed loser.)
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To: OldDeckHand

I believe the operative word in your statement is “was”. Her popularity dropped precipitously after her failed VP bid. I believe she had fallen to the mid-fifties shortly before her resignation as governor; an approval rating in the fifties for a Republican governor in a very red state, isn’t all that remarkable.

That decline wouldn’t have anything to do with the politics of personal destruction, would it? Couldn’t possibly be the endless false stories in the state-run media about her, huh?


129 posted on 12/21/2009 5:19:28 PM PST by Palin_in_2012 (Anyone else is a guaranteed loser.)
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To: euram

First time Freeper post.

We need to get through 2010 first. Let Palin keep doing what she is doing - it’s more effective. If she decides to run, then fine.

Pravda would like nothing more but to have her announce. This will give Zero, who is nothing more than a career campaigner, a public target to “campaign” against. Remember, the Dems own everything they are doing.


130 posted on 12/21/2009 5:19:31 PM PST by FL911
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To: discomatic

I vote yes. She has to have a strong backup team. Cheney (Liz), Pawlenty, Jindahl, Bachman, West(fl. candidate), military leaders, etc. And I do believe her capable of assembing such a team.


131 posted on 12/21/2009 5:21:45 PM PST by SueRae
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Thank you. Thank you for answering my questions thoroughly and without becoming defensive. That is how you win votes for your candidate.


132 posted on 12/21/2009 5:23:00 PM PST by discomatic
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To: OldDeckHand
Effective extemporaneous communication skills are never a bad thing in a presidential candidate.

Oh, sort of like ad libbing an acceptance speech at the convention?

You seem overly impressed by multisyllabic terms not in common parlance. Others are less so, and deem such speech to be self important bloviation.

I'd tend to think that the success of Ronald Reagan, who was nothing if not folksy, but hailed as The Great Communicator precisely for his ability to speak to everyone, to bring clarity and simplicity to complexity, would be more of an ideal model for any Conservative, or even your garden variety, establishment Republican.

Wonky, complicated sentences are not the mark of any successful President in modern memory. GW Bush? Certainly not, although he had a much better grasp of the language than his occasional, tongue-tangled howlers might suggest. Clinton? Highly affected folksiness, very seldom veering into the sort of extemporaneity that you seem to think prerequisite. GHW Bush? Now, there's one who relished the occasional pompous turn of phrase. One termer. Reagan? Folksy as all get out. Carter? Wonk, wonk, wonk, and hated for it. One termer.

Are you beginning to sense a trend here?

133 posted on 12/21/2009 5:23:02 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: SueRae

I’d really like to see Kasich as a veep candidate though, if he wins in OH, he’d be a pretty fresh governor.


134 posted on 12/21/2009 5:24:30 PM PST by discomatic
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To: liberalcide1
You need a review!

http://uspoliticsguide.com/US-Politics-Directory/Historical-Presidential-Election-Results/1996-Presidential-Election-Results.htm

135 posted on 12/21/2009 5:24:48 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: org.whodat

http://uspoliticsguide.com/US-Politics-Directory/Historical-Presidential-Election-Results/1996-Presidential-Election-Results.htm


136 posted on 12/21/2009 5:25:56 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: euram
I hope Palin takes Newt Gingrich's advice to the Republican Party. Identify the conservative issues and then hammer them home.

Is there a good site that outline's Palin’s conservative plan for America? Most of what I have read is about her personally, not about her political and economic strategies for America.

137 posted on 12/21/2009 5:29:27 PM PST by wintertime
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To: Nuc1

You’re right about emotion being an important part of the equation. I’d just like to see a broad list of candidates who really slug it out over ideas and visions rather than just name calling while getting out the message of small, limited government to the masses. We need to bury both compassionate conservatism and styrofoam column empty suit Axlerod teleprompter communism.


138 posted on 12/21/2009 5:31:39 PM PST by discomatic
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To: RegulatorCountry
Wonky, complicated sentences are not the mark of any successful President in modern memory.

President Dukakis sure wowed the people.

139 posted on 12/21/2009 5:43:48 PM PST by ansel12 (Traitor Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative warrior.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Is Alaska a “very red state”?

I sure the hell wish it was, but it ain’t (sorry I don’t talk or write like an ivy leaguer)

This state is full of Federal Government and State Government employees. You probably know how they vote. This state has a large “native” population, that while they may like to hang onto their guns, hunt and fish, they sure as hell ain’t going to cut the hand that feeds it, they, like most entitled peoples, are still sucking the government titty.

Now add on all the Green Peace, Sierra Club, Tongass Conservation Society Arts and Croissants crowd, the Hikers and Bikers, and you are left with a few such as myself who actually work for a living. Yes we mangage to barely hang onto a majority, but only barely.

Sarah Palin? I knew I’d like her the first few months in office when she said no thank you to the Republican CBC (Corrupt Bastards Club)

Sorry to dissapoint you, but we sure aren’t a “very red state”


140 posted on 12/21/2009 5:43:59 PM PST by gettinolder (Smashed lips save ships.)
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