Posted on 01/12/2010 12:04:40 PM PST by EveningStar
...I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to harm herself unintentionally over this tea party convention in Nashville...
Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
> some would much prefer to find extraordinary people to run for the presidency. ;)
(BIG GRIN!!) Such people ought to be *delighted* with the incumbent then. If there’s one thing that he is, it’s “extraordinary”!
LOL, you do realize that Governor Palin is an anti-third party republican, don’t you?
Tea party event with Perry/Palin canceled
By Jason Embry | Monday, January 11, 2010, 06:25 PM
A San Antonio event that was slated to feature Gov. Rick Perry and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin later this month has been canceled.
The National Conservative Symposium was also supposed to feature conservative commentators Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham.
But a group called Tea Party Support, which is coordinating the event, has posted this message on its Web site: “Due to circumstances beyond the control of Tea Party Support, we are forced to cancel the National Conservative Symposium. More information will follow soon. Please check back. We have started processing refunds.”
The event was scheduled for Jan. 22-24.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner could not immediately be reached for comment. Perry’s campaign has long counted on an appearance with Palin in the weeks leading up to his March 2 primary challenge from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, so expect his team to find another opportunity to showcase Palin’s endorsement.
According to a December story from the San Antonio Express-News, “The National Conservative Symposium promises to be a coming-out party for Tea Party Support. It’s a splinter group formed by former members of the San Antonio Tea Party, the organization that hosted a large Alamo Plaza protest rally — headlined by Fox News talk host Glenn Beck and rock guitarist Ted Nugent — in April. Matt Perdue, San Antonio Tea Party’s former president, left the group two months ago, arguing that it suffered from a lack of financial transparency. Julia Hayden, media representative for the San Antonio Tea Party, explained the split by saying Perdue did not share her organization’s mission.”
The Express-News reported that Perry was going to introduce Palin on Jan. 24.
Yeah?
Now why don't we take a look at your post that I replied to earlier eh?
This is what you said:
“I don’t see her being able to overcome the “giggle factor”.”
It gets even better. You again:
“However, I don’t think people will take her seriously.
The Moose-shootin’-Beauty-Pageant-Hockey-Mom-Pitbull-with-lipstick thing is TOO MUCH. The mind boggles”
HUH?
The mind boggles?
Exactly who's mind you talking about here, dude?
Are you aware that in poll after poll, Republican voters chose Sarah Palin as the one who “most reflects their values”?
So exactly who are you representing here with you “the mind boggles” crack here? Someone has problem, but it sure isn't me. You are the one that is out of step with most rank and file Republicans and conservatives.
> Far too many conservatives dismissed him with, “Who?” “Nobody knows him”, “he can’t win!” Licked before you start.
And yet the same thing could have fairly been said about Sarah Palin prior to the convention. Puzzling...
> Far too many conservatives dismissed him with, “Who?” “Nobody knows him”, “he can’t win!” Licked before you start.
And yet the same thing could have fairly been said about Sarah Palin prior to the convention. Puzzling...
I don't know if you've noticed, but she is already getting past the "media clutter and talk issues" as you put it. She nearly derailed Mr. Obama's health care plans with a TWITTER!!
Just for accuracy's sake, DH was an Army LT in Vietnam and served with the 75th Rangers, attached to the 173rd ABN.
Totally agree with your assessment though. A missed opportunity if there ever was one.
I guess time will tell....I’m not OPPOSED to her, you understand, I’m just not convinced she can overcome the trashing she’s had.
That is part of the attraction of Governor Palin, she and her family are all down to earth people with modest lives. School teacher parents, oil field husband, housewife to most popular elected official in America, while still having babies and working part time on a commercial fishing boat.
She bestrepresents my values as well, but we are going to need more than conservatives voting for her. I'm not trashing her. I love her, just saying I'm not sure she can overcome the biased media to win all the votes she needs. Is there something terrible about that?
(BIG GRIN!!) Such people ought to be *delighted* with the incumbent then. If there’s one thing that he is, it’s “extraordinary”!As if His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama Dada, COD, RIP, LSMFT, Would-Be Life President of the Republic Formerly Known as the United States, and Chairman of the Organisation of Halfrican Unity, were the only "extraordinary" organism out there. (And I don't particularly regard him as extraordinary---his singular audacity notwithstanding---unless of course you're of a mind that Chicago machine politicians are extraordinary in their own perverted manner . . . )
That said, I doubt Palin can run 2 years from now, with a multi-year contract with FOX. 20l2 is a long ways off. Right now she is not running for anything and there are potential candidates out there and our attention should not be diverted from them! I know, it hurts when you're lovestruck... :<
“And yet the same thing could have fairly been said about Sarah Palin prior to the convention. Puzzling...”
That is ridiculous, many of us knew about the most popular governor in America that was already starting to be discussed in political circles, something that never happened to my congressman (Duncan Hunter).
The Most Popular Governor
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
BY Fred Barnes
July 16, 2007
Juneau
The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they’ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle—especially to transparency and accountability in government—can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. But she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who’d been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.
In 2005, she continued to take on the Republican establishment by joining Eric Croft, a Democrat, in lodging an ethics complaint against Renkes, who was not only attorney general but also a long-time adviser and campaign manager for Murkowski. The governor reprimanded Renkes and said the case was closed. It wasn’t. Renkes resigned a few weeks later, and Palin was again hailed as a hero.
Palin, 43, the mother of four, passed up a chance to challenge Republican senator Lisa Murkowski, the then-governor’s daughter, in 2004. She endorsed another candidate in the primary, but Murkowski won and was reelected. Palin said then that her 14-year-old son talked her out of running, though it’s doubtful that was the sole reason.
In 2006, she didn’t hesitate. She ran against Gov. Murkowski, who was seeking a second term despite sagging poll ratings, in the Republican primary. In a three-way race, Palin captured 51 percent and won in a landslide. She defeated former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, 49 percent to 41 percent. She was one of the few Republicans anywhere in the country to perform above expectations in 2006, an overwhelmingly Democratic year. Palin is unabashedly pro life.
> Yeah?
Yeah. I have said “I do not have an Anti-Palin agenda.” You can either accept that as a statement of fact, or you can go boil your head — I don’t care which.
> Exactly who’s mind you talking about here, dude?
I am articulating my own opinion — which, the last time I checked, I am entitled to do. You may not like that: I don’t care.
> Are you aware that in poll after poll, Republican voters chose Sarah Palin as the one who “most reflects their values”?
Even if I were “aware” of this, I couldn’t care less. It’s a stupid question. A meaningless question: you could answer “Bugs Bunny” instead of “Sarah Palin” and still get just as valid an answer.
> Someone has problem, but it sure isn’t me.
It surely is you — without a doubt.
He “brought on us” conservative control of the Congress and the retirement of a million Rinos all made possible by the contract with America.
You have to be stragetic - in the long run we need a party that represents conservative reforms and power. With Rinos running the GOP we will have two democrat parties like we did when Perot came along. That is what it took for the GOP to ditch the Rinos and get serious as an opposition party for freedom and against socialism.
People at her level get speaking fees accordingly. If no one comes/pays her fee, she will have to lower it.
Yes, after repeating such a meaningless statement enough times, then it makes it pretty clear that you are merely trashing her, saying that the leading conservative politician that has a history of doing very well in electoral politics, cannot win is one thing, but to keep repeating it as some kind of valid, substantiated, political argument, is more like trolling, or at least senseless trashing.
Palin may have issues, but Romney is not the answer.
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