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I’m Afraid Sarah Palin Might Be Ruining Herself Unintentionally
RedState ^ | January 11, 2010 | Erick Erickson

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...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: marchondc; nashville; nationalteaparty; operationleper; palin; politics; romney; romney4romney; romneyantipalin; romneybotsattack; romneybotshere; sarahpalin; teaparty; teapartyconvention; teapartyrebellion; tn2010; waronsarah
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To: La Lydia

See my post #37.


41 posted on 01/12/2010 12:28:31 PM PST by Paperdoll ( Hunter/Palin or Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: Recon Dad

I’ll see ya in D. C. on the 15th, FRiend.


42 posted on 01/12/2010 12:28:38 PM PST by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: TADSLOS

I think they’re one and the same.


43 posted on 01/12/2010 12:28:51 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Trust but Verify

Oh, we seniors heard the same crapola about Ronald Reagan; that he wasn’t electable.


44 posted on 01/12/2010 12:29:51 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: EveningStar

Is there a reason you only posted a snip from this blog? Why not post the entire article so people can get the entire flavor what was written if they so choose without having to click through?


45 posted on 01/12/2010 12:29:52 PM PST by deport (49 DAYS UNTIL THE TEXAS PRIMARY....... MARCH 2, 2010)
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To: EveningStar
The author is not accusing Palin of charging. Can’t you read?

Why yes, yes I can. Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel

46 posted on 01/12/2010 12:30:10 PM PST by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: WayneS
Are you saying all those “4th & 5th guy in the landing party” dudes (the ones in the red shirts) get $500 per appearance?

Actually, a lot of those types of actors/actresses will go to a convention for no fee but they will rake in the money on autographs, photos and memorabilia they bring along.

47 posted on 01/12/2010 12:31:45 PM PST by misharu (Voting Barbarian Tea Horde since 2010!)
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To: EveningStar

Given the ferocity with which establishment GOP types keep dumping on her, who can blame her? I’m afraid if the GOP leadership decides to go the moderate route for one more election cycle, they will be putting themselves out of business.


48 posted on 01/12/2010 12:34:22 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EveningStar
But, if you follow the links, He later goes on to say.

My concerns regarding Palin's involvement have mostly gone away with the news that she has signed a deal with Fox. And I'm assuming she worked that into her calcualtion, making this a better decision for her than I had thought it might prove to be when I all but blasted her for it a couple days ago.

For all intents and purposes, she's now a media figure and she can pop in and out of these things as she pleases. And she's entitled to whatever fees she gets via the Washington Speakers Bureau. The influence factors behind politicians versus media figures are different things. Palin can continue to be a big cheerleader for the TP movement, but she's also something of an observer, perhaps even more so than a direct actor, now. If the organizers of the Nashville event go bust, that's their problem. And that explains the distance that was kept in the only characterization of her involvement I have been able to obtain through channels. I posted it on the 7th. She's keeping her distance and a hands-off approach, as appropriate for a media figure, which she now basically is.

To the GOP, Be afraid, be very afraid.

49 posted on 01/12/2010 12:34:23 PM PST by muddler
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah, they can’t have those uppity conservatives messing up their gig as keepen hand maidens to the DNC.


50 posted on 01/12/2010 12:34:39 PM PST by TADSLOS (Nigerian Crotch Bombers are U.S. Citizens too!- B. Obama)
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To: Trust but Verify
Ruining herself for what? She can be a spokeswoman and advocate for conservative causes but she is not electable to the WH. It would be a huge mistake to think you could ever get past the media clutter and talk issues.

The political landscape is littered with people, Republican and Democrat alike, who made one fatal mistake: underestimating Sarah Palin.
51 posted on 01/12/2010 12:35:26 PM PST by OldGuard1
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To: cripplecreek

“I smell concern trolls.”

#####

(snicker)

And fear.

I smell fear.

Panicky fear of the galvanizing power over the long silent, quiescent majority, that Sarah Palin represents.


52 posted on 01/12/2010 12:36:21 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: EveningStar
The author is doing guilt by association, and he is talking about Sarah Palin “ruining herself”, just because the organizers of this convention are charging people in order for them to attend, and they have to pay for their own hotel rooms?
What kind of nonsense is that? Every convention has sponsors, and attendees of conventions regularly pay for their own hotel rooms. What's “ruining herself” about that?
53 posted on 01/12/2010 12:41:35 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: WayneS
You mean that nice man from Nigeria is NOT going to be sending me a million dollars?

Unfortunately, no.

:o)

54 posted on 01/12/2010 12:43:35 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: SgtBob
Can't wait! I'll be the one with the baseball cap on it that says, Marine Corps, Combat Diver and a black shirt with the Marsoc logo on it. (in honor of my son)
55 posted on 01/12/2010 12:44:30 PM PST by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 84)
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To: SmokingJoe

> “She can be a spokeswoman and advocate for conservative causes but she is not electable to the WH.”

>> You will need to get off the drugs.

Sadly, I agree: Sarah Palin has alot of appeal but I don’t see her being able to overcome the “giggle factor”. Without a doubt she is a qualified candidate, and beyond dispute she is better than Obama in every measurable way.

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.

(Granted, it’s true that the Kenya-born-Indonesian-raised-muslim-socialist-dope-smokin’-Chicago-Outfit-inexperienced-friend-of-domestic-terrorist-buddy thing also boggles the mind.)

Can’t you Yanks find “ordinary” people to run for POTUS? Someone like “Joe the Plumber”?


56 posted on 01/12/2010 12:48:14 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: SmokingJoe

That’s right, if a person doesn’t share your opinion, they must be on drugs! Good one!


57 posted on 01/12/2010 12:48:26 PM PST by Trust but Verify
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To: EveningStar

RedState and a couple of other people get their shorts in a wad over the fact that there is a fee to use a hotel. Come on where do these people live? A state garden association charges 250.00 to hear speakers, what’s the big deal?


58 posted on 01/12/2010 12:49:02 PM PST by q_an_a
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To: muddler
The GOPhers have every reason to be afraid of Palin.

When she takes the reins, she's going to overturn their shell game and throw them out of the temple as she whips their useless asses bloody.

Sarah dislikes the "boil the frog slowly" GOP more than she dislikes the Dem filth. At least the Dem filth don't pretend to care about the Constitution. When Palin wins the White House in '12 it'll be the end of the charade for the RINO's.

That should be the RINO's new theme song to Sarah:

"Don't Rain On My Charade!"

;-/

59 posted on 01/12/2010 12:51:42 PM PST by Gargantua (Appropriate that the re-birth of our great nation be delivered by a woman.)
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To: ansel12
But can she win? You named three well-respected, experienced Republican candidates: only one made it to the Presidency. If we believe in what we hold dear and value, we need to find a candidate who can do two things. 1) Stand up for what we believe; 2) Win.
Ms. Palin can do the first, very well. I do not believe she can do the later.

She's good, but she's no Reagan...yet

60 posted on 01/12/2010 12:51:44 PM PST by winnotwhine (It's easy to whine...I'd rather win)
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