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Sarah Palin And Scott Brown Set The United States Frothing [Palin: "Poster Girl" of The Right]
Sunday London Times ^ | February 14, 2010 | Christina Lamb

Posted on 02/14/2010 2:32:16 PM PST by Steelfish

February 14, 2010 Sarah Palin And Scott Brown Set The United States Frothing

Christina Lamb

She is a former beauty queen; he is a one-time nude model. She has written a bestselling memoir; he is negotiating a contract to write one. Both drive pick-up trucks and base their appeal on folksy common sense.

The former Miss Wasilla and America’s sexiest man, aka Sarah Palin and Scott Brown, may sound like contestants in a celebrity game show. But to the bemusement of many Americans, the unlikely duo are the most visible Republicans in the country and may become rivals to Barack Obama in the next presidential election.

Two years ago most Americans had heard of neither. Palin was plucked from the icy wastes of Alaska, where she was governor, to be Senator John McCain’s running mate. Brown found himself catapulted to national celebrity a month ago after he unexpectedly won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, which had been in Democrat hands for 50 years.

“Brown 4 Prez” speculation started the following morning. Overnight his favourite breakfast at a local cafe was renamed the Scott Brown special. On his first day at the Senate he was repeatedly asked “Are you going to run for president?” and the ScottBrown2012 domain name has been snapped up.

Darrell Delamaide wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Brown “is to the Republicans now what Barack Obama was to the Democrats in 2004 — a fresh face, a new voice, an ‘overnight success’ who has been working in politics for years”. It was no coincidence that Brown was the only Republican given a name check in his party’s response to Obama’s state of the union speech.

His election rattled Obama. Not only has it given Republicans the crucial 41st vote in the Senate,...

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010miderms; palin; sarahpalin; scottbrown; zot
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“I’ve never seen anything like it in all my years of reporting,” said Andrea Mitchell, who covered the tour for MSNBC. “All these people queuing at 4am or 5am in freezing mornings across the Midwest. She’s sold more than 2m books. That doesn’t happen easily.”
1 posted on 02/14/2010 2:32:17 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: STARWISE; onyx; maggief; Liz; Bahbah; SE Mom

Looks like using a “hunk with a truck” Todd or Scott and their beautiful conservative spouses is REALLY getting to the left....The liberals are getting uglier by the minute. TOO BAD!


2 posted on 02/14/2010 2:36:47 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

Palin is a Neocon in sheeps clothing and Brown is a liberal


3 posted on 02/14/2010 2:39:10 PM PST by takecontrol
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To: takecontrol
Palin is a Neocon in sheeps clothing and Brown is a liberal

Right!

That's why she is against Abortion, Gay Marriage and is for limited and smaller government, right?
4 posted on 02/14/2010 2:40:14 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: takecontrol

IBTZ!

Buh bye..


5 posted on 02/14/2010 2:41:05 PM PST by Crim
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To: takecontrol
Liberal troll alert!!!

takecontrol
Since Jan 26, 2010

6 posted on 02/14/2010 2:42:06 PM PST by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: Steelfish

ALERT!

The poster Eternal Vigilance often posts on the Palin threads. What most of us have not known is that he is Chairman of a competing political party, and as such, has a vested interest in seeing Sarah Palin defeated.

A discussion with him is not an ordinary back and forth seeking the truth, his bias is to see Palin defeated and his guy gaining traction.

His home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~eternalvigilance/index?U=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freerepublic.com%2Ffocus%2Ff-news%2F2451169%2Fposts/" >EV

7 posted on 02/14/2010 2:44:22 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: takecontrol
"Hi there, Lefty."


8 posted on 02/14/2010 2:44:29 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: takecontrol; 50mm; darkwing104; Old Sarge
I smell ozone.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
9 posted on 02/14/2010 2:45:11 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: Steelfish

10 posted on 02/14/2010 2:45:45 PM PST by GloriaJane (Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I wish she would write that on her palm and use it
to wave to the azzhole trolls.


11 posted on 02/14/2010 2:47:07 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS ... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: takecontrol
Palin is a Neocon in sheeps clothing

Are you Buchaninite or a RonPaulie?

12 posted on 02/14/2010 2:47:37 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Steelfish

Naturally, Andrea Mitchell got it wrong again, thousands of people camped out over night in subfreezing temps during the book signing tour. The only ones who lined up at 4 and 5 in the morning, are at the places, like the Mall of America, that restricted overnight lines. It will be interesting to see how Mitt’s book signing tour goes next month.


13 posted on 02/14/2010 2:47:44 PM PST by euram
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To: newfreep

More like a Ron Paul supporter. Look at the poster’s previous posts.


14 posted on 02/14/2010 2:48:43 PM PST by GOP_Raider (<----Click over there for a special message from GOP_Raider)
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To: Steelfish

15 posted on 02/14/2010 2:49:17 PM PST by Bellagio
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To: GloriaJane

Very nicely said!


16 posted on 02/14/2010 2:49:30 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: takecontrol

Why not take control of yourself and head back to DU?


17 posted on 02/14/2010 2:49:30 PM PST by bwc2221
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To: Steelfish
Two years ago most Americans had heard of neither.

Two years ago, most Americans had never heard of Barack Obama. And to this day, most Americans have never heard of Joe Biden.
18 posted on 02/14/2010 2:50:30 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: Steelfish
"he is a one-time nude model."

If he can post his one time semi-nude photo on his Facebook, it must not be the type of nude these weenies of the Left have in mind. In fact, compared to what most of these left wing weenies have to show, it is a photo that would make them look like--well--weenies.

19 posted on 02/14/2010 2:51:29 PM PST by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Fascism.)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
And to this day, most Americans have never heard of Joe Biden.

And those who have immediately went back to sleep.

20 posted on 02/14/2010 2:52:35 PM PST by Tax-chick (Sarah Palin is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.)
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