Posted on 05/06/2010 12:30:55 PM PDT by byteback
Here's Palin on Fiorina:
"Please consider that Carly is the conservative who has the potential to beat California's liberal senator, Barbara Boxer, in November. I'm a huge proponent of contested primaries, so I'm glad to see the contest in California's GOP, but I support Carly as she fights through a tough primary against a liberal member of the GOP who seems to bear almost no difference to Boxer, one of the most leftwing members of the Senate. Carly needs our support in this crucial election year when we have a real chance of putting an end to the Pelosi/Reid Big Government" agenda.
Carly's reaction:
"I am honored and grateful to have Sarah Palin's support. She, too, is a political outsider and a strong fiscal conservative, and we share a common concern for the direction our country is headed in under Barbara Boxer and her allies in Washington," Fiorina said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
However, we are hoping to increase the ranks of conservatives in the Congress. RINOs have disappointed us on many, many issues, immigration being one that is important to California. Carly is not a conservative, by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, she is pretty damn close to being a Democrat. I would vote for her over Boxer, but in the primary, I think conservatives need to support the most conservative candidate. If they lose, then vote for the more conservative candidate (who is always GOP) in the general election.
First things first.
I have been a big fan of Palin's, but mainly because she has been pretty solidly conservative. I went along with the McCain endorsement because loyalty is important. If she keeps this up, I will begin to have doubts.
Well, when you’re in the “biz” , you have a little different perspective. You remember the people who helped you when you were in need of it. Politics is not fundamentally unlike other professions. Ronald Reagan once said it was the world’s second oldest profession. And for good reason.
“It’d be nice to some day see if she’s actually endorsed any conservatives.”
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So you don’t think Col. Alan West is a conservative? You don’t think Doug Hoffman is a conservative? You don’t think Maj. Vaughn Ward is a conservative? You don’t think Tim Burns is a conservative? You don’t think Tim Burns is a conservative? You don’t think Sean Duffy is a conservative? You don’t think Capt. Adam Kinzinger is a conservative? You don’t think Tom Emmer is a conservative?
Yes, fool, she has endorsed conservatives.
- JP
“Palin endorses Fiorina for Senate; stiffs fellow Tea Partier DeVore, disses Campbell”
Hmmmm..., weeds are coming up like threads on Free Republic ... LOL ...
Not good. Sucks. DeVore is not a RINO; Fiorina is.
“Between McCain and Fiorina, Palin is oh-for-two.”
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If those were the only two endorsements she had made, she would be oh-for-two. But she’s endorsed more than three times as many conservatives as she has moderates. But of course you and the other Palin-bashers conveniently choose to ignore that FACT.
- JP
A leftist reporter takes shots at Sarah Palin and this is what passes for a “news” story in San Francisco. Incredible.
But Devore doesn't have the appeal, the charisma or the political skills of a Scott Brown. And Brown was running in an open seat which is always easier to take than taking out an incumbent. Brown was also running against an incompetent, colorless Dem who refused to even campaign in the entire month of December. Boxer is a fearsome, fanatical campaigner and fundraiser. She's no Martha Coakley. This is a different race, a different set of circumstances.
Her high opinion from me has fallen about 10% over the past couple of months.
Right On!
Sarah endorsed a conservative Governor candidate Tom Emmer in Minnesota as well as Michele.
Yikes. I’m a big Sarah fan, and definitely NOT a Carly fan; the latter nearly destroyed HP. Is Fiorina in any way a conservative? What to do?
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it."Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
There is a LOT of wisdom on those words, especially that last paragraph. Reagan knew of what he spoke, and proved that such an approach was successful in building a conservative-leaning coalition. Unfortunately too many have forgotten or choose to ignore this sage advice from the Gipper...
Sorry. This BS was used to excuse Palin from her sordid endorsement of RINO, backstabber McCain. It didn't fly then and it certainly won't now. Palin is becoming more opportunist than conservative.
Too bad.
My point (concerning Sarah coming out in a ‘primary’ of all things - to endorse someone like Fiorina), is that this proves beyond a shadow, that Sarah definitely has ‘intentions’ to run for President. That’s all.
That’s a good catch Lurker. Carly definitely wants the endorsement.
I wondered about that and apparently Carly does not find a Palin endorsement to be a negative in California. It’s an innoculation against DeVore. This could also provide some mileage in mainstreaming Sarah. For the Sarahphobes out there I don’t mean changing Sarah but softening the opinion the independent voter and woman has of Sarah. If Sarah gets reasonably close to 50 percent of women she’s the next president.
Oh really, Sarah?
Rasmussen (April 12)
Carly Fiorina (R) 38%
Barbara Boxer (D) 42%
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Chuck DeVore (R) 39%
Barbara Boxer (D) 42%
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