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Beware Rand Paul and Sarah Palin [Finally their fear shows it's real face]
The Progressive ^ | May 20, 2010 | Matthew Rothschild, Editor

Posted on 05/20/2010 3:08:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

I’m worried about Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, and the tea party movement.

Rand Paul was correct in his victory speech: His victory was a victory for that movement, and it’s not going away.

It’s also larger than a lot of progressives want to believe.

And those progressives who cheer the takeover of the Republican Party by the tea partiers, seeing in it a recipe for electoral victory for Democrats in 2012, may be making a tragic error.

Rand Paul wasn’t the only tea party candidate who won on Thursday. Sarah Palin was also victorious. She endorsed Rand Paul early, and shrewdly invested in the race.

After Paul’s victory, it’s more likely than ever that Sarah Palin will be the nominee in 2012. And then anything can happen. Including her winning the White House.

Especially after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, which will let corporate America pour billions into the election.

Rand Paul foreshadowed one ad that these corporate dollars are likely to buy: an ad that claims Obama is betraying America. “We now have,” Paul said, “a President who apologizes for America’s greatness.”

Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and Palin herself have uttered similar slurs against Obama.

This tag, more than health care, more than the deficit, may be what ultimately costs Obama.

So don’t take comfort in the craziness of Rand Paul, or the zaniness of Sarah Palin.

Watch out for them.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; enemedia; enemywithin; fundraising; liebertarians; obama; obamacare; palin; palinfreeperping; progressives; randpaul; sarahpalin; scotus; teaparty
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To: La Enchiladita
What "rino friends" are you talking about? Republicans are overwhelmingly pro-military. You like to throw in the RINO label in order to attack the GOP, typical for lie-bertarians.

Oh, I see. I had the misunderstanding that I was posting to a rational FReeper. You can keep collins, snow, mccain and all the rest of the establishment "republicans". Make sure you ping the site owner Jim Robinson when you opus out....

61 posted on 05/20/2010 5:01:33 PM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: ScreamingFist

And how are Collins, Snowe and McCain dismantling the military? McCain would have been a far better president in that regard than what we have now.

I’m not the opus type, not a drama queen like you.


62 posted on 05/20/2010 5:10:38 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita
I’m not the opus type, not a drama queen like you.

LOL! The Tea Party got rid of rinos in Utah and Kentucky. Hopefully we'll get rid of those open border morons, mccain and graham. Next we'll boot dems from Arkansas and Pa and that prancing fool from Nevada. This is a Conservative website......tell your rino bosses they aren't safe.

63 posted on 05/20/2010 5:18:53 PM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: ABQHispConservative
Of course this means that they will go on the offensive against Palin, again.

If history is any guide, that means she has them right where she wants them. The lady seems to be perfectly capable of taking care of herself.

64 posted on 05/20/2010 5:21:59 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just because you think something is impossible doesn’t make it so.

Possibly.

When you invent some BS about me raising money for Obama, though, I'm obligated to return fire.

Be advised.

65 posted on 05/20/2010 5:24:28 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: ScreamingFist

Let’s see. You capitalize Democrat and Independent, as well as Conservative. Then you refuse to capitalize names and Republican, which to you is republican.

What is your vision for this nation, once you get rid of Republicans? Is it going to be a big democrat/independent/liebertarian/conservative tea party? How will that work?


66 posted on 05/20/2010 5:26:38 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: humblegunner
If you're negative towards the most exciting conservative candidate since President Reagan, I have to assume you have a cubicle in a suburban Chicago strip mall, if you take my meaning.
67 posted on 05/20/2010 5:29:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and Palin herself have uttered similar slurs against Obama.


It isn't a slur if it's true.
68 posted on 05/20/2010 5:30:55 PM PDT by GreenOgre (mohammed is the false prophet of a false god.)
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To: La Enchiladita
What is your vision for this nation, once you get rid of Republicans? Is it going to be a big democrat/independent/liebertarian/conservative tea party? How will that work?

Troll better next time. Go look at post 54. Tell mccain we're coming for him......the arrogant shit needs to retire...30 years is long enough.

69 posted on 05/20/2010 5:34:21 PM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Purrrrrrr............


70 posted on 05/20/2010 7:23:31 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (If one racist Tea-Partier proves all conservatives hate, what do 500 Muslim suicide bombers prove?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and Palin herself have uttered similar slurs against Obama.

Slurs?

71 posted on 05/20/2010 8:35:05 PM PDT by stevem
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btrl


72 posted on 05/20/2010 9:15:42 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (We need to limit political office holders to two terms. One in office, and one in prison.)
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To: wac3rd
That include Obama's cheesy pal Rezko, formerly (I read) Slick and Beast's cheesy pal in happier days?

Has he gone to prison yet? I keep waiting for the story. They slip it in on the bottom of Page D-5?

How 'bout Blogo Baby? He get his chance to stool in open court yet?

73 posted on 05/20/2010 9:36:32 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
.....a cubicle in a suburban Chicago strip mall.....

The kind with a glass wall and a screen that slides open when you stick a dollar in the machine?

74 posted on 05/20/2010 9:39:41 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How much will you raise for Mr. Obama this time around?

I admire your brio and your offer, but you're going seriously off the rails if you think humblegunner is going to give Obama anything but Cicero's unseemly digit.

75 posted on 05/20/2010 9:48:06 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: humblegunner

Courtesy ping.


76 posted on 05/20/2010 9:49:37 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

What I meant was that if you’re sniping at our best probable 2012 candidate, you’re only helping the Democratic/Progressives symbolized by their leader, Mr. Obama. I don’t think that humblegunner is literally a leftist troll.


77 posted on 05/20/2010 10:16:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh. </disappointment> For a minute there I thought I had a hot takeaway for the Texas board! lol
78 posted on 05/20/2010 10:51:24 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll go another $200.00!


79 posted on 05/20/2010 10:57:36 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
This tag, more than health care, more than the deficit, may be what ultimately costs Obama.

I think if the GOP, or some independent Political Action Committee, could show Thursday's news clip of all the Dems giving Mexico's President Calderon a standing-o when he dissed America and rebuked us over the Arizona Immigration Law, and say: "They stood with a foreign leader against you and your America..." THAT may be what ultimately costs Obama, AND the Democrats.

84 percent of the American Public back Arizona's Law; and 75 percent of the Dems back Arizona's Law. And, BTW, if you enter Mexico illegally, it's 5 years in prison.

80 posted on 05/20/2010 11:14:37 PM PDT by no dems
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