Posted on 09/11/2010 1:25:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It turns out Sarah Palin left the governorship of Alaska for a better position. She's become king — King Midas, to be exact. Everything she touches turns to gold.
Her memoir, "Going Rogue," was the best-selling hardcover nonfiction volume of 2009. She's got a TV gig with Fox News that reportedly pays $1 million a year. She commands $100,000 for a speaking appearance.
But it's not all about the money. Palin has also become the fairy godmother of the Republican Party. In the Aug. 31 primaries, all five candidates she tapped with her wand came away victorious — including Joe Miller, who upset incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Those she passed over turned into pumpkins.
"Sarah Palin has special medicine," wrote John Dickerson of the liberal online magazine Slate after the primaries. "The Palin brand now grows ever stronger because other Republicans will want to access that magic."
All that looks like the perfect prelude to something even bigger. After steadfastly refusing invitations for political gatherings in Iowa, site of the first presidential contest in 2012, she's going to Des Moines on Sept. 17 for the Republican Party's annual Reagan Day dinner. To run for president, one local GOP official was quoted saying, "She needs to be here — and she's doing that with a big, high-profile event."
If she enters the race, Palin will have the inside track. A recent Gallup poll found that among Republican voters, she's more popular than Abraham Lincoln, with a 76 percent favorable rating — higher than any other potential GOP presidential candidate listed by Gallup. The nomination is starting to look like it's hers for the asking.
But appearances are deceiving.(continued)
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I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
~Michael Reagan, conservative talk show host, son of President Ronald Reagan
You are correct.I would never vote for someone who sells out for money.
She endorsed an known lying RINO.
"Instead of making the case that she would be an improvement on Obama,
she'd have to explain why she would be preferable to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney...""
ROTFLOL. Gay marriage. RomneyCARE. GOP backstabbing.
the BIG DIG. Seamus. Murderer-freeing judges.
backing TARP. backing OBAMA. ...
I wonder how MANY you supported.
Do you have Governor Sarah Palin mixed up with Governor Mitt Romney, perhaps? Those statements sound like something one would say about Willard.
I agree all the way about the elections being a popularity contest. If they weren’t, politicians wouldn’t spend a fortune on Botox and hair plugs or as in John Edwards’ case, pallets of hairspray. Obama’s rockstar status caused grown “men” to faint at his rallies during the presidential campaign. Palin is very, very popular and that just scares the heck out of the DemocRATs.
Why would it be a surprise that she endorsed him in Arizona?
If Palin failed to endorse McCain after accepting the VP slot, *that* would have been “a sellout”...as you put it.
Who else is running. Yes but is that a choice ?
“I’m surprised you can’t see what EVEN the left sees! What do you think 2 yrs of ‘trying’ to trash her is all about?”
They see what I just said, that she is better than any of the other candidates.
She’s the only reason I could stomach voting for Mclame.
One of which would have been no choice. From where I sit she is bought and payed for by Juan McShame. She had a number of choices.
What makes you think Branstad is going to help Palin?
You betcha she endorsed him for senator. She even went around the whole country telling people to vote for the same man for president! Gee, you’re sorta dumb.
You are in the same category with the majority on that one. Otherwise, juan would had experienced a landslide loss.
” If she were serious about a White House bid, she would have spent the past two years making herself plausible as president. All Palin has done is make herself a major media phenomenon, as well as a wealthy woman.”
Translated. She should betray her base and kiss the rings of media hacks so they would take her as seriously as Lisa Murkowski, who they adore.
Translation: If Sarah runs we will destroy her.
Ding! Ding! The Grizzly Express has made it's approach!
I may dumb, but not a Twit.
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