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If Palin runs for president: Her strengths won't be a lot of help
The Chicago Tribune ^ | September 12, 2010 | Steve Chapman

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)

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; alaska; iowa; iquitarod; joemiller; kingmidas; lisamurkowski; midas; obama; palin; palin2012; polls; romney; romneybigdig; romneycare; romneydirtytricks; romneymarriage; sarahpalin
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To: Luke21
major media phenomenon

Supply and demand - People want to hear/see her! They forgot facebook - where she goes around the media!
41 posted on 09/11/2010 1:52:50 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
I don't think Palin could go from campaigning as VP for McCain and turn around a short while later and refuse to endorse him in Arizona.

On the one hand she is committed to help him be President and then on the other she snubs him in Arizona...?

That's not realistic.

42 posted on 09/11/2010 1:52:50 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (If Obama was the answer---that must have been one stupid question.)
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To: ez
"Translation: If Sarah runs we will destroy her."

They've been trying their hardest for over two years. Do you see it working on her? She's 10X more powerful now than she was as the Republican candidate for the vice presidency, and she was drawing HUGE crowds back then!!

43 posted on 09/11/2010 1:53:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have no use for Slick Willard.

44 posted on 09/11/2010 1:53:46 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

poor guy...he just doesn’t get it...If she runs, she wins....that’s why they’re so damned scared


45 posted on 09/11/2010 1:53:46 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

They coulds have picked JD Haysworth and didn’t.


46 posted on 09/11/2010 1:53:52 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Good post but when it comes to COMMON SENSE - we can see who lacks it. Nice of them to expose themselves!


47 posted on 09/11/2010 1:54:27 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

More popular than Lincoln? I really doubt they did a head-to-head poll of Palin's popularity and Lincoln's. It looks like this is just exaggeration with nothing to back it up. If not, the party took a major wrong turn a while ago.

48 posted on 09/11/2010 1:55:28 PM PDT by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I dunno, there is a lot of Palin idolatry running around and I hope many people aren’t in for a major let down. She’s smart, conservative, beautiful, well spoken and pretty honest.

If nothing else she’s raising the bar for other candidates and America will be the better for it. Funny how leftists are the ones fighting against the woman and the GOP still can’t get out of its own way to leverage it.


49 posted on 09/11/2010 1:56:07 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: onyx

“Gee, you’re sorta dumb.”

Sorta!!!!!


50 posted on 09/11/2010 1:56:16 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The poor little libs; they just cannot help themselves. A very good analysis of what is going on in their heads when they think (I use that term very loosely indeed) about Sarah Palin:

Palin and the Left’s Status-Anxiety

Actually as the author notes in a comment below it is not only the left:

Shannon Love Says:
September 10th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Lexington Green,

Of course, most conservative pundits treat her with condescension as well. They have a stake in the same status games.

That is true. I think we are seeing more of a generic middle-class insurgency against an integral political class than a left-right divide.

51 posted on 09/11/2010 1:56:50 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
They really have to stretch and twist to find some way to put her down

Actually if she gets nominated her primary weakness is still Tina Fey. As long as the left have Tina Fey they can make the unwashed masses of mouth-breathers believe Sarah says outrageous crap like "I can see Russia from my porch".
52 posted on 09/11/2010 1:56:58 PM PDT by GunningForTheBuddha ("RINOs, shoo")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
That's not realistic.

You are not familiar with Ronald Reagan or politics.

Primaries are for principles.

The general election is for the Party.


53 posted on 09/11/2010 1:57:00 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: jonrick46

It’s CONSERVATISM!! A little thingie that the LEFT will not admit to.


54 posted on 09/11/2010 1:57:18 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Mmogamer

Chris Christie is wonderful for New Jersey, but not for president. He lost me on illegal immigration, the GZM and his lavish endorsement of Mike Castle. He’d have to really toughen-up on illegal immigration. That’s the huge issue.


55 posted on 09/11/2010 1:58:27 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: x

They wouldn’t dare say Reagan!


56 posted on 09/11/2010 1:59:36 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
You are not familiar with reality.

Sarah Palin was in a general election.

With McCain.

57 posted on 09/11/2010 2:00:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (If Obama was the answer---that must have been one stupid question.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Steve, she beat the Republican incumbent and his Democrat immediate predecessor in order to become governor, before just about anybody south of the Alaska-British Columbia border who wasn’t just a complete political stat geek had any idea who she was. That is not fanboy myopia. That is cold hard fact. At some point, the idea that she’s somehow less formidable of a potential candidate now that she’s got broad support in the rest of the country becomes less a reasonable concern or even astute devil’s advocacy than simple denial.


58 posted on 09/11/2010 2:00:58 PM PDT by RichInOC (...Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta Rho '87...Kevin Reilly, Stephen Ward and Brent Woodall, R.I.P.)
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To: Clyde5445
They coulds have picked JD Haysworth and didn’t.

But she endorsed Juan the lying RINO.

If she had any conservative principles she would not have endorsed Juan the lying RINO

She is not trustworthy.


59 posted on 09/11/2010 2:01:09 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

LOL. That’s “your” opinion of “yourself”.


60 posted on 09/11/2010 2:01:49 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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