Posted on 10/22/2010 7:13:45 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Sarah Palin has unquestionably made her voice heard in this election cycle - but if the GOP falls short of taking back the Senate as most prognosticators expect, the Pride of Wasilla will take a hit from party leaders who think she turns off independents.
"If we don't win the Senate I have one thing to say: ‘Thank you, Sarah Palin,'" a household name and bigtime player in Republican circles tells The Mouth.
This source and several other party elders believe Palin's endorsement of Christine O'Donnell has made a difficult Senate seat pickup in ideologically centrist Delaware hopeless.
They also believe Palin could be the difference between winning and losing in several other Senate races, including Nevada and California.
Palin is extremely unpopular among indie voters, especially in California. A recent Field Poll found that 69% of California independent voters have an unfavorable opinion of Palin. And independents are nearly a quarter of the California electorat
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Leftists can be cunning, but often screw themselves up by NOT looking at the entire picture before they act. This is just such a case as RINO’s are Leftists, and they have pulled a typical Leftist blunder by exposing themselves.
Attacking Sarah Palin preemptively for their potential failure in gaining the Senate, which they hold in their brothers regardless is NOT very smart as they have opened themselves up for retribution from a much wiser electorate than they think.
Hey, mine's not chopped liver either!
Karl Rove is my guess.
Ok, thanks. I do not know him but got a kick out of the name, lol.
I thought he was honeymooning with Mehlman somewhere.
“If we don’t win the Senate I have one thing to say: ‘Thank you, Sarah Palin,’” a household name and bigtime player in Republican circles tells The Mouth.”
What a steaming pantload of you-know-what.
If the campaign to retake the Senate fails, how about blaming...
-An RNC Chair who spent more time apologizing and equivocating than energizing the base and representing the GOP brand.
-The GOP elites who cost them the Congress in the first place and have left a lot of voters wary of trusting Republicans with the purse strings again.
-More GOP elites who chose to sulk about certain primary victors rather than put their support behind the candidate of record and at least *try* to get them elected.
The movement not only does not need a leader - many of us have had it with leaders. Either govern with conservative positions or GTFO.
And Palin can dump McAmnesty, or not only will many of us continue to campaign against her if she runs - we won't be defending her from the ruling class as they target her.
We're not big on reaching across the aisle to liberals, regardless of the liberals party.
Let the RINO’s TRY this CRAP! The chances of the Republicans taking back the Senate were almost ZERO anyway. Were it NOT for Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, the Tea Parties, 9/12er’s and Conservatives, they’d have NO shot AT ALL!
If they get 7 seats I think they’ll be DARN lucky — but without the above mentioned people and groups, they MIGHT get 2 or 3 seats! The RINO’s may want to shut up Sarah and Conservatives — but if we cain THAT MUCH momentum, they best keep their yaps SHUT — or in the aftermath, they’ll be out on THEIR keisters and we’ll have REAL CONSERVATIVES running the machine — FINALLY!
**We have given the GOP establishment the WH, House and Senate all at the same time in the past and what did it get the country?**
Last time it gave us ... “Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords” and the GANG of 14
And to these same RINOs .. “Sarah isn’t the head of Tea Party.. if she goes AWAY... not only will the TEA Party go it... they will be even ANGRIER!!
Been watching Sarah Palin since early 90’s. I’d hang with her hands down over the entire Repub Party just on her record of accomplishments alone. She did a great job up here in Alaska in every office she held.
The GOP had the Senate and lost it all by themselves with no help from Sarah. If we manage to get seats back than I say Thank You, Sarah and Michelle and everyone else who as been out there giving their all to save us from the communists.
I doubt any serious Republican even said this...well....on second thought....wouldn’t put anything past RINOS.
What have you been smoking... Hey is this Newt?????
These bozos have it backwards and Sarah said it last week. If the GOP doesn’t fall into step behind Sarah and the Tea Party then THEY are the ones that will become irrelevant after November 2. GO SARAH! GO TEA PARTY! WATCH YOUR STEP GOP!
It seems like these clown don’t know what they are dealing with. It wouldn’t suprise me if we have only seen about 1/10th of what a full blown Sarah Palin campaign could be like.
They have no idea what in story for them. After the elections it going to be the REAL SARAH PALIN and they ain’t going to like it one bit. Her show and book are going to have a impact they can’t even fathom.
What the lame ‘leadership’ doesn’t get is that we in Delaware feel we have already won because Castle is out of there. If O’Donnell won, too, it would be nice , but one step at a time.
Steve Schmidt? Mitt Romney? Mike Huckabee? Karl Rove?
I vote Megan McCain. She's 'big', a household name, and she hangs around Republican circles...
I'm also not a fan of your beloved rapists, pedophiles, robbers, and drug dealers that flow in I don't lieu of time in foreign prisons.
I was never okay with Newt from the beginning, the way he treated his ex-wives went way he beyond just getting a divorce.
Palin was not hired as a spokesman by an existing leader of a conservative movement, or by a conservative committee, she is the leader and she created that position during the 2008 campaign when she tried to drag the Presidential candidate into a tougher campaign than he was running.
Palin started the knock down drag out fight in November of 2008, she was leading a one woman army before we knew that a movement was going to form. Cut off the head and it goes a long ways to removing the national face, and national voice of an alternative to the establishment power structure, as we enter the presidential primary next month.
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