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What Sarah Palin Needs To Win The Republican Nomination
UK Telegraph ^ | November 22nd, 2010 | Alex Spillius

Posted on 11/23/2010 1:52:05 PM PST by dselig

Last week was the week when the idea that Sarah Palin is going to run for president began to sink in properly. As I explained, she is an immensely viable candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination.

Frank Rich, in the New York Times, argues that she is a shoo-in for Republicans because time is ripe for her populist stance, and because her defects are no greater than George W Bush’s when he jumped into the 2000 primary race.

I am not so sure. The debates would prove a stiff test of her grasp of detail, and if she found the slings and arrows of running as vice-president and governing Alaska hard to cope with, how would she fare in the brutal terrain of a presidential race?

Palin is the best known quantity among the likely candidates. As First Read notes, her main task would be to broaden her appeal among a primary electorate that in the past has always opted for the candidate most likely to win the general election. With her negative numbers among Democrats and independents still high, that is quite a challenge.

Karl Rove’s comment that she lacks the gravitas for the top job continue to define the battle over Palin among Republicans. Barbara Bush, with the ultimate back-handed compliment, has now underlined how the old school views the Alaskan queen as an upstart. Palin’s unique style has already changed the game, but to win the nomination she may well need another game changer

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: ericcantor; sarahpalin
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To: sand88; nmh
You're right. It's a blatant liue, but typical for the PDS poster. NOTE the INDY favor her.

RASMUSSEN'S POLL: 52% of Voters Say Their Views Are More Like Palin’s Than Obama’s

Whose views are closer to your own? Palin/Obama

Overall: 52/40

Male: 55/37
Female: 48/43
White: 58/35
Black: 5/87
GOP: 84/9
DEM: 14/81
INDY: 59/27
Conservative: 80/12
Moderate: 28/61
Liberal: 14/85

81 posted on 11/23/2010 5:57:50 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm; nmh
nmh may claim to not know who he/she/it is supporting now, but he/she/it sure did have a big crush on Mitt Romney for an awfully long time. He/she/it has hated Palin since the VP pick over Slick Willard in 2008.

No wonder he wouldn't come back and answer. What a hypocrite.

82 posted on 11/23/2010 5:58:07 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: EternalVigilance

Your points make sense but the “right to life” is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights. The Court found therefore it is violable by other persons.


83 posted on 11/23/2010 6:00:36 PM PST by steve8714 (Never again should free men be asked to fight for those without the courage to turn them loose.)
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To: DeusExMachina05

You are correct. For every conservative fired-up abour Palin, there is an independent or moderate turned-off.


84 posted on 11/23/2010 6:10:05 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: steve8714
Your points make sense but the “right to life” is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights. The Court found therefore it is violable by other persons.

Wrong. The stated ultimate purpose the Constitution gives for itself is to "secure the Blessings of Liberty TO POSTERITY," and the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments clearly and succinctly protect the unalienable right to life of every person. It's an imperative.

The Court did NOT find the right to life "violable." The exact opposite is true. Blackmun stated in the Roe vs. Wade opinion that if the fetus is a person they are "of course" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. And so he dehumanized the child.

I find it shocking to find someone on this website who thinks the right to life can be alienated.

85 posted on 11/23/2010 6:10:58 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither.)
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To: nmh

“Doesn’t ANYONE read her book? Going Rogue? Palin is NOT a friend to business.”

No, I’d like to hear though.


86 posted on 11/23/2010 6:11:41 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Ruth C
..the agrarian movement fighting against corporations, banks, the rich elites?

The agrarian Populists of the late nineteenth century advocated currency inflation, nationalization of the railroads, an income tax, direct election of senators, and limits to how much property one could own.

87 posted on 11/23/2010 6:15:29 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (VeYisra'el 'ahav 'et-Yosef mikol-banayv ki-ven-zequnim hu' lo; ve`asah lo ketonet passim.)
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To: nmh
Palin needs the Independents and they HATE her. <<

I don't fully agree with your premise but after having endured 4 yrs of Obama....Who do u think any 1/2 thinking independent would vote for given a choice between the two.... Obama or Palin????
(They may even have to hold their nose like conservatives have done for so long, but when that's the choice, one will be made)

As to....
>I don't know who the RIGHT person is ... I just know Palin isn't it.<<<

Point blank..if its Obama vs. Palin in 2012....WHO WILL U VOTE FOR???
Ill make it simple for you
A. Obama
B. Palin
(the answer to that one question will tell you alot about yourself and your conservatism as well as inform the board) Thanks in advance

88 posted on 11/23/2010 6:21:58 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: nmh
Palin needs the Independents and they HATE her.

Judging by the results of the recent elections, it seems the independents are directing their anger toward left wing radicals like Obama and Pelosi.

The Palin cult...

Insulting her supporters won't change anyone's mind. This rest of your post goes on like this...just mindless babble without any substance what-so-ever.

89 posted on 11/23/2010 6:29:59 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: ansel12
Congrats!!...I'm glad someone keeps lists like that on here....it saves alot of plowing the same old ground...
(lol...I started doing the list thingy awhile back but my wife called me anal)
90 posted on 11/23/2010 6:31:24 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: ansel12

Nope, not really. I did think he would have made a better choice than McCain or Huck in 08, but that’s not saying much. I certainly hope we get real solid conservative choices in 2012 and not 2008 candidate retreads.


91 posted on 11/23/2010 6:41:54 PM PST by WOSG (Carpe Diem)
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To: WOSG

The reality is that you were a hard core romneybot, that is why you are on their ping lists.

This is some of the cream of the crop of the Romney trolls, most of them are gone, but the ones that aren’t, are now anti-Palin trolls also.

“To: Spiff; Reaganesque; Rameumptom; elizabetty; bethtopaz; restornu; lonevoice; WOSG; TheLion; ...”


92 posted on 11/23/2010 6:55:38 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: Reagan Disciple
"Let her take to the airwaves and do damage and hope a Pence/DeMint like character (if not Pence himself) emerges at some point."


That is exactly what i have been thinking.
93 posted on 11/23/2010 6:58:31 PM PST by rob777
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To: Norman Bates

Too bad Mitt cannot win the primary, Palin can.


94 posted on 11/23/2010 7:01:47 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: Lakeshark; perfect_rovian_storm; nmh

nmh is still a Romney guy, this thread is attracting them.


95 posted on 11/23/2010 7:03:21 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: sand88

“Obama’s lack of experience is not the problem. He has intentionally taken actions to destroy this Republic. No amount of so called experience would change that.”

Maybe. My point about Obama was that lack of experience is what made it harder to take the measure of the man and determine what he is really made of. Obama’s liberal tendencies were hidden by his campaign successfully because he spent so little time in US Senate. ... Track record, paper trail, whatever you want to call it. If we had it on Obama, he never would have even made it to the White House.

Gov Jan Brewer passed a tough immigration law against the wishes of the media, elites and the administration. Gov Christie is standing up to teachers unions. The experience of taking on tough fights on behalf of the conservative agenda like that is the experience we should be looking for.


96 posted on 11/23/2010 7:10:43 PM PST by WOSG (Carpe Diem)
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To: Jim Robinson
"In the coming primary battle, the establishment, the “smart” money, the RINOs, the Sodom and Gomorrah political whores and the media are all aligned against the people with wicked giant Myth Romney. We the little people are backing Sarah the RINO Slayer from the North."


Personally, I am not interested in supporting either. If a solid conservative candidate does not emerge I will focus on local races.
97 posted on 11/23/2010 7:11:17 PM PST by rob777
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To: vortigern

“Reagan had many years as a celebrity to develop his personal skills — still, he was despised and seldom taken seriously by the opposition.”

ANY powerful conservative is hated by the liberals.
They hated Reagan, hated Gingrich, hated GW Bush, hated Cheney. We knew Gingrich was doing the right thing in 1994 because he was hated.

They only start liking these guys after they are powerless or dead.

The Palinphobia of the left is indeed an indication that she must be doing SOMETHING right.


98 posted on 11/23/2010 7:16:13 PM PST by WOSG (Carpe Diem)
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To: dselig

I think that Palin can win the GOP Primary without breaking a sweat, but she has to overcome negatives with independents to win the general. Plenty of time for that.


99 posted on 11/23/2010 7:37:54 PM PST by Little Pharma
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To: nmh
We need a conservative and NOT a “populist”.

How is Sarah Palin not conservative?

And which of the other mentioned contenders has a shred of conservatism anywhere in their makeup?

100 posted on 11/23/2010 7:52:09 PM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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