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Wanted: US conservatives prepared to 'come out' as opponents of Sarah Palin
The London Telegraph ^ | February 2, 2011 | Damian Thompson, Blog Editor & Religion reporter

Posted on 02/02/2011 7:11:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

As my colleague Janet Daley notes, ConservativeHome USA has declared war on Sarah Palin, rounding up US conservatives who think she’d be a disaster as the next Republican presidential candidate. What I find strange, however, is the way it’s gone about it. In a piece signed by “The Editors”, ConHomeUSA has awarded anti-Palin Republicans the melodramatic title of “Truth Tellers”. And, rather bizarrely, it is recruiting for more:

If you are a Truth Teller, or want to recommend a commentator who is, email us here.

Don’t get me wrong. I think Sarah Palin is basically nuts, as I suggested when she started tossing around the phrase “blood libel” after she was unfairly attacked over the Tucson shootings. If she wins the Republican nomination, and even if she doesn’t but stops her fan base voting for the GOP, then she’ll have landed us with eight years of Obama – a sin crying out to heaven for the vengeance, as the old Catechism puts it.

Still, there’s something about the rounding up of anti-Palin commentators by “The Editors” that reminds me of ritual group denunciation in the Eastern Bloc. Also, I’m really not convinced by this observation:

Because of her popularity, many have been afraid to say openly about her what they whisper in private. But a few brave souls have stepped out and said about Sarah Palin what others think but are unwilling to say.

Actually, I don’t think you have to be brave to attack Sarah Palin, just willing to put up with the snarls of her supporters. And you won’t get many of those if you’re writing in the New York Times, where the brilliant Ross Douthat – one of the few columnists allowed to challenge the paper’s suffocating liberal pomposity – had this to say(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; bloodlibel; conservativehome; conservativehomeusa; damianthompson; davidfrum; freepressforpalin; frum; palin; palinoia; pds; presidentpalin; rinos; sarahpalin; smellthefear; waronsarah
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Why build a conspiracy or a front against someone who's "washed up" and could never get the GOP nomination?

BTW: Is Damian male or female? Buehler? Buehler?

1 posted on 02/02/2011 7:11:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the muslim loving UK is NUTS.


2 posted on 02/02/2011 7:13:14 PM PST by VastRWCon (Taxed to Death)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rotsa ruck.

I’m not a Palin “supporter” but I’m not going to come out against any good conservative.


3 posted on 02/02/2011 7:14:08 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: The Comedian

FYI


4 posted on 02/02/2011 7:14:54 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why does London need a “religion reporter”? They don’t have religion over there anymore, do they?


5 posted on 02/02/2011 7:14:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ConHome is... Newts? Norquists? who runs that crapzine?


6 posted on 02/02/2011 7:15:38 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shouldn’t the UK be more concerned about those “Peace loving Muslims” who want to take control of all of Europe


7 posted on 02/02/2011 7:16:09 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>>Why does London need a “religion reporter”? They don’t have religion over there anymore, do they?<<

Sure they do.

islam.


8 posted on 02/02/2011 7:18:01 PM PST by freedumb2003 (The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
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To: freedumb2003

;o) That thought came to my mind just AFTER I hit “Post”. GMTA!


9 posted on 02/02/2011 7:19:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What??

Sounds like they’re advertising for fake “conservatives” like David Frum.

She’s not my first choice, but we could do a lot worse, and I’d have no problem voting for her if she got the nomination.


10 posted on 02/02/2011 7:20:13 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
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"I’m not a Palin “supporter” but I’m not going to come out against any good conservative. "

Ditto.

I've expected this attack from the RINO's.

11 posted on 02/02/2011 7:20:44 PM PST by blam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"when she started tossing around the phrase “blood libel”"
12 posted on 02/02/2011 7:21:06 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Sure they do. Islam


13 posted on 02/02/2011 7:21:09 PM PST by Shimmer1 (When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Using the term “blood libel” one time is now called tossing it around?

The people that dug those two words out of her eight minute long video are the ones tossing the phrase around.


14 posted on 02/02/2011 7:22:41 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (They bring a Bible to a Memorial, we bring a T Shirt - Long Legged Mac Daddy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ConservativeHome appears to be a fairly new outfit.

There’s a link to DavidFrum at the bottom, and Frum is involved in announcing its formation. I don’t know if he’s behind it.

But the whole thing is obviously bogus.

http://www.frumforum.com/conservativehome-usa-joins-the-blogosphere


15 posted on 02/02/2011 7:22:57 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It as there, wasn’t it? LOL


16 posted on 02/02/2011 7:24:15 PM PST by freedumb2003 (The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It was there, wasn’t it? LOL


17 posted on 02/02/2011 7:24:30 PM PST by freedumb2003 (The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not one conservative among the supposedly conservatives pictured. Mostly elitists.


18 posted on 02/02/2011 7:25:10 PM PST by lonestar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If they are against Palin... they are not a real Conservative... and we will out them... and if they nominate a liberal... we will drive a stake through the heart of the cancerous elephant... The Tea Party will take no crap!

LLS

19 posted on 02/02/2011 7:25:39 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, I guess they are publicly saying;
“I got nothin, outta ammo and need help”

LOL!


20 posted on 02/02/2011 7:27:33 PM PST by RedMDer (restoration of our honor, dignity, and freedoms will save America. - Sarah Palin)
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