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Sarah Palin Tells GOP 'Don't Retreat', Other Potential 2012 Presidential Candidates Disagree
abcnews.com ^ | April 8, 2011

Posted on 04/08/2011 6:00:51 PM PDT by Al B.

As the deadline to avoid a government shutdown approached Friday night, Sarah Palin pushed Republican Congressional leaders one more time to hold their ground.

"GOP: don't retreat! The country is going broke. We can't AFFORD cowboy poetry & subsidizing abortion," Palin tweeted. "If we can't fight to defund this nonsense now when we have the chance, do you think we'll win the big fight on entitlement reform later on?"

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Notably, some of Palin’s fellow possible 2012 presidential contenders appeared to be at odds with her Friday evening tweet, counseling GOP leaders on Capitol Hill that it’s time to cut a deal.

“I am ready for a big fight that will change the arc of history,” Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., wrote on Twitter this afternoon. “The current fight in Washington is not that fight.”

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.....“Nobody’s more pro-life than me. Nobody. But as much as I want to see Planned Parenthood defunded, as much as I want to see N.P.R lose their funding, the reality is the president and the Senate are never going to go along with that. So win the deal you can win and live to fight another day.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; bachmann; budget; cowboypoetry; huckabee; obama; palin; presidentpalin; retreat; sarahpalin
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To: tsowellfan

Look who MB has on her side now...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2702027/posts?page=1


21 posted on 04/08/2011 6:32:09 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I am declaring 2011 to be the year of ME!)
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To: Red Steel

Palin separates herself from the pack of wobbly ones FOR SURE


22 posted on 04/08/2011 6:32:09 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: screaminsunshine
Palin 1 Bachmann 0

You got that right

23 posted on 04/08/2011 6:32:50 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Al B.

All I can say is Sarah speaks for me. As usual, the opposite of the libs, Rino’s and repub’s. One voice crying in the dark days of the USA.


24 posted on 04/08/2011 6:34:15 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Al B.; All


Have YOU Donated To FR Yet?

25 posted on 04/08/2011 6:35:12 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: harpu

You are not winning when you are bitching at an amount that is less than is added to the national debt in a week. It is meaningless.


26 posted on 04/08/2011 6:35:54 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Al B.

“If we can’t fight to defund this nonsense now when we have the chance, do you think we’ll win the big fight on entitlement reform later on?”

Right on.


27 posted on 04/08/2011 6:38:18 PM PDT by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Al B.
**** We can't AFFORD cowboy poetry & subsidizing abortion****

I love that. Love how she just knows what to say to piss off the Left as well as the BlueBlood types (yeah I'm talking to you barbara).

28 posted on 04/08/2011 6:38:31 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: Al B.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.....“Nobody’s more pro-life than me. Nobody. But as much as I want to see Planned Parenthood defunded, as much as I want to see N.P.R lose their funding, the reality is the president and the Senate are never going to go along with that. So win the deal you can win and live to fight another day.”

From the same Governor that gave instate tuition to illegals!!!!


29 posted on 04/08/2011 6:39:25 PM PDT by doc
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To: SamuraiScot

“The Annie Oakley of U.S. politics.”

Speaking of Annie Oakley and Cowboy Poetry...

“There’s a charming little girl
She’s many miles from here
She’s a loving little fairy
You’d fall in love to see her
Her presence would remind you
Of an Angel in the skies,
And you bet I love this little girl
with the rain drops in her eyes.”

Frank Butler written on the range to his sweetheart, the sharpshooter that won his purse money and knocked him back down to being a cattleman and broke his heart - written WITHOUT any federal funding.

He and Annie Oakley were lifelong loves, he died 18 days after her.


30 posted on 04/08/2011 6:42:33 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: doc

“From the same Governor that gave instate tuition to illegals!!!!”

Huckabee the guy who said it would be “Unchristian” to deny them benefits!


31 posted on 04/08/2011 6:44:47 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Red Steel
Well, Palin separates herself from the pack.

You are right. We need a new phrase to replace the no longer applicable "that's what separates the men from the boys". These days the men and boys seem to be inseparable and we are counting more and more on the strong gals to keep conservatism alive and well.

32 posted on 04/08/2011 6:44:56 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: TaxPayer2000

Yeah. If she’ll get off the fence and jump in the damn race.


33 posted on 04/08/2011 6:52:07 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Al B.

The only nads on our side belong to the women! Sad....


34 posted on 04/08/2011 6:52:07 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: tsowellfan

“I do think at this point Sarah Palin, Trump and the others in the GOP should talk to those wobbly ones soon.”

Okay, but shouldn’t Trump formally renounce his liberal views first? Assuming he’s done so in his heart.

But if Trump is still the big government liberal he was three years ago, the thing to do is ignore him.

With Palin, we don’t have to wonder where she really stands.


35 posted on 04/08/2011 6:52:46 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Sarah Palin is above taking the fake high road.)
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To: InterceptPoint

Gov Palin is the Alpha, the rest are the betas


36 posted on 04/08/2011 6:54:51 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: Al B.

What’s this a quick list of douchebags that we need to eradicate from the slate now?


37 posted on 04/08/2011 6:55:12 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Al B.

Palin said: “GOP: don’t retreat! The country is going broke. We can’t AFFORD cowboy poetry & subsidizing abortion,” Palin tweeted. “If we can’t fight to defund this nonsense now when we have the chance, do you think we’ll win the big fight on entitlement reform later on?”

Palin is so right, if these cave-in “conservatives” won’t fight on the easy stuff, how will they ever hold their positions on the tough fights like entitlements?


38 posted on 04/08/2011 6:55:22 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (Arrest, Intern, Deport !)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
not only that but MB has Rove in her corner now too. something is very fishy in Denmark.
39 posted on 04/08/2011 6:56:33 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: unseen1
Apparently MB has been working the back rooms making the promises and cutting the deals Gov Palin refuses to.
40 posted on 04/08/2011 6:59:20 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I am declaring 2011 to be the year of ME!)
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