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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; bachmann; budget; cowboypoetry; huckabee; obama; palin; presidentpalin; retreat; sarahpalin
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1 posted on 04/08/2011 6:01:00 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: onyx; Virginia Ridgerunner; Brices Crossroads; sarah fan UK; mick

FYI


2 posted on 04/08/2011 6:02:41 PM PDT by Al B.
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To: Al B.

Well, Palin separates herself from the pack.


3 posted on 04/08/2011 6:02:48 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Al B.

A sane voice in a mad world.


4 posted on 04/08/2011 6:03:53 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: Al B.

Rock on, Sarah!

Sarah, you’re the poet of our hearts,
Never change, and don’t you ever stop!


5 posted on 04/08/2011 6:04:46 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Al B.

Thus the difference between the presumptive nominee and the pack of spineless RINOs...


6 posted on 04/08/2011 6:04:53 PM PDT by neodad (Don't Tap, Just Drill!)
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To: Red Steel

Palin 1 Bachmann 0


7 posted on 04/08/2011 6:08:50 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: Al B.

Yet another example of why Sarah Palin will make a fine president.


8 posted on 04/08/2011 6:10:23 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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To: screaminsunshine
Palin 1 Bachmann 0

A solid lead.

9 posted on 04/08/2011 6:11:32 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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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?"

Dang, she nails it again. Best political instincts in the business.

The Annie Oakley of U.S. politics.

10 posted on 04/08/2011 6:11:34 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Al B.
So few seem to understand the gravity of the situation, much less acknowledge it.

And to the naysayers: And Sarah Palin is not presidential material because...

11 posted on 04/08/2011 6:12:43 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Sarah Palin is America's Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Al B.

God bless Sarah!


12 posted on 04/08/2011 6:13:06 PM PDT by ardara
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To: Al B.
Once again Palin showing the difference between a REAL conservative and those namby-pamby insider RINO's.

Go get 'em Sarah!!!

13 posted on 04/08/2011 6:15:33 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: Al B.

BS, this penny fighting is BS, gagging at gnat . If you are going to throw down for a fight let’s do it over rolling spending and government employment back to 2006 levels.


14 posted on 04/08/2011 6:16:30 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: screaminsunshine

Can’t serve two masters. Michelle Bachmann appears double minded who while considering a run for president also has her eye toward reelection and is engaging in political calculations rather that real leadership.


15 posted on 04/08/2011 6:20:56 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I am declaring 2011 to be the year of ME!)
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To: Al B.

This is why bo had the attacks never ending on Sarah, SHE FIGHTS! He will be trounced by Sarah and he is VERY AFRAID of her.


17 posted on 04/08/2011 6:23:08 PM PDT by DCmarcher-976453 (SARAH PALIN 2012)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

We don’t need no politicians.....


18 posted on 04/08/2011 6:23:45 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Obama Sucks)
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To: org.whodat
"BS, this penny fighting is BS, gagging at gnat."

Yeah...I agree! We, as misunderstood conservatives, need to keep rollin' over and over and over...

I don't think so...butthead. Every battle is more critical than ever. Winning only comes to those who stand up and fight for what's right.

19 posted on 04/08/2011 6:28:14 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Red Steel
Well, Palin separates herself from the pack.

No, she does not. But she's definitely on the right side of the issue while Bachmann and Huckabee and who knows who else is on the other side.

http://youtu.be/ticMr2oTPRU

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

20 posted on 04/08/2011 6:31:10 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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