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Posted on 05/24/2011 6:44:15 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
Shortly after Republicans swept last November to a historic victory in which Sarah Palin was credited with playing a central role, the former Alaska governor pulled aside her close aide, Rebecca Mansour, to discuss a hush-hush assignment: Reach out to conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon with a request. Ask him if he would make a series of videos extolling Palin's governorship and laying to rest lingering questions about her controversial decision to resign from office with a year-and-a-half left in her first term. It was this abdication, Palin knew, that had made her damaged goods in the eyes of some Republicans who once were eager to get behind her potential 2012 presidential campaign.
The response was more positive than Palin could have hoped for. He'd make a feature-length movie, Bannon told Mansour, and he insisted upon taking complete control and financing it himself -- to the tune of $1 million.
The fruits of that initial conversation are now complete. The result is a two-hour-long, sweeping epic, a rough cut of which Bannon screened privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska's most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. When it premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin's prospective presidential campaign -- an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won't run.
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"This film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan vs. the establishment," Bannon told RealClearPolitics.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
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Troll. Don’t think so. You’ll be waiting an awful long time to see me banned for being a troll. You have no idea.
A segment of the vote she will struggle for more than any Republican since Ford. Of this I'm sure.
And let me note, that isn’t because those serving like Obama as CinC. That is not the case, whatsoever. It’s just there are real concerns about her being ready to be CinC.
I never said she was the only true conservative. She may be the most conservative however. I sincerely doubt that any republican, especially a conservative republican, can lose the military vote to this President.
Not only have you been called a troll, you’ve been called one of Satan’s minions.
This is one of the reasons my doubts about Palin have been growing lately. The Palinistas are getting as shrill and loony as the Paulistas.
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