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Accidental Good Fortune? Strategic Genius By Woman Tony Knowles Called ‘Alley Cat Smart’ Sarah Palin
conservatives4palin.com ^ | August 16, 2011 | "John Smith"

Posted on 08/16/2011 8:11:57 PM PDT by RonDog

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To: gov_bean_ counter

Believe it was I-O4P crew who was.


41 posted on 08/16/2011 10:14:49 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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To: RonDog

When she’s ready.

If Sarah runs, she’ll do it her way. nd she’ll shake up the field significantly.

OTOH, maybe she’s having fun taunting the media to pay them back for 2008.


42 posted on 08/16/2011 10:15:24 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: thecodont

Sounds to me like the thing to watch for would be her resignation from FOX News.


43 posted on 08/16/2011 10:18:49 PM PDT by redhead (I will vote for Sarah Palin, even if I have to write her in. —)
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To: RonDog
“She’s what I call ‘alley-cat smart,’” Tony Knowles, the former Democratic governor, told me.

“It’s not about ideology. She knows how to pick her way down the political route that she feels will be the most beneficial to what she wants to do.”

And this, from a former Democrat Governor, whom she stomped in her run for the Alaska Governor's office. You almost couldn't ask for a better recommendation than that.

44 posted on 08/16/2011 10:19:34 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

I think that there is a whole lot of inside info (or at least high level speculation) running the course. Was listening to Rush today and he was doing that one-sided conversation with Snerdley thing he does. “Snerdley” told him about a scroll on FOX, Rush immediately said millions of Americans were waiting for just that news. Then he asked if there was a question mark behind the scroll... He said he wouldn’t say what it was cuz it was too big. Then Rush went to inferring that Christie or Ryan could join the race... Anyone know what that ‘scroll’ said? I was at work and had no access to TV. It certainly was interesting to say the least, there was an obvious storyline directly under the surface.


45 posted on 08/16/2011 10:22:49 PM PDT by Mensius
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To: Sea Parrot
Ya beat me to it.

Didn't mean to... =)

46 posted on 08/16/2011 10:24:26 PM PDT by Mensius
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To: Windflier
he is an expert in this area.

Rove? Yeah, I really admire the way the Bush years ended. A real masterpiece.

47 posted on 08/16/2011 10:26:37 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Mensius
Was listening to Rush today and he was doing that one-sided conversation with Snerdley thing he does. “Snerdley” told him about a scroll on FOX, Rush immediately said millions of Americans were waiting for just that news. Then he asked if there was a question mark behind the scroll... He said he wouldn’t say what it was cuz it was too big.

I could only listen off and on today, so I didn't catch that segment. Very, very interesting.

Now I've got a mystery sandwich. I'm dying to know what 'news' was on that crawler (considering that its "big", and that "everyone has been waiting for it"). It couldn't have been news about Christie or Ryan joining the race. "Everyone" isn't exactly waiting for that news.

Wonder what it was?

48 posted on 08/16/2011 10:30:07 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
"he is an expert in this area."

Rove? Yeah, I really admire the way the Bush years ended. A real masterpiece.

I suppose I should have been more specific about what I meant there. Rove has been working major campaigns for close to thirty years, and so he's got what most would consider to be "expert" experience in that area.

As far as how he performed as an advisor to Bush, well, that's another hat, in which he got completely different results. I agree that they were disastrous.

49 posted on 08/16/2011 10:34:19 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: alley cat

woof


50 posted on 08/16/2011 10:39:21 PM PDT by woofie
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To: RonDog; Travis McGee
Good strategy points discussed in this article.

Palin has employed excellent strategy in her past campaigns, and she has said in the past that if she runs, she will be "in it to win it."

51 posted on 08/16/2011 10:41:08 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Bigtigermike

She may go a bit later to REALLY throw a wrench into the opposition plans. Don’t discount the possibility.


52 posted on 08/16/2011 10:43:02 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: TBP

No, b/c by taunting the media, she would be also screwing a lot of people who are working very hard for her. Bob


53 posted on 08/16/2011 10:44:45 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("The movie's rolled down to the last reel. It's got an ending you never planned. Harry Chapin)
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To: RonDog

Excellent piece, and Romney is facing some serious problems between Palin and Perry, I don’t know that Romney has the smarts to figure out a path to victory.

Neither one of these two challengers are predictable, or easy to fight against, yet both of them are serious, skilled campaigners, to have to fight both of them simultaneously is going to bleed Romney badly, hopefully fatally enough to crush him and finish forever this pretense that he is a successful politician.


54 posted on 08/16/2011 10:45:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Bristol Palin's book "Not Afraid Of Life: My Journey So Far" became a New York Times, best seller.)
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To: Windflier

Rove’s problem was the war. He’s a political animal and lethal with conventional politics, but the war issues didn’t translate to hie expertise. He plaid those like SOP politics and he was out of his ‘zone’. The results are obvious.

IMO FWIW.


55 posted on 08/16/2011 10:51:27 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: ansel12

I really don’t think there is one for him. He’s going to get hit with hardball questions over his gymnastics on Romneycare/abortion et all and he’ll fold since there IS NO defense to them.

IMO, he’s toast and thats why the GOP is bringing out Perry...who is nearly as flawed a candidate. Everyone should do their reserach on him. Old guard GOP and an Al Gore worker in 88?

Nope.


56 posted on 08/16/2011 10:54:49 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: alstewartfan

How so? Seriously.


57 posted on 08/16/2011 10:55:54 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: RonDog

There’s an event scheduled to be held on Sept. 3 somewhere in Iowa, eastern Iowa, I believe (name of town escapes me, begins with W, possibly Waukon), that Sarah has stated that she intends to attend and where she is booked to speak.


58 posted on 08/16/2011 11:00:06 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: The Cajun

I would like her to run if only to get everyone running to the right. But she is a mystery right now.


59 posted on 08/16/2011 11:02:06 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Rove’s problem was the war. He’s a political animal and lethal with conventional politics, but the war issues didn’t translate to hie expertise. He plaid those like SOP politics and he was out of his ‘zone’. The results are obvious.

I read it exactly the same.

60 posted on 08/16/2011 11:02:39 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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