Posted on 09/05/2011 10:41:59 PM PDT by Clairity
A coy Sarah Palin talked a lot yesterday about the type of leader this country needs, but in what is turning into an extended national tease, she stopped just short of saying she will be that leader.
"I don't know yet," Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate turned best-selling author, told the Herald yesterday after her rousing midday speech at a Tea Party Express rally.
A fed-up Victor Luebker of the Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots [team stats] - a group of former military men and women who support the Tea Party's platform - said he's tired of Palin's games.
"She needs to declare and decide now," said Luebker, who did not attend the event. "The Tea Party is not a movement to sell books or make news for the sake of attention; we have serious issues facing our country."
Others, though, say they'll wait as long as necessary for Palin.
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Oh he’s had to deal with the lunatic libs, Ron Paultards and Alex Jones Prison Planet nuts in Texas for years. They have done whatever they could to get him but they have found nothing.
Palin could have deflected some of the hysteria by keeping she and her family out of the limelight until things settled down. She didn’t do that, she went the celebrity route.
You don’t know the meaning of debate. You get in over your head and run and tattle like a 4 year old.
That to me actually sounded more like a battle cry to clean it up. I mean the Republican Party. We did do well in 2010. We can do BETTER in 2012. We quit giving the Republicans money. We gave to candidates instead. That crippled them. This time I hope to neuter the elites.
I know a troller when I see one. And so does the Boss.
What a bunch of control freaks some people are. Maybe Perry could have meant what he said when he said he was NOT going to run for the office of president.
And again you dodge. Perry hasn’t had a colonoscopy yet. But it’s coming.
That has been said for years now. It hasn’t happened to the degree necessary.
Rush has said that too. He knows it hasn’t happened either.
You see, come election time, many people sound like great conservatives. I am no longer sure that it is just DC that changes some of them.
Maybe they were really not conservatives in the ideal sense we expect.
Not an easy thing to fight.
To change the sense of the country we should have been injecting ourselves in every walk of life as libs have done.
Only thing I will say is even if we do win the WH, we better damn well win Congress. Without that, all will be for naught. A GOP President won’t be able to get a thing done.
Go to http://www.constitutionparty.com and to the lower right hand side to read their principles and platform. It sounds just like Sarah Palin.
The infusion of "crony capitalism" and "corruption" into the discussions by Sarah Palin this weekend just changed the whole game, the whole frame of debate, and will continue to reshape many people's self-definition.
The vast majority of independent "moderates" and independent "conservatives" did, for years, sit out the elections prior to 2010, because they rightly saw the corruption of the Democrat left and the Republican left as a never-ending back-and-forth game of corruption and cronyism.
This campaign of anti-corruption, against the establishment of both parties, is the key to bringing the greatest percentage of people from across the spectrum together, and this is long overdue.
That's not exactly true. You're all over this one.
Do you only post on Anti-Perry threads?
I always loved that strip. Schulz was a genius.
An anti-corruption campaign directed at the GOP is a possible sign of a 3rd party candidacy.
You know unions would use that as leverage in this game of politics today. You know like they did when they watched a man drown simply because of budget cuts. They used the excuse that they weren't sufficiently trained as to why the watched a man drown.
Perry: Well, you wouldn’t be bleeping if it was appropriate. The bottom line is the people I’m more interested in are out here on these fire lines. They’re hard working men and women. There is probably union firefighters out there and god bless them for helping save Texas lives and Texas homes.
Yes. I believe that too. We have been asleep at the wheel. And now we're playing "Catch-up".
Only thing I will say is even if we do win the WH, we better damn well win Congress. Without that, all will be for naught. A GOP President won’t be able to get a thing done.
In that scenario the best outcome would only be a stalemate when we need a scalpel.
Yep, That sums it up.
Perhaps, but that should be a last resort. Our better option would be to continue the TEA Party restoration of the Republican Party. Building a new party from the ground up is a monumental project.
We already are the Republican Party. We built it. We paid for it. We own it.
The small minority of liberal Republicans (mostly former Democrats) who have had a stranglehold on the GOP for decades need to leave, and join their soulmates in the Democrat party.
I’m not the one who is trying to control the debate. I don’t run and tattle when someone says something I don’t like.
Control freaks on the other hand do manipulate the discussion by threatening others with banning by tattling to the boss.
He’s running for president. It would have taken him five seconds to comment on the issue, if he chose.
Now, post my anti-Perry comments. With links.
I didn't watch the speech live, I only got news from a thread. I was so pissed that I went to the teamster website that a FReeper posted, first you had to give them your personal info then answer the question 2 + 0 = ?
We had a a lot of fun with that. I said it was the combined IQ of the crowd at the Obama campaign event. Other FReepers were far more wittier than me.
The only candidate that said anything was Bachmann. She sent out an email hours after. Now I know some "advisers" are leaving her campaign but I worked for my Congresswoman and trust me there are many bad or plants as advisers.
Quite a few advisers bailed only to become a lobbyist. I ran her 2006 campaign which we won by a large margin even though it was a huge democrat landslide nationwide. I worked the campaign not to become a lobbyist I did it out of my respect and loyalty to her as my Congresswoman. And you know what the whole "pay it forward" occurred. After the 2006 election I left my position to pursue my MBA in Finance and my mom died in 2008 of a heart attack. My Congresswoman called me on her way to a vote just to make sure I was doing ok, she sent flowers, and flew a flag over the Capitol in honor of my mother (who claimed no one would attend her funeral and the church was packed, heck even our democrat Mayor came to the wake!!!).
The thing I learned working for Congress is many people are looking only to further their careers and get as much money out of it as possible. I was there out of my belief in being a true civil servant and not a leech. Sadly, the rats are gerrymandering me into the district of a rat. The only up side is this guy voted against Obamacare and is more conservative than many RINOs. He is a pro-life Democrat so since no Repub has a chance I'll vote for him simply because he's pro-life and the liberal psycho groups like MoveOn hate him. So I can then call myself a bipartisan independent :)
Hey if the rats work the system why can't we?
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