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Watching For Perry, Pulling For Palin
Townhall ^ | December 30, 2011 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 12/30/2011 1:34:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

As I sat with my extended family on Christmas, we discussed how beatable Barack Obama is. And as I listened to them run through the litany of reasons why this is so, I could only say again: “If the Republicans nominate a true conservative for president, Barack Obama is done.” As it is impossible for his record to hold up to the scrutiny that a Reagan-like candidate would subject it to, so too it is equally impossible to diminish the energy and support Tea Partiers would bring were they to throw their weight behind a candidate who’s not just a “fiscal conservative” or a “social conservative” but a real life conservative through and through: Someone who is pro-tax cut and pro-life, pro-spending cuts and pro-traditional marriage, as well as pro-military and pro-victory in the war on terror. Granted, there aren’t many candidates that fit this bill. Romney certainly doesn’t, Huntsman couldn’t, and Ron Paul’s views on our military efforts overseas and our culpability in the 9/11 attacks raise disturbing questions.

Moreover, Paul’s seeming indifference toward the plight of Israel, an indifference some construe as animosity, will be more and more problematic for him when it is better publicized.

Of course, conservatives could think about Gov. Rick Perry, a staunch supporter of the right to keep and bear arms without nuances, a man who loves our military, despises big government, and understands that our enemies attacked us on 9/11 because they hate us: and that they hate us because the heritage of our Judeo-Christian culture is freedom.

When Perry entered the race, he proved he had the capacity to rally grassroots supporters in a way that none before him, save Gov. Sarah Palin, had been capable of doing. He has flaws, and I have not been shy about highlighting those when they came to my attention. However, he is consistently pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-God, and pro-states’ rights. When talking to friends about Perry I’ve said, “He never met a tax cut he didn’t like.” Does he debate well? Who cares. Honestly, the debates have proven to be almost fixed, as the moderators give more time to their favorites or those they consider front-runners, and that effectively shuts out others (Perry included). Besides, I’m looking for a Commander-in-Chief not a debater-in-chief.

Yet if Perry fails to get traction, we will have to look elsewhere.

Enter Palin. She’s a conservative, she’s proud of her country, she’d be a strong ally for Israel, and she’s beautiful: for these reasons the left hates her. They actually fear her, but they present it as hate to keep from showing their weakness. And I don’t see any reason why see can’t reassess the field and enter the race, in the event Perry fails to regain traction or if no other candidate jumps in. It seems that Palin agrees with this assessment, as just last Monday she said: “It's not too late for folks to jump in. Who knows what will happen in the future."

I honestly believe Perry or Palin would be a nightmare scenario for Obama. And as I’ve watched Perry speak on the fly, and heard his conviction, I’ve continued to hope he regains traction. But if he doesn’t, I hope Palin will jump in and “fight like a girl” so we can have a conservative in the White House again.

Palin could do to Obama what Reagan did to Carter, times ten. And who wouldn’t pay to see her look Obama in the eye during a debate and say: “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours, and a recovery is when [Barack Obama] loses his.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; palin; perry; sarahpalin
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To: MikeSteelBe
The GOP (Going On Progressive) party will nominate their socialist establishment hack like Romney or Gingrich, and nothing will really change for the better.
Presidential “elections” are now a farce in America, just like “Pro” wrestling. The republicrat oligarchy will continue to rule and maintain their wealth and power.

Spot on.

201 posted on 01/01/2012 6:59:30 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: bcsco; Darksheare

b, you’ve brought up an interesting point. How does signing up for FR on a smart phone effect ip addresses, I wonder? Hmmm...


202 posted on 01/01/2012 7:00:56 AM PST by CAluvdubya (My preferred taglines are not in the running...)
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To: CAluvdubya; Darksheare
I did a Google search "cell phone IP address" and came up with this: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/maheshba/papers/ephemera-imc09.pdf. Judging from this sentence early into the document...

As with any wired host, a cell phone exposes limited information to Internet servers in the form of a User-Agent tag and an IP address.

...cell phones do provide an IP address. I'd expect that address would come from the service provider, so it may be static, but that's a big assumption on my part. Don't have the time to delve into this further today, but there may be some worthwhile stuff in the document, or other links from the Google search.

203 posted on 01/01/2012 7:14:03 AM PST by bcsco
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To: bcsco

Thanks for the info. I’ll see if I can read up and find out more.


204 posted on 01/01/2012 7:20:36 AM PST by CAluvdubya (My preferred taglines are not in the running...)
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To: CAluvdubya; Darksheare
Well, I quickly skipped down to the conclusion and found this: We showed that IPs can vary on short time scales on a single device, and that they contain very little information about the locality of the device; cell phones hundreds of miles apart share the same IP address space. These properties of cell phone IPs make IP-based user identi cation and geolocation almost impossible, hampering the ability of websites to blacklist users, display localized content, optimize performance and detect fraud.

Seems like a non-starter to me...

205 posted on 01/01/2012 7:25:44 AM PST by bcsco
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To: bcsco

So it would seem.


206 posted on 01/01/2012 7:51:36 AM PST by CAluvdubya (My preferred taglines are not in the running...)
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To: TheOldLady

Good.... Randy is a relentless Palin basher.


207 posted on 01/01/2012 9:15:54 AM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: mojitojoe; LUV W

Someone said that he may have more sleeper accounts waiting. He may not have been who he seemed (long-time conservative FReeper, vet, nice guy, etc.)


208 posted on 01/01/2012 11:33:08 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: TheOldLady

I have met him and traveled with him. He seemed the real deal, but has a very volatile temper when drinking. We saw that first hand. Unfortunately. He’d be very angry if he read this, too.

He was very unkind to some Canteeners, and posted some inappropriate music and graphics there, too. It’s a shame that things happen to people to cause them to become so angry.


209 posted on 01/01/2012 11:52:02 AM PST by luvie (This tagline reserved for a hero.......)
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To: LUV W
A lot of people who see what is happening to our country are under a lot of stress right now. Maybe he was just suspended and not banned. Sorry if I'm too much of a softy, but there are things I've said and done that I wish I could take back.

In spite of all the "be strong," "buck up," and "take it like a man" advice I give to people, I do realize that we are in dire straits, and that it is very difficult to maintain one's equanimity through such pressure. Which is exactly the point of this administration's committing outrage after outrage on a daily basis.

It's a zer0 bird-flip "in our faces" to us every day, day after day.

We must rid ourselves of these evil monsters and NOT ALLOW them to steal another election again, ever.

Yoiks! </rant>
210 posted on 01/01/2012 12:00:34 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: HMS Surprise
I'm not sure where this is coming from given he was criticizing Ford in 1975 and launched his primary run the fall of that year, late by today's standards for sure but no way he was dragged into anything.

In fact, it was the establishment that kept him at bay in 1976.

Not sure why the Palin types like to rewrite history to make a case for her, but have it I guess.

She's not running and she's not Reaganesque, not even close.

211 posted on 01/01/2012 5:26:55 PM PST by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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To: LUV W

(((HUGS)))


212 posted on 01/06/2012 5:08:17 PM PST by Randy Larsen (I'm backing Newt!)
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