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2010 Flashback: Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin
Politico ^ | October 31, 2010 | MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI

Posted on 11/07/2012 1:32:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.

Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns.

There is rising expectation among GOP elites that Palin will probably run for president in 2012 and could win the Republican nomination, a prospect many of them regard as a disaster in waiting.

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"There is a determined, focused establishment effort … to find a candidate we can coalesce around who can beat Sarah Palin," said one prominent and longtime Washington Republican. "We believe she could get the nomination, but Barack Obama would crush her."

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; election; gop
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To: mo

I thought we already had a real constitutional third party? What would you change about it?


101 posted on 11/07/2012 3:55:45 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: presently no screen name
She is not damaged. Those are talking points you picked up. See how propaganda works? Garbage in, garbage out. Im not saying my opinion changed of her. Im saying those who we need to vote for her wouldnt because of the garbage in garbage out.
102 posted on 11/07/2012 3:55:58 AM PST by smith288 (Peace at all costs gives you tyranny free of charge)
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To: All

The only thing that is more ridiculous than a viable Palin candidacy is the people that feel she is a viable candidate.
She shares the values of a lot of Americans but was thrust upon the scene way too early and it showed.
She’s done as an elected official (she could win a senate seat but I doubt it) and her days on the national stage should be over.


103 posted on 11/07/2012 3:57:08 AM PST by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: presently no screen name

This is beyond your capacity to understand. The more you type, the more it is revealed.


104 posted on 11/07/2012 3:57:08 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Palin quit, right? She stopped herself.


105 posted on 11/07/2012 3:58:25 AM PST by Puddleglum (The road to the White House goes through Benghazi.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I was worried when I saw the list of those in the race. My position was: enter the race, one and all, everyone anyone thinks has what it takes, get in. Fight it out, hone your skills and messages, compete for it and let’s hopefully end up with a better standard bearer.

Didn’t happen.

Sarah was talked about, but she never got it. It is virtually impossible to vote for someone who doesn’t enter the race.


106 posted on 11/07/2012 4:00:23 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: presently no screen name

Oh yeah, I wanted what happened tonight. Fool.

You are so bent by your thoughts that you can’t see reality. The chit that goes on in your head doesn’t make it any better the rest of us.

Cling silly fool, cling to foolish thoughts. Your words won’t hurt me.

Reality is—IF—Sarah thought she could win, she would have run. She did NOT.


107 posted on 11/07/2012 4:01:10 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
Just curious.... what did Palin do this fall to back the party's candidate for president?

And what did the party do to reach out to her and her TEA party supporters? Oh right, they snubbed her at the convention and told her to keep out of it.

Screw the GOP-E! It got what it deserved, but now we all have to pay for the party's fecklessness and treachery.

108 posted on 11/07/2012 4:01:16 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Irenic
Sarah Palin would not have won.

She'll win in 2016. It's almost inevitable now if following GOP rules - It's her turn.

109 posted on 11/07/2012 4:01:37 AM PST by glorgau
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To: D-fendr
So, you say the “elite” were against Palin. I say, some and so what? If that scares a candidate off, they don’t have what it takes to fight anyway.

Marco Rubio is a good example of this. He was criticized for being an extremist... a Tea Party know-nothing candidate.

Then he ran a good campaign against the wishes of the GOP establishment, then won, and became a great spokesman for conservative values..... one who could go on the Sunday morning shows and mix it up with people who disagreed with him and represent our values in a way that attracts people not repels them.

If Sarah Palin took the same path, I think she could gotten more support from the party.

110 posted on 11/07/2012 4:03:44 AM PST by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: Timber Rattler

Sarah isn’t....... no gravitas, no desire to run, Trig

The focus should be on by passing Obama


111 posted on 11/07/2012 4:03:52 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Irenic

I believe she would have won because she would have defined the issues. Instead we had to carry a candidate who invented Obamacare, who supported gungrabbing and abortion, etc. I fully supported Romney but some of his alignments with Obama’s agenda were just too glaring. We saw the campaign crowds. People were ready for someone new but his moderate principles made him too wishy-washy. Just my opinion.


112 posted on 11/07/2012 4:03:52 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: Timber Rattler

We are on the same side - Politico sucks as does the GOPE. But that doesn’t mean I need to read anything more from them for it to sink in deeper. I got it 3 years ago! Those who don’t know it by now, more than likely are incapable of getting it. That’s my point. The same idiots here who trashed Sarah earlier are still doing it and with the same talking points we heard from the media. Nothing has changed. Unteachable is unteachable. Garbage in, garbage out.


113 posted on 11/07/2012 4:04:37 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: glorgau

I don’t think we have rules that cover this case. Other than whoever wins the primary.

But it’s an interesting though humorous question: According to ‘GOP rules” whose turn is it?

Ryan?

A quick thought: I wish Jim DeMint had run.


114 posted on 11/07/2012 4:04:47 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: glorgau

I’m sorry but GOP rules would be Jeb.


115 posted on 11/07/2012 4:05:15 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: rabidralph

They don’t care about the issues.


116 posted on 11/07/2012 4:06:47 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand

I think you make good points. Sarah has her own agenda and goals that I have no right to criticize; but if I was planning her political success, I’d say stay in office, perhaps go for a senate seat. In addition to writing and staying in the media nationally.


117 posted on 11/07/2012 4:08:18 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: bert
The focus should be on by passing Obama

Well, how are you planning on doing that? GOP-E apparatchniks (like Schmidt in the early link above) are already out and about demanding that the party swing even further left than it is today. Expect lots of compromise from Boehner and company to appease Obama over the next four years, until the party can run Jeb Bush and/or Chris Christie to make itself feel better again.

118 posted on 11/07/2012 4:09:16 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: rabidralph

Fantasy...... she didn’t do any thing. She is a dream of things past, not the future.


119 posted on 11/07/2012 4:10:16 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Irenic

I don’t think Jeb. A successful GOP governor of a large state: Plus. A Bush: big minus.

In GOP rules, the second of the family counts; third doesn’t. We follow the Teddy rule on that one.

:)


120 posted on 11/07/2012 4:10:42 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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