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 ...
And so did I. So what was your great opinion about Mitt? Did you think he would have lost? You ignored that question and I think it fits in with 'your thinking' about Sarah.
Perry was the last big named candidate to get in the race. Sarah Palin never said she was running for president. How long was he supposed to wait and hold the door for her?
Good grief man, read more carefully. I’m the one arguing that sarah is not weak.
>>>”the One she takes direction from and not the GOP-E”
I’m the one arguing she doesn’t take direction from the GOP-E.
You need to rotate 180° and fire again.
“You are the one who knows about she having an exercise video, I didn’t.”
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Well goodness, didn’t you tell me what a fool I am? I know diddly squat, right?
I don’t dislike Palin. Enamored, no. Yes, she was a fighter and more so the first couple of years but now...not so much.
Palin and family are making what they can, I don’t blame them—I would, too.
Thinking they are some savior of our country is just plain foolish.
If Palin thought she could win, she would have run—GET REAL.
You live in la-la land of your liking.
I think I agree with you on this one;
The Tea Party was about one thing: being taxed for big government spending.
It stuck to that, took on all who felt the same about it - no matter what they thought about other issues.
The focused their power and maximized their forces. Thats how they won.
Do you enjoy showing how clueless you are?
Do you enjoy not answering questions and then tacking on an ad hominem?
You really are nigh impossible to maintain an cogent discussion or argument with.
It won't be just four more years Timber.
The GOPe are not friends of the Constitution, the Democrats learned when Reagan ran, that you could just change parties and put an (R) by your name and by gosh Republicans would vote for you.
I surmised that Palin did not run because she was not led of God to do so. If that is the case then we are indeed living under judgement.
Strange that I have not seen one post tonight on what this means for Israel.
And you know that, how? Did you, also, know that Romney would lose tonight? Tell us all you know.
Her summer promotional tour started when she announced her movie was coming out. It ended weeks after her September speech when the DVDs finally went on sale in WalMart.
Sarah Palin would not have won.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thats enough. Even after the utter defeat of a milk sop pol, Mitt Romney, people still believe that Sarah Palin could not have won?
That is utter bull shit. Sarah Palin would have brought all the issues forward and fought it out. Romney sought to attract independents by being a logical nice guy....THAT DIDN’T WORK. Palins approach was the right one, and it has been doubly proven by McCain and now by Romney, that ALL issues should be on the table and graced with the light of day.
The GOP establishment rejected Sarah Palin and her genuine populist support. NOw the GOP must pay for its undemocratic impositions on a genuine grass roots political movemnet.
In short, the GOP must die.Its done, finished, KAPUT!
No longer will billionaires be allowed to buy democracy, and conservative politicians such as Sarah Palin who have piopulist support are the future of America and the GOP was WRONG in its horrible denial of Sarah Palin. Now the whole nation must pay for it, and millions will die in the middle east , Africa and abroad for that horror committed by the RNC establishment.One can only pray thet Obama’s liberal fascism will not cause death and destruiction here at home, as it will around the world. The surrender monkey era of the USA has now begun in earnest.
Any one who has land in the country or rural areas should hunker down, stock up on ammo and protect their families.They will be needing it.
The TEA party was T.E.A. initially in it’s Santelli-esque beginnings. It quickly became “Save Medicare from Obama Care” for a large majority of TEA party members polled.
You can’t make TEA by keeping things the same. Nobody is willing to give up Medicare and Social Security in exchange for lower taxes, and greater opportunity and freedom, not even conservatives.
Romney echoed the obvious untruth that somehow we could save Medicare and Social Security for everyone and lower taxes at the same time.
The TEA idea is, of course, sound, but most folks really just didn’t want any change to wildly generous Medicare as their core motivation.
We may as well be honest about the Medicare->TEA party contradiction.
Back to the same old sh*t, you trashing a conservative, a Patriot. Get lost. You got what you wanted tonight - saved by Romney!
Many in the GOP did not like Palin. But be honest. Just like Akin and Murdoch, many of her wounds were self inflicted.
It doesn’t say much for anyone in the electorate that can make such a nonsensical issue their reason for voting for a president that is, by the way, crashing the economy.
But.. both Akin and Mourdock showed skills below what is assumed at their level.
It reminds me of a theory: For democrats politics is a high prize, it draws those who have it as their life’s ambition and there is greater competition on skills.
For conservatives, living successfully, building a family and a business or useful trade is the high prize. Politics tends to be more of a regretful duty. It’s more like the citizen soldier days.
We’re at a disadvantage in this view of candidates for office - looking only at skills and not at values.
Term limits would greatly level the field.
The RINOS made this bed.....it’s time for a real Constitutional third party.....
You are gazing at your navel doing Sarah’s exercise video you know so much about. Enjoy your savior for 4 years - he’s got plenty in store for you. You got yourself some learning to do, diddly!
You didn’t answer my question either.
So let me answer yours:
I wasn’t a Romney supporter during the primaries (I eventually voted for Newt long after Romney had the lock on the nomination). I supported Romney in the general as there was no other way to get Obama out of office. I had no idea whether Romney would win or not, apart from a general, and erroneous, belief that the American voters would not be so stupid as to give Obama another term.
I would have given Palin due consideration if she had entered the race. But she didn’t.
Just curious.... what did Palin do this fall to back the party's candidate for president?
And contrast that with Marco Rubio, for example, who worked tirelessly to get Romney/Ryan elected.
This is too far over your head to get. The more you post, the more it shows.
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