Posted on 06/20/2013 6:37:17 PM PDT by Bratch
Sarah Palin, former Alaska Governor, Tea Party inspiration and FOX News contributor leads our CHQ Republican presidential straw poll, as she has for the past several weeks.
No doubt some will attribute Palin’s lead to her active community of online supporters – and there is no doubt that Governor Palin’s online network gives her an advantage in any net-based vote.
But that, in our opinion, is not why the feisty Alaskan continues to lead in our poll.
Plenty of the other potential Republican presidential candidates have active online communities.
What many of the other candidates lack – even some of the candidates with otherwise impeccable conservative credentials – is Palin’s “tell it like it is” authenticity.
And in our opinion, it is that authenticity that keeps Governor Palin in the lead.
Who else is going to say, “We are so screwed” when Obama announced his new national security team?
And then back it up with facts detailing why Obama’s choices of Susan Rice for national security advisor and Samantha Power for U.N. ambassador were dangerous for America.
Who else among the potential Republican presidential nominees is going to go to the Faith and Freedom Conference to take-on the faithless and freedom eroding Republican establishment by saying, "Don't you dare marginalize us (conservatives)?"
Few of the others would choose to.
And who else would call-out the White House press corps for their ridiculously self-absorbed correspondent’s dinner by tweeting, “The rest of America is out there working our asses off while these DC assclowns throw themselves a #nerdprom.”
No one, that’s who.
Palin is popular with the grassroots in some measure because she defies the pseudo-intellectual conventions of inside-the-Beltway political conversation – or what most people outside-the-Beltway call double talk or B.S.
But attributing her lead in the CHQ straw poll or popularity at the grassroots strictly to her sometimes colorful speeches is much too shallow an analysis to explain Palin’s enduring popularity.
Establishment Republican Party leaders and their sometime abettors in the establishment media would like to forget that the Tea Party rebellion of 2009 and 2010 was presaged by the outpouring of grassroots support for Sarah Palin in the 2008 presidential campaign.
The Tea Party rebellion was as much a rebellion against the entrenched GOP leadership as it was a rebellion against Barack Obama and his liberal agenda.
Tea Partiers and grassroots conservatives frustrated by the slow pace of change in the establishment GOP or its tendency to equate change with lurching to the left see in Palin one who articulates our own frustration with big government Republicanism and the abandonment of the Republican Party’s support for traditional marriage and other elements of the traditional values agenda. And we vote for Sarah Palin because she’s one of us.
“She’d have the votes of most of the conservative base, but please.. how many dems and mods would she have won over?”
So how many Dems and Mods did Robama win against Obama?
She decided not to run. Which was completely her Right.
While many of us hoped she would run, she never declared candidacy.
As far as a "potential candidate" goes, anyone who was Constitutionally qualified was a "potential candidate".
Sorry to burst that bubble, but - to no fault of her own - Americans decided she was damaged goods after 2008.Curious.
How can Governor Palin be considered "damaged goods" (I see that phrase used to describe her a LOT) and yet Hillary Clinton, who is directly culpable for the death of a United States ambassador, is being touted as the most qualified candidate for President of our generation?
Folks certainly have a unique way of evaluating their politicians.
Democrat voters also rally round their candidate no matter what. Republican voters fragment into different key issue blocs and thereby ensure none of the candidates, (good, bad, or indifferent) get enough support.
You’ve pretty much made my point.. If Romney couldn’t win them over, what gives you the idea that Palin would’ve had better success?
Because more people in this country are willing to look the other way when democrats fail morally and professionally. Remember what happened when Bubba was impeached after Monicagate? His approval ratings took off like a rock.
Like it or not - and it’s unfair as hell - Repubs don’t get a break from the “media” or the electorate like dems do. And Americans respond to the “media’s” cues.
Because Palin is an effective politician and a leader who wins people over when they see her, that is how she could be such a unifying force as a Governor and during her 20 year political career, give her an 800 million dollar presidential campaign and she wins.
Mitt Romney has always been a loser, people don't like him, don't trust him and he never wins elections, his twenty years and investment of more than 50 million dollars of his own money has produced a single election victory, for an office that he left with 34% approval and rejection for reelection, he followed that up by losing to Huckabee and McCain who had no money or people, and then losing to Jimmy Carter the second.
A decade ago, I would've agreed, but with a taker class exceeding 50%, even Palin's formidable charming skills won't be enough. Like I've said before, she'll fire up the conservative base, but with a D+6 we don't have the numbers anymore.
But I appreciate your optimism...
*a D+6 electorate
Damned auto-correct....
*took off like a rocket.
I believe it was pictures of her family, shown to her.
It isn’t optimism, it is rational analysis by someone who watched the hated “Ronnie Raygun” pull it off when he got the money to pay for a presidential campaign and the TV and media time to counter the media onslaught with his own face and message.
I watched people like Dole and McCain and Romney and HW Bush and Ford who couldn’t campaign their way out of a wet paper bag be promoted as winners even though they were sad sack type losers, unable to make a conversation, much less CHANGE the national conversation, I see Palin as a much better candidate and campaigner than them.
It isn’t optimism, it is rational analysis by someone who watched the hated “Ronnie Raygun” pull it off when he got the money to pay for a presidential campaign and the TV and media time to counter the media onslaught with his own face and message.
I watched people like Dole and McCain and Romney and HW Bush and Ford who couldn’t campaign their way out of a wet paper bag be promoted as winners even though they were sad sack type losers, unable to make a conversation, much less CHANGE the national conversation, I see Palin as a much better candidate and campaigner than them.
Hiya Syncro!
Love the link, too!
Wonderful Breitbart quote.
No, she doesn’t need a voice coach, it’s her vocal cords.
Women naturally have a higher voice because their vocal cords have smaller folds.
What she needs is an operation to stretch them, then she could sound like Lauren Becall or Demi Moore
Or she should get shots of testosterone.
The majority of men appreciate the higher voices of women, those that complain about Palin’s voice usually have other issues with her.
It’s described by a medical term abbreviated as PES.
Agreed, regardless of being a woman, whose pitch is naturally higher, she still needs one.....and I understand did have one for awhile... so she knows the issue.
That slightly masked inference is pretty outrageous with no backup, sounds like dem talking points.
It is much deeper than your unsubstantiated comment, the leftists are quite capable of making threats (and carrying them out) to Conservative’s families (even their children and dogs) to keep their ideas away from the American people.
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