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Stacey Abrams is the Democrats’ Sarah Palin
The Washington Post ^
| May 19, 2020
| Marc A. Thiessen
Posted on 05/20/2020 4:51:57 PM PDT by fwdude
Stacey Abrams is running a less-than-subtle campaign to be Joe Bidens vice-presidential running mate. Republicans should hope she succeeds. If selected, she would displace Sarah Palin as the least-qualified person ever to serve on a major-party ticket.
Biden should understand this, because he saw firsthand how much damage Palins selection did to then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the Republican presidential nominee in 2008. Preelection polls showed that 6 out of 10 Americans said Palin was not qualified for the job, and a Stanford University study found that she cost McCain more than 2 million votes.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Arizona; US: Delaware; US: District of Columbia; US: Georgia
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To: fwdude
Palin was the first Republican rock star. No one else drew in the deplorables, until Trump.
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posted on
05/20/2020 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: All
And Marc Thiessen Is the Washington Post’s Walter Duranty.
To: fwdude
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posted on
05/20/2020 5:58:01 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: fwdude
Stacy Abrams is at least three maybe four Sarah Palins...........in girth, yet for all her bulk she isn’t eaqual to one tenth of the actual Sarah Palin, even with all the baggage Palin accumulated since Mclaim’s peoples charachter assassination.
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posted on
05/20/2020 5:59:41 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: fwdude
The primary attraction of Stacy Abrams to democrats is that she makes Michelle Obama look good in comparison. Can’t wait to see the live Bush over Stacy s toned arms. And those outfits!!!!
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:13:38 PM PDT
by
Bernard
("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
To: fwdude
...he saw firsthand how much damage Palins selection did to then-Sen. John McCain... Yeah, McCain saw how much more popular Palin was than him.
-PJ
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:19:35 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
To: stuckincali
Let’s see, Palin was a successful governor, destroyed by the press and Abrams is a failed gubernatorial candidate propped up by the press... Yeah... Same thing, sure.
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:21:02 PM PDT
by
Bryher1
To: maxwellsmart_agent
Not to mention Stacey’s Topsy hairdo.
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:23:51 PM PDT
by
miserare
( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
To: miserare
Stacy is a pathetic excuse of a candidate for anything. This delusional racist fat slob should return to well-deserved obscurity .
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:31:42 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
To: miserare
You have to admit, Stacey has gravitas. I would say she has her own gravity field.
90
posted on
05/20/2020 6:33:59 PM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: Autonomous User
Stacy Abrams got lost in Atlanta so she pulled over and asked a guy, “How do I get to 285?’ He looked at her and replied, “Diet and exercise”.
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:34:48 PM PDT
by
dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: rellimpank; fwdude
"she was the only reason that I held my nose and voted for the slimy McCain" yep!
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:35:04 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: fwdude
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posted on
05/20/2020 6:36:23 PM PDT
by
McGruff
To: Fungi
Palin's run as a national political figure was mishandled, first by McCain's wrecking crew, especially Nicole Wallace, then by Palin herself. The key missing element was that Palin did not visibly demonstrate policy competence and the application of conservative ideas at the national level. This left her handicapped by a false public image as a preening, clueless lightweight with a family that was a gift to the tabloids.
This was grossly unfair to Palin, who deserved far better. She needed consistent, trustworthy professional coaching and the support of the institutional GOP. Instead, Palin was treated like she was an Eskimo shoved onto an ice floe and abandoned to the mercies of the Arctic seas.
To: fwdude
I have made this analogy before.
No, of course Abrams CAREER and ACHIEVEMENTS are not comparable.
But, as a symbol, she means to THEM what Palin meant to US.
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posted on
05/20/2020 7:01:03 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
To: fwdude
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posted on
05/20/2020 7:09:58 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) 2028!)
To: fwdude
Without Palin, the 2008 election is a 49 state landslide like Reagan-Mondale in 1984.
To: fwdude
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posted on
05/20/2020 7:13:41 PM PDT
by
Nuc 1.1
(Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: Bryher1
It is amazing to see a person who has done nothing force her way in to the run for VP and no one will try to stop her. In fact the usual suspects want her three.
Kind of like forcing a candidate on us who has early onset dementia, enriched his family using his office, stopped his son’s investigation and is a serial groper of girls and women.
To: GAGOP; fwdude
I did not vote for McCain; I voted for Palin.
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posted on
05/20/2020 7:31:36 PM PDT
by
philled
(If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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