Posted on 07/09/2009 8:13:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“It was either remain in office for another year, or become bankrupt.”
That’s hard to believe. What is her SarahPAC doing?
Perhaps I’ll do that when you can give me a coherent response in 1000 words or less why it was necessary to bring up Romney yet once again in a thread that has absolutely nothing to do w/ Romney. RDS? Hmmm.
I think you are missing his point: this article is not about Mitt Romney but Sarah Palin.
You can’t use PAC money to defend yourself from ethics charges. She would have really been in trouble if she tried that!!
Ethics Reform?
Please tell me she didn’t write or even sign off on the very “ethics” rules and procedures that have been used so effectively against her.
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Bottom line: Obama will attempt to sell that 2½ years as governor is not enough experience to be POTUS. That’s a pretty easy charge to make stick. It would take a tremendous force of personality to counter it. (Which she has the potential for - but why make it harder for yourself?)
These Palin-bashing articles aren’t coming out of thin air. We saw this crap last year. “Cui bono?” (Who benefits?) That would be Governor Romney. Or do you think that somehow Haley Barbour or Tim Pawlenty are paying columnists and bloggers to write these? Bwhahahahaha!
Set up a legal fund.
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In life there are always tradeoffs.
Ask yourself if you knew you had a good chance of being the GOP Presidential nominee in 2012 based on the latest CNN poll and Rasmussen poll that showed you in a dead heat with Romney and Huckabee but you knew your comparable opponents had a distinct advantage on you because quite simply that they were engaged or active in the lower 48 in pursuing a Presidential bid and you were without really campaigning actively were still in a dead heat, and coupled with that under siege by local anklebiters who threatened to bankrupt you, would you say to yourself I’ve got to extricate myself from my difficulties and get my body down to the lower 48 ASAP; yes I’m going to take a hit about resigning but if I don’t resign I’ll take a hit that I cannot recover from which is being behind the 8 ball in getting my organization in place and laying the foundation for a Presidential run.
‘And yet, in another of Rasmussen’s polls, she has a favorability rating of 75% even after the press has savaged her, also, 35% of independents, and even 17% of democrats ‘
Which poll is that?
Do you have a link to it?
I follow the polls frequently and I never seen a poll of 75% approval of Sarah ( after her resignation).
Is it among Republicans.
SarahPAC was not made to pay off legal fees, it was made to help raise money for Conservative candidates who share her views. Only the Alaska Defense Fund is used to help pay for her legal bills
Obama a Senator for a few months till he started running for Pres.
Yup, lot of experience...not
I don’t think Palin is running for 2012. She won’t get past the primary. Romney could say he finished his one term. Huckabee, Barbour, and Pawlenty could say they served at least two full terms.
I have maintained that arguments that try to argue that Sarah Palin is not a real conservative are NOT going to work. There is just too much evidence accumulated that proves that she is.
If I were an advisor to an opponent of Sarah’s I would not recommend my man pursue this line of argument. It just isn’t going to work. You’d have a better chance of labelling Sarah a right-wing extremist wacko. But of course that’s not going to stick either.
‘keep coming and coming and coming further bankrupting the Palins and her staff would be spending just as much time (80% according to her staff) and accomplishing little more than spending more of the State of Alaska’s precious little monetary resources. ‘
As a article says clearly, Sarah could have used the ethics charges and turned it against here enemies and crush the local Democrats and help the Republican party, she has no problems in raising money to fight the ethics charges, she could have really lifted her profile as a fighter rather than just quitting her job.
Her reasons for resigning are not very sound or convincing.
‘Point out to us really important matters like where Palin is wrong on the issues, how about something, anything where she has actually failed at Governing Alaska, how about some type of infidelity that affects her character? ‘
I have no issues in Palin who is fundamentally sound decent person and with good morals. She is erratic and inexperienced and to run against a goliath like Obama you need discipline. Unlike Reagan, Sarah is inexperienced to run for national office.
and FDR served as President the longest, so that makes him a great president in your mind.
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