Posted on 05/07/2010 12:08:46 PM PDT by FTJM
Many Sarah Palin devotees seem shocked that Sarah Palin endorsed Carly Fiorina for Senator. They believed Sarah Palin to be representative of the Tea Party–who all endorse Chuck DeVore.
Sarah Palin is first, a Republican.
Sarah Palin has shown loyalty to John McCain and Carly Fiorina is a friend to John. Perhaps she feels it’s only right.
Sarah Palin speaks at Tea Party events and likes certain principles, but by her own admission she does not represent the Tea Party. In fact, she arrived late to the Tea Party–it had been growing and thriving for months before her first speech at an event. She then signed on with Tea Party Express, whom many Tea Party activists view as a Republican organization (as opposed to a grassroots organization) to speak at the anchoring events.
Was it a good political move to endorse Carly Fiorina? Not for Sarah…and maybe not for Carly. This is California, after all, and Chuck DeVore has the Tea Party and serious conservative vote wrapped up. Some have speculated that this endorsement was a desperate move to shore up a failing campaign. Although, it looks like many big donors are going to move in to help Carly because they believe she has the best chance against Barbara Boxer.
Once more, I believe the establishment is wrong. First, they’re misjudging the grassroots sentiment. A Sarah Palin endorsement won’t win Carly Fiorina votes. It just won’t. And it’s condescending and tone-deaf to believe it will. Second, Carly Fiorina is not the best candidate–in the primary or the general.
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Thanks, but no thanks.
Can you please tell us how that was done? I mean, “plowed back into the cause”? Where did it go?
exactly
rick perry
If I agreed with you that DeVore had no chance of winning, I might support Fiorina this early. I absolutely don’t agree. All three GOP contenders are in a statistical dead heat in head to head polling results vs. Boxer. (Indeed, DeVore is one percentage point ahead of Fiorina in those polls, although it’s within the margin of error.)
Well, I should have put in there... This ping list not for the “Nattering Nabobs of Negativity!” ... sorry ... LOL ...
She’s never said she was anything else, to my knowledge. The Tea Party is a very loose, informal movement and not a political party; while it may help coalesce support around certain candidates, it is never going to be on the ballot, and even if it were, a third party is the last thing we need because it would simply guarantee that the Dems would remain in power.
Furthermore, people who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement have different priorities. While they may all agree that certain problems exist, they can have different opinions on how to solve the problems. Some people are focused on taxes and spending, some people are focused on opposing the “health care” bill because of pro-life issues, some people are focused on Barry’s miserable approach to national security, etc.
Some of them are going to be fully in agreement with Palin, some may agree with her partially, and so forth; but the fact remains that unless we can support a candidate from one of the two major parties (and it’s unlikely that it would be a Dem), all the Tea Party events in the world are not going to bring about any change, and we’ll be looking at probably the end of the US as it sinks into Third World socialism.
So, the one or two anti-Palin types that respond all seem to say “well, it's too early...” Yet it's not too early to diss Palin. So, why don't the anti-Palin folks just come out and say who they are rooting for at the present time, or are they just nay-saying to be nay-saying?
Will the “perfect world” conservatives in the Tea Party pry defeat from the jaws of victory? We shall see! I hope logic prevails instead.
“Do we want to see Boxer go down, or no??:
same sh7t, new day.
Boxer’s not the problem. The problem is those, like the GOP, who refuse to promote and support CONSERVATIVE candidates, which ultimately splits the party.
‘Settle’ with Sarah? LOL! Who do you think you’re impressing or persuading?
Who says that someone has to choose someone else currently in the limelight to be for just because they find faults in Palin that they don’t like? It’s a long time before folks even announce they are seeking the presidency, perhaps a wait and see approach is more desirable at this point.
Palin’s record as governor. her budget cuts, her governing from the state Constitution, her destruction of the corrupt pols in AK make her more a part of the TEA party than any of these RINO’s (Mitt supporters) will ever be.
I find it amazing that the Palin haters use every thing Palin does or doesn't do to say she isn't a TEA partyer. It's as if they want the leader to be someone else (Mitt, Ron Paul hint hint) instead. they want the anger and emotion of the Tea party to stay unfocused, unled, directionless. they want to have their guy/GOP party to be able to swoop in at any time and rattle the cage of the TEA party. To raise cash, get volunteers and votes yet not have to dirty their hands and tar their imagine as being a part of the TEA party.
Palin has spoken at the TEA party events, she has broad-casted the TEA party ideas across the land. She understands that if the TEA party remains leaderless then the GOP establishment (Mitt) will feed off it. that nutcases like Ron Paul will try to ride its crest.
there is a reason that the attack most made by the Palin haters is she isn't part of the TEA party. the mittbots and Paulnuts want that position for their guy not for Palin.
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Yeah, that's going to convince folks to not go third party later on.
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