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Kelly surges despite Palin road bump
Politico ^ | 21 August 2010 | JONATHAN ALLEN & KASIE HUNT

Posted on 08/21/2010 10:14:20 AM PDT by CanadianYankee

TUCSON, Ariz. — No one will ever accuse Jesse Kelly of bringing weak tea to the party.

The conservative 29-year-old Marine combat veteran and tea party favorite made waves this week when a video of him criticizing Sarah Palin's endorsements of "people who will sell our principles down the river" surfaced and caused a stir.

The brief moment of national notoriety notwithstanding, Kelly is surging at the end of the 8th District GOP primary campaign here, largely on the strength of an impressive grassroots organization and a cocky, free-wheeling style that contrasts sharply with that of the more measured, more disciplined former state Sen. Jonathan Paton...........

"Believe me, if my goal was to get on the Armed Services Committee, or Ways and Means or any of these other great committees you need to be on, then we'd be in a lot of trouble," he said. "My goal is to have my country back and to have a government that leaves me the hell alone and I don't want anything else. And I'm not there for the next cocktail party, and I'm not there to make a bunch of friends. I'm not there to go along with liberalism. I'm there to fight liberalism. That's what I'm going there to do."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; az201; az2010; congress; jessekelly; kelly; palin; palinendorsement; palinlemmingstampede; primary; sarahpalin
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To: Comparative Advantage

Yep on both counts.


21 posted on 08/21/2010 11:22:17 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I’d like to see hima at 6’8” debating the Mini-Me Ron Paul.


22 posted on 08/21/2010 11:24:50 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: luckybogey

Kelly knows what to do to ingratiate himslef with the country club Republicans!That means he is a smart politician. Palin does the same job by endorsing John McPain.

There isn’t much difference beteen them IMHO, except that Palin is far more experienced and strategically more saavy.

Loose cannons on a heaving deck often break the bulkhead and fall overboard.The last thing conservatives need is their own version of Al Franken.


23 posted on 08/21/2010 11:24:56 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: alicewonders

Check this out on Jesse Kelly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4jC_qVlPk


24 posted on 08/21/2010 11:27:52 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

I like what I see! I hope the good people of Arizona put him in office - and PLEASE kick the Palin-endorsed McCain OUT!!!


25 posted on 08/21/2010 11:31:33 AM PDT by alicewonders (Supporters of John McCain are supporters of amnesty. Amnesty by any other name is still amnesty.)
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To: misterrob

-—”Waiting for the Palin Kook-Aid drinkers to accuse the combat-vet Marine of being a RINO/McRomney supporter.....”-—

Not at all! At last we’ve finally found that perfect Conservative who never does anything other than what’s perfectly Conservative, and never endorses anyone who isn’t a perfect Conservative, and will never have anything less than a 100% perfect record on every issues, from big ones like immigration, Abortion, the WOT, and Second Amendment Rights to secondary issues like political endorsements, Free Trade, pornography, and drugs! Unlike that RINO Palin - did I say “RINO?” I meant “Uber-Liberal” and “enemy of the U.S.A.”

I’m glad Kelly won’t back down in attacking America’s true enemies, like Sarah Palin. Damn her and her Liberal ways!

Plus....Levi Johnston!


26 posted on 08/21/2010 11:32:48 AM PDT by TitansAFC ("Huckabee is as conservative as Farah.......he had the toughest illegal alien program" -- pissant)
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To: I see my hands
Weird,huh? How the so-called “conservative” PDS sufferers are so quick to assume Palin supporters will attack any and all conservatives who have opposed her—and then they don't.

Makes them look kind of silly.

Mrs.Palin is not perfect but I support her and if someone supports someone else who is not a Leftist,I respect that and if your man or woman wins the nomination they will get my vote.

I just wish the PDS rabble would dilute their irrational hate towards the former Gov and stop doing the Lefts’ work.

27 posted on 08/21/2010 11:34:09 AM PDT by Happy Rain
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To: misterrob

Still waiting? Maybe you should grab a Snickers.


28 posted on 08/21/2010 11:36:56 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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To: CanadianYankee

Just friggin WoW!

This guy reflects my sentiments to a ‘tea’.

Hope he is able to articulate these sentiments into a full blown strategy.


29 posted on 08/21/2010 11:36:56 AM PDT by Hostage
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To: Liberty Valance

He is my kind of Marine.


30 posted on 08/21/2010 11:36:59 AM PDT by B4Ranch (America was founded by MARKSMEN, not Marxists.)
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To: TitansAFC
Don't let the PDS victims rile you up friend—they ain't worth it and truly they work work for the DNC whether they know it or not.

The BIG fact Palin is the one conservative who scares the Left to DEATH!

Speaks volumes on BOTH sides don't it?

31 posted on 08/21/2010 11:40:46 AM PDT by Happy Rain
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To: Happy Rain

-—”The BIG fact Palin is the one conservative who scares the Left to DEATH!”-—

Yes, but DAMMIT my one-percenter, (insert little-known, local Congressman’s name), is the ONLY real Conservative choice for 2012!


32 posted on 08/21/2010 11:46:28 AM PDT by TitansAFC ("Huckabee is as conservative as Farah.......he had the toughest illegal alien program" -- pissant)
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To: CanadianYankee
A word of warning....Politico is a lib-dem web-organization, composed of ex-Washington Post reporters. Whether they have any investment in a Kelly-Gabby Gifford match up remains to be seen.

Of course, I am a Paton supporter and voter. However check out politico's reportorial track record for their biases.

33 posted on 08/21/2010 11:51:36 AM PDT by conservativehistorian (.)
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To: CanadianYankee
criticizing Sarah Palin's endorsements of "people who will sell our principles down the river"

Those kinda sellouts don't faze her followers.

34 posted on 08/21/2010 12:02:56 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: TitansAFC
I’m glad Kelly won’t back down in attacking America’s true enemies, like Sarah Palin.

How dare he criticize her endorsements of RINOs!

35 posted on 08/21/2010 12:05:05 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: bigbob

Well put!


36 posted on 08/21/2010 12:06:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("The bad jazz a cat blows wails long after he's cut out." -- Lord Buckley)
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To: Republican Wildcat; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; ...

Thanks Republican Wildcat.


37 posted on 08/21/2010 12:06:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("The bad jazz a cat blows wails long after he's cut out." -- Lord Buckley)
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To: misterrob; Mojave; mkjessup
Waiting for the Palin Kook-Aid drinkers to accuse the combat-vet Marine of being a RINO/McRomney supporter.....

They haven't made that particular accusation yet, but they're here on the thread. :)

38 posted on 08/21/2010 12:11:00 PM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: TitansAFC
War hero conservative Conan Cickyobutt wants to win a local primary so to get noticed,borrows from the McCain playbook called “Almost Success—(My Life and Times as the most gifted loser in American history)” and insults the one person feared and hated the most by the Left and their MSM.

Badda bing badda boom,another candidate loved by both the Left and the PDS Right.

Winning combination to be sure...?

39 posted on 08/21/2010 12:22:53 PM PDT by Happy Rain
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To: conservativehistorian
Of course, I am a Paton supporter and voter.

Of course. Jonathan Paton is backing John McCain.

40 posted on 08/21/2010 12:23:28 PM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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