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Has Sarah Palin saved the GOP?
The Washington Post ^ | September 17, 2010 | Paul Goldman, former chairman of Virginia's Democratic Party

Posted on 09/16/2010 10:22:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Interesting take.
1 posted on 09/16/2010 10:22:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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It is an interesting thought. Something did happen the day McCain picked her. It's hard to explain what. But up until that point there was very little enthusiasm about the election from Conservatives. By the time she gave her convention speech she was larger than life. Remember her TV audience that night was larger than McCain's or Obama’s big nights. I don't think that has ever happened where the VP candidate drew more attention.
2 posted on 09/16/2010 10:28:21 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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Yes she has.

I remember when it was Palin alone out there taking it to Obama, those months after the 2008 election were dismal, but Palin was already rebuilding instantly after the Obama win, she was a big player in the first big race within a month of the 2008 election.


3 posted on 09/16/2010 10:28:21 PM PDT by ansel12 ([fear of Islam.] Once you are paralyzed by fear of Mohammedanism...you have lost the battle.)
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To: ansel12

I agree.


4 posted on 09/16/2010 10:29:46 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m always skeptical of advice or praise from the other side, but this seems honest.


5 posted on 09/16/2010 10:30:39 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe. Yes.


6 posted on 09/16/2010 10:31:22 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: ansel12
in a word....YES!!!!....she is a fearless yet charismatic leader.....and I don't even want her to run for president....

she has electrifyed the country.....and most importantly, she has enticed so many great candidates to run for office....

I don't know how history will treat her, but I think she'll go down with Reagan as a great, great American.....

7 posted on 09/16/2010 10:32:28 PM PDT by cherry
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No it’s not.

The Tea party is not the Republican party. And it’s made up 40% of Democrats and Independents.

This is a subtle hit article, I notice you post a lot of...


8 posted on 09/16/2010 10:33:22 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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((((PING))))


9 posted on 09/16/2010 10:33:48 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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This writer says Palin is not a “True Reformer”

Buy does not cite any examples. I wonder who he thinks was a True Reformer Was/Is.


10 posted on 09/16/2010 10:34:22 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Freddd

How about reading the entire article before you judge my posting history, not that I give a fig what a newbie thinks of that.


11 posted on 09/16/2010 10:34:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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Interesting take.

Yeah, Democrats elevating Sarah Palin.

Take the hint.

12 posted on 09/16/2010 10:36:25 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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"I don't think that has ever happened where the VP candidate drew more attention."

September '08 ~ New York City
NYT photo

13 posted on 09/16/2010 10:37:13 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Did you read the whole thing or guess at what it said from the headline?


14 posted on 09/16/2010 10:38:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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“Interesting take.”

Yeah, it is. You come up with good reads. Thanks.


15 posted on 09/16/2010 10:38:21 PM PDT by jessduntno (The Victory Mosque will be built over our dead bodies over our dead bodies ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; NavyCanDo
Something did happen the day McCain picked her.


16 posted on 09/16/2010 10:40:24 PM PDT by Slyfox
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I think if November produces the results we hope for, Palin will get a lot of credit, maybe not from the MSM or the Republican establishment, but the troops on the ground knows the real score.


17 posted on 09/16/2010 10:41:10 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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The writer is a political strategist and a former chairman of Virginia's Democratic Party.

Huh? WaPo? Giving credit to Palin for something nobody else is? Wow.

Courageous. He'll be flogged by the lefties.

18 posted on 09/16/2010 10:42:41 PM PDT by militanttoby
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Very interesting..
Palin gets credit from small voiced me..
She deserves our gratitude..
I was so terribly down after McCain won our nomination..Palin helped me get to the polls to vote a protest against Obama mania.
I was so disturbed by the leftward drift of our nation with Zero and the dims in charge that I stopped watching the news..but the gatherings of patriots across this nation and Palin’s support and encouragement gave me hope.

She delivered oxygen when we were suffocating.


19 posted on 09/16/2010 10:42:41 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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Yeah. Teddy Roosevelt was a liberal weenie though, totally unlike Sarah Palin. She has had the sense to know that a "bullmoose" movement would be a catastrophe.
20 posted on 09/16/2010 10:44:40 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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