Posted on 05/29/2011 2:44:24 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Will the White House get its favorite Republican candidate?
Last October, top White House adviser David Plouffe told reporters of the 2012 GOP contest: “These guys are going to be running through hoops to please the far-right folks who are kind of the acolytes of Sarah Palin. Now maybe she’ll be running herself. Something tells me we won’t get that lucky.”
Of course, a Palin candidacy would not guarantee victory for Obama in 2012. In last year’s congressional elections, Democrats constantly spoke of how GOP primary contests were pushing the eventual nominees to the right. But many of those nominees won the general elections and now sit in the U.S. House and Senate. Similarly, it’s not clear that Pawlenty, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney or other candidates would be pushed so far to the right they could not win the election in 2012.
He might be wrong. The former Alaska governor launches a tour of the Northeast this weekend in what could be the first sign of a presidential run.
Palin may not win the Republican nomination even if she enters. But top Democrats believe her candidacy would help them even if she did not win, forcing the other Republicans to take more conservative positions than they would otherwise to compete with Palin among GOP activists.
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The fear is palpable.
Haha, haha.
Stop.
Be careful what you wish for, Dems. I remember y’all being giddy about the prospect of Reagan running against Carter in 1980.
How’d that work out for you? LOL
Washington Post nonsense. The left is in total denial about Obama’s slim chances for re-election and are trying to kid themselves (and anyone on the right foolish enough to pay attention to them) that the charismatic, conservative Sarah Palin wouldn’t be a formidable opponent for the failed Barack Hussein Obama. They are monstrously mistaken.
They fail to understand the number one priority is to ditch the schmuck Obama. He will be gone. The only question is whether we put a true Conservative in or a RINO.
Yep. Yep. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it!
They dismiss and cut her off at the knees, in an attempt to minimize her effect, is not going to work. It is all BS, intended to influence voters from the get go.
Pay no attention to their predictions. It is all bull corn!
For those old enough, remember how Democrats were gleefully giggling about a Reagan nomination? Remember too how Republican Beltway types were saying a Reagan nomination would be the same as Goldwater in ‘64?
The only difference I can see this time is Democrats are saying one thing publicly, but the attitude inside the White House seems to be very fearful of Gov. Palin.
History reflects how these Elites are almost always wrong in their predictions. I have no reason to feel that 2012 would be any different.
Can’t wait for the debates. Hey bozo, what is the Obama Doctrine?
Pray for America
Unfortunately, I've seen nothing from Palin that's not ‘moderate’, and certainly nothing that’d qualify in my mind as being ‘far right.’ The confusing stance on don't ask, don't tell, the lack of an austerity budget, nothing about curtailing the federal worker mob, nor the public money lottery winners who are our elected officials. I'd savor some juicy far right opinions from Palin, or any Republican in the race. Honestly, all I've seen so far has been watered down leftist opinions.
If every McCain isn't screaming in outrage at you, you're probably either a leftist or someone who's giving poll pre-screened opinions, and I couldn't care less if you won or lost, as the end path is the same - higher taxes curtailing economic development, a continued protection of the illegals who are stealing the jobs of our young, and a rubber stamp upon the ‘entitlement’ programs that is devaluing our money.
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Hmmmmm....last October...2010....before the huge Dem upset wasn't it?
That's last year's tune wash compost dudes. I want to know what they're singing today, I mean right now.
S-C-A-R-E-D of Palin is what the Dems are. Looks good on them...
Wouldn't a RINO be a lot better than the Communist Israel hater? At least RINOs will support American values, support capitalism, support Israel...
Both!!!! They know Obama is in deep trouble and....so are they!!!! They have a way out, but they dare not take it. What is it? Broom Obama!!! Let them continue to laugh at Palin, West, Cain, Bachman, Ryan!!! The dummies are only putting the noose around their political necks, themselves.
She helped kick their butt last fall. She is popular.
The greatest challenge in 2012 is for Palin (or whoever is the gop nominee) to overcome the media onslaught and keep obama squarely in the crosshairs. He is the issue. Not Palin, not Cain, not anyone or anything else, despite the fact that the media will do everything they can to sabotage the electoral process and make the GOP candidate the issue.
This is the real battle ahead, not policy or personality. If we can beat the media, we win-- and Big Time at that. We did it in 2010, we can do it in 2012, and who the candidate is will be a secondary consideration as far as beating the 'rats is concerned. That's why we should not hesitate to push for a true conservative.
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