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Donna Brazile: Are you ready to hear 'Sarah Palin for President?"
Philly Burbs ^ | June 3, 2011 | Donna Brazile

Posted on 06/05/2011 5:32:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Once again, everybody in the mainstream media has been talking nonstop about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Palin, whose nomination in 2008 helped turn a four-car funeral into a hit parade, deserves credit for re-entering what is sure to be a media bonanza worthy of competing with the summer's biggest blockbusters.

She is — as J.J. Walker from the hit series of my childhood "Good Times" used to say — dy-no-mite!

I'm a Democrat who recently served as interim chair of the Democratic Party. It's safe to say that Palin and I have our differences.

But I never got into the groove of simply dismissing her as a credible and successful politician. I didn't have the heart to join the "let's beat up on Sarah Palin" crowd. For one thing, Palin wasn't nicknamed "Barracuda Sarah" (by her high school basketball teammates) for nothing. She didn't need me to put out a call for civility. She's one tough political diva who knows how to take the heat. In fact, she's given every bit as good as she's taken.

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Palin goes for the hot mess, the controversy, small and large mistakes by President Obama and others she dislikes, and the 'lame stream' press laps it up.

Is this truly enough to revive Palin's sinking approval ratings? Will she get in the way of her own carefully staged and managed comeback into the political fray when the establishment (whoever they are) Republican Party is desperately trying to find the heir to Ronald Reagan's throne?

Here's what you should know and respect about Palin. She's tenacious, self-assured, focused and extremely likely to toss her hat into the ring when the timing is right because, unlike the other Republican presidential candidates,....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; election; msm; palin; sarahpalin
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To: nuconvert
nuconvert said: Not really. I’d feel better about ‘Sarah Palin for Vice President’

So who would head the ticket? Tell us why that person should be President and not Sarah?

61 posted on 06/05/2011 9:29:41 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell

“So who would head the ticket? Tell us why that person should be President and not Sarah?”

Dick Cheney.
No explanation necessary


62 posted on 06/05/2011 9:48:59 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Yorlik803

It used to be a capitol offense.


63 posted on 06/05/2011 11:18:15 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Hating *me* won't make *you* handsome, intelligent, straight, male *or* white.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
She's one tough political diva who knows how to take the heat. In fact, she's given every bit as good as she's taken.

The Freeper "she couldn't take the heat and quit as governor" contingent arrives in 5...4...3...2...

64 posted on 06/05/2011 11:37:23 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sounds like Donna baby is angling for a cabinet appointment...


65 posted on 06/05/2011 11:41:06 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

Sarah was great today on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Chris told the panel afterward that for the first time today, he thinks Sarah Palin could be President. If you missed it, check it out online.


66 posted on 06/06/2011 12:58:35 AM PDT by no dems (If the GOP nominee has no fire in the belly in 2012, we're going down.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

Sarah was great today on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Chris told the panel afterward that for the first time today, he thinks Sarah Palin could be President. If you missed it, check it out online.


67 posted on 06/06/2011 12:58:41 AM PDT by no dems (If the GOP nominee has no fire in the belly in 2012, we're going down.)
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To: yldstrk
Woah! Get a load of the Star of David on Sarah’s necklace, that’ll be good for some New World Oder conspiracy talk!


68 posted on 06/06/2011 1:16:28 AM PDT by cynwoody
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