Posted on 11/07/2012 1:32:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.
Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns.
There is rising expectation among GOP elites that Palin will probably run for president in 2012 and could win the Republican nomination, a prospect many of them regard as a disaster in waiting.
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"There is a determined, focused establishment effort … to find a candidate we can coalesce around who can beat Sarah Palin," said one prominent and longtime Washington Republican. "We believe she could get the nomination, but Barack Obama would crush her."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I thought we already had a real constitutional third party? What would you change about it?
The only thing that is more ridiculous than a viable Palin candidacy is the people that feel she is a viable candidate.
She shares the values of a lot of Americans but was thrust upon the scene way too early and it showed.
She’s done as an elected official (she could win a senate seat but I doubt it) and her days on the national stage should be over.
This is beyond your capacity to understand. The more you type, the more it is revealed.
Palin quit, right? She stopped herself.
I was worried when I saw the list of those in the race. My position was: enter the race, one and all, everyone anyone thinks has what it takes, get in. Fight it out, hone your skills and messages, compete for it and let’s hopefully end up with a better standard bearer.
Didn’t happen.
Sarah was talked about, but she never got it. It is virtually impossible to vote for someone who doesn’t enter the race.
Oh yeah, I wanted what happened tonight. Fool.
You are so bent by your thoughts that you can’t see reality. The chit that goes on in your head doesn’t make it any better the rest of us.
Cling silly fool, cling to foolish thoughts. Your words won’t hurt me.
Reality is—IF—Sarah thought she could win, she would have run. She did NOT.
And what did the party do to reach out to her and her TEA party supporters? Oh right, they snubbed her at the convention and told her to keep out of it.
Screw the GOP-E! It got what it deserved, but now we all have to pay for the party's fecklessness and treachery.
She'll win in 2016. It's almost inevitable now if following GOP rules - It's her turn.
Marco Rubio is a good example of this. He was criticized for being an extremist... a Tea Party know-nothing candidate.
Then he ran a good campaign against the wishes of the GOP establishment, then won, and became a great spokesman for conservative values..... one who could go on the Sunday morning shows and mix it up with people who disagreed with him and represent our values in a way that attracts people not repels them.
If Sarah Palin took the same path, I think she could gotten more support from the party.
Sarah isn’t....... no gravitas, no desire to run, Trig
The focus should be on by passing Obama
I believe she would have won because she would have defined the issues. Instead we had to carry a candidate who invented Obamacare, who supported gungrabbing and abortion, etc. I fully supported Romney but some of his alignments with Obama’s agenda were just too glaring. We saw the campaign crowds. People were ready for someone new but his moderate principles made him too wishy-washy. Just my opinion.
We are on the same side - Politico sucks as does the GOPE. But that doesn’t mean I need to read anything more from them for it to sink in deeper. I got it 3 years ago! Those who don’t know it by now, more than likely are incapable of getting it. That’s my point. The same idiots here who trashed Sarah earlier are still doing it and with the same talking points we heard from the media. Nothing has changed. Unteachable is unteachable. Garbage in, garbage out.
I don’t think we have rules that cover this case. Other than whoever wins the primary.
But it’s an interesting though humorous question: According to ‘GOP rules” whose turn is it?
Ryan?
A quick thought: I wish Jim DeMint had run.
I’m sorry but GOP rules would be Jeb.
They don’t care about the issues.
I think you make good points. Sarah has her own agenda and goals that I have no right to criticize; but if I was planning her political success, I’d say stay in office, perhaps go for a senate seat. In addition to writing and staying in the media nationally.
Well, how are you planning on doing that? GOP-E apparatchniks (like Schmidt in the early link above) are already out and about demanding that the party swing even further left than it is today. Expect lots of compromise from Boehner and company to appease Obama over the next four years, until the party can run Jeb Bush and/or Chris Christie to make itself feel better again.
Fantasy...... she didn’t do any thing. She is a dream of things past, not the future.
I don’t think Jeb. A successful GOP governor of a large state: Plus. A Bush: big minus.
In GOP rules, the second of the family counts; third doesn’t. We follow the Teddy rule on that one.
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