She has what it takes to win – two X chromosomes. More on this later.
She gives the best stump speech.
Sarah Palin is feisty on the podium in an engaging, polemical and humorous way. She’s unabashedly conservative. Tea Party Grass Roots Americans across the country love her. This is our base. We need to combat the slander of media hatred with our enthusiastic support and passionate commitment to our best candidate. Will she convince everyone that she is the best candidate? No. She probably will not win the New Hampshire primary, and that is fine with me.
A round victory in Iowa and decent showing in one of the most confused New England states (“live free or die?” really?) will lead to a run to South Carolina where the Palin Express will pick up steam. The primary system is designed to ebb and flow. It’s a horse race and the media will do everything in their power to destroy Sarah in the process. Her campaign will have to be nearly flawless. However any republican nominee will face sabotage and espionage. This is the internal Cold War era of American politics. I believe that Sarah can run a clean campaign that also unrelentingly attacks the liberal axis with the power of truth.
She is willing to trade punches.
In her 3 years of national prominence she has taken more barbs than Ahab’s blue whale. Sarah has survived the onslaught of media character assassins. This is the reason why they continue to marginalize her in push polling. She has no skeletons in her closet. 0. Do you understand the power of a person with integrity? She does not fear taking strong positions because she knows what she believes and she lives a life consistent with her beliefs. This level of character used to be the currency of American politics. It can be again, if we hold up our values and duties and demand that our politicians do the same.
She is able to deflect and rebut attacks.
Palin is excellent in verbal sword play. Her competitive instincts came out in the VP debates. She demolished “Say it ain’t so Joe.” She laid the traps and took advantage of his foot-in-mouth disease. Her strategy with Obama will be different but equally effective. She can use Obama’s tendency to defer to strong women and fear of being viewed as chauvinistic. Her ability to contrast her positions and our principles with Obama’s lies and the liberal gospel is what we desperately need.
What she has learned is that she needs to control the venue. This is a significant lesson for any politician to learn. Most of our congressmen don’t get this… Many former congressmen didn’t get this… McCain never really got this. GWB was better at this, but he avoided contact with the liberal lepers a little too much. Sarah is able to reach into the lives of ordinary American’s through the channels provided. She has learned that taking a (staged) stroll with a so-called reporter is tantamount to walking right into an ambush. And the only reason to do that is if you want to draw them out in order to call in air support.
She is exactly what the media fears – a strong conservative woman.
This is the key point we need to understand: if we want to WIN we need to offer the country both a stark contrast to the liberal agenda and a transformational, charismatic leader who is called to fight this greatest battle in American history.
Palin is the best example of what made America great. She is a wonderful mom and ardent patriot. Sarah has dealt with the demands of raising 5 children in an admirable way. Sure there have been challenges, what parent does not come face to face with their own limitations? Her children are a tribute to her and Todd’s parenting; they are loved unconditionally and respond to her grace and instruction. She works as a mom, sportsman, writer, and statesman. She loves America. This cannot be understated. We have an opportunity to elect the most outspoken supporter of American exceptionalism in a generation. She has no equivocation in political baggage that waters down her support for the country. We can count on her to raise the banner of the United States and restore the discipline of our fiscal integrity and resurrect the spirit of American interests abroad.
Sarah Palin drives a stake in the heart of liberal stereotypes. In this politically correct media driven era, Sarah Palin represents the antithesis of liberalism. She will call out their hypocrisy. Every attack on her is an attack on their bias. She can shield their slings and arrows, and return fire. And when she returns fire it is with a laser guided missile.
Now is your chance.
Conservatives unite.
If you want to revitalize America we need a leader who will point the right direction and get out of our way.
Sarah Palin has a vision consistent with America’s founding. She wants to reincarnate the pioneer spirit. This is what we need.
Now is your chance Republicans. Do the right thing – as Spike Lee would say.
She is young (47) and attractive. Pictures are worth a thousand words and her picture says that she is confident and unashamed to be who she is. Visuals matter. Stop this incessant insistence on old white dudes. I will be an old white dude in a few years and I recognize that we need to take a supporting role right now. We need to attack the walled city of liberalism – identity politics. To do this we need to prove that a real woman is not a ward of the state or a hyperactive feral cat. A real woman is willing to lead, serve and step aside when warranted.
The nature of the tea party movement is from the ground up! Sarah will not make this about her. She sees the bigger picture. I believe that she is willing to cast a vision and find the best people to bring our country back to life.
The state of political discourse in our country has become polarized to the point where if we don’t fully embrace the inherent contradictions in avoiding the media scrutiny and attacking their hegemony on their terms we will lose this generation. If we do not nominate and elect Sarah Palin in 2012 she will fade away. She is electable because she doesn’t fit the mold.
Now is our chance to support Sarah Palin. If we do not nominate her we will have missed what may be the greatest opportunity to turn back the tide of statism in the 21st century.
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Yes, I agree
johnkrug2001 Wednesday, April 6th at 3:24PM EST (link)The foremost reason “..We have an opportunity to elect the most outspoken supporter of American exceptionalism in a generation.”
All will follow from knowing this in our hearts.
Americans are exceptional at ...
ScottRM Wednesday, April 6th at 5:31PM EST (link)buying stuff, accumulating debt, losing our homes, denigrating science, blaming other people that look different, ignoring social problems, putting people in jail, collecting weapons, complaining about liberal media, etc. etc. The list goes on and on. Why is Sarah’s take so important?
Are people avoiding Palin?
ArchTriumph (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 5:06PM EST (link)I get the impression that many Republicans do not want to talk about Palin. Are they afraid that she will not run, and they want to avoid disappointment? We need to speak up at this point and let her know that she has support because the media is telling her that we’re cowards. We prove it when we don’t support her.
Reality’s Sylogism. Unflappable, Unashamed, Unabashed, Unapologetic.
She's not the best candidate we can field. Period. [nt]
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Name a better one
sp4prez Wednesday, April 6th at 6:36PM EST (link)and spare us the BS about nominating a moderate just because their more likely to win.
Better than Palin?
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 6:43PM EST (link)Thats easy:
My left shoe
Jim Demint
Pence
Ryan
Just about any other republican
Acat’s cat
MBeckers recently deceased cat
Did I mention my left shoe?
Glad to hear the whole thing is just a joke to you
sp4prez Wednesday, April 6th at 7:25PM EST (link)I like Demint but he ain’t running. Let me know when your other heros get even a FRACTION of the experience and name recongnition that Sarah Palin has.
The race for President is not. You, however...
acat (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 7:53PM EST (link)I am not going to bother repeating my previous discussion with you.
You have yet to persuade me or, as far as I can tell, even *tried* to persuade anyone that Palin is “The New Won”.
She ran Alaska as a moderate at best. This is not the resume’ I want to see in a POTUS nom.
She is not the best we can field. Period.
Mew
p.s. I don’t have a cat. I do have two pit bulls….
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Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 7:58PM EST (link)Compared with the rest of the field so far?
Aside from Newt, I don’t see anyone better. And he has his definite negatives.
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acat (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:20PM EST (link)The two faces of Sarah Palin.
There’s Candidate Palin, a real american, heroine political warrior, who worked with her husband in his small business, ran for mayor, discovered and broke a corrupt old-boy-network, ran for governor, enjoyed very high approval ratings, and was nominated for VP.
Then, there’s the reality. She governed as a moderate at best. She quit her elected position – twice – to further her own career at the expense of others. She misused her position to get a state trooper fired. She tried to hide e-mails. She was, arguably, driven to quit by ethics complaints filed under a law she championed and signed.
I will take Barbour, Cain, Daniels, or Pawlenty over Palin.
I will take Palin – and hope we get the former, not the latter – over Huckabee, Gingrich, Giuliani, or Paul. Either Paul.
I will not vote for Ron Paul. Period.
Mew
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(oops .. fail in the title. Should be "actions speak louder than words") [nt]
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Fair enough.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:27PM EST (link)Of course your ‘reality’ is nothing of the sort, but we will agree to disagree.
Barbour or Daniels would be solid candidates.
Cain and Pawlenty are non-starters. As is Paul Jr.
Rudy isn’t running and The Huckster is a bad joke.
Count Newt out at your own discretion. He’s been underestimated before.
Ah, but I do not agree ...
acat (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:34PM EST (link).. to disagree.
You claim she’s the best. Go ahead, tell me how she ran Alaska as a conservative. Fiscally. Social conservative credentials are good for winning Iowa and South Carolina, in this election they won’t much matter after that. (note – this benefits Gingrich more than it does Palin)
Speaking of Chairman Newt, I think he’s been marinated in D.C. too long – he’d be a good “elder statesman” candidate, I could see him as a very successful veep to an “outsider-executive” candidate like Pawlenty or maybe even Palin. The problem is, Newt is smart, but not *quite* as smart as he thinks he is… and he also got rolled – repeatedly – by Bubba Clinton.
If we assume the Dems will retain their control over the bureaucracy only, then Newt would make an outstanding veep.
Also, I wouldn’t count Pawlenty out so quickly…. His serious kind of bland may be just what the public wants after the unserious rock star …
Mew
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BTW, thread reco'd
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:42PM EST (link)Just because the haters are so much fun.
Demographics will kill Tim. Bachmann will steal his thunder in in Iowa, Romney will clobber him in Mass., and Barbour in SC. DOA by Florida if he lasts that long.
Don’t disagree about her governing as a moderate, but that isn’t necessarily a negative and she did govern, and well. The rest of your ‘reality’ is just media bull.
A Palin/Gingrich would ticket would actually be interesting.
Except, of course, she isn’t running.
I notice you're not replying to my question, Diogenes.
acat (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 4:49PM EST (link)Let me reiterate.
Show me where I’m wrong about Palin. Did she not get a trooper fired? Did she not try to hide e-mail? Did she not quit an elected position? Twice?
She’s got a lot of talent, but a mountain of negatives to get over, and *nobody* on Team Palin seems to be able to recite a simple narrative to explain them.
Can’t win without that. Period.
Mew
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Palin is the best we've got?
mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 11:37PM EST (link)Get to like the sound of “President Obama”.
I was thinking "President Hillary", but otherwise agree, Becker. [nt]
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Boy this is getting sad
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 10:22PM EST (link)and by the way, Hitler, Stalin, Obama, Ted Turner, Trump, etc all have tremendous name recognition, does not mean they should be leaders. Same applies to Palin. People knowing her does not correlate to being a good leader as was shown in Alaska.
But by all means………bobble on.
PS Unlike you, I have never set a politician as a hero. By doing so would be setting your hero bar quite low.
We have a loser!
Finrod (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 12:00PM EST (link)Thanks to Godwin’s Law, I can state that powertothepeople has hereby lost this argument, thanks to bringing up Hitler in an irrelevant context.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Could You Imagine?
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 12:06PM EST (link)They actually intend to nominate Gaydolf Titler!
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Wait what
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 12:58PM EST (link)You of all people I expect to get Godwin’s Law *correct*, Finrod.
This is beneath you.
RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules
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Yes, I'm being sloppy
Finrod (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 1:18PM EST (link)The original Godwin’s Law was merely that as any discussion continues, the probability of Hitler or the Nazis being mentioned approaches 1. It’s more fun though to use what it has become and simply to declare an argument dead and the person that mentioned Hitler/Nazis the loser.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
More fun for you, but less accurate
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 1:25PM EST (link)Again, that tradeoff seems beneath you.
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You meant to say better than the Huckster, Right?
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 7:51PM EST (link)If so, good list.
Except Ryan. He’s to valuable to waste in the White House.
Even Palin is better than Huck
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 10:28PM EST (link)but that is beside the point. I have no dog in this race yet since there is no dog in the race. I simply have those I do not like, do not want to lead, or can see leading. Palin falls in the middle. Huck and Romney fall in the first.
Ryan will not run, his name was a retort to the Palin is god nonsense. Until I see her walk on water with my own eyes, not ready to accept her deity quite yet.
The problem with guys like the above poster is that they have their head stuck so far up, well you know, that they associate a political dislike for a personal dislike. Funny, most of us on here are more than able to articulate our dislike of politicians when it applies. I dislike Obama, I only dislike Palin as president not as a person.
powertothepeople,
20jan2013 (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 1:49AM EST (link)When presidential nominee Sarah Palin picks Mike Huckabee for Vice, I can’t wait to watch you write a diary entry with exquisite detail of every aspect of your head asplozshun LOL
On a semi-serious note, though, it is far more likely that either Huckabee or Palin becomes our nominee than Romney. So take a deep breath (or plug your nose if you insist) and pull that lever that fires Obama on 20Jan2013!
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/the_parties/republicans/mitt_romney_lies_about_abortion
Do you drink a lot? NT
powertothepeople (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 2:04AM EST (link)I know I would
aesthete (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 2:21AM EST (link)if I saw the future as being between Presidents Huckabee, Palin, and Obama.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
No, but you will LOL nt
20jan2013 (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 3:20AM EST (link)http://archive.redstate.com/stories/the_parties/republicans/mitt_romney_lies_about_abortion
Let me trim this down a little for ya, PttP.
acat (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 4:55PM EST (link)Palin has an emotional link with her supporters. It functions something like a cult of personality. They get some sort of emotional reward from defending her.
Mew
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Truer words could not be spoken Acat! NT
powertothepeople (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 5:35PM EST (link)Answers
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 6:18PM EST (link)You are right, we do not want to talk about her. Simply expressing any concerns or even things we like about her spur the Palin bobble heads into a frenzy. (Watch this response for proof)
As far as her running, just as many if not more will be disappointed should she run. In our opinions, her running will be a Ron Paul circus and will take away precious attention from someone that we need to win so that in the general we can not only beat Obama but have a competent person in the office.
She knows she has support, we all know she has support. We do not need to keep talking about her one way or the other till she is in. Then both side can lay into each other until she wins or loses.
Sorry, must have missed the segment where MSN said we were cowards because we do not bow at the Palin throne. Even if that segment aired, still irrelevant. We do not need to switch to her side to prove anything nor do we need to reject her because MSN says we should. Most if not all on here could care less what MSN says. so we will just keep whatever opinion we have of her regardless of MSN.
Good job with the name-calling
sp4prez Wednesday, April 6th at 6:47PM EST (link)And good job reading the future too. Answer me this,what election isn’t a circus? Why do we care what a circus it is as long as we defend and support the best candidate?
Lets play your game
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 6:51PM EST (link)and take your advice. We will support the best candidate and that will not be Palin.
Amy further comments or questions?
And if bobble head offends you that much, got to refer back to the old saying “if the shoe fits………….”
On the other hand if she does run...
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 7:28PM EST (link)Odds are at least even she will be the next nominee. And if so, definitely the next POTUS.
Current polling suggests she's got a *lot* of negatives to get past...
acat (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 7:55PM EST (link)and that she’s not done a very good job of overcoming them so far.
She could glom enough votes to be kingmaker at the convention, or .. if she’s really smart.. she won’t run at all and will use her megaphone to help the eventual nominee… and then accept a cabinet post.
Mew
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That would be my prediction.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:01PM EST (link)See below.
And not because she can’t win, but because she will put family first and will be more effective in that role.
What odds
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:07PM EST (link)Diogenes? Where do you look or what do you use to back up that assertion? First, any poll right now is useless, but even going on what is out now, she is not winning. She had, and I repeat Had, to win the hearts of the middle and the independents in order to stand a chance at winning, which she has not even come close to doing up till now. She is not doing well in any head to head poll with Obama, so I am at a lost understanding where any candidate or their supporters, much less Palin, would try to claim their candidate can win the general much less beat Obama.
Obama is highly beatable.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:16PM EST (link)He won’t have the combination of anonymity and media cover he did last time. Palin would crush him in the debates. And she would have the experience of 2008 under her belt plus we would have more than a single month (like last time out) to blast the lies and distortions of the left about her.
That being said, she’s not running. Family first.
Ah, but what if the Dems pull a switch?
acat (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:25PM EST (link)Remember, it was supposed to be McCain vs. Hillary…
What if Obama decides to retire? What if he loses the Dem primary?
We need to pick a candidate not based on “defeating Obama”, but on “best we can find”. Palin is a very good spear thrower, she is tremendously gifted at finding the viral phrase in a policy difference and converting it into red meat. “Death Panels”, “Drill, baby, drill” … etc. It’s uncanny.
It’s a qualification for head of the GOP, not head of the country.
Mew
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The only way The Planet Healer isn't the nominee
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:31PM EST (link)…is if he gets a better offer (in his eyes).
I’m sure if the U.N. Secretary General position opens up he’ll take the ‘promotion’.
The Dem schism has yet to really come to the fore...
acat (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:41PM EST (link)In this case, I mean the legislative vs. executive split.
More Dem senators are up in 2012 than in 2010. More of them are in purple or downright red states. They all want the presidential candidate to have coattails, to help them stay in office.
They also know that Obama’s polling indicates he will actually suppress turnout.
They’ll be pushing – hard – for someone else… if anyone’s got the stones to run.
Speaking of stones, Blagojevich said something significant during his trial… he tried to pull Obama’s record into it. Thing is, one of the rules of Chicago politics is that you don’t get to play if nobody’s got the goods on you. It’s sort of a mutually-assured-destruction thing, so .. there’s dirt on Obama somewhere.
Put the two together … and Obama may quietly lose the nomination… or may just not run.
Mew
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Check the phone logs...
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:45PM EST (link)Between Illinois and Kali right before Jack Ryan’s divorce records were unsealed.
At least it’s more interesting than all the Kenya idiocy.
He's Actually Looking For a Different Position
donnybrooke Wednesday, April 6th at 8:46PM EST (link)http://www.theendive.com/html/article591.html
Look for “Operation Rule of the Universe” any day now. -_^
“Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here — not yet.”
– Chet Huntley -
I guess the only one who knows for sure
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:55PM EST (link)would be Nicky Sarkozy.
Well I guess its a good thing your not in charge
sp4prez Wednesday, April 6th at 7:41PM EST (link)And no I’m not “offended”. Like Sarah,I have a thick skin.
Comparing
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:03PM EST (link)yourself to Palin and referencing her so called thick skin does little to help your cause. Her skin is about as thick as the thin layer on top of curdled milk. But then again, that may be what you were trying to imply since it is you who decided to cry about my so called name calling over the word bobble head.
And not in charge……….what does that have to do with anything? Sort of sounds like you are repeating the comment you heard many times from a sibling, “you are not in charge of me.”
Just out of curiosity, are you here solely to disparage Palin?
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:09PM EST (link)Or is there an actual candidate you support at this time?
Rick Santorum
edwyrd (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:31PM EST (link)is currently my choice. He is a socon/ ficon with an A-class resume. He gave a speech at our county republican convention. His priorioties are repealing obamacare and reducing the size and scope of government. With the right backing and fundraising, he could beat obama.
on sarah, i like acats’ view, gather votes and plat kingmaker at the convention.
“but men are different, they propound mathmatical theorms in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds, discuss the last new poem while advancing to the walls of quebec and comb their hair at thermopylae. it is our nature!
—C.S Lewis, weight of glory
Rick's not running.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:33PM EST (link)And if he does, he’ll be toast by Florida. At best.
his current #'s are BAD
edwyrd (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 10:03PM EST (link)He is a romney without the romneycare.
and yes, he is running. he will be in the republican primary debate here in SC.
I am anxious to see him debate some solid frontrunners. My guess is that he will be a pleasant suprize as a solid conservative candidate.
“but men are different, they propound mathmatical theorms in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds, discuss the last new poem while advancing to the walls of quebec and comb their hair at thermopylae. it is our nature!
—C.S Lewis, weight of glory
Santorum couldn't even win re-election in PA
20jan2013 (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 3:32AM EST (link)So no thank you. I’ll take someone who has demonstrated they can win re-election in a statewide office. Of all the candidates being talked about, the only ones I can think of off hand are Huckabee, Barbour, and Pawlenty. Romney didn’t even run for another term. Palin tops all: she couldn’t even finish the job she started!
So it’s going to be one of those guys: Huckabee, Barbour, or Pawlenty. In the Republican “smoke-filled rooms,” it’s Pawlenty’s turn. He took one for the team in 2002 when he stepped aside from the race he really wanted, U.S. Senate, so that Coleman could run unopposed in the primary. He is owed one.
Populists want Huckabee. Barbour is Mr. Establishment.
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/the_parties/republicans/mitt_romney_lies_about_abortion
the second time he tried, I should clarify...
20jan2013 (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 3:36AM EST (link)…and besides, in 1996 he endorsed Arlen Specter for president, so that should tell you something about his judgment.
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/the_parties/republicans/mitt_romney_lies_about_abortion
Populists want Huckabee
Diogenes314 (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 3:38AM EST (link)They liked Huey Long as well.
I’ll pass. Then again, so will the rest of the GOP this time.
Yeah Right: Rick "Throw-Joe-Miller-Under-the-Bus" Santorum...
audax (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 9:44AM EST (link)…or The Rick Santorum that went on and on about Christians not able to visit Bethleham because it was in the GAZA STRIP and the Gaza Strip was controlled by Hamas and wouldn’t let the Christians in, at least he got that part right but Bethleham isn’t in the Gaza Strip….THAT Rick Santorum. Diogenes314 is right, he’ll be toast …but long before Florida.
Audeamus pro audere est facere
He threw Pat Toomey under the bus first (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 10:47AM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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That's right! Thanks for the reminder! nt
audax (Diary) Saturday, April 9th at 1:37AM EST (link)Audeamus pro audere est facere
Nope and no.
powertothepeople (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 10:09PM EST (link)Is that simple enough for you?
Cool.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 10:12PM EST (link)I’ll take that to mean yes and no comment.
Santorums' defeat was in 2006
edwyrd (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 5:59AM EST (link)That was another political era.
This is a new day for staunch conservatives such as Santorum. Hopefully he will get some more backing once the debates begin. we will see.
“but men are different, they propound mathmatical theorms in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds, discuss the last new poem while advancing to the walls of quebec and comb their hair at thermopylae. it is our nature!
—C.S Lewis, weight of glory
People are avoiding the 300-comment Palin threads
Finrod (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 1:59PM EST (link)Many people here, myself included, have already participated in our share of longggggggggggggg Palin threads here. There are some folks here that simply will not support Palin unless/until she becomes the nominee (and I fear a few that won’t even then). But that’s the way it is with all the potential nominees– I can’t think of a one that doesn’t come in for serious slagging here now and then.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Odds are that she won't run.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 6:37PM EST (link)And that whoever she endorses is the next nominee.
Next SecEnergy?
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 6:37PM EST (link)I can dig it.
I'm hoping for either SecDef or DHS.
acat (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:08PM EST (link)The Governor of Alaska has an unusually high (for a Governor) amount of contact with the Armed Services, and with a son in the service and an outsider point of view, she’d be a very good Secretary of Defense.
Homeland Security would be another good role – again largely because of her outsider status. She’s not going to make the mistakes that we keep seeing from Big Sister, and since she’s an outsider, she won’t be beholden to the same old D.C. interests who keep spending our money.
Not to mention she *might* understand how to enforce an international border.
Mew
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Caveat Suffragator
Both good choices.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:11PM EST (link)I just see a plethora of good candidates for both positions and nobody better than her to take point at Energy, which is going to be vital.
I like her as SecEnergy
YnotNOW (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 7:20PM EST (link)That is, unless we can eliminate the department entirely…. : )
YnotNOW
If not me, who? If not now, when?
Thank you, sir! You have thoroughly convinced me...
aesthete (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 8:33PM EST (link)…that Mrs Palin has a Hypnotoad at her disposal, to create so many passionate supporters long on emotion and short on facts. (Obligatory Hypnotoad video below.)
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
5 5 5 5. That explains so much! [nt]
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You really nailed that one aesthete... nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, April 6th at 11:42PM EST (link)The strongest ticket we could field would be Christie/Rubio
nvrepub (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 1:26PM EST (link)nt
I would jump in on this thread but all the seats are already
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 5:05PM EST (link)taken by the old farts.
Why don’t you all write blogs about “Why I love/hate Palin”. Then, when these threads come up, you all could just post your respective link. That way these threads would only be about 2 inches long.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
LOL
runner12 (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 6:09PM EST (link)I am not a big Palin supporter for President, but the people who express such visceral hate for the woman here are just as bad as the cult of personality folks they love to criticize. They are simply two sides of the same coin.
I would like both sides to write diaries pro/con on her based on fact with citations vs the repetitive “I hate her”, “I love her ” rehash every two weeks.
Yes, we will!
student14 Friday, April 8th at 3:23AM EST (link)As a female, I would love to see her nominated. You go Palin.
Palin/West 2012.
Begging the questions and for a beating
ArchTriumph (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 9:42AM EST (link)“Show me where I’m wrong about Palin. ”
You are wrong when you assume that your question begging are punches that land. You questions assume the answer – did she not… X – and assume that an affirmative response admits guilt. It does not. This is the best the media could dig up to assault her and when you step back to get some perspective you realize that any good leader would can make similar decisions. In many cases these are legal traps. You are wrong to assume that these actions you cite are negatives. You are wrong to assume she has something to hide.
“Did she not get a trooper fired?” Damn right. I would too. If I’m the boss I get to decide who to hire and fire. For my own reasons. The trooper was a creep. She had her reasons and the fact that she has to jump through hoops to fire him is the problem. It is procedural legal crap – enough already!!!!!!!! There is no legitimate reason to criticize this action. Think about how the house wants to follow all of these bogus rules instead of doing the right thing.
When she’s president I want her to take a buzz saw to the bureaucratic leviathan. I want to see old ladies canned prior to getting their government pension crying in the streets “she just didn’t like me because I am democrat…” Your Point!!!
Did she not try to hide e-mail?
Again, so what?? We live in a gothca age where anything can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion and your local bench. Privacy still has a place in our society even for elected officials. Was it wrong to hide emails. Yeah. And if the shoe (left) was on the other foot I’d want to hang a Dem out to dry for it. But the media and liberal machine churns through our men and women like a juggernaut. They want to pin us down.
I’m willing to let this one go. It is not significant enough.
Did she not quit an elected position? Twice?
Of course. She is avoiding the type of crap you point out. Have you noticed that since she’s stepped down she’s not in court every day defending herself? Why is that?? Don’t you get it? They want to take her out and you are aiding and abetting known liberals when you jump on this bandwagon.
I feel the need to define legitimate beef with a candidate: departure from principal for positioning to win approval rather than strategic compromise OR moral failure that does compromise the mission.
Get it??!!
Reality’s Sylogism. Unflappable, Unashamed, Unabashed, Unapologetic.
Palin will be the Optimist in the Race, if she runs....
audax (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 9:55AM EST (link)…it will be “Morning in America” time again! Can’t wait to see the ads….you have to be an optimist as well ArchTriumph to post anything positive about Palin here at Red State….all the “haters” and “name-callers” will be out in force to slur your character and anyone else who has the cojones to voice support of Palin. As a former advance man for Reagan in the ’75-’76 and ’80 campaigns I see a lot of similarities between the two (optimistic, constirutionalist, etc) and some differences,a major one is Palin is younger and needs some seasoning.
Audeamus pro audere est facere
oops "Constitutionalist".... nt
audax (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 9:57AM EST (link)Audeamus pro audere est facere
oops "Constitutionalist"... nt
audax (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 9:56AM EST (link)Audeamus pro audere est facere
Thanks for the support - ALL of it
ArchTriumph (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 10:12AM EST (link)Audax – you are right, you’ve been right. We need some optimism. Real freaking optimism. Not hopey changey crap BUT to God’s honest truth we can do it – get off the mat kinda optimism.. And anyone who criticizes my optimism as starry eye’d fawning adoring drone followership doesn’t know me or Sarah. Read her, listen to her! She is the furtherest thing from a dictator! She is the antidote to the disease of Obamism .
If she could serve in a national role – a cabinate position or something I’d like to get her seasoned up a bit – but right now we need to regain the executive branch. She’d Forty Freaking Seven!! – she’s got tons of experience, just not decades of “public service” – you know what I mean Audax – she’s no spring chicken – the roles shes served give her all the experience she needs…
Buckley – the first 100 names in the Boston phone book
ArchTriumph – the first name on the haters tongues.
Reality’s Sylogism. Unflappable, Unashamed, Unabashed, Unapologetic.
See they are out in force....
audax (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 10:49AM EST (link)….2 of them responding above I don’t read anymore (power2thepeople and mbecker) they are just to full of themselves and nothing worthwhile to offer, only put-downs and name calling.
I have never had face time with Palin, but see the characteristics of many hours spent with Ronaldus Maxnus. He was always the “Happy Conservative Warrior”, always had great and timely political jokes and stories and loved people and always a kind word for everyone. He would spend the rest of the day signing autographs, if you’d let him. It was my job to get him on to the next event. Would have him sign the back of his calling card while we travelled and then have an event person hand these out so we could make our exit. Between the campaigns, I did several advances for him in Indiana and Texas. Remember him coming in for breakfast (at the Petroleum Club in Fort Worth) carrying his own bags (this at a time Carter would carry an empty suit bag to his helicopter on the White House lawn just for show) and he wouldn’t let you help him. I would crawl over broken glass for that man and have the same feeling for Palin…LOL
Audeamus pro audere est facere
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charliebravoNH (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 11:52PM EST (link)“live free or die” and having it on my veterans license plate. There is nothing confusing about NH and there is nothing confusing or mysterious about winning here. Retail politics is how you win in NH and it takes a lot of time and a lot of work. That is why McCain skipped Iowa in 2008 and gambled on NH.
I like Sarah Palin and I enjoyed reading her book Going Rogue. She mentions all the retail politics she did in AK to win the Governors race, which would certainly help her in NH. What I don’t understand and find confusing is why she has not been here since 2008. She has certainly been to NY enough times and that is a four hour drive, half hour by plane from NH. Our County Committee tried getting her to come speak at our annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner. Palin’s people demanded a hefty speaking fee. Since this was a fundraiser, that was defiantly out of the question. If she was our speaker, only the fire codes would have limited the amount of people who wanted to attend.
Those people who are running for President have already been here and are hiring people and recruiting volunteers. You can’t win in NH or Iowa for that matter with TV ads and photo ops. Sadly I don’t think Sarah Palin is running.
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ArchTriumph (Diary) Saturday, April 9th at 9:19AM EST (link)Charlie, I appreciate your reply and willingness to actually read Palin and support her. You may be right. She probably will not run, unless their is enough noise out here. And she could make a retail campaign run between now and the primary.
When we look at the slate of candidates we have and realize that we might as well mail it in during the general until we admit that we need Sarah. We need a galvanizing figure who will go toe to toe with the Liberal Triad (media-academia-government).
My comments on NH were more about the patriot spirit that seems to be sandwiched between Boston and Bangor. NH voters talk like independents but vote like northeastern libs to often. I’m not sure a God-fearing gun toting mama bear is palatable to them , even though Palin would rock the rest of the country.
Reality’s Sylogism. Unflappable, Unashamed, Unabashed, Unapologetic.