Rudy is sounding awfully good lately….I think he gets it

We have some great people on our side…no matter what ‘they’ say

I hope more and more people will get behind Sarah Palin and what she stands for. It’s time we realize that the old guard (McCain et al) has led us to nothing but defeat. If the liberals and RINOs weren’t worried about Palin, they wouldn’t be trying to cut her down. I’m sick and tired of the elite media and career politicians picking our candidates for us. They picked Dole. They picked McCain. And wow, that really worked out well for us, didn’t it.

another thing you get is that had McCain not been a WUSS perhaps Americans might have given them a better chance. When you don’t FIGHT you LOSE McCain and staff REFUSED to FIGHT and they LOST! I am still not sold on Sarah for 2012 but I am sold on her as an emerging voice for Conservatives and ALL women!

I think the damage to her reputation has already been done and is not capable of repair, at least not for a long time. I do not think she could win a general election bar some extraordinary circumstances.

She has drawn a line in the sand and stated clearly, and unabashedly that she stands with the conservative wing of the conservative party, and that it is more important for us to be a party with values and principles, than a party that is willing to stand for anything and fall for everything.

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

Considering this former Fredhead can become a Sarahcudda trooper, the question is not how do you solve a problem like Sarah; for the conservative movement, it is how many matches do we need for someone willing to pick up Reagan’s torch?

LOL Hows that fro a Ticket, Sarah/Fred 2012!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

Some know this, but I did not until well after the election. It was repeated so often many believed it was fact. It was Tina Fey who said those words. The media did win that round, but I personally would rather die than concede future elections to the media, such as expressed in phrases like Sarah has been so damaged she could never win. The Republicans have already lost, big time. Their best ideas and best faces in the media have been failures. They lost congress, predictably and deservedly in 2006. They lost again in 2008. Republicans hogging the media spotlight for at least the past 5 years are responsible for these humiliating losses, the rise to power of Soros and Goldman Sachs, the long-brewing sub prime scam which took down the global economy for probably decades to come, the rise of non-existent global warming propaganda, and criminal cap and trade movement. Rush Limbaugh also noted what you did, ie the media will tell us who are best candidate is. The one they attack the most. They loved McCain but of course he turned out to be a Trojan Horse.

“as much as some of us would at times want to pack our balls and go home,”

Hmmm…I’m thinking the wenie-headed, linguini-spined GOP establishment types who are ashamed and afraid that the conservative message will cost them Georgetown cocktail circuit invites engage in that behavior on an on-going basis

….if ya catch my drift.

This sentence needs to be recast:

We know that Sarah can energize crowds, decide an election and provide a boost or boon to a candidate who does not meet the conservative standards that she has help set within the party.

I think you mean something along the lines of:

We know that Sarah can energize crowds, decide an election and provide a boost to conservative candidates or be a bane to a candidate who does not meet the standards that she has help set within the party.

The more options we have, the better.

For the mean time, I am Sarah Palin. Oops. Isn’t that so gay? lolol!

If there was any damage inflicted on Sara Palin it was the moderates in the GOP and McCain campaign. A platform which tries to please all of the people will fail each and every time. Governor Palin now “gets it” and is a strong conservative, a movement which is and will continue to grow. Whether she runs for office in the future is up to her, but if she was “laughable” as the liberals would want everyone to believe, wouldn’t she be ignored and trivialized by now? Wake up Conservatives and stand behind those great citizens, normal and with common sense who reflect our conservatism and will convince more of our citizens in the future that this is not just the right path but the ONLY path.

We now know from Going Rogue that McCain…

For more than two decades now, Oprah Winfrey built her publishing empire and became the nation’s first Black female billionaire.

Sarah Palin is a woman from Alaska who accepted John McCain’s invitation to run the gauntlet as his VP pick, and I really have to ask:

“Why would anyone want to deny her a chance to tell her side of the story all around the country?”

Given people’s obedience to having narratives on all sides, I’d think this is something most of the sophisticates would welcome.

Since I was a small child, Oprah Winfrey has been the reigning queen of talk-show hostesses in practically every media market in this country. Her early shows were laughable by today’s standards — if you watch the reruns, the early Oprah Winfrey shows were thinly-produced talk shows where Oprah basically started from nothing. And yet this country didn’t want to stop her — it made her empire into the largest and most prominent day-time talk show empire in the world. I’m sure Martha Stewart is jealous.

Palin now has a moment or two to promote her book and make a tour and yet, lots of people think that’s inappropriate, somehow. Why?

There is no reason why.

I say to let her do what she believes is right for herself. She’s at her best when she does. As Oprah once said: “It is my truth.” If Palin isn’t that popular a year from now, it will be something people have decided, just as they decided whether or not to tune into Oprah Winfrey’s show in the past 20 years. Palin has quite clearly placed herself into the free market, and if people don’t want to watch a year from now, they won’t.

this blog is making liberal tweeps head’s explode…LOL

well done!

America’s elite and Palin-haters everywhere should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin. No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America’s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as Sarah Palin.

Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day. Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?

Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America. The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.

The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.

However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement. The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012. Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.

More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend—public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.

In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president. Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.

However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin’s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.

These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.

Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska’s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away. However, don’t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.

We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has. Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.

Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.

A. Muser
http://americanmuser.wordpress.com

I talked with an elderly woman yesterday who can be described as a moderate Republican. She admitted to voting for Obama, while also now admitting to the error of her ways.

She went on to say that she can’t stand Palin, and if she is the nominee in ’12, she would vote for Obama.

It’s about principles and I will vote for the candidate who best reflects my conservative principles.

We may as well have one party rule if the best we can do is nominate another McCain.

BTW, put me down as a McCain voter on account of his VP choice in 2008.

She has the people behind her and she like the SMART woman she is recognizes the people who love her
SMART and oh yeah she is a ROCK START

“By midnight Sunday, a line approximately 500 people long stretched sidewalk-to-sidewalk from Barnes and Noble to Panera Bread. Supporters with Snuggies, sleeping bags and thermoses of hot coffee did their best to stay warm in the 38 degree frigid air. Nearly every shivering fan was reading through a copy of Palin’s memoir, which attendees were required to purchase in advance from the store. ”

Loving it!!!! and OBTW the lefties head exploding is so much fun to watch!

and how could our two minds be so alike when it comes to Sarah! My comment is coming late because I just read your diary. Henceforth, I’ll keep a close eye out for your diaries so that my comment will not be so late.