Thursday, July 09, 2009
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Palin Debate Goes On
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Posted by:
Jillian Bandes at
11:54 AM
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The lovely Katherine Mangu-Ward, associate editor at Reason magazine, and Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee and creator of Instapundit, discuss Palin's departure in the Los Angeles Times. There's not much there I agree with, but it's still definitely worth a read.
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Yes she is. You are right!! She is toast for good!
Good riddance to bad rubbish!!!
Out with the old in.............. hey!!!
Tell me raffy?
Why the hell do you keep posting about her?? |
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Palin was castigated last fall about her "wardrobe", how expensive it appeared, etc., etc.
The media and Liberals loved critiqueing her new "threads".
They made asanine comments about the symbolism of it all.
Now------reports are out that Michelle Obama was sportin' a new handbag in Russia a few days ago. The Italian designer identified it as their own, VBH "manila bag".
The cost? $6,000.00.
Except now the white house is saying its NOT the 6 grand version but the $900.00 one.
Yeah----right.
As if the manufacturer of the bag does not know their own product.
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/07/09/200 9-07-09_michelle_obama_flashes_expensive_taste_carries_5950 _black_bag_alligator_russia_.html
SIX THOUSAND DOLLAR HANDBAG for Michelle----but no media comments. Not a peep from the Liberal-losers who made such a big deal of Palin's "accessories".
Oh yeah---Michelle was seen a couple of weeks ago wearing some French sneakers. Only $500.00 a pair for those puppies. Still no comment from the press, from the loser-Liberals.
AND-----the symbolism of it all.
I mean, the country is at 9.5% unemployment.
People are having their homes foreclosed in huge numbers.
People are starving.
People can't pay their electric bills.
People can't pay to fill their cars with gasoline.
BUT----Michelle Obama can go around, showing off her 6,000.00 handbag.
And she can protect those huge, massive feet with $500.00 sneakers.
Man----it's good to be the king---and queen.
Shhhhhhh....listen......that silence is the sound of the Liberal media reporting on her wardrobe.
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Excerpts from:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090709/NEWS09/90 7090361/1056
(Noted by Conservatives4Palin.com)
"Iowa Republican Party officials Wednesday said they are aggressively courting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to headline the state GOP's premier annual fundraising event.
[...]
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley plugged the idea of inviting Palin to help raise money. He recalled Palin's reception in Iowa during the presidential campaign.
Palin was greeted by a big, enthusiastic crowd during her first trip to Iowa with Republican presidential nominee John McCain in September. She drew even larger crowds for solo stops in Sioux City, Des Moines and Dubuque.
"I think she has quite a following in Iowa, and maybe I'm impressed because, at the three events I spent with her in Iowa during the last campaign, she had bigger turnouts than McCain had," Grassley told reporters.
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Jeff Boeyink, executive director of the Republican Party of Iowa, said the demand for Palin suggests her appearance in Iowa would make for a blockbuster event.
"We would need a very large venue to make it happen," he said.
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question asking if it were a mistake for Palin to resign. Somewhere in the neighborhood between 30,000 to 95,000 people vote on O'Reilly's poll questions, which paints a better picture of the political landscape than Rassmusen polls do.
The results of O'Reilly's poll will be announced next week... |
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This from http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/
Sarah Palin seems to be kicking off her national career from Ronald Reagan's Library, I say this is a good choice. Josh Painter wrote:
"Only one specific event has been announced so far that will have Gov. Palin's participation. According to the Simi Valley Republican Women Federation (SVWF), Sarah Palin will be at the Ronald Reagan Library as the guest of honor for their 50th Anniversary. That celebration is on the calendar for Saturday, August 8, at 5:30 PM. Tickets for non-members are $150. If you want to attend, the Club needs your reply with payment by July 20. We can think of no more powerful symbolism than Gov. Palin launching the national phase of her career of public service at Ronald Reagan's presidential library."
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If Palin wins the GOP nomination she will have one powerful aspect in her favor and this is that the next election will be a referendum on Obama and not Sarah Palin. Dumbo is already a colossal failure as a president and when a sitting U.S. President is seeking re-election the election is always about the current President’s policies, successes, and failures over the last four years. Sarah Palin I believe knows (as do I) that Obama is going to be politically destroyed by 2012. Obama has been a monumental screw-up since he took office and he is tumbling in the polls. According to Rasmussen today those who strongly disapprove of Obama exceed those who approve of him by 8 points. Obama is now pursuing a new stimulus bill at a time when the American people are overwhelmingly concerned about the deficit and Obama’s spending. Folk’s, Obama’s policies simply are not going to work because they have been tried before in places like Europe and even in America by past presidents who were similar to Obama in terms of economic policies and they have never worked. F.D.R’s “New Deal” did not work, L.B.J’s “Great Society” was a disaster, and need I remind you of Jimmy Carter? While the liberal media will try to spin these poll numbers as bad for Sarah Palin, my advice to you is not to listen, they are very much good news for Sarah Palin if she is eying the White House in 2012. |
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A new USA Today Poll was released, but while the article paints a picture that does not favor Sarah Palin for 2012, nothing could be further from the truth and I will use Gallup’s own poll numbers to show this. Today Gallup wrote:
“When it comes to a potential presidential run, the USA TODAY poll displays both Palin's strength in the Republican base and her weakness among the swing voters who usually decide national elections. Republicans by 71%-27% say they would be likely to vote for her if she ran for president in 2012, while independents by 51%-44% would not.”
So how is this “good news” for Sarah Palin? Take a look at a finding by Gallup last month:
“Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.”
In 1980 Ronald Reagan went after and captured the 40% of conservatives by simply being an unabashed conservative. He also received 1/3 of the moderate/independent voters as well. So what was the outcome of Reagan’s strategy?
Electoral vote Reagan 489 vs. Carter 49
States carried Reagan 44 vs. Carter 6 + DC
Popular vote Reagan 43,903,230 vs. Carter 35,480,115
Now as of today prior to any campaigning by Sarah Palin for 2012 and after a massive smear campaign by the left she garners just under 75% of the Republican vote and almost half of moderate/independent voters. Folks this is in no way a bad political situation to find yourself in 3 ½ years before the next presidential election, These numbers are similar to where Reagan was in 1980. Also, Sarah Palin now has three years to build upon her political base and win over more Republicans, Moderates, and Independents and I believe she intends to do just that.
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You wrote:
"I think that Palin can now be very effective and she can fight those who have tried to smear her. She is not done by a long shot and I think many should be a lot more concerned about her now than when she was going to continue being governor of Alaska. You are right the northern storm is coming and it will be a beauty."
I totally agree with you! |
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(CONTINUED)So is this poll bad news for Sarah Palin? Well think about it, if Palin, Romney, and Huckabee were all to give speeches in the same part of Iowa at the same time, who do you think would by far draw the largest crowd? All of you know the answer to this question, and I rest my case. This is a mild temporary setback for Sarah Palin and nothing more, The “Northern Storm” has only been unleashed. |
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Part 1- A Rasmussen Poll has things pretty much at a three way tie for a GOP 2012 primary. Rasmussen Reports:
“In a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, it’s close to a three-way tie when GOP voters are asked whom they would vote for...in the 2012 party primary in their state: 25% say Romney, while 24% say Palin and 22% opt for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.”
Is this poll bad news for Sarah Palin? The answer is no. This poll comes right on the heels of Sarah Palin’s recent announcement that she will be stepping down as Alaska’s governor later this month. The media coverage by the liberal media and GOP Washington Beltway types has been typical and predictable; they are all claiming that Sarah’s decision is political suicide. I confess that on Friday I was even taken by surprise but I have since turned a deaf ear to the liberal media and GOP Beltway pundits and I thought things through. The Democrats were going to continue to hammer away at this woman for the rest of her term driving her legal costs into the millions, and remember she is not rich. Second, Sarah Palin has for some time now desired to play a major role in the 2010 primaries which really start in about 5 months from now. Third, if she wants to run in 2012 she has to move down to the “lower 48” to build up her political machine, her political IOU’s, and raise money. All of this takes time and Sarah knows this. I also believe that Sarah Palin wants to take over as the leader of the GOP and remake it in her Reaganesque conservative image, which she can do because of her huge popularity and influence with the GOP base.
see part 2 |
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I think that Palin can now be very effective and she can fight those who have tried to smear her. She is not done by a long shot and I think many should be a lot more concerned about her now than when she was going to continue being governor of Alaska. You are right the northern storm is coming and it will be a beauty. |
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A recent Rassmusen Poll found the following:
“Forty percent (40%) of Republican voters nationwide say Sarah Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska hurts her chances of winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of GOP voters finds that (24%) believe Palin’s resignation helps her chances of winning the Republican nomination, while 28% say it will have no impact on the race.”
So why does the headline read:
“40% of GOP Voters Say Resignation Hurts Palin’s Chances in 2012”
So the headline can be misleading because while 40% of Republicans believe that Sarah Palin’s decision hurt her for 2012 presidential run, THE MAJOR OF REPUBLICANS DO NOT AGREE! If you combine the 24% who believes it “helps” her with the 28% who think it will have "no impact", we have 52% of Republicans WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SARAH PALIN’S DECISION WILL HURT HER. Thus why is the 40% highlighted when the majority of Republicans (by 12% points) do not believe this will hurt her chances in 2012? Theses poll numbers are actually good news for Sarah Palin and not bad. Are the GOP elites at work again, attempting to attack Palin by highlighting the negative news over the positive news for Sarah Palin in order to get another GOP elitist nominated in 2012 over Sarah Palin? I cannot help but wonder.
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If the Demoncrats had any brains they would have left this women alone. Instead by constantly attacking her not only in the media but most vehemently by misusing Alaska's ethics laws against Palin in an attempt to financially break her so that she would not be able to play a role on the national scene in both 2010 and 2012. If they thought this would take her out of the game then they were badly mistaken, now Palin has pledged to take the fight to the Demoncrats in the lower 48 and she is now free from the main weapon the Dems were using against her. Thus to all the Demoncrats and RINOS who have attacked her I can only warn you here comes "The Northern Storm"!
Many pundits (most who were already dead set against her) have claimed that this unusual strategy will only harm her, but I think otherwise. I say this because now Palin is free to make as much money as she can in speaking fees, collect money for her PAC, campaign for Republicans nationally, become a leading voice against Obama, write her book, and build a powerful Republican machine for 2012.
As a former history major I can tell you that history remebers those who break the mold of how things are normally done. Great leaders break the rules, they are the true innovators and their opposition are always scratching their heads wondering what is coming next. I can assure you that the liberal media, Obama, the Demoncratic Party, the neo-conservatives who hate her, and any potential GOP candidate are scratching their heads wondering what Sarah Palin is going to do next. Sarah Palin is the kind of leader that history is going to remember, she is an innovator, she breaks the mold and defeats her enemies and crushes anything that stands in the way of her goals. Trust me "The Northern Storm" is coming to the White House in 2012.
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Quite right you are. Thanks for pointing that out. |
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that if reelected to the Senate she would serve out her term and not run for president, but she broke her promise anyway.
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I'm not sure if Sarah wants to run this time, but I know she is going to be very helpful in raising money for conservative candidates, and piissing off dems. |
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Isn't is funny how these libs are so busy posting about Palin. They are really worried or they would go on to trash someone else. You are right she will make a lot of money for the repubs. |
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Sounding rather third gradish this morning, I see you took an extra imature pill this morning, don't worry raff all the quitter is going to do is raise tons of money energise the party, so why are you so bitter, sounds like your imploding now. |
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