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Palin eyes 'Take Back the 20' targets
The Politico ^ | September 23, 2010 | Alex Isenstadt

Posted on 09/23/2010 1:21:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is commemorating the six-month anniversary of the passage of health care reform with a new campaign targeting 20 House Democrats who backed the legislation.

Palin has launched “Take Back the 20,” an online effort in which she asks supporters to join her “in standing against those who stood with Obama and Pelosi in voting for this disastrous bill.”

The campaign focuses on Democrats from 20 districts John McCain won in 2008 – with Palin urging, “Now we can vote against them.”

On Palin’s target list is a slate of vulnerable freshmen Democrats, including Florida Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, Colorado Rep. Betsy Markey, Ohio Rep. John Boccieri, Pennsylvania Rep. Kathleen Dahlkemper, and Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello.

But Palin is also taking fire at a handful of vulnerable Democratic veterans, including Florida Rep. Allen Boyd, Indiana Rep. Baron Hill, South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, and West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall.

The former GOP vice-presidential contender is also wading into several open seat races, including Arkansas 2nd District, Indiana’s 8th District, Tennessee’s 6th District, and West Virginia’s 1st District.

The site allows supporters to connect with the Facebook and Twitter pages of the GOP candidates in each targeted race and invites them to contribute to Sarah PAC, her political action committee.

Palin announced the launch of the site on her Twitter page, writing: “Lies, Damned Lies – Obamacare 6 Months Later; It’s Time to Take Back the 20!”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: 2010; congress; democrats; elections; obama; obamacare; palin; politics; sarahpalin; socializedmedicine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What about Grayson? And she IS the frontrunner.


21 posted on 09/23/2010 2:49:44 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: mazda77

Damn right. The presidency is for the one who steps up and takes it. Not the one anointed by the left wing media, or the republican establishment. THIS president proved that, and so did Reagan.


22 posted on 09/23/2010 2:52:28 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: humblegunner
Facebook and Twitter?

Your angst over Sarah is going to give you migraines and what's left of your shriveled brain will petrify.

Why do you have such animosity towards Sarah?

23 posted on 09/23/2010 2:57:08 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: humblegunner
I guess you aren't old enough to remember telegrams where you paid by the word. It led to the same cryptic spelling problem. It's the limitation that drives the spelling.

Just as in the old days we had to learn the telegram lingo, today we learn to Tweet.

If you like real sentences, read Sarah's Facebook posts. She is an outstanding writer!

24 posted on 09/23/2010 2:57:55 PM PDT by BillM
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To: BillM

Except you don’t have to say “Stop” after every sentence.


25 posted on 09/23/2010 2:59:26 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: BillM
today we learn to Tweet

Maybe you do, Billy.

26 posted on 09/23/2010 3:03:24 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: Beelzebubba

Yeah, dang that Morse code also. /sarc

- JP


27 posted on 09/23/2010 3:42:36 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Conservatism is not a candidate. It's a movement." - Jeffrey Lord)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To be quite honest, she puts a lump in my throat - where have we ever seen a REAL leader like this before...

Not since Ronald Reagan.


28 posted on 09/23/2010 3:50:32 PM PDT by Aria ( "Remember, attitudes are contagious, so make sure yours are worth catching." Sarah Palin 9-18-2010)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

‘Lies, Damned Lies’ LOL. Love this woman.


29 posted on 09/23/2010 3:56:00 PM PDT by bushfamfan (United States of America: July 4, 1776-November 4, 2008)
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To: humblegunner

Words are but symbols—arbitrary symbols. In a very significant sense, “arbitrary” tells us the symbols themselves don’t really matter.

Meaning is the true essence of language. It’s abstract, thus more difficult to grasp than concrete things like words.

Sarah Palin successfully conveys meaning through various media, demonstrating she fully comprehends the essence of language. At this point, her single-handed defeat of the entire American media shows her to be a genius.

Her detractors, in failing to understand her (or what I said in this post), have proven to be the opposite.


30 posted on 09/23/2010 6:44:37 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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To: reasonisfaith

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Social media is the wave of the future. Get in now or be left behind.


31 posted on 09/23/2010 6:58:47 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: reasonisfaith; humblegunner

Let’s also not forget this article is about a movement that has a very nice website that’s easy to use with great info. Oh, and it’s coming up at the top in the Google results. Nothing to see here except a brilliant campaign to speak DIRECTLY with the people sans the MSM. I get Sarah tweets on my phone. If it weren’t for my super duper information gathering skills and FR, Sarah would put me in touch with what’s going on from her eyes. Beat that!


32 posted on 09/23/2010 7:03:56 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: numberonepal
I get Sarah tweets on my phone. Sarah would put me in touch with what’s going on from her eyes.

♥ Swoon! ♥

33 posted on 09/24/2010 12:36:08 AM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: humblegunner

You absolutely don’t get it. I would expect more from you, but if you wish to be left behind then so be it.


34 posted on 09/24/2010 4:33:38 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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