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Healthcare Bill Support Declining, due to Palin Effect?
Conservatives4Palin ^ | TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009 | Hal

Posted on 08/11/2009 10:59:52 AM PDT by curth

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To: Sarah Barracuda
I am Sarah’s biggest supporter, even I don’t believe that because of her statement, Obama’s DeathCare approvals have gone down. People are just getting a better understanding of what is going on and people are actually READING THE BILL and seeing it for what it is

Thank you for saying this, SB.

21 posted on 08/11/2009 11:27:51 AM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: MaggieCarta

Don’t forget that AOL poll conducted over the last 3 days to the question Do you agree with Palin’s characterization of Obama’s health plan as “evil”? that 59% agree with Palin.

I think she was the catalyst for cutting through the BS on Obamacare and crystallizing viewpoints. IMHO, that is what leadership is all about.


22 posted on 08/11/2009 11:32:54 AM PDT by techno
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To: curth

Obama has to blame someone.

He cant blame George Bush, so who is next? Sarah Palin.


23 posted on 08/11/2009 11:33:24 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: easttennesseejohn

I’m surprised I haven’t yet heard of a major MSM voice mocking “That quitter? What does she have to do with this?”


24 posted on 08/11/2009 11:39:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
I am Sarah’s biggest supporter, even I don’t believe that because of her statement,

Thank you and I hope you understand why sometimes I call Sarah's sometimes overly enthusiastic supporters, "kool aid drinkers".

26 posted on 08/11/2009 12:30:58 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: techno
I think she was the catalyst for cutting through the BS on Obamacare and crystallizing viewpoints. IMHO, that is what leadership is all about.

I beg to differ, but am way too lazy to actually fact check the precise point when the "town halls" started heating up. I believe it was prior to Mrs. Palin's well received "Facebook" publication calling ObamaCare "downright evil". I wish she had made a different word choice--like calling the plan "Un-American," thereby preempting Pelosi and company from using that word against dissenters.

Anyway, after the Facebook entry, she turned around and called for "restraint." What effect are we measuring?

27 posted on 08/11/2009 12:48:50 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: curth
I think she is having a major effect.

The "death panel" remark was a stroke of genius. She clearly has Obama and the Dems rattled.

She is inside Obama's OODA loop.


28 posted on 08/11/2009 1:13:14 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin is our Iron Lady of the North)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Yep, I think the fact that Obama even mentioned “Death Panels” shows that she is in his head. He took the bait

That is exactly right. She has mastered the art of political ju jitsu.

The woman is amazing.

29 posted on 08/11/2009 1:20:47 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin is our Iron Lady of the North)
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To: MaggieCarta

No, she’s not responsible totally.

But why did Obama keep talking about “death panels” today if she hasn’t influenced the discussion? She is the only person to use the term death panel.

And between the “death panel” note and the “use restraint” note, you conveniently left out the 2 posts quoting more than a dozen sources, from WaPo to National Review to the Cato Institute, backing up her first statement.

So she is doing more than making hyperbolic statements; she is backing them up with sources - though the media and many readers are too lazy to look up her sources.


30 posted on 08/11/2009 1:35:17 PM PDT by hrh40
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To: curth

The sun came up today, and I’m sure it’s only because of Palin.


31 posted on 08/11/2009 2:15:38 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT (,)
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To: curth
If Palin is to punch through the "dumbed down" masses who fell for the "great orator's" promises of "change" accompanied by "goodies," then she must, like Ronald Reagan, have an in-depth and intimate of the Founders' principles and ideas of liberty versus tyranny.

Creator-endowed life and liberty are authentic ideas, which, when protected by a written "people's" constitution limiting the power of their government, become a reality for millions of oppressed people from all the world. Witness America for its first 200 years!

Allowing silver-tongued orators to supplant "the people" and their constitutional limits on coercive government power by offering promises of handouts for all is a counterfeit idea and has led to oppressive taxation, debt, and slavery of people wherever it has been allowed.

Reagan understood that the "beacon of liberty" relies on enduring principles, called by the Founders, "self-evident" truths. More importantly, he could articulate those ideas!

Palin can read, study, and understand them. The fact that she has Levin's "Tyranny and Liberty" is a start, but there's nothing like reading the voluminous writings of the Founders themselves (available online) for incorporating them into one's own vocabulary.

If she does that, all the Far Left proponents of the "counterfeit ideas" will not be able to stop her from having a positive impact on the future of America!

She must be able to delineate and clarify, as Reagan did, why "socialized" medicine, for instance, is in opposition to America's founding principles, explaining the perhaps "unintended consequences" of allowing any government in the world to have that much power over the lives and property of its citizens. There is liberty for individuals, and then there is tyranny over individuals.

32 posted on 08/11/2009 2:44:16 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: hrh40
No, she’s not responsible totally.

But why did Obama keep talking about “death panels” today if she hasn’t influenced the discussion? She is the only person to use the term death panel.

And between the “death panel” note and the “use restraint” note, you conveniently left out the 2 posts quoting more than a dozen sources, from WaPo to National Review to the Cato Institute, backing up her first statement.

So she is doing more than making hyperbolic statements; she is backing them up with sources - though the media and many readers are too lazy to look up her sources.

Even worse, I am too preoccupied to look at Mrs Palin's Facebook page. My apologies for missing the 2 posts to which you refer.

Call me hopelessly old-fashioned, but, quite frankly, I don't regard posts on Facebook as coming from someone even remotely Presidential. It reminds me of the other Pubbie poster-blogger, MeggieMac.

I prefer reading serious op-eds, published by established venues such as the Wall Street Journal or other "dinasour media" publications.

Sure, when reading some really well written works, I wonder whether the person credited with the article actually wrote it, or whether a staff person penned the piece. At that point, I consider how well the candidate articulates their ideas verbally.

I do not doubt that Mrs. Palin is actually writing her own stuff on Facebook. And, I remain unimpressed.

33 posted on 08/11/2009 5:11:02 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
The sun came up today, and I’m sure it’s only because of Palin.

Giggle.

34 posted on 08/11/2009 5:12:41 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: loveliberty2
Reagan understood that the "beacon of liberty" relies on enduring principles, called by the Founders, "self-evident" truths." More importantly, he could articulate those ideas!

Yes. I really do miss what I think I remember of the Reagan Administration.

35 posted on 08/11/2009 5:16:43 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: curth

I like Palin, but she has nothing to do with this.


36 posted on 08/11/2009 5:16:54 PM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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