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Posted on 09/23/2009 12:24:22 AM PDT by meadsjn
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Politico's Ben Smith reports:
Randy Scheunemann, has emerged as an advisor to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as she attempts to build a serious public profile and begins to build a network of aides and advisors typical of a national politician.
Scheunemann confirmed this evening that he's with Palin in Hong Kong, where she is delivering a paid speech at a conference hosted by the brokerage house CLSA, which has in the past heard keynotes from Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Rich Lowry recounts how the McCain campaign eventually split over their vice presidential candidate, with the communications team mostly dissing Palin, while Steve Biegun, Randy Scheunemann and other policy advisors supported her. Scheunemann was one of Sarah Palin's staunchest defenders within the McCain camp, and he nearly lost his job because of it:
Steve Schmidt has told people [Randy Scheunemann] was fired the last week of the campaign; Scheunemann says he wasn't fired; others say Schmidt tried to fire him (at one point cutting off his e-mail) but was over-ruled by [campaign manager Rick] Davis. (Scheunemann's offense was writing an email to Bill Kristol defending Palin and criticizing the handling of her.)Also helping out with former Governor Palin's Hong Kong speech, according to Smith, were Dan Blumenthal and Kim Daniels.
Blumenthal is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he has worked on the national security implications of U.S.-Sino relations and coordinates the Tocqueville on China project, which examines the underlying civic culture of post-Mao China. Blumentahl has also served as commissioner and former vice chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, where he directed efforts to monitor, investigate, and provide recommendations on the national security implications of the economic relationship between the two countries. He had previously held the position of senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Secretary of Defense's Office of International Security Affairs.
Daniels, an attorney with the Thomas More Law Center in Washington, penned an excellent op-ed for NRO in 2003 presenting the case for confirming Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Court of Appeals, but the Democrats would not allow a conservative and well-qualified Hispanic such as Estrada to be seated on the court. Apparently, wise Latinas and Latinos are acceptable only if they steer to the port side of the ship of state.
- JP
Posted by Josh Painter at 9:00 PM
Labels: advisors, china, clsa, dan blumenthal, palin, sarah, sarah palin
President Palin ?
My phone is not ringing yet....what is wrong with her?
/s
Kristol does like her which redeems him a bit for me and maybe he’s not a NEO-Neo
that he can enjoy a social conservative is refreshing
grumpy Krauthammer and daft Fred can take note
Be patient.
Krauthammer is kaput to me. Fred always was.
it's for you
Still not sure how she is going to spin the quitter aspect.
I understand the why, but at the end of the day, it is a darn easy bumper sticker that needs a lot more than a sound bite to dismiss.
She quit. That’s it.
The quitter label will fall away for most people because of what she’s doing now and continues to do.
Anyone who will watch her will see she’s all in to defend this country against the attacks of the hard left. They’ll see her land blows. They’ll see her campaigning for conservatives.
Reality will stand in the face of the notion that Palin is a quitter.
There are now 894,653 FaceBook supporters, that's up 60,000 in two weeks alone...
... It's pretty insane - my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more "politics as usual," but THIS isn't what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.
If I have learned one thing: LIFE is about choices!
And one chooses how to react to circumstances. You can choose to engage in things that tear down, or build up. I choose to work very hard on a path for fruitfulness and productivity. I choose NOT to tear down and waste precious time; but to build UP this state and our country, and her industrious, generous, patriotic, free people!
Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and "go with the flow".
Nah, only dead fish "go with the flow".
No. Productive, fulfilled people determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time... to BUILD UP.
And there is such a need to BUILD up and FIGHT for our state and our country. I choose to FIGHT for it! And I'll work hard for others who still believe in free enterprise and smaller government; strong national security for our country and support for our troops; energy independence; and for those who will protect freedom and equality and LIFE... I'll work for and campaign for those PROUD to be American, and those who are INSPIRED by our ideals and won't deride them.
I WILL support others who seek to serve, in or out of office, for the RIGHT reasons, and I don't care what party they're in or no party at all. Inside Alaska - or Outside Alaska.
But I won't do it from the Governor's desk. ... -Sarah Palin, 7/3/09
From Catherine Yu Yeun Chen at Sarah’s Facebook: I have really great news, a friend who attended the Forum where Mrs Palin made the Keynote Speech at the CLSA Investor’s Forum, just while ago, said: Sarah Palin was received with the biggest round of applause it took 3 minutes at least before s...he was able to start her Speech and that the Speech itself was brilliant and astute and that she took China to task aggressivaly but without been offensive or rude, and she answered many questions brilliantly and smartly after the speech itself, and she was looking beautiful and relaxed and again received a standing applause, but my friend can not tell me anything about the speech-address, it is CLSA rules, and it is up to Sarah and the Organizers to decide whether the speech will be available for public reading.Read More41 minutes ago · Comment · Like / Unlike · View Feedback (33)Hide Feedback (33) · Report
See my tagline...
The quitter label will fade as the public learns more about her. The hate-fest from the left isn’t sustainable, just like the love-fest for Obama isn’t.
Additionally, far better to quit and fight battles from a better field, than take a pay-check, fail to do the job for which you were hired, while preferring to campaign incessantly for the big job in the White House. To me at least, her quitting was a voluntary, honorable discharge.
There are now 894,653 FaceBook supporters, that’s up 60,000 in two weeks alone...
Only 58.2 million more to go. A great start though. What does she need to win the Presidency 60 million or so?
Dang! Just dang!
Let me see if I get this straight. McCain's campaign manager Steve Schmidt, actually tried to get a top campaign strategist fired, because he dared to defend Sarah Palin? Who were these people runing aginst? Sarah Palin or Barack Obama?
The mind just boggles.
Is it any surprise John McCain lost?
Would you rather she do an 0bama, whereby she'd continue to collect her salary at tax payers expense, even while she spends 2 years campaigning all across the country, while not doing the work for which she was getting paid?
Obama (the only person with more supporters on FB) only has 1,060,638 members on facebook, and he's been using it since two years before the election. Sarah only had about 200k on July 3rd when she announced her resignation.
Sarah only needs 166,000 more to be #1 on Facebook, and her numbers are increasing at double the rate of Obama's. She should reach that in about two weeks.
Steve Schmidt has told people [Randy Scheunemann] was fired the last week of the campaign; Scheunemann says he wasn't fired; others say Schmidt tried to fire him (at one point cutting off his e-mail) but was over-ruled by [campaign manager Rick] Davis. (Scheunemann's offense was writing an email to Bill Kristol defending Palin and criticizing the handling of her.)
This Schmidt is a nasty piece of work.
Remember all the folks here who swore that Obama could never be elected, and then when it happened, they tried to blame Rush?
I guess they were wrong.
http://barbaricthoughts.blogspot.com/
A couple of guys were in the CLSA audience during Sarah Palin’s speech and twittered the event. Their accounts are here and here. The second guy is also a speaker at the event.
Cellomonkey seems to be left-leaning, but fairly unbiased, although he follows Obama and Rachel Maddow. Casinclair is an environmental architecture guy who has had articles posted on the Huffington Post and is a fan of Van Jones on Facebook. Still, he seems to be sincere in his belief and focused on architecture, so I don’t think he’s necessarily a Kool-Aid drinker. Anyway, in that context, here are both of their Tweets in chronological order (Cellomonkey = CM, and Casinclair = CC) :
CC: Kind ironic. Sarah Palin will talk foreign policy (wed keynote) and I’ll speak about lack of US policy during Katrina (thurs keynote).
CC: Checking keynotes sched for this event in HK. I’m firmly in between Sarah Palin and Sheryl Crow. A sentence I never thought I’d ever write.
CC: Funnily enough palin and my talks are the only ones closed to the media. Mine is probably lack of interest.....
CM: Think sarah palin will wink at me tomorrow?
CC: So far six outlets want me to speak on camera right after the Palin talk today. Silly politirazzi.
CM: Anticipation building as palin prepares to speak at clsa forum in hk.
CM: Sarah palin pretty in pink today.
CM: Palin ties her lineage to asia by saying todd is part eskimo.
CC: Stimulus failed will keep unemployment high - Palin.
CC: Fed is immoral - Palin
CC: Palin calls self common sence consertative - quotes Reagan and Thatcher as ‘getting it right’.
CM: She takes a stab at policy speak since she’s from main street.
CC: Palin suggests her cost cutting in the Governors house shows her fiscal conservative.
CM: Palin pushing “common sense conservatism - a respect for history and tradition and common sense.”
CM: Palin: “mccain and i came in second in a competition of two!” shes funny.
CC: Palin suggests GOP has sold out since Reagan and are as bad as the liberals. They lost principles.
CM: Palin preparing for 2012 bid by evoking reagan, lauds hkg as model for free mkt economy.
CC: Cap and tax (trade) will cause unemployment. Say it will cost $1800 per Americans and cause no change.
CM: Palin seemingly campaigning but i wonder how many of us are actually us citizens.
CM: 30 minutes in, im not sure palin has said the word “china”
CC: Palin pro Nuclear and energy independance advocate. Tap the god given resources of America and not foreign entities.
CM: “nukular”!!!
CC: Natural gas IS the future - Palin
CC: Palin wants ‘all of the above’ energy policy to ween ourselves off natural resouces. Says we need to ‘drill’
CC: Death panels - governments not being honest. Can’t increase healthcare and cut costs - Palin
CC: Palin says drill. Say death panels were a way to show mainstreet what is wrong w gov plans
CM: The guy next to me is reading a macro strategy report.
CC: Palin listing all deaths caused by twisted vision of terrorists. ‘this is a war’ - Palin suggesting the surge pushed the war out of Iraq.
CC: Palin says Pelosi and liberals stopping Obama from making right decision to increase troops in afghanistan.
CC: American defence of Asia has allowed it to prosper - Palin
CM: Palin critizes cutting of defense budget while china and russia are beefing up.
CM: Palin attributes asian economic prosperity to american commitment to security in the region.
CC: American military precense in Asia has allowed it to prosper - palin.
CC: Folks walking out on palin as she’s running over Q&A time.
CM: Palin hopes to integrate india into asia... hrm.
CC: We can help intergrate Asia and India -Palin.
CC: Palin says China key to global push out of recession. China needs to be responsible stakeholder. (and free).
CM: Palin warns against rise of a one-nation asia, citing missles pointed at taiwan.
CC: China needs to ease off Taiwan and to back off supporting Sudan and Zimbabwe. Notes Tibet issue - Palin (on a tear)
CM: Palin: “it is in the interest of our safety for china to work out its contradictions”
CM: Wow, palin is lashing out against china “we hope for china to rise responsibly”
CM: palin has found herself a spot on hu jintao’s to-do list [Paramount Leader of the People’s Republic of China]
CC: Palin wrapping up saying local Chinese wanting more freedom in China. ‘No one worrys about India and it’s growth’
CC: Palin - notes Charter 08. Anyone!
CC: Palin wrapping up.
CC: Last 20 min of Palins talk on china us relationships and free trade. Current US gov are anti-open and anti-growth -palin.
CC: Palin says us must recognize we must lead by example not words. Americans are suffering and frustrated dems exempt themselves from hlthcare.
CC: Palin says tea party movement are democrats and republicans and fighting the good fight.
CC: Palin notes bush changed view on china - notes we are interconnected and need to put diplomatic pressure on china. Says taxing tires was bad.
CC: Local elected officials need to be heard. GOP will be re borne through locals - palin.
CC: Government need to stay the heck out of salary decisions - palin.
CC: Palin - Chavez is Castro lite. We need to play hardball with Cuba.
CM: Palin says “i have a husband, yea, i think i coulda used a wife” on being asked “how do you do it”
CC: Palin on Todd and schedule - ‘i needed to have a wife’ (ouch)
CC: Palin on Twitter - I love it!
CM: Zuckerberg gets props from palin for embodying american ingenuity.
CC: Palin - facebook is a success story of US ingenuity. Shows ‘we still got it’.
CC: Palin shows picture of son on stage. Then exits.
CC: Nothing like being attacked by press leaving ‘it was awful and right wing, wasn’t it’ - ask to comment, I said go on Twitter....
CC: Dear @CNN your reporter is the only one trying the sweet tactic to get a quote. Not working either.
CC: Hey ms Palin, I’ll let you tweet my keynote tomorrow lunch. I’m talking on Katrina and school reform through public/private partnerships.
CC: @cellomonkey my pics sucked. My keynote tomorrow will have 180 more slides than Palin.
CC: @Tx4Obama no problem didn’t realize I was one of only two tweeting. Had to find alt. Network to send.
CC: ok speech with occational hits. Interesting Palin attacked GOP more than Dems.
No need for the "?"
Mrs Palin is our nation's next, and first female, POTUS.
The Reagan flame will be rekindled and soon burning brilliantly again in just a matter of a few short years.
to post 10 - Excellent rebut of the troublemaker.
Dang! Just dang!Let me see if I get this straight. McCain's campaign manager Steve Schmidt, actually tried to get a top campaign strategist fired, because he dared to defend Sarah Palin?
Who were these people running against? Sarah Palin or Barack Obama?
The mind just boggles.
Is it any surprise John McCain lost?
McCain finally said he didn't fear an Obama presidency-- --having stifled every single solid point of contention re Obama's Leftist, racist, anti-Israel, anti-Constitution associations. Someone (Schmidt?) put Sarah Palin in Katie Couric's and Charlie Gibson's crap factories-- --pure genius that. And the coup de grâce was administered by McCain himself by going along with the most asinine waste of money in the history of the Republic-- --instead of sailing to victory by opposing it, and demanding tax cuts instead. Yes, John McCain and his advisor lost the election-- --and classlessly sabotaged the only promising gleam by attacking Sarah Palin.
As if Schmidt did anything right. As if McCain did anything right.
As for her not calling, just tell yourself that she is waiting for one of those long winter nights when Todd is off on his snowmobile.
As for what is wrong with her, that's easy:
Nothing.
See post 22! She’s MAGNIFICENT -as if WE didn’t know that -if this is all true!
There can be no doubt who will be leading conservatives back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in 2012!
No true conservative would hesitate, let alone refuse, to support this lady.
Thank you for your posts, meadsjn!
The spirit of America is being reborn before us as we witness the evolution of our first female President.
Whodathunkit?
She’s got my vote. We should be seeing some decent transscripts of the speech by morning. I’m off to sleep.
You certainly are free to support whom you wish. Me? I'm supporting the next President - Sarah Palin!
Love it, thanks!
On another thread, it said Palin referenced Thatcher economics. :-) :-) Can’t wait for more details to filter out.
” Obama (the only person with more supporters on FB) only has 1,060,638 members on facebook, and he’s been using it since two years before the election. Sarah only had about 200k on July 3rd when she announced her resignation.
Sarah only needs 166,000 more to be #1 on Facebook, and her numbers are increasing at double the rate of Obama’s. She should reach that in about two weeks. “
Beating his numbers, even though he’s got the big job, will put WWOTUS [Wee-weer of the United States] in a snit.
When it happens, will he make another snide dig at Palin?
You pretty much sum up all that was wrong with the McCain campaign. I have said this in some threads before, and I’ll say it again, McCain lost because of McCain. Forget the liberal media bias, ACORN, election fraud and what have you, the main reason why John McCain lost was because McCain run a very bad campaign, and was not prepared to do what it took to win. About the only good thing we took from that campaign was Sarah Plain. Thank God for that.
Don’t know Kim Daniels, but Dan Blumenthal and Randy Scheunemann are good picks for foreign policy advice. Blumenthal is outspoken on the challenge China’s military built-up poses and Scheunemann (a hawkish “neocon”) is the get-to guy on matters regarding the threat Russia poses, the Caucasus issue and the Mideast.
Kim Daniels wrote in favor of confirming Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2003:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjA1ZjM0MGUxZmNkMGVlZGQ4ZTFlOTU0MDI3YTQwYzk=
Daniels is a lawyer with the Thomas More Law Center — “a not-for-profit public interest law firm dedicated to the defense and promotion of the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life.”
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=14
- JP
Thanks!
Wow, she really took EVERYONE to the woodshed, Rats, Republicans, and the ChiComs too.
"See, in order to be self-sufficient (we) must be allowed to develop, to drill and build and climb to fulfill our promise! We can not start believing that government is the answer. It can’t make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise. What can? It is the wisdom of the people and our families and our small businesses and industrious individuals. And it is God’s grace helping those who help themselves." - Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009
Sarah has now the left, the DNC, the MSM and the RINOs all in a frenzy wondering what her next move will be...and has them frothing at the mouth in their efforts to discredit her.
But Sarah is now going around the country and the world giving speeches and promoting conservatie principles in the midst of the Obama administration disaster...and gaining great political capital in the process. She will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning, and successful run for the Presidency in 2012.
"...like that grizzly guards her cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. I will keep that vow wherever the road may lead." - Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009
On this thread you indicate you have an aversion to the NeoCon foreign policy doctrine.
OTOH, the above article, and numerous other articles published thru-out 2009, indicates that Palin is willingly being drawn into the NeoCon fold.
How do you square that?
jla....Thank you so much for alerting me (us). It couldn’t happen at a better time either; The contrast between her and the fascist in office now is going to become so glaringly clear. She WILL win the hearts and the minds of Americans. I truly hope this is the beginning because she (and the Joe Wilsons and those that FOLLOW/BELIEVE) in the Constitution are needed NOW.
lol..
You might have just caught it while the mods were purging trolls.
She doesn't have to spin it because it doesn't exist, only in the minds of her rabid detractors.
A "quitter" doesn't get 1,000 speaking invitations, continuous media coverage, and be at the top of hypothetical presidential matchups.
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