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Betting the Farm on Sarah Palin
C4P ^ | Posted on July 02 2011 - 8:32 AM | Guest submission by: “Mark America”

Posted on 07/02/2011 8:39:06 AM PDT by onyx

The country is running out of time. We’re broke, nationally, and as the spendthrifts in Washington, D.C. try to discover new and increasingly dishonest, disguised methods by which to hide the scope of the impending disaster, we should be considering what it means for we, the people.

There can be no doubt that they are driving us to complete and unrecoverable collapse. I can describe to you what I believe their motives to be, but that doesn’t change the reality, and I’d rather focus on what we can do about it. Time is getting short. It’s possible that there will be no elections in 2012, because we may have collapsed into chaos and anarchy. If hyperinflation strikes, as some now believe it will, the country is over as we have known it.

Let’s imagine, for the sake of argument, that we can stave off complete collapse at least long enough to hold the 2012 elections. What should be our electoral goal, as a people? We must first stop the hemorrhaging and apply a tourniquet to this nation’s deep, spurting, arterial wounds. That tide of blood, the lifeblood of our economy, and our future, cannot be stemmed by band-aids and a series of well-meaning but undisciplined politicians. We need a determined practitioner who is willing to crack the chest and do the serious, nation-saving surgery. As it stands, there is only one Republican under consideration who fits that description: Sarah Palin.

My own farm is slowly failing. While part of it is the drought, and part of it is the stupidity of the Texas legislature, and its unwillingness to put Texas horsemen on par with those in neighboring states, but more importantly, it is the general economy. The price of fuel, the shrinking value of the dollar, and the general lack of disposable income nationwide is killing the horse industry in Texas. Nobody buys horses when they’re choosing between fuel for their vehicle, and food for their table. Soon, at my farm, it may be a choice between feeding horses and eating them.

Barack Obama is gutting this country, and he’s doing it by intention and malice aforethought. There can be no more claim that he is accomplishing this all due merely to gross incompetence. I don’t think it’s possible to be that incompetent. Even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally. This guy doesn’t seem to notice a truckload of them. He sees them, but he evinces the willingness, the naked determination, to ignore them.

There’s not much desire on the GOP side to do anything better, or at least no willingness to fight to press these issues. Boehner and Cantor may be ‘really good guys,’ but that’s not enough. We need fighters. We need warriors. We need somebody to realize that the person whose ass needs kicking is the guy boasting about being the guy who says he will “decide whose ass to kick.”

We cannot compromise or otherwise weasel our way out of this mess. There is no short-cut back to prosperity. It’s going to take daring, disciplined leadership. It’s going to take a leader that can look to all the people in the country and say, approximately: “You, the people, must lead us out of this mess, and it starts with a commitment to what is right, rather than what is easy.” Too few of our politicians are willing to get tough in the name of the country and its future.

This is why I am betting the farm on Sarah Palin. Her shortened term as Governor of Alaska stands as empirical evidence that she knows how to lead, is willing to confront difficult problems, combat the media, fight entrenched interests, and rally the people to demonstrate the better angels of their nature.

I will support Sarah Palin, if only she will run, and I am holding on, a little longer, with all I can, for the future of my country, and the future of my farm, in the hope that she will shortly answer the call.




TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: farm; notrunning; palin; palin2012; sarahpalin
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1 posted on 07/02/2011 8:39:10 AM PDT by onyx
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To: Bigtigermike; Al B.; Brices Crossroads; Virginia Ridgerunner; Clyde5445; RedMDer; trisham; ...
GAME ON!


Sarah Palin's Ping List!


2 posted on 07/02/2011 8:41:01 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx

The guess is Sarah announces late August/early sept/Labor day.
Go Sarah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 07/02/2011 8:45:32 AM PDT by biggredd1
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To: onyx
Barack Obama is gutting this country, and he’s doing it by intention and malice aforethought. There can be no more claim that he is accomplishing this all due merely to gross incompetence. I don’t think it’s possible to be that incompetent.

I'm going to a graduation party today, and liberals in the family who love obama will be there.

BTTT!

4 posted on 07/02/2011 8:45:53 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: biggredd1

Run Sarah Run


5 posted on 07/02/2011 8:46:12 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: onyx
Run Sarah, Run!
6 posted on 07/02/2011 8:48:12 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: biggredd1

Looks like Joe Miller will be softening up her main primary opponent in the meantime:

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/07/02/groups_attempt_to_remove_romney_as_gop_front_runner/


7 posted on 07/02/2011 8:49:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: onyx
Sarah herself said that 2012 can't get here soon enough. We all realize that as a country we are running out of something... TIME.
8 posted on 07/02/2011 8:50:48 AM PDT by JPG (Elect Sarah Palin in '12. America won't get another chance.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Woo-Hoo!
Go Joe Miller!


9 posted on 07/02/2011 8:53:42 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

UGH. I will pray for you.


10 posted on 07/02/2011 8:54:44 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx

I am with you Onyx! I can’t see anything else and don’t understand why everyone can’t see the same thing. Sarah is the only real thing out there. Its not a worship think like Obama in 08. It’s just everyone else is self promoting and Sarah is real. I have not every heard a conservative question anything she has said on policy...just personal attacks. She is real. I am in different but simular circumstances in Texas and Pray she will be elected so we can start to turn things around. You and I know Perry is NOT the answer.


11 posted on 07/02/2011 8:55:15 AM PDT by carjic (I've always been taught to respect my elders.... but it's getting harder to find any!)
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To: onyx

Per Jack Wheeler, he has been told she will announce her candidacy on JULY 4TH. [He had no way to confirm this, but that was what he was told by a close connection to Sarah.]


12 posted on 07/02/2011 8:55:37 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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To: biggredd1
I was harassing Liberals on a Yahoo News thread the other day and was told that I live in a very small bubble of people that will vote for Sarah Palin or any Conservative. What the heck? They consider the majority of people in the whole South a very small bubble? Their bubble is fixing to burst. :-) They are so full of hate and fear of Sarah that it's comical.
13 posted on 07/02/2011 8:57:47 AM PDT by Melinda in TN (My goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am.)
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To: carjic

Agreed! She’s the only real person. She is just like us and that’s why she is feared and hated. All the elites are out of business. We would have none of them either.


14 posted on 07/02/2011 8:58:49 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: shield

Well, what a memorable 4th that would be. I have goose bumps typing to you!


15 posted on 07/02/2011 8:59:55 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx

Sarah is Stupendous!

Please Click the Pic to Donate!

16 posted on 07/02/2011 9:01:07 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: onyx

Wouldn’t it be....I hope his connection is as good as he says it is.


17 posted on 07/02/2011 9:01:48 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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To: onyx

I am hoping Sarah is going to run also and for all of the same reasons. We have come to a cross road in this country where weak and inexperienced leadership cannot hope to restore our Republic. We need a strong, God fearing, and courageous leader and Sarah Palin is that person.


18 posted on 07/02/2011 9:05:32 AM PDT by Big_Harry (Ecc10:2 "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left")
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To: onyx

How strange....I just posted the following on another post...you must be in my head, Onyx....

“You are so right on! This whole Obama/Soros scheme and scam has to do with bringing down the money of the US....Soros “gets off” on destroying economies....it is a game for him that brings him power and wealth and that is all he cares about....he wants to control the world’s money....he could give a hang about any of the people or their “needs”....only as it allows him to control the purse strings of every citizen and government.

I will never believe anything other than Obama was discovered and programmed for many years just for this opportunity....he appears intelligent and articulate but is actually a stupid, empty man who is so ego weak that he can be easily led by someone like Soros (et all).

This next year will be devastating to the US....as we struggle with deciding who should be the next President...Soros via Obama and gang will be looting the people....and it won’t matter if Obama loses because the deed will have been completed because we have a bunch of idiots in office in Washington that have the insight and knowledge of a gnat....(not to mean to slander the gnat)

As we look at candidates that can “beat” Obama we will lose focus on what is really going on....already dissention and diversion has been started to get “us” arguing against one another as the media plays its part in allowing the destruction of our economy to be completed. We will fall prey to their scheme of keeping us off balance as they attack the candidates, one by one, pushing us away from the reality of what our government is up to...really up to as we shift this way and that way deciding on the “perfect” candidate.

I am a Palinista....have been since before she came on the scene in 2008.....I have not swayed...will not be swayed and will not look at other options being poked down my throat. If you truly support a candidate...then stand by them. The final decision will be the primaries and that is when the candidate will be chosen by the people who no longer want Obama in the WH.

In the mean time, in between time, I am looking at what is happening in Washington....and I suggest you do the same...because that is where the real story is...!

We are being raped and have been hit with date rape drugs via the media....we have been numbed out not dumbed out...time to shake off the tom foolery and get serious. Our “enemies” work in Congress, the WH and the Supreme Court....we have few friends in government....time to figure out who is who and get rid of them!!”


19 posted on 07/02/2011 9:08:29 AM PDT by imfrmdixie (A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Eisenhower)
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To: onyx
"We need fighters. We need warriors."

Hey Obama, wanna' fight? Debate lectern, basketball court, arm wrestle, Game on!

20 posted on 07/02/2011 9:10:40 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Big_Harry

She’s running and she will win if we work our hearts out for her election and we will!

May God bless and keep you, Big_Harry!


21 posted on 07/02/2011 9:14:51 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: shield
Independence Day! Wouldn't that be. . . just perfect!!
22 posted on 07/02/2011 9:17:12 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: imfrmdixie

I can only say, BTTT and God bless you, dear imfrmdixie!!!

I’m so anxious, but also trying to be patient, for her to announce. Her timing has always been perfect!

GO SARAH!


23 posted on 07/02/2011 9:17:29 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: biggredd1

I’m thinking she might announce Monday, which will of course be July 4th........


24 posted on 07/02/2011 9:22:35 AM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: onyx

When the seas get rough, sometimes it’s best to heave-to and ride it out...Let the storm blow itself out...

No doubt at the behest of the Obama Machine, her enemies in the dominant, establishment, left-wing media, have atacked her from every angle including thru her family and she’s weathered the storm...

The hardest part of the blow may have passed...There’s little left that hasn’t been explored to try to ruin her politically...She’s survived everything that’s been thrown at her...

Just a little while until the Republican herd shows themselves for the (mostly) RINOs they are...Then this fall, announce and conservatives and disaffected independents will flock to her side...

Could this be her strategy? I suspect it may be...

With Michelle Bachmann, a true conservative as her running mate, FUBO and his new American socialism are toast!

Two terms for Sarah, followed by two terms for Michelle!


25 posted on 07/02/2011 9:26:56 AM PDT by elteemike (Cogito! Ergo armatum sum!)
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To: onyx

Thanks...:)


26 posted on 07/02/2011 9:27:30 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Art in Idaho
"We need fighters. We need warriors."

"FIGHT LIKE A GIRL!".....
not like some kitty-whipped P.C. sock puppet.


27 posted on 07/02/2011 9:42:26 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (You do not have to smear (Pharaoh / Imam / BigEars) Obama w/ lies....the truth does a fine job. :)
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To: onyx

It’s just heartrending to hear all the stories of hardworking Americans who are under siege. Everyone I know is struggling.

We need lots of Palin and Prayer!


28 posted on 07/02/2011 9:46:34 AM PDT by Melian ("I can't spare this [wo]man; [s]he fights!" (Apologies to Abe Lincoln) Go, Sarah!)
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To: onyx

Sold me...


29 posted on 07/02/2011 9:55:25 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: onyx

Sarah is the ONLY one on my radar right now. If she doesn’t run, I’m going to have to settle.....


30 posted on 07/02/2011 10:01:44 AM PDT by Big Giant Head (Two years no AV, no viruses, computer runs great!)
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To: Big Giant Head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-G2n91wKtY&feature=channel_page


31 posted on 07/02/2011 10:26:36 AM PDT by Lilyjuslan
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To: shield

I have said for a long time the 4th of July would be the best time for her to announce. It may be that waiting to long after that would foster the perception, she is weak in her ability to make a decision. It may not be the reality, (I believe she has a strategy) but perception is a strong force.


32 posted on 07/02/2011 10:30:09 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification)
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To: onyx

33 posted on 07/02/2011 10:36:17 AM PDT by McGruff (Why do they fear her so?)
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To: carjic
It’s just everyone else is self promoting and Sarah is real.

How are Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain any less real.

I have not every heard a conservative question anything she has said on policy

Then, you haven't been paying attention. Her tax increase on oil companies in Alaska was a disaster, one the slowed job growth, oil production and tax revenue and one Republicans are still trying to repeal. She lobbied to be RINO McCain's VP and supported TARP.

Let's get real here. She's an above-average potential conservative candidate but she has sold out at times just like every other potential Republican nominee. She doesn't walk on water and isn't perfect.

34 posted on 07/02/2011 10:42:09 AM PDT by RINOs suck
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To: RINOs suck

I said “conservative”. I have not heard these examples from anyone conservative. I love your tag. Read it.


35 posted on 07/02/2011 10:47:01 AM PDT by carjic (I've always been taught to respect my elders.... but it's getting harder to find any!)
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To: PoloSec; MinuteGal
July 4th would be good...but that is too soon.

I have heard that she must wait for two years after she resigned as Governor to run for another public office or else she would open herself to all kind of lawsuits from those troublemakers in Alaska.....just waiting for an opportunity.

Labor Day sounds great with me.

36 posted on 07/02/2011 10:47:42 AM PDT by mickie
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To: RINOs suck

Michelle has never done anything in her career in government, (nothing), and Cain is wrapping up his run, as his people abandon his campaign.


37 posted on 07/02/2011 10:49:35 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: carjic
I love your tag. Read it

ROTFL, boom!

38 posted on 07/02/2011 10:52:06 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: shield

Who is Jack Wheeler?


39 posted on 07/02/2011 10:52:06 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: RINOs suck
Liberal TROLL alert who attacks our strongest conservative candidate! I see the fear in their socialist eyes!!!

RINOs suck
Since Mar 16, 2011

40 posted on 07/02/2011 10:56:16 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: newfreep; FreeReign
That's John Wheeler....Jack Wheeler is the one man who helped Ronald Reagan complete the Reagan Doctrine...you might do a search and see what an outstanding conservative he is. He has sources most would die to have. Jack Wheeler's web site.
41 posted on 07/02/2011 11:00:32 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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To: onyx

Sarah Palin or bust!!! I`m in, farm and all!

ALL the others are... same old same old. Bachmann hires Ed Rollins, wont be honest enough to tell Iowans that subsidies are not the way to go etc etc

Sarah Palin or bust


42 posted on 07/02/2011 11:02:49 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN OR BUST!!)
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To: carjic
I have not heard these examples from anyone conservative.

So, all these Republicans in the Alaska House and the Republican governor aren't conservative, either?

http://www.adn.com/2011/03/31/1786045/house-approves-massive-oil-tax.html

JUNEAU -- The Alaska House of Representatives voted Thursday night for a massive rollback of the oil profits tax that the lawmakers put in place four years ago.

Neal Foster of Nome was the only Democrat to vote in favor.

Gov. Sean Parnell supported the oil tax when he was her lieutenant governor but is now leading the effort to weaken it, saying he's since become convinced that it hurts oil company investment.

43 posted on 07/02/2011 11:03:32 AM PDT by RINOs suck
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To: Melian
We need lots of Palin and Prayer!

Amen! Keep praying!

44 posted on 07/02/2011 11:05:52 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Big Giant Head

I know. But, she is going to run!


45 posted on 07/02/2011 11:07:15 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Give um’ Hell Doc’ take no prisoners....They need to be held accountable for screwing us all. I am sorry, I am not in a forgiving and loving mood at the moment..


46 posted on 07/02/2011 11:10:04 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: taildragger

I hear you!


47 posted on 07/02/2011 11:13:06 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: biggredd1

I am with Sarah 150% regardless how late she waits.

I can only imagine that the media will be pretty rough for her if she is not in the Aug debate on Fox...I still feel that despite the internet,facebook etc, that the MSM/Fox (Fox is MSM NOW IMHO) still have the ability to affect the masses.

Do not get me wrong, If Sarah wants to wait until Early to mid 2012 I am with her, whatever!!!

Now she did say the other day that IF she got in, she would give 110 % and go through the motions in Iowa,I paraphrase from memory. I assumed from that she would be in the straw poll etc.

She also said Months and months away.

She might get some backlash if she was not in the Fox debate in Iowa..

Sarah Palin or bust...maybe she can skip that also??


48 posted on 07/02/2011 11:13:33 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN OR BUST!!)
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To: RINOs suck

Here’s a clue. Do not come to Sarah Palin threads to hijack the subject of the thread. For your very short time here, you’re already a known PDSer.


49 posted on 07/02/2011 11:13:47 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: onyx
You know the first questions they will ask - "Sarah, (they won't call her 'Governor') you said that you would only enter the race if you think no one is satisfactory - do you think you're better than all the other declared Republican candidates?

Are you better than Romney?

Are you better than Michele Bachmann?

What makes you think you are better than these?

50 posted on 07/02/2011 11:17:03 AM PDT by eCSMaster (We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, WI. It starts here. It starts now.)
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