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Earthquake? Governor Palin Changes Facebook Status From ‘Republican’ to ‘Conservative’
Conservatives4Palin ^ | Friday October 14, 2011

Posted on 10/14/2011 9:01:22 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Ok guys … Is this just a minor thing? Or a big deal? I’ll let you speculate on what it means ….

Here’s the news reported by the Sarah Palin Blog:

I was walking through the grocery store earlier today when I received a text message from a close friend asking me if I had taken note of the change on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page.  I confessed that it had been an exceptionally busy day and that I had not looked at Palin’s page today.  My friend then brought to my attention that under the “Info” link, Palin’s political views have been changed from “Republican” to “Conservative”.  For a brief moment, it didn’t phase me as I am also a registered Republican but I chose to list “Conservative” on my Facebook page as my own political view because in my eyes, it more aptly describes my values.

I suppose one could draw a multitude of conclusions regarding this status change. I know that I certainly have. You can be certain that any move Sarah Palin makes has been well thought out and is with purpose.  Could she possibly be sending a message to the RNC that they need to strengthen the conservative planks of the Republican party?  Perhaps her promise of “sudden and  relentless reform” as addressed in her Indianola speech and more recently in her October 7th St. Louis speech is a sign that as in the past, neither party is safe from her scrunity.

One thing is for sure, time will tell.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: conservative; establishment; falsealarm; getoverit; palin; republicanparty; sarahpalin; whocares
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To: Bigtigermike

“I will not be a candidate for the REPUBLICAN nomination...”


121 posted on 10/15/2011 7:13:41 AM PDT by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Mine has always been ‘Conservative.’


122 posted on 10/15/2011 7:14:13 AM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: Perdogg

She said she was not supporting a third party AT THIS TIME.


123 posted on 10/15/2011 7:14:43 AM PDT by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
Cain has been vetted by those of us here in Georgia

He never held office in Georgia, so how could you "vet" him?

He ran for office, but lost with only 26% of the vote in a primary. Hopefully, that isn't what you meant by "vetted", because he'll need a bit more than that to win the nomination.

The other poster is right. Cain sounds good, but a lot of candidates sound good -- the argument is over their record in public office. Perry would sound like the perfect candidate if he wasn't talking about and explaining actions he took when he was a successful governor for 10 years.

Cain has some business executive experience, but not only is that entirely different from government executive experience, it also is private -- you have little visibility into the decisions he actually made.

A private executive, even one who runs a subsidiary like Cain started with and has to answer to superiors, is a dictatorship. As president, he made decisions, and they happened. He didn't have to compromise, didn't have to sell, didn't have to get someone to vote for most things. He may have had to convince a board of scared office-holders who thought their company was going under.

We already know that conservatives are scared to death of a President of the United States who acts like a dictator.

Anyway, "The elites are scared of him" is both a meaningless statement meant to sound serious but it isn't, and in fact it doesn't appear to even be true. Romney, who by any measure is the elite's candidate, LOVES Cain, and says nothing bad about him. I haven't seen any "elites" attacking Cain. Maybe they will later when he's the only candidate left other than Romney.

So, having "vetted" him in Georgia, how does Cain handle things when he has to compromise? We have no real evidence. We have ONE clue:

Cain supports the FairTax. Fairtax eliminates the income tax and replaces it with a sales tax. But Cain doesn't think we can pass the Fairtax. So before day one, before he even TRIES to push the plan he supports, he came up with a bastardized, hybrid version called "9-9-9", which he readily admits is sub-optimal, and is a compromise of what we CAN do. He hopes to get to the Fairtax later.

And then, within the 9-9-9 plan, whose biggest selling point is supposedly that we ALL have skin in the game, he exempted sales of used items, because the poor people can buy used things and not pay taxes. And then he added 'enterprize zones', where some preferred localities (based on I guess their ability to lobby for it) get to be tax-free, while their neighbors have to pay taxes.

This will "revililize" run-down places, but encouraging businesses to pull out of healthy, productive areas of the country and move to the places that couldn't support business. It rewards failure by giving it a tax break.

That is the ONE clue we have as to how Cain handles not being able to dictate his way.

Cain sounds great. He's a conservative talk show host on conservative radio, and he knows what his audience wants to hear, and so far as I can tell he truly believes everything he says. But we don't know how that will translate into governance, because he's never governed anything.

124 posted on 10/15/2011 7:26:31 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Friendofgeorge

Very important to remember this: if you count all the Democrat sinners and all the Republican sinners, you come out equal.

I believe Cain knows it.


125 posted on 10/15/2011 8:05:23 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Governor Palin: "I'm not for sale.")
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To: Bigtigermike

I wonder if God told her to change it from Republican to conservative?


126 posted on 10/15/2011 8:06:07 AM PDT by jla (Who says Perry's a conservative? - Rush, Inhofe, Levin & Sowell do.)
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To: Perdogg

I don’t think those are her exact words.

I think it was more like she had no intention of initiating a 3rd party run.

That leaves a bit of a door open for her to run as a candidate for an already established alternative party.


127 posted on 10/15/2011 8:09:21 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: jla

Do you really wonder this?


128 posted on 10/15/2011 8:10:00 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Governor Palin: "I'm not for sale.")
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To: TsonicTsunami08

Lets ask her to. I don’t see why not. Start sending her PAC and office e mails and posting on her Facebook she needs to endorse the top Conservative in the race now, to stop Romney, and that would be HERMAN CAIN.


129 posted on 10/15/2011 8:12:12 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Herman Cain will be the nominee of the GOP! The momentum is unmistakeable. The Dems/RINOs hate it.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Can you do me a favor and give an example of a decision or a duty inherent to “governing” which is beyond the capabilities of a leader from the private sector?


130 posted on 10/15/2011 8:16:26 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Governor Palin: "I'm not for sale.")
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To: jla

I ask the question because it’s not always clear when a person is using sarcasm.

If your post was honest, it’s a fair question although in my opinion God doesn’t get involved in questions of such a politically specific nature.

But if you ask in sarcasm, you’re mocking God. Please don’t do this.

Glorify God, always.


131 posted on 10/15/2011 8:29:20 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Governor Palin: "I'm not for sale.")
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To: P-Marlowe; wmfights

ping

Significant?

Is she saying “I’m done with the lousy backstabbers?”

I understand she got standing O after standing O at a speech to women at Liberty last week.....Christian content.

Wonder what’s happening?


132 posted on 10/15/2011 8:31:36 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: reasonisfaith

Speaking as a dirty rotten sinner myself, saved by grace of The Lord Jesus Christ alone.

I still find it a easy decision to not vote for candidates/parties that support infanticide and removal of Christ from the public square/classroom. So I do not understand how someone could attend such a Church as Cain does.


133 posted on 10/15/2011 8:54:51 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2012 OR FLIPPIN BUST)
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To: xzins; All

"I don’t think those are her exact words."

Please refer to this at the 2:50 minute, here are her exact words


Mark Levin "....are you considering Third-party?"

Sarah Palin "I would assume that a third party would just guarantee obama's reelection and that is the last thing our republic can afford, so the consideration is not there for a third party, no."

What part of this is hard to understand and what part of this leaves the door open?
134 posted on 10/15/2011 9:01:30 AM PDT by Perdogg (I will support any Republican candidate against 0bama in 2012)
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To: Perdogg

Her saying that she “assumes” those things would be the case.

She might get more info that makes that assumption invalid.

Assumptions are not facts.


135 posted on 10/15/2011 9:04:50 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: xzins

LOL - okay.


136 posted on 10/15/2011 9:07:25 AM PDT by Perdogg (I will support any Republican candidate against 0bama in 2012)
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To: Perdogg

BTW, I will not vote for Romney for any reason.


137 posted on 10/15/2011 9:13:40 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: Bigtigermike; All
Hell hath no Fury like a Women Scorned.

My guess is the GOP pulled some shenanigans against her ability to run by moving her filing forward, or something to do with her family.

Payback IMHO will be a "Beeotch" when she endorses a Conservative not a Republican...

The NE Checkpants Republicans will rue the day they messed with Sarah....

138 posted on 10/15/2011 9:14:17 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Bigtigermike; All
Hell hath no Fury like a Women Scorned.

My guess is the GOP pulled some shenanigans against her ability to run by moving her filing forward, or something to do with her family.

Payback IMHO will be a "Beeotch" when she endorses a Conservative not a Republican...

The NE Checkpants Republicans will rue the day they messed with Sarah....

139 posted on 10/15/2011 9:15:15 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Perdogg
Sarah Palin “I would assume that a third party would just guarantee obama’s reelection...

Did she really say assume. Interesting that little caveat.

140 posted on 10/15/2011 9:20:55 AM PDT by McGruff (www.conservativepartyusa.com - Check it out)
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