Posted on 12/03/2011 11:42:06 AM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
When people were attacking Sarah Palin and calling her damaged, unelectable, too polarizing..ect..I said that we needed to stand by Palin because the media will use the same type of attacks against other conservative candidates as long as they work. Look at the current crop of candidates, how does Sarah Palin look now ?
The lesson to be learned here is that we need to fight and stop trying to appease the liberal media. Too many Republicans stopped supporting Sarah Palin so they could find a candidate that is more acceptable to the main stream media. Its very disturbing.
If Sarah had run, she’d be on her way to the nomination right now. Unfortunately, she CHOSE not to run.
Paging Sarah Palin - Please pick up the white courtesy telephone.
Maybe they just didn't like her.
You were right? How about everyone here who said she wouldn't run?
Were they right? Where is your thread about that?
one word....baggage
Show me a candidate that doesnt have baggage. What did Sarah do that was so horrible ?
The Left is organized around propaganda. From seeding news organizations with their operatives to networks like Journolist, they have a coordinated attack on the Right, which is populated by befuddled Mr. Magoo's who routinely get blindsided.
Either the Right gets a grip on this and retaliates or we all end up slaves of the latter day Bolsheviks.
Sarah Palin made her own decision. Placing blame upon others is childish and unbecoming of a conservative.
The problem with being a conservative is that we have morals and standards to which we (attempt the best we can) hold our leaders (or, to be more technically correct, our “public servants”).
I really wanted Cain to do well. He lost my support not just because of the lefty/Dem race baiting (”Colored Boy Gropes White Woman!”) but because his grasp of the issues (outside of “9-9-9”) just wasn’t up to snuff.
Where Sarah would be at this point in some hypothetical alternative universe in which she was running is moot. At the moment, she’s not running and we have to choose amongst the least worst options that are available to us.
Politics ain’t bean bag, baby.
That , and a couple of bucks will get you a bag of popcorn.
Palin (correctly) ascertained that she would not get any backing from the Republican establishment ... that backing would to go Romney almost exclusively.
We will get what we deserve.
We always do.
On to Bachmann, then (shudder!) Newt.
After that, write in Palin.
NO Cheers, unfortunately.
déjà vu
Rockefeller v. Goldwater
Watch out for those Party dudes. They play for keeps. I remember.
In the words of Nelson Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
I recall that following the 1964 election a small number of liberal media types asking did they go too far trying to destroy Goldwater.
Some say that Romney, whose dad George was in the Rockefeller crowd if I remember correctly, was behind the effort to destroy Herman Cain as a member of the human race -- and yes they'll do the same to Palin, et al.
You are right up that the left stays on message and are able to unite. However, Sara quit; which may or may not have been a good thing for her which I am not saying.
We need a strong candidate to work with. I nominate that Anne Barnheart(not sure that is her last name) from CO who was threatened by the Islams a few weeks back. She would stand.
Now Newt Gingrich is certainly more polarizing.
I believe her when she said her family didn’t want her to run...I also respect her decision...the only thing that bothers me is she could have told her supporters earlier, she left them dangling for too long...not good
Just what "baggage" does Palin have that was not flat-out fabricated by the Romney-Obama mob and the media?
I think there is a lot of us that keep thinking (hoping) that media was remotely fair that the Republican party was an actual separate party and not just the same political thespians dancing stage right on the political stage with red leotards pulled neatly up over their neutered loins.
unfortunately, her daughter.
whether it’s fabricated or not, it’s still baggage in the voters’ eyes, just as the fabricated accusations against Cain got to be “baggage” that took its toll.
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