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New Narrative for Sarah Palin -- The Wasilla Machiavelli
Yahoo! News Contributor Network ^ | February 18, 2012 | Mark Whittington

Posted on 02/18/2012 2:22:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

One of the more fascinating aspects of writing about Sarah Palin is how other people react so irrationally to her. Julianne Moore, an actress who is purported to play her in an upcoming HBO film "Game Change," does not like her one bit.

Big Hollywood has reported how the actress has trashed the politician she plays, claiming she was "unqualified" to be vice president.

Now a new narrative is arising about the former Alaska governor that is more suggestive of Machiavelli than of a bimbo.

The U.K. Daily Mail suggests, ever so gently, that Palin might be maneuvering to have herself nominated at a brokered Republican convention in August, thus avoiding the messy primary process that has not been edifying for any of the candidates involved.

The Week echoes that view and suggests, by quoting Jim Newell of Wonkette, that a brokered convention has been Palin's plan all along. How else to explain her wish that the primary process continue, by slyly hinting support for Newt Gingrich. The theory is this is less a play to help Gingrich than it is a way to stop Mitt Romney from clinching the nomination.

The scenario works like this: None of the candidates comes to the convention with sufficient delegates to clinch the nomination. The convention becomes deadlocked with ballot after ballot failing to pick a nominee. Then Palin and her activist army goes to work, cutting deals in the great tradition of "The Best Man" and becoming the compromise candidate.

One of the candidates who actually ran -- probably Gingrich -- is given the vice presidential nod....

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Works for me.
1 posted on 02/18/2012 2:22:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, but it won’t happen. It’s not her style.


2 posted on 02/18/2012 2:25:04 PM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sun Tzu.


3 posted on 02/18/2012 2:25:22 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I read the book and enjoyed it. I have no intention of seeing the movie. If you haven't read the book, it portrays the candidates like this: (My characterizations, not the authors)

1. Obama - wise, skillful, thoughtful, adroit, intelligent.

2. Hillary - tough fighter, lost out to Obama because she was outmaneuvered.

3. McCain - affable bumbling lovable oaf.

4. Palin - shrieking screaming PMS mental case she demon from hell.

4 posted on 02/18/2012 2:31:18 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, but it won’t happen. It’s not her style.


5 posted on 02/18/2012 2:32:03 PM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That would require a little more than a "plan". It would require an infallible crystal ball, and any possessing one of those probably should be President.

Machiavelli was a Florentine patriot and a believer in republican government, by the way. As a role model you could do a lot worse.

6 posted on 02/18/2012 2:32:33 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin represents, in her personality and demeanor, everything good, true, and noble in the traditional American character.

It’s no surprise, then, that all those who hate America, and what the nation traditionally represents, despise her.

Slowly, but inexorably, the nation is dividing into two camps - those who love the United States and what she has represented to the world, and those who hate America for resisting the flight to One World, socialist dogma.


7 posted on 02/18/2012 2:33:19 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: GVnana

I think what you seem to being doing, is referred to as “FUD”.

A form of propaganda.


8 posted on 02/18/2012 2:35:38 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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This is ridiculous. A brokered convention will be run by the same people that have pushed McRomDole for the last year. If anybody thinks they will push anybody other than son of McRomDole they are smoking crack.


9 posted on 02/18/2012 2:38:34 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Really? Care to elaborate?


10 posted on 02/18/2012 2:39:06 PM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Really? Care to elaborate?


11 posted on 02/18/2012 2:39:38 PM PST by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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Sarah Palin's New Ping List

"We'll keep our God, our guns, our Constitution!"

12 posted on 02/18/2012 2:42:11 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Daily Mail is a half-assed rag. Some of their “big stories” are so full of internal contradictions and poor to nonexistent editing that you’re far more confused after reading it than before.


13 posted on 02/18/2012 2:42:29 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Week echoes that view and suggests, by quoting Jim Newell of Wonkette, that a brokered convention has been Palin's plan all along.

They are projecting their fears. Isn't 'Wonkette' the publication that has been trashing Sarah Palin from the beginning?

14 posted on 02/18/2012 2:42:43 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kind of like the football coach who plans on the other team fumbling the ball. These analysts are such loons.....But let us say for a moment that they are correct and that she is that clever and scheming. Then that is EXACTLY who I want to be President because at least she will outsmart all the politicians in DC and the rest of the world.

Booyah


15 posted on 02/18/2012 2:42:52 PM PST by Nifster
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16 posted on 02/18/2012 2:45:53 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: GVnana

You seem to be saying Palin’s not a person we should be looking at?

I’ve now done a 180, and have decided I’m supporting (both) Gingrich and Santorum, so that we can force a brokered convention, and then the real fight begins to get Palin as our nominee.

You seem to be trying to downplay Palin’s likelihood?

No? If so, sorry.


17 posted on 02/18/2012 2:47:37 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: GVnana
"Yeah, but it won’t happen. It’s not her style."

We don't know what went on with her and Him. We are mere mortals.

We have absolutely NO idea what He has in store for us. It could be our total destruction or salvation.

Time will tell.

18 posted on 02/18/2012 2:50:12 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I like Palin, but is there even a “likelihood” to be downplayed? The phrase “snowball’s chance in hell” comes to mind.


19 posted on 02/18/2012 2:53:29 PM PST by vladimir998
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20 posted on 02/18/2012 2:55:11 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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