Posted on 08/04/2010 9:40:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative darling and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed gubernatorial candidate Brian Murphy today, according to a post on her Facebook page. It is the first Palin endorsement in Maryland.
Murphy is running for the state GOP nomination as a more conservative alternative to Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., who has most of the establishment GOP support in the state.
So far, Murphy has not shown up in polls or had much of an impact on the race, but in other states a nod from Palin has given outlying candidates momentum. On the stump Murphy says both Gov. Martin O'Malley and Ehrlich have spent too much state money and says he would cut corporate income taxes and reduce government spending.
Murphys campaign put out the following statement from Palin:
Im honored to endorse Brian Murphy for Governor of Maryland. Brian is a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment commonsense conservative and a firm believer in the free market and the cause for energy independence. As a former energy industry executive and current small business owner, Brian has the private sector experience that is so lacking in government today. He knows how to incentivize industry to get our economy moving again. Together with his running mate for lieutenant governor, Mike Ryman, Brian will provide Maryland with principled and results oriented leadership.
Murphy said in a statement that her endorsement is "an honor and a priviledge."
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Your postings are usually so mature and meaningful --- except those in which you defend Sarah Palin.
This is going to be a very long election season so my advice to you is: Find a way to accept with a degree of graciousness that not everyone is going to agree with you 100% of the time.
Nope
It’s the kind of: “McLame is worthy of your endorsement and the proven fiscally-sane and sound Ehrlich is not?”
So this is “Thanks from a Marylander for making the unknown Brian Murphy a probable “Ross Perot”, dividing the anti O’Malley vote, and saddling us with another 4 years of O’Malley”
Agree . . . here's where the former Gov's two cents should have been kept in her pocket.
Hey, it’s a PRIMARY.
O’Malley is NOT on the ballot in the Republican primary.
He’s not a Ross Perot. He is a candidate in the GOP Primary. If he loses, he won’t be on the November ballot.
She is almost exactly the same age as my younger sister and my wife and I feel the same protectiveness towards her. She and her family have been attacked 24/7 by the national media, democrats, Hollywood and the blogosphere in what we now know was a coordinated way since 2008. Isn’t it telling to you that Mitt Romney and that crowd aren’t being attacked?
You too?
Get a grip, it’s a PRIMARY.
I don’t think anyone’s asking for perfect, nor lockstep ideological compliance. I’m simply saying that the bloom is off the rose maybe a little bit, and I’m not as concerned about her endorsements. I don’t think they will help so much.
She’s 24 for 29 so far. How are Mr. Obama and Governor Romney doing?
Yeah, me too.
I know this area and Palin is most likely splitting the vote in a state we had a chance of winning.
Sometimes her endorsements have a "scatter gun" feel to them. Shooting from the hip without thinking through the consequences on the area she's trying to affect.
I'm concerned that this is a "scatter gun" moment. And not helpful. (IMHO)
She did? When did that happen? You might have just broke a huge story!!
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