Posted on 08/18/2010 6:14:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Senate candidate that had backing from the Tea Party, Clint Didier garnered about 12 percent of the vote on Tuesday’s primary election.
Didier relied heavily on his endorsement from Sarah Palin for his bid against Republican Dino Rossi.
Didier says although Palin didn’t come to Washington, her backing still helped his campaign.
Clint Didier: “Let me tell you what, don’t you take anything away from Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin is working her tail off for this country. She’s been all over this country to different states. She’s going where she thinks she can do the most good, I just thank her for her efforts.”
He’s best known for his NFL football career. Late Tuesday night Didier said he hasn’t decided yet if he will run for elected office again.
Cece Heil wasn’t exactly a great pick in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, either. A Harvard lawyer who, yes, was conservative, but was a bit dry and waaaaay less organized than other candidates.
She came in third.
The endorsement of Karen Handel in Georgia was a big mistake. Sarah may have thought it was great to support a woman but Handel is a RINO from way back. Luckily she did not win the nomination.
I'm not so sure about that. Nathan Deal has real ethics issues and may suffer a grand jury indictment in October. Palin stayed away from Deal because of his past, not because he was a conservative.
Handel would have run well, and probably would have won.
Best,
Chris
One of the main benefits of electing Palin would be that it would cause the left media personalities to froth at the mouth. It would be entertaining to watch Chrissy Matthews’ eyes bug out in rage. Ratigan would probably need a straight jacket....
No question that she is a very good looking woman ;-)
Plenty of women are attractive, but you ignore the fact that she was the most popular Governor in America, and probably the most popular elected official in America, with an approval rating that reached 93%.
Palin is a unifier.
She had the highest approval rating of any governor from the citizens of her own state. That is not the same as being the most popular governor in America generally - I don’t even think there is polling on that. I also don’t think that she was ever the most popular elected official in America. When her numbers were high in Alaska no one knew who she was. When she got famous the left smeared her (completely unfairly) and drove her negatives way up.
I don’t see anyone better with a shot, but being a “unifier” isn’t what we need. We need someone who is going to crush the liberals, drive them from government and our institutions, and amputate most federal programs. I don’t think she will do it or even understands why we have no choice if we are going to avoid a complete disintegration of the country’s social fabric. On the other hand, the other “leading” candidates are far less likely to understand what needs to be done than Palin. Nevertheless, I don’t see anyone better with a prospect of winning, so she has my vote.
Phyllis is a wonderful Christian woman, and because of this, would be too polarizing - much as Sarah is. However, I think Phyllis would be too far right for some.
She is also too old. I was just using her as an example.
Geerally, if we don’t get someone in office ASAP who will do exactly what needs to be done, we’re done. Politics is not far from being over in this country. Polarization is necessary, and the left needs to be driven into caves. Better yet, deport them.
“That is not the same as being the most popular governor in America generally - I don’t even think there is polling on that.”
Of course not, that would be stupid, the most popular Governor in America means within their state, the highest approval, for instance Mitt Romney left office with 34% approval.
I can’t help that you didn’t know who Palin was but I did and she was high on the list of possible veeps.
Here is a freeper thread on her as veep, from 2007. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1888693/posts?page=46#46
Here is where she was on intrade.
INTRADE STATUS AUGUST 1, 2008-”GOP Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, currently tied for third among possible Vice Presidential running mates for John McCain on Intrade”
Here is the Weekly standard take on her in 2007.
The Most Popular Governor
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
BY Fred Barnes WEEKLY STANDARD
July 16, 2007, Vol. 12, No. 41
“The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they’ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle—especially to transparency and accountability in government—can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. But she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who’d been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.”
In 2006, she didn’t hesitate. She ran against Gov. Murkowski, who was seeking a second term despite sagging poll ratings, in the Republican primary. In a three-way race, Palin captured 51 percent and won in a landslide. She defeated former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, 49 percent to 41 percent. She was one of the few Republicans anywhere in the country to perform above expectations in 2006, an overwhelmingly Democratic year. Palin is unabashedly pro life.
With her emphasis on ethics and openness in government, “it turned out Palin caught the temper of the times perfectly,” wrote Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News. She was also lucky. News broke of an FBI investigation of corruption by legislators between the primary and general elections. So far, three legislators have been indicted.
In the roughly three years since she quit as the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the “body count” of Palin’s rivals. “The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah,” says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called “Voice of the Times,” which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp?pg=1
Amen! Didier gained experience this election. In another two years, he can try again.
Don't let the media convince you of something that isn't true, Palin brings people together like Reagan did, dividers barely win and they never get widespread support.
Palin and Reagan both won widespread acceptance and won people's support, Palin for example had incredibly high approval ratings while she was gutting the politically corrupt machine in Alaska, she was unifying the people into her crusade, just like Reagan did.
Your goals can be harsh, but your politicking has to be winning and uniting, or else you lose the election and no one knows or cares what you wanted to do.
God bless him. He's a patriot. It sux to live and run as a conservative for elected office in WA state.
If you haven’t already, I’d recommend you read her book.
Clint will be back for another go.
What makes you popular in Alaska will make you very unpopular in other places - California, New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington, just to name a few.
No one can “unify” the country because we have become several very different groups of people. The real issue is whether someone conservative can win in 2012. Maybe she can - I don’t see anyone else.
As for being well known, Palin was hardly known as anything more than a name outside of ALaska in 2008 before McCain added her to the ticket. Very few people expected a rookie governor from Alaska to be chosen.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Look at any of the county-by-county maps from recent national elections -- people all over the country, even in the "bluest" states, outside of the major metropolitan areas, tend Republican/conservative. There really isn't much difference from region to region... except for the cities and their outlying suburbs -- pockets of blue in seas of red.
Intrade had her third.
As far as her being popular which seems immensly important to you, she is the most popular Republican possible of 2012, as a supposed conservative, that should thrill you that she is so well positioned with the conservative base to take the primary.
PPP Poll 8/16/10
Of the expected GOP presidential contenders for 2012, Palin proved the most popular with 76 percent reporting a favorable opinion of her and only 17 percent viewing her unfavorably.
Gingrich scored second highest with a 65 percent favorability rating, followed relatively closely by Huckabee at 62 percent and Romney at 57 percent.
So, Intrade had her third. You could have polled Rs in July and asked them who Palin was and hardly anyone would have known.
Her popularity is only important for getting elected. She hardly “thrills” me in any respect, but Gingrich, Romney, and Romney are nausea inducing.
If you want to keep attacking Palin and wasting our time you will have to do better than whining about how you were totally unaware of one the biggest rising GOP stars before the liberal media told you about her.
Go start a vanity thread where people can talk about which Governors were known the best before the 2008 election if it interests you that much. No wonder you can seem so politically confused and baffled in August of 2010.
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