Posted on 11/09/2010 10:58:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite its considerable gains in the midterm elections, the GOP has a problem looming in the margins named Sarah Palin.
She who can rouse the base like none other is now She to Whom Respect Must Be Paid. Like it or not.
Many within the so-called party establishment don't quite know what to do about Palin. She's adored by Tea Partyers, to whom she conveniently attached herself as soon as she sensed a shift in the air. A rogue like Palin isn't going to let a rogue movement fill a stadium - or a desert - without her.
She also had some luck with her gambles on midterm endorsements, at least in the U.S. House and a couple of state elections, notably South Carolina Gov.-elect Nikki Haley. Palin's Mama Grizzly shtick, which followed her pit bull-with-lipstick shtick, apparently was effective. She had a less-stellar record in the Senate, with only six of her 11 anointed ones winning.
Thus, Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama recently had the audacity to assert what heretofore had been relegated to whispers behind closed doors: "Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate."
Bachus, who is likely to replace Barney Frank as chair of the House Financial Services Committee, noted that Palin endorsed some Senate candidates who couldn't possibly win, such as Christine O'Donnell in Delaware...
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It’d fracture the conservatives. Palin followers would refuse to vote for a less conservative candidate should Sarah not take the primary. Just look at any thread on FR and you’ll see it already shaping up.
Of course worst case scenario is a Perot situation, (or more recently Murkowski or Crist)...but I think Palin is much too smart to go third party.
Palin could trigger a civil war in the Republican party and cause Obama to be easily re-elected. There are already tensions building in some of the state governments between Tea Party favorites and establishment Republicans.
The 2012 GOP primary is going to get ugly and dirty. The establishment will do anything it can to sabotage whoever the tea party supports, and then they would hope the RINO could ride the wave to win over Obama. That’s going to be the establishment’s plan.
There is also the question of whether or not independents would ever support someone like Palin. She’s very popular among the Tea Party and much of the GOP. But outside of that, a lot of people are not too sure about her.
Nothing like inviting flame wars. You posted your opinion. There was no need to insult or bait Sarah Palin supporters. Sheesh.
FWIW, election 2012 will likely be all about repealing obamacare, so have a look at this recent Rasmussen poll:
Take special note of the INDEPENDENTS.
>>Nothing like inviting flame wars. You posted your opinion. There was no need to insult or bait Sarah Palin supporters. Sheesh. <<
You are joking, right?
I invite you to attend any Palin thread and say the truth: she is unelectable and a problem.
Then suggest I have somehow “invited” flaming by speaking the bare bones truth.
No, I wasn't joking. You posted the above and that's flame bait.
You posted "your" opinion and I replied to you civilly and posted a Rasmussen poll that "refudiated" your opinion.
Your opinion, isn't the "bare bones truth." It's merely, "your" opinion.
Rasmussen polled a lot more people than you, for their opinions, but his poll is not set in cement either.
I couldn't agree with you more!
The best ever.
this “lady” has no clue
"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"
Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"
Rove has made no secret of his support for Romney as McCains VP.
The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romneys former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:
Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"
Sarah has already won.
The Republican Party and maybe the Conservatives may be finished politically when the Republican Party, with lots of Democrat help in the primaries, nominates Romney in 2012.
It would seem that you enjoy the give and take of a “flame war.” Sometimes it doesn’t happen naturally, though, and you have to write something deliberately provocative. That is a way to get sparks but does not contribute to any effort to convince anyone of anything other than your own penchant for getting a “yelling” match going.
I just wish the GOP would admit that Romney’s kind of “republicanism” went out 30 years ago.
Which Bachus actually said in the same speech, in which he PRAISED the tea party and Sarah Palin.
His comment about the Senate was in the form of a "yes-but" discussion. Like pointing out a couple of negatives while saying the result was overwhelmingly positive.
Nobody who reads Bachus' entire speech would think he was saying Palin and the tea party should have stayed out of the race. He was a strong supporter of what they did. He simply thinks we could have won the senate, and seems to think we need to do a better job picking conservative candidates who can win.
Not that the candidates were Palin's fault -- she didn't hand-pick the people and convince them to run, and so far as I can remember, she didn't endorse Buck or Angle before their primaries.
He didn’t criticise her; he was praising her and the tea party, and as an aside mentioned that there was a downside to the election, something I think we all agree on, since we don’t in fact have control of the senate.
I see the Wednesday installments of “Stop Sarah Palin Week” begin with the ever-reliable Kathleen Parker.........
LOL
Who’s due Thursday? I sometimes forget the columnists’ schedules.
“If Rep. Bauchus would like a perfect candidate, maybe he should seek out Jesus Christ.”
Well said my good sir
I can't quote the exact line (and I admit it wasn't quite this explicit) but in a 2008 anti-Palin column Parker came right out and admitted that Palin gives her husband...um...shall we say, evidence of arousal?
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