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Tea Party Group Drafting Sarah Palin to Run for Alaska Senate
US News and World Report's Washington Whispers ^ | April 30, 2013 | Elizabeth Flock

Posted on 04/30/2013 2:32:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

"Do the words 'Senator Sarah Palin' excite you?"

That's the opening line of a recent email by The Tea Party Leadership Fund, which is trying to draft the former Alaska governor and past Fox News commentator to run for the Senate in 2014. The fund argues Palin has a clear path to victory in part due to recent polling showing incumbent Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat, with less than 50 percent of the vote.

But, it being a draft, the group hasn't talked with Palin about whether or not she's interested. And Palin – whose PAC didn't respond to request for comment from Whispers – is believed to be currently residing in Arizona, not Alaska. The fund's Niger Innis says the interest of Tea Party members in a Palin run, however, is clear.

"We didn't know that [the draft] was going to catch fire to the degree that it has. And what that tells us is that this is just the beginning," he says. "It's gone viral."

But not all Tea Party groups are enthused about drafting Palin without first gauging her interest....

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Alaska; Campaign News; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014; ak2014; alaska; begich; gop; gopprimary; palin; republicans; sarahpalin; teaparty; teapartyrebellion
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To: Pollster1

Imagine Palin vs Fienstien on the Senate floor...Or Reid...Or Grhamm...or McCain...

Oh, the mind reels at the joy of it.


21 posted on 04/30/2013 3:00:07 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d vote for her.


22 posted on 04/30/2013 3:02:03 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Tea Party Group Drafting Sarah Palin to Run for Alaska Senate”

They are talking about a run for the US Senate, not Alaska Senate.

People who write for these major publications are illiterate.


23 posted on 04/30/2013 3:02:06 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: KC_Lion
She is a G-dly Woman (just look at her and Trig alone) and yet we suck up to a man who blesses Babies to die in a closet.

She is a G-dly Woman (just look at her and Trig alone) and yet we they suck up to an man evil who blesses Babies to die in a closet.

24 posted on 04/30/2013 3:04:00 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

It’s this Tea Party’s aspiration for her, not her’s.


25 posted on 04/30/2013 3:04:06 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: KC_Lion

“God Bless Planned Parenthood”
- Barack Hussein Obama

“May God bless those who respect a culture of life in America.”
- Sarah Heath Palin

The contrast is amazing. How could enough people vote for Obama to put him within the margin of fraud? How could enough people stand silently by to allow the far left to silence those who share Sarah’s values? I will not be silent - anywhere.


26 posted on 04/30/2013 3:04:31 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
A Senate run at this point is beneath her.

Agreed. It's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or nothing.

27 posted on 04/30/2013 3:06:25 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: The Cajun

Yep, me too.


28 posted on 04/30/2013 3:07:49 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

That would be awesome!!

This country needs her now more than ever!!


29 posted on 04/30/2013 3:07:58 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: presently no screen name
Know that.
That's why I'm hoping she is aiming higher herself.
Like I've always said though, her decision.
30 posted on 04/30/2013 3:10:03 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: penelopesire

BUMP.


31 posted on 04/30/2013 3:11:02 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
WTF does that mean?

Thank you for your concern 2ndDivisionVet. But frankly, I'm not sure where to start.

Military issues aside, basically the only reason that many patriots regard the Oval Office as the most powerful office in the land is because they have never gotten themselves up to speed on the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.

For example, for "government" services like Social Security and healthcare, it means that many patriots don't seem to understand that the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific powers to tax and spend for such services. This is why I've been posting, ad nauseum, Justice John Marshall's official clarification that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially issues which Congress cannot justify under its Section 8, Article I limited powers.

“"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

In fact, where federal domestic policy is concerned, practically the only power that the president has to regulate what can arguably be regarded as intrastate commerce is to sign bills from Congress which affect postal services (Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution). Otherwise, regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to believe about Congress's Commerce Clause powers, Congress has no power to regulate intrastate commerce.

Again, neither the Oval Office, or the rest of the federal government for that matter, should be regarded as the most powerful offices in the land where domestic policy is concerned.

32 posted on 04/30/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I disagree...it might be the best way for her to get to 1600 after everything the liberals and GOPe smeared her with. What better way for her to show this country her true colors and integrity than to be a sitting senator of the Great state of Alaska?

I think it is a marvelous idea!!


33 posted on 04/30/2013 3:17:09 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: penelopesire; onyx; The Cajun; Windflier
She will keep them up at night no matter what!


34 posted on 04/30/2013 3:22:04 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

As a new AZ resident, I would like to see her primary McPain out.

She can run for governor at the same time.


35 posted on 04/30/2013 3:22:34 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: onyx; All

I want to hear Sarah tell us her intentions. She knows the lay of the land and it is she that I trust and will support her with every once of effort while supporting her decision.


36 posted on 04/30/2013 3:32:15 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This way sarah was treated by "good-old"-Republicans in last year's election cycle was disgusting.

I'm all agaisnt Democrats (used to be one), heavily against Republicans (the pubs against Palin), and all for Sarah in future elections.

37 posted on 04/30/2013 3:32:33 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: OldNavyVet; RedMDer
I want to hear Sarah tell us her intentions. She knows the lay of the land and it is she that I trust and will support her with every once of effort while supporting her decision.

This way sarah was treated by "good-old"-Republicans in last year's election cycle was disgusting.

I'm all agaisnt Democrats (used to be one), heavily against Republicans (the pubs against Palin), and all for Sarah in future elections

I just wanted to tell both of you that both your posts are extremely witty, worthy of Sarah herself, and that I will be shamelessly stealing them in the future ;p

I Hope you Understand!

Sarah brings us all together, Repubs, Conservatives, Democrats, Libertarians.

Go Sarah!!!


38 posted on 04/30/2013 3:43:59 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion


39 posted on 04/30/2013 3:47:58 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin/West 2016


40 posted on 04/30/2013 3:49:00 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("God bless Planned Parenthood"- B.H.Obama, 2013)
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