Posted on 12/21/2008 12:50:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One of my problems with the "Blame Sarah First" crowd that has scapegoated Sarah Palin for John McCain's defeat is that they are targeting the only Republican who's generated a strong grassroots following in recent memory. Name any other potential GOP presidential candidate for 2012 -- Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal -- who has anything like Team Sarah:
Now, more than a month since the political spotlight has turned away from the failed GOP ticket and the running mate who rallied so many conservatives, some of those whom Palin drew to the political arena are seeking to keep a conversation going. This includes TeamSarah.org, a social networking site launched in September. . . .
TeamSarah.org -- boasting more than 60,000 members and hoping to top 100,000 by Inauguration Day -- was started in part by a mother of five, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an antiabortion group that promotes the involvement of women in politics. She and Jane Abraham, chairwoman of the group's board, started the site as a place for followers to network and promote Palin.
Team Sarah is the sort of spontaneous Tocquevillean activism that the conservative movement has been woefully lacking lately, and there is no other candidate for 2012 who has anything like it. Any Republican opponent of Palin would have to defeat this rapidly-growing grassroots army in order to take the nomination. And what, pray tell, is the political benefit to the GOP of extinguishing the only genuine enthusiasm in the party?
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
The elitist, financial, club house GOP, INC isn't much for cannon fodder rising beyond their station. Messes up all the interlocking backscratching, favor dealing incest that is the modern GOP.
TeamSarah.org sounds like the kind of group I’d like to be a member of...unless, of course, they’d have me.
I joined when Janine Turner showed up on Fox as as spokesperson for Team Sarah. Janine Turner could tell me to cut my arm off and I would.
The establishment Republicans will always hate Sarah, but they will vote for her in 2012, after being scared out of their wits by the cult of Ogodo.
Proud member of Team Sarah!
Throw your support behind us....
www.teamsarah.org
I did. She should recieve the package any day now.
You are more then welcome to join. I am a member and its an awesome place for Sarah fans to gather and talk
Hey there, whats your user name over there, I’m PalinPower :-)
Bump from another proud member!
BTTT. Joined Team Sarah several weeks ago.
The rally itself was probably one of the most profound moments in my life since it happened just as Sarah was going "rogue" from McCain's mis-campaign and she really let it fly. She was on fire that night and the crowd went wild for her. I've never seen anything like it before.
The Palin detractors are going to find out very fast exactly how much support she has at the grassroots level if and when she runs for the Presidency, and they continue to smear her at their own political peril.
“The elitist, financial, club house GOP, INC isn’t much for cannon fodder rising beyond their station. Messes up all the interlocking backscratching, favor dealing incest that is the modern GOP.”
To put it simply they have turned into Democrats.
Yeeks. The comments on that article at the Spectator were incredible. The hatred/fear of Gov. Palin really does run deep and jagged. She must really be something if she can cause that kind of outbursts in presumably sane individuals reading a Conservative news magazine. Wow.
Woo-hoo - I’m on my way!
I didn’t see a Freeper group. Is there one or should one be started?
Let me know what all of your user names are and I will add you. I am PalinPower, would love to make new friends
I'm glad that McCain lost in the sense that he probably would've continued his back-stabbing RINO ways and would have dragged Palin down with him to where Palin wouldn't be viable in 2012. And who knows if McCain would have actually stepped down in 2012 after one term anyway? He's running for his Senate seat again in 2010 so what does that tell you?
Now with the loss, Palin has been vetted by the media, they can't smear her because it simply won't work, people know who she is, she can make smart decisions now and will have the same experience at the gubernatorial level that Bush had when he ran in 2000. Plus she'll have her own team and won't be under anyone's thumb. She needs to fine-tune her economic skills though.
Just signed up as...Virginia Ridgerunner...who else? ;)
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