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
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.
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.
I don’t see a Team Tim forming any time soon. Team Sarah takes men too, something the article didn’t mention.
Team Sarah is getting a lot of press today, the LA Times carried this same article with slight modifications.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/bal-te.sarah21dec21,0,5435889.story
Women stirred by Palin build political network
By Laura Olson
Tribune Washington Bureau
December 21, 2008
WASHINGTON
Across Shannon McGinley’s hometown of Bedford, N.H., this fall, women were talking about politics.
At school gatherings and Bible study groups, women who had never followed political affairs suddenly were talking about a woman like them - a conservative mother trying to balance family and career.
It started when the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his running mate. Now, more than a month since the political spotlight has turned away from the failed GOP ticket, some of those whom Palin attracted to the political arena are seeking ways to keep a conversation going.
This includes TeamSarah.org, a social networking site launched in September and still reportedly growing.
“It’s a networking thing,” McGinley said. “We didn’t win New Hampshire this time, but I think the benefits of those relationships will be valuable in the future.”
Palin’s emergence in national politics touched a group of women who hadn’t connected with earlier, generally Democratic female politicians, according to Barbara Burrell, a researcher at Northern Illinois University focusing on women and politics - women such as Jackie Siciliano, a 45-year-old New Jersey mother who calls herself conservative-leaning but open-minded. She hadn’t paid attention to the election until Palin’s nomination.
“When I heard her speak and I realized she’s my age and was a member of the PTA, I thought she’s a different kind of person and brings different experiences into the political arena,” Siciliano said.
And just as Palin grabbed the attention of women focused on family and social values, organizers stood ready to rally these troops.
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 anti-abortion group that promotes involvement of women in politics. She and Jane Abraham, chairman of the SBA board, had launched the site as a place for followers to network and promote Palin’s candidacy.
The Web site grew quickly, the organizers say. On the site, members created profiles, browsed blog postings, found volunteer activities and connected with other supporters.
Discussion on the Web-site can become zealous at times. Members talk about what they’re doing to keep Palin’s name going as well as their concerns about President-elect Barack Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate - its authenticity disputed by some persistent critics, though officials in Honolulu have vouched for it. Just as quickly, talk can shift to personal, often mom-centric, topics such as raising teenagers.
Through relationships that Siciliano built on the Web site, she has decided to get more involved and call on voters in battleground states.
McGinley, who coordinated volunteer nights and debate-watching parties through TeamSarah.org, believes these connections will be valuable in helping women meet other like-minded women.
On Nov. 5, after their candidate lost, some found a new cause in the Georgia Senate runoff that Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss faced Dec. 2. Dannenfelser worked with others in assembling telephone banks and volunteers on the ground.
With Chambliss’ victory, the fall contests are mainly finished. But, for now, the team still is talking.
I was in Sweden. I was not paying too much attention. And even I noticed when McCain suspended his campaign to look Senatorial he went from leading to losing in the polls and never recovered.
Anyone who writes a political column really should pay enough attention to have seen that too.
Robert Stacy McCain rocks! You guys should check out his web blog. He’s awesome.
sarah is done. tina finished her. once a pol becomes a running joke or ridicule there is no going back. ask dan qualye potatoe.
unfair and bad for the country but a fact.
"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
Sounds pretty appropriate.
I am all for Sarah. I will vote for her no matter what she runs for. Sarah for President 2012!
I was all set to write in RP, until she came along!
I think McCain won to guarentee an Obama win.
That’s right! Governor Palin is the closest thing to a conservative without baggage that we have. Take care of her!
Not Sarah - — - GOVERNOR, to you!
That's not to discount the current powerhouses and some of the new talent coming up. It depends on how the fault lines break and who steps up to the plate.
I’m not necessarily supporting Sarah for 2012, but at this early juncture, she has earned more battle ribbons than anyone else. She’s hot.
Speaking politically, I mean.
“One of my problems with the “Blame Sarah First” crowd that has scapegoated Sarah Palin for John McCain’s defeat is”
Is that they are extremely ignorant. She helped.