Posted on 01/04/2009 1:09:33 PM PST by GATOR NAVY
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If Sarah Palin has hopes of holding the White House in four years, according to our poll, shell have to run from the Governors mansion.
It would not be intelligent for Governor Palin to seek a Senate seat to further her chances of beating a sitting president in 2012. It would also be an unnecessary strain on her family.
- It's kinda hard to "hold the White House" when Obama is the incumbent.
- Contrary to popular opinion, the Senate is not a great place to run for president from. I admit that it is a pretty good place from which to run for the presidential nomination of a party - but Warren G. Harding is the only example of a senator without executive experience defeating a governor in the general election.
Senator Kennedy beat VP Nixon, but VP is political heir of the president but in no sense an executive position; one of them had to win. When Nixon beat VP Humphrey, one of them had to win, and when Senator Obama beat Senator McCain one of them had to win.
You would think that with all the repubs heading off to the big house and into political obscurity over corruption issues; they'd figure it's time to look in the mirror; probably never happen.
We're actually quite lucky Palin aspired to higher goals than Wasilla; without her, Ak would have alot more dems in office. Palin gave the conservatives hope up here, when many were disillusioned about their party.
I don't hear any conservatives complaining about Palin, they are all quite proud of what she has achieved and even prouder, that she went after corrupt repubs, about time. When Lisa Murkowskis name comes up, everybody remembers that she was appointed by her dad;; all the nepotism. Murkowski will never live that down, no matter what she does.
I figure Palin will continue to do the right thing as she has done since the 90's; all she needs to do to win a primary up here as a conservative. Quite foolish to put any faith in polls in Alaska.
That is exactly what she should tell them Sarge.
Palin-Hannity in 2012 is a winning ticket should Obamanation prove to be a failure.
Palin would have a tough time beating Murkowski. In fact, in a Republican primary, Murkowski would defeat Palin soundly, by a margin of 58 percent to 31 percent.Contrast this result with those of the kos-sponsored poll which shows Palin soundly defeating Murkowski by a 55 percent to 31 percent margin, and it's clear that something is amiss here. Which of the two polls is correct?
New poll shows Palin no longer Alaska's most popular politicianDo you see what is going on here? The Democrat left is exploiting internal rivalries within the Alaska Republican Party in an attempt to weaken Palin's front-runner standing with Republicans nationwide. That some of Palin's harshest critics are self-described conservatives matters not at all. When the political left and their media allies shout "Jump!" the response from Palin's GOP enemies is always "How high?"
Heres an excerpt from Kaylene Johnsons bio of Palin:
Meanwhile, the [Republican] old guard didnt know what to make of the young populist candidate, especially when she began moving up in the polls despite their best efforts to either discredit her or support her opponents.Anyone who was part of the establishment fought against her. [Talk show host] Dan Fagan clawed, fought, ridiculed, embarrassed, and deliberately misrepresented Sarah, Bailey said. Disparaging remarks on radio programs sometimes backfired. Fagan showed up at the Palin campaign headquarters one morning to clarify a point before his daily show. Waiting at the front desk was a man who took one look at Fagan and dug out his checkbook. This is your fault, he said, waving his checkbook in the air. Every time you bash this woman on the air, Im down here writing another $500 check. Cut it out. [emphasis added]
He's always been out to destroy her and her credibility. Here's Palin ripping him a new one on his radio show. It's quite amusing. The guy is a gutless worm.
Oh, and he is also the one that Palin's Lt. Governor Sean Parnell mentioned in one of the private emails that was released after it was hacked. In that particular email, Parnell bemoaned the fact that Dan Fagan had targeted him and was slinging crap at him. Parnell had tried to change Alaska's lifelong Congressman Young in the Republican primaries. Idiots like Dan Fagan like keeping corrupt old pork politicians in place.
I'm sorry to say this, but the Alaska GOP establishment is everything that's wrong with the GOP. If they hate Palin, then she's fine by me.
Awesome post! Thanks, Josh. However, I must correct you on the Dan Fagan thing. He’s never been Palin’s friend. Perhaps they were briefly “frienemies” right after Palin won the GOP gubernatorial nomination in 2006, but that was it.
I hope the hell Sarah Palin doesn’t run for the Senate. What a waste of her talent, to join that collection of turds.
gush in cult like fashion, I caught that too, all that made me do is disqualify everything else the writer had to say.
Terrific post. That the establishment is scared shitless of politicians like Palin is obvious. That they're stirring up crap in Alaska doesn't do Alaska any good. Palin even wanting a senate seat seeems comical to me. That's where political dead wood goes to rot. She is way better than that. Usually when the MSM wants a Republican out of the picture, they just ignore them to death. In Palin's case,they're still actively dis-informing. I aint playing that game. I think we all see where this is coming from, and the ultimate end desired.
LOL Sarah isn’t even gonna run for Senate, Lisa can keep it. The Senate is full of corruption and greed. WOW the libs are truly scared of this woman aren’t they. Are they really gonna be doing this kind of crap to her for the next 4 years to keep her from running, WOW. I have never seen such fear, the fear from the left tells me that we got our nominee, they are THAT scared that she is gonna run, it’s gonna be a longgggggggg 4 years
Not really! Everyone knows that the 1960 election was stolen for Kennedy by Richard J. Daley and Lyndon Johnson.
Fagboy is a serial Palin hit-piece guy, and the Left apparently loves his "homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, Exxon-loving WATB" self because he hates Palin.
Comment left at http://thealaskastandard.com/?q=node/232#comment-605 the host of this garbage poll:
If you don’t get the results you want, conduct your own poll
Submitted by curth on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 9:04pm.
This poll is pure BS. The Daily Kos, the DAILY KOS of all things, conducted a similar poll only a few weeks ago and unbelievably, got very unsimilar results. Obviously those who sponsored the poll on this site, did not like seeing that Governor Palin would win a Senate race by a 55-31 margin, so they made up their own poll.This poll here is nothing but another hit piece against Governor Palin.
Hopefully she’ll stay as Governor and avoid the cesspool that the US Senate is.
See the Daily Kos poll here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/19/163122/92/701/674605
The Daily Kos - not a Palin fan - had Palin leading Murkowski by a huge margin.
It’s interesting to see how favorably skewed this Dittman poll is toward Murkowski. It only takes a few minutes worth of research to dig up all the contributions Terry Dittman and David Dittman have given to the Murkowskis (both Frank and Lisa) over the years including a $500 donate to Lisa Murkowski as recent as May 2008. David Dittman’s contributions to Frank Murkowski go back almost 30 years to 1980.
Also, Dittman was Frank Murkowski’s paid pollster until the whole VECO debacle. So, just how accurate is this poll? If a lay person can find enough information on the Internet in five minutes to question the validity of this news story, how come you can’t?
Please see post #28 for your Palin Pinger archives! :)
Sarah will simply build stronger callouses and be even stronger than ever! Jeez...I never thought I’d ever thank a ‘Rat, but Thanks libs!
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