PALIN DRAWS 20,000 TO NEW YORK APPEARANCE

THE HILL ^ | 7 June 2009 | Susan Crabtree

[Robert Drobot]

Governor Sarah Palin was on hand to help raise money for a museum honoring William Seward, the 19th secretary of state who purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867....“Alaskans get tired of hearing that Washington bureaucrats know what’s best for us so we push and we fight and we challenge decisions made inside the beltway when they’re not in our country’s best interest,” she said. “And we know decisions being made lately are not in our country’s best interest.”

[Robert Drobot]

"....neither the representatives of a nation, nor the whole nation itself assembled, can validly engage debts beyond what they may pay in their own time." --Thomas Jefferson

[samtheman]

Run, Sarah, run.

[Man50D]

She will only be able to advance Conservative principles if she leaves the socialist Republicrat one party system.

[big'ol_freeper]

She’s perhaps the only Republican candidate with star appeal. Perhaps Newt too, but he has high negatives.

Its nice to see we will likely have at least one conservative voice in the race in 2012.

[paulycy]

She will only be able to advance Conservative principles if she leaves the socialist Republicrat one party system.

Maybe the better way is to realize that the Republican party is an empty shell and needs to be re-filled and dominated with conservative activists like Sarah and Liz Cheney etc...

[Man50D]

Maybe the better way is to realize that the Republican party is an empty shell and needs to be re-filled and dominated with conservative activists like Sarah and Liz Cheney etc...

Why didn't the rank and file fill the empty shell by reemphasizing Conservative principles long ago when socialism was far less pervasive in the party than it is today?

[ForeignDude]

Let me get this straight:

(1) Palin draws 20,000 people in New York? NEW YORK?!

Yet,

(2) The “future of the GOP” lies with “moderates” and “centrists” like Powell and Crist.

Hmmmm..... One road leads to electoral victory; the other road leads to emasculation and permanent defeat. Which to choose, eh?

[paulycy]

Why didn't the rank and file fill the empty shell by reemphasizing Conservative principles long ago when socialism was far less pervasive in the party than it is today?

For a combination of reasons, including they didn't feel the threat was real, the libs have been winning the media war for years 'cause the Bush administration IMO didn't defend and explain its actions anywhere near well enough and many, many conservatives just got fed up, didn't vote and let the hopey/changey guy take over because McCain really wasn't much of a conservative choice.

Now that the you-know-what is hitting the fan and it is clear that the threat is REAL there will, again IMO, be a strong blowback to the socialist creep. It's even happening in Europe. People are smart, but often motivated to NOT vote rather than vote which is a big mistake.

Conservatives seem to be more fatalistic than libs and that hurts them very seriously in the political arena. We need some non-fatalistic, non-RINO leaders and conservative activists to re-fill the GOP.

[Lilyjuslan]

Read this. http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2009/June/8/Disinvited-second-10241.asp As for me, I’m fixin’ to become a former Republican.

[LibLieSlayer]

Palinomics... it will save our lives and our future... Reagan smiles from above... evil trembles at her feet!

LLS

[AUH2O Repub]

RINOs have to go! That is the only way to save the Republican party. We can deal with a short lean time while the CONSERVATIVES return to the fold to more than replace the spots left by the “moderate” RINOs. We HAVE to start the purge now, start it at the grass roots level if we can’t get at the top just yet.

[Never on my watch]

Sarah can draw that many people who, by the way, don't feel that they are obliged to attend out of some sense of party loyalty.

They WANT to be there, they enjoy the message she brings; and the message champions Conservatism, Patriotism and family values. Imagine that!

If you had a Sarah Palin rally on one side of town and a Micheal Steele GOP rally on the other, Micheal Steele would be speaking to his senior staff and empty chairs.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

We surely need that conservative voice.

We also need a young dynamic governor, rather than a septuagenarian war hero senator. Dole and McCain may have been outstanding Americans and superior in the legislative arena, but not enough voters cared. Clinton/Obama were young and COOL, MAN...nevermind the severe shortcomings in the character department.

[paulycy]

We HAVE to start the purge now

RINOs are weak willed. If the focus is on recruitment of conservatives rather than purging of RINOs then the RINOs will either run to the dim side like Arlen Spector or turn with the changing wind to our side. We certainly don't need to persecute them.

Stay on message and we'll get more supportes. Seek "purity" or vengeance and we'll be viewed as vindictive extremists, IMO.

[Man50D]

For a combination of reasons, including they didn't feel the threat was real, the libs have been winning the media war for years 'cause the Bush administration IMO didn't defend and explain its actions anywhere near well enough and many, many conservatives just got fed up, didn't vote and let the hopey/changey guy take over because McCain really wasn't much of a conservative choice.

That only illustrates the rank and file was too incompetent to turn back far less socialism in the past and therefore is certainly uinable to have any effect today.

It's even happening in Europe.

That's due to Conservative parties turning back the tide of socialism not because there is a movement within socialist leaning parties to revert back to Conservatives and only reinforces the point a strong Conservative party needs to combat our one socialist Republicrat party system.

Conservatives seem to be more fatalistic than libs and that hurts them very seriously in the political arena.

On the contrary. Conservatives are more realistic than those who chose to remain in a party that repeatedly eschews Conservative values. The link in post #9 perfectly illustrates the OP continually rejecting Conservatives.

[Dixie Yooper]

William Seward, the 19th secretary of state who purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867

"Alex, I"ll take Secretary of State for $1,000."

[paulycy]

That only illustrates the rank and file was too incompetent

Denigrating ordinary Americans isn't my style. Solutions are more appealing.

[LS]

Look I appreciate all those who quote TJ. Good guy. But the fact is Jefferson, if Congress had gone along with him, would have outspent ALL his predecessors: he tasked Albert Gallatin, his Treas. Sec., to put together a massive "internal improvements" bill (stimulus?) that totaled, in the $ of the day, $10 million. Congress did NOT back it, but that was the amount of the entire federal budget.

Real spending under TJ rose without a war, and even with Congress resisting his plans; and spending per capita rose slightly under TJ.

People all quote TJ's rhetoric, but seldom look at his administration, which was no better, nor worse, than most others when it came to "growing government."

[LS]

We have a two party system. Get used to it. There will be no "third party." So we win, or lose, with the Republicans. PERIOD.

(Political science 101: single member district/winner take all=no proportional representation, which= no third party success. Ever.)

[LS]

Yes, rebuild, reanimate, repopulate. That’s the answer. But there ain’t gonna be no third party. Our system only allows two in practice (not theory). The only way these Republicans ever arose was because the Whigs died. But every other third party has either been ineffective or re-shaped one of the existing parties.