The Real Sarah Palin (Record in office has not been as conservative as she is personally)

Powerline ^ | 7/9/2009 | John Hindraker

[Covenantor]

It's gotten to the point where I now research the author/authors before reading the article. From Powerlines about us page: John H. Hinderaker is a lawyer with a nationwide litigation practice. For fifteen years Hinderaker has written with his former law partner Scott Johnson on public policy issues including income inequality, income taxes, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, welfare reform, and race in the criminal justice system. Both Hinderaker and Johnson are fellows of the Claremont Institute. Their articles have appeared in National Review, The American Enterprise, American Experiment Quarterly, and newspapers from Florida to California. The Claremont Institute has archived many of their articles here. ____________________________________________________________ As they reveal themselves it is disenheartening to find where they have found political homes in supposedly conservative organizations.

[techno]

The only way that Sarah Palin does not get out of the primaries is if she loses to Romney. And the only way Romney can win is if:

1)Huckabee enters the Presidential sweepstakes and

2)takes away enough conservative/evangelical voters for Palin so Mitt can come up the middle in several states

NB:If Huckabee doesn’t run Palin has a clear view to the finish line because Sarah will always do better with thebase than Romney.

NB:The only way Huckabee can win the primary is if Palin does not enter the fray. If she does it is game over for him.

[Norman Bates]

The neverending campaign which will undoubtedly start up again in late 2010 will provide WAY more than enough time to get everything together. In this way it’s like she’s out of the gate almost way too early.

If she is being bankrupted one needs to ask why? What mistakes are they making to allow them to get bankrupted? If she is being attacked as governor she shouldn’t pay for it the office should.

[Soul Seeker]

No, Pawlenty isn’t paying anyone. BUT! Powerline is pro-Pawlenty. Same state and they are invested in his political future. They’ve been down on Palin since McCain was choosing from his short list and bypassed Pawlenty in favor of her.

[SoCalPol]

Does DU pay you by the word or insult?

[Norman Bates]

75% is among Republicans.

[GregH]

LMAO!

You have run out of arguments and resorted to paranoia and petty attacks.

Do you a link to poll with 75% approval rating for Palin.
Put up or shut up.

[OldDeckHand]

"You can’t use PAC money to defend yourself from ethics charges. She would have really been in trouble if she tried that!!"

That is correct. Alaska, like every other state in the union, doesn't allow campaign funds to be used to defend ethics or criminals complaints of the candidate, usually. That's why legal defense funds are established. Under Alaska law, legal defense funds are permissible. And, the restrictions that are placed on them with respect to fund raising are not much different than restrictions that are seen in any other state. In fact, there really isn't any oversight of legal defense funds by any Alaska government agency, other than the fact that donations reaching a certain threshold have to be declared and reported. That's it.

And to be clear, since June, Palin has had at least two separate funds established on her behalf. As to how much is in those funds is anyone's guess. The Palin camp has said, nor are they required by statute to do so.

[LibLieSlayer]

hussein himself destroyed your line of reasoning... get with it... we are now in the 21st Century and all of your points have been made moot by a pos street thug... a community organizer that never accomplished anything definitive in his entire life... a corrupt gansta with ties to organized crime figures and real estate holdings... with NO PAST RECORD other than a marxist/sharia upbringing and a black liberation theology religion... and a best friend that is a terrorist... and there is a 99% chance he was NEVER qualified to even run for office... therefore you must develop attacks against Palin that do not concern themselves with points so easily dismissed in these times.

LLS

[Norman Bates]

Perception is everything in this game. Obama may have only been senator for 2, 3, or 4 years (however you want to chop it up) but he didn’t resign did he?

Yep and you are pretty much right. He had jack for experience. Except he IS president NOW. You don’t get any more experience for president than by holding the office of president.

[Norman Bates]

I think you are wrong there - she is running. This article brought some of that into focus for me. But personally I don’t think she will win the primary either.

[LibLieSlayer]

Well he will not be able to use his time as president to campaign on if his results do not change direction 180 degrees... and helen thomas will win Miss America's title before than will happen.

LLS

[Maelstorm]

This seems to be a nothing story listing some of the very things that we conservatives like about Sarah. She was a reformer and non nonsense Governor. I really like this hit pieces on Palin that are run by “friends”. I’d certainly never write such slippery piece about someone I admired.

[SoCalPol]

Pawlenty, Romney, Huck, and the other WannaBees would have to rent crowds to people to show up at their rallys.

Romeny can’t decide where he wants to live. First Mich. then Mass. with N.H. and Utah now he lives 10 miles from me in San Diego.

None of the above are CIC material

[Norman Bates]

Rasmussen has Palin at about 75% among Republicans as of 2 or 3 days ago.

[SoCalPol]

Being in that position longer doesn’t make you experienced especially when you are making the wrong decisions.

Lincoln knew jack about the military but he had to fire, move, tell off, etc. his West Point Generals, most who did’t have a clue except for Grant and Sherman

[Norman Bates]

According to you none of the above are CIC material. Yet don’t look now: Obama is CIC.

[GregH]

Is this the poll. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Republican voters have a favorable opinion of Palin, even after her decision to resign as governor of Alaska, with 45% whose view of her is very favorable. Palin trails Huckabee, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Huckabee is favored by 78%, with 41% who feel very favorably toward him. Twenty-one percent (21%) have an unfavorable view of Palin , with nine percent (9%) very unfavorable. For Huckabee, unfavorables are 17%, including five percent (5%) very unfavorable. Romney, another unsuccessful 2008 contender, follows closely after Huckabee and Palin. Seventy-three percent (73%) view the former Massachusetts governor favorably, including 39% very favorable. Nineteen percent (19%) have an unfavorable opinion of Romney, with five percent (5%) very unfavorable.


Interestingly Palin's favourable and unfavourable are higher than Romney.

[Josh Painter]

“Monthly national PPP surveys looking at the 2012 contest for President have consistently found Palin as the most popular of the likely Republican candidates with Republican voters. Around 75% of them have a positive opinion of her, ranking her above Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich every time we’ve polled it.”

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/07/palin-bid-long-shot.html

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- JP

[GregH]

Yeah Obama’s win has basically destroyed any sort of arguments who is and who is not qualified to run.

If Obama can be President, then any one can be.