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Why Sarah Palin really quit us
Slate ^ | 7-8-09 | Dahlia Lithwick

Posted on 07/15/2009 7:35:30 PM PDT by Korah

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To: browniexyz

Lazy?
Victim?
Rage at our country?

I suggest a new category in that annual bad writing contest (Bulwer-Lytton): Political Fiction.

Thanks for explaining who she is - she’s not worth the keystrokes to Google. Yawn...


61 posted on 07/15/2009 8:39:59 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Sarah Barracuda
he is such an idiot he could not say without a freakin teleprompter where he met his wife.

Really pathetic, isn't it? And then the media, scrambling to cover for his obvious blunder, said, "President Obama must be soooo jetlagged that he said he met his wife in class, when he actually met her at a law firm. Poor guy." I almost gagged. If that had been Bush or Sarah Palin, it would be news fodder for a week.

Poor guy, my hiney. Doofus is more apropos.

62 posted on 07/15/2009 8:40:50 PM PDT by Shelayne (Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty that was, and is, and IS TO COME!)
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To: Always Right

[Palin is as strong as ever. She is in perfect position. Both parties are not trusted by the public. She can run against both.]

Correctomundo, you’d have to be a blind Democrat idiot not to see that (but I repreat myself). She’s continually talked about, doing WaPo editorials and a speech in a couple weeks. She scares Dems AND RINOs


63 posted on 07/15/2009 8:48:22 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: Korah
"But when the dust settles, the lesson may be that she was simply a woman who made no sense."

They're trying desperately to bury her before she ever gets out there and talks directly to voters, because they know if she can connect, they're doomed.

64 posted on 07/15/2009 9:09:00 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Korah

Geeze...

Just imagine how the trench mouths like this would handle it if Sarah Palin decided to reveal,during a televised event, if she wore thongs, panties or bikinis.


65 posted on 07/15/2009 9:10:50 PM PDT by justkate
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To: originalbuckeye

I was being sarcastic. The news is so bad these days, it’s often hard to remember to put the sarc tag.


66 posted on 07/15/2009 9:13:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ( Jim Thompson for President.)
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To: conservative cat

You are absolutely correct. After the birth of all my children I lost hair, it was temporary, but it was not until long after I stopped having children that I read an article in Cosmopolitan about it.

Well my hair is fine now, but I don’t read Cosmopolitan any more...LOL


67 posted on 07/15/2009 9:15:09 PM PDT by Korah
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To: Always Right
She stayed in the party, but ran against the corrupt leadership.

Sounds good to me.

68 posted on 07/15/2009 9:17:19 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: ntnychik; potlatch; devolve; MeekOneGOP; Korah
Lithwick's wit is not worth a lick.

Her phrase "dubious fall" recalls Twain's "rumors (alternately, 'reports') of my death have been exaggerated".

The POD (Palin Obsession Disorder) people a la Dahlia must chant on, but only with their talking points.

The Obamanomic Catastrophe is sucking The One into the Political La Brea Tar Pit.

"La la la Sarah's a poopie-head," they shriek, fingers firmly in ears.


69 posted on 07/15/2009 9:20:26 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: saquin
Does no one remember Perot? He handed Clinton victory in '93 even though Clinton only got 43% of the vote.

Does anyone remember that Perot was actually leading both Bush and Clinton before he dropped out of the race, only to get back in after it became clear that neither was serious about Perot's agenda or Perot's supporters?

I'm not saying Palin should run third party, I'm saying that the threat should be there so the GOP doesn't nominate another New York Times choice like McCain.

There are other candidates whom I could enthusiastically support just as much as Sarah Palin. But, so far, I haven't heard any of them mentioned or declared as interested.

70 posted on 07/15/2009 9:24:16 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Korah

Just curious, if you like Sarah, why have you posted two different negative articles about her. All of us are fully aware how the left feel about her. Just curious what is the purpose?


71 posted on 07/15/2009 9:26:51 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: 724th

I love your post.

Thank you for coming on board here. We need you.

You’ll find there are a surprising number of people here who won’t have your six when the chips are down.

You sound like someone to go to the well with.


72 posted on 07/15/2009 9:34:13 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: HollyB

Good question. I want as much information as I can get that will help me to be a better defender of her.

I run into people all the time who say all kinds of things about her and I am dumbfounded as to how I can defend her.

I am using the many freepers here and their expertise to help me in my quest to be a better Palinite.

I have read the pro Palin threads, and it is just a bunch of people slapping eachother on the back. I need controversy, because that is what I get when I am confronted by anti-Palinism.

I know I rambled, but I hope that helps.


73 posted on 07/15/2009 10:00:52 PM PDT by Korah
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To: Korah

Honestly, I don’t completely buy it. Most of us around here have good reason to feel that way. I’m sure you can gather enough fact about Sarah Palin to decide for yourself without having to post negative articles to fish for come-backs that you can use on others.

We’ve seen too many people infiltrate our site, finding ways to water it down, and post negative things for the sake of discouragement, or just say hateful things to make FR look bad. It is a widely used strategy on the internet and your posts are fitting the profile.


74 posted on 07/15/2009 10:09:12 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: 724th

You’re right on !!!

Go Sarah!!!


75 posted on 07/15/2009 10:12:11 PM PDT by Archer24
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To: HollyB

look, believe what you want. I have too many other things in my life to worry about your insecurities.

Go back and read all my comments I have ever made, there are not that many, because I am basically new. However I am sure that if I were a lib, you would see a pattern.

Time will tell. Watch me and you will see if you are right or wrong. Personally I will not be losing any sleep over your opinion.


76 posted on 07/15/2009 10:25:16 PM PDT by Korah
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To: Always Right

I agree that Mrs. Palin is stronger than members of both Rep. and Dem. parties. Thus, I hope she runs with the Constitutional Party or a similar party.


77 posted on 07/15/2009 10:49:50 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: HollyB

Maybe this bit of information might also help. I work part time at a Starbucks that is located in a Safeway where I live. I am basically in enemy territory here.

I don’t even know why I am sharing this with you, except that I really want to be a part of history, and Sarah is going to be big. I remember when Reagan was here during his run for President, I was only 28 then, but it was the best thing I can remember, because I actually got a chance to shake his hand. Well I was in a line of a gazillion people, I would not blame him for remembering nothing but a hand that was stuck out from the crowd, but he grabbed it and shook it. It will last forever for me.

I feel for Sarah, as I did for him, and I have nor had this feeling since.

So screw you!


78 posted on 07/15/2009 10:50:35 PM PDT by Korah
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To: Sarah Barracuda
It's truly amazing how so many people simply cannot figure out what Sarah Palin is doing.

Are people really that stupid it this country?

Must be, after all, they did elect a non- citizen Usurper in the white house, and have elected one idiot after another for as long as I can remember, or darned near.

Yet a true, down to earth real American conservative patriot who lives the American dream, possessing all the qualities everyone has been bitching about that politicians today lack, and she "isn't good enough".

No no, they seem to want that silver tongued spoiled rich person who never worked an honest day in their lives, lived off the family fortune their great granddaddy made, went to Harvard or Yale where they played and partied, never having to worry about grades because daddies checks bought those well in advance, then go to "work" in daddies law firm while they launch their political careers.

This country will continue to go down the toilet as it's government saturated with corruption continues to be the reserved offices for this countries rich who take turns in office, along with a smattering of lunatic ideologists, each with goals of their own to improve their fortunes of run other peoples lives as they feel they should live.

Until we start electing real people, the citizens of this country deserve what they continuously elect.

79 posted on 07/15/2009 11:33:11 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: cricket
"I love Sarah; but a ‘third Party’ a huge mistake. She can carve her path; right through the Repubs - and Demrats - for that matter. . .but she needs a Party ID; preferably, Repub - and not Democrat; and she can fashion her message from there."

You just can't get that "third party" thinking out of your head, can you. Try thinking NEW reformed party.

To help you understand how this works, study up on how Steven Harper, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and current Prime Minister of Canada, took over the right of center spot and destroyed the old Canadian Conservative party, booting out all the red Tory liberals in the process. Just as Canada was ripe for a conservative resurgence, so is the USA, because the GOP and Democrats have become one and the same, indistinguishable from one another, passing office back and forth to each other and screwing over the citizens of the country every time, using the public purse as their own bottomless bank account to buy elections and creating laws to serve their political buddies interests.

We need a NEW GOP with a NEW party constitution. We only need to raid what good members are left in the old party and then let it die as it is already well on it's way of doing. There isn't a conservative (true conservative that is)alive in this country that won't buy a membership in the new, RINO free Republican Party, and participate in it's very first convention electing it's new executive, ratifying it's new constitution to carry the party forward into this new century.

The old will simply cease to exist, and when the old executive dinosaurs finally realize they have been defeated and tossed out of the party, they will sign over the remainder of the old party assets in a merger much like what happened in Canada.

So don't think this conservative resurgence as a "third party", think of it as a renewed party, because that is how it will end up after only a few short years.

I don't agree with those who are saying that we are giving the Democrats a victory in 2012 either, because it's laughable to think Republicans have a snowballs chance in hell of winning anything in 2012.

Just like what Brian Mulrooney did to conservative party in Canada, (he completely destroyed it) Bush and those cowardly rino clowns in both houses have done to the Republican party in the USA.

And like the conservative Party in Canada when Kim Campbell took over from Brian Mulrooney after he resigned amidst allegations of corruption, she went on to lead the party to a humiliating defeat in the next general election, almost loosing party status in the process, clinging on to only 4 seats in the entire country.

This is what will happen to the Republican party in 2012, so the sooner we get moving on building a new, reformed Republican party, creating a new party constitution and creating the image of a break from the old tired corrupt old boys club, the better.

80 posted on 07/16/2009 12:18:29 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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