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Can Sarah Palin lead US Republicans to victory?
ABC ^ | 12-21-09 | Michael Brissenden

Posted on 12/21/2009 2:10:35 PM PST by euram

The expansive asphalt parking lot in Fair Lakes Shopping Center in Fairfax Virginia was full and there wasn't a single Prius in sight. This is SUV territory and the campaign sticker on the back window of one big Ford summed up the mood: a play on the Obama campaign mantra of hope, this one said simply - "Nope".

There are not too many Obama fans in Fairfax but there are hundreds of people prepared to line up for hours in the snow for a chance to meet the one political figure they believe might still be able to rescue the nation from "socialised medicine", "Liberal intellectuals" and "elitist" newspapers like the New York Times.

Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue is the publishing sensation of the moment here.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; obamacare; palin; palin2012; sarahpalin
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To: boycott

Well, not meaning to be a “know it all” or an “absolutist”, as I like to call them. If I were one, it was during the 06 election, and I had my clock cleaned that November night.

I have been humbled.

I understand your cynicism.

I actually didn’t think the pubbies had a chance last year. Their nomination process is pretty flawed and they definitely had a flawed nominee.

I didn’t like their odds. I knew they were toast after the economic meltdown of September. Dennis Kucinich could have beaten John McCain. But who could have known Obama would have been this bad??

The Wright stuff and the Ayers info never really saw the light of day, part of the whole “flawed GOP candidate.

The 60 whores, as I like to refer to them, will be running as far as they can from Obama during the 2010 elections.

Still you are wise never to underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.

Hopefully, I’ll be right next time or I expect to be living in another country after the 2012 election,...I’ll move to Texas.


141 posted on 12/21/2009 5:49:17 PM PST by incredulous joe ("I like smiling! Smiling is my favorite!!")
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To: ansel12
President Dukakis sure wowed the people.

"The Duke," lol. There was once, and may still be, a website that specialized in wind-up political toys, and I ordered a gag gift for an extremely leftist bar owner in my acquaintance, and gave it to him for Christmas.

It was a Dukakis bobblehead with goofy helmet, riding in a tank ... wind it up, and there he goes, with that strange frozen grin, the schnozz and the unibrow, capped off by that altogether too large helmet, just bobbin' along.

Even that bar owner couldn't help but laugh, and he'd worked for the campaign.

142 posted on 12/21/2009 6:00:15 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: OldDeckHand
Who knows? It's three years away. No one had heard of Barack Obama in the late summer of 2004. Yet, he became President four years later. Conservatives and Republicans would be much better served worrying about 2010. If we can wrest control back from the Dems next year, 2012 may become moot.

No, no and no again.

This isn't the summer of 2008. We're ten days away from 2010.

We need to worry about 2012 in addition to 2010 right now. If we don't the left will push/pick our candidate for us.

Whether we wrest control in 2010 or not, 2012 isn't moot.

143 posted on 12/21/2009 6:10:08 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: discomatic
I think it will happen. We will wind up with a decent set of candidates this cycle. What we have to do is coalesce around one or two conservative candidates early so as to prevent a moderate from stealing the nomination. Kinda like what happened to us last time.
144 posted on 12/21/2009 6:20:40 PM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: OldDeckHand
Winners. Not quitters.

Bold words, coming from a noob.

145 posted on 12/21/2009 6:36:42 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: OldDeckHand
I believe she had fallen to the mid-fifties shortly before her resignation as governor; an approval rating in the fifties for a Republican governor in a very red state, isn't all that remarkable.

So I guess that Soros-organized and funded Rat campaign to paralyze her government, smear her name, and bankrupt her family had nothing to do with that?


146 posted on 12/21/2009 6:43:35 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: presently no screen name
And WHY are you on every Sarah thread trashing her? Because YOU ARE OBSESSED with Sarah!

No, more than likely he has a job to do and is paid well to do it. Check his sign up date.

147 posted on 12/21/2009 6:45:33 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: FL911
This will give Zero, who is nothing more than a career campaigner, a public target to “campaign” against.

He's already doing it, and has been doing it since the election. Have you read any of the Rat fundraising literature and emails?

148 posted on 12/21/2009 6:49:51 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Robbin

“You Betcha...” dittos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOc39OR41jg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yryg5Swm5g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTnnKuNXUNE


149 posted on 12/21/2009 6:59:51 PM PST by oiler (Reagan Republicans Unite!!!!! It's the Constitution Stupid. Palin and Bachmann in 2012)
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To: incredulous joe

I think we agree. We cannot underestimate democrats. They will go to any extreme to seize power. Stealing that seat for al franken is a good example.

Additionally, we cannot underestimate the influence of the MEDIA. After the rev. Wright tapes came out, I thought media coverage would force him out of the democratic primaries. Instead, the media made excuses for him and allowed him to stay. If it was a white republican that had such a racist past exposed, there’s no way they could have stayed in the election. In my opinion, the extremist left wing MEDIA is the biggest thing we have to overcome.

Again, I don’t have much faith in the American people. My faith will not be restored until I see these thugs (hussein obama, liberal senators and representatives) are voted out of office.

If Palin were to win the election in 2012, I’d be thrilled. I am just not very confident she would beat obama. That’s the only reason I want someone else step up.

Would I vote for Palin over obama? Absolutely. I’d vote for ANYONE before I voted for him.


150 posted on 12/21/2009 7:37:56 PM PST by boycott
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To: NurdlyPeon

Mike Pence.


151 posted on 12/21/2009 8:44:28 PM PST by Dr. North
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To: StAthanasiustheGreat

Mike Pence would win.


152 posted on 12/21/2009 8:45:23 PM PST by Dr. North
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To: meadsjn

You’re right about refusing to fund the RNC.


153 posted on 12/21/2009 8:50:58 PM PST by Dr. North
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To: newfreep

McCain, Steele, et al will not allow Palin anywhere near the republican “party” even if she offers to proved the food and entertainment.


154 posted on 12/21/2009 8:54:42 PM PST by Terry Mross (I voted for McCain and apparently I still wasted my vote.)
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To: boycott
“I kept hearing again and again how hussien wasn’t going to win last time”

Yeah?
Where did you hear that, when every poll had the Kenyan beating Juan McCain by wide margins?

155 posted on 12/21/2009 8:59:19 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: OldDeckHand
I believe the operative word in your statement is "was". Her popularity dropped precipitously after her failed VP bid. I believe she had fallen to the mid-fifties shortly before her resignation as governor; an approval rating in the fifties for a Republican governor in a very red state, isn't all that remarkable.

LOL, she resigned at 56% approval, that is a pretty good number and extraordinary considering the massive national attack by the media and people like you. Letting the national media die down and doing a little campaigning would have pushed her right back to the 80s which is where her current approval ratings are from republicans. Far above the others.

You really are a sour little man aren't you, the way you haunt the Palin threads like a hyper critical old woman that can't find much material, so she just has to be nothing more than a negative whiner, using constant nagging to express her personal disapproval and hoping that some of it rubs off on others.

156 posted on 12/21/2009 9:03:52 PM PST by ansel12 (Traitor Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative warrior.)
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To: OldDeckHand
Here's the game they play - if someone belives Palin to be a flawed candidate, then that person must be in league with Satan himself.”

Are you sure you are not?
You signed up on June 24 this year, and so far, all you have done is keep posting loony left anti-Palin propaganda every chance you get. Sounds like being in league with Satan(aka George Soros) to me.

157 posted on 12/21/2009 9:06:24 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Terry Mross
McCain, Steele, et al will not allow Palin anywhere near the republican “party” “

How is that working out for McCain, Steele et al in the Florida US Senate primaries then?
The candidate they did NOT back, is busy clobbering the candidate they backed. Go figure.

158 posted on 12/21/2009 9:10:49 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

“I kept hearing again and again how hussien wasn’t going to win last time”
Yeah?
Where did you hear that, when every poll had the Kenyan beating Juan McCain by wide margins?


Soon after hussein stole it from Hillary (he stole it when they bused in all those thugs from Chicago to Iowa to make noise for obama during their caucus. The theft in Iowa got his campaign grounded.).

I kept hearing that he didn’t have a chance. He wasn’t doing so well in the polls either up until the economy crashed. After that, it was over.

I believe there were a lot of outside influences during the last election cycle. The arabs played oil prices up until they got their man elected. The timing of the market crash was suspect. You have to wonder about thugs like soros and the impact he had. The media should be a very obvious suspect in every election cycle now.


159 posted on 12/21/2009 9:13:33 PM PST by boycott
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To: Dr. North
Can Sarah Palin lead US Republicans to victory?

Yes

160 posted on 12/21/2009 9:13:43 PM PST by Praxeologue
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