Posted on 05/15/2010 1:30:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
Sarah Palin's Political Bandwagon Is wobbling Under The Weight of Contradictions The Sarah Palin phenomenon is finally beginning to fade as contradictions mount up, says Alex Spillius in Washington
Alex Spillius 15 May 2010
We are seeing the first signs of wobble on the Sarah Palin bandwagon. This may seem a strange thing to say about a political superstar who has earned at least $12 million in the past 18 months from a publishing advance, personal appearance fees and a television punditry contract, not to forget a reality show about life in Alaska.
Palin is such a boon to the struggling book world that her second opus, America by Heart - Reflection on Family, Faith and Flag, can already be ordered in advance even though publication is six months away. A return to the number one spot on the best seller list surely awaits.
But other indices are proving less kind to the former Alaska governor. According to a recent poll more Alaskans than not think the presidency should not form the next chapter of Palin's extraordinary story, while 45 per cent gave her a negative personal rating. When John McCain plucked her from obscurity to be his Republican running mate in the 2008 campaign, her approval rating at home was 80 per cent, the highest of any governor in the country.
Now even a poll of Tea Party supporters, her most ardent fans, showed that a majority wouldn't vote for her if she ran for president in 2012. It is not just that the faithful are beginning to question her readiness for the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“Has it ever occurred to you that Palin is contemplating a run for POTUS and will need the backing of the party chair? Why would she attack someone who controls the infrastructure of the GOP? “
I see. So not matter what Steele does and no matter how racist he is and nt matter how unfit for the job - she should be vocally outspoken telling people to lay off him because she wants to run, eh???
That thinking is enough right there to throw her out as the second coming that so many of you think she is...
DOes this remind anyone of Obama...
“”I remember hearing, for the first time, Muslims pray, and how over time their sound evolved from being frightening in its strangeness to comforting in its cadence and repetition — I would feel the same peace when I listened to the sound of summer cicadas around my grandmother’s house. I grew to love being awakened in the morning by the sound of the devout man who always came to pray under my bedroom window.”
All I can say is that she's the CEO of a transnational corporation with tons of Middle-Eastern employees. Corporations make these types of statements favoring ethnic groups all the time. She's wasn't an elected official though, that's what counts.
So you are saying that Carly should not be held accountable for activity that may have violated the law under her watch just because it started two years before she was the head of the COmpany???
Was she so stupid as to not know what was going on with her company or did she violate the law or are you saying HP is in the clear and did nothing wrong?
“If an HP executive had such direct knowledge, that would violate the trade embargo.
“It is illegal for American companies to do business in Iran,” the spokeswoman, Beth Miller, wrote. “To her knowledge, during her tenure, HP never did business in Iran and fully complied with all U.S. sanctions and laws.”
How can we let the anti Palin drolls (and I do mean drolls) divide us so much that we really are eating our own! What is wrong with this site these days? Can no one see what is happening and how the libs and ron Paul types are giving us enough rope so that we silence our own conservatives?
I don't want to hear from all the Palin haters how FR doesn't allow any criticism of Palin. HA! Looks to be the other way around. What a disgrace.
The Gov. Brewer/Palin news conference today reinforced what SoCalpol has been saying all along!
You have the proof. She is backing Steele repeatedly. The poster said she should because she wants to run for office.
Steele needs to go. But what that poster is saying is that Palin should forgo principles and taking a stand just because she wants to run for office.
We don’t need any more of those types in washington.
She didn’t have to back him and tell people to leave him alone.
She did.
Meant to ping you to my previous post about SoCalPol’s zotting over the Palin endorsement of Fiorina.
“Palin DID NOT HAVE TO COME FORWARD AND SUPPORT THAT RACIST STEELE.”
Steele was an early supporter of the Tea Parties and an outsider within the crusty GOP Establishment. This is why Palin supports him, not because she endorses his every utterance or action.
Palin:
“I support Michael Steele.... I think he’s doing a great job. Michael Steele is an outsider. The machine, I think, is tough to penetrate... I think it’s been good to have an independent outsider trying to create some change in the Republican Party.”
Somebody needs to shake up the ossified GOP superstructure. I don’t know if Steele is the one, but I don’t want Mitt Romney or Ed Gillespie or one of hte Bushies selecting the Chairman and trying to rig the process in 2012. they have made a complete mess of the RNC since 2000 and even before.
The only thing wobbling is the opposition to Palin.
Of course she thinks he is doing a great job. He’s a RINO like Mccain.
http://24ahead.com/rncs-michael-steele-supports-amnesty-meeting-far-left-mexico
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/08/palin-i-think-steeles-doing-a-great-job/
Try reading my post before you fire back the stuff you have in the can. I don’t respond to spam.
“the habit of Conservatives, like a few on FreeRepublic, of eating their own because a candidate does not live up to their Purity test”
I’m sure you’d agree this doesn’t include the ability to criticize Sarah Palin. Such criticism should rightly be couched properly in praise of her staunch conservatism during the non-stop fanatical RAT attacks against her and her family.
To criticize Gov. Palin is not a ‘purity test.’ To only criticize her ad nauseum and without context and degree - that could certainly be called such.
You don't know what you're talking about. It was Ronald Reagan himself that turned to Bush when his negotiations with Gerald Ford (another RINO) broke down. Ford wanted to be a co-president and Reagan said no.
I don’t have anything in the can. I am rarely on these kinds of threads..but this backing of Carly is scary.That woman should not be a Senator.
We are going to get another Muslim lover who loves the sound of the prayer in a position of power. There is no reason why the Muslim lobbyists should have been at that announcement of Kagan.
Something is terribly wrong with this country right now.
I personally believe that Carly knew what HP was up to with Iran.
The lady gets unbelievable attention from the press!
To 20 - If she’s the nominee you will vote for her in the general election and she will win. Critiquing her support of McCain is fine, using sophomoric names like “McIdiot” reflects poorly on you.
“We are going to get another Muslim lover who loves the sound of the prayer in a position of power.”
You may wind up with Campbell. If you think Fiorina is a Muslim lover, wait until you get a load of him!
Unfortunately, barring a major miracle, you won’t be getting Devore. One of the three-Campbell, Boxer or Fiorina- will almost certainly be the next Senator.
“Somebody needs to shake up the ossified GOP superstructure. I don’t know if Steele is the one, but I don’t want Mitt Romney or Ed Gillespie or one of hte Bushies selecting the Chairman and trying to rig the process in 2012. they have made a complete mess of the RNC since 2000 and even before.”
IMHO, Steele is not ‘the one.’ There is no ‘the one.’ What will shake up the ‘ossified GOP superstructure’ as you aptly phrase it, will be the decentralized power and influence of the Tea Party movement itself. It is raising money for Conservatives all over this nation - like Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Express and Jim DeMint are successfully doing and bypassing the idiots in the NRSC and the NRCC when they support people Scozzafava, et al, and Crist (that little traitor).
When the RNC, NRSC and NRCC no longer have the ability to influence the party’s candidates in key races - we will successfully displace the ossified structure we all destest.
We must press on to do so and it will only be a bonus if the NRC chairman or anyone else in those party positions would at some point (perhaps replaced by Tea Partiers) help us out in the battle for this nation.
You seem to be saying that Alaska's new ethics law isn't really ethical. Which governor signed that piece of legislation into law?
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