Posted on 08/08/2010 3:20:11 PM PDT by pissant
Remember four months ago when she was demanding that they remove her name from an RNC fundraising invitation to donors? Some pol-watchers at the time took that as a sign that she was trying to distance herself from the Republican brand. (“Who wouldn’t want to be sort of seen as more of an outsider and that’s how she’s positioned herself.”) Fast-forward to today and suddenly she’s signing letters on their behalf. What gives? Two theories. One: She’s turned out to be such a good soldier and is so favorably disposed to Michael Steele that she’s willing to do a fundraising favor for an organization that desperately needs one right now to prepare for the midterms. Two: She really is eyeing a presidential run and wants to build a line of political credit with establishment types who aren’t big fans of hers at the moment.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive, of course.
In a surprising move given her reputation as a political outsider, Sarah Palin is helping the Republican National Committee raise money ahead of November’s elections…
“Millions of Americans are expressing their frustration with the state of our government. I join them and seek to return our country to greatness,” reads the letter, obtained by CNN Friday.
“To accomplish this, working within our two party system, I join the RNC – the political home for “Commonsense Conservatives” who want to re-take governance – and I ask you to join me,” the former Republican vice presidential nominee’s letter continues. “Let’s bring our new brand of Reagan conservatism to our party and the country!”
Translation: I know tea partiers and grassroots conservatives aren’t thrilled with Beltway Republicans, but it’s time to be smart and dig deep. How deep? Dude:
The Republican National Committee is entering the fall election season with dire financial problems and, to an unprecedented degree, will be forced to rely upon outside groups to fund activities traditionally paid for by the national party…
With $11 million on hand as of the end of June—and about $2 million in reported debt—the RNC’s paid get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort will be limited to just targeted House races, POLITICO has learned.
And the committee is only going to be able to spend money on those relatively inexpensive House races thanks to a $10 million line of credit that was approved at the meeting here. Until then, said one incredulous Republican, there was no money available for paid GOTV activities like mailers and automated phone calls.
How bad is it? According to Politico, the RNC’s given $4 million to the NRSC and NRCC thus far, which is as much as it can spare. In 2006, it gave … $57 million. They’re so busted financially that they’re forced to crawl to Palin, the scourge of the “establishment,” and ask her to do what she can to help get the tap turned back on. Given how deeply the disgust runs among grassroots conservatives for Steele’s antics and RNC embarrassments, I’m skeptical that even she can make a dent.
On the other hand, you don’t need much dough if your message is irresistible. “Fire Pelosi!” works for me.
I don’t see anyone bashing all republicans.
They are bashing the RNC for always supporting the RINOs over conservatives with donated money.
Bush was a RINO, and so is Palin, for willfully aiding and abetting the plans of the back-stabbing lying two-faced traitorous RINO weasel Juan "I love Vietnamese Communists, Mexican race-baiting fascists, and Albanian al-Qaeda terrorists" McSoros!
You have the same viewpoint as the liberal media that Republicans are the problem. No Democrats/socialists are in power. It is democrats/Marxists who are destroying America as they did for the previous 100 years they last had power.
There are plenty of Socialists, Marxists, establishment types, globalists, and other assorted trash in the Republican Party.
Both parties are to blame for the current charlie foxtrot.
I wouldn’t give a nickel to the RNC.
Never vote for or support a RINO! They’ll screw you in the end every time!!
TARP, McAmnesty, global warming, big government, big spending, abortionist/homosexualist liberal judges!
Just vote them OUT!!
Remember in November!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
I know that a third party isn't going to win diddly-squat. But, I am prepared for the next two to four years for some of you out there to hate me and despise me because of this. Because I'm well aware of the anti-Washington sentiment that exists and the desire to just throw the whole thing into the Potomac River and rebuild it. It does have to be rebuilt but you're never going to throw it all in the Potomac River. And if you discount the role of Barack Obama in ginning up all this passion that's leading to the protests, if you want to try to equate the Republican Party to what this radical bunch of leftists is doing, you're going to have a tough time convincing me that there's any similarity.
Palin:"It's time for Americans across this great country to stand up and say 'We're all Arizonans now and, in clear unity, we say, 'Mr. President, do your job, secure our border,'" Palin said, standing with Gov. Jan Brewer in Phoenix on Saturday." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/05/16/2010-05-16_sarah_palin_blames_president_obama_for_arizonas_antiillegal_immigration_law.html
You and those like you that Bash the Republicans are just helping the liberal media. The liberal media wants us to think the Republicans are no good or no better than the democrats so that we start a 2nd conservative party. A 2nd conservative party will split the conservative vote ensuring an even bigger democrat/Maxist majority in Congress. You all must like the starvation, 4th world living standards, oppression,darkness, and evil of socialism.
Your propaganda, Republican derangement syndrome , PDS, ridiculous arguments and pervasive posting are all a joke and laughable. All you aiders of the liberal media, Keep wasting your time. You change no minds.
The Republicans won big time in 2000 and 2004 and then proceeded to piss away a once-in-a-century opportunity (not seen since the Coolidge administration, in which Republicans controlled two or more branches of the Federal government) to truly advance and cement the libertarian conservative agenda.
What makes you so sure that they won't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again?
You and those like you that Bash the Republicans are just helping the liberal media. The liberal media wants us to think the Republicans are no good or no better than the democrats so that we start a 2nd conservative party. A 2nd conservative party will split the conservative vote ensuring an even bigger democrat/Maxist majority in Congress. You all must like the starvation, 4th world living standards, oppression,darkness, and evil of socialism.
Your propaganda, Republican derangement syndrome , PDS, ridiculous arguments and pervasive posting are all a joke and laughable. All you aiders of the liberal media, Keep wasting your time. You change no minds.
If one Palin endorsement means nothing, then the sum of all of Palin's endorsements is nothing, indicating that her level of influence is...well, nothing!
The liberal media wants us to think the Republicans are no good or no better than the democrats so that we start a 2nd conservative party. A 2nd conservative party will split the conservative vote ensuring an even bigger democrat/Maxist majority in Congress. You all must like the starvation, 4th world living standards, oppression,darkness, and evil of socialism.
The Republicans had six years of control of both Congress and the White House that they effectively squandered.
The Republicans failed terribly, and until I--and the bulk of the U.S. electorate is with me on this one--see any consistent, solid evidence that they actually have changed, found some real principles and the cojones to actually consistently (and without prodding from the electorate) stand for those principles, I see no reason to support them by default, despite your nay-saying claims that my failure to support the Republican Party by default will take this country to hell in a handbasket.
Your propaganda, Republican derangement syndrome , PDS, ridiculous arguments and pervasive posting are all a joke and laughable.
Deranged because I refuse to drink RINO Kool-Aid?
I hope you get paid well by the RNC, cause you may soon find yourself on the end of the zot due to your overzealous shilling for the RINO Party here!
GOP reserves $1.75M for ads in Calif. Senate race (Fiorina)
Jul. 26, 2010 | Associated Press
Republicans have reserved $1.75 million for television ads to help Carly Fiorina in the final week of the California Senate race.
The commitment signals GOP optimism about unseating three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November. The Republicans plan to target the Los Angeles market and the money would buy enough air time for viewers to see an ad - at least in part - 10 times.
For all their 12 years , Republicans with only a simple majority , stopped Government healthcare and Amnesty for illegals , global warming legislation, and everything the democrats/Marxists are now doing which Clinton wanted to do but didn't try as he knew the Republicans wouldn't put forth that legislation etc.
Republicans in that short time and with only a simple majority cut taxes in 2001 and 2003, an also put 2 conservative justices on the Supreme Court now. In fact all of the 4 conservative Justices were appointed by Republicans. Without these 4 Conservative Justices we wouldn't have freedom today.
Many more examples.
Democrats/Marxists have created almost all of the thousands of government agencies and programs like social security and medicare.
Now Democrats/Marxists are destroying America.
Yet you don't bash Democrats/Marxists but All you do is bash Republicans. Keep trying to help democrats/marxists, socialism, and the liberal media.you are changing no minds. keep wasting your time .
That's ridiculous and insane just like the rest of the liberal media lies you bashers of Republicans,aiders of democrats say. That sounds like what a cultist liberal would say.
>A HUGE swath of tea partiers are independents.
Yes, but on the other hand, we basically have a de-facto two party system. The only conservative candidates who have a chance of doing well, at least nationally, are Republicans. Still, I admit that Sarah’s backing of the RNC may indeed be a mistake; however, she may think, whether rightly or wrongly, that the Republican Party needs to be united in order to beat the Dems. Her backing of the RNC (sounds like a rap group, doesn’t it?) may be a gesture in that direction.
You really have it bad for Palin don’t you? May I ask are you a girl and just terribly jealous or a guy and terribly jealous of her? You post so much anti-palin threads something has your panties in a wad.
Are you trying to divide and conquer and in doing so help Obama win a second term in 2012? Personally I am anti-Romney but I don’t waste all my time tracking down stories to post about him on FR in a vain attempt to get folks not to endorse him if he runs. Conservatives can make up their own minds and your obsession against Palin is becoming quite a joke.
Why don’t you just decide who you might be for and fight for that person? It’s called positive energy. You might enjoy yourself and your time more than spending your time on what appears to readers to be angry posts against politicians you hate, Palin especially. I never see you post anything positive.
Palin isn’t a RINO, she probably just feels that she owes McCain for making her his VP and thus introducing her to the national scene. Yes, I agree it’s a mistake on her part but it doens’t mean she’s a RINO, just human. And humans can and do make mistakes.
>If one Palin endorsement means nothing, then the sum of all of Palin’s endorsements is nothing, indicating that her level of influence is...well, nothing!
Actually, I think he meant that McCain was very much a exception and that the clear majority of candidates she supported were indeed conservatives.
>The Republicans had six years of control of both Congress and the White House that they effectively squandered.
On this, we agree.
/bingo
Excellent question. I feel that, thanks in large part to the Tea Party, that their constituents are much more engaged now. We will raise holy Hell if they refuse to do the job that needs to be done.
“You know we Palin cultists received our marching orders from the Anchorage Command Center whenever someone tries to insult our Momma Grizzly.”
Is HAARP responsible for warping pissant, scuttlebutt, uncleB, and indylindy’s brains? That might be an explanation for their delirious (”something frantic in their gaiety”) posts. They are punch drunk in the belief that their nonsense posts have any relevance.
By bashing and slandering all Republicans for the actions of a few, you help the democrats.
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Care to point out where this “slandering all Republicans” on this thread is taking place? I don’t seem to see it...
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