Posted on 08/26/2010 7:59:45 PM PDT by Lorianne
... party bigwigs are going to have to take Palin seriously, rather than dismissing her as a right-wing whacko with big hair. She’s got influence and that’s something they understand.
As Joe Miller, her pick in Alaska, made clear, her support was crucial in helping him overcome the sitting Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski. “I’m absolutely certain that was pivotal,” he told the Anchorage Daily News. As for the kingmaker herself, she crowed to the Fox Business Network she was “over the moon” at his success.
Writing in The Huffington Post, Chris Weigant says the results showed only one thing with clarity:
“Sarah Palin is definitely going to run for president. She’s been testing out her clout in the primaries, and whether her clout wins some races or loses some races, the big honking important thing (to her, at any rate) is that everybody in the media is raptly paying attention.
Major news sites not only have their traditional red/blue maps of the individual races to see the state of the polling, most of them have also now added a ‘Sarah Palin pick record’ map as well.
If you think about that for a minute, it really is kind of stunning. Nobody else in politics, that I can remember, has ever gotten the media to examine their ‘picks’ with such microscopic detail — Democrat or Republican.
But aside from the elevated media profile all of this gives to Palin, it also means that any of Sarah’s picks (be they ‘Mama Grizzlies’ or not) who actually win their general election will be in Palin’s debt on the ‘political backscratching’ scale of things. This is called building a base of support within the party. And building such a base is a crucial step towards gaining the party’s presidential nomination next time around.”
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She has some notable near-misses, like Karen Handel and Rita Meyer.
Sad too, because the tainted Nate Deal can never beat that Good Ol’ Boy, Roy Barnes.
What is the Nate Deal and who is Roy Barnes(sp)?
Why do you assume we know what these things mean?
It may be funny to you but it’s irritating to me.
Ain’t no doubt there are some big debts to be paid by a lot of people. Then again, a lot of them are republicans. Once in office they’ll tow the line.
She’s following Reagan.
Deal is the pub candidate and barnes is the dim. I seriously doubt barnes will win. He’s pretty well despised everywhere except the big cities.
Deal is the pub candidate and barnes is the dim. I seriously doubt barnes will win. He’s pretty well despised everywhere except the big cities.
McCain was able to bring in heavy-hitters like Palin and Scott Brown into his own campaign because they "owed him" for their own success. Say what you will about McCain but he spent a lot of time campaigning for others in the past couple of years, specifically so they would have to come to Arizona and help him.
Palin has a network now of influential Republicans who are likely to work for her once her campaign starts. Or may work for her surrogate if she decides to be kingmaker rather than a candidate.
Don’t be a bit surprised if Palin anticipated this situation in ALaska. If there is any hanky panky with the count, there will be a very definitive exposure of it.
It may be the last and only time anyone tries it with a “Palin” candidate.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that will see half a term as governor as not enough experience to be president, particularly on the heels of someone so blatantly unready for the job. Personally, I wish she would get behind somebody like DeMint in 2012. He's been doing his own kingmaking and, together, they could run circles around any other "contenders" like Romney or Giuliani.
Because of the ethics accusations, I believe Deal cannot win against former Democrat Governor Roy Barnes, running again as an "I'll do a better job this time" Good Ol' Boy warhorse.
I didn't want to give this amount of detail for it to detract from the posted article and only wished to note that I regret Palin's endorsement losing because the primary victor can't win the general election.
I assure you I was not attempting to be funny, although the tone of you reply might have been a little less divergent.
Does anyone know if Jaime Herrera (WA-03) is a “mama grizzly” ?
Interesting point of view...so the rabid rats and their “ethics” violations actually worked in Sarah’s favor. Well in hindsight, based on the way Sarah played it, this is a valid theory IMHO.
Yep. That Sarah. She's just dumb as a post, you know. Or as a young twit at a party recently told me; "dumb as this blade of grass".
Prove it.
Prove it.
The self-evident proof is my post number four where all I said was:
Sad too, because the tainted Nate Deal can never beat that Good Ol’ Boy, Roy Barnes.I didn't intent to type more until I was asked to explain who Deal and Barnes are.
I can't help but wonder why you need such trifling proof?
"...where Senator Blanche Lincoln’s deficit in the polls exceeds 20 points (no recent Senate candidate, incumbent or challenger, has come back from such a significant margin so late in the race)."
This is 9 weeks out from Lincoln's election, and he's saying a 20% deficit has never been overcome in recent history.
Yet Miller was down 32% 6 weeks before the election. Sure, Alaska polls may be shaky, but still ....
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