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‘Mama Grizzly’ shows her claws in U.S. primary races
New York Post ^
| 26 August 2010
| Araminta Wordsworth
Posted on 08/26/2010 7:59:45 PM PDT by Lorianne
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posted on
08/26/2010 7:59:46 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
She has some notable near-misses, like Karen Handel and Rita Meyer.
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posted on
08/26/2010 8:03:46 PM PDT
by
Clintonfatigued
(Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
To: Lorianne; All
Well, Sarah's work is not complete in the AK Senate race. I just read this in Bloomberg Business Week:
"Senate Republicans sent their top campaign lawyer to advise Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski about the states count of absentee ballots as the Libertarian Party considered endorsing her if she loses the party primary."
I am so pissed at John Cornyn and the Senate RINOs.
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posted on
08/26/2010 8:32:37 PM PDT
by
no dems
(To Every Democrat in the U.S. House and Senate: "Shame, shame. Shame on all your houses.")
To: Clintonfatigued
Sad too, because the tainted Nate Deal can never beat that Good Ol’ Boy, Roy Barnes.
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posted on
08/26/2010 8:33:04 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: higgmeister
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.
To: Lorianne
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.
To: Lorianne
To: Terry Mross
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.
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posted on
08/26/2010 8:50:28 PM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
To: Terry Mross
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.
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posted on
08/26/2010 8:54:22 PM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
To: Lorianne
She learned one thing from McCain. The more you get other candidates indebted to you, the more you have influential pols who will have to pay you back.
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.
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posted on
08/26/2010 9:08:04 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
To: no dems
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.
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posted on
08/26/2010 9:10:30 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: OrangeHoof
To amplify the point, Sarah could not have done all the appearances she has and raised a baby if she were also Governor of Alaska, which explains why she resigned from that post. Particularly travel to and from Alaska from the Lower 48 would have been a daunting task while still under the watchful eye of these ethics harassers that sprung up around her.
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.
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posted on
08/26/2010 9:15:10 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
To: japaneseghost; Clintonfatigued
I'm sorry, I replied to Clintonfatigued regarding the mention of Palin's pick in the Georgia Gubernatorial Primary, former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel narrowly losing to ethics tainted former Congressman Nathan Deal.
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.
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posted on
08/26/2010 9:34:02 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: japaneseghost
I assure you I was not attempting to be funny, although the tone of you reply might have been a little less divergent.
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posted on
08/26/2010 9:42:49 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: All
Does anyone know if Jaime Herrera (WA-03) is a “mama grizzly” ?
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posted on
08/26/2010 10:08:47 PM PDT
by
ak267
To: OrangeHoof
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.
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posted on
08/26/2010 10:16:28 PM PDT
by
Aria
( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
To: Aria
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".
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posted on
08/26/2010 10:58:27 PM PDT
by
Minn
To: higgmeister
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. Prove it.
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posted on
08/26/2010 11:03:27 PM PDT
by
Chunga
(I Have Supported J.D. Since The Day He Announced)
To: Chunga
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.
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?
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posted on
08/26/2010 11:22:33 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Lorianne
It's pretty hard to overstate the "surprise" of Millers success. A very gamey or knowledgeable decision by Palin to get involved. For example Nat Silver at FiveThirtyEight Politics has a sophisticated model using historical data to predict elections, and discussing Lincoln's very low chances in November this year stated:
"...where Senator Blanche Lincolns 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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