Hypocrites!
Posted on 06/03/2011 5:25:06 AM PDT by Hawk720
MANCHESTER, N.H. - As it played out on TV this week, Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” road trip of U.S. historical sites was a masterpiece of political mischief-making – a wild dash up the East Coast that delighted her fans and cornered the market on 2012 coverage for days on end.
That’s not how the bus tour looked to Republicans on the ground, many of whom are more convinced than ever that the former Alaska governor is simply not serious about running for president.
While Palin has reveled in giving an extended one-fingered salute to the national press, refusing to give out details about her travel schedule and forcing reporters to literally chase her vehicle up I-95 in order to cover her, she reached out to precious few activists and party leaders in the states she visited. And the locals have noticed, leaving them scratching their heads and looking for a rationale for a candidacy.
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason, whose state hosted Palin on visits to Gettysburg and the Liberty Bell, voiced a common exasperation about Palin’s tour: “I don’t think theater wins elections.”
“Running for president is a very serious thing and you need to deal with it as such,” Gleason said. “I’m looking for party builders.”
In New York – where Palin stopped at Ellis Island – GOP Rep. Peter King mused that the Alaskan “probably has more hardcore support than any other candidate.”
“But she needs to show that she can go beyond that, and this tour doesn’t accomplish that,” said King, who is urging Rudy Giuliani to enter the 2012 race.
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Hear that, Obama? Theatrics won't work, no Greek amphitheater with marble columns, no faux triumphal marches across Europe...
He musta slept through 2008 then. He is the most deliberately inneffective rino on G-d’s green earth in PA.
Maybe he meant it this way.....
"I don't think. Theater wins elections."
That requires something called a party organization. I have never, ever, seen any candidate come close to winning without such an organization. And it's not just money: money helps BUY it, but does not organize it. So I would have very much liked to have seen her actually developing a solid GOP/grass roots organization on this tour.
She must not kiss the gop establishments butts enough, they want to tell her what to say.
If King does not understand how breathtakingly provincial a candidate Giuliani is, his opinion is all but worthless.
ML/NJ
If King does not understand how breathtakingly provincial a candidate Giuliani is, his opinion is all but worthless.
‘career’ politicians HAVE TO GO! I don’t care what party they belong to!
Is it your position that the repub party establishmentdoesn’t have a bunch of rinos that need to be purged?
Is it your position that the repub party establishment which delights in such candidates as Romney, Guiliani, Dole, etc and fights against the DeMints, Rubios and other real conservatives doesn’t have a rino problem? The “usual suspects” are the party leaders who insist on running rinos. Not the foot soldiers who do the work.
I can hear the checked pants rustling and white loafers tapping everywhere!
Pravious...
Why wait, go here :http://www.organize4palin.com/
They are setting up shop in all states, some have met already and some have even printed up fliers. I am trying to find some locals to get started, with not a lot of success just yet....
I do not think she will run for President. She can be a kingmaker, which is better in some ways.
Lindsay Graham??? Oh, man, the prospect trull sucks. That is the way the RNC rolls though. egads.
Hypocrites!
No, I don't want them "purged." I want them to turn out and vote on election day, preferably for the conservative. Guiliani can't do a thing to DeMint and neither can Romney or Dole. It's interesting you cite two has-beens and a wanna-be vs. two conservatives who actually won. So who really has the power?
If by the "usual suspects" you mean the hundreds of state and thousands of local chairmen/precinct workers who will do all the dirty work in a campaign that everyone here (and, so far, apparently Palin) feels are unimportant, then that's a prescription for disaster. My chairman worked just as hard for Ken Blackwell (a conservative) as he did for one of our local RINO legislators. I think it is a (so far) fatal flaw of the Palin "strategy" that she thinks she can ignore the mainstream organization. It is absolutely true that the Tea Party has the fire and the enthusiasm, and when in 2010 that was properly married to good organization, it won. When it wasn't, it lost.
As a moderate/Mitt-supporting type of Democrat, you would support her sitting on the sidelines—but you wouldn’t want to see anyone she’d make king on the throne.
As soon as you threw the Stalinist name out I quit reading your comment.
Good bye.
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