Posted on 08/21/2011 11:51:59 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
If the Republican Presidential race were a poker game, you could say that Palin, the underdog has remained in late position long enough to see the full ring, to expose the live ones. She’s learned their tells, and she’s seen some bust, but now it’s time for her to go all in with what looks to be a royal flush.
If you’re not a poker player, you may need a poker dictionary to decipher my analogy. And “they” think she doesn’t know how the game of politics is played. The good old boys just never realized that she wasn’t playing by their rules.
If, or rather when, Sarah Palin announces her candidacy for President; Republican polls will likely shift in her favor.
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It’s looking more and more these days as if Sarah Palin will announce her run for the White House in short order. If you keep up with Palin’s history, you may come to the conclusion that there is no accident in her decision to go to Iowa September 3rd for what many believe will be her big announcement. September 3, 2011 is three years, to the day, that Sarah Palin accepted the nomination for Vice President and gave her famously rousing speech during the Republican National Convention.
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72% of likely Republican voters say when casting their primary vote, they favor a candidate who shares their views over one who has a better chance of winning.
That turns the notion of people agreeing with Sarah Palin, but “don’t think she can win” from a negative, into a potential strength. They are going to vote for her regardless, thus, breaking the mold of the typical voter.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
Johnson said the plate is offensive to close to 40 percent of the population, which is the percentage of African-Americans in the state. But supporters of the plate believe Forrest should not be dismissed because of that one time in history. "It's been said he disavowed the Klan later in life and that puts him in the same category as former Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd," said Greg Stewart, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member.
From my own knowledge, although I checked the details to make sure I got them right:
Nathan Bedford Forrest was also an above average strategic leader and a tactical genius, not to mention a man of indescribable courage. As one example of the latter, he led a cavalry charge at Fallen Timbers, but his men stopped when they encountered opposition, leaving him alone as he continued the charge. While surrounded and without support, he fired his pistols until out of ammunition, then drew his sword and fought with that weapon until he was shot in the side/back (the bullet lodged at his spine and was removed a week later without anesthesia), which made it difficult for him to continue attacking. At that point, he grabbed a union soldier, pulled him up onto the horse as a shield, and rode back to his own lines. All told, in that battle and others, he lost about 30 horses that were shot while under him and personally killed about as many me in combat.
As I read the Constitution, the Confederacy was legally right - the North had no legal authority to prevent secession (see the 10th Amendment). Had they simply been allowed to depart peacefully, I believe that they would have eliminated slavery within a few years for a combination of economic and moral reasons, and we would have reunified in less time than the fifteen years that the war and reconstruction required. The Klan was a terrible thing, but he later regretted that. Forrest is not my personal hero, but he had a profound sense of honor (remember, he was phenomenally wealthy as a self-made man and could have stayed out of the war and remained rich) and loyalty to his men. I can fully understand the descendents of his soldiers honoring his memory - and the same for descendents of his slaves given that his former slaves remained loyal to him and were willing to fight to protect him from attack. If we taught history honestly, I imagine many of that African American 40% who are represented as "offended" would see this as a much more complex issue than simply dumping on the founder of the Klan - after all, they had no problem with Robert Byrd who, like Forrest, led the Klan and then changed his views.
I'm not one of the limp-wrist liberals who says, "oh, dear, Forrest wasn't politically correct, I'll faint or get the vapors if I have to look at a license plate honoring him." Let's get the history right in our discussion, and perhaps we could even let those interested in such a plate choose for themselves. I would not choose such a plate, but I wouldn't deny others that option. If libs were sincere in anything they ever say, they would recognize my position as tolerance and theirs as ignorance blended with hate.
I am expecting a Palin vs. Cankles cage match!
I repeat, get over yourself.
Okay, okay, I couldn't help it.........:-)
And, she took a pass on endorsing him, and that was before he said this yesterday!
Rick Perry: Illegal Immigrants Who Serve In The Military Deserve Citizenship
You and I have tangled before on many subjects. I have never found you to be a conservative but always to be obnoxious. So I find it sad when you smear someone who is a solid conservative.
>It will be a great day.....<
Yep. :p) September erd my Boston Terrier will be 2 years old. Happy Birthday, Oliver!
Talent. That takes talent.
Trademark do!
TEA PARTY PATRIOTS ARE BOTH INDEPENDENT AND CONSERVATIVE .
There's no rule here that conservatives have to belong to the GOP!
Again, you are out of line. Your PDS attacks have gone personal and I will defend trisham with all my might against a notorious PDS troll like you.
WTC’s real agenda comes into focus when you realize his number one requirement for a president is that they have a distinguishing appendage.
Oopsie, I've always thought of myself as a conservative and an independent just like Trisham. For example, if the GOP nominates Romney, who occasionally wears the republican t-shirt but is a big-government liberal at heart, I will not support him or vote for him. Now that I know it's not allowed, I'll have to rethink my values or my declared party, I suppose.
But we can. An independent is someone who is not affiliated with any specific party.
The GOP left many of us with the prominence of people like McCain, Romney, Graham, et al, whose ideology is far too left for us.
So, what trisham means is that she is not affiliated with any of the parties, but is politically conservative.
(Right, trisham?)
I can relate to this, because I'm the same way.
What party is for conservatives? Hm? There are many on FR who fled the Rinos years ago. You are waving a false flag bogey man.
BTTT
Wooohoooo! :-D
Only those FReeprs with a case of PDS qualify. Do you?
Just remind you of how much of a naybob you are if she decides to run and then wins.
The GOP left many of us with the prominence of people like McCain, Romney, Graham, et al, whose ideology is far too left for us.
So, what trisham means is that she is not affiliated with any of the parties, but is politically conservative.
(Right, trisham?)
I can relate to this, because I'm the same way.
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You are exactly right, Allegra.
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