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Hey GOP, take the Palin cure
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 18, 2012 | Charlotte Allen

Posted on 11/17/2012 11:59:23 AM PST by Bratch

The Republican Party has been doing a lot of hand-wringing and finger-pointing since the presidential election. Half the conservative columnists and bloggers say the GOP lost because it overemphasized social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. The other half says the party didn't emphasize them enough. And everyone denounces Project ORCA, the campaign's attempt to turn out voters via technology.

But I've got a suggestion for cutting short the GOP angst: Sarah Palin for president in 2016.

You think I'm joking? Think again.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; palin
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To: Bratch

I’m all for Sarah but I’m not sure the Republican party is any longer viable. She may be better off running on the Tea Party ticket.


41 posted on 11/17/2012 2:48:05 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: deport

Ok. You keep the media at bay so enough citizens can hear whoever the candidate is. After all, look at all the trashing Barry got, it’s amazing how he won!/s


43 posted on 11/17/2012 2:56:47 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: hosepipe

You get it. Palin is a joke, but even if she wasn’t, it wouldn’t matter. The Statists have won. They now have more parasites than producers, and in 2016 there will be even more people leeching off the producers who will just vote themselves more free stuff. I have tuned out Limbaugh, Levin, and that moron Hannity who have all said “just wait till 2016! That will be our year!” Yeah, right. Its over. The Republic died in 2008, and it was confirmed dead last week. We are going to be a socialist nanny state. Get used to it. Put on your shackles because there is no going back.


44 posted on 11/17/2012 3:01:07 PM PST by Astronaut
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To: Bratch
My "Dream Team" for 2016~


45 posted on 11/17/2012 3:09:55 PM PST by WVKayaker ("Mitt Romney couldn't keep up with lies and spin of Barack Obama" - Sarah Palin 10/24)
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To: WVKayaker

God bless Sarah, but I fear she doesn’t have the temperament to withstand the political torture that comes at a national level. And I’m not even pointing to where she got hounded out of office, a truly bizarre fluke of circumstance and dysfunctional Alaskan law making that possible. But she wouldn’t put her hat in the ring. Sarah, had she stood up to the attacks we CAN’T see, would then almost certainly have ripped Obama from pillar to post and gotten much more voter passion than Mitt did.


46 posted on 11/17/2012 3:14:11 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Romney frankly strikes me as semi-clueless about actual politics.

I have any number of reasons to not like him politically, but I have come to the conclusion that on a personal level he is a decent and good man.

I don't think he sent his minions out to attack the tea party. They already didn't like us, and they were drawn to him because he was evidently the farthest from being us. In the end I came to the conclusion that I liked Romney as a human being. Its the romniac Rinos I detest.

47 posted on 11/17/2012 3:15:54 PM PST by marron
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To: Astronaut

[ You get it. Palin is a joke, but even if she wasn’t, it wouldn’t matter. The Statists have won. ]

WRONG... Palin is not a joke.. She is trying to give hope to remaining conservatives..
You are being simplistic.. stop it.. She “gits it”..
YOU may not get it.. except partially..


48 posted on 11/17/2012 3:27:07 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Bratch

In November 2016 Sarah Palin will continue to have more quality executive experience that either Barack Obama or Joe Biden.


49 posted on 11/17/2012 3:36:20 PM PST by jimfree
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To: Bratch

She has to try.


50 posted on 11/17/2012 3:38:02 PM PST by jimfree
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To: Last of the Mohicans

Please, PLEASE don’t tell me you’re comparing Sarah Palin to one of the most infamous mass-murderers of the 20th century.

And no, people who admire her are NOT cult members.


51 posted on 11/17/2012 3:38:13 PM PST by Bratch
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To: jimfree

She’d do very well on an advisory committee. Unless she really does want to toss her camo cap into that ring in four years.


52 posted on 11/17/2012 3:39:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Bratch

No, I guess I was comparing your call to rally around Sarah Palin as the same type of suicide call that Jones put out in Jonestown. Go ahead and drink the Kool Aid. I’ll have no part of it.


53 posted on 11/17/2012 3:44:27 PM PST by Last of the Mohicans
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To: cicero2k

I can tell you that in Oklahoma, Sara Palin engendered actual excitement in 2008. The only people I know excited about voting for Romney (and not merely against Obama) are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


54 posted on 11/17/2012 3:45:39 PM PST by dufekin (Obama and Pelosi: at war against the Church--and innocent American babies)
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To: x

Sarah did none of those things. I don’t have time to go over each point, though it’s all been covered before.

Your criticism is MSM storyline, like quoting her saying she could see Russia from her porch.


55 posted on 11/17/2012 3:54:01 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Bratch; KC_Lion; Lakeshark; LibLieSlayer; little jeremiah; Lilpug15; Lilyjuslan; maggief; ...
Sarah Palin's Ping List

We'll keep our God, our guns, our Constitution, our TEA Party, and to He// with the GOP-E

56 posted on 11/17/2012 3:56:50 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: dufekin

That’s how it was in my corner of Texas. The GOP headquarters in 2008 was perpetually empty and had virtually no foot-traffic, but once Palin was announced, the place exploded with people and excitement. Palin tapped into something I hadn’t seen since Reagan’s days. Regular people finally felt they had someone who represented them, both ideologically and culturally.

What a non-surprise that the GOP-E sided with the Libs and their vile media minions to try to extinguish all that, with an endless smear campaign. Just like they did once again with the Tea Party.

Conservative populism from flyover country scares the HELL out the ruling-class elites. They’ll do absolutely anything to kill it, whenever it pops up.


57 posted on 11/17/2012 4:09:23 PM PST by greene66
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To: greene66

“Conservative populism from flyover country scares the HELL out the ruling-class elites. They’ll do absolutely anything to kill it, whenever it pops up.”

I agree. The media elites have had some success limiting the Tea Party by portraying it as a uncool bunch of senile racists. Somehow using pop culture, conservatism has to be taught to the young to get around the liberalism that is public education.


58 posted on 11/17/2012 4:15:34 PM PST by Fu-fu2
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To: Last of the Mohicans

Fine. Go on your merry way.

All I know is that the 2010 election cycle was the only time the GOP has gained ground in the Federal government since 2004. And it was also the only time Sarah Palin wasn’t muzzled by the Republican establishment.


59 posted on 11/17/2012 4:25:05 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Last of the Mohicans
No, I guess I was comparing your call to rally around Sarah Palin as the same type of suicide call that Jones put out in Jonestown. Go ahead and drink the Kool Aid. I’ll have no part of it.

Then go away. Seriously. Go away. Sarah Palin will be the go-to candidate/leader supported by a huge number on this forum and others like this and we don't need your negativism stinking up the place. That goes for all who deem it necessary to flock to every thread about Palin and vomit. Quit doing the marxist/leftists work for them.

60 posted on 11/17/2012 4:26:44 PM PST by upsdriver
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