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Why Sarah Palin Continues To Lead CHQ Straw Poll
ConservativeHQ ^ | June 20, 2013 | George Rasley

Posted on 06/20/2013 6:37:17 PM PDT by Bratch

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To: ScottinVA

“She’d have the votes of most of the conservative base, but please.. how many dems and mods would she have won over?”


So how many Dems and Mods did Robama win against Obama?


41 posted on 06/21/2013 3:01:29 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: staytrue
She quit as governor and she quit as a potential candidate.

She decided not to run. Which was completely her Right.

While many of us hoped she would run, she never declared candidacy.

As far as a "potential candidate" goes, anyone who was Constitutionally qualified was a "potential candidate".

42 posted on 06/21/2013 3:08:17 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: ScottinVA
Sorry to burst that bubble, but - to no fault of her own - Americans decided she was damaged goods after 2008.
Curious.

How can Governor Palin be considered "damaged goods" (I see that phrase used to describe her a LOT) and yet Hillary Clinton, who is directly culpable for the death of a United States ambassador, is being touted as the most qualified candidate for President of our generation?

Folks certainly have a unique way of evaluating their politicians.

43 posted on 06/21/2013 3:19:46 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch
Democrats cater to their base. Republicans alienate theirs. And then wonder why they lose elections.

Democrat voters also rally round their candidate no matter what. Republican voters fragment into different key issue blocs and thereby ensure none of the candidates, (good, bad, or indifferent) get enough support.

44 posted on 06/21/2013 4:12:34 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

You’ve pretty much made my point.. If Romney couldn’t win them over, what gives you the idea that Palin would’ve had better success?


45 posted on 06/21/2013 4:56:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: Bratch

Because more people in this country are willing to look the other way when democrats fail morally and professionally. Remember what happened when Bubba was impeached after Monicagate? His approval ratings took off like a rock.

Like it or not - and it’s unfair as hell - Repubs don’t get a break from the “media” or the electorate like dems do. And Americans respond to the “media’s” cues.


46 posted on 06/21/2013 5:01:10 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: ScottinVA; Greetings_Puny_Humans
If Romney couldn’t win them over, what gives you the idea that Palin would’ve had better success?

Because Palin is an effective politician and a leader who wins people over when they see her, that is how she could be such a unifying force as a Governor and during her 20 year political career, give her an 800 million dollar presidential campaign and she wins.

Mitt Romney has always been a loser, people don't like him, don't trust him and he never wins elections, his twenty years and investment of more than 50 million dollars of his own money has produced a single election victory, for an office that he left with 34% approval and rejection for reelection, he followed that up by losing to Huckabee and McCain who had no money or people, and then losing to Jimmy Carter the second.

47 posted on 06/21/2013 7:50:14 AM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: ansel12
Because Palin is an effective politician and a leader who wins people over when they see her

A decade ago, I would've agreed, but with a taker class exceeding 50%, even Palin's formidable charming skills won't be enough. Like I've said before, she'll fire up the conservative base, but with a D+6 we don't have the numbers anymore.

But I appreciate your optimism...

48 posted on 06/21/2013 8:10:38 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: ScottinVA

*a D+6 electorate


49 posted on 06/21/2013 8:11:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: ScottinVA

Damned auto-correct....

*took off like a rocket.


50 posted on 06/21/2013 8:12:36 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: manc
family is the reason why she did not run

I believe it was pictures of her family, shown to her.

51 posted on 06/21/2013 8:18:04 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: ScottinVA

It isn’t optimism, it is rational analysis by someone who watched the hated “Ronnie Raygun” pull it off when he got the money to pay for a presidential campaign and the TV and media time to counter the media onslaught with his own face and message.

I watched people like Dole and McCain and Romney and HW Bush and Ford who couldn’t campaign their way out of a wet paper bag be promoted as winners even though they were sad sack type losers, unable to make a conversation, much less CHANGE the national conversation, I see Palin as a much better candidate and campaigner than them.


52 posted on 06/21/2013 8:20:06 AM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: ScottinVA

It isn’t optimism, it is rational analysis by someone who watched the hated “Ronnie Raygun” pull it off when he got the money to pay for a presidential campaign and the TV and media time to counter the media onslaught with his own face and message.

I watched people like Dole and McCain and Romney and HW Bush and Ford who couldn’t campaign their way out of a wet paper bag be promoted as winners even though they were sad sack type losers, unable to make a conversation, much less CHANGE the national conversation, I see Palin as a much better candidate and campaigner than them.


53 posted on 06/21/2013 8:20:07 AM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: Syncro

Hiya Syncro!

Love the link, too!


54 posted on 06/21/2013 8:29:23 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Lakeshark

Wonderful Breitbart quote.


55 posted on 06/21/2013 8:32:56 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx
Hay onyx!


56 posted on 06/21/2013 8:42:52 AM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - Andrew Breitbart (The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 – Mar 1, 2012)
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To: upchuck

No, she doesn’t need a voice coach, it’s her vocal cords.

Women naturally have a higher voice because their vocal cords have smaller folds.

What she needs is an operation to stretch them, then she could sound like Lauren Becall or Demi Moore

Or she should get shots of testosterone.

The majority of men appreciate the higher voices of women, those that complain about Palin’s voice usually have other issues with her.

It’s described by a medical term abbreviated as PES.


57 posted on 06/21/2013 8:57:50 AM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - Andrew Breitbart (The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 – Mar 1, 2012)
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To: Syncro
PREFECT !©

58 posted on 06/21/2013 9:00:02 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: upchuck

Agreed, regardless of being a woman, whose pitch is naturally higher, she still needs one.....and I understand did have one for awhile... so she knows the issue.


59 posted on 06/21/2013 9:01:42 AM PDT by caww
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To: going hot; manc

That slightly masked inference is pretty outrageous with no backup, sounds like dem talking points.

It is much deeper than your unsubstantiated comment, the leftists are quite capable of making threats (and carrying them out) to Conservative’s families (even their children and dogs) to keep their ideas away from the American people.


60 posted on 06/21/2013 9:04:19 AM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - Andrew Breitbart (The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 – Mar 1, 2012)
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