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GOP Faces 2016 Quandary: Why No Women Candidates?
RCP ^ | 07/25/2014 | Scott Conroy

Posted on 07/25/2014 6:58:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

I’d like to see Palin run. But I’m afraid America has become too corrupt, too degenerate for someone of her calibre to win. The country is entering into its death-throes, and will undoubtedly only serve up more sleaze and slime from the Dems and the GOP-E.

The chances I’ll even bother to vote in 2016 are getting more and more slim.


41 posted on 07/25/2014 9:33:16 PM PDT by greene66
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To: OrangeHoof

Even when Palin’s church was torched shortly after the election, the GOP leaders didn’t even offer any vocal support to her, nor a word of outrage to the media outlets. That really stunned me at the time.

I’d exclusively voted and supported the GOP my entire adult life, but their shabby treatment of Palin made me lose every shred of respect, confidence and trust I had in the Republican Party.


42 posted on 07/25/2014 9:40:10 PM PDT by greene66
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To: SeekAndFind

To the establishment: Seriously. Try Governor Palin. The worst that can happen is that she loses. Which is the same thing the “safe” candidates have been doing. Or hadn’t you noticed?


43 posted on 07/25/2014 9:44:46 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2016: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Impy
I agree, she’s not running and she never seriously considered running in 2012 either.

Nope. And you know why? Sarah Palin is no idiot. She's not delusional either. She knows damn well she'd have to raise a fortune, spend a fortune and get put through a meat grinder only to lose as bad as Dukakis, --despite what all the "Draft Palin" folks around here think.

She's not interested and I don't blame her.

44 posted on 07/25/2014 9:48:55 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey GOP-E, get a clue!

Romney’s Palin Problem: Where’s Her Convention Invite? (Advisor: she will be prohibited to speak)

45 posted on 07/26/2014 4:06:09 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Jane Long
Can you imagine the return to pride and confidence in this great nation, that these two would instill?

Honestly? No. They would be a very polarizing pair who may energize a large part of the base but I don't see them attracting much of the political middle and the left would absolutely loath them. The Democrats in Congress would set out to do them what was done to Obama and block anything and everything they might promote.

Add to that the fact that we've been suffering through 6 years of an amateur in the White House. I don't want another one.

46 posted on 07/26/2014 4:23:52 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind

As a woman I can safely say that I want a good ticket for 2016. I want a winning ticket for 2016. If that ticket happens to have a female candidate on it then fine. But I’m not interested in any sort of selection based on gender alone. Of the ones mentioned, I don’t think Bachman is an option. She turned herself into a joke in 2012 and I don’t think that’ll changed. Haley, with her jihad against Unions, would cost us Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania right off the bat. Martinez is interesting but I just don’t know that much about her.


47 posted on 07/26/2014 4:32:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Graewoulf
"Good Answer, I like the way you think, I am gonna be watching you" :-)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgAilTTZnQ

48 posted on 07/26/2014 4:37:23 AM PDT by taildragger (Not my Circus, Not my Monkey ( Boy does that apply to DC...))
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To: SeekAndFind

So now liberals are complaining that the GOP doesn’t have female candidates...these people are insane. Look how they’ve trashed Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Christine O’Donnell and other female GOP candidates.


49 posted on 07/26/2014 5:26:29 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
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To: combat_boots

Margaret Thatcher... yes shes dead, and yes she is a Brit... but she was made from pretty stout stuff


50 posted on 07/26/2014 6:19:24 AM PDT by pithyinme (Oh great 2 more years of crap to wade through....)
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To: Graewoulf

Thats an unuual yet strangely inspiring way to put it.

onward and upward


51 posted on 07/26/2014 6:28:51 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: DoodleDawg
They would be a very polarizing pair who may energize a large part of the base but I don't see them attracting much of the political middle and the left would absolutely loath them. The Democrats in Congress would set out to do them what was done to Obama and block anything and everything they might promote.

The above could be said about ANY conservative candidate team.

Add to that the fact that we've been suffering through 6 years of an amateur in the White House. I don't want another one.

I'll take both Col West's AND Dr Carson's resumes over 0's, any day.
Just curious, who IS your choice for a "winning" ticket?

52 posted on 07/26/2014 8:25:32 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long
The above could be said about ANY conservative candidate team

True.

I'll take both Col West's AND Dr Carson's resumes over 0's, any day.

You set the bar very low.

Just curious, who IS your choice for a "winning" ticket?

Cruz at the top. A governor in the second spot. Fallin of Oklahoma would pair him with a woman. Snyder of Michigan might give the GOP a shot at that state.

53 posted on 07/26/2014 2:34:20 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: MeshugeMikey

I don’t think he’ got enough anything to get out of the gate. But Obastard puts the lie to any of the “inexperienced” claims.

We’ll have to wait an see about DiBlasio, but at this early juncture I would say probably not. The leftards seem to be egging Bogus-hontas into the running early knowing that she will get the kid gloves treatment.

It does seem that the libtards have had enough of the Clintons. The “pig in a pantsuit” has made a royal mess in Benghazi and elsewhere.

I do think that F’n Kerry is looking to run again. Hence his frantic attempts to fix Hillary’s messes. Right now, on the left I would be looking outside again. Another Obama type, unknown, shady past, multi-racial, probably female, definitely a dyke.


54 posted on 07/26/2014 4:43:26 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: doc1019
Draft Palin, problem solved.

The media - which most FReepers scoff at, as dead - has made the likes of Palin and Bachmann "soiled goods"....they know what they're doing, and are damn good at it.

Bottom line fact - neither are now anywhere near electable to dogcatcher, let alone higher office.

Their sh*t tactics work, and both the media and DNC damn well know it, and won't slack off one iota.......it's still their world, regarding the majority of America.

55 posted on 07/26/2014 4:48:05 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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To: Ouderkirk

Another Obama type, unknown, shady past, multi-racial, probably female, definitely a dyke.

valerie jarrett has already blown her cover....


56 posted on 07/26/2014 6:57:11 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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