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Krauthammer calls Palin tour 'eccentric,' doubts she'll run in 2012
The Daily Caller ^ | May 30, 2011 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 05/30/2011 9:11:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

With a lot of media attention, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visited the nation’s capital over the weekend to kick off a bus tour, in which she will visit various national landmarks. But some see the trip as a campaign stunt for a possible 2012 presidential campaign.

On Monday’s “Special Report,” syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer offered his thoughts on the bus tour, but admitted he wasn’t clear on what was motivating it.

“I don’t know – it’s more eccentric than usual, this event,” Krauthammer said. “She says she is going around to highlight ‘the foundation of the country.’ I don’t want to be picky but generally we say the founding of the country. I know I’ll get e-mail on that.”

Regardless of the motivation for the tour, Krauthammer suggested it would keep Palin’s brand fresh. He also noted that it would be problematic if both Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and Palin ran for president, citing an unscientific Fox News poll.

“But does the country need reminding about the Constitution and the Gettysburg — Concord, which is not in New Hampshire, it’s in Massachusetts? I’m not sure what she is doing except to say – I’m with Juan [Williams]. I think if she is still here with Fox, she is not running. She is not running. What I think she is doing to trying to keep the brand vibrant. During the next 18 months when all the attention will be to other candidates, and she showed what she can do. At Rolling Thunder she came, she saw, she sucked all the oxygen out of the room. There is nobody who can do that as she can. But as we saw in the poll, it looks as if she and Bachmann would be splitting this constituency that they have. And Bachmann, you know, this is unscientific poll but she clearly can represent that position and draw as Palin does, equally well.”

Later during segment, Krauthammer clarified his remarks, saying he confused a Palin gaffe with a Bachmann gaffe.

“Let me just say, it was Bachmann who slipped up on Concord, not Palin,” Krauthammer said. “I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. But Bachmann is a stronger and more organized candidate for that constituency.”

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To: psjones

That is why ‘The Undefeated’ is being made.


21 posted on 05/30/2011 9:34:26 PM PDT by GlockLady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amazing how he has been touted here over the years

It’s pure ignorance for any social conservative to laud this man


22 posted on 05/30/2011 9:34:26 PM PDT by wardaddy (I'll take either chick or the black guy for 100 Art (or Alex to u kids here))
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To: Bigtigermike

I agree, BTM. You are one savvy guy. Can you become our political analyst here at FR?


23 posted on 05/30/2011 9:34:42 PM PDT by Mountain Mary ("Freedom must be fought for, protected and handed on to our children". Ronald Reagan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amazing how he has been touted here over the years

It’s pure ignorance for any social conservative to laud this man


24 posted on 05/30/2011 9:35:00 PM PDT by wardaddy (I'll take either chick or the black guy for 100 Art (or Alex to u kids here))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“She says she is going around to highlight ‘the foundation of the country.’ I don’t want to be picky but generally we say the founding of the country. I know I’ll get e-mail on that.”

How dense is this guy? The Founding is history. The Foundation is what we have today. And frankly that Foundation is looking pretty weak.


25 posted on 05/30/2011 9:35:16 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: psjones
If she had won and become Vice-President, would she have quit as Governor? I guess that would be OK since it is a promotion. Using that logic it only makes sense to have left the governor's mansion for the more high-profile position she holds now, even though she does not hold an elected office.
26 posted on 05/30/2011 9:35:35 PM PDT by NRA1776
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To: truthkeeper

Huckabee is still at Fox. Newt and Santorum stopped being analysts at Fox, though, because they were going to run.


27 posted on 05/30/2011 9:36:56 PM PDT by Montanabound
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To: psjones
“I think her quitting as governor ....”

Only bothers people who wouldn't vote for her anyway. It's a dumb argument. It doesn't matter at all, to anybody that matters.

28 posted on 05/30/2011 9:38:03 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: truthkeeper
Fox hardly uses her. She's got a different deal than Huckleberry or Santorum had.

I think her contract reads ... “we pay you a lot of money to be a Fox News contributor, and you don't have to do very much”

29 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:15 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: GlockLady

Sorry Chuck, I don’t think “founding” applies to a trip to Gettysberg? No, “foundation” of our country is much more accurate!


30 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:53 PM PDT by nowheretohide
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Re: Huckabee

You're right, Gingrich and Santorum were suspended. Sorry about that.

31 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:56 PM PDT by truthkeeper ( Life is a pre-existing condition - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Kirkwood

Just prooves they never will get it.


32 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:56 PM PDT by GlockLady
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To: antceecee

“I hate to be picky” But I will anyway. Stick it Kraut. She will either run or she won’t but I don’t think most people would call riding in Rolling Thunder eccentric. I think they would call it fun.


33 posted on 05/30/2011 9:44:24 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Bigtigermike

They also stated that the reason they dumped News and Santorum and not Huckabee [at the time] was because Huck had not initiated an exploratory committee, etc., yet. Sarah hasn’t done any of those traditional things either. She’s smarter than the average bear.


34 posted on 05/30/2011 9:46:44 PM PDT by GlockLady
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To: nowheretohide

When Krauthammer starts saying “Palin’s comma should actually be a semicolon,” you know the GOP establishment is #1 panicked and #2 without any legit criticisms of Palin.

This founding/foundation nitpick is absurd (and CK is wrong).


35 posted on 05/30/2011 9:48:45 PM PDT by LyinLibs (All moslems are somewhere on the killing-you spectrum)
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To: GlockLady

Time for the Krauthole to pack it in.


36 posted on 05/30/2011 9:55:52 PM PDT by Herodes
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To: psjones

“...I think her quitting as Governor would be used against her....”

Let’s see........ hhmmmmm..... let me think now.... just WHO was it that was an Illiniois Senator for just a very short while....... then began running for prez, voting present most of the time. Oh, I see. That’s totally different, right?
GET A GRIP!


37 posted on 05/30/2011 9:59:09 PM PDT by WaterWeWaitinFor (Voter Fraud must be exposed. Voter ID MUST be passed in WI and elsewhere.)
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To: GlockLady

BINGO! She is one if not the most politically savvy politicians around, its unorthodox and very unconventional for sure to the inside beltway politician/media but there is sanity behind the so-called “madness”


38 posted on 05/30/2011 10:02:33 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First Christine O’Donnell.

Now, it’s starting to look like Krauthammer has a thing about women.

Just saying...


39 posted on 05/30/2011 10:05:12 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (BUY AMERICAN. The job you save will be your son's, or your daughter's)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Krauthammer further shreds his relevance.


40 posted on 05/30/2011 10:11:18 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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