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Gingrich says Palin will not be the future GOP leader
The Hill ^

Posted on 11/16/2008 11:40:56 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Gingrich says Palin will not be the future GOP leader By Alexander Bolton Posted: 11/16/08 01:05 PM [ET]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination.

Palin energized the Republican base after GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) tapped her as his running mate and she has tried to preserve her high public profile since Election Day.

But Gingrich, an architect of the Republican revolution of 1994, took Palin down a notch, asserting that she would not become the party’s leader, as some have predicted.

“I think that she is going to be a significant player,” said Gingrich during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”. “But she’s going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players. She’s not going to be the de facto leader.”

Since the defeat of the GOP ticket, Palin has pursued an aggressive media strategy, scheduling a full slate of interviews to keep her face on television.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexanderbolton; gingrich; gop; newgop; newt; newtgingrich; palin; sarahpalin; waronsarah
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To: curiosity

Well you sure are on the bash Sarah bandwagon. Are you afraid she will shut down evolutionary doctrine???


361 posted on 11/17/2008 10:57:11 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: Vaquero
you and your elitist Rockefeller Republicrats can stew in your juices.....and you can practice your catch and release, Dry fly.

Yeah, that's the ticket. Go ahead and kick out everyone who's not part of the religious right!

Have fun running a regional party that can't win a national election.

362 posted on 11/17/2008 10:58:27 PM PST by curiosity
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To: Just mythoughts
Well you sure are on the bash Sarah bandwagon. Are you afraid she will shut down evolutionary doctrine???

No, I am afraid that her "Joe Sixpack" (her words, not mine) brand of identity politics will doom our party to permanent regional status.

I want someone to lead our party who has a strong grasp of economics and free-market principles, and who can articulate market-based solutions that can appeal to the middle.

I have no problem with her being pro-life or pro-gun, as I share both these viewpoints.

I am very concerned that a large portion of our base is jumping on her bandwagon just because she's pro-life and pro-gun, and because they think she's a "one of them."

It takes a lot more than that to win a national election.

363 posted on 11/17/2008 11:02:23 PM PST by curiosity
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To: MaggieCarta
I remain extraordinarily underwhelmed by Gov. Palin.

Me too. Now get your flame suit ready.

364 posted on 11/17/2008 11:04:07 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity
Actually for me Sarah being energy knowledgeable is what sold her to me. And while I can't stand lord McCain I did go and vote for him because of her.

She is a whole lot more intelligent than you give her credit for being, and the lofty elite who do not realize there are far more of the “Joe Sixpack” than of the intelligentsia class.

365 posted on 11/17/2008 11:07:44 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: mrsmith
Given the direct approval of a majority of the citizens there is small room for criticism from that quarter.

That's the beauty of democracy. You can always vote to force someone else to help pay for your goodies, like an athletic center. And that's why democracies don't guarantee free markets.

There's absolutely no justification, based on conservative economic principles, to have a city fund an athletic center out of sales tax revenue. This is a classic case of a government forcing everyone to pay for something that only a few will use.

366 posted on 11/17/2008 11:12:45 PM PST by curiosity
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To: Just mythoughts
She is a whole lot more intelligent than you give her credit for being...

What are you basing this on?

367 posted on 11/17/2008 11:14:10 PM PST by curiosity
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To: Just mythoughts
Actually for me Sarah being energy knowledgeable is what sold her to me.

I'm sorry to say, but your standards seem to be pretty low. One issue can sell you on a candidate?

368 posted on 11/17/2008 11:17:29 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity
I'm sorry to say, but your standards seem to be pretty low. One issue can sell you on a candidate?

As you already noted she is pro-Second Amendment and PRO-life.... This nation's economy is energy based and after nearly a year of $3.00 - $4.00 gallon of gas it was refreshing to hear someone who has been educated and literally did something about production of the most vital requirement for economic growth.

Interesting that I would need to have to write so much about one issue to explain what that one issue means to our economy. I think you have other issues which you will not openly say!!!!

369 posted on 11/17/2008 11:24:35 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: Just mythoughts
Even on energy I'm not very impressed with her. She knows a lot about oil and gas, which is important.

However, neither oil nor gas presents a long-term solution to our energy needs. The long-term key is nuclear, and Palin has not said or done much of anything to indicate is familiar with the key issues surrounding nuclear.

I haven't heard her say anything substantive about Yucca Mountain. I haven't heard her say much of anything about fuel reprocessing. I haven't heard her say anything about the onerous regulatory regime that is preventing expansion of nuclear power.

So yes, she knows a lot about oil and gas, and more oil and gas extraction is key to our energy policy in the medium term. In the long-term, she really doesn't have anything substantive to say.

370 posted on 11/17/2008 11:37:00 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity
Yeah, that's the ticket. Go ahead and kick out everyone who's not part of the religious right!

Have fun running a regional party that can't win a national election.

I don't know where you got the idea I represent the religious right. quite the opposite. I represent what I consider the very best of paleo conservatives of the Goldwater/Reagan bent. Goldwater being a national election failure (but a polarizer and the stimulus for much of current conservative success). And of course Reagan brought the conservative message at a time when liberalism was failing miserably. He used all types of conservatives, including Reagan Dems, to win against Mr. Malaise, Jimmy Carter. We have a chance once again, 4 years from now, to bring that kind of change to American. I see Palin as a catalyst of that kind of change. She is a conservative that fires up the base of most of the republican party...other republicans really need to think about the benefits of being a big government democrat, which it appears is what they are....

371 posted on 11/18/2008 4:26:39 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: curiosity
Now get your flame suit ready.

Judging from my experience, you'll need an industrial-strength one.

372 posted on 11/18/2008 12:57:46 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: Vaquero
I see Palin as a catalyst of that kind of change.

Based on what?

She is a conservative ...

I disagree. Except on guns and abortion, I see very little evidence of her conservatism.

What makes you think she's such a great conservative?

I agree she has fired up the base, but this has more to do with her personality and ability to identify with "Joe Sixpack" (her words, not mine) than anything of substance.

Personality cults are not conservative.

373 posted on 11/18/2008 2:25:45 PM PST by curiosity
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