Posted on 07/21/2010 10:12:43 PM PDT by pissant
Sarah Palin has cause to celebrate after Tuesday’s Republican primary in Georgia, where a timely endorsement helped lift her favored candidate into an Aug. 10 gubernatorial runoff. Closer to home, however, things aren’t looking as bright for the former governor-turned-TV personality/"tea party" tribune/prolific-Facebooker.
Georgia’s insurance commissioner, John Oxendine, was widely considered the GOP front-runner until Palin weighed in last week on behalf of Secretary of State Karen Handel, who finished first in Tuesday's balloting.
But the outlook doesn’t seem as promising for another Palin favorite, Joe Miller, who is waging an uphill bid for U.S. Senate back in Palin’s home state. Palin endorsed the Fairbanks attorney in a June Facebook posting, calling him “a true Commonsense Constitutional Conservative.”
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I would imagine that quitting on her state in the middle of her term to pursue her own interests didn’t go over well with many of them.
Some of the “Gang of 29” can always be counted on to come to every Palin thread and start attacking her.
What about quitting in order to prevent her familiy from being banrupted? Or because she had less and less time to do her job as Governor because she had to personally handle each and everyone of those frivilous lawsuits which showed no sigh of stopping?
Sounds like a “but monkey” moment.
How is the Democrats in office working for you>
I see it differently than most all of you. Lisa Murkowski is an entrenched Republican. The only thing that is going to unseat her is her own behavior or a wave of desire for change among the electorate. Neither is in the offering. Alaskans are more complacent with the status quo than the rest of us, because even with high unemployment they are more self-determining and individualistic.
Sarah, endorsing the challenger, is looking at the big picture, that puts her out of step with the average Alaskan.
I guess me posting that DeVore got crushed doesn’t cut it?
LOL. If they ever get the polling feature here fixed, you’ll find alot more than 29 people who think Palin is far down the list of desirable nominees.
I stand (actually sit) corrected...
Thank you. ;-)
Imperialist has been bashing Palin since the day of the ‘08 election, and I had it out with it then, and my prediction then that Palin would only grow in influence to become the most powerful Republican has proven true. As for Zauber, that twit has less than 50 posts in 5 years, which is always suspicious, and note it took the time (like some of Slick Willard sycophant uptight church lady brigades) to fire red herring potshots at my popular FReeper page. I suspect a lot of either female jealousy or outright sexism against Palin, so I just was polite and presumed they were old hags.
You don’t actually believe that spin do you? If she couldn’t juggle family and being a governor how in the world could she juggle being president and family? The woman saw dollar signs and quit. She didn’t have the best interests of those who voted for her in mind. Sarah is about Sarah and the sad thing is that so many otherwise even keeled conservatives have fallen head over heels for her. She will never be president.
How is that “spin”? She not only had to answer each ethics charge, but had to pay her legal bills. Her family was half a million dollars in debt, in fact they even had to take a second mortgage out on their house if I’m not mistaken. Furthermore, those ethics charge cases cost the Alaskan taxpayers 1 to 2 million bucks if memory serves.
Is all that spin?
Furthermore, if all she wanted was money, couldn’t she have made it while still Gov. or after she finished her term?
Nope. Just tired of the Palin hype which began on November 5th, 2008 after she and Juan lost to ths Obama clown.
I vote straight R, the democrats in office are not working out for any of of us. I’d like to see them defeated in 2010 and 2012, and Palin is not the one that can do it in 2012 IMHO. Run her or Jindal and the moron Obama will get another four year term.
If either were the Republican nominee, I would push the buttons for them, just as I did for McCain and Palin in 2008, doing my duty, but I was not excited about it.
Such a huge country we have here, and we have to run the same people over and over... Looks like the GOP is setting up the same contenders as we had back in 2007. I can’t even believe Romney is taken seriously... Huckabee? Personally I like Palin, but she will be torn to pieces if she runs, she is tough and all, and can take it, but in the end, we want to run someone that can win. Sarah has to much baggage.
I understand most here at FR disagree, flame away (we agree on plenty of other stuff). I hope I will not be saying ‘told you so’ come the day after election day 2012.
‘Imperialist has been bashing Palin since the day of the ‘08 election’(fieldmarshaldj)
Good memory. We lost, and about ten minutes after we lost, FR was a fire with Palin 2012. Go for it, as I said then, that’s all, see what happens.
PS
Ain’t no queer hag here, just another Freeper. I don’t bash Palin, I just try to make comments about her and discuss, but that has always been impossible here, The Palin supporters come out all ‘Rouge’, as you have demonstrated nicely in this thread.
This article was ripe for a Palin counterpoint, and which I made, and expected the flames. I was a little surprised about the queer stuff though, FR is a family oriented website!
Thanks for the support Zauber. It is hard to discuss Palin’s weaknesses on FR...
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