it's for you
Posted on 09/23/2009 12:24:22 AM PDT by meadsjn
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Politico's Ben Smith reports:
Randy Scheunemann, has emerged as an advisor to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as she attempts to build a serious public profile and begins to build a network of aides and advisors typical of a national politician.
Scheunemann confirmed this evening that he's with Palin in Hong Kong, where she is delivering a paid speech at a conference hosted by the brokerage house CLSA, which has in the past heard keynotes from Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Rich Lowry recounts how the McCain campaign eventually split over their vice presidential candidate, with the communications team mostly dissing Palin, while Steve Biegun, Randy Scheunemann and other policy advisors supported her. Scheunemann was one of Sarah Palin's staunchest defenders within the McCain camp, and he nearly lost his job because of it:
Steve Schmidt has told people [Randy Scheunemann] was fired the last week of the campaign; Scheunemann says he wasn't fired; others say Schmidt tried to fire him (at one point cutting off his e-mail) but was over-ruled by [campaign manager Rick] Davis. (Scheunemann's offense was writing an email to Bill Kristol defending Palin and criticizing the handling of her.)Also helping out with former Governor Palin's Hong Kong speech, according to Smith, were Dan Blumenthal and Kim Daniels.
Blumenthal is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he has worked on the national security implications of U.S.-Sino relations and coordinates the Tocqueville on China project, which examines the underlying civic culture of post-Mao China. Blumentahl has also served as commissioner and former vice chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, where he directed efforts to monitor, investigate, and provide recommendations on the national security implications of the economic relationship between the two countries. He had previously held the position of senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Secretary of Defense's Office of International Security Affairs.
Daniels, an attorney with the Thomas More Law Center in Washington, penned an excellent op-ed for NRO in 2003 presenting the case for confirming Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Court of Appeals, but the Democrats would not allow a conservative and well-qualified Hispanic such as Estrada to be seated on the court. Apparently, wise Latinas and Latinos are acceptable only if they steer to the port side of the ship of state.
- JP
Posted by Josh Painter at 9:00 PM
Labels: advisors, china, clsa, dan blumenthal, palin, sarah, sarah palin
President Palin ?
My phone is not ringing yet....what is wrong with her?
/s
Kristol does like her which redeems him a bit for me and maybe he’s not a NEO-Neo
that he can enjoy a social conservative is refreshing
grumpy Krauthammer and daft Fred can take note
Be patient.
Krauthammer is kaput to me. Fred always was.
it's for you
Still not sure how she is going to spin the quitter aspect.
I understand the why, but at the end of the day, it is a darn easy bumper sticker that needs a lot more than a sound bite to dismiss.
She quit. That’s it.
The quitter label will fall away for most people because of what she’s doing now and continues to do.
Anyone who will watch her will see she’s all in to defend this country against the attacks of the hard left. They’ll see her land blows. They’ll see her campaigning for conservatives.
Reality will stand in the face of the notion that Palin is a quitter.
There are now 894,653 FaceBook supporters, that's up 60,000 in two weeks alone...
... It's pretty insane - my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more "politics as usual," but THIS isn't what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.
If I have learned one thing: LIFE is about choices!
And one chooses how to react to circumstances. You can choose to engage in things that tear down, or build up. I choose to work very hard on a path for fruitfulness and productivity. I choose NOT to tear down and waste precious time; but to build UP this state and our country, and her industrious, generous, patriotic, free people!
Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and "go with the flow".
Nah, only dead fish "go with the flow".
No. Productive, fulfilled people determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time... to BUILD UP.
And there is such a need to BUILD up and FIGHT for our state and our country. I choose to FIGHT for it! And I'll work hard for others who still believe in free enterprise and smaller government; strong national security for our country and support for our troops; energy independence; and for those who will protect freedom and equality and LIFE... I'll work for and campaign for those PROUD to be American, and those who are INSPIRED by our ideals and won't deride them.
I WILL support others who seek to serve, in or out of office, for the RIGHT reasons, and I don't care what party they're in or no party at all. Inside Alaska - or Outside Alaska.
But I won't do it from the Governor's desk. ... -Sarah Palin, 7/3/09
From Catherine Yu Yeun Chen at Sarah’s Facebook: I have really great news, a friend who attended the Forum where Mrs Palin made the Keynote Speech at the CLSA Investor’s Forum, just while ago, said: Sarah Palin was received with the biggest round of applause it took 3 minutes at least before s...he was able to start her Speech and that the Speech itself was brilliant and astute and that she took China to task aggressivaly but without been offensive or rude, and she answered many questions brilliantly and smartly after the speech itself, and she was looking beautiful and relaxed and again received a standing applause, but my friend can not tell me anything about the speech-address, it is CLSA rules, and it is up to Sarah and the Organizers to decide whether the speech will be available for public reading.Read More41 minutes ago · Comment · Like / Unlike · View Feedback (33)Hide Feedback (33) · Report
See my tagline...
The quitter label will fade as the public learns more about her. The hate-fest from the left isn’t sustainable, just like the love-fest for Obama isn’t.
Additionally, far better to quit and fight battles from a better field, than take a pay-check, fail to do the job for which you were hired, while preferring to campaign incessantly for the big job in the White House. To me at least, her quitting was a voluntary, honorable discharge.
There are now 894,653 FaceBook supporters, that’s up 60,000 in two weeks alone...
Only 58.2 million more to go. A great start though. What does she need to win the Presidency 60 million or so?
Dang! Just dang!
Let me see if I get this straight. McCain's campaign manager Steve Schmidt, actually tried to get a top campaign strategist fired, because he dared to defend Sarah Palin? Who were these people runing aginst? Sarah Palin or Barack Obama?
The mind just boggles.
Is it any surprise John McCain lost?
Would you rather she do an 0bama, whereby she'd continue to collect her salary at tax payers expense, even while she spends 2 years campaigning all across the country, while not doing the work for which she was getting paid?
Obama (the only person with more supporters on FB) only has 1,060,638 members on facebook, and he's been using it since two years before the election. Sarah only had about 200k on July 3rd when she announced her resignation.
Sarah only needs 166,000 more to be #1 on Facebook, and her numbers are increasing at double the rate of Obama's. She should reach that in about two weeks.
Steve Schmidt has told people [Randy Scheunemann] was fired the last week of the campaign; Scheunemann says he wasn't fired; others say Schmidt tried to fire him (at one point cutting off his e-mail) but was over-ruled by [campaign manager Rick] Davis. (Scheunemann's offense was writing an email to Bill Kristol defending Palin and criticizing the handling of her.)
This Schmidt is a nasty piece of work.
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