Posted on 05/03/2010 1:14:07 PM PDT by MaxCUA
Mitt Romney has been the frontrunner for several months but Sarah Palin has been steadily climbing and closing the gap. It is essentially dead even, as of today, but for the first time she has a small lead and it is expected she will pull ahead.
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I’m thinking Palin/Boehner - what do you think?
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Go Sarah!
Mittens has NEVER been the frontrunner in anyone’s mind but the media. They are mistaken if they think they are going to choose our candidate this time around. They did that in 2007-2008 and look what we have as result, the Kenyan Poser and the first Wookie. Never again. Even if it takes spilling blood, never again...
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Mitt Romney has been the frontrunner for several months but Sarah Palin has been steadily climbing and closing the gap. It is essentially dead even, as of today, but for the first time she has a small lead and it is expected she will pull ahead.
Sarah Palin is the future for our country for the common and average citizen ...
Mitt Romney was never anything worth considering in the first place... it's a wonder that he's even registering at all... it must the Marxists/Liberal/Leftists who are doing this to try and foist "their choice" upon us ... :-)
She ain’t no Reagan, but she’s the next closest thing out there.
Romney was a lesser of evils. Now that we have a new slate, who needs him anymore! No more choosing between RINOS!
Mainly because the Left would go completely out of their minds, instead of just halfway.
I am thinking she should head up the RNC. It’s perfect for her.
More like the evil of lessers.
Palin/Bachman.
Diggin’ it.
The lesser evil of evil lessers?
Not Boehner or Bachman. I don’t know who it would be but my guess would be that Palin’s husband will likely choose the VEEP.
What about Ted Nugent. That would be pretty cool.
Running Boehner would be like running Bob Dole. I keep waiting for Boehner to say “Boehner didn’t have a garage door opener. I know it. You know it.”
She ain’t no Reagan, but she’s the next closest thing out there.
Rick Perry speaking about Sarah Palin ...
"I love Sarah Palin, I love her positions, I think she was a good governor. . . . I want her to be engaged in this rebuilding of the Republican Party. . . . She is substantially more the face of this country than some other people who might want to be the face of the Republican Party. To me she's the face of America. I mean she's a hard worker, she didn't come from money, she didn't come from privilege, she just worked hard. . . . I have not seen another person who invigorated the Republican base [like she did] with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan in 1976—the speech he made at the Republican Convention. People were looking around and saying, 'we nominated the wrong dude.'"
I guess ole Mitt is gonna have to buy a lot more votes at the next RNC straw poll.
I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.
I was wrong!
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he’s a she.
And what a she!
In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene.
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