Politico's Simon: 'Palin is at the top of her Party'

NewsBusters ^ | July 22, 2010 | Noel Sheppard, Associate Editor

[Bigtigermike]

In the “set rules” of politics you don’t resign like the way she did, and even if one was to do it, the ideal situation that would be considered best would be to keep a low profile for years and hope that people’s memory of your resignation would fade away...

NO, Sarah decided to “live to fight another day” on her terms....She change the rules, change the battleground and change the weapons of choice....She hates to lose, I read her book and Basically she says in it that if she falls down, she will get right back up and keep on running!

[c-b 1]

Any hip freeper knows McLame threw the election , as he was told to do . Palin will become POTUS only if the oligarchs decide she’s best for what they have in mind and she is willing to sell her soul and sell out America . The sheeple plod on in ignorance thinking the Repubs are going to save the day . Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

McCain didn't intentionally throw the election, he isn't made that way. He has been holding his finger in the air, and going with what he sees as popular, for 20 years, in his lead up to be president.

He lost the election because he is incompetent, he can't see reality for looking at what he thinks is the popular item of the day.

[Windflier]

I read her book and Basically she says in it that if she falls down, she will get right back up and keep on running!

Yes, she will. And, she's fearless. She reportedly told her daughter, "If I die, I die."

Now, that's courage. Exactly the stuff that real leaders are made of.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

You don't seem to grasp how successful the MSM has been in character assassinating Sarah Palin with Americans other than conservatives.

I think sometimes conservatives spend too much in an echo chamber listening to other conservatives and not paying sufficient attention to where the American people as a whole are.

Among all Americans, her negatives are OFF THE CHART compared to other potential challengers.

Among republicans, she is very favorable.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/141341/Palin-Favorable-Among-Republicans-Tops-Others-GOP.aspx

The MSM will continue to furiously attack her, we know that.

What I think you are missing is the attacks have proven SUCCESSFUL.

The MSM slimed her unfairly and it WORKED, among people other than Republicans.

The MSM is going to have to be defeated as much as the Democrat candidate in order for Sarah Palin to be elected.

[excopconservative]

Far too many on our side have not noticed the obvious yet.

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I think that’s because the frame of reference is the typical Republican campaign, advisor-led, veering to the middle, apologizing for being a Republican.

Gov.Palin will announce on the Bob & Mark Show in Anchorage as she promised today. The media will have to use the Anchorage FM station’s audio to replay it. I expect she will have some advisors, but they will not be running the show and no one is going to tell her what to say. Yes, there will be speech writers, but they will be working on her outline. Expect lots of interaction with voters. It will be a campaign like none before in recent memory. She will not hesitate to challenge Obama on his overall agenda and call him out for pushing policies that wreck the country. None of the other candidates will do that. If she can get him to agree early to a number of debates moderated by non-media types, she can tear him up. When confronted with the Marxists, Socialists and leftwing loons he has hired, what can he say? “I didn’t know they were Marxists”?,”I didn’t know that spending us into oblivion was bad for the country”?.

[ansel12]

The MSM is going to have to be defeated as much as the Democrat candidate in order for Sarah Palin to be elected.

Nothing like being the official Republican Presidential candidate, and leading your own $700,000,000.00 advertising and marketing campaign to accomplish just that.

[budwiesest]

Palin will become POTUS only if the oligarchs decide she’s best for what they have in mind

Well then, paint me an oligarch 'cause she's the best for what I have in mind: Tear down racism and victimization recruitment centers, quaranteen Chicago and every Chicago politician, get government the hell 'out' of the way! and let the markets work- as opposed to Bozero's all-government, all the time.

Energy independence via new drilling, a nuke plant or three, and incentives for businesses to implement new technologies that'll save money with efficiency. Cut taxes, cut spending, and cut public pensions and salaries. Throw the Health Care legislation into a dumpster and light it on fire. Did I mention 'get government the hell out of the way'?

If the word 'community' appears in the title of any law passed by Congress over the last fifty years, nullify it. Defund it and shut it down.

Give Iran 24hrs. to turn the Berkeley hikers over to the U.S. At 24:01, smoke a centrifuge factory. At 24:02, light-up the Mullah Inn. At 24:03 get Putin and Wun Hung Lo on the phone to tell them the party's about to begin.

[BornToBeAmerican]

“This is also a point that some on the right completely miss. By training nearly their entire arsenal upon Sarah Palin, the left has telegraphed precisely who the right should run for president. It is, of course, the person they attack the most.”

As added proof to all you say.

Look who they wanted as the GOP candidate? McLame

Now look at who they have tried so hard to destroy? Palin

I think a few Freepers should forget politics for a while and start looking at character and values. Something you will not hear of from the MSM

[Windflier]

What I think you are missing is the attacks have proven SUCCESSFUL.

With who? Democrats? Moonbats? Her sworn blood enemies? The MSM's attacks against Sarah have done little to dampen enthusiasm and support for her on the right.

Among all Americans, her negatives are OFF THE CHART compared to other potential challengers.

Sure, but "all Americans" will never vote for the Republican in any race, so the data is of limited value. As your second chart shows, Sarah fares quite well among Republicans, who are the only people who will really count in electing her.

In the "among all Americans" chart, she still has the best favorability rating of all the Republican potentials listed.

You want to talk about "OFF THE CHART"? Look at Sarah's favorability rating among Republicans in the second chart. She's clearly the favorite, walking away.

A factor that is working in Sarah's favor is the rightward shift among white males, women, and Independents. Surely, some of them will be attracted to some of our lesser luminaries, but most will likely jump on the Palin bandwagon over the next year and a half.

And I'll tell you another thing. When Sarah finally announces her intention to seek the presidency, you're going to see an explosion of support for her across this country that will blow you away. The whirlwind effect that her announcement creates will draw in a lot of people who don't currently support her, and others who are ambivalent about who to support. The Palin campaign is going to be a juggernaut.

[Windflier]

I think a few Freepers should forget politics for a while and start looking at character and values.

I've made this same point, repeatedly about Sarah.

Where Obama only posed as a transformational political figure, Sarah Palin is the real thing. Americans response to her isn't the hypnotic, mass-hysteria we saw with Obama, but a genuine recognition that this person is one of us, and believes as we believe. She wants the same America that we do, and she's got the guts to fight for it. Americans know a winner when they see one, and they see that in Sarah.

I've tried to stress the concept of character and fealty to the Constitution with some people who want to argue about Sarah's political resume' with me.

What good is a strong background in foreign affairs when the person holding that portfolio is weak on American values and traditions?

Who cares how long some candidate has been in government, when you can find little in their record to indicate that they are doggedly determined to follow the Constitution and the rule of law?

What difference does it make if some candidate has a campaign war chest that rivals most nations' GDP, if they support a globalist agenda, or anything remotely aligned with the left-wing agenda?

No - character and love of country are paramount, and in this, Sarah Palin is far and away the leading contender to actually perform the job that America desperately needs its next president to do.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Sarah fares quite well among Republicans, who are the only people who will really count in electing her.

Sarah will have to convince independents to vote for her in order to win a national election for the presidency.

That's just a fact of life.

She will have to go over and around the MSM in order to do that.

It's not impossible; Reagan did it in 1980. But it is a rare politician who can accomplish that.

[onyx]

SARAH PALIN PING LIST "PING"

[Windflier]

Gov.Palin will announce on the Bob & Mark Show in Anchorage as she promised today.

Really....? I missed that. Did she make Bob & Mark a promise that if she announces, that it will be on their show?

It will be a campaign like none before in recent memory. She will not hesitate to challenge Obama on his overall agenda and call him out for pushing policies that wreck the country. None of the other candidates will do that.

And this is what politicos on the left and right fear the most about her.

Off the leash, Sarah Palin will instinctively draw blood and go for the jugular. They know that, and they don't have the cojones to stand up to her full-frontal style of attack. They can try to bite her back, but their teeth are small, and there's little on Sarah to gain a purchase. She'll decimate them all.

God bless this woman. May she inspire ever more of our good people to stand as tall as she's doing.

[GLDNGUN]

You really need to make up your mind, as do others who do anything they can to find fault with Palin. One one hand you say some in the MSM want her to be the nominee. Ok, how would they put that in action? By giving her good press? Oh, but wait, you also say her negatives are so high because of all of the bad press. So, which is it? The MSM wants her to be the nominee, and thus is giving her good press? Or the MSM does NOT want her to be the nominee and is giving her bad press?

Many on this site "wanted" Obama to be the nominee, figuring we'd get 2 birds with one stone - the defeat of Hildebeast and an easy GOP win. Look how that turned out.

[ladyL]

I am sure this has already been posted several times but it is very clear, for anyone who has eyes to see, and ears to hear, that there is a huge Spiritual battle going on in this country. There are demonic powers and principalities with assignments on the government of this country.

Sarah Palin is filled with the Holy Spirit of God and the demons roar. Every demonic force which moves the unsaved souls in the media, gnashes it's teeth at Sarah and it's not just in the media but all the unsaved in the country. That's why Sarah is such a flash point. All darkness hates her, which is why we should pray for her, as the Bible instructs us to pray for our leaders. She needs divine protection to stand up to the hoards of demons that are constantly attacking her.

AND THAT IS WHY SARAH PALIN IS HATED AND ATTACKED. SHE IS FILLED BY YAHWEH'S HOLY SPIRIT AND A WITNESS TO HIS GRACE. For those of you who walk in that position of authority, you know exactly what I am talking about.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

If you read my initial post, you will see that I don’t view the MSM as monolithic on whom they think would be easist to defeat.

I think some in the MSM think Sarah would be the easiest to beat, because their character assassination has worked with the American people (other than Republicans). This group expects Republicans to nominate her, but they don’t fear that, because they know their slime attack works with voters other than most Republicans. And so they will continue to attack her, while welcoming her nomination by the Republicans.

Another group in the MSM looks at Palin and sees a potential Reagan, who just might be able to overcome the massive propaganda war by the MSM/Hollywood/education complex. They will continue to attack her, and will also try to subtly shape the environment to make it favorable for another Republican candidate, such as Romney or Huckabee.

[GLDNGUN]

She will have to go over and around the MSM in order to do that. It's not impossible; Reagan did it in 1980. But it is a rare politician who can accomplish that.

If you haven't realized what a "rare" politican Sarah Palin is by now, you probably never will.

It's funny. Some here criticize Palin for some of the politicans she has backed in primaries, saying she's just backing whoever looks to be the winner, while instead we all should be backing the most conservative candidate, polls be damned and regardless of which candidate stands the best chance of winning the general election. Then, those very same people turn around and declare that Palin shouldn't be the nominee because...(wait for it..)...she can't win the general election. LOL. You wouldn't be one of those people, would you?

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

You really need to make up your mind, as do others who do anything they can to find fault with Palin.

By the way, I don't find fault with Palin. I think the attacks by the MSM are unfounded and unfair. She is certainly my preferred candidate, if she can realistically be elected.

[Windflier]

Sarah will have to convince independents to vote for her in order to win a national election for the presidency.

She will have to go over and around the MSM in order to do that.

John, you may have noticed that she's already doing that with ease.

Sarah was burned hard by the MSM in 2008, and because of that, she will never allow them to frame or shape her public image again. She's using the new media like a pro, and is reaching an ever-widening audience. I expect she'll continue to be her own media outlet, and to build on it.

Her reach and effectiveness from outside the mainstream media has even pushed the White House to change course. That's power.

I don't know, but she may have bigger tricks up her sleeve to reach an even larger audience. The lady has proven masterful at going over, under, and around the MSM. I think she'll attract loads of Independents and reformed Obama voters.

[PA Engineer]

If you read my initial post, you will see that I don’t view the MSM as monolithic on whom they think would be easist to defeat.

I agree with your analysis. This is why the occupation media must be destroyed.