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President Palin "Impossible" [BS!] [David Frum attacks Sarah Palin]
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| 2009-07-27
Posted on 07/27/2009 8:37:24 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
As speculation over Sarah Palin's presidential aspirations heat up now that she has stepped down as Alaska's governor, a former member of George W. Bush's staff said Palin had no chance of winning the White House.
"Impossible," is how Bush's former speechwriter David Frum described the likelihood Palin would become president.
Frum based his opinion on Palin's decline in approval ratings from when she was announced as John McCain's Republican presidential running mate in August termed her "divisive" within the party.
Asked what she represents for the future of the GOP: "political defeat."
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2012; davidscum; dnc4romney; frum; frumantigop; frumantipalin; frumhatepatrol; frumthrewelection; msm4romney; msmantipalin; operationleper; palin; palin2012; pds; pimpromney; pimpromneyhere; projectleper; rino; rinoromney; rinosantipalin; romnbot4obama; romney; romney4obama; romneyantigop; romneyantipalin; romneyhatepatrol; romneyhateswomen; sarah; stenchofromney; waronsarah
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Nuts.
To: rabscuttle385
Geez, was it just YESTERDAY that Palin ask for honesty from the press ?
And now we get this “Future prediction” crystal ball stuff from the ABC numnuts.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:42:46 AM PDT
by
4Speed
To: rabscuttle385
I would have made the case a few years ago that a racially charged state senator from a corrupt Chicago political machine would never by President, and boy was I wrong.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:43:27 AM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: rabscuttle385
The McCain/Palin ticket was up 8 pts. days prior to September 18th.
Obama was losing until the DNC played their October surprise on the economy
and the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.
David Frum: "Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."
David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."
David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."
Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"Im told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palins people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romneys former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Heres what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they dont do it to her, shell do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."
"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the Diva leak was Nicolle Wallaces husband."
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:44:13 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: rabscuttle385
Memo to Mr. F from Mr. T:
To: rabscuttle385
“Canadian” David Frum has also in recent times attacked both Rush and Ann Coulter
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:46:10 AM PDT
by
VRWCTexan
(History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
To: rabscuttle385
Frum, Noonan, Parker and Krauthammer - the Four Horses-A$$es of the Apocalypse.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:49:43 AM PDT
by
Dr. Thorne
(Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
To: rabscuttle385
McCain takes some blame for this. He picked her 8 years too early and now her chances are shot. Palin is asking for privacy now. Mr. Frum isn’t granting it but perhaps we should.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:50:10 AM PDT
by
ActrFshr
To: rabscuttle385
Frum is trying to get some attn, DON’T CLICK ON HIS ARTICLES...please.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:51:00 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
(boycott Peggy Swoonin')
To: ActrFshr
Welcome to FR.
Palin's going to be out there fighting and earning lots of money!! The media can't help but cover her, because she's news and people want to know about it.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:53:07 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
(boycott Peggy Swoonin')
To: rabscuttle385
Hey David! As Sarah Palin would say......”Quit Making Things Up!!!”
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:53:31 AM PDT
by
Ocarterma
(formerly Obushma: Because he's way past Bush---he's Carter now)
To: rabscuttle385
She’s “divisive” alright. She divides the party fat-cats from the rank-and-file, the RINOs from the conservatives, the DC insiders from the normal Americans, etc.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:56:51 AM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: rabscuttle385
And just how large is Fruum’s following? I don’t imagine even RINOs like him.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:57:36 AM PDT
by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
To: ActrFshr
Yes, McCain and Romney should take TOTAL BLAME in this
along with their agents, staff, and their spouses.
SHAME ON THEM ALL for attacking children to throw Election2008 for Obama.
Welcome to FR.
Romney: "Thank ME that my faithful, blind, stupid, RomneyBOTs
keep working, and lying, and demeaning women and real Conservatives FOR ME
from their basements, for ME, subverting honest Americans, and lurkers and FReepers
all to cover up my scurrilous, carpetbagging, record, my fake endorsements,
my fake troopers,
sporting fake badges, illegal security tactics, bizarre staffers,
hatred of the military, release of unrepentant murderers, receipt of AIG Contributions in 2008 ,
my imposition of gay marriage by usurping the Mass. Constitution,
my infliction of socialized medicine without a vote to impose European "healthcare" (except for me),
my abuse of Seamus violating Massachusetts's animal cruelty laws,
most say were uncalled for
for making me a presidential candidate of distinction in many ways leading to
TIME's 200 comments from readers complaining of animal cruelty
which did unfairly expose me,
like the Globe about my Belmont illegal alien sanctuary,
or so many about my team secretly criticizing and attacking Gov. Palin
and the other GOP candidates who otherwise might have won."
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:57:38 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:59:22 AM PDT
by
43north
(11.04.08: the day America committed voluntary suicide)
To: rabscuttle385
Frum is an asswipe who just wants to hang out with the cool kids.
To: rabscuttle385
She has a 75% approval rating with our party he is nothing more than a Obama propagandist he wants Mccain to get another chance and lose again. If it wasnt for his traitor actions to this nation the media would have no use for this clown.
He had the nerve to put his son on with Levin after trashing Rush this guy is the lowest form of life. He is a spineless fool.
To: rabscuttle385
Whether Palin will or won't is irrelevant for our purposes right now. Our goal is to effectively spread the conservative message to guarantee a
real conservative is nominated in 2012 and a
real conservative Congress is elected in 2010.
Sarah Palin delivers the message and effectively spreads the word to common-sense conservatives who, despite what the lib press would tell you, are the majority in America.
Sarah Palin's spirit and her unabashed love of country and family is the way to the future. She is devoted to expanding the conservative base.
David Frum is not.
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posted on
07/27/2009 9:03:27 AM PDT
by
PressurePoint
(See you in the unemployment line, Barack)
To: rabscuttle385
David Frum is a GOP elitist and smug a-hole. He has total disdain for traditionalists and conservatives like Sarah Palin.
Impossible? BULL!
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posted on
07/27/2009 9:05:36 AM PDT
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: ActrFshr
He picked her 8 years too early and now her chances are shot. Palin is asking for privacy now. Mr. Frum isnt granting it but perhaps we should. Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong.
Your 26 day posting history is sure full of a lot of advice for freepers and what they should do.
Since Palin is our favorite and the favorite of the republican party, which candidate do you suggest replace her in our attentions?
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posted on
07/27/2009 9:11:28 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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