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Measuring the Impact of a Nod From Palin
The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 10, 2010 | Susan Davis

Posted on 06/09/2010 9:51:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin's effort to shape the 2010 political landscape got a boost Tuesday when three candidates she supported prevailed in their contested primaries.

But the former Alaska governor's impact on races remains a matter for debate.

"I think any credit given to me is way overblown because no one individual can tip it one way or another for a candidate," Ms. Palin told Fox News on Wednesday, when asked if her nod helped tip the scales in favor of women on the ballot Tuesday, Carly Fiorina in California and Nikki Haley in South Carolina. She also endorsed Terry Branstad, who won Tuesday's GOP gubernatorial primary in Iowa.

Strategists say the support of Ms. Palin, a favorite of the grassroots conservative tea party movement, brings media attention to local races and can help candidates distinguish themselves from the Republican pack.

Ms. Palin's support can also translate into money. She has weighed in on roughly two dozen House races this election season. A House Republican political operative estimated that candidates in House races could see an immediate $10,000 to $25,000 in donations after an endorsement by Ms. Palin.

But others, including some Republican strategists, say her influence is less substantial.

"The campaigns that won ran better races than their opponents. It's that simple," said Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist and former campaign aide to Mitt Romney, a likely Palin rival if she chooses to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; 2012; gop; nikkihaley; palin; palinfreeperping; romney; sarahpalin
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To: Walkingfeather
Have you ever heard a pol say they werent responsible for someone elses success? As God as my witness I have never seen that kind of humility of the 100,000s post I have read.

Neither have I, but I've come to expect greatness from this Lady. She's everything we need and want in an American leader.

21 posted on 06/10/2010 12:39:49 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Sarah does some inexplicable, oddball things as well. Why is she so loyal to John McCain....?

As much as her reasoning for endorsing McCain has been discussed on FR, it's certain that you already know the answer to your own seminar question.

The only "inexplicable, oddball" thing I see, is a handful of so-called conservatives swimming hard against the tide of widespread acceptance of Sarah Palin.

22 posted on 06/10/2010 12:48:05 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

She has neither confirmed nor denied an “I-promised-him” meme.


23 posted on 06/10/2010 12:50:38 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
She has neither confirmed nor denied an “I-promised-him” meme.

Gee. That means exactly......nothing.

Care to comment on the subject at hand, or are you only here to sling mud at her?

24 posted on 06/10/2010 12:54:27 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
It's become something of a test of character for me to see where a person stands on Sarah Palin. I've found over the last two years or so, that a person's stance on Sarah is unerringly in line with what sort of personality they are.

It was just a little over two years ago that the question of who McCain's running mate would be was being discussed among our lunch group. They were all pro-Mitt, but honorable mention went to all the other RINO contenders. I stated it would be Sarah Palin, with no doubt.

Unanimously, they asked, "Sarah who? Who the heck is that?"

I had no inside info. It just seemed obvious, considering the impending Obama vs. McCain disaster. Now, considering the ongoing Obama disaster, with Sarah Palin being the only national figure pounding his agenda daily, it just seems obvious that she will be the next president.

25 posted on 06/10/2010 1:26:52 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Windflier

I’m here to taunt the Sarahbots who get all bent out of shape at the whisper of “psst... John McCain lives”


26 posted on 06/10/2010 1:35:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I’m here to taunt the Sarahbots who get all bent out of shape at the whisper of “psst... John McCain lives”

That's fairly obvious...

27 posted on 06/10/2010 1:48:23 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: meadsjn
...considering the ongoing Obama disaster, with Sarah Palin being the only national figure pounding his agenda daily, it just seems obvious that she will be the next president.

I've been saying for a long time now, that all she has to do is apply for the job, and she's got it. The plain truth is that she won the 2012 presidential election 18 months ago.

I don't even want to go through the motions of a primary in two years. I feel that the country is just marking time until Inauguration Day 2013.

28 posted on 06/10/2010 1:52:45 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yeah, that’s likely: McCain said, “I’d like you to be my running mate as long as you promise to endorse me in my re-election campaign, assuming we lose to Obama.”


29 posted on 06/10/2010 2:08:32 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Windflier
I don't know exactly why, but this movie quote just popped right into the dialogue:

From: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Blind Seer: You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the one you seek. But first... first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You shall see thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall see a... a cow... on the roof of a cotton house, ha. And, oh, so many startlements. I cannot tell you how long this road shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward. Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation.

30 posted on 06/10/2010 2:09:10 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: unseen1

I imagine her Carly Fiorina nod is unpopular, but Fiorina could be an important backer if Sarah runs. Dad-gum-it, though, I feel BAD for California. First Ahh-nuld and now Carly Fiorina.


31 posted on 06/10/2010 2:48:14 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Kagan ENDED Constitutional Law in Harvard: freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2523089/posts)
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To: rabscuttle385

hey you


32 posted on 06/10/2010 2:57:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Howdy!


33 posted on 06/10/2010 2:59:40 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: Windflier

I absolutely agree


34 posted on 06/10/2010 3:18:19 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: avacado

My thought exactly. The line should really read “Demrat Party coopted RINO strategists....”

It’s also interesting to see how RINOs have adopted political tactics identical to the Demrats. One of them is simply to ignore any person, fact or event that doesn’t fit the left’s template.

Obviously that works up to a point. But reality generally wins out in the long run.


35 posted on 06/10/2010 4:39:36 AM PDT by dools007
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To: HiTech RedNeck
To 26 - You are not 'taunting' anyone. The McCain endorsement sucks yet Palin has not offered up any mea culpa or equivocation to those she had disappointed.
Truly a person who stands by her convictions and isn't rattled when those don't jibe with some conservatives' viewpoint. In other words, she hasn't 'played politics', an admirable trait.

So Palin, despite almost single-handedly resurrecting conservatism, has endorsed McCain. Cry me a fecking river. And I was amongst those who, at the time, were very vocal in censuring her for this 'unexplainable lapse'. So Palin did something I didn't approve of. I had a choice - continue to pout or suck it up and move forward.
Sure, it would be nice if we lived in a perfect world where only bona fide conservatives ran and got elected. But back in the real world it is somewhat an act of self-flaggelation to support candidates who can only manage to attract 16%, 1%, or less, of the votes in their own Party.

I honestly believe that many who are thinking about seeking the GOP nod in '12 are remaining on the sidelines until they know what Mrs Palin will do. Only a self-centered, delusional fool would face this lady in the primaries.

36 posted on 06/10/2010 5:21:17 AM PDT by jla
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To: Windflier

“While Ms. Palin is perceived as a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, operatives for both House and Senate campaigns said there was little coordination between the party establishment and her operation.”

There is little coordination between her and the party establishment...the establishment that backed Crist, Scozzafava, etc.

That is one of the best things I have ever heard about Sarah Palin.


37 posted on 06/10/2010 6:21:32 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

“I feel BAD for California. First Ahh-nuld and now Carly Fiorina.”

Yea. Arnold and Carly Fiorina are cut from the same cloth. Arnold is proablrtion and Fiorina is proabortion. Oops. No. She is prolife...endorsed by Susan B. Anthony list.

Well, Arnold is anti Second Amendment and so is Fiorina. Oops. No. The NRA endorsed Fiorina.

Well, Arnnold believes in man made global warming and Fiorina does too. oops. Fiorina ridiculed global warming agitprop, calling it the “weather”.

But Arnold and Carly really are the same. I just have this feeling. /sarc/


38 posted on 06/10/2010 6:26:25 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
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To: ABQHispConservative; 2ndDivisionVet; CondoleezzaProtege; onyx; Lakeshark
Mittens feels just fine.

He's busily engaged in planning his 2012 campaign and ordering up buttons & bumperstickers for:

Romney/Whitman:2012

He's pleased that his BFF won the Republican gubernatorial primary in California.

39 posted on 06/10/2010 6:28:23 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: Brices Crossroads; CondoleezzaProtege
>>> ""While Ms. Palin is perceived as a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, operatives for both House and Senate campaigns said there was little coordination between the party establishment and her operation." <<<<

Yes, that is one of the best things written about Governor Palin, EVER. :)

40 posted on 06/10/2010 6:31:19 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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