Posted on 06/09/2010 9:51:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“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”
The Romney spin by the syrupy Romney pretty boy Madden. They are hoping no one notices that Palin snuck in Tuesday night and took the nomination away from Mittens without so much as declaring her candidacy. Iowa secured. South Carolina secured. Game. Set. Match.
I don't think that she made any deal with him; afterall, when he chose her to be his running mate, WHY would he make any such 'deal' with a relative unknown from the hinterlands of Alaska?
I suspect that Governor Palin has very high standards for herself in respect to INTEGRITY and to stay aligned with her high standard of INTEGRITY, she will remain LOYAL to John McCain.
I suspect, however, that she may(???) privately share your view of him, LOL.
Now..... on to important things, like: WHERE IS SARAH PALIN'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE????
There's abject terror among the 'clean-fingernails' Republicans inside the Beltway.
Meanwhile, Sarah and her family have rented a camper and are cruising around the country to stay away from her next door neighbor, the guy Piper calls "McCreepy". This is amazing to watch. :)
I didn’t say they were the same, FRiend. I just feel bad that she doesn’t seem to be another Reagan. I’m sure Palin wouldn’t endorse someone as bad as the Jerkinator.
Sums it up.
“I just feel bad that she doesn’t seem to be another Reagan.”
There is only one Reagan. There is only one Sarah Palin. That said, Reagan endorsed Chuck Percy for the Illinois Senate in 1978 (when Phyllis Schlafly was ready to challenge him in the GOP primary) and he was at least as left wing as the Jerkinator.(proabortion, anti-tax cut; big spender; pro-ERA) It infuriated many conservatives, and they recruited Phil Crane to challenge him in 1980.
To date, none of Palin’s endorsees are as left wing as Percy was and they have all been prolife.
No. Palin is not another Reagan.
Al,
Someday, this entire story is going to make a great movie.I don’t know if I would call it Sunrise at Wasilla or Sunset on the Potomac. LOL. It is curtains for the Establishment.
The heck of it is, it seems like everyone endorsed McStain, even my governor McDonnell of VA. GRRRRR! In my District 5 of Virginia, a parade of republicans endorsed RINO Hurt.
If she had, he'd be on his way to the senate. LOL
Palin isn't your ordinary tow the repub party line political; probably what I like best about her. She also won't burn her bridges to the repubs as she knows it's the only way to change things for the better.
I've seen Palin take stands that I never thought she would consider supporting; because she as she said it was the right thing to do. That sure tells me something very good (as you say character) too about Palin. She was also the first political up here to ever stand up to big oil; tell them who was running the show.
I truly believe Palin is the only political out there who would make the controversial decisions needed (come what may) to save our Country from complete bankruptcy.
The media tries their best to degrade Palin but I believe America sees the truth; I know Alaska does; I wish she was still our Governor.
I've posted a bunch of times on FR about things I have seen occur in Ak that also showed Palin's makeup as a person. A little over a year back, our rural community got flooded at ice out on the Yukon. Water came up 40 some foot, ice come crunching in 150 yards; took out tele poles, 300 year old trees down to the dirt, and smashed around 30-40 buildings or they floated away. Now these sort of disasters bring out the politicals for election campaign posters. I watched the Dem phony Tony Knowles spend 20 minutes after an 7.9 shaker on Nov 3rd 2002; taking picts with his arm consoling Grandma Katy John; the picts were on his re-election mailers; big hit with the Indians. Well, after our flood, Sarah Palin showed up by herself, no film crew. She walked around the town talking to everybody. Now we live in a split community, Indians live a few miles out of town, they don't want to live around White People actually (try to save their culture). The Old Indian Village was washed away, so the Indians were out the new Village in tents. We lived between the two villages; I've always got along with the Indians; never looked down on them as many Whites do. Anyway, after Palin met everybody in the town, she asked how do I get out to the Indian Village. Well our road was washed out and covered with ice blocks 40 feet high. Us Whites and Indians who lived out that way were using a swamp bog atv trail to get to town and back for like 2 months. It was in bad shape pretty quick (winch time). So when Palin asked how to get to the Indian Village, people told her she needed a 4 wheeler. Palin borrowed an ATV, threw an old coat over her good clothes, and went out the trail to meet with the Indians. Now that's how down to earth Palin really is. The Indians really appreciated her showing up mud and all.
People may laugh, but Palin taking that 4 wheeler out that mud bog trail told me something about her character too; the kind of person I want running the show.
agreed. It would have been nice for DEVore to win but he didn’t and thus we are left with supporting Carly or Boxer. The choice is clear to me. I’ll take the center-right candidate over the Marxists any day. Some here on FR appear to rather want the Marxist to win because their first choice didn’t.
That is one of the best things I have ever heard about Sarah Palin.
People are so accustomed to politicians being in the pocket of one special interest or another that they find it hard to get used to a politician who isn't. Sarah is exceedingly rare, in this regard.
She's well known for being a "different" kind of politician, but it's still something to marvel at when you watch it in action. She truly is a rogue, and does not follow the well-worn trail of cronyism and corruption in US politics.
Iowa secured. South Carolina secured. Game. Set. Match.
She's got to be giving establishment political operatives the heebeejeebees. They can't counter her, or get a move ahead of her because they simply cannot think like she does.
Everything she does is unpredictable in their political paradigm. She's re-writing the "how-to" book of winning hearts, minds, and elections by following an actual personal code of honor, which is completely alien to these types.
Romney would have to experience a deeply personal and spiritual transformation to move up into her league. Only then would he instinctively do and say what most appeals to the broad cross-section of American voters.
Short of having that sort of transformative experience, he doesn't stand a chance against Sarah Palin.
People may laugh, but Palin taking that 4 wheeler out that mud bog trail told me something about her character too; the kind of person I want running the show.
I'm not laughing. I'm extremely impressed and humbled by reading the story you related about her meeting the Indians in the middle of nowhere, by herself. No TV. No film crew. No reporters. No photo op.
That's what a real leader does.
I hope that when her campaign for 2012 begins, that people like you who have witnessed Sarah Palin in these sterling moments will come forward and tell your stories to the nation. She certainly won't. She's built better than that.
“NPR 90.3 is the only news-talk I can get...”
I was wondering...lol
It’s always good to have oppo researchers. ;o)
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