Posted on 06/10/2010 11:38:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Who knows? I guess it depends on how much money Mitt can shovel into his Swiss bank account. With any luck Senator McCain will be out of office, retired or no longer with us at that point.
Chuck DeVore had no chance to win in California with or without a Palin endorsement and Fiorina would have won regardless.
I agree on DeVore and you're probably right on Fiorina but according to an interesting article in the Daily Beast, of all places, the Fiorina campaign people say her endorsement was big:
How important was Palins support? At least an 8" on a scale of 10, said one Fiorina aide.
Apparently the Fiorina people timed the announcement of Palin's endorsement with a mailer:
The week of May 17, a mailer touring Palins endorsement of Fiorina began arriving in approximately 900,000 Republican households. A nightly tracking poll that week showed a 13-point surge in Fiorinas support on a single eveningthe beginning of a surge that hasnt stopped.Palin's California RescueThat evening, Joe Shumate, a Fiorina consultant, sent a one-word email to colleagues upon seeing the results: Bingo.
Ive never seen numbers jump like that, Fiorina campaign manager Marty Wilson, who has been working in California politics for more than a generation, said in an interview Monday.
Brices Crossroads: I ran across this and thought you would be interested, given your posts on Palin's impact.
I think Palin’s positive effect on the base is undeniable so her endorsement in a primary is a definite plus. It’s her effect on everyone else she needs to worry about. She is a rock-star and can do no wrong with most of us, but can she connect with the indies and moderate dems that we need to pull in to win general elections?
I agree with you on the indies and moderate Dems. I believe that she will not run unless she can answer that question affirmatively for herself.
Palin chose to run for governor, and willing took upon herself the obligation to serve the term as governor. She quit to pursue other opportunities. She did not honor the obligation that she, herself, chose to take up.
Sorry, but the way I was raised is that if you say you will do something, you do it. She quit.
But I guess I was raised to honor my obligations, and that makes me an idiot now a days.
The one explanation that makes the most sense of all the seeming inconsistencies in endorsements is that Mama Grizzly is thinking about moving the Wasilla brood into the big house.
Palin is trying to WIN. She picked Fiorina because she is somewhat conservative, but has a MUCH better chance of beating the Dem. The other guy had NO CHANCE to beat the incumbent.
She is not beating the Republican party over the head with a right-wing baseball bat, she is simply like a wrecker hooking a tow-line to a wrecked car and is inexorably dragging it back to the right .
Apparently you don’t know Fiorna at all. Anyone who was anywhere NEAR the Silicon Valley while she was at HP knows that she is a global socialist, she believes transnational corporation executives are the new ‘aristocracy’ and workers are serfs who need the cheap communist style education of the communists, and are to be housed in ‘smart growth’ villages surrounded by ‘open space’ and without personal transportation of any kind.
If that sound like a worker dormitory in communist china to you, you’d be right. She said so herself in a televised conference for one of the global socialist NGOs that she is wont to support.
Sorry, but the way I was raised is that if you say you will do something, you do it. She quit.
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Balderdash! Any sensible chief executive continually
analyzes the current dynamics of the job and monitors
priorities, especially in this case where her time,
daily life, family, and her duties were increasingly
being so negatively altered by evil whims of outside
forces determined to immobilize her.
And those alterations were occurring to the detriment
of the efficient conduct of her duties to the state and
its citizens. The constant frivolous investigations,
mounting costs and time to hunt down and produce
paperwork to defend against spurious charges, the
continuing increased impingement on the time of state
employees caught in the legal webs, and many other
things we probably don’t know about comprised the
entire BIG picture.
The smart executive looks at the entire BIG picture
when it’s dramatically been altered.
Right decision, right time .. and control returned
where it belonged: to her and her family.
Carly embraces ‘change’ Obama-style
World Congress 2009 began its festivities featuring a powerful presentation from Carly Fiorina, former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard. In keeping with this year’s WC theme, Surfing the Waves of Change, she said, “People that succeed in life are the ones that embrace change and see it as an opportunity.” The favorite quote from the presentation was “Change is like heaven - everyone wants to go there, but no one wants to die.” Following the presentation, Ms. Fiorina joined NCMA President Steve Ayers and World Congress Chair Deidre Lee in cutting the ceremonial ribbon which signaled the official opening of the Exhibit Hall.
Does Carly think she’s going to be elected to “world congress” and not the US Congress? She’s campaigning for global government not Constitutional government. America, she’s every bit as bad for the country as Obama has been.
Thanks, Al. it is an interesting piece.SP has turned a major corner if even the Daily Beast is acknowledging her impact.
Oh no, that would be admirable. Chumplike, but admirable in a dimwitted way, I guess.
No, what makes you an idiot is that you looked at the situation and decided that's what it hinged on.
Most people look at it as recognizing she was fighting a war she could not, by definition, win. Her family would end up millions in debt, the money pi$$ed away on lawyers to defend bogus accusations. The state would suffer because, by law, she was required to respond. That tied up her time and staff time.
How much debt was enough? How much staff and personal time wasted was enough? Tell me, I'd really like to know what you "think."
If you dare.
Even though Sarah is the favorite here at Free Republic, Freepers have been notoriously wrong in their unqualified endorsements in the past.
Juan McNasty will of course play to the cameras and the liberal hosts, and throw her under the bus if he thinks it will make the media like him. Perhaps Sarah's political calculus has come to the conclusion that little Johnny will not be reelected.
That's the $64,000 question. Can she get past the Drive-Bys popular portrayal of her as a drooling idiot and a quitter?
A lot will depend on who the Democrats nominate in 2012. If they jump off the cliff with Obama, she'll stand a better chance as the "real change" candidate. If Soros and the ChiComms tell the Dems to nominate Hillary, the calculus will be altered dramatically; the Rats will probably be able to convince enough voters that socialism really does work - Obama was a "noble" experiment, but a mistake; you need to have the "right" woman in charge.
It's no secret, Pat:
GO SARAH!!
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