Posted on 09/11/2010 1:25:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It turns out Sarah Palin left the governorship of Alaska for a better position. She's become king — King Midas, to be exact. Everything she touches turns to gold.
Her memoir, "Going Rogue," was the best-selling hardcover nonfiction volume of 2009. She's got a TV gig with Fox News that reportedly pays $1 million a year. She commands $100,000 for a speaking appearance.
But it's not all about the money. Palin has also become the fairy godmother of the Republican Party. In the Aug. 31 primaries, all five candidates she tapped with her wand came away victorious — including Joe Miller, who upset incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Those she passed over turned into pumpkins.
"Sarah Palin has special medicine," wrote John Dickerson of the liberal online magazine Slate after the primaries. "The Palin brand now grows ever stronger because other Republicans will want to access that magic."
All that looks like the perfect prelude to something even bigger. After steadfastly refusing invitations for political gatherings in Iowa, site of the first presidential contest in 2012, she's going to Des Moines on Sept. 17 for the Republican Party's annual Reagan Day dinner. To run for president, one local GOP official was quoted saying, "She needs to be here — and she's doing that with a big, high-profile event."
If she enters the race, Palin will have the inside track. A recent Gallup poll found that among Republican voters, she's more popular than Abraham Lincoln, with a 76 percent favorable rating — higher than any other potential GOP presidential candidate listed by Gallup. The nomination is starting to look like it's hers for the asking.
But appearances are deceiving.(continued)
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The country has been drifting to the left for 20 years, and this has acclerated under Obama.
Major change is needed, not just fixing things here and there, even if necessary, like the economy. The country needs an ideological shift, and a major injection of pride and purpose. Palin can do that, maybe uniquely so.
The time is perfect. An very liberal POTUS has shaken the country. FOX News is some help (it won’t be when Murdoch passes away). The Tea Party spirit is strong. Now is the time for major change.
They smear Palin with the word polarizing, but it isn’t true. She can change that perception with many folks in the middle when she starts running as a candidate, as against what she is doing right now, which is more like a conservative activist energising the base and opposition to Obama.
In 2008 conservatives had every reason to gripe of their choices in the GOP primary.
But if Palin runs in 2012 anybody who self-identifies as a Reagan conservative has absolutely no reason to bitch, whine or complain unless you vote for Palin first. But if you reject Palin because of what the MSM tells you, then you deserve to get Romney as your nominee.
Either way, it sounds good to me. Thanks.
Thank you for the Reagan quote. The Gipper was a giant, appearing at a time conservatism was flat on its back. Until October he couldn’t get a break in the 1980 campaign, but Carter turned mean and the media called him on it, something they would never do to a Democrat today.
Bottom line is, we need somebody. Why not Sarah?
“Palin is actually more popular, though not by too much, than Reagan was in 1978. Only after the New Hampshire debate (”I paid for this microphone”) did Reagan begin to pull away from Bush.”
Reagan was a non entity as the 1980 campaign began. He was well known, but the press had created an impression that he was too conservative and then added “too old” and “too stupid” to the mix. Bush was the new guy on the block and the favorite from January onward, after winning Iowa. Reagan was the underdog and thought to be on his last legs in New Hampshire. That’s when the “I’m paying for this microphone Mr. Green”(sic) reference changed the dynamics of the race. The press was intellectually honest enough to report it back then. They would ignore it now.
My point is that Sarah is well known. Her polling and potential is probably better than Reagan’s actual popularity in 1978. Very few people would have given odds he would have been elected as the next president. Walter Cronkite and the palace guard said everyone was a liberal each night on the news, and they said that any conservative presidential candidate would be trounced like Goldwater.
The press was relaxing with margaritas believing that the country was going to elect Ted Kennedy.
The joke was on them. It may be again.
Either you know how politic or you don’t. This is part of politics and she is gathering together her base.
Her moves so far have been very effective.
JD did not run an effective campaign. He didn’t get the votes. Just that simple.
Not much apparently. Reagan didn’t quit. Reagan didn’t whine about the unfair press. Regan didn’t make excuses. Reagan just went out and won. And once he won, he led. Palin is no Ronald Reagan.
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and here you are, dissing Palin again, probably getting ready to watch your beloved Jon Stewart.
And here you are, spouting your usual load of manure.
Conservatives should just get behind Sarah now and not let anyone else sabotage her progress.
Manure? Did you or did you not, post the following on FR? go ahead.... lie and make my day troll. Hate Palin, hate Rush, hate Fox news, hate Beck... need I go on. Your posts speak for themselves. See below:
“I see people jumping on the Palin bandwagon for the same reason that they jumped on the Obama bandwagon - a pretty face who talks a good game”
“If a stupid crack by David Letterman and ethics charges by political opponents are more than she can handle then she should by all means stay on the rubber chicken circuit where it’s safe and out of politics”
“Sahah Palin as Winston Churchill? The ultimate ROTFLMAO moment.”
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:00:09 PM • 16 of 112
Non-Sequitur to Dr. Scarpetta
Jon Stewart does an absolutely riotous imitation of Glenn Beck. He was at it last night
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:47:09 PM • 50 of 70
Non-Sequitur to chessplayer
Stewart has been ripping FOX up one side and down the other recently. And in every case it’s been with their own words.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:37:54 PM • 18 of 18
Non-Sequitur to Sub-Driver
“Absolutely,” Limbaugh, among the president’s fiercest critics, told NBC when asked if he’d be willing to speak with Obama. “I’d be honest with him. The President of the United States is the President of the United States. I want this country to succeed, and if he invited me up there to chat, I would owe him up the dignity of being honest.”
And did Rush have a straight face when he said that?
Friday, July 03, 2009 4:29:50 PM • 79 of 101
Non-Sequitur to Virginia Ridgerunner
Have you seen the video?
We will see. She has committed political suicide. Palin will never be president, will never even be the Republican candidate for president. Bookmark this thread and see if I’m right.
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:41:12 PM • 9 of 61
Non-Sequitur to An Old Man
You want extensive experience in major elective office? She ain’t got it.
You want experience in foreign affairs? She ain’t got it.
You want experience in national security matters? She ain’t got it.
And for more laughs, see if you can find NS’s comments on leftist websites!
He used to post on DU until we outed him. Now he must use a new name. I checked and his nonsequitur name hasn’t posted there in a long time, around the time we outed him.
Obviously you have no sense of humor, be you mojitojoe or mojitojane.
Ah.
Let's see them.
Still a legend in your own mind I see. You outed nobody because I've never posted on DU. I was on lucianne.com about ten years ago but that's it.
> “Imagine a Sarah/Chris Christie ticket”
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I’d rather not!
Christie is still a RINO, even though he is trying to reposition himself.
OH, someone else with your exact name posted comments just like ones you posted here!
Clever of them.
> “Governor Christie rocks!”
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You mean Governor Christie has rocks in his head.
He favors a mosque at ground zero.
Hey, did you like the pic I sent you yesterday?
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