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Even GOP activists are turning against Sarah Palin
Miami Herald ^ | 2/24/11 | Steve Thomma

Posted on 02/24/2011 9:23:19 PM PST by pissant

ROCK HILL, S.C. — As Sarah Palin wonders whether to run for president, she might want to talk to people in places such as South Carolina.

She'd find her star fading, and her prospects daunting.

Republicans still like her, but now they openly question whether she could or should be nominated for president, let alone elected.

At a recent gathering in South Carolina, the site of a crucial early presidential primary next year, party activists said the former Alaska governor didn't have the experience, the knowledge of issues or the ability to get beyond folksy slang and bumper-sticker generalities that they think is needed to win and govern.

Many are shopping for someone else. They're looking at Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., for example, and seeing what they call a smarter, more experienced candidate who's equally as conservative.

"Sarah Palin with a brain," said Gail Moore, a Republican from Columbia.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
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To: pissant
You don't get "FLAK" until you're over the target..

Palin/Bachmann.. Ingraham or Malkin as Sec. of State.. Coulter as Attorney General..

21 posted on 02/24/2011 9:40:47 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: pissant
Social conservatives are forbidden to the GOP elite.
22 posted on 02/24/2011 9:40:50 PM PST by Tempest (I put money ahead of people)
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To: pissant

Do ya think Bachmann could get something passed in congress, just once in a while...


23 posted on 02/24/2011 9:40:54 PM PST by Fred (Suspend All Immigration Until Unemployment is Reduced to 5%)
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To: pissant

They want to bring Unions to the South; this is part of the reason they want the democraptic pResidential primary there. They are gonna attack the South in any way they can...bring the primary, bring temporary $, make promises, sign up ignorant postal workers soon to be out of work to “other” government positions-—IF they are the “correct” hue, and bring the union goons to recruit, too.

I like Bachmann, but Palin has been Mayor and Governor of a state.....AND, “they” hate her. Their hating her makes me love her even more.


24 posted on 02/24/2011 9:41:26 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: pissant

25 posted on 02/24/2011 9:42:07 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: toddausauras

If Palin announces she’s running it’s going to be a massive political earthquake. The rest of the field are going to melt away. Just watch.

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Exactly!

But don’t worry, Pissant will be feverishly looking for a negative AP story about Palin.


26 posted on 02/24/2011 9:43:11 PM PST by Artcore
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“She will also begin to speak differently. Presently she speaks as a political commentator and critic, which is no surprise because that’s her job at Fox. We’ll start hearing campaign promises that actually make sense.”

Well said. And watch her shatter the false meme of her “stupidity”.

With all due respect to pissant this post and similar articles feel a little like Hitler’s desperate gamble in the Ardennes, late 1944.


27 posted on 02/24/2011 9:43:49 PM PST by toddausauras
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To: toddausauras
RE :If Palin announces she’s running it’s going to be a massive political earthquake. The rest of the field are going to melt away. Just watch.

And if she doesn't?

28 posted on 02/24/2011 9:44:16 PM PST by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: pissant
What happened did your social peers and the media do a thorough job of brain washing you?
29 posted on 02/24/2011 9:44:25 PM PST by Tempest (I put money ahead of people)
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To: pissant

C’mon pissant. Should Obama run again or not................


30 posted on 02/24/2011 9:44:37 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: chickadee

Bachman doesn’t have that star quality, quite. With luck, though, she may be speaker one day.


31 posted on 02/24/2011 9:44:59 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Artcore
Deep in his loins he is desperately aching for the political resurgence of one Duncan Hunter.

Which begs the question, Doesn't one have to have surged before they can resurge???

32 posted on 02/24/2011 9:45:16 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I am proclaiming 2011 as the year of ME!)
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To: toddausauras

I say let her run. Let the voters decide. I don’t think she has a chance after all the media hit pieces. Hell even conservatives repeat liberal lies the left has told, believing they are true. But she may surprise some people.


33 posted on 02/24/2011 9:45:36 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Fred

Note* These Palin haters on FR don’t like Michele Bachmann for the most part.....they’re just use her as a name against Sarah. Someone showed that most of them never said anything about Bachmann much until just recently and it seemed that all of them started to talk favorably about Michele around the same time.


34 posted on 02/24/2011 9:45:52 PM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: rbmillerjr
Huckabee claims to be broke*. That's a good sign. If people aren't sending him money, they don't care much.

*Not broke in the regular sense, but "broke" as far as financing a presidential campaign.
35 posted on 02/24/2011 9:46:02 PM PST by chickadee
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To: All
Pissant-The most despised and ridiculed poster on FR for a reason.

He earned it.....

*appologies to old Smith-Barney ad*

36 posted on 02/24/2011 9:46:06 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: pissant
Dumbass, one of these days you're going to figure out that representatives don't get elected president.

Then again, your trolling against conservatives has worked out well. In 2008, your boy Obama got elected.
37 posted on 02/24/2011 9:46:58 PM PST by Uncle Ivan (Alea iacta est)
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To: sickoflibs

“And if she doesn’t?”

If she doesn’t run then we’ll have to see who else is running I guess. Bachmann and Cain I like as well.


38 posted on 02/24/2011 9:48:22 PM PST by toddausauras
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To: Fred

One other possibility about Palin in SC....Palin was the earliest and most prominent supporter of Nikki Haley in SC. And we all saw how well Gov. Haley was treated during both the primary and, most baffling, even during the campaign by the good ol’ boys in the SC GOP. Palin might not be the preferred prez candidate of these GOBs.


39 posted on 02/24/2011 9:49:05 PM PST by nuvista (Obama-care - you think that arrogant Marxist "cares" about you?)
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To: Uncle Ivan
Pissant is nothing but a Moby.

He's no conservative, he just trolls around making sure conservative ideas can't get anywhere. It's kind of pathetic.

40 posted on 02/24/2011 9:49:08 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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