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Roger Stone: Palin Made the Right Move (Interesting read!)
Newsmax ^ | July 6, 2009 | Rick Pedraza

Posted on 07/07/2009 4:14:28 PM PDT by SolidWood

Political analyst and Republican Party strategist Roger Stone tells Newsmax.TV that he disagrees with the chattering class in Washington and believes the only way Sarah Palin could remain a viable presidential candidate in 2012 or beyond was to leave the governorship of Alaska.

““First of all, her administration is mired down by these nuisance lawsuits and ethics complaints from every garden variety left-wing nut paralyzing the state government,” Stone says, noting Palin is governor at a time when the drop in oil prices is contracting her state economy.

“There’s no plus in Sarah Palin staying as governor of Alaska.”

Stone points to Palin’s natural constituency that could sustain her through a national campaign and doesn’t believe she will be labeled a quitter.

“There was nothing to be gained, nothing good that could come out of being governor of Alaska for another 18 months,” Stone tells Newsmax. “On the other hand, there’s no question Sarah Palin’s political imagery needs some repair.”

Stone says the unyielding assault of the liberal media attacking Palin for being homespun, plain spoken, middle class and simple, lead to her decision to repair the political damage. He notes Palin has the most valuable thing a politician can have in presidential politics: she has a favorability rating of more than 20 percent of the American people who say they love her, and more than 60 percent of Republicans.

“She has a national political base,” Stone says. “Mitt Romney does not have that; Haley Barbour does not have that; Charlie Crist doesn’t have that. None of the other potential presidential candidates who’ve been mentioned have that.

Palin has now freed herself to cultivate that base, but more importantly, to go on television, Stone says, noting working in a packaged, controlled environment will help correct public misperceptions of her.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: fiscalconservative; gop; moxie; palin; palinresignation; pro2ndamendment; proenergy; prolife; rogerstone; sarah; sarahpalin; tv
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See Video: Roger Stone explains how Sarah Palin is still a leading candidate for 2012 and beyond -

Poll with a number of questions that need to be FREEPED!

1 posted on 07/07/2009 4:14:28 PM PDT by SolidWood
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To: Abbeville Conservative; sleepwalker; Roses0508; feedback doctor; LibLieSlayer; ...

Palin PING!

Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.

2 posted on 07/07/2009 4:15:28 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: SolidWood

Gee, I hope her quitting isn’t going to alienate the press....


3 posted on 07/07/2009 4:15:53 PM PDT by jessduntno ("We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Sara Palin, quoting MacArthur.)
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To: SolidWood

Here’s the url to Stone’s blog that had been crashed earlier today due to Drudge link to it: http://stonezone.com/

I think he’s right about her move and chances, but an FNC show is not the solution: too many independents will write her off and not listen. Maybe a combo of regular appearances via radio, print and TV would do it.


4 posted on 07/07/2009 4:22:51 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SolidWood

right thinking.


5 posted on 07/07/2009 4:23:32 PM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: SolidWood

I guess his website finally came back up after the onslaught from Drudge!


6 posted on 07/07/2009 4:25:00 PM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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To: SolidWood

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.


7 posted on 07/07/2009 4:26:12 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: SolidWood

The Beltway bozos just don’t get it and they never will. Sara will be the voice of the conservative movement, in whatever capacity she chooses. As a mother, I would not have allowed the moonbat left to bankrupt me and trash my family either - governor or not! This gal is going to surprise everyone, just wait and see!


8 posted on 07/07/2009 4:27:33 PM PDT by cblue55
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To: cblue55

After a long time, she will be the first President FROM the people. Note that she refers to herself as a public servant, not a politician.


9 posted on 07/07/2009 4:29:31 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: All

The few.

The proud.

The politicos that get it.


10 posted on 07/07/2009 4:32:40 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Sarah Palin is running for President -- Get used to it.)
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To: jessduntno
Gee, I hope her quitting isn’t going to alienate the press....

Guess we will never educate some of the bloggers here. She did not quit, she resigned.

11 posted on 07/07/2009 4:33:58 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: cblue55; mgstarr

Sarah has earned my respect too. If she had stayed on, costing the Alaskan taxpayers more of their hard earned dollars in defending the Governor’s office from these baseless charges, I would consider her just another oily politician, more interested in the power of the office, and her political future.

By resigning, she shows that she does care about Alaska, that she doesn’t see her political career more important than her constituents’ rights and those of her family.

She didn’t quit. She will outsmart the rats in the long run, just wait and see.


12 posted on 07/07/2009 4:35:17 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: SolidWood

“Stone likens Palin’s decision to step down from the Alaska governorship to that of Richard Nixon, who in 1962 “got fed up with being called Tricky Dick, got fed up with being the man that nobody would buy a used car from, and fed up by the constant assault on his values and his middle-class background by the liberal media,” he says.

“So, in 1962 he did what Sarah Palin just did –– he quit politics. Six years later he was inaugurated as President of the United States.”

This was my first reaction when I heard she resigned. Nixon spent the next four years raising money for R’s all over the country. By the time 1968 rolled around, everyone in the party owed him big time. Palin can do the same thing with her drawing power.

There’s a parallel to Reagan also. Reagan spent his years out of office establishing who he was to the public. It takes a long time for a charismatic conservative to establish a public identity (other than Satan incarnate) over the screaming of the old media.


13 posted on 07/07/2009 4:39:44 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: SolidWood
It was a dark day for the Apostles and first Christians to see Jesus murdered. The greatest gift mankind ever shall receive was delivered when it appeared to them, and all who were there..including the occupying Romans, that everything was either hopeless, or just the amusing folly of an occupied Jewish state.

There is a fate about Sarah. She is important. The comdemlibs can sense it, fear it...like the Temple priests did of that bumpkin named Jesus. A digest of her first 8 months is remarkably similar to , say, Luke. She is tested, mocked, feared, prosecuted, persecuted. She is 'crucified' a little. Some would like to see her dead. They have said it. I have heard it. Things appear bleak to many. She may be the conservative political 'one', or someone making the way for a 'one'. Or a prophet, scorned in her own nation, reminding us to keep what we have...or inspire us to remember, for a day when we have opportunity to be as we once were.

Do not worry. Send contributions directly to her campaign manager. Look up. Pray. Believe. God's calling the shots on this. It's amazing to witness.

14 posted on 07/07/2009 4:54:19 PM PDT by dasboot
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To: SolidWood

“Palin has now freed herself to cultivate that base, but more importantly, to go on television, Stone says, noting working in a packaged, controlled environment will help correct public misperceptions of her.”

The packaged, controlled environment sure helped 0bama get elected!


15 posted on 07/07/2009 5:24:40 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: ModelBreaker

I remember listening to Reagan’s radio commentaries during the Carter adminstration, before syndicated political talk radio. They helped turn me from a young, naive lefty to a nationalist/libertarian Reagan voter in 1980.


16 posted on 07/07/2009 5:25:44 PM PDT by Hugin (GSA! (Goodbye sweet America))
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To: jacquej

There’s no way this will propel her to the WH in 2012 and anyone who really thinks that is seriously delusional IMHO.

Look she earned my respect too but she was elected to do a job and she’s abandoning it. It’s not going to get any easier for her (or her family) if she tries to get back in the ring.

Politics is a dirty nasty business but you know that when you step into the arena.


17 posted on 07/07/2009 5:33:38 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: mgstarr

“There’s no way this will propel her to the WH in 2012 and anyone who really thinks that is seriously delusional IMHO.”

We shall see, won’t we.


18 posted on 07/07/2009 5:40:02 PM PDT by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)
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To: mgstarr
Look she earned my respect too but she was elected to do a job and she’s abandoning it.

How is she "abandoning" her job when she can't do it thanks to the ethics probes? She should just keep fighting them and waste even more tax dollars? By then in 2010 they'll just say "scandal-plagued Governor of Alaska". She has nothing to lose by stepping down and handing the state over to someone else.

19 posted on 07/07/2009 5:49:16 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Logical me
Guess we will never educate some of the bloggers here. She did not quit, she resigned. I guess you need the sarcasm flag on even the most obvious stuff, eh? SARCASM
20 posted on 07/07/2009 6:00:58 PM PDT by jessduntno ("We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Sara Palin, quoting MacArthur.)
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