Media Dilemma: Palin in New Hampshire Thursday During Romney Announcement
**Written by Doug Powers
CNN’s Peter Hamby presents what could be an interesting problem for the media — or maybe it’ll be a no-brainer.
Mitt Romney will officially announce his White House intention Thursday in New Hampshire. At the same time, Sarah Palin’s bus tour will make a stop in the state:
Reporters will have a harrowing choice to make when it comes to which one of these to cover. They can decide to follow Palin, don their Kevlar “press” hats, and risk the dangerous situation Sarah’s forcing them to endure on a daily basis. Or, the press can choose to report Mitt’s announcement, put on their needle-proof vests, and become sitting ducks in one of the most treacherous areas in the world: Between Romney and the US president’s representatives who are trying to pin the blame for Obamacare on him. Where will the majority of the media choose to focus their efforts? We’ll see.
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Maybe, she is just going to support him.
I’ll be on the Palin / Giuliani bus. Romney can suck eggs.
i would bet they would rather harp on palin, then possibly expose obama’s masterpiece in a bad light. but then i didn’t think they would ask weiner about his weiner, so what do i know.
ya gotta love those ‘media tweaks’ from Palin…. if it were a game of “Lemmings” the Mostly Socialist Media™’s collective heads would be poppin’!!
Gotta wonder why someone isn’t complaining about them wasting precious fuel and pollutin’ Gaia chasing Palin around the country…. It’s like Keystone Kops in a chinese fire drill… (not demeaning the chinese.. it’s a PRE PC saying, so there)
His Weiner has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R
His Weiner has a second name, it’s M-A-Y-E-R
Oh, he loves to eat it everyday,
And if you ask me why I’ll say. . .
‘Cuz Oscar Mayer has a way. . .
With W-E-E-I-N-E-R.
David Frum Pretty Upset the Media’s Covering Governor Palin and Ignoring Mitt Romney.
Note to David Frum: Nobody’s paying attention to Romney (or yourself) because nobody cares what either of you have to say. And even if they did care what Romney has to say, it wouldn’t matter because what he says has a shelf life of, at most, a day or two. Speaking of Mitt Romney…and comic relief…here’s a fun new potential Romney campaign add via SerumVerum. Enjoy:
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/06/david-frum-pretty-upset-medias-covering-governor-palin-and-not-mitt-romney.html
I wonder if David Frum was among the 40 who turned out to eat free barbecue and listen to a speech by Myth Romney in SC last week. David should really think about that, if you can’t get more than 40 people to show up for free barbecue in SC, there is something definitely wrong, and I don’t think it was the sauce.
Excellent campaign ad, should be sent by special messanger to Myth’s election HQ.
sorry..
-messanger
+messenger
The wheels on the bus go round and round
I support Sarah Palin over anyone in the current GOP field. Mitt Romney can go back and peddle Obamacare as the next step in Mass. downfall. It’s all he’s good for as far as I’m concerned.
There is no dilemma.
They’ll cover some celebrity. Or bow down to Obama again.
Uh, in propping up Urkel’s regime any way they can, given this AP article, in the face of the jobs report of 38,000 added, and Wall Street dropping 280 today, and the housing market continuing to tank.
…actually its B-A-R-N-E-Y the F-R-A-N-K.
American Pie Got to watch this.
Sorry, my brain is toast at this point, but I thought this was great.
Thanks Ray for the video.
If Sarah Palin’s bus stops too fast, 30 carloads of MSM A-holes will have a chain reaction crash into her fantail.
Way off topic but …
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110601/ts_yblog_thelookout/handcuffed-by-policy-fire-and-police-crews-watch-man-drown?bouchon=807,ca
This is life in the SF Bay area.
Do not ever let anyone tell you morals are out of style!
Hmmm … Saracuda or RINO Romney?
Saracuda or RINO Romney?
Decisions, decisions!
Operation: CHAOS!
The MSM will spend as much time as possible covering anything that distracts the American public from the catastrophic failure that is the Obama Administration is and the destructive path it is on.
Everyone should go to Mark Levin’s website and listen to his opening comments Wednesday night. It was masterful. He is The Great One.
Never fear — Alamdeda will spend $40,000 to train firemen for water rescues.
And here is where they can find some funding — their neighboring City by the Bay spends $83,000 on an advertising campaign to ATTRACT illegal aliens.
I just saw this on Foxnews and I am disgusted by the actions of the so-called men that watched him drown. Any of the Boy Scouts in my Troop could have saved this man.
Shame is too mild a word.
Interesting, isn’t it, where their priorities lie? Wouldn’t it be nice if they actually would report on the item that F&F had this a.m…Eric Cantor told about Paul Ryan in the meeting with Obama yesterday. Apparently, Ryan told Obama to stop demagoguing them and their plan. He explained, once again, the economic plan he was proposing, and how it would affect Medicare. He told the POTUS that this was urgent and they are wasting time. Paraphrasing, of course, but that was the gist of it. He apparently got a STANDING OVATION! Can you imaging how Obama felt sitting there amongst the ENEMY, seeing Ryan get a standing ovation for telling off Teh One? He must have been seething! Everyone in that room better check their cars before starting them…Obama gets mad AND he gets even!
So FOX News reports something of national interest, but it makes Obama look bad. So of course it won’t get reported. Meanwhile, MSM chases Palin’s bus and tanks in the ratings. Go figure.
Unemployment numbers will be announced momentarily. My prediction? Over 9%.
Dilemma? Why, is it difficult to follow Palin and ingore Romney at the same time?
One more thing Cantor reported. Obama said he hadn’t proposed anything to the House because he knows they won’t pass it anyway! Seriously? “I am the POTUS and I won’t play with you because I am sure I will lose and I don’t want to look bad”. Yeah, I guess he is right.
When I saw the words “Romney Announces” I was hoping he was bailing out.
Oh well.
Do we call this a “Presidential Present” moment?
Pathetic.
I just hope we get a real conservative to vote for in 2012, not either of these two. Please, no more neo conservatives.
My guess, I’ll be voting third party once again….
So, no unemployment rate…apparently it was just the jobs numbers for May, which were dismal.
Oh, and Eric Bohling said that the economy COULD get better IF the price of oil doesn’t go to $5.00. Meanwhile, the lizard in Texas and the seahorse in the Gulf of Mexico could be put on the endangered species list and stop drilling in the biggest and most productive oil regions in the country. AND, the guy Obama just nominated this week to be the new Commerce Secretary is, in Bollings words, “almost an eco-terrorist”, that is how radically green this guy is. Add him to Salazar, and Steven Chu and you have major green edicts that will cripple this country for decades. Obama is going full speed ahead with his agenda, getting every radical socialist, revolutionary he can get while the getting is good.
Time is running out to stop him, unless the MSM starts doing their job and becomes honest. I don’t see that happening, do you? They are too busy chasing Sarah Palin, who hasn’t even said she was running…but they want to spend all their time trashing her anyway.
As the media goes, so goes the country. Some may call it treason. I do.
On June 2nd, 2011 at 8:48 am,
So I have decided that my “word for today” will be PATHETIC! Good word. Thanks, Flyoverman!
By the way, they are calling the issue regarding that “endangered” lizard in Texas, “Reptile Disfunction”. Sounds like Weiner back-lash to me!
I don’t want to start on some big debate on this…we have already beat this horse to death. But I have to say, if you vote for a minor third party candidate, you will help elect Obama. That is the bottom line. So you decide. I’m just saying…
Guys & Gals, it’s way too soon to begin a debate on voting third party. Our task today is pick a great candidate that we can support and one that will expel the pretender & associates. Get this country on safe ground.
Happy, if we get stuck with another establishment RINO moderate as our choice, I do not know how I can bring myself to hold my nose again.
A moderate is not going to beat Obama anyway, so maybe we need to abandon ship and vote in a manner the GOP cannot ignore.
Palin gave even the pathetic (word of the day) McCain a shot. All she got for it from McCain and the GOP were snarky comments. I feel no loyalty to them at all.
Ronald Reagan signed amnesty for illegal aliens, and let the terrorists scare him out of Lebanon.
There is no perfect candidate.
Me neither. But, there are some here that should probably write in their own names, because that is the only person they will agree with 100%.
I will vote against Obama.
ABO
Time for a third party conservative, get behind one or BOHICA! The GOP can kiss my …(insert euphamism of choice here)
I still don’t care about New Hampshire.
Well said…I like that!!
Pawlenty had some kind of rally in a town here in MN and only 8 people showed up. Yawn. Meanwhile, I just saw Marco Rubio on FOX. The man is absolutely amazing! Happyscrapper’s dream team for 2016 or 2020: Rubio/Ryan. Can’t lose!
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HI HAPPYSCRAPPER–#36. I also saw Marco Rubio’s comments on saving Medicare and not just kicking the can down the road and doing MEDISCARE tricks. Lots of us grey panthers do know how to calculate and get the right answer.
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I hope that the Sarah’Cuda’s tour bus will come to El Paso, Tx. I missed her by a day in Phoenix a few months ago. I left the day before she appeared at a Barnes and Noble book signing event at a mall a mile away from my kid’s house there. I hope to meet her some day.
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Both are good clear thinking Conservatives. And up and coming future leaders.
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John Bibb
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Sarah is demonstrating again that the establishment candidates, this time Rombama, have no gravitas with neither conservatives nor the much coveted “general public” that the RINOs are always leaning hard left to attract.
Tells me that Sarah learned the most important lesson from Trump: don’t be afraid to provide a sharp contrast to the GOP poindexters. It would be a disaster for Rombama were she to upstage him in his own home territory at his announcement with her sight-seeing tour.
I can’t to see how she handles Huckleberry should he decide that the media took his heart saying “no” out of context.
correction:
I can’t WAIT to see how she handles Huckleberry
Whatever became of the “simulcast”? Media can’t cover two events at the same time with all the technology available.
As if everyone nationwide has been waiting with bated breath on pins and needles for a Romney announcement and needs to watch it immediately.
To me, ho-hum.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/06/obama_fails_to_impress_house_gop_at_wh_meeting.html
Barry told House Republicans that tax rates were higher during the Reagan years than they are now.
Must be nice to be president and able to change history whenever you want to. Barry is very good at it. His narrative of how we got into this deficit mess leaves off the part where he initiated $5 trillion in new spending, skirts the fact that he didn’t even bother to submit a budget last year, and totally ignores the fact that his trillion dollar stimulus bill cost the country 500,000 jobs.
Is he surprised that the GOP House members at his White House meeting today weren’t impressed?
What is Krauthammer sniffing? And why is he sniffing at all?
Krauthammer’s mission to dismiss Palin started in an instant and in earnest in September of 2008. Krauthammer jumped on the anti-Palin bandwagon:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/dr_krauthammer_and_gov_palin.html
But But But wait, Sarah Palin has a daughter who has a baby out of wedlock, she isn’t qualified to be the Republican president. Never mind that our present president is an out of wedlock child. His party accepts people with warts, while our party demands wind driven snow purity. This is why so many middle of the road people who lean right vote left because they know that there but for the grace of God go I, and don’t appreciate bible thumpers telling them they are unworthy and unfit to be a Republican due to their sins. Jesus died to forgive our sins, but not the Religious Right of the Republican party.
But based on your support for Dexter Alarius’ stock RINO comment, you would vote for Huntsman if he got the nomination? Hey, if the standard is voting for the RINO because he isn’t Obama, why are we wasting our time debating here? Why not cast a blank GOP ballot and let the Republicans fill out the candidate later?
cheapseat–the left pushes that angle hard. First of all, they’re dead scared of religious folk, so they have to make it seem that if a person is religious, they’re also a strychnine-drinking snake handler.
Why would anyone, knowing that the GOP saw Trump coming and STILL failed to nominate a serious candidate, vote for the Republican? As we have seen with Bush 43 when the GOP controlled EVERYTHING, voting for that kind of Republican party is worse than voting for the Democrats.
Mo’ bettah?
Noooo! Not Rudy! I’d like to see a Romney / Giuliani ticket get sent home crying by a Palin / DeMint (or vice versa) ticket.
We need hardcore fiscal conservatives on the top of the ticket ASAP.
Well, then, I guess this is where we disagree.
Amen to that, brother. It’s a nasty, viscous, expensive philosophy that came to the GOP as a gift from the Trotskyites that the Democrats rejected early on. It has failed in every measurable aspect. Time to stomp it down, hard, every time it tries to get back up.
You betcha! That is the whole point. There is no difference between THIS Republican party and the Democrats. We need to find a way to wreck the Democrat enablers who have taken over the GOP. Voting for them as a knee-jerk reaction because “anybody but Obama” is how we got into this mess in the first place.
I appreciate that SOMEONE here gets it. If Bostonians like us get it, why can’t others?
I lost a lot of respect for him when he refused to debate Tom Woods on the constitutionality of certain presidential war powers. I don’t pretend to be a history buff, but watching it go down was a sham. Woods had facts, citations, fates, quotes, writings plus 150 years of precedents. Mark Levin had nothing but bluster.
I’m with you. I was apalled this morning when my TEA Party sent out a message this morning that was all about beating Obama.
I hate that man with every fiber of my being, but I’ll stay home rather than vote for about half the candidates the GOP is showing us.
I blame it on too much flouride in the water.
As to Mark Levin, I have been slowly coming to the conclusion that he may just represent the most extreme end of the RINO-industrial complex. He completely misses the point about having a viable
3rd2nd party threat and chose to call us “chumps” when Trump first appeared on the scene to prove how utterly lame the GOP field is.Conservatives are NEVER going to succeed working within the GOP unless we are willing to organize and LEAVE en masse when we have the numbers behind us to do so.
If people don’t like Trump, keep in mind that he could attract 20-30% of the vote as an independent. You don’t have to like it. You have to use it to your advantage. Now exchange Trump with Palin. Better? Maybe we can improve it some more?
It all means nothing if “conservatives” in the end are nothing but robots who have been brainwashed into believing that voting Republican is always the right thing to do.
Well, as I told you earlier on another thread, we are looking for moral CLARITY, not moral perfection! Big difference.
Question…how did you get that eyerolling icon?? It doesn’t work for me when I do :rolleyes:
I blame it on the chem-trails.
John Roberts & Sam Alito
————vs———–
Elena Kagan & Sonia Sotomayor
Who’s next to retire?
I beg to differ.
@ happy #57
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
Just use roll, no eyes
sort of O/T Rick Perry update. Rick is in a pickle. He proclaimed a fast track for the Sanctuary City bill here in Texas. It passed overwhelmingly in the house and he praised that event. It cratered under republican leadership in the senate and he has not commented. A democrat gave him an opening by filibustering the budget, thus forcing a special session where the senate rules are different and only require a simple majority.
Now Rick has a decision. Does he put it on the schedule where it will likely pass without a problem? or does he leave it off and maintain the issue? If he folds we will know he is not a viable candidate and while I want him to do the right thing he has gotten away with promoting the issue of eliminating sanc city policies during his campaigns but ignoring it during sessions. I’m pretty sure he thought he got away with it again.
Last night Nikki Haley gave an interview where she said she is going all in on enforcing illegal immagration laws and I believe she showed how the E-Verify system is bogus. We’ve had I-9 requirements since the mid 80′s so we know there is no impact using that technique.
Brewer to west of us Haley to the east here we are, stuck in the middle with Rick.
btw, we had our 6th Houston police officer killed by an illegal alien last Sunday morning. DWI, evading arrest and two deportations we know of…
On June 2nd, 2011 at 11:58 am, happyscrapper said:
Just do :: with “roll” in the middle.
Sorry to hear that. I think this is the underside of the coming planned national chaos, having local law enforcement so depleted and overwhelmed that federal “security” forces will need to intervene, indefinitely.
My conspiracy theory of the day.
Isn’t Frum the guy who’s supposed to show up in Vanuatu? Probably not….
Let me summarize ahead of time:
“I have decided to run for President since it’s my turn. Romneycare was only to show that Obamacare would be bad. I own a gazillion shares in the company I founded – and have no say in how they are run – but will do everything I can to facilitate when they sell the rest of our secret technology to China. Is there a fine restaurant near here?”
Just got off the phone with a Texas senator staffer. The bill with the original house language has been resubmitted by the senate for the calendar. It is completely up to Rick Perry to decide if he wants to handle an issue or talk about it. As my wife said last night when we watched Nicki Haley…”when it comes to the border, all Perry has done is hand him (Obama) an envelope at the airport”
Sorry PP, but that just won’t fly.
Of course the Repubiks (to use a Mark Levin term) have often been a major disappointment.
But a “major disappointment” is not the same as “Abject Disaster”, which is what Obama and crew irrefutably are.
In 2012, we most vote against Obama, no matter who his opponent is.
Unless, of course, you want more Kagan’s, Sototmayor’s, and God know what other Obamanations this cadre of socialists will concoct until early 2017.
Come on!!!
Thank the Gangs of McCain for making it all possible.
spaceycakes I recognize the left, and that means the press also, go after conservative leaders with a vengeance and they hammer them as HYPOCRITS. Why?
Happyscrapper, Renderto ceasar that which is ceasars. My point is if you want to fire your priest or minister for being a lying cheat, GREAT. He/she is SUPPOSED to be your MORAL leader. But when good politicians won’t run or are forced to quit because Republicans demand moral perfection, we are defeating ourself. Newt isn’t qualified because he had an affair. Big F’ing deal. Look on a porn site and see what beautiful YOUNG American Women will do for money, and ask yourself do these same women not go after husbands with money and clout in the same fashion. I am not excusing bad behavior, but if anyone who sins is forced to resign by Republicans or refuses to run because he/she has a sin in their background, we are doomed to have religious eunichs getting hounded from office like Mr Ashcroft because more than half the population HATES holier than thou and nannies who feel their moral compass is correct or they are smarter than you, hence entitled to decide how you should live.
All I am saying is the left doesn’t need any help hounding republicans out of office. We need to render to politicians some level of understanding that every issue isn’t black and white, and every sin isn’t a hanging offence.
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Sorry, the Bush administration created Obama who never would have happened had the GOP not gone Big Government Democrat under Bush. Bush presided over a government expansion that made LBJ look like skinflint. Obama is nothing more than Bush III.
Palin fires shot at Romney at Bunker Hill
By NBC’s Shawna Thomas, Alex Moe, and Mark Murray
In remarks made at Bunker Hill in Massachusetts — of all places — Sarah Palin fired a shot at Mitt Romney over the health-care mandate that Romney signed into law in the state in 2006.
The remarks came just before Romney formally announces his presidential bid in nearby New Hampshire, which Palin also plans to visit later today.
“In my opinion, any mandate coming from government is not a good thing, so obviously … there will be more the explanation coming from former governor, Romney, on his support for government mandates,” Palin told reporters today.
When a reporter followed up that Romney has distinguished his state mandate from the federal one President Obama signed into law in 2010, Palin responded that even state mandates are problematic.
“He makes a good argument there that it does. States rights and authority and responsibility allowed in our states makes more sense than a big centralized government telling us what to do,” she said.
“However, even on a state level and even a local level, mandates coming from a governing body, it’s tough for a lot of us independent Americans to accept, because we have great faith in the private sectors and our own families … and our own businessmen and women making decisions for ourselves. Not any level of government telling us what to do.”
Bush was indeed a wretched Liberal.
But if the “Roberts/Alito” vs. “Kagan/Sotomayor” contrast doesn’t liberate you from the assertion “Obama is nothing (?) more than Bush III”, then I suppose nothing will.
I can probably be accused of hyperbole occasionally, but that is so far off the mark as to be rediculous.
I didn’t like spending under the previous administration either, but the Bush annual deficit is exceeded MONTHLY under Obama.
Harriet Mayer was a stupid nomination, but she was withdrawn. Kagan and Sotomayor are destructive.
Bush met a recession with tax cuts that reduced the impact and length of the downturn. Obama met a recession with Keynesian spending that will bankrupt the country.
Regardless of the noisy Left, Bush was respected by foreign leaders. Obama is weak and an embarrassment.
You can (and probably will) keep saying that Obama = Bush III
and the GOP = the Democrats
But it doesn’t make it true.
Are you a Chicago Cubs fan? It really takes a lot of practice in rationalization to come up with those arguments and Cubs fans have been practicing for over a hundred years.
Faced with a preponderance of evidence that you are wrong, you really have to be willfully blind to conclude that this GOP (that is still under the control of the same Enron monied interests) is worth defending.
She shoots…she SCORES!!
It’ too bad there isn’t a Skillet icon!
Don’t know how the rest are on this but I’m much closer to Dexter than Phil when comparing George and Barry.
Phil, is California closing in on you again? breathe buddy
This GOP is not the same.
Since Enron broke there have been 5 elections.
It underwent a some healthy changes last November.
2012 promises to bring more of the same.
I’m not the one being willfully blind.
You just won’t accept that the GOP is getting incrementally more Conservative. It’s apparently all or nothing for you.
“I want what I want and I want it now.”
Isn’t that your philosophy?
Answer me this: Would you vote for Reagan today?
If you’re consistent you would have to say “No, because of amnesty, he’s a RINO and just as bad as the Democrats.”
Pasadena Phil:
So in 2012 are you going to vote for a 3rd party candidate, thus giving Obama an assist in his quest for re-election?
And if that happens, you’ll simply dismiss the catastrophe as “Obama is no different than [whomever the GOP nominated]“?
And the net result will have been that you re-enabled Obama, just because Andrew Napolitano of Fox News wasn’t in the race?
I understand the urge for philosophical purity, but keep in mind that the reason Al Gore lost to GW Bush is directly attributable to … Ralph Nader (!).
An unyielding demand for perfection gaurantees only perpetuation of disappointment. Life involves tradeoffs; only Libs don’t accept that.
Sure, Bush/Gore were close to two sides of the same coin. But at least with Bush we didn’t lose the Supreme Court, which will happen if Obama wins next year.
Awww, did you happen to forget Bush’s first choice Harriet Miers?
Obama is Bush III
“Bush met a recession with tax cuts that reduced the impact and length of the downturn.”
Umm, which tax cuts did Bush implement after the recession of 2007 (the current one) started? Bush’s lax and dangerous fiscal policies (running deficits 8 years in a row, six of them during good economic times -which should never happen- to bloat government, and then trying to create equal housing opportunity bubble for people who couldn’t afford housing) in very large measure both caused the recession and (due to the deficits) made it MUCH harder to pull out from it.
Impeccably correct on all counts! Bush was a noxious Liberal.
But Obama double-downed on all of it (“tripled-downed”, actually).
No one here is defending Bush; that’s not the point!!!
The Meiers error was corrected. Still want Obama to ravage the Supremes for the next three decades?
As I predicted a couple of days ago, Giuliani is back. Keeping in mind that he is the designated anti-Palin attack dog for the GOP establishment, I just listened to him on Hannity’s radio show arguing that he hasn’t changed his mind about not running but could be persuaded to change his mind. What a coincidence. Just like Huckleberry yesterday.
Neither is “running” and both left the stage in a way that pretty much closed the door behind them for 2012 but then suddenly, Palin re-appears “sucking all of the oxygen out of the room” (as Michelle said about Trump), demoting the LSM to the status of paparazzi and meeting up with Trump (sucking oxygen out of the room).
Now those GOP attack dogs, big egos hurting, are preparing to abandon “stand by” status to jump back in to re-assemble the RINO stampede team which had been disbanded (or suspended) when it seemed to be a sure thing that Palin wasn’t running and no other conservative looked viable. Then Trump jumped in with a tease and shook everyone up.
Now it looks like every day, another Republican from a blue state will be weighing in while calling for unity (code for: “STFU you conservatives!”)
The game is afoot and I would like to see “conservative” bloggers expand their thinking beyond the conventional and see the field in front of them. Stop attacking people like Trump who are much needed in making a true conservative viable in the face of a GOP that is dead set on stopping them, a GOP comfortable in the knowledge that the candidate will have to eventually suck up to all of the Rove/Bush/Enron money.
Trump/Palin/Bachmann/Paul united can blow up that barrier once and for all. Let’s at least give it a chance. I have no plans to end my part of the “circular firing squad” so long as the establishment continues its war against conservatives.
That is what Giuliani and the rest of the 2008 RINO stampede is all about. They cannot argue that Palin and the other conservatives are “unelectable” when their own numbers pale in comparison to Trump’s. Unpopular candidates with low polling numbers cannot be allowed to win the nomination by arguing that the people with better polling numbers are “unelectable”.
Phil, I think Palin won’t put all her eggs in the establishment Republican basket… she’s too smart for that and knows EXACTLY what they are like.
I bet she’ll be positioned for a third party run should the RINOs go with Romney or the like. And if you split the vote three ways (Obama/Romney/Palin) all of a sudden her (MSM-fueled) unfavorables don’t look unsurmountable.
Thankfully, she’s smarter than the other “contenders.”
Agreed completely. I’ll start calling him Bush+ III, since he’s “better” than Bush.
P.S. Watch the gas prices start falling continuously (monotonously) between Memorial Day 2012 and Election Day 2012 – I’m sure he (and Timmy) learned that one from the Bush administration playbook (check out the gas prices from May-Nov in 2004, 2006, 2008 compared to 2003, 2005, 2007). Under $2.80 a gallon by Election Day is my prediction, and watch how many votes that gets him, sadly.
Palin is not going to run, either as a GOP candidate or a TP (Third Party, Tea Party) candidate.
She knows perfectly well either move would gaurantee Obama’s re-election (because, quite sadly, the country as a whole doesn’t have near the collective brains to choose her over Obama).
What she will do is try to influence the GOP primaries, to improve the odds of a non-RINO getting nominated.
Hopefully in the process she’ll shake the bowels of the GOP contenders by feigning a 3rd party run (of course with the adoring help of the congenital misfits at MSNBC, et al), just to rattle those old GOP suits into conservative shape.
That error was corrected because of the uproar it started. Bush stubbornly refused to abandon her out of personal loyalty (that is what cronyism is based on after all) and only relented when it became clear that the consequences were far more severe than he had anticipated. I give Bush zero credit for Roberts and Alito. We conservatives had to defeat him first to avoid another Souter (Bush)or Ginsberg (Clinton nominated her but Orin Hatch pushed him into doing it) blunder.
We are not going to get conservative judges if we don’t start electing conservatives.
Probably true. But if we allow Obama to win, we will definitely get the antithesis of conservative judges; namely: liberal judges.
General Jack D. Ripper: … I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Professor Turgeson:Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think.
I’m gonna be watching you.
May he be handily stomped.
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It will be fun.
ANYONE willing to take the wind from Romney’s sails gets kudos for doing so.
Even Sarah Palin, whom I don’t support for POTUS either.
She at least has support of conservatives, however undeserved (in my opinion). Romney’s just a waste of diesel fuel in the bus’s tank.
RWR
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In a word …
WOW.
RWR
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Something that came to mind during my thought process reminded me of this post from December 2009 from my blog.
It seems that many of us are willing to simply accept progressivism in its capitalist form as opposed to its socialist, communist, or fascist form.
The problem is progressivism. It’s time to retire it.
Now someone show me a candidate.
RWR
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If you are a conservative, your vote will be required in order for one to win.
RWR
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Well look at what gets elected when people elect Republicans.
The same lack of backbone goes to Washington and you get a house full of liberal-voting politicians coming from both parties.
One thing nose holders had better remember: The Democrats love them.
RWR
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