Palin Befuddles GOP Status Quo Machine
**Written by Doug Powers
Many Beltway Republicans will say that Washington needs to think and operate differently in order to tackle the crushing debt, economic turmoil and all manner of problems that our country is enduring. But when somebody comes along who operates slightly outside the box and doesn’t follow the status quo rulebook — even at something as trivial as a bus tour — some of those same people criticize that person as an blundering, unserious neophyte for not falling into the traditional line. With the definition of insanity guiding the way, it isn’t difficult to see why the country’s problems are perpetuating.
From Politico:
MANCHESTER, N.H. – As it played out on TV this week, Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” road trip of U.S. historical sites was a masterpiece of political mischief-making – a wild dash up the East Coast that delighted her fans and cornered the market on 2012 coverage for days on end.
That’s not how the bus tour looked to Republicans on the ground, many of whom are more convinced than ever that the former Alaska governor is simply not serious about running for president.
[...]
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason, whose state hosted Palin on visits to Gettysburg and the Liberty Bell, voiced a common exasperation about Palin’s tour: “I don’t think theater wins elections.”“Running for president is a very serious thing and you need to deal with it as such,” Gleason said. “I’m looking for party builders.”
In New York – where Palin stopped at Ellis Island – GOP Rep. Peter King mused that the Alaskan “probably has more hard-core support than any other candidate.”
“But she needs to show that she can go beyond that, and this tour doesn’t accomplish that,” said King, who is urging Rudy Giuliani to enter the 2012 race.
[...]
Former New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Fergus Cullen, who noted that “the normal laws of political gravity don’t seem to apply to Sarah Palin,” said the catch-me-if-you-can act has to end sooner or later.“At some point, the establishment has to be paid its due,” he said. “She gets sort of an initial pass, but at some point the goodwill gets used up.”
Political theater doesn’t win elections, Sarah, so give it up before you do something crazy like build a fake Greek temple from which to deliver a speech, because nobody who takes part in that kind of theater will end up as president. Wait, nevermind.
High profile bus tours — or “political theater” as some call it when Sarah Palin does it and draws crowds they can only dream of — might not always win elections, but it sure can dominate a news cycle. Here’s the front page of the New Hampshire Union Leader the morning after Sarah Palin visited the state and Mitt Romney announced there that he was running for president:
So when’s Romney’s bus tour going to start?
Maybe Palin isn’t running for president, but the GOP establishment would be wise to observe and learn something from her instead of pointing out what they think she’s doing wrong.
(h/t for the paper cover to Philip Rucker by way of Hot Air headlines)
**Written by Doug Powers
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The RINO’s are desperately searching for a McCain type to run for 2012. They just like O’Bama fail to realize that the people are fed up with their crap or plain just don’t care.
They keep saying that a Conservatives are unelectable as President but the democrats seem to have no problem getting Socialist elected to the White House.
The RINO’s expects Conservatives to keep voting for the lesser of the two evils but they don’t realize that a lot of us Conservatives are either no longer Republicans or always been Independents (like me) and will not keep voting for them.
They can keep their McCain’s, Dede Scozzafava’s and Gingrich’s.
Yes Sarah Befuddles the GOP status quo. And she attracts people who would not be interesting in politics, even in places like New York and Boston. However, in Delaware and in some other races that Tea Party candidates lost, the Tea Party candidate needed the republican status quo vote to come out for the candidate…like Sharon Angle in Nevada, where the local party was not working toward the goal; Like in Delaware where the state party was not working for Christine O’Donnell; Like in Alaska, where the Tea Party candidate won the nomination but the status quo went with Murkowski as usual. Yes it is fun to poke the status quo in the eye while it is fun, but what about when you need their support? How many folks from Boston were already scheduled to be up in NH for the Romney announcement, who might have liked to meet Sarah? Are they presumed to be the Enemy of Sarah? and should they behave as though they are? Could Sarah want THEIR support someday or will she do it on her own? This has got to stop.
Sarah is on Hannity right now warning the GOP about getting Whigged! Yessiree, Sarah is going for the jugular.
Asked whether how she feels about Trump running independent, she said she was adamantly against it a few months ago but referencing how the GOP never acknowledged the conservatives despite last November, she warned that the GOP is bringing about the need for another party.
This is getting very interesting. If the GOP doesn’t want to be the second party in a two-party system, someone will step in to fill the vacuum.
Like I said a couple of days ago, the most interesting thing she could do to really shake things up would be to end her tour standing with one-third of the Republicans and either running herself or endorsing a Bachmann or Cain and threatening to take it independent if the GOP insists on keeping the GOP country club completely uncontaminated of conservatives.
I think it’s great that she has everyone scrambling to keep up. Who says she has to do what is expected by the ” Washington insiders”. John McShame did that and look where it got him.
I’m getting the idea that for Sarah, it’s not about whether or not she will run. It’s whether she will run as a Republican or new party independent. We should all be pushing for her here. We (conservatives) can’t lose if we take the initiative.
Whatever of that corrupt Bush/Rove/Enron money is left after they burn most of it trying to destroy Palin won’t be enough to be of much use to whatever establishment-chosen RINO is still around.
*I still maintain she will not run, but will likely get behind Michele Bachmann once she enters the fray; Sarah never comes right out and says it, but she is out there specifically to counter the Rovian RINO elites, and to sound the alarm that a Romney, Newt, Huntsman, et al counter to P-BO just means our beloved country dies by a slower, more protracted death.
No Guiliani, no Newt, no Huckabee and certainly no Romney. These people are lesser-statured McCains, and imminently beatable. Daniels, Pawlenty, and Perry are no better (I am a Texan, by the way).Palin, Bachman, Cain, or West (if he would run) would be better than these.We can’t allow the rinos (and media) to choose somebody ‘acceptible’. We need somebody who can save America.
“Status Quo Machine” is right.
Too damned many of the GOP “leadership” have a “Beware thou of the mutant” attitude towards anyone who does not appear to be a clone of the democrats.
That is their criteria of “not serious”.
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Keep in mind oh great intellectuals that our esteemed nominee must be more central than you’d probably like in order to win 2012. I cannot fathom how many cannot grasp than a vote for a tea party candidate will guarantee another 4 years of Obama. That’s exactly what the Dems want. But of course you know that. You’d rather lose and remain pure than make concessions. Is Romney, Pawlenty, or even Newt really worth kicking to the curb because you don’t have your perfect candidate? Wake up and smell the coffee!!! I’m afraid your knight in shining armor will not suddenly appear on a white (or tea colored for you purists) stallion, he’s imperfect and won’t see everything your way and he’s human. Yes swede, I said “he” because there aint no “shes” out there that stand a chance against Barry. Palin for one is still way too “ingorant.” She’s had a few years to brush up on history, politics, and read a few newspapers but she preferred to spend her time snatching up the limelight.
If this person is indeed a True Liberal, this is the most intelligent comment we will see from him/her.
In other words, the Republican candidate again has to be a Democrat for the Republicans to have a chance to win? Are you just stupid? If you don’t like the status quo, stop voting for it! Get a clue.
Today in NH Romey announced he belwived in Global Warming and the government’s need to regulate it. Defends Romneycare, support ethonal subsidies and backs EPA goverance over the Climate.
Some freakin conservative.
Making concessions is what has drifted the country so far to the left that the Democratic candidate is an avowed communist, and the GOP nominee verges on socialist. A choice between GOP or Dim is no longer any choice at all. You’re advocating voting for a lizard because otherwise the wrong lizard might win.
Like voting for Perot is getting a clue
The MSM will do every thing in their power to destroy any conservative that comes up. Turn off your TVs. I am ready to cut off my service. These bastards need to be cut off at the knees. I too am a Texas. The last person I want to see running is Pretty-Boy Perry. I sent money to Michele Bachmann in the last election. I will support her as my President. Guiliani is on the Palin bus. I think he will get in long enough to knock out Romney, but I think he knows that the country has to have a true conservative. He will do the right thing.
If you don’t do anything else, turn the tube off when Hannity or Oreally comes on. Screw both of them.
To the Green eyed Lady ….. I would gladly go into combat with you anytime, anywhere. Your comment #34 was right on the money. Your comment #79 was damn near perfect. If only you had told the little liberal twit to stuff it, then it would have been perfect. Jerry USMC (Ret)
Entirely different situation.
Right now our choices will be a liberal with a D next to their name, or a liberal with an R next to their name… or a 3rd party candidate.
Mitt Romney: Jihadism is “not Islam”
Mitt Romney is an imbecile who, if elected, will get a lot of Americans killed on the altar of cultural marxism/dhimmitude:
“There is, however, a movement in the world known as jihadism. They call themselves jihadists and I use the same term. And this jihadist movement is intent on causing the collapse of moderate Muslim states and the assassination of moderate Muslim leaders. It is also intent on causing collapse of other nations in the world. It’s by no means a branch of Islam. It is instead an entirely different entity. In no way do I suggest it is a part of Islam.”
>>Mitt Romney
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/06/mitt-romney-jihadism-is-not-islam.html
And while I am at it, I have had about all I can stand of Apple IPad Elton Limbaugh. Sorry Mark Levin, you don’t get much of my time these days either.
Thank you, sir. Your approval means a lot to me.
The GOP LOSERship is befuddled? Next you’ll say is the LOSERship doesn’t know how to text, email, tweet or blog… Apparently it takes a Weinercrat to know how to use the new media…
Then you need to grow yourself a set of bells and just go ahead and vote for Obama!
What’s your problem (asking, not poking) with Levin, just tonight he said in the current field Bachmann, Cain or Santorum are possibles that have strong conservative values?
Slightly OT:
If this truly IS Trump’s motivation, He’s a genius and I hope he goes for it!
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/06/if-this-truly-is-trumps-motivation-hes.html
FIFY
And if I’m a blowhard, I fit right in here.
Green-Eyed Lady, must be awful annoying that this “over-opinionated blowhard” is always right. And usually before anyone else.
I guess I just ran out of time for him. I get tired of him being so rude to anyone that doesn’t kiss his ring. He is so Isreali bent that he can’t see streight. When he has his head on right, I love him. I have learned so much from him and his books. I just think he has too big of an opinion of himself.
I spent a lot of years in the middle east. There are two sides to everything. I don’t agree with either side and I would just as soon not send any more money to either.
That is the short answer
No one cares. Take your always right, before anyone else self and stuff it.
If we need your enlightenment about anything, we’ll give you a call. Till then
Get back in your corner.
I believe in #79 she was addressing me, not a liberal twit. Why don’t you express your own opinion instead of riding her coat-tails?
Go ahead and support Palin, brains were never a major requirement for marines, were they?
*sigh* 2003 all over again.
Once, the line was cute. Twice is just sadly obnoxious. You presume that you have much that’s original or intelligent to add to the debate (you haven’t). Get back in your kitchen til it’s suppertime.
There’s not a nickel’s worth of difference between some self-proclaimed “conservatives” and left wing liberals. You’re still clique-ish jackals, whether on the left, in the middle or on the right, who continually think that 100 idiots are wiser than one genius (that’s a metaphor; I’m not presuming anyone an idiot or genius).
Wisdom is not cumulative. Nor a popularity contest.
You’re rude and out of line.
You are entitled to your opinion.
Others are entitled to theirs.
The Press and the GOP establishment has been treating her with disdain for years. Now, she’s treating them with disdain. What’s that old saying about turnabout?
At some point she’ll say, in effect, “Oh good, now that I have your attention, let me explain some things to you.” That’s when the real fun begins. At least that’s my expectation.
You were rude and out of line, first.
And I’ll keep my opinions to myself when others do the same.
That’s exactly what they are trying to sell us. It is untrue too. Whitman and Fiorina would have won had they ran as conservatives and not supposedly “pro-business” democrats. Once again, Californians voted in tax and spend liberal democrats then refuse to vote themselves a tax increase. Brown still found a way to raise taxes, of course. It is like beating your head against the wall. The California model is what the DNC wants nationally.
Green eyed Lady,
So glad to see you`re a Zilla reader. What`s your code name, if you comment there ? She digs up and links to lots of relevant mat`l.
You seem to have researched well yourself ! Thanks !
I am not forcing anyone to agree with me, if they agree, fine, if not, that’s fine, too.
Piss off, and do not ever type my name again.
Like I said, not interested.
the elitist Rs will always try to foist another elitist R in our faces…
that is why Palin-Bachmann-Bolton are an anathema to the elitist Rs…
No More Lesser of Two Evils..
Bachmann-Bolton/Bolton Bachmann-w/ Palin as Secretary of State!!
my ticket so far—
Carol-CS
Love Zilla. Found her through HillBuzz, I think. Never commented there but check it out often.
That was great piece on Trump… maybe the Left Coast Perot voter will ‘get a clue’!
I thought so, too. Very interesting.
Makes you go, Hmmm…
I barely have to write the post this time. Did you hear? Sarah Palin is sooooo stupid. She believed that Paul Revere warned the British. Here, watch:
http://patterico.com/2011/06/03/does-it-ever-cross-their-mind-that-sarah-palin-might-actually-know-something/
Marxists took over the GOP. That’s why Palin befuddles the GOP Status Quot.
You might be on to something there, BK!
Hence the “WAKE UP AMERICA TOUR”
Dick Morris is trying to say that Gov. Palin does not intend to run for President and is doing this “stunt” in order to suck the oxygen away from other Tea Party candidates paving the way for Romney.
Is it true? I don’t know. I would very much like to give Gov. Palin a benefit of a doubt, but she’s a politician as all others are and that makes them automatically suspect in my mind.
Time will tell.
Hey you guys, thanks for giving me zilla and Ann Barnhardt, and keeping me up all night.
I love it. God, I want to drive right up to Colorado and kiss Ann Barnhardt.
Mit, kiss my ass, you jackass. And you too Goober.
Remember Paul Revere warned the British, the Americans are coming!!!
In the end we all must do what we feel we must do.
I have always voted for the “best candidate” between the two parties. After the last 20 years, especially the last three, I can no longer do that. Having seen what I saw in a supposedly bedrock American town last weekend, I can no longer do that.
Can I retreat a little more? Yes. But my conscience no longer will allow it. Not one more inch. Not one more crumb of compromise.
This may sound like I have lost it. But the dead cried out to me from their graves. I have heeded their call. The time for defense is over. The time for compromise is over.
Where do you get that from? He has been very condescending to her for as long as I can remember. On election day last November, his attitude towards the Tea Party and Palin was “thank you but the big boys will take it from here”. If Giuliani runs, it’s not to win but to serve as the RINO attack dog assigned the task of taking Palin out. He has not organization and the only money he will get is a cut of the Bush/Rino Enron money and just enough to carry him through his task.
Fortunately, it is hard to see how he could be effective doing that given Palin is not playing by establishment rules, has reduced the RINO-accommodating LSM to paparazzi and is now laying down the foundation for a new party. Palin has put the GOP in the position of having to prove that they are, in fact, a party separate from the Democratic Party and not just their enablers.
The GOP Status Quo Machine continues to attack Palin here. They viscerally hate Sarah Palin and will do anything to demonize and destroy her – just so they can get Obama re-elected so that they have something more to whine and complain about for the next four years…
Just to be clear on criticisms I’ve made before about Mark Levin, I’m still a fan of his. But his ignorant reaction to Trump running by calling people like me “chumps” was way out of line. I could easily drop him if it turns out that despite his fiery conservative rhetoric, he is too wedded to the GOP to see that any opportunity for conservatives to retake the GOP requires that we have the numbers and determination to accomplish our goals even if it means starting a new party.
If he can’t stretch his “superior intellect” to extend beyond the establishment GOP rules, then he is either a Republican stooge doing their bidding by gathering his radio herd for later delivery at the foot of the GOP establishment, or he is an unwitting fool.
I have been a major critic of Palin ever since she endorsed McCain and compounded that mistake by establishing a pattern of endorsing any woman Republican over a Tea Party conservative Republican male. But now she is doing something that may very well pave the way for the conservatives to retake the GOP. It requires that we be willing to take our superior numbers and follow the conservative leader to a new party. Lincoln did it to the Whigs. She evoked that memory yesterday on Hannity. Is Levin on board? If he is not, he is an idiot.
I was with ya Higram till the Marine bash in #117. Your post #72 was right on, but that’s all.
Lots of regular posters here are, were, or have family in the armed forces. I have two loved ones who were killed in action. They were both brillant human beings who didn’t like war but had the strength OF CHARACTER to do their duty when called. I think you should apologize now or go away.
I am with Hiraghm in that Palin’s relationship with mccain makes me a nervous conservative regarding her possible candidacy. She said she owed everthing to that fraud RINO mccain. BS I say. If she wants to run for a lesser seat, then fine, lets see her enact and uphold some conservative policy OUTSIDE of Alaska before she goes up against barry hussien’s media machine.
Also I heard mccain said she had a fair shot at winning the GOP candidacy. Coming from a RINO like mccain, that lessens her status in my conservative view.
I think we all need to railroad ADAM BALDWIN into running for president anyway/ Vera could be secretary of defense.
Phil, I am with you on Levin. Spot On.
As for Guiliani, I don’t know anything. I went over to the dark side and have been reading Lame Cherry. He makes a lot of sense on some issues. And if you love farming or animals, he is a gas. Most of all, he is a man of God.
Palin is wonderful in her ability to shake up the condescending MSM and the RINOS. It’s fun to watch all that. But check out that photo in the article above. She’s wearing a T-shirt tucked into jean bermuda shorts. Even
Mrs. Joe-Sixpack knows better than that.
I think she can get away with it.
Me, not so much
On June 4th, 2011 at 10:39 am, shimauma2 @#138 said:
The funny thing about that statement is that it’s true. Without being McCain’s VP selection, do you think the MSM or the GOP or the blogosphere or the DEMs would be paying any attention to her? Being McCain’s choice has allowed her to be able to launch SarahPAC, to constantly confound the MSM and the GOP (which is in need of being shaken up) by not being what they expected.
Will she have to compromise with the GOP establishment if she runs/wins? Yes, because making laws and enabling diplomacy is all about compromise. She will need the establishment GOP if she would want to pass any legislation because the new voices of the tea party are still weak in DC political power.
So her statement is not BS.
There it is in a nutshell folks!
It’s the political establishment against the rest of us.
Time to separate the sheep from the goats.
The GOP establishment really better realize that their new numbers in congress are owed solely to the Tea Party. If they don’t stop bashing Republican candidates, (a la rove, krauthammer) there WILL be a third party, and that party will kick their ass!
Sarah is a candidate, “I can believe in.”
OK, I’ll admit, this has me intrigued:
I really didn’t expect her to go there, but I’m glad she did.
(I still hope she doesn’t seek the nomination, though)
Every day I learn something new from Sarah Palin.
Even having grown up a stone’s throw from Lexington, Massachusetts, I remained ignorant that the midnight ride of Paul Revere was to WARN THE BRITISH.
All these years I thought it was to warn the American rebels that the British were coming.
Live and learn.
Oh, dear.
She was simply speaking the truth, the way she tends to do.
If the establishment wants to take it as a threat, well, they are free to do so. It doesn’t mean that is what she will do.
However, Palin is the one person out there who could credibly threaten to go third party to win. Anyone else would just be a spoiler.
In a three way race those big negatives she has in the polling become largely irrelevant. She could win with 40%, and 40% of the country loves her (or will when the race is real).
If the GOP nominates Romney (or Huntsman), it just might be possible. The media will be so focused on bashing Palin (attacks that will fall on her supporters deaf ears, since we have well learned what lying propagandists the LSM are), they’ll be distracted from the key task of telling us all how wonderful Obama is and why he is so much better than Romney.
Romney will be carving into that soft support for Obama in the center while Palin’s support holds fast against the withering fire from the LSM.
It just might work. We’ll see how this develops.
Best Pic of the ‘Magic’ Bus Tour and
Sarah Palin Bashes Barry’s Job-Killing Fishing Regulations While She Pets Lobster in New Hampshire…
http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/best-pic-of-palins-tour-bus/
Was that “warn the British” thing a set up for the media? I hope it was deliberate. She did say she was going after them. I hope she keeps feeding them bits from American history that she knows they won’t know. I love it when they are wrong and look foolish not knowing the facts.
Just started reading this thread. LOVE that line!
Yeah, me neither but that fashion blunder’s on the top of the list of “Glamour Don’ts” right up there with “Mom Jeans” and VPL (Visible Panty Lines). On the other hand, its better than the outfit Mrs. Romney wore to her husband’s announcement the other day. That was neon-bright “church lady gone wild” on a floral tablecloth, ugly.
But, but, but…she’s stoopid and a quit’r /s
That’s the nastiest wing of the party doing that. They are practically psycopaths, and thats frighteningly true in real life as well as the internet. There’s just something fundamentally horribly wrong with them. They’re loud, ignorant bullies who are driven by the compulsive need to control, and they’ve ruined the GOP.
2006 was a referendum on them, and they lost hard. They need to sit down and let the real conservatives do some damage control now.
But what if she’s the reverse Reagan? I mean, GHW Bush was the original RINO. But he rode in on the coattails on the most popular conservative our generation will likely ever know.
Isn’t it possible that McCain chose her because she represented the base that he didn’t appeal to?
(It seems like slam-your-fellow-poster-Sunday is on, but I’m not really going for that. I’m just asking. Really, up until he named her, hardly anybody knew who she was. I actually did, because I lean hard right like that.)
Palin will not get behind Cain or Bachmann because neither has executive experience in governing and neither has a full grasp of the issues facing us. Sorry to those who think that just saying the right things is enough to support a candidate, like Bachmann or Cain, but we cannot afford another “learn on the job” President. Bachmann is just a 4 and 1/2 term legislator, has never won a state wide election and has no accomplishments in office. Cain hasn’t even been able to win local or state wide elections. Let’s try and focus here on who really has the record and the guts to after Obama and win.
Also, McCain chose Palin, not visa versa. Every time I come on here, I see the same people upset because Palin was chosen by McCain and she has not been a backstabbing witch so that must mean she supports everything he does. So Reagan and Bush Sr. were the same on all the issues?
In my previous post about Bachmann, it should have read; 4 and 1/2 year legislator, not term.
All I’ll say is….Sarah is a breath of fresh air.
GO SARAH GO!!!
I’m SO SICK of both ‘main parties’,
they’ll tell you ANYTHING!!! just to get power. And I’m sure she knows HOW MANY FREAKIN’ STATES ARE IN THIS COUNTRY!
Unlike Prez. FORE!
The cry-babies PRESS & the LMSM can
kiss my backside,
at high noon ,
in the town square,
as well as that fake-fruit cake
from Mass. Mr. Romney!
The establishment Republican Party guys see Republicans in power as winning.
Sadly we’ve learned that too often, Republicans in power is America continuing to lose, but with different guys in charge.
We need Sarah Palin, she fights!
On June 4th, 2011 at 1:23 am, BK said:
Part and parcel of the Democrap strategy of becoming the permanent ruling, governing class.
so, they’re ‘befuddled’ huh?
Well that explains a lot.
HIRAGM #117: “Go ahead and support Palin, brains were never a major requirement for marines, were they?”
Are you serious? You slam the entire Marine Corps because you do not like what someone has posted? In MY opinion, your comment is UNACCEPTABLE and it makes YOU look like the stupid one.