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RASMUSSEN:
Republican primary voters like Sarah Palin -- they like her feistiness,
they like her position on issues, they even like the kind of enemies
she's made -- but a lot of Republicans don't want to see her become
their presidential nominee. Some because they think she's unelectable,
some for other reasons. Her power in the party, though, makes her a
very likely candidate to be a king- or queen-maker this year. In fact,
it's hard to see any Republican winning the nomination unless Sarah
Palin is at least somewhat is it supportive.
RUSH: Anybody hear a disconnect in that? We all
love Rasmussen. [but]
here's Rasmussen saying 45% of Republican primary voters don't want her
to be the candidate. They love her, they think she's great -- and she
can probably be a king- or queen-maker, and it's hard to see any
Republican winning a nomination unless Palin is somewhat supportive,
but we don't want her to be the nominee.
Now, I need somebody to explain that to me. On the one hand
here's somebody that we like and we admire. We like her feistiness, her
position on the issues; we like the kind of enemies that she's made,
but I don't want to see her as the nominee. But we realize that she's
got the power to be a kingmaker or queen-maker, and it's hard to see
any Republican winning the nomination unless she is somewhat
supportive. But we don't want her to be the nominee. Now, if you don't
want her to be the nominee for -- What? She can't win, she's
unelectable, she's embarrassing, whatever it is -- then why would you
want her anywhere near a campaign advocating for anybody else?
If Sarah Palin, as a
candidate, can't win, how in the world does she help anybody else by
supporting them? Why
wouldn't she drag them down? This is what I don't understand about this
-- and this is open-ended question. I am not disputing Rasmussen.
Because, as you know, I'm not a professional pollster, but I don't get
the disconnect. To me it is a disconnect. On the one hand: Love her be,
love her feistiness, love the way this woman takes on the media -- we
love her issues -- but don't want her to be the nominee. But, boy,
whatever the nominee is can't get anywhere unless she supports 'em.
Why, seems to me that if she's so toxic that she couldn't be the
nominee, that she would drag down anybody else that she tended to
support or get behind. Fascinating.
Oh, one more. Rasmussen continued. He had one more thing to say about
that.
RASMUSSEN: The good
news for Republicans is just about all the
Republican primary voters say no matter who wins the nomination they're
gonna back that nominee against Barack Obama.
RUSH: Right. So, again, Elmer Fudd would win the backing of the GOP.
Republicans would vote for Elmer Fudd, doesn't matter. Whoever the
Republicans nominate will probably be preferable to Obama -- and that,
at the end of the day, is true. I would hate to squander the
opportunity here to have a robust conservative as the nominee, and we
will not rest 'til that quest is satisfied.
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The eastern RINOs fear Palin.
ReplyDeletePure and simple.
They will make as many excuses as they can, without coming out and saying that they wish all of us cousin-humping redneck retards would just STFU and vote for whatever liberal "Republican" they pony up.
BINGO
ReplyDeleteBingo, seconded.
ReplyDeleteThe other day I heard Mark Levin say he wants a Capital C Conservative to be the Repub candidate, but whoever becomes the nominee, he will support him/her, anybody but Uhbama. "I'd vote for an orange juice can over Uhbama." he quipped. Cracked me up, but me too.
I heard Michelle Bachmann giving a speech to a Conservative group today - and while she normally has a very pleasant speaking voice, she went into her "politician voice", where she, like Palin, both great people and solid Conservatives, sound like fishwives screaming "rape" when trying to emphasize a point.
Why doesn't someone teach these terrific women to use the microphone instead of shreiking?
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
Sarah Palin: The Real Queen of France
ReplyDeleteMaintain the narrative. Repeat it often. Trot out a big name quasi intellectual pretend conservative to make placating noises. Damn her with faint praise. Plant stories. Repeat.
ReplyDeleteBTW, it was my 2nd cousin.
Yat.
Lt Tailgunner Dick, you hit the nail on the head. This is the ONLY fault that Sarah has. When she speaks she sounds like a harpie. She needs voice coaching to get her out of the shriek. It can be done and really must. If we could get past this she would be perfect in my book. I have a very hard time listening to her give a speech now. I love her thoughts, ideas, views and the fact that she is beautiful and a wonderful Mother and loving wife and loyal American makes me very proud to support her.
ReplyDeletesorry the last one was mine....
ReplyDeleteBolivar
I don't plan to support "just any conservative". They got to be real, and thet got to be conservative. Palin /
ReplyDeleteBachman are the only 2 that even come close. Newt might a=have been OK if he hadn't turned into a douche.
Tong
Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain. Jeez, at least try a real conservative. The last one worked out pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed a number of articles by people that I've never heard of until the article gets printed or posted claiming to be conservatives against, Palin or Rick Perry, for example.
ReplyDeleteThey always start by claiming they are conservative and are speaking for conservatives. Further investigation shows that to be a lie most of the time. I'll stat listening to George Will and Krauthamer when they give up writing for the Washington Post.
I think Sarah Palin has value, and the value is in forcing the RINOs to pay attention to the rest of the party when selecting the nominee. She has too many arrows in the bullseye painted on the back of her motorcyle jacket for the center, and has too many children, and a lad with Down's syndrome that she didn't ABORT for the feminists to handle. The left also hates anyone who believes in GOD. Maybe not believes, but allows out loud that there is a Creator. She will be equated with right-to-lifers, evangelists, and 'barefoot pregnant and in the kitchen' feminists who 'must please their man...'.
ReplyDeleteEven though the facts have been distorted, she can 'see Russia from her front porch' is the lame of the day, and it will stick.
She cannot be elected because she has been painted thus, so her best alternative, IMO, is to push for a good candidate that has not yet been slimed.
Just sayin'
tomw
Name a good candidate who hasn't been slimed.
ReplyDelete"She cannot be elected because she has been painted thus, so her best alternative, IMO, is to push for a good candidate that has not yet been slimed."
ReplyDeleteWell, that was easy.
Tailgunner, you got it right. It's an element of style, and one wonders at this point if either of these ladies are capable of understanding this perception. Can you imagine Reagan ever shrieking?
ReplyDeleteCasca
Bingo thirded. The only way to explain the left's psychotic reaction to her is abject fear. Because they've seen this phenomenon before: a truly conservative candidate ignoring the TP media and going straight to the people (and vice versa). And once she starts campaigning and the country hears what she has to say, the only ones who'll believe the lies told about her up to this point will be the people who get their news from MSNBC and Comedy Central. Sarahu Akbar!
ReplyDeletetomw: Come on ... tell us why you really don't want to see Palin nominated.
ReplyDeleteEvery last republican, and a majority of the non-lunatic democrats will now vote for anyone other than Obama. Any nominated candidate WILL get slimed.
Don't give us that concern troll crap.
Tell us why you personally wont vote for her.
I'm going with Kristopher, Rodger, and Snackeater. Sort of. While Sarah is indeed a goddess, we'd be too busy listening to the left wing bullshit to get anything done. If, however, she supports a candidate THAT is gold in the footlocker. I want her in the position, but IF she's there, I want the LSM to just STFU and let her fix shit. They will not, unless threatened with dire bodily harm, therefore, let the lady be the voice of the people.
ReplyDeleteThe Eastcost RINOs are a problem but it's not just the Eastcoast RINOs.
ReplyDeleteWhat Rush was missing was that Sarah has been so wounded in the perceptions of independents and potential cross-over Democrats that she will have a real uphill climb to establish credibility.
I agree with Anon6:31 above that she needs to get some voice training (I like what she says, find her voice hard to listen to). Once she makes some speeches that demonstrate depth and creativity in her approach to the issues, she can begin recovering respect from the potential crossover voters we need.
Presuming, of course, that we can vote ourselves out of this situation.
Daniel K Day
Daniel K Day - I don't think anybody here, Rush included, fails to understand that the left's billion dollar campaign has damaged the image of yet another conservative leader. What we're asking, knowing the truth of it, "is that reason to comply with them?" Hell no, it is not. For the record, let's not forget that Reagan received exactly the same treatment from the media.
ReplyDeleteI like Sarah precisely because she, and unlike Bachman (who I also like), has proven she can weather any storm; maintain composure, has executive experience, and is smarter than any democrat or GOP apparatchik trying to undermine her (witness her exquisite orchestration of the 2010 elections). I want the best, and I don't see anybody who can touch her. Your mileage may differ. But please don't capitulate in the face of fire.
Agree 100% Bolivar.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone here recall the crap that was said about Reagan? It's all the same, although the left may have been a tad more diplomatic back then, and the media a tad more in the center. Just a tad.
ReplyDeleteLoad those Martini-Henry rifles, fix bayonets, stand firm, and hold them.
ReplyDeleteWhen Palin gives the order, keep firing until the barrels glow red. And then keep firing anyway.
We will stack these barbarian-ocrats up before our positions like dead bleeding cordwood.
Real establishment republicans just want Sarah, Michelle and other conservatives to shut up so they can win in November and go back to looting the country before the democrats get it all.
ReplyDeleteTell us why you personally wont vote for her.
ReplyDelete# posted by Blogger Kristopher : 6/18/11 11:52 AM
You are espousing an opinion or fact I never stated.
My comment was meant to be an observation that Ms Palin has been painted by the lames as something she isn't. It is difficult, if not impossible, to the the smaller minds to wrap around the idea that they have been lied to, and their concept of her based totally upon untruths. She cannot un-ring the bell that has been rung in the minds(?) of a LOT of people. The media have made her out to be 1)stupid 2)red neck 3)ignorant 4)crazy and I could go on, but why...
I do not know of any way that the people that think of her in the negative way the media has pictured can be swayed. I just don't think it can be done.
You get her on the ballot, and I'd vote for her.
I will not vote for whoever is the D party candidate. I would state that the RINO wing had better wise up that they will get another turnout like McCain got unless they quit trying to co-opt the Tea Partiers. There is no go-along-to-get-along allowed any more. The shelf is bare. Pelosi and Reid expect to be dead when their children and grandchildren realize how they have been screwed.
Palin is the lever or wedge that can force the R's to respect a candidate they would otherwise rule as too conservative. She has some clout, and is a rally point that the RINO's need to respect. That is her best function and task right now in my opinion.
I was blown away by her speech in 2008 and thought if she could do 1/2 of what she spoke of, we would be riding high... it got me charged up...
tomw
tomw: Don't give in to the losercans of the democrat concern trolls.
ReplyDeletePalin can win this.