GOP ~ Stop Palin Now !

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Establishment Republicans urge party to 'Stop Palin'

'It's time for the GOP to man up,' say critics questioning her fitness to lead.



December 4, 2010


Establishment Republicans urge party to 'Stop Palin'



The knives have started to come out for Sarah Palin in the Republican Party.

With the former Alaska governor now actively exploring a White House bid in 2012, establishment Republicans have begun urging party leaders to begin a Stop Palin movement aimed at preventing her from romping to the Republican presidential nomination.



Describing her alternately as "maniacal," "dopey" and "hated by millions," former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough and longtime GOP strategist Ed Rollins this week called into question Palin's fitness for office, telling fellow Republicans she stands no chance of defeating President Barack Obama in a head-tohead contest.

"Republicans have a problem.
The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected," Scarborough wrote in a Politico.comarticle.

"And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private. Enough. It's time for the GOP to man up."




Rollins followed suit with his own piece for CNN.com,dismissing Palin as a "media star and a great curiosity" who quit her job in Alaska to "cash in on fame" created by her turn as John McCain's running mate in 2008.

The outbursts from Scarborough and Rollins - mainstream Republicans with long-standing connections to the GOP establishment -came after Palin made disparaging remarks about former presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.




But they reflect a broader -but still largely unspoken -fear among Republican insiders that Palin's substantial popularity among grassroots conservatives and Tea Party activists will only continue to build unless there is a concerted effort to check her momentum.

"I think Republicans feel that Obama is eminently beatable in 2012, but the establishment wing of the party just does not believe that Palin can do it," says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

"What is at the bottom of this is that Democrats salivate at the prospect of Palin as the Republican nominee in 2012.

There is a wing of the Republican Party that feels she is unprepared for the campaign and cannot be an effective challenger, will appear inexperienced and, in fact, ignorant up against Obama."





As potential GOP contenders weigh entering the 2012 sweepstakes, Palin stands apart as the most recognizable -and arguably the most popular -candidate the party has at the moment.

But Palin's strengths and weaknesses -she is adored by hardcore conservatives but viewed with suspicion or contempt by Democrats and many independent voters -are evident in recent polls.

A Public Policy Polling survey this week showed the former governor leading the prospective GOP presidential field with 21 per cent support among Republican primary voters, compared to 18 per cent for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and 16 per cent for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.




A separate Quinnipiac poll found, however, that Palin trails Obama by eight percentage points in a prospective head-tohead contest.

The concern among critics is that Palin's star power is so strong that other lesser-known potential Republican candidates -like Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and outgoing Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty - will not be able to compete against the former vice-presidential candidate for money and support in early primary states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

"If this enthusiasm for Palin continues, she will have most of the momentum heading into the presidential primaries," Jillson says.
"There are plenty of people who don't want to allow Palin the opportunity to get up a head of a steam.
They want to trip her up now."

As the 2012 GOP presidential field shapes up, it seems certain to be a sharp-elbowed affair if Palin is in the mix.







Several Republican activists say it's time to stop Sarah Palin's momentum before primaries start.

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11/26/2010http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Sorry, Gang: Sarah Palin Ain't Going Anywhere:
Look, sure, yeah, of course, of course, we should be able to ****ing ignore Sarah Palin and her molesting P.E. teacher-looking husband ("I'm puttin' my hand on the floor under your chest to make sure you do your push-ups right, Cindy") and her Hills-Have-Eyes-esque brood of mutant children. But she ain't a Jurassic Park T-Rex. If you stand still, she ain't going away. And if she's gonna hate **** the "lamestream" media constantly, we may as well get off on it, too.

We all know what's gonna happen: she's gonna believe the Wal-Mart shoppers and shut-ins and horny rednecks who tell her at her book signings to run for President. And she'll run and be an idiot on the issues and a **** to everyone around her, and then she'll blame everyone else for ruining her chances when, in reality, in a rare moment of clarity, Republicans will vote for the another bug**** insane candidate, the one who didn't say on her own reality show that she got millions of dollars to do that she thinks it sucks that people invade her privacy and that she's just regular people, like you and you over there, who must have a TV studio in your home so you can tell Sean Hannity what regular people think.

There's something almost laughably darling about Sarah Palin, Class Warrior. When Barbara Bush, the O.G. of political women ***** slappers, said of Palin, "I hope she'll stay" in Alaska, well, that dream's long gone, and, of course, Palin wasn't gonna take it. Like someone telling the head cheerleader that she might not be prom queen, Palin smacked back, "I don't think the majority of Americans want to put up with the blue-bloods."

Think about that for just a second. Ask yourself what happens when any Democrat you can think of says something like it, about how the nation is most Americans versus old money. Oh, how the right wing media would explode with accusations of class war and socialism and MarxAlinskyAyers and other people with scary-sounding names that virtually no one who mentions them knows a goddamn thing about. But Palin? When she says it, it's just Sarah bein' Sarah, God love her First Dude-fellating mouth.

Nope, Palin ain't going away. We're stuck with her until 2012, at least. So let's just revel in her thin-skinned rapid response to any slight, insult, or sarcasm. Let's enjoy the notion of Karl Rove getting the chance to take her apart in the primaries like a cruel child with a bunch of flies whose wings need ripping. And let's all gather 'round the Facebook like in holidays of old and share in the undiminished stench of her ****tardery that she masks in a cheap perfume of Everychick wisdom.

Here she is answering critics who tittered when she mistakenly said, "North Korea" instead of "South Korea" on Glenn Beck's Radio Masturbatorium of Mystery and Imagination: "Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline." Sure, you could say, "She's right that it's a stupid story to jump on." Or you could say, "A short story on Huffington Post does not a 'major headline' make." Or you could just sit back and say, "Yeah, one more nudge and this crazy ***** is gonna go Norma Desmond on us."

By the way, in case you need a magical Black Friday laugh, the Taiwanese take on the Palins is like a hit of pure heroin. At about 1:16, you can learn how she wrote her latest "book," and it's as good an explanation as any.

[ChasC5]

Hay but she's Hot!

Stupid, and Hot

You can get that on a corner

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Originally Posted by ChasC5

Hay but she's Hot!

Stupid, and Hot

You can get that on a corner

Apparently she's turned down an offer to head the RNC ... after they, and literally, begged her ...

So let's not be to harsh, she's smart enough to know that book signing and how to shoot a moose for the kiddies on TLC is far more lucrative and who in their right mind would head-up the RNC after Steele ...

Rove must be wacked-out confused about all of this ...

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Exotix

Apparently she's turned down an offer to head the RNC ... after they, and literally, begged her ...

So let's not be to harsh, she's smart enough to know that book signing and how to shoot a moose for the kiddies on TLC is far more lucrative and who in their right mind would head-up the RNC after Steele ...

Rove must be wacked-out confused about all of this ...

Does not pay enough.

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5 Reasons Palin Will Run


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5 Reasons Palin Will Run | Story | BLTWY



The polls don't look good for Sarah Palin, at least for the moment.

The GOP's professional chatterers-Karl Rove, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, and most recently Joe Scarborough-fret that she will do to the Republican Party what Burlesque" has done to Cher.

Even the GOP's royal family-the Bushes of Texas-by-way-of-Greenwich, Connecticut-has taken the rather unusual step of publicly seeking her prompt exile from their club.

Bar, in particular, is not amused.




And yet Sarah Palin remains a rank-and-file favorite.
Her second book is yet another hit.

She has nearly two million more Facebook fans than establishment favorite Mitt Romney, two million more than even former President George W. Bush, and incidentally nearly 300 times as many as Bush's mother.

Supporters have made the reform-minded unknown from the Deep North into an instant millionaire many times over-and they just might make her the GOP nominee.

Do Palinistas believe they have a case to make? You betcha.



Here are their five top reasons why her nomination might turn out to be a good thing for the Republican Party:


• Goodbye Karl Rove.
No place rewards failure more than Washington D.C. Mismanaged companies, gravely irresponsible mortgage lenders and homeowners, idiots on Wall Street-all have been bailed out by good ol' Uncle Sam. Political consultants aren't much different.

Thanks to President Obama and his party's monumental misjudgments, the GOP did not get the typical party-out-of-power wilderness period, a time to expunge the dead weight at the top.

Thus the very same people who lost the House and Senate to the Democrats in 2006, who helped President Bush stagger out of office in 2008 less popular than Nixon, and who brought the GOP to historic lows in popular approval-lows that exist to this day-are still trying to call the shots.

Most of them won't be FedExing their resumes to Team Palin anytime soon.

If it does anything, a Palin nomination would likely shake loose their grip on the party apparatus, allowing new people to emerge in 2012 and beyond.

A little fresh air could be a good thing for the grand old party, even an Arctic blast from Alaska.



• She's Earned It.
Palin, her supporters note, was the vice-presidential candidate on a ticket that came within seven points of the White House. More than the dour, establishment-tainted John McCain ever did, she inspired and energized millions of voters.

Shortly after her announcement, the McCain-Palin ticket was leading in nearly every poll.
That wasn't because voters suddenly fell in love with the Arizonan's cuddly smile.

Since 2008, Palin has campaigned across the country for the party, raising money and campaigning for dozens of candidates (with varying degrees of success).

Palin in fact proved so appealing to certain segments of the GOP base that earlier this year even McCain, facing a tough Senate primary challenge, asked her to bail him out.

The party has a history of rewarding many of its top candidates from the prior election; why, supporters ask, is Palin any different?



• She's More Astute than People Think.
Governor Palin famously lacks Ivy League credentials, having attended five different colleges to get her degree.

This fact has been seized on as an example of her lack of academic seriousness, but it could just as easily be viewed as a sign of her drive and single-mindedness.

Critics take note: This same political novice unseated a sitting Alaska governor in a crowded GOP primary and then defeated another former governor in the general election.

That aint nothin'.

Despite a notable lack of familiarity with issues in the 2008 campaign, by 2012 she will have had four years to study up, and is putting together a formidable policy team to do just that.

Practically immune by now to criticism, she has the opportunity to advance DARING ideas-a list that could include entitlement reform, reduction of the size of the federal government, term limits, serious cuts in spending-the sort of issues most of the other blow-dried, PowerPoint-happy rivals would be too timid to discuss.

Wouldn't it be ironic, her supporters ASK, if Sarah Palin turned out to be the "ideas candidate" for the GOP.

The fact is that none of Palin's many critics have the money, support, and microphone that she has, all of which she has used to become a media phenomenon.

She even has used critics' low expectations to her advantage.
Nearly everyone expected Palin to crawl off the debate stage after her encounter with Joe Biden in 2008, yet by the end of the forum even some in the media thought she had won.




Palin haters: This so-called "dummy" is underestimated at your peril.


• Beware the Candidate Scorned.
One of the great ironies of the GOP's current political success is that it is in large part driven by thousands, if not millions, of people who detest it.

Palin benefits from the yawning frustration with a GOP hierarchy that Tea Partiers and party conservatives believe has lost its principles, commitment to fiscal and personal responsibility, and sense of direction.

"Robbing" their favorite of the 2012 nomination, at least without seeming to have given her a fair chance, may be something the party deeply regrets, especially if her millions of alienated, and fed up, followers stay home.

Besides, Palin followers argue, would the party really be that much better off with a field of helplessly bland, middle-aged white males with the excitement of a ShamWOW! infomercial.

They might even make the surprisingly dull Obama-who sees every public forum as another chance to conduct a seminar on the mechanics of governance-look cutting-edge.



• Lessons from defeat.
Though Palinistas won't say this, her nomination could be a valuable educational opportunity.

Many supporters of the Tea Party-some 71 percent of the GOP, according to polls-are not the lunatics, birthers, or racists who gain most of the media's attention.

A good number are simply political novices wanting to advance ideas and make a difference.

A group like that could use the Palin candidacy to learn how the political nominating process works, to better understand how to craft a coherent message that can be embraced by more people, and to become more seasoned political operatives.

The Democrats had this opportunity after the McGovern disaster of 1972, which led to the rise of a whole generation of more skillful liberal politicians, including Bill and Hillary Clinton. And of course, for the GOP, the Goldwater debacle of 1964 ultimately led to the rise of Ronald Reagan.

Would the party really be that much better off, Palin followers ask, with a field of helplessly bland, middle-aged white males with the excitement of a ShamWOW! Infomercial ?




Good Luck Palin in *Taking the Country Back* via Faux Noize ...


... got Maddow ?