First Losers Offer Sarah Palin Campaign Advice
By Ward Smythe | Friday, September 17th, 2010 | Politics
I am not on the Sarah Palin for President bandwagon.
In fact she joins the list of people I do not want to be the GOP nominee in 2012. That list includes Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and anybody with the last name Bush.
Still, I find it laughable that people continue to underestimate Sarah Palin and try to give her advice. Some political “experts” do just that in today’s New York Times: Advice for Palin: How to Win Over Iowa
From David Roederer, McCain’s Iowa Campaign Manager:
“When you will see a thousand cheering folks, please be careful not to assume that translates into a vote for president…It can, but it will take several more trips and many one-on-ones. Don’t take my word for it. Just ask President Giuliani or President Thompson. All had big crowds — just no votes.”
Mike Huckabee’s Iowa Campaign Manager Eric Woolson said:
“She is going to have to show that she’s willing to do her homework and study the issues…You can’t just throw something out there on Twitter in 140 letters. She’s going to have to have well thought-out, comprehensive proposals.”
Both of these gentlemen spoke, of course, from their well appointed offices in the West Wing.
Oh. Wait.
See, while Roederer and Woolson may know politics and while they may know Iowa, they don’t seem to know Sarah Palin. And what they and a host of other experts (Karl Rove, please pick up the white courtesy phone) don’t grasp about the mood of the nation with the Tea Parties leading the way is that no one wants any more politics as usual.
Sarah Palin draws crowds because she’s anything but politics but usual. Joe Miller won the nomination in Alaska because he’s not politics as usual. Mike Castle got his fanny shellacked in Delaware precisely because Christine O’Donnell is not politics as usual.
Politics as usual, Democrats and Republicans, got us into this mess.
And we’re very, very skeptical about your ability to get us out.
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17 Responses to "First Losers Offer Sarah Palin Campaign Advice"
hmmm, I seem to recall Palin being involved in a campaign in 2008 too. And she also doesn’t have an office in Washington or live at the Naval observatory…Probably a mistake to believe that the country will continue to act irrationally until 2012. And of course, we don’t know if Miller, O’Donnell, Angle or the rest of the freak show have actually won anything yet.
Liberal lite, John McCain was heading the ticket. No President has been elected, or not elected because of their Vice President and Sarah Palin actually gave McCain a bump.
Then you had 30-40 reporters flocking to Alaska to dig up dirt while they were too scared to go to Chicago to see Bill Aires Junior teaching “Saul Alinsky 101″
I don’t know why all these Republican insiders are so surprised. All they had to do once the past 4 years was pick up a Virginia newspaper, or make a phone call to some of the ex-VAGOP establishment politicians, or pull Jeff Frederick aside for a little chat about his experience with the RPV.
The first seeds of the current political rebellion sprouted in VA. Now the elites are trying to figure out if they are harvesting wine grapes or Kudzu when they should be Googling ditch weed uses.
McCain had my vote in the presidential election up until he selected Palin as his running mate.
Due to his recent willingness to show a lack of backbone, I am wondering what there is left to like. During his most recent primary challenge he ran scared from the Tea Party.
That is why I have decided to throw in with the Democrats. There is still room in the Democratic Party for moderate Blue Dog Democrats like Glenn Nye.
The Tea Party owns the Republican Party primaries and any Republican who shows a lack of purity he/she can’t win the primary. Look at what happened to Castle up in Delaware.
If you are a genuine moderate, you must admit you will get best representation from the Democratic Party. If you try to voice any opposition due to your moderate leanings with Republicans, you are going to face the combination of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party telling you to shut up and sit down.
With the Democrats it is easier. Liberals might be unreasonable with their demands, but they are a pretty intelligent bunch. They’re smart enough to realize that without moderate votes they’re toast.
The Tea Party isn’t as easy to reason with and compromise is not in their agenda.
We need more moderates?
Our public debt in 1980 was around 2 trillion dollars.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.
Read my lips, no new taxes.
Peace Dividend. Where did it go?
By the time Perot came around, the debt was 70 percent of GDP or 5 Trillion dollars.
That giant sucking sound.
Clinton paid down the deficit. And decreased our debt to 60 percent.
Then along came Bush II and pushed the debt to more than 12 Trillion.
Mission Accomplished alright.
Thanks to Mr. Hope and Change the debt will be 20 Trillion by 2015. Over 120 percent of the GDP. There’s change you can believe in.
And somewhere we will have to find money to bail out the States and Cities when total combined revenue is already 50 percent of GDP.
Yep. Just what we need, more moderates to help spend more money that we don’t have. This isn’t the 50′s when we were the last man standing and could dictate the terms of trade. It’s why the Tea Party is being under estimated by both the establishment parties. They are just the tip of a very disgruntled iceberg.
@LittleDavid,
Your accusations are completely emotional based. A poll released earlier this year showed that on the average the Tea Party member is very well-educated. Now, what substance do you have with your argument?
This is the problem with the current political establishment. They wish for a status quo and that obviously isn’t working.
Palin was the primary reason I decided that the GOP left me behind – she was just the tip of the insanity iceberg – now thanks to the “Tea Party” we have bunch o’ nuts running for office under the Republican party banner. I don’t know if I’m a D – but I sure as heck know I’m no longer a Republican.
Little David-As a genuine moderate I feel increasingly disillusioned with both parties.
Darrell-which president did you say paid down some of the debt? Clinton? He was the most moderate president we’ve had since 1980 (bush sr being second) Reagan and Bush Jr. were def conservatives and Obama is def a liberal. So the moderate president proved to be the most fiscally responsible.
@SE VA MWC
During the 90s, Clinton was assisted with an economy growth of the “dot.com” bubble but government grew even more.
Tea Party Insanity? You aren’t even close.
In the 80s this nation went through the Savings and Loan crisis. It cost the taxpayer $125 billion and created a political firestorm. Right now while the big banks are being bailed out, there are 850+ local bank companies in deep trouble. About 500 Billion dollars worth of trouble. Last Friday, six banks went through the FDIC’s version of foreclosure auction at a cost to the taxpayer of $270 million. They joined the other 120+ banks that have failed since this crisis began. Also on Friday, eleven more banks were added to the death watch.
The TV is full of news reports spinning recovery stories about consumers lowering their debt load, $600 Billion at last count. What they fail to mention is credit company charge offs are the source of nearly all of that lowering. Rarely does one hear reports of the lady in front of you at Walmart going through 3 credit cards before she finds one that can pay for the groceries. But you don’t really need a reporter to tell you that, do you?
More concerning are recent investor oriented blog reports that people are using credit to buy prepaid discount internet gift cards, gold, or weapons before they are cut off and default. One guy sarcastically suggested using the credit to short the stock of the company that issued the card.
Everyone knows about foreclosures. What they haven’t heard is what has been happening after the auction. Many buyers have found that their ‘clear’ title isn’t clear at all because there was no chain of ownership documented with the local government prior to foreclosure. They usually find this out when they try to resell their bargain. Some may have heard of the court cases involving the MERS documentation system but this goes way beyond that, involving tens of millions of homes. One of them might be yours, even if you haven’t defaulted yet. Many mortgage agents are now sneaking wording into the sales contract that absolves them of title issues, shifting the burden onto the unsuspecting buyer.
Insanity, doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. So who is more insane? The power brokers in DC and on Wall Street, or the rest of the country? The establishment politicians, or the people parading on The Mall shouting patriotic slogans? The Tea Party is merely one face in a crowd of citizens attempting to change the result. That’s a goal the Democrat standing next to you in the unemployment line could agree with.
And they still want this guy in VA-02? http://video.foxnews.com/v/4342296/teaming-up-with-the-tea-party
Why would he not want to appear with Palin when she was here a few months ago?
@John Jackson
OK, education means intelligence? How about a dose of reality.
Most kids getting a college education today end up with a permanent debt that can not dismissed through bankruptcy. I do not have a college education. But I found a way to put three kids through college without government help and I did not have a college education. Now, I do not dismiss the education because I valued it enough to pay for it for my kids.
My problems with the Tea Party, as educated as they might be is the evidence of their lack of common sense. Just look at the candidates the Tea Party has been successful in getting nominated.
Does the Tea Party really want to point to how intelligent they are by pointing to their successes? OK, your successes are Miller, Angle, Rand Paul and O’Donnell. You have a pretty poor track record.
The Tea Party is a circus and their candidates are clowns.
The “Tea Party” which is not a Party has shown it can win a few primaries. I predict they will not win one single general election this fall. Rand Paul may be an exception, but I doubt that too. (His name sake, Ayn Rand, did commit suicide you know.)
@Craig Kilby
What the hell are you talking about? Ayn Rand died of heart failure, you retard.
@LittleDavid
As I see an administration (and the Democrats) that’s entirely thirsting for power. They think they have all the answers and really, I feel I can make my own decisions in my life. I don’t need any politicians. That’s the great thing about freedom.
They continue to increase spending to 24% of GDP while on a fixed 18% income.
These Tea Party conservatives are about limited government which means that the government will get the hell out of our lives. You make decisions for yourself and your allowed to eat all the fast food a president can eat as his wife touts green gardens and lunch room menus. But that’s for another debate.
Here’s where the real circus is…and the clowns of the Ruling Class, enjoy
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs23CjIWMgA – Don’t capsize Guam Hank Johnson (GA)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK3rTUgoQD4 – Shiela Jackson’s two Vietnams today
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qVpMwqv7QM – Pete Stark – my ladder is bigger than yours
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSko2ixEB8U – Nancy “the word” Pelosi
…and then you see the conduct of Mike Castle and Lisa Murkowski who’s acting like teenagers. And these are our representatives.
They bring Roger Clemens for a perjury trial but not his trainer. One of them is lying, guess it’s Roger. The circus is in Washington and they’ve done enough damage.
Food for thought.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah Palin’s than they are to President Obama’s, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Just 40% say their views are closer to the president’s than to those of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.
That poll is a bit of a suprise to me for various reasons.
Now the democrats will attack the Tea Party again with all sorts of lies. They just do not get it.
There is no one Tea Party, there are thousands of Tea Parties. Except for lower taxes and smaller government; members disagree about everything, even Sarah Palin.
The Tea Party is not a political party, it is a protest against politicians who refuse to listen to the people.
Do You Hear Us Now
Over and over that has been the question. And the politicians pretend not to hear a thing.
The members of the Tea Party movement will speak at the polls on 11/02/2010.
Perhaps the politicians will decide to listen then.
Or perhaps they are listening. Look at all of the candidates running who are now for lower taxes and smaller government, even democrats.
Perhaps the Tea Party has won already.
Little David, what are you talking about? You’re over on vbdems (sorry for the cross-advert, JR) trying to talk that sorry bunch off the ledge while they try to figure out if there’s still time to primary Glenn Nye with a “real” liberal before the election in six weeks!
There’s no room in this Democrat party for somebody like Nye, and if you think “political purity” is the only reason that Mike Castle got shellacked then you’re just not being honest with yourself.
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