Archive for the ‘Sarah Palin’ Category

*UPDATE* - Here is the direct link to the Zogby Ziegler media poll that goes along with the video below.

Think that’s crazy?  Check out some of the alarming stats they found in the Zogby poll they commissioned after the leap. (more…)

Well, I thought with the upcoming exit of Ted Steven (US Senator from Alaska), Sarah Palin might have been interested in running for his seat.

She shed some light on that last night:

I still think the Senate position is a strong move to keep Palin relevant in the leadership of the GOP.

Maybe she has other plans…

In case you missed, here is the Sarah Palin interview on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren.  After you get through the first five minutes talking about her “clothes” and other dumb controversies, it finally gets good.  Though one note to Governor Palin.  Not all bloggers live in the mom’s basement and blog in their pajamas.

For instance, I own my own house, but have no basement.  

Part One:

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Leftists in the Democratic Party and “moderates” in the Republican Party are pointing to Sarah Palin as the reason John McCain lost, and both groups are arguing that the Republican Party needs to jettison or marginalize social conservatives if the GOP hopes to be successful in future elections. The argument lacks factual basis and ignores recent political history, including the election results of last week. Republicans will do great damage to their chances of victory in 2010 and 2012 by pushing social conservatives aside in favor of a more “big tent” party.

When Palin was announced as McCain’s choice for Vice President, she immediately closed the “enthusiasm gap” between the Republican and Democratic activist bases. Palin’s life story, especially regarding Trig Palin, resonated with social conservatives and provided a significant contrast with Barack Obama’s aggressive advocacy of abortion “rights”. Had it not been for Palin, McCain’s margin of loss would probably have been larger than it was. Had McCain picked abortion “rights” advocate Joe Lieberman as his Vice Presidential nominee, it would have been a disaster.

Are social conservatives hurting the Republican Party? How quickly we forget 2004, when “values voters” pulled President Bush out of the fire and were a major reason why he was re-elected. How quickly we forget 2006, when Democrats recruited a number of anti-abortion candidates to run for Congress, including Brad Ellsworth and Joe Donnelly in Indiana. Ellsworth and Donnelly unseated Republican incumbents John Hostettler and Chris Chocola two years ago, and both won re-election by comfortable margins this year. If social conservatives are harming the Republican Party, why were Democrats openly recruiting anti-abortion candidates to run for Congress?

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For all the moderate haters of Sarah Palin and the conservatives in the GOP, Rasmussen speaks:

From Nov. 4:

Republicans are happier with their vice presidential candidate than their presidential nominee, while Democrats feel good about both candidates on their ticket, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Seventy-one percent (71%) of Republicans say John McCain made the right choice by picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate…

From today, Nov. 7:

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain’s bid for the presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability.

Only 20% of GOP voters say Palin hurt the party’s ticket, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Six percent (6%) say she had no impact, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is Very Favorable. Only eight percent (8%) have an unfavorable view of her, including three percent (3%) Very Unfavorable.

When asked to choose among some of the GOP’s top names for their choice for the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, 64% say Palin. The next closest contenders are two former governors and unsuccessful challengers for the presidential nomination this year — Mike Huckabee of Arkansas with 12% support and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts with 11%.

These findings echo a survey earlier this week which found that Republicans were happier with their vice presidential candidate than with their presidential nominee. Seventy-one percent (71%) said McCain made the right choice by picking Palin as his running mate, while only 65% said the party picked the right nominee for president.

So just in case you were thinking Palin was a drag to the ticket (and this part goes out to the lefty trolls as well), the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s VP actually enhanced his chances of winning. If he had chosen someone different, one could postulate that McCain could have performed far worse on election day.

Isn’t it a bit ironic to warn against pointing fingers and infighting, and then engage in a steaming load of it yourself?

Where to begin.

Vice presidents do not win or lose elections, and experience was not a winning message in a year like this. Hillary Clinton can tell you how well experience worked as a campaign argument.

Ultimately, at the bottom of the “blame Palin” phenomenon is the assumption that things would have been better with a different nominee. Who, I ask, would have been a better nominee?

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Words cannot express my pleasure at this project that they are undertaking.

RedState is pleased to announce it is engaging in a special project: Operation Leper.

We’re tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.

We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

They’ll just have to be stuck at CBS with Katie’s failed ratings.

Initial list:

1. Nicolle Wallace
2. Steve Schmidt
3. Mark McKinnon

I have a feeling some Romney people will be ending up on that list as well.

Very late in the game, the Alaska Personnel Board investigator has released his report clearing Governor Palin of violating any ethics rules in the “reassignment” (leading to him quiting) of the Public Safety Commissioner Monegan.

The story is fairly complicated with enemies of the Governor involved in the initial investigation. This should be the report that is relevant. It is a shame that it did not come out earlier, but at least they got it put out prior to the actual election.

If it matters to your vote tomorrow, head over to RedState and read an excellent review of the reports and the entire situation. It appears to me to be a thorough review of the situation.

The Chicago Tribune observes that Mitch Daniels won’t be at the Sarah Palin rally in Jeffersonville today, but that he might try to stop by outside to say hello and talk to some folks as they stand in line.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. - Gov. Mitch Daniels will skip a Sarah Palin campaign rally in Indiana for the third time in 12 days when she visits Jeffersonville on Wednesday, but he’ll make an appearance in the parking lot before the event.

Daniels, who supports the John McCain-Palin ticket, said he has a scheduling conflict while he campaigns for a second term. The Republican governor will be in vicinity of Palin’s rally at a Jeffersonville warehouse, but at another site.

“When they only give us 48 hours’ notice … we plan a little further out than that. I’ve not been willing to cancel on people who have made plans in preparation for our coming,” Daniels said at a news conference in Indianapolis on Tuesday to kick off a southern Indiana campaign swing.

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Back during the summer, Sarah Palin invited some Congressional candidates to meet with her in Alaska during their trip to ANWR. Mike Sodrel was among those candidates, and invited Governor Palin to come to southern Indiana sometime to return the favor of hospitality.

Little did he know that Sarah Palin would become the Republican vice presidential nominee, and she would visit Indiana with less than a week to go before the election. And yet here comes Sarah Palin, leading the proverbial cavalry.

The rally being put on by the staff from the McCain-Palin and Sodrel campaigns will be the largest yet seen in southern Indiana for either political party. It will certainly dwarf the couple of hundred people that turned out to see Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential pick, when he visited Jeffersonville last month. During that event, Baron Hill ran and hid.

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Yesterday Mike posted a video of Fred Thompson giving us a simple breakdown of the candidates we have before us for president.  Today, we show his wife Jeri defending Sarah Palin against these stupid attacks about the clothes she wears when we actually have issues to discuss.  Basically, she points out how dumb the question is that Colmes asks.

That Thompson pair makes a good team.