pwolf on May 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM

Based on her comments at a McCain fundraiser at the St. Regis in NY, Carly is pro-choice.

yogi41 on May 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM

Just pointing out that doing a favor for someone who burned you in the past is a political risk that may not pay off in the long run. Fiorina felt she should have been the VP pick, and she made some stupid comments about Palin that led to her being dropped from McCain’s campaign.

Fine if you want Boxer gone, but how does that help Palin? If it were anyone but Fiorina, it would make sense politically.

I really, really like Palin, but the realist in me recognizes that the media has done so much damage to her profile she’d need to play 100% mistake free ball between now and 2012. It just seems too impossible a task.

BadgerHawk on May 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM

So all the media have to do to ensure Democrat presidents for generations is apply enough relentless ridicule and negativity. I don’t buy that.

Believe it or not, the most important part of this story isn’t the Hillary scoop but the stuff near the end about how desperately Sarahcuda needs help managing her new national profile. This is what I meant the other day when I said it bodes ill that so many party insiders seem to have given up on her; some of you sneered at me for that but it helps to have practiced hands on your team who know how to deal with this sort of thing.

Yeah, but it also helps those insiders to have candidates that the party as a whole cares about.

Don’t know where Fiorina stands on energy, but I understand she is pro-life. I just really want to see Boxer defeated, so I would love it if Palin helps out Carly, should Carly run.

yogi41 on May 19, 2009 at 11:47 AM

If Carly is REALLY pro-life, Sarah might help her. However, I have not seen any evidence that Ms. Fiorina is pro-life.

Remember, she has spent much of her life in Silicon Valley, the home of affluent, technie-smart, lefty, spike-fenced, not-in-my-backyard, Volvo-drivin, espesso drinking, baby-killin, idiots of the first degree.

Let her show up at a Susan B. Anthony event, etc. to demonstrate her pro-life credentials. Not sayin she ain’t. I’m just sayin I have yet to see any evidence of it.

She knows that will cause donations to SarahPAC to dry up instantly.

People, the woman is smarther than you think.

GOD is on her side. That means somethin.

Consider this. I read many of the pro-Hillary blogs out there, and many are still upset that she’s even in his administration. They support Hillary, but don’t like her helping out Obama. Surprising, too, there is a lot of good feeling towards Sarah Palin on those blogs.

I think that’s what Coale was thinking…

For me, personally, I say no way in using the PAC money. If she decides to help her out from her personal wealth, then that’s a nice gesture. I know they both went through hell this last campaign and perhaps that shared experience does override party politics.

yogi41 on May 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Great points! Sarah does have a following among former Hillary Clinton supporters. She should wait and see how if Hillary is willing to reach out in some way (even behind the scenes). I know Bill would love to! ;D

What good will would $5,000 buy and with whom, anyway? You think Carville would back down for 5 grand? In any event, the Clintons don’t control the really dirty parts of the Dem machine anymore – Axe, Emanuel, and Chicago Machine own it lock stock and barrel.

Carville has his own franchise to think about, and he’s certainly not going to take it easy on Sarah because his former boss’ wife got a donation from her.

Nat Hound on May 19, 2009 at 9:57 AM

+100

Right on!

1)That Sarah Palin is stupid, a moron or an extremist. Quite honestly the MSM has stayed away from this template recently, but of course it can be resurrected at any time.

2)Instead the MSM now is focused on marginalizing Sarah from her base of supporters or donors; this story is a prime example of this approach-trying to claim that Sarah is not really a Reagan conservative, is a typical slimy politician and not worthy of the support of the base. Obviously the MSM want to head SarahPAC off at the pass before it gets too big.

3)Sarah Palin is ‘unelectable’. This is part of #1 but not all of it. The Weaver comment yesterday is a prime example of this approach, which is favored by the RINO’s and is a consistent template of the MSM. However the MSM is not stupid. It knows that once Palin’s SarahPAC fantastic numbers are released in July it will have to go back to #1 and #2.

But the MSM in July 2009 will I predict take stock of their approach to Sarah Palin and realize whatever they have used against Sarah Palin has not worked. It will be back to the drawing board for Obama’s war room.

chunderroad on May 19, 2009 at 12:44 PM

Couldn’t care less about Carly being catty; I live in California and I want Boxer GONE. Carly is one person who can give her a good fight, as Boxer has never had a serious challenger in the 17 years she’s been our Senator. If Palin can help Carly defeat Boxer, I’m all for it.

She should have nothing to do with Fiorina, who had to leave the campaign because of her cattiness, and she should keep an eye on Whitman, who is chummy with Romney.

Even less convinced Whitman & Fiorina are the kind of conservatives Palin has aimed her PAC to help.

Let Romney help Whitman; she is against off-shore drilling and SarahPAC explicity states it will help candidates who share her philosophy about energy. That excludes Whitman.

Don’t know where Fiorina stands on energy, but I understand she is pro-life. I just really want to see Boxer defeated, so I would love it if Palin helps out Carly, should Carly run.

It’s women voters with whom Palin has the most trouble, not men; assuming Whitman and Fiorina want her help, she should make herself fully available to fundraise for them.

Not convinced she has a lot of trouble with women voters. Even less convinced Whitman & Fiorina are the kind of conservatives Palin has aimed her PAC to help.

She’s going to shore up her home-state credentials and the social conservative base, IMO. Then, closer to the election, there will be a trust established where she can reach out to moderates- not turn on the base (cough: McCain, cough:) but highlight common interests with moderates while supporting social conservative issues in a smaller font, as it were.

She needs to focus on Alaska, get some advice- quietly, of course- and lay the foundation for a national run if that’s what she wants. Looks to me like that’s exactly what she’s doing.

It’s women voters with whom Palin has the most trouble,

So, the brilliant solution is to take donations and go a’whoring for HILLARY!?

And this is a story, how?

strangelet on May 19, 2009 at 11:15 AM

She isn’t signaling her intentions on anything you idiot… She is just keeping her options open.

http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalin

@AKGovSarahPalin: Just met w/Gen. Chandler & Lt. Gen. Campbell, to discuss status of USAF assets in AK, possible 2009 deployments, & value of training in AK.

This is what I meant the other day when I said it bodes ill that so many party insiders seem to have given up on her;

Since you want to go back to “She’s in Seventh place among party insiders!!” I’ll import my question from that thread:

AP, why didn’t you mention the poll of bloggers at the same site? Palin’s in a three-way tie for 2nd there.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20090514_7263.php

Just curious.

cs89 on May 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM

So, Charlie & Greg Crist, Jon Weaver, etc. don’t think she’s tops? Oookay.

No help for Sarah from Alaska now when she needs it?

Nope.
The party bigwigs are perfectly cognizant that Palin can’t win.
So they have cut her loose.
Sadly for them…..the base gets to choose.
She will be the nominee, she is already signalling.
That is why Huntsman got out of Dodge until 2014 or so.

Mike Huckabee looks poised to run again, but after spending three years as a talk show host, instead of fusing his working class populism with smart policy substance, he may find it even harder than he did in 2008 to break through as a credible national candidate. Mitt Romney will also likely run again, but this could be the final act of his political tragedy: a creative, practical problem-solver who ran away from all that in 2008 but still didn’t win the nomination, and who, having flipped once, may find it a reach too far to flop believably back to his true self by 2012, when the GOP needs it most. Romney’s travails may be a warning to Bobby Jindal, who could stay out of the race altogether, rather than tack away from his technocratic whiz-kid allure in order to pander to the Cheneys and Limbaughs of the party. If he does run, though, and if he runs as this Jindal instead of this Jindal, he might win the nomination but undercut himself going forward, and he’s young enough to go a long way. Aside from x-factors like Newt Gingrich and still somewhat unknowns like Mark Sanford, that leaves Sarah Palin, and though she still might choose to sit out 2012 and play the long game, she will likely find the prospect of running again irresistible.

So how does this make sense again?

Nat Hound on May 19, 2009 at 10:22 AM

Consider this. I read many of the pro-Hillary blogs out there, and many are still upset that she’s even in his administration. They support Hillary, but don’t like her helping out Obama. Surprising, too, there is a lot of good feeling towards Sarah Palin on those blogs. They admit they don’t agree with any of her policies, but they think she’s genuine and they trust her with the country more so than Obama.

So, yeah, a donation towards her debt would go far with Hillary supporters. Again, not from the PAC, but from her own pocket. I think she’d see that Hillary supporters would generously donate back to SarahPAC if they saw that kind of goodwill.

I think that’s what Coale was thinking…. he knows that there’s still a lot of gruntled Hillary supporters out there, and a donation from Sarah would return itself 100 fold.

For me, personally, I say no way in using the PAC money. If she decides to help her out from her personal wealth, then that’s a nice gesture. I know they both went through hell this last campaign and perhaps that shared experience does override party politics.

That’s completely unnecessary. You don’t need to attack his cult beliefs, that’s between him and God L Ron Hubbard.

youngO on May 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM
thomasaur on May 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM