Hey GOP, take the Palin cure
She’s tough as nails too. After Election 2008, she was supposed to have been through. This year eight of the 14 GOP candidates Palin endorsed for Congress won election or reelection, including tea party favorite Ted Cruz for a Senate seat in Texas…
There are also the snooty East Coast Republican intellectual types, such as Peggy Noonan, who look down their noses at a woman who doesn’t shop at Neiman Marcus and didn’t attend an Ivy League university. But Peggy made a fool of herself calling the election for Romney on Nov. 5. Who’s going to care what she and her ilk have to say next time?
Some Republicans will say Palin has too much baggage from 2008, and we need to look for a new Sarah Palin. But I don’t see what’s wrong with the one we’ve got. Ever since the 1990s, Republicans have been looking for the next Ronald Reagan. Reagan is now revered in bipartisan circles, but during his presidency he was, like Palin, ridiculed by liberals. They cited “Bedtime for Bonzo” and sneered at his no-name college degree.
Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan: charming and affable and unwilling to back down if she’s right. I can’t see what’s wrong with that.
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We’ll see what she does in the next few years.
Paul-Cincy on November 18, 2012 at 8:07 PM
I can support her campaign. It would be a breath of fresh air if she could be nominated and win in 2016.
Heck, the best part would be watching an epic leftist melt down, with blood, tissue & bone fragments scattered all over the place from their heads exploding.
TKindred on November 18, 2012 at 8:10 PM
A LOT better than Mr. Obamneycare.
Palin, Jindal, Rubio…
there ARE some good options out there.
Scribbler on November 18, 2012 at 8:12 PM
Amnesty supporter, meh….
rightwingyahooo on November 18, 2012 at 8:13 PM
But what will the RNC do with the 10 million “Rubio 2016″ lawn signs they’ve already had printed up?
steebo77 on November 18, 2012 at 8:13 PM
She has more balls than the rest of the R/Cs put together, and I’m not even a SP fan.
That includes the benchers who’ve proven themselves incredible eunuchs last week, every single one of them, incl. Rand Paul, incredibly.
Schadenfreude on November 18, 2012 at 8:13 PM
Yes! Palin!
Lanceman on November 18, 2012 at 8:14 PM
Yay! A Palin article! Always fun.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 18, 2012 at 8:16 PM
She fights!
idesign on November 18, 2012 at 8:16 PM
The only ones saying that are the ones who hang on the media’s every word and let the media determine who’s got “baggage.”
CurtZHP on November 18, 2012 at 8:16 PM
Sorry she doesn’t hate brown people enough for you, but soon most of the party will be pro-amnesty to some degree. The “deport them all” mentality isn’t going to work.
I love Palin, but if she was going to run it should have been in 2012. She let down so many of her supporters including myself when she chose not to, especially when most of us really thought she was going to run, and gave us all so many hints that she was going to. It really broke my heart when she decided not to.
vegconservative on November 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Im not a palinista and while I dont think that she will run for office again, we must definitely take a look at her and have a debate about her appeal to the base. She was the only candidate I know who went ruthlessly negative on Obummer. The only one who wasnt intimidated by his likability and favourability ratings. And she managed to stand for all three legs of the conservative stool. What the GOP needs right now and needs in the next nominee is ideological confidence and Palin has it in abundance.
Valkyriepundit on November 18, 2012 at 8:25 PM
Does she want it though? That’s the question.
Kataklysmic on November 18, 2012 at 8:26 PM
Not to belabor the point, the “deport them all mentality” might work.
Howsabought we give it a try before legalizing 30 million more Democrat voters?
catmman on November 18, 2012 at 8:27 PM
Including Allahpundit and Ace at Ace of Spades HQ.
RoadRunner on November 18, 2012 at 8:28 PM
enforcing the laws of the united states is RACISTS!!11!! effin idiots
newrouter on November 18, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Broke my heart too, but don’t give up on her. She knew that many in the GOP did not learn the lessons from 2008 and realized it would be worthless. Until we learn to fight back and starve the media beast, then we will continue to get pandering moderates like what we’re seeing with Jindal, Rubio, Christie, etc.
They don’t seem to be learning and so I (and a lot of others) will be moving on to independent or federalist choices.
kim roy on November 18, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Once obama gets done, America will be like him stickin’ his head under the sneezeguard and coughing all over the salad fixins.
Lanceman on November 18, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Oh dear, you’ll give Barbara Bush a case of the vapors!
JannyMc on November 18, 2012 at 8:32 PM
Yeppers this is a nutshell!
melle1228 on November 18, 2012 at 8:39 PM
Sorry you will never be able to run for public office in Texas as a Republican in the very near future, Veg — unchecked immigration does have that effect over time (just ask California.)
Perhaps you’re better off calling fellow Republicans “racists!” now to hedge your bet in the event you join the Democrats. I don’t know how they’ll feel about the whole “President of the SMU College Republicans” business; but it is worth a shot, yes? You can always say it was lapse in judgment on your part and that you have since seen the light.
Punchenko on November 18, 2012 at 8:42 PM
Wow, I knew there were still some McCain types around that would try this line out.
Look, I’m not going to shout at you, but if Palin does not come around to an anti-amnesty stance, she’ll never be the nominee.
But she won’t be, anyway. She’s done. Once she showed up in black leather for Johnny Mac, she was done.
She’ll always have her shriekers, but she’s done, as is Perry, Bachmann, and Gingrich.
Rubio will be the next GOP Dem lite annointed, so she’s done.
By the way I was a huge supporter of hers in the beginning, but after she towed the line on AGW and amnesty for the McCain campaign I was over it, big time.
rightwingyahooo on November 18, 2012 at 8:45 PM
If Sarah Palin wanted to run for President, she a) wouldn’t have resigned as Governor b) would have run in 2012.
HitNRun on November 18, 2012 at 8:49 PM
Kos kid?
idesign on November 18, 2012 at 8:51 PM
I am serious, no frontrunner until 2015. Even Palin, and I like Palin.
We will have to see where the country is in 2015 in order to see who is best for 2016. That said, I like her.
Sekhmet on November 18, 2012 at 8:52 PM
Hell I’d feel about her than I did for Cain, Gingrich, or Romney (all of whom I backed in this cycle).
She might even get some of my hard-earned money.
SgtSVJones on November 18, 2012 at 8:53 PM
*burp* Excuse me!
That’s Hillary as she just ate Palin for breakfast. Oh, sure, things could change. Maybe the East Atlantic states have been decimated in a nuclear attack or something and California finally had the big one and fell off.
Marcus on November 18, 2012 at 8:53 PM
But Karl Rove, Barbara Bushie, Jeb Bushie, Christie Cream maybe even the Toe Sucker Morris won’t approve.
Good enough reasons for me to vote, work donate
ConcealedKerry on November 18, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Yes. She’s the only real conservative capable of reaching voters on an emotional level. She will have the broad impact you need to turn your national fortunes around. Do it!
ernesto on November 18, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Mitt Momney and his brain trust Karl Rove didn’t get it he had to run against the media and Obama, Saracuda does and Newt did.
Sarahcuda is Newt without the negatives.
ConcealedKerry on November 18, 2012 at 8:59 PM
Bengazi just ate Hillary..:)
idesign on November 18, 2012 at 8:59 PM
I don’t know, I think we should run another northeastern Harvard-educated patrician that Barbara Bush and the media are both comfortable with.
Punchenko on November 18, 2012 at 9:01 PM
*WHUMP!* *RRrrreeeeeeOOOOWWWWWWwRRRRRR!* Sorry kitty!
That’s the next thing what is about to go *boom* in the US being dumped on a conveniently absent Hillary in order to save 0bama’s and the next SecSTate’s bacon.
Sekhmet on November 18, 2012 at 9:03 PM
Do you have nay idea what it would cost to try to deport 30 million people? Seriously. You are talking hundreds of billions of dollars, just to get the first 90%. And for that last 10%, the costs would go up.
And that doesn’t even take into account the political costs associated with deporting grandma who has been here for 30 years, who has no family in Mexico.
JohnGalt23 on November 18, 2012 at 9:05 PM
Sarah Palin is an unelectable, unqualified, incompetent goof ball. She was only chosen in 2008 because she is a woman. She is as much an affirmative action pick as Barack Obama was. We should be able to do a lot better than her.
bluegill on November 18, 2012 at 9:07 PM
Sarah Palin supports illegal alien amnesty? Hell no to Sarah Palin.
bluegill on November 18, 2012 at 9:10 PM
I’m OK with that since Romney warm water didn’t do the trick.
However, gird your loins, bluegill and csdeven will be responding stat.
arnold ziffel on November 18, 2012 at 9:12 PM
So let’s just keep nominating Mitt until he wins.
Sound like a plan BG?
A. Weasel on November 18, 2012 at 9:13 PM
the delusion continues apace. You don’t beat the democrats in national elections by doubling down on all the stereotypes that the left feeds to the low-information voter. If we learned anything from 2012, it’s that. Palin would be every one of those stereotypes squared. Rather, the GOP needs to do something it can’t – remake itself as a fiscally conservative socially libertarian small government party. Don’t hold your breath.
keep the change on November 18, 2012 at 9:15 PM
The “Deport them all” schtick is a meme generated by the pro amnesty hive.
Enforce the law.
Require cross referenced ID for any employment..any housing..any benefits..any licensing for anything. The majority will leave.
Look….it’s not that complicated.
Why do you think they come here? They get jobs that pay more than in their craphole homeland..help with housing..medical care..schooling..drivers licenses in some places..whole “sanctuary cities” of people ready to wipe your tears of oppression…pop out a kid and you have an instant American citizen..AND you get to crap on America and demand it turn into a little Mexico.
Such a deal.
Mimzey on November 18, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Keep telling yourself that.
Ahh yes, when in doubt, pull the strawmen out. Don’t forget the children….THE CHILDRENNNNNNNN!
By the way, funny how it didn’t cost Arizona or Georgia billions. But let’s not talk about that when make believe arguments are available.
xblade on November 18, 2012 at 9:21 PM
Heh.
conservative pilgrim on November 18, 2012 at 9:21 PM
So now the members of the Sarah Palin personality cult are telling us we need to accept illegal alien amnesty because their reality star diva dunce says so? And they call people racist for supporting border security and immigration law enforcement? Nice typical, Alinsky, Democrat tactics.
Look, Sarah Palin’s embarrassing 2008 meltdown does not need a sequel. Let’s not even consider nominating someone who the majority of the country (including many conservatives!) doesn’t even think is qualified to be president.
The former half-term governor of Alaska better not tease her cultist followers like she did last year. The look-at-me bus tour stunt she pulled last year really hurt her credibility with a lot of people, and left a lot of her followers disillusion.
My main problem with Sarah Palin is that she feeds off of division within Republican and conservative ranks. She is the ultimate whiner who loves to forever play the victim in order to generate sympathy and support.
bluegill on November 18, 2012 at 9:22 PM
Haven’t they proven they are ‘no information voters’ I mean if a burning consulate, skyrocketing food and fuel prices, and Long Island returned to the 19th Century, didn’t get them to vote right, what will,
narciso on November 18, 2012 at 9:23 PM
BREAKING NEWS:
Cultists think that their cult leader should be supreme ruler of the universe. Film at 11:00.
AngusMc on November 18, 2012 at 9:24 PM
How do you “deport” businesses to other states?..how do you “deport” millions of people from their home states to states with job opportunities?
Conditions within their present borders become unfavorable to comfortably sustain them there and they choose to move.
Mimzey on November 18, 2012 at 9:24 PM
She was a strong supporter of Jan Brewer, so no I don’t think amnesty is really on her mind, how did Romney basically ignoring
the Ryan plan, work out?
narciso on November 18, 2012 at 9:24 PM
Good question.
Mimzey on November 18, 2012 at 9:25 PM
Poor, poor bluegill, getting all wee weed up over another Palin thread…LOL
idesign on November 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Palin is an executive at heart, but I’d love to see her run for Senate in 2014 & challenge Begich. She loves Alaska, could network & gain some allies, build her campaign chest, and gain credibility with the public. Once elected, if she wants to, she could launch a presidential campaign.
conservative pilgrim on November 18, 2012 at 9:28 PM
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