[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL-Palin Begins 2012 Campaign

Herb Parsons hparsons at parsonsys.com
Tue Nov 25 23:01:41 EST 2008


I bet you would. If she weren't a threat, I don't think you'd care though.

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> Brad,
> Nobody is worried about Palin, we would just appreciate it if she would go  
> home.....and stay there.
>  
> Rummy
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/25/2008 7:34:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> flybrad at yahoo.com writes:
>
> Ben,
>
> Sooner or later, people will figure out that Sarah Palin is  the "real deal". 
>  She didn't make fools out of Big Oil CEO's by being  stupid despite the 
> howls of derision against her by you and your ilk.   When the patina of 
> "sacredness" has worn off The One, people will be hungry  for someone of substance.  
> Laugh your ass off while you can.  The  press and the 'leftards' wouldn't pay so 
> much attention to Palin if they  weren't worried about her.
>
> Brad
>
>
> --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Ben  Cittadino <bcittadino at dcs-law.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Ben  Cittadino <bcittadino at dcs-law.com>
>> Subject:  [Rhodes22-list]  POLITICAL-Palin Begins 2012 Campaign
>> To:  rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 6:04  PM
>> November 25, 2008, 3:11 pm NYTimes Online
>>  
>>  "Southern Exposure
>> By Tobin Harshaw
>> Well, for those of you who  thought Sarah Palin would
>> quietly go North to the
>> Future, it  appears that instead she’s going Deep South:
>> “Republican vice
>>  presidential nominee Sarah Palin will make multiple
>> campaign  appearances on
>> behalf of Sen. Saxby Chambliss next week in  Georgia,
>> serving as the
>> political closer for the GOP senator  who is battling to win
>> a second term,”
>> reports CNN.
>>  
>> “This is Palin’s first campaign appearance on behalf of
>>  another Republican
>> candidate since losing her bid to become the  nation’s
>> first woman to serve
>> as vice president. Palin will  attend a fundraiser on Sunday
>> night, then
>> appear at multiple  campaign stops on Monday in an effort to
>> rally the GOP
>> base to  turn out to vote for Chambliss. The incumbent
>> Republican is facing  a
>> strong challenge from Democrat Jim Martin. A runoff is
>>  scheduled for next
>> Tuesday, after neither candidate received the 50  percent
>> plus one vote
>> needed to win on Election Day.”
>>  
>> Doug Mataconis at Donklephant considers the strategy:
>> “The  biggest challenge
>> that both Chambliss and Martin face in the run-off  election
>> is getting their
>> voters to turn out to the polls,  since it’s unlikely that
>> voter turnout will
>> be anywhere near  the level it reached on November 4th. To
>> the extent that
>> she’s  able to motivate the base to get out and vote,
>> Palin could  prove
>> useful to Chambliss.”
>>
>> Dr. Steven Taylor at  Poliblog thinks this may be more about
>> Palin than
>> Chambliss.  “First, the move is further evidence of
>> Palin’s likely  long-term
>> ambitions,” he writes. “Second, the move means that
>>  Chambliss thinks that
>> Palin plays well with the GOP base in a red  state like
>> Georgia … Certainly
>> if Chambliss wins, the trip  will be perceived as evidence
>> that Palin is a
>> serious actor  within the GOP going forward, at least within
>> GOP circles.”
>>  
>> Palin or no Palin, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is cautiously
>>  optimistic about
>> the G.O.P. chances: 
>>
>> Voter  enthusiasm for Martin has declined since the general
>> election.  Martin
>> got his momentum from the massive numbers of Obama  voters,
>> most of whom
>> appear less interested in the remaining  down-ticket race.
>> Chambliss may not
>> have that problem, since  John McCain didn’t generate an
>> enthusiastic
>> response from the  Republican base, meaning that
>> Chambliss’ voters will be
>>  motivated more by Chambliss himself. Republicans have the
>>  secondary
>> motivation to deny Obama a filibuster-proof Senate  by
>> ensuring Chambliss’
>> re-election.
>> Either way, it  looks like it will go down to the wire.
>> Republicans around
>> the  country who want to keep at least one potential check
>> on the excesses  of
>> single-party government had better start actively
>>  supporting the Chambliss
>> effort."
>>
>>  We can't make  this stuff up. 
>>
>> Happy Thanksgiving;
>>
>> Ben  C.
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