Getbig.com: American Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure
Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Dos Equis on August 25, 2010, 11:14:06 AM
-
Looks like her endorsement of McCain helped him crush Hayworth.
Palin also a big winner Tuesday
Posted: August 25th, 2010
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – Sarah Palin's endorsement slump has come to a screeching halt, with all three of the statewide candidates she backed either leading or having won their primary bids Tuesday night.
Palin's most high-profile, and perhaps influential, endorsement came in Alaska earlier this summer - where the former Republican vice presidential nominee backed little-known attorney Joe Miller over Lisa Murkowski, the state's incumbent Republican senator.
The endorsement immediately rocketed Miller's profile throughout the state, as did an endorsement from the Tea Party Express which poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the race. Palin's husband Todd also penned a fundraising letter and the former Alaska governor herself recorded a robo-call on Miller's behalf.
As of Wednesday morning, Miller holds a slim 1,960 vote lead of Murkowski, according to an unofficial vote tally by the Associated Press with 98 percent of precincts reporting, with thousands of absentee ballots yet to be counted.
The former Alaska governor also backed Arizona Sen. John McCain – the former presidential candidate who rocketed Palin to stardom in 2008 when he selected her as his running mate. Though members of the Tea Party movement lined up against the longtime Arizona senator, Palin stayed loyal to McCain and appeared at a campaign event with him in March.
Addressing long-standing concern among conservatives McCain is too centrist, Palin said the Arizona senator is driven by "common sense conservative principles" and touted his steadfast opposition to the Obama administration.
McCain beat former Rep. J.D. Hayworth Tuesday by more than 30 points – a definitive victory but one that also carried a $20 million price tag.
In the race for Florida attorney general, Palin backed Pam Bondi, a Tampa prosecutor who faced the better-known Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp for the job.
Palin's endorsement of Bondi came only one week ago and even surprised Bondi herself, who had no advance notice the former Alaska governor would take to her Facebook page to back the campaign.
According to the Miami Herald, Bondi met Palin at a Susan B. Anthony breakfast in Washington a few months ago. Bondi told the paper the two talked about Down Syndrome, which affects Palin's son as well as a niece of Bondi's.
Bondi quickly promoted the endorsement and had Palin record a robo-call on her behalf over the weekend.
She beat Kottkamp by 5 points and a third candidate, Holly Benson, by 9 points.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/25/palin-also-a-big-winner-tuesday/#more-119265
-
and Miller in Alaska as well as Allan West. Sarah came up huge last night.
November is going to be an absolute romp and I plan on being apart of it.
-
and Miller in Alaska as well as Allan West. Sarah came up huge last night.
November is going to be an absolute romp and I plan on being apart of it.
Democrats are definitely going to take it on the chin.
-
Democrats are definitely going to take it on the chin.
They deserve nothing less than the gallows and firing squad.
-
The Wrath of Palin
John Nichols
August 25, 2010
Sarah Palin has played politics consistently, if not always with consistent success, during the 2010 Republican primary season.
But in her home state of Alaska, she appears to have engineered one of he most remarkable political upsets of an already volatile year.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/154130/wrath-palin
________________________ ________________________ _______________________
John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated....Also by The Author[ Click for More ] .$30 Million Ways to Say 'Loser' (US Politics, Campaigns and Elections, Electoral Politics)
Palin provided the publicity, fundraising umph and political push for a challenge by newcomer Joe Miller's audacious challenge to incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Palin's had a running feud with the Murkowski family for years. She beat Lisa's dad, Frank, in the 2006 GOP gubernatorial primary that put the former mayor of Wasilla on the fast track to the 2008 Republican vice presidential nomination. And there was even talk this year that Palin might challenge Lisa Murkowski, who was appointed to the seat by her dad.
Palin was not about to lower her own sights to the Senate level. But she worked hard for Miller, a previously unknown candidate who was challenging the biggest name (aside from Palin) in Alaskan Republican politics.It wasn't an ideological fight; Lisa Murkowski has served, by most measures, as a conservative. It was personal.
And Palin went to the mat for Miller, finishing off the primary race by recording a robocall for the challenger in which she identified herself as "Governor Sarah Palin"—conveniently dismissing the fact that she quit the state's top job more than a year ago.
Palin's push gave Miller an apparent win, with incomplete results placing him more than 5,000 votes ahead of the incumbent Wednesday morning.
In fairness, this was just one race in one state—a state where Palin has been a player longer than anywhere else.
Still, this is the upset of the year so far. And Palin was at the center of it. Miller, an attorney from Fairbanks who got in the race late and with little money, did not hesitate to credit Palin, saying of the former governor's support: "I'm absolutely certain that was pivotal."
Murkowski seemed to feel the same way. She ripped into Palin on primary day, saying: "I think she's out for her own self-interest. I don't think she's out for Alaska's interest."
Murkowski may be right.
But if Palin played in the Alaskan Senate race with an eye toward advancing her own self-interest, it worked.
The GOP's former vice presidential candidate's star, which was already showing, is going to shine a good deal more brightly. And her favored candidates, not just in Alaska but around the country, are going to be more determined than ever to get her campaigning on their behalf.
This is something that Democrats, if they are smart, need to figure into their calculus.
Palin is a complex and volatile figure; indeed, as the Murkowski result indicates, she can be as much trouble for mainstream Republicans as Democrats. But she is the hottest political property of the moment, a far more significant player than she was at the start of the 2010 electoral cycle. Her determination to engage, often (though not always) in opposition to the GOP establishment, suggests that—with the probably if not certain exception of President Obama—she will be the highest-profile figure on a fall campaign trail that she intends to work aggressively.
It may be true that Palin is weak when it comes to policy details. It may be true that she plays loose with the facts. But she is strong when it comes to campaigning and the fact is that she is willing to take risks that most politicians avoid. As such, she's going to be a force to be reckoned with this fall, bringing political star power not just to the usual Republican suspects but to a lot of candidates who—like Alaska's Joe Miller—had been counted out by poltical insiders. Democrats ought not fool themselves about the Palin factor. Indeed, if they underestimate this emerging reality, they will do so at their political peril.
John Nichols
________________________ ________________________ _________
The communists are so done in November. Its going to be like Van Helsing.
-
Palin's Magic Touch
All the candidates Sarah Palin backed had a great night.
By John Dickerson
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, at 12:36 PM ET
Also in Slate, Alexandra Gutierrez explains how Joe Miller appears to have upset Lisa Murkowski. David Weigel covered the primaries on his blog.
________________________ ________________________ _________
Sarah PalinSarah Palin has special medicine. That's about the only clear conclusion to be drawn from Tuesday's primary results. She backed five candidates in Arizona, Florida, and Alaska—and they all won. The rest of the results from the evening defied easy matching. The themes of anti-incumbency and voter anger are still out there, but the candidates who mastered those forces (or avoided them) did so in different ways.
In the Republican senatorial primary in Arizona, big-spending incumbent John McCain beat back J.D. Hayworth, who tried to run as the real conservative and picked up some Tea Party support. But in the Republican senatorial primary in Alaska, big-spending incumbent Lisa Murkowski looks like she may lose to her challenger from the right, Tea Party favorite Joe Miller. In the Florida Democratic Senate primary, late-starting rich guy Jeff Greene couldn't defeat Rep. Kendrick Meek by calling him a career politician. In the Republican gubernatorial primary in the same state, however, late-starting rich guy Rick Scott was able to defeat state Attorney General Bill McCollum by painting him as a political insider.
The lesson is the fundamental one in politics. Candidates and states are different. A lack of a consistent narrative is also to be expected. Still, in election years we always look for some clothesline on which to hang it all. It takes a lot of hand-waving and hokum to find one in Tuesday's results.
Nevertheless, we can say this: Sarah Palin is having a good morning. Twenty of the candidates she's endorsed have won. Ten have lost. That's a pretty good record. Her biggest victory looks like it might come in the Republican Senate primary in her home state. Joe Miller wasn't well-known and spent only about $300,000 on his race against incumbent Murkowski. Analysts were predicting he'd get trounced and that Palin would be embarrassed. He is now a few thousand votes ahead, though the outcome won't be certain for about a week.
Whether Miller wins or not, Palin has already won. She didn't go all out for Miller but she worked for him more than a lot of her other endorsed candidates, promoting his candidacy but also tearing down his opponent. Palin can take some credit for a portion of his good showing. There are other reasons, too. Miller had Tea Party funding and support. He also probably benefited from a ballot initiative that brought out conservative voters who wanted the state to notify the parents of young women getting abortions.
Palin now has more support for a favorite story line of hers: The pundits and so-called experts said things were going to go one way but she had faith; she knew the real deal. This is part of her larger pitch: that she understands something fundamental about conservative voters. That, in turn, is what voters believe about her, which makes them think she has a special light to guide the country out of the muck. How much real power Palin has to change minds or give candidates she endorses is still a big question. She may just be good at picking winners. But the Palin brand now grows ever stronger because other Republicans will want to access that magic. Even if they don't believe it really exists, they have to pretend it does or risk winding up like Lisa Murkowski. If she ever decides to run for president, her opponents will have to treat her very gently.
In addition to the Alaska surprise, the other big one of the night came in the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary, where it is apparently worse to be accused of being a "career politician" than "felon." Going into the election, Rick Scott and Democratic Senate challenger Jeff Greene looked like they were going to share the same story line: candidates whose personal fortunes couldn't overcome their personal problems. Scott's big problem was that his company paid the largest Medicare fraud fine in history. Two late polls showed Scott losing, but he overcame his bad rap by playing the outsider. He won a late endorsement by the Florida Tea Party and spent nearly $50 million labeling opponent Bill McCollum an insider.
McCollum was indeed the establishment candidate, backed by the state party, former Gov. Jeb Bush and the Chamber of Commerce. He had this support because no one, including the National Republican Committee, thinks Scott is a very good candidate. Democrats, who face a tough environment in the country's 37 gubernatorial races, were ecstatic. They think they have a shot now in this important state. In a redistricting year, the next governor will have a say in how congressional districts are drawn—including perhaps one new congressional seat.
In Arizona, meanwhile, McCain proved once again that he is a survivor. There was once a period several months ago where it looked like he might face a threat from former Rep. J.D. Hayworth. But McCain ran his campaign with the determination he used to show in the boxing ring in high school. Almost as soon as the bell went off, he rushed in and started swinging. Hayworth was a flawed candidate, and McCain used his every foible to paste him on the airwaves with negative ads. In the Colorado governor's race, Democrat John Hickenlooper is running a cute new ad about how he won't run negative ads. McCain wouldn't have won without them. Other politicians will probably take the McCain route rather than the Hickenlooper one.
Finally, Ben Quayle won the Republican primary in Arizona's third congressional district. The son of the former vice president survived allegations that he'd authored racy posts about Scottsdale women on a blog and posed with two children in a campaign flier to suggest that he had children he does not actually possess. In a campaign ad, he called Barack Obama "the worst president in history" and promised to come to Washington and "kick the hell out of the place." Since his district is reliably Republican, he's likely to win in the general election, which means he should probably get himself some sturdy boots.
Become a fan of Slate and John Dickerson on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
________________________ ________________________ __
Come 2010 and 2012 - its all hands on deck to oust the commies and progressives, regardless of who runs.
-
She's a maverick. :)
-
She's a maverick. :)
She gets the votes out. I know she s goofy, but we need her greatly as a lightening rod to GOTV.
At this point whatever it takes to take back one house of congress is needed.
Obama and the fellow traveling socialists/progressives/communists need to be stopped asap.
She has more balls than 99% of the men in politics from what i can tell.
-
She's a maverick mindless moron. :)
Fixed. :-*
-
She gets the votes out. I know she s goofy, but we need her greatly as a lightening rod to GOTV.
At this point whatever it takes to take back one house of congress is needed.
Obama and the fellow traveling socialists/progressives/communists need to be stopped asap.
She has more balls than 99% of the men in politics from what i can tell.
She definitely has cojones. She's good for the political system.
-
She definitely has cojones. She's good for the political system.
So was Hitler for a whole bunch of ultra nationalist idiots germans. :o
-
So was Hitler for a whole bunch of ultra nationalist idiots germans. :o
Idiot - Obama is more fascist than anyone you clown. Merger of State/Corporate powers like obama is pursuing is more totalitarian than anything proposed by anyone on the right.
Sorry your mocha messiah has so dissappointed and misled you, but facts are facts.
Come Nov. 2010 and then 2012, the far left is finished. Your policies suck, have failed, don't work, never have worked, never will work, and are rejected by taxpayers.
-
So was Hitler for a whole bunch of ultra nationalist idiots germans. :o
You comparing Palin to Hitler? ::)
-
yea the repubs are going to make a difference,you keep telling yourself that :D :D
-
yea the repubs are going to make a difference,you keep telling yourself that :D :D
You communists have had your day. Its over, you failed, get over it. Ft. Marcy park tears and crying is over fool, its time for the adults to takeover.
-
six more years of obama,when you nutjobs run palin :D :D
-
and Miller in Alaska as well as Allan West. Sarah came up huge last night.
November is going to be an absolute romp and I plan on being apart of it.
you seem to want to be a part of anything that idiot does...you always claim you are not really for Palin but then you whip out the pom poms everytine things turn up right for her....when her candidates lose, you are so quiet you can hear the birds chirping.
-
you seem to want to be a part of anything that idiot does...you always claim you are not really for Palin but then you whip out the pom poms everytine things turn up right for her....when her candidates lose, you are so quiet you can hear the birds chirping.
I like Palin alot and have always said so. I have always said she has a lot of flaws and I don't want her for my pick for 2012. I prefer Thune since I believe he will not only humiliate and embarass Obama for the absolute marxist fool he is, but will help rid the congress of the far left commies like Pelosi, Waxman, et al.
This disgusting, incompetent, ever-partying, ever-agitating, ever-failing, ever-conving, regime needs to be stopped in its tracks, and if Palin can help that, great.
By all objective criteria the Obama admn set for itself, it is a miserable expensive failure. Time to drain the democrat swamp.
-
When she started this month 0-for-5, it was silly to criticize her.
of course, when she gets a few right, let's throw a ticker tape parade. ah brother
-
When she started this month 0-for-5, it was silly to criticize her.
of course, when she gets a few right, let's throw a ticker tape parade. ah brother
Her overall record is very good and its far better than your hero who is 1-6.
-
Her overall record is very good and its far better than your hero who is 1-6.
what is her overall record?
-
what is her overall record?
Its like 36 - 10 I think.
-
Its like 36 - 10 I think.
wow, i had no idea she has endorsed that many, impressive.
Anyone have a link to the comprehensive record?
-
wow, i had no idea she has endorsed that many, impressive.
Anyone have a link to the comprehensive record?
I have to look. it was on FR today. The fact is she gets people moving and energy flowing.
-
I have to look. it was on FR today. The fact is she gets people moving and energy flowing.
I wonder if people were using the N-word more the day after she defended Dr laura for using the word 11 times on the phone with a black caller.
-
I wonder if people were using the N-word more the day after she defended Dr laura for using the word 11 times on the phone with a black caller.
I think since Obama has decided to wage war on the working class, middle class, productive class, businesses, and taxpayers, everyone is using that word more since 2008.
-
I think since Obama has decided to wage war on the working class, middle class, productive class, businesses, and taxpayers, everyone is using that word more since 2008.
Really?
-
Really?
Absolutley. I will tell you one thing, I know a lot of cops and the Gates affair really really sealed the deal for them. Don't get me wrong, I cant stand most cops for their attitude towards the public, but I hear it in the bars, from the cops, family, friends etc.
They are most pissed off due to the reckless spending and taxes on the way.
-
Absolutley. I will tell you one thing, I know a lot of cops and the Gates affair really really sealed the deal for them. Don't get me wrong, I cant stand most cops for their attitude towards the public, but I hear it in the bars, from the cops, family, friends etc.
They are most pissed off due to the reckless spending and taxes on the way.
Do you use the word, 33?
-
Do you use the word, 33?
No, I use the word "communist, kenyan, marxist, traitor, pofs" frequently when referring to obama. There is no need to make it racial whatsoever.
-
Palin Again Dispels D.C. Wisdom in Biggest Win Yet
By Scott Conroy - August 25, 2010
real clear politics
When the former Alaska governor placed her home-state credibility squarely on the shoulders of uber-longshot Senate challenger Joe Miller, inside-the-beltway types were once again left scratching their heads and left to wonder, "What is Palin thinking?"
The Washington Post spoke for the established viewpoint on Monday when it published online under the headline "Wither Palin?" the observation that Miller "looks to be headed to a convincing loss." Meanwhile, Slate anticipated the consequences of what it saw as the almost inevitable "embarrassing defeat" for Palin, who endorsed Miller in June.
Political watchers appeared to have had good reason to write Miller off. Polls showed incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski ahead by more than 30 percent.
And after all, Palin and the Miller campaign were so eager to latch onto any news that might be perceived as remotely encouraging that they touted as reason for hope a Tea Party Express-commissioned poll, which still showed Miller trailing Murkowski by double digits.
With only nine of Alaska's 438 precincts still left to report as of late Wednesday morning in Alaska, Miller was leading Murkowski by a margin of 51 percent to 49 percent, or just under 2,000 votes.
According to the Anchorage Daily News, it will be more than a week before the final results trickle in, and 7,600 still uncounted absentee ballots had been returned as of Monday night.
Murkowski still has hope that the final precincts left to be counted will tilt heavily in her favor. The uncounted ballots are presumably located in the Alaska "bush," extremely isolated villages where voters benefit more than anywhere else in the country from federal spending projects that Miller had vowed to confront.
Still, even if Murkowski is able to eke out a victory, Miller's tremendously strong showing is yet another example of Sarah Palin's consistent ability to shock political insiders by showing off her still underestimated political instincts.
Even before the results poured in, Murkowski revealed her frustration with the impact that Palin had on the race in an interview with The Daily Beast's Shushannah Walshe, who spoke to the incumbent senator at a last-minute Murkowski rally in Wasilla.
Murkowski was miffed by Palin's anti-Murkowski language in a Facebook note she posted on Friday, particularly the former GOP vice presidential nominee's jab at her father Frank, whom Palin defeated in the 2006 GOP gubernatorial primary.
"All of a sudden, it was like, wait a minute, if you are taking me on because you don't think I'm conservative enough that's one thing, but are you now suggesting that Frank Murkowski was not conservative enough and why are you looping him on this?" Murkowski told Walshe. "All of a sudden it became a little more personal."
Though Miller's strong showing was by far her crowning achievement of the night, both politically and personally, four other Palin-endorsed candidates won in other states.
Her successes in Tuesday's primaries should mute criticisms that Palin had lost her endorsement mojo, after a series of candidates she backed in recent primaries fell short.
It might be tempting to wonder whether Murkowski did not take Miller's campaign seriously enough, but the incumbent carried on a busy campaign schedule across the state, even before Palin's endorsement of Miller.
"We've been going hard," Murkowski spokesperson Steve Wackowski told RealClearPolitics on Sunday, adding that Murkowski enjoyed being out on the campaign trail so frequently.
Yes, the Murkowski campaign may have made a mistake by not utilizing its vastly superior war chest to go negative on Miller. And yes, there was a parental notification abortion ballot measure in Alaska that likely brought out additional Miller voters in a primary with relatively weak voter turnout.
But make no mistake: if Miller holds on to defeat Murkowski, who was widely considered to be Alaska's most popular politician in-state, it will be perceived as a resounding display of Palin's unique political sway, particularly in Republican primaries.
Scott Conroy covers the White House for RealClearPolitics. He can be reached at sconroy@realclearpolitics.com.
-
Voters: The party's over
Last Updated: 4:58 AM, August 26, 2010
www.nypost.com
Posted: 2:53 AM, August 26, 2010
Charles Hurt - Inside Washington
________________________ ________________________
WASHINGTON -- Voters desperate for an alternative to both parties in Washington got another dose of good news in this week's primaries.
In Florida and, it appears, also in Alaska, Republican voters once again sent a chilling message to their own party leadership in Washington.
No, they cannot stomach the untethered liberalism of Democrats in Washington any longer. But nor can they stand the GOP recklessness we saw the last time the "conservative" party was in power.
That Republican Party of yore and the Donkeys of present are enough to send shudders through any sensible person who cares about the future of this country.
Both are enough to make sick anyone who in tough times has set austere priorities, dispatched with luxuries, and scrounged to save up enough to send their children to college.
The sacrifices and tough decisions that have dominated the lives of most Americans these last few years have been completely absent here in the city of free money -- regardless of who is in charge.
That is because both parties are playing a fearsome game of fiscal chicken -- with your money, of course.
Democrats believe that if they saddle taxpayers with enough obligations to provide enough free stuff to enough people, the country will riot if anyone ever tries to rein in the wild spending.
Republicans, meanwhile, believe that bankrupting the country with unpaid-for wars and tax cuts will force the government to collapse and become smaller.
Both tactics are as deplorable as they are dishonest.
Fed up, Republican voters are not done cleaning house.
In Florida, conservative insider Bill McCollum got beaten for the Republican nomination for governor by a conservative party outsider promising to shake things up with his own money.
In Alaska, sitting GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski is on the ropes, narrowly trailing Joe Miller, a conservative ally of Sarah Palin.
Sweet justice for a woman who first "earned" her seat the old-fashioned Republican way -- her daddy handed it to her.
Okay, so maybe Palin scares us all a little bit. This is understandable.
She is less than sophisticated when it comes to answering tough geopolitical questions we expect our leaders to know all about.
She talks a little too much in public about her intimacy with powerful rifles and the bloody chore of field-dressing a moose.
And it is a little worrisome that one of the most appealing things about Sarah Palin is the people who hate her.
But it is those people -- in both parties -- who are the very authors of the fat, corrupt, bureaucratic disaster that has become our federal government.
We have all certainly supported political figures for worse reasons.
churt@nypost.com
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/voters_the_party_over_95qMUTecVghePtbOqHbwaM#ixzz0xiYIjua8
________________________ ________________________ ______________
This guy hated Palin and is seeing the light.
By 2012 - the hacks in both parties like Obama/Pelosi/Reid/McConnell, mcCain, Graham need to be deported for treason.
-
six more years of obama,when you nutjobs run palin :D :D
Except, it would be as if he wasn't in office since Congress will be controlled by the Republicans.
-
yea the repubs are going to make a difference,you keep telling yourself that :D :D
They can't do any worse than the garbage that is in control right now.
-
I wonder if people were using the N-word more the day after she defended Dr laura for using the word 11 times on the phone with a black caller.
I doubt it discouraged blacks from using the word to describe each other. I don't understand why they get offensive since they call like to call each other black. Who are they to have a monopoly on the use of the word?
-
More women in political spotlight, but gap remains
June 9, 2010 picture, Meg Whitman, left, winner of the Republican nomination …
"We don't know what the future holds" AP .
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer David Crary, Ap National Writer – Wed Aug 25, 4:29 pm ET
________________________ ________________________ _______________
NEW YORK – The suffragists who 90 years ago won voting rights for women would likely shake their heads in wonder at this election, with its "mama grizzly" candidates and high-stakes woman-vs.-woman showdowns.
The women in key races include a rancher and three multimillionaire former CEOs, one a pro wrestling magnate. Two frontier states — Oklahoma and New Mexico — seem assured of electing their first female governor after both major parties nominated women.
Yet in spite of celebrations planned Thursday for Women's Equality Day, marking the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920, American women's share of high-level political power still lags behind scores of other nations.
Women hold only 17 percent of the seats in Congress — well below Europe's 22 percent and far behind the Nordic countries' 42 percent — and the major parties have yet to nominate a woman for president. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2008 collected 18 million votes but still fell short of victory.
"The handful of women that you see near the top is just that — a handful," said Erin Vilardi of the White House Project, which seeks to expand women's role in politics.
"At the congressional level, both parties have a hell of a lot of work to do," Vilardi said. "The culture is still very dominantly male."
Among the notable developments in this year's campaign is the emergence of numerous charismatic, conservative women running as Republicans.
In California, wealthy businesswomen Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of eBay, and Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard, are the GOP nominees for governor and Senate.
Fiorina is the first Republican woman to take on the Democratic incumbent, Barbara Boxer, since Boxer entered the Senate in 1992, and the race has captured national attention.
In South Dakota, the race for the state's lone House seat pits the incumbent Democrat, Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, against Republican legislator Kristi Noem — both of them working moms who grew up on farms. Noem, who helps her husband run a ranch, is one of several GOP woman candidates dubbed "mama grizzlies" because of traits shared with Sarah Palin, the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee and a political star who's been doling out endorsements this year.
In Minnesota's 6th District, the conservative Republican incumbent, outspoken Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann, is being challenged by Democratic State Sen. Tarryl Clark in what could be one of the nation's most expensive House races.
In New Mexico, Democrat Diane Denish, the lieutenant governor since 2003, is competing for governor against the GOP's Susana Martinez, a Latina district attorney who has drawn attention for her tough stance on illegal immigration.
In Oklahoma, Republican U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, who's been endorsed by Palin, is favored in the governor's race over Democratic Lt. Gov. Jari Askins.
According to the Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers University, there have been only two other woman-vs.-woman gubernatorial contests in U.S. history — in Nebraska in 1986 and Hawaii in 2002.
Florida could join New Mexico and Oklahoma is electing its first woman governor — if Democratic nominee Alex Sink can win in November.
One of the most distinctive female candidates is the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, Linda McMahon, former CEO of the World Wrestling Entertainment empire that she and her husband developed. McMahon, who says she'll spend up to $50 million of her own money on the race, was nicknamed "Crotch-kicker" in a statement from the Democratic National Committee.
In Colorado, the issue of male chauvinism surfaced in the campaign for the GOP Senate nomination. Ken Buck — a prosecutor with a strong Tea Party following — prevailed despite criticism for saying he should be backed over rival Jane Norton "because I do not wear high heels."
Worldwide, women hold 19 percent of the seats in national legislatures, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Its rankings of 186 nations — based on percentage of women in the single or lower chamber of the legislature — has the U.S. tied for 90th with Turkmenistan.
Women have held the top government post in dozens of countries — including Germany, Britain, Australia, Argentina, Israel, India and Turkey.
Several Women's Equality Day events are planned across the country Thursday.
In California, a great, great, great granddaughter of suffragist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton will address a rally near the statehouse in Sacramento. In New York, the Susan B. Anthony List — it backs female candidates opposed to abortion — will host a forum on "pro-life feminism."
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said the surge of women running as anti-abortion conservatives reflected a "war over who gets to define what feminism means."
"There's an unsettling of the political apple cart," Dannenfelser said. "Sarah Palin kicked the door open, and a lot of women started going through."
Elsewhere in New York, several women's rights leaders and liberal members of Congress will be speaking at a ceremony renaming a U.S. post office in Queens after Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
Among the scheduled speakers is Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, who said Ferraro's poise and toughness had inspired many women to go into politics.
However, O'Neill described the percentage of women in Congress as "abysmal" and said the United States should be ashamed that it's one of only seven U.N. members — in company with Iran and Sudan — that hasn't ratified a 30-year-old women's rights treaty, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook
________________________ ________________________ ________________________ _
Sarah is going help kick the crap of the communist left in November.
-
More women in political spotlight, but gap remains
I am trying to think of times in modern history where a less qualified woman was selected for a position, just for her gender.
-
I am trying to think of times in modern history where a less qualified woman was selected for a position, just for her gender.
Boxer, McCarthy, Carnahan, Pelosi, et al.
-
Boxer, McCarthy, Carnahan, Pelosi, et al.
good call. I never bought into that "cracks in the glass ceiling" rhetoric.
Choose the MOST QUALIFIED person.
-
good call. I never bought into that "cracks in the glass ceiling" rhetoric.
Choose the MOST QUALIFIED person.
240 - I was going to start a thread on this - why do you think most women are not interested in politics all that much?
I mean look at these boards - its 100% male.
-
Murkowski Loss Would Make Palin GOP's No. 1 Kingmaker
Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010
By: David A. Patten
Incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski's stunning setback in Alaska sends a powerful message to political insiders in both parties: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now the GOP's clear No. 1 kingmaker.
Upstart candidate Joe Miller, who made a lightning-fast rise in the polls following Palin's endorsement and robo calls, credited Palin for his primary shocker.
"I'm absolutely certain that was pivotal," he told The Anchorage Daily News.
With an estimated 98 percent of the vote tallied — and with thousands of absentee ballots yet to be counted — Miller leads Murkowski by 1,960 votes.
Political pundits suggest the outcome elevates Palin to unique status within the Republican Party.
"Clearly Sarah Palin is the most influential Republican in America," Democratic pollster and Fox News commentator Douglas Schoen tells Newsmax. "That much is clear as the primary season winds down. And Palin clearly is the candidate who will generate the most enthusiasm if she runs in 2012."
Miller appeared to come out of nowhere in the campaign's closing days. A poll that RT Nielsen released Friday showed Murkowski still leading Miller by a strong margin, 47 percent to 35 percent.
The Murkowski and Palin families are considered rivals in Alaska politics. Murkowski blasted Palin's involvement in the race on Tuesday.
"I think she's out for her own self-interest," Murkowski told the Daily News Tuesday. "I don't think she's out for Alaska's interest."
Whether Murkowski can prevail somehow is far from clear. The Alaska Division of Elections received more than 16,000 requests for absentee ballots. Of those, 7,600 had been recorded as returned as of Monday.
The first of several sessions to count those ballots has been scheduled for Aug. 31.
But regardless of the final outcome, the surprisingly close election has garnered Palin a new level of respect among political insiders.
Nor is her influence seen as limited to her home state — her endorsement was considered a key factor in shoring up Sen. John McCain's right flank in his primary victory Tuesday over former Congressman J.D. Hayworth in Arizona.
"Looks like Miller won," political analyst and Fox News commentator Dick Morris tells Newsmax. "Palin's victory in Alaska is very impressive.
"She had defeated Murkowski's father for governor in a Republican primary, and just defeated the daughter in a Senate primary," Morris says. "I think she also played a key role in helping build sentiment about McCain moving to the right, and tying him in with the tea party movement. She made him look like less of a RINO. Both wins demonstrate her power."
Commentator and syndicated columnist Patrick J. Buchanan called the result "astonishing" on MSNBC Wednesday morning.
"Lisa Murkowski is a fairly popular senator from Alaska who settled in," he said. "And after the death of Ted Stevens, it looked like she was a winner.
And Sarah Palin steps in, and this fella who's relatively unknown nationally, is known in Alaska, can put him not only in the competition but maybe into the Senate race itself — this is very, very dramatic."
Miller also received a key endorsement from the grassroots-conservative Tea Party Express.
Susan A. MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida, cautions that Palin's influence appears to vary from state to state.
Palin played a major role in Nikki Haley's triumph in South Carolina, for example, but her endorsement wasn't enough to propel Karen Handel over Rep. Nathan Deal in the race for Georgia governor.
But MacManus says the result shows Palin "definitely has clout."
"She's become the best at mobilizing grass-roots Republican voters," MacManus tells Newsmax. "She's great at coming into a place and raising money and getting people's attention and raising money for a candidate she's endorsing.
"She's keeping that anti-Washington message alive for Republican candidates all the way up and down the ballot. Because it is true people are looking at this election through the lens of how they're looking at Washington."
If Murkowski loses, she would be the seventh congressional incumbent to lose in a primary this year — a clear signal that voters aren't pleased with the policies coming out of Washington.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/sarah-palin-miller-murkowski/2010/08/25/id/368386
-
I wonder if people were using the N-word more the day after she defended Dr laura for using the word 11 times on the phone with a black caller.
Reload...she says...as if 11 wasnt enough...
but then...Dude says Retard...and "boom...fire him"...epic double standards..
-
Both Beck and Palin are huge winners after Beck got about 300-500k people on the mall.
See you clowns in November.
-
Palin power. :)
Tea Party Express & Palin big winners in Alaska
Posted: September 1st, 2010
From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
The Tea Party Express spent nearly $600,000 to help Joe Miller defeater Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican Senate primary.
(CNN) - Joe Miller's the upset winner of the Republican Senate primary in Alaska, but the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin are also victorious.
The Tea Party Express, a leading Tea Party organization, endorsed Miller earlier this year and poured nearly $600,000 to help the little known candidate defeat Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a brand name in Alaska. The group says more than two-thirds of the money was spent in the final two weeks of the campaign leading up to the August 24 primary. That included producing and airing TV and radio ads in the state in behalf of Miller in the closing weeks.
Tea Party Express is one of the most recognized national Tea Party organizations thanks to its three high-profile bus caravans and rallies. The group, based in Sacramento, California, has also become a major player in Republican party politics, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads for Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown in Massachusetts, who in January upset Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat.
More recently, the organization helped the little-known Sharron Angle win the Republican primary in Nevada, endorsing her and spending about a half-million dollars on ads. Angle now faces off in the general election against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the top Democrat in the chamber.
Tea Party Express, along with other Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations, also targeted incumbent Republican Sen. Bob Bennett in Utah for his vote on the Troubled Assets Relief Program and helped defeat his bid for a fourth term. Tea Party Express then backed underdog Mike Lee's successful primary campaign in Utah and Lee now appears to be heavily favored to win the general election in November and join the Senate next year.
But not all the news has been positive. Earlier this summer, the National Tea Party Federation, which seeks to represent the Tea Party political movement around the country, expelled the Tea Party Express because of an inflammatory blog post one of its leaders, Mark Williams, wrote responding to criticism of the Tea Party movement from the NAACP. The story made national headlines and Williams later stepped down as spokesman for Tea Party Express.
The group is now focusing on Delaware, which holds its primary on September 14. This week Tea Party Express announced it will spending at least $250,000 to go up with commercials in support of Christine O'Donnell, who is facing off against Rep. Mike Castle in the battle for Delaware's GOP Senate nomination.
Castle is a popular nine-term congressman and former two-term governor who's considered much more moderate than O'Donnell, a conservative commentator and marketing consultant who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2006 and 2008.
The winner of the primary will face off in November against New Castle County Executive Chris Coons, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the battle to fill the final four years of Vice President Joe Biden's final term. Biden stepped down from the Senate after his election in November 2008 as vice president. Former Biden aide Ted Kaufman was named as an interim replacement. Kaufman is not running for a full term.
Miller's victory is also a big win for Palin.
In early June, the former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, endorsed Miller, putting out statements on her Facebook page and Twitter feed. In backing Miller, Palin said at that time that there was no "feud or bad blood" between herself and Murkoswki, but their differences have been well-documented. Palin captured the governorship in 2006 after defeating then-Gov. Frank Murkowski, Lisa's father, in that year's Republican primary. And when Palin quit as governor last summer, Murkowski said she was "deeply disappointed" and accused Palin of abandoning the state.
In the weekend before the primary, a recording of Palin urging Alaskans to vote for Miller was blasted to Republican voters by robocall across the state.
Many statewide candidates that Palin's endorsed have done quite well in this year's Republican primaries. Miller was one of three Palin-backed state-wide candidates running in the August 24 primaries who went onto victory.
She also endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain – the former presidential candidate who rocketed Palin to stardom in 2008 when he selected her as his running mate. Though members of the Tea Party movement lined up against the longtime Arizona senator, Palin stayed loyal to McCain and appeared at a campaign event with him in March. Addressing long-standing concern among conservatives McCain is too centrist, Palin said the Arizona senator is driven by "common sense conservative principles" and touted his steadfast opposition to the Obama administration.
McCain beat former Rep. J.D. Hayworth by more than 30 points.
In the race for Florida attorney general, Palin backed Pam Bondi, a Tampa prosecutor who faced the better-known Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp for the job. Palin's endorsement of Bondi came only one week ago and even surprised Bondi herself, who had no advance notice the former Alaska governor would take to her Facebook page to back the campaign. Bondi came out on top in a three candidate field.
But the hat trick of victories followed a string of losses earlier this month by candidates Palin endorsed in statewide Republican primaries. She backed Tea Party activist and former NFL player Clint Didier, who was easily defeated by Dino Rossi for the Senate nomination in Washington State. And Wyoming State Auditor Rita Meyer, who had Palin's backing, narrowly lost her bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Earlier in the month Palin campaigned in person with former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, who lost a runoff to former Rep. Nathan Deal for the state's Republican nomination for governor.
Palin also endorsed Rep. Todd Tiahrt, who was defeated by Rep. Jerry Moran in the battle for the Senate nomination in Kansas.
Those defeats followed a string of victories for Palin, who earlier in the primary season successfully backed statewide candidates such as Nikki Haley in South Carolina, Terry Branstad in Iowa, and Susana Martinez in New Mexico, who all won gubernatorial nominations, and Carly Fiorina in California and Rand Paul in Kentucky, who captured Senate nominations.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/01/tea-party-express-palin-big-winners-in-alaska/#more-120265
-
Palin, for all her faults is a warrior and knows how to win.
What she lacks in strict technical understanding of every issue, she makes up for with heart, guts, balls, and drive.
Not that i support her for Prez, but i am glad she is on the side of the people I usually find most to my liking.
-
I don't think she'll run for president. I don't think she should. But no denying she is a major player.
-
I don't think she'll run for president. I don't think she should. But no denying she is a major player.
I don't care what anyone says, I like her alot.
She is a fighter, a scrapper, a warrior, and has balls.
She won't apologize to our enemies, she will kill them and feed the entrails to the family of the dead.
-
She won't apologize to our enemies, she will kill them and feed the entrails to the family of the dead.
what about the 20 million enemies who have already breached our border?
She's all for letting them stay...
-
what about the 20 million enemies who have already breached our border?
She's all for letting them stay...
So is Obama and your a big supporter of his.By the way care to defend your supposed candidate Bob Barrs views?
Libertarian Party contender for president Bob Barr was interviewed by Neal Boortz a few days ago, and the audio and a partial transcript is here. Part of the conversation involved immigration matters, and based on that I have trouble seeing any major difference between Barr's positions and those of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, Teddy Kennedy, and on down the line. In fact, it's like his campaign was the recipient of a blank cardboard box with just the word "POLICY" stenciled on it.
On the audio, he implies that he supports a form of amnesty where illegal aliens who are caught in the interior, as long as they passed a background check, would get to remain. He doesn't specify whether that would be as a "guest" worker or whether they'd get on the "path to citizenship". Asked about this, he says:
"I think as a practical matter, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure how you would go about rounding up millions of people and trying to deport them. The key here is security..."
Now, compare that to BHO:
"We are not going to send [illegal aliens] home... I want us to have an honest conversation about this." ...Mr. Obama said many illegals have "settled," "bought property" and have children who are U.S. citizens. He said the country would have to devote "all our law enforcement resources to rounding up people without papers, even if they weren't causing any trouble," and once that's done, the country would have to "empty out our jails..." ..."Imagine what that would look like, basically detaining, putting in jail 12 million people. We're not going to do that..."
And, in fact, all of those listed above have made similar arguments. And, all of those arguments are wrong: they offer a false choice and fail to note other alternatives such as attrition. Under that plan we'd enforce the laws now and reduce non-emergency benefits to illegal aliens, causing many to leave voluntarily. Neither an amnesty nor mass deportations would be required.
Barr also said that neither the Dems nor the GOP are making border security a priority. To a large extent that's false, since the leaders of both parties supported "comprehensive immigration reform" and all three major candidates support some form of border enforcement, or at least pretend to.
As a political matter, Barr's position makes little sense (unless there's "something else" involved). He doesn't seem to have an ideological standpoint on this issue, and aside from using them to get the nomination there's little reason for him to reach out to the extremist libertarians on this issue. On the other hand, there's nothing to differentiate him from the three major candidates on immigration, an issue that many people care about and that the vast majority of Americans would care about if someone were able to explain everything involved in this issue.
Barr is also going to face a lot of heat from the GOP; see for instance Sean Hannity's attempts to portray him as someone who'd like to make crack and heroin legal. He's going to be ferociously attacked by he has no effective way to fight back against McCain. McCain's weakest point is immigration, yet he can't attack him on that issue since their positions are basically the same.
If Barr saw the light and decided to very aggressively go after all three major candidates on this issue he could have a very powerful impact on the presidential race. He'd have to explain everything involved, including topics that are frequently ignored such as the political power that foreign governments have been able to obtain inside the U.S. and the fact that illegal immigration is an indicator of political corruption. He'd also have to deflect attacks from those who support illegal activity, but that really isn't that difficult. And, he'd have to aggressively attack his opponents on this issue such as by sending his representatives to their campaign events to ask them embarrassing questions designed to point out the hugely obvious flaws in their policies and designed to discredit them.
However, based on what I've seen so far it looks like Barr isn't going to run an "insurgent" campaign but simply one designed with other goals in mind.
5/17/08 UPDATE: Barr appeared on the Glenn Beck show a few days ago and continued to sound as sleazy and misleading as his opponents as well as other hacks who support massive and/or illegal immigration. Asked whether he'd "ship [illegal aliens] home or not", Barr said:
When you find them, you ship them home, absolutely.
What Barr forgot to mention was that, based on what he's said earlier, that would only occur after having granted an amnesty, and he's only referring to those who came after the amnesty or those who didn't take part in the amnesty. He then said that he'd fine employers and was asked about the border fence. He said he wouldn't build it:
First of all, I think it would be terribly costly. And whatever border fence you build, people are going to find a way to get around it, go under it, go over it, somehow... I think it would look absolutely awful. And even though it`s a fence to keep people from coming in, as opposed to the Berlin wall, it gives the same impression. Not the impression I want to give the world about America.
Needless to say, it's not difficult to find other hacks saying
-
Damn! What say you 240? You are better off deflecting by putting a Palin video showing her fumbling a word.
-
???
-
Damn! What say you 240? You are better off deflecting by putting a Palin video showing her fumbling a word.
I have said from Day 1, Palin is by far not my first choice, its Thune. However, she loves this country and is not a communist POFS like Obama. She won't bow to our enemies. she won't apologize to our enemies. She wont sue states enforcing immigration laws. She wont defame and defile the memory of 911 vicitims, etc.
-
So is Obama and your a big supporter of his.By the way care to defend your supposed candidate Bob Barrs views?
Libertarian Party contender for president Bob Barr was interviewed by Neal Boortz a few days ago, and the audio and a partial transcript is here. Part of the conversation involved immigration matters, and based on that I have trouble seeing any major difference between Barr's positions and those of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, Teddy Kennedy, and on down the line. In fact, it's like his campaign was the recipient of a blank cardboard box with just the word "POLICY" stenciled on it.
On the audio, he implies that he supports a form of amnesty where illegal aliens who are caught in the interior, as long as they passed a background check, would get to remain. He doesn't specify whether that would be as a "guest" worker or whether they'd get on the "path to citizenship". Asked about this, he says:
"I think as a practical matter, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure how you would go about rounding up millions of people and trying to deport them. The key here is security..."
Now, compare that to BHO:
"We are not going to send [illegal aliens] home... I want us to have an honest conversation about this." ...Mr. Obama said many illegals have "settled," "bought property" and have children who are U.S. citizens. He said the country would have to devote "all our law enforcement resources to rounding up people without papers, even if they weren't causing any trouble," and once that's done, the country would have to "empty out our jails..." ..."Imagine what that would look like, basically detaining, putting in jail 12 million people. We're not going to do that..."
And, in fact, all of those listed above have made similar arguments. And, all of those arguments are wrong: they offer a false choice and fail to note other alternatives such as attrition. Under that plan we'd enforce the laws now and reduce non-emergency benefits to illegal aliens, causing many to leave voluntarily. Neither an amnesty nor mass deportations would be required.
Barr also said that neither the Dems nor the GOP are making border security a priority. To a large extent that's false, since the leaders of both parties supported "comprehensive immigration reform" and all three major candidates support some form of border enforcement, or at least pretend to.
As a political matter, Barr's position makes little sense (unless there's "something else" involved). He doesn't seem to have an ideological standpoint on this issue, and aside from using them to get the nomination there's little reason for him to reach out to the extremist libertarians on this issue. On the other hand, there's nothing to differentiate him from the three major candidates on immigration, an issue that many people care about and that the vast majority of Americans would care about if someone were able to explain everything involved in this issue.
Barr is also going to face a lot of heat from the GOP; see for instance Sean Hannity's attempts to portray him as someone who'd like to make crack and heroin legal. He's going to be ferociously attacked by he has no effective way to fight back against McCain. McCain's weakest point is immigration, yet he can't attack him on that issue since their positions are basically the same.
If Barr saw the light and decided to very aggressively go after all three major candidates on this issue he could have a very powerful impact on the presidential race. He'd have to explain everything involved, including topics that are frequently ignored such as the political power that foreign governments have been able to obtain inside the U.S. and the fact that illegal immigration is an indicator of political corruption. He'd also have to deflect attacks from those who support illegal activity, but that really isn't that difficult. And, he'd have to aggressively attack his opponents on this issue such as by sending his representatives to their campaign events to ask them embarrassing questions designed to point out the hugely obvious flaws in their policies and designed to discredit them.
However, based on what I've seen so far it looks like Barr isn't going to run an "insurgent" campaign but simply one designed with other goals in mind.
5/17/08 UPDATE: Barr appeared on the Glenn Beck show a few days ago and continued to sound as sleazy and misleading as his opponents as well as other hacks who support massive and/or illegal immigration. Asked whether he'd "ship [illegal aliens] home or not", Barr said:
When you find them, you ship them home, absolutely.
What Barr forgot to mention was that, based on what he's said earlier, that would only occur after having granted an amnesty, and he's only referring to those who came after the amnesty or those who didn't take part in the amnesty. He then said that he'd fine employers and was asked about the border fence. He said he wouldn't build it:
First of all, I think it would be terribly costly. And whatever border fence you build, people are going to find a way to get around it, go under it, go over it, somehow... I think it would look absolutely awful. And even though it`s a fence to keep people from coming in, as opposed to the Berlin wall, it gives the same impression. Not the impression I want to give the world about America.
Needless to say, it's not difficult to find other hacks saying
Wait. So the person 240 allegedly voted for (Barr) supports amnesty?
-
Yes, but 240's cred is already shot on many other issues already.
-
Yes, but 240's cred is already shot on many other issues already.
word.
-
word.
Stim Bill - FAIL
ObamaCare - FAIL
KSM Triasls in NYC - FAIL
GZ mosque - FAIL
-
Palin, for all her faults is a warrior and knows how to win.
What she lacks in strict technical understanding of every issue, she makes up for with heart, guts, balls, and drive.
Not that i support her for Prez, but i am glad she is on the side of the people I usually find most to my liking.
yea and she quit as gov. ,great heart, guts, balls, and driveand a warrior :D :D :D :D :D
-
yea and she quit as gov. ,great heart, guts, balls, and driveand a warrior :D :D :D :D :D
Miller, Rand Paul, Hailey, etc.
Blacken - you have no clue how bad the left is going to get smacked down in November.
-
yea and she quit as gov. ,great heart, guts, balls, and driveand a warrior :D :D :D :D :D
She left, because she didn't want to waste her people's money, fending off stupid lawsuits from left-winged goofies.
Had they left her alone, she wouldn't be causing them all the consternation that she is. But, NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! They had to anger Mama Grizzly.
If I were a gambling man, I'd bet $100 that the left-wing buffoons WISHED they'd left Palin alone and let her finish her term as governor in peace.
-
She left, because she didn't want to waste her people's money, fending off stupid lawsuits from left-winged goofies.
Had they left her alone, she wouldn't be causing them all the consternation that she is. But, NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! They had to anger Mama Grizzly.
If I were a gambling man, I'd bet $100 that the left-wing buffoons WISHED they'd left Palin alone and let her finish her term as governor in peace.
Wrong, the left secretely, and now openly, admits they wish sarah were on their side.
-
240 did not support Bob Barr,this is his story but it's obvious he supported Obama.Bob Barr ran on the libertarian ticket but his entire policy position on every issue is lock step the same as McCains and Palins other then the war in Iraq.However,for years he was a hawk while in congress and was late to the party in opposing the Iraq war.On every other issue he and McCAIN are the same.
So,while 240 rails against RINOS he says he supported a guy who was one of the biggest rinos in congress for years.A guy who was a ring leader in the war on drugs,opposed abortion,for amnesty,it goes on and on and on.
So,240 claims to be a libertarian,or at least says he supports them,but votes for a guy that is opposite of a libertarian.The conclusion is obvious,he is an Obama supporter.
-
She left, because she didn't want to waste her people's money, fending off stupid lawsuits from left-winged goofies.
Had they left her alone, she wouldn't be causing them all the consternation that she is. But, NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! They had to anger Mama Grizzly.
If I were a gambling man, I'd bet $100 that the left-wing buffoons WISHED they'd left Palin alone and let her finish her term as governor in peace.
-
Are you capable of making an argument?
Yes or no?
-
So Palin quit and thats a big deal but Obama quit being a community organiser after his tranny wife said "Barack has sacrificed like no other man".What is the difference?
-
So Palin quit and thats a big deal but Obama quit being a community organiser after his tranny wife said "Barack has sacrificed like no other man".What is the difference?
I hope Obama keeps his cigarette and alcohol addicition. maybe he can take medical leave and let Biden take over.
-
palin 2012, she can see russia from her house ;D
-
palin 2012, she can see russia from her house ;D
Moron - that is not even what she said, and what she did actually say was factually correct about the northern most islands' promixity to the closest Island of russian territory.
But don't let geography, reality, facts, or anything resembling common sense deter you from your nonsense.
See you in November fool.
-
240 did not support Bob Barr,this is his story but it's obvious he supported Obama.Bob Barr ran on the libertarian ticket but his entire policy position on every issue is lock step the same as McCains and Palins other then the war in Iraq.However,for years he was a hawk while in congress and was late to the party in opposing the Iraq war.On every other issue he and McCAIN are the same.
So,while 240 rails against RINOS he says he supported a guy who was one of the biggest rinos in congress for years.A guy who was a ring leader in the war on drugs,opposed abortion,for amnesty,it goes on and on and on.
So,240 claims to be a libertarian,or at least says he supports them,but votes for a guy that is opposite of a libertarian.The conclusion is obvious,he is an Obama supporter.
I do recall him saying on the board that he was probably going to vote for a Democrat in 08.
-
I like most of palin's 2010 positions. I didn't like her 2008 positions.
And I sure don't like her 2010 pro-amnesty position.
I like thune. He's like a Palin with a brain, it's cool.
-
great fucking answer :D
-
I like most of palin's 2010 positions. I didn't like her 2008 positions.
And I sure don't like her 2010 pro-amnesty position.
I like thune. He's like a Palin with a brain, it's cool.
But you claim to have voted for Bob Barr who supports amnesty.I dont get it.
-
great fucking answer :D
Fool - take out a fucking map for once in your pathetic miserable communist life and you will see she was correct.
-
And I sure don't like her 2010 pro-amnesty position.
::)
So is Obama and your a big supporter of his.By the way care to defend your supposed candidate Bob Barrs views?
Libertarian Party contender for president Bob Barr was interviewed by Neal Boortz a few days ago, and the audio and a partial transcript is here. Part of the conversation involved immigration matters, and based on that I have trouble seeing any major difference between Barr's positions and those of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, Teddy Kennedy, and on down the line. In fact, it's like his campaign was the recipient of a blank cardboard box with just the word "POLICY" stenciled on it.
On the audio, he implies that he supports a form of amnesty where illegal aliens who are caught in the interior, as long as they passed a background check, would get to remain. He doesn't specify whether that would be as a "guest" worker or whether they'd get on the "path to citizenship". Asked about this, he says:
"I think as a practical matter, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure how you would go about rounding up millions of people and trying to deport them. The key here is security..."
-
240 is now forever banned from saying a word about Palin on illegals after this.
-
are you telling me you would want her going to other countries and talking for this country. oooooboy what the fuck have we come to
-
are you telling me you would want her going to other countries and talking for this country. oooooboy what the fuck have we come to
After Obama having blood on his hands with the deaths of the 4 Israelis for his incompetence I would trust her over him any day.
-
are you telling me you would want her going to other countries and talking for this country. oooooboy what the fuck have we come to
What has the current POTUS done? got on bent knee and begged for forgiveness? I sure as hell don't want that asshole speaking for this country.
-
What has the current POTUS done? got on bent knee and begged for forgiveness? I sure as hell don't want that asshole speaking for this country.
-
all 3 choices in 2008 were pro-amnesty. but i admit barr is a pos on amnesty. do you admit palin is a POS on amnesty, 33?
-
all 3 choices in 2008 were pro-amnesty. but i admit barr is a pos on amnesty. do you admit palin is a POS on amnesty, 33?
240 - like i have said many many times - I am a 7/10 guy and don't expect 100% agreement. As for Sarah, on amnesty, she has had a muddled message, but far better than ZERO.
240 - dead serious - if its Sarah v. Obama - no third party people - who do vote for?
-
240 - like i have said many many times - I am a 7/10 guy and don't expect 100% agreement. As for Sarah, on amnesty, she has had a muddled message, but far better than ZERO.
240 - dead serious - if its Sarah v. Obama - no third party people - who do vote for?
I don't vote. They're both POS. period.
-
I don't vote. They're both POS. period.
What if I send you $ $ $ $ ;D ;D ;D ;D
-
What if I send you $ $ $ $ ;D ;D ;D ;D
hahaha i'm not for sale man! honestly, if GOP voters do their job, they'll pick a candidate who is perceived as competent by swing voters.
No matter what you feel about palin - it's undeniable that 60% of americans polled in 2008 believe she wasn't even prepared to be veep. That probably hasn't changed all that much, with her "R word wrong, N word okay" tweets and redneck palm pilot gaffes.
I just hope the repub vote doesn't split around her, and she gets the nomination because she has boobies. She'll lose to obama brah - I think despite the fact you hate him - you suspect it too.
-
hahaha i'm not for sale man! honestly, if GOP voters do their job, they'll pick a candidate who is perceived as competent by swing voters.
No matter what you feel about palin - it's undeniable that 60% of americans polled in 2008 believe she wasn't even prepared to be veep. That probably hasn't changed all that much, with her "R word wrong, N word okay" tweets and redneck palm pilot gaffes.
I just hope the repub vote doesn't split around her, and she gets the nomination because she has boobies. She'll lose to obama brah - I think despite the fact you hate him - you suspect it too.
What about a few Glock mags and my Saiga 12?
-
What about a few Glock mags and my Saiga 12?
oooh the mention of the Saiga made my peepee jump just a little!
-
oooh the mention of the Saiga made my peepee jump just a little!
Ha ha ha ha. Look, I am totally on the "Whoever the hell can beat Obama 2012" train. If its sarah, fine, if its Thune, definately, if its Romney - hold my nose and go for it as owful as that seems.
I still prefer Thune above anyone.
-
Ha ha ha ha. Look, I am totally on the "Whoever the hell can beat Obama 2012" train. If its sarah, fine, if its Thune, definately, if its Romney - hold my nose and go for it as owful as that seems.
I still prefer Thune above anyone.
aside from what WE want.
let's look at the average swing voter. He probably thinks palin is stupid. maybe he's completely wrong - but that is the common perception. Maybe it's the media's fault, maybe it's her own. It doesn't matter.
What matters is that there are a number of americans who will stay home, or vote obama, because they don't think she has the brains to do the job. Period. And in a close election, that number kinda matters.
-
aside from what WE want.
let's look at the average swing voter. He probably thinks palin is stupid. maybe he's completely wrong - but that is the common perception. Maybe it's the media's fault, maybe it's her own. It doesn't matter.
What matters is that there are a number of americans who will stay home, or vote obama, because they don't think she has the brains to do the job. Period. And in a close election, that number kinda matters.
The thing Palin has going for her is sheer drawing power that Romney, Huck, Pawlenty et al will never have.
However, I still think Thune should be the guy as he can unite all the cons of all sides, social cons, fiscal cons, 2nd amend cons, national sec. cons, etc.
-
The thing Palin has going for her is sheer drawing power that Romney, Huck, Pawlenty et al will never have.
However, I still think Thune should be the guy as he can unite all the cons of all sides, social cons, fiscal cons, 2nd amend cons, national sec. cons, etc.
Cuase they're old guys with bald spots and she's a MILF.
Cause they're moderate and she appeals to the ANGRY hateful far-right.
Cause Romney would have beaten Obama in the general as VP slot ;)
-
Palin power? Palin a warrior?
Fuck me.
Im speechless.
-
Cuase they're old guys with bald spots and she's a MILF.
Cause they're moderate and she appeals to the ANGRY hateful far-right.
Cause Romney would have beaten Obama in the general as VP slot ;)
Well Obama has been in there for two years now who does he appeal to?By the look of the polls its down to angry unemployed blacks and lazy do nothing union morons.
-
Moron - that is not even what she said, and what she did actually say was factually correct about the northern most islands' promixity to the closest Island of russian territory.
But don't let geography, reality, facts, or anything resembling common sense deter you from your nonsense.
See you in November fool.
I see you are wearing your cheerleading outfit again with the poms poms going
-
I see you are wearing your cheerleading outfit again with the poms poms going
If doing so I could get a weekend with her in the sack, sure. ;D ;D
-
After Obama having blood on his hands with the deaths of the 4 Israelis for his incompetence I would trust her over him any day.
OH man....you're really getting worse and worse....delusional
-
If doing so I could get a weekend with her in the sack, sure. ;D ;D
you couldn't handle her....besides, you'd run for life once she started talking ;)
-
More Palin power. :)
Tea Party Express, Palin also big winners in Delaware
By Paul Steinhauser, CNN Deputy Political Director
September 14, 2010
(CNN) -- Christine O'Donnell's upset win over Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary is also another major victory for the Tea Party Express and for Sarah Palin.
"I also want to thank the Tea Party Express," said O'Donnell in her victory speech Tuesday night.
The Tea Party Express, a leading Tea Party organization, endorsed O'Donnell on July 21 and spent more than $250,000 to help the once long shot candidate defeat Castle, a brand name in Delaware thanks to two terms as governor and the past 18 years as the statewide congressman.
O'Donnell's victory comes two weeks after Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded to Joe Miller in Alaska's GOP Senate primary. The Tea Party Express pumped in about $600,000 to help the once unknown Miller edge out Murkowski, part of a political dynasty in Alaska.
Tea Party Express is one of the most recognized national Tea Party organizations, thanks to its three high-profile bus caravans and rallies. The group, based in Sacramento, California, has also become a major player in Republican Party politics, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads for Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown in Massachusetts, who in January upset Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat.
More recently, the organization helped the little-known Sharron Angle win the Republican primary in Nevada, endorsing her and spending about a half-million dollars on ads. Angle now faces off in the general election against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the top Democrat in the chamber.
Tea Party Express, along with other Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations, also targeted incumbent Republican Sen. Bob Bennett in Utah for his vote on the Troubled Assets Relief Program and helped defeat his bid for a fourth term. Tea Party Express then backed underdog Mike Lee's successful primary campaign in Utah and Lee now is heavily favored to win the general election in November and join the Senate next year.
The group also endorsed Rand Paul in Kentucky. The son of former GOP presidential hopeful and Texas Rep. Ron Paul topped Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, the establishment Republican candidate, in the state's Senate primary. They also endorsed Marco Rubio in Florida. The former Florida House speaker, once a long shot to win the Republican Senate nomination, is now the party's nominee. The onetime front-runner, Gov. Charlie Crist, dropped his bid for the GOP nomination and is running for the Senate as an independent candidate.
Among its rare statewide defeats: The Tea Party Express backed state lawmaker Chuck DeVore in California's Senate primary. He lost to Carly Fiorina. It also supported Rep. Todd Tiahrt in Kansas. Fellow Republican Rep. Jerry Moran beat Tiahrt in the primary.
So what's the secret to the Tea Party Express' success?
"They have cut right to the chase. They have a very uncomplicated message that resonates with voters who think Washington's problems are quite simple and quite obvious: We're spending too much money, government is too big and we can't trust career politicians to fix these problems. And voters are indicating they would much rather try something or someone new instead of sticking with the status quo or the safe pick," said Republican strategist Kevin Madden.
But not all the news for the Tea Party Express has been positive. Earlier this summer, the National Tea Party Federation, which seeks to represent the Tea Party political movement around the country, expelled the Tea Party Express because of an inflammatory blog post that one of its leaders, Mark Williams, wrote responding to criticism of the Tea Party movement from the NAACP. The story made national headlines and Williams later stepped down as spokesman for Tea Party Express.
O'Donnell's victory is also a big win for Palin.
"Thank you Gov. Palin for your endorsement," said O'Donnell. "She got behind us war-weary folks and gave us a boost of encouragement when we needed it."
On September 9, the former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee endorsed O'Donnell. One day before the primary, a recording of Palin urging Delaware Republicans to vote for O'Donnell was blasted to voters by robo-calls across the state.
Many statewide candidates that Palin has endorsed have done well in this year's Republican primaries. Alaska's Miller was one of three Palin-backed statewide candidates running in the August 24 primaries who went on to victory.
She also endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain, the former presidential candidate who rocketed Palin to stardom in 2008 when he selected her as his running mate. Though members of the Tea Party movement lined up against the longtime Arizona senator, Palin stayed loyal to McCain and appeared at a campaign event with him in March. Addressing long-standing concern among conservatives McCain is too centrist, Palin said the Arizona senator is driven by "common-sense conservative principles" and touted his steadfast opposition to the Obama administration.
McCain beat former Rep. J.D. Hayworth by more than 30 points.
In the race for Florida attorney general, Palin backed Pam Bondi, a Tampa prosecutor who faced the better-known Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp for the job. Palin's endorsement of Bondi came about a week before the vote and even surprised Bondi, who had no notice Palin would take to her Facebook page to back the campaign. Bondi came out on top in a three-candidate field.
In August, several Palin-endorsed candidates suffered losses in statewide Republican primaries. She backed Tea Party activist and former NFL player Clint Didier, who was easily defeated by Dino Rossi for the Senate nomination in Washington. Wyoming State Auditor Rita Meyer, who had Palin's backing, narrowly lost her bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Palin campaigned in person with former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, who lost a runoff to former Rep. Nathan Deal for the state's Republican nomination for governor.
Palin also endorsed Tea Party Express-backed Tiahrt, who was defeated in the battle for the Senate nomination in Kansas.
Earlier in the primary season, Palin successfully backed statewide candidates such as Nikki Haley in South Carolina, Terry Branstad in Iowa and Susana Martinez in New Mexico, who all won gubernatorial nominations, and Fiorina in California and Paul in Kentucky, who captured Senate nominations.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/14/deleware.tea.party.palin/index.html
-
Sarah is helping take out the TRASH everywhere.
And come 2012 when the big dance occurs. its going to be all hands on deck to take out the ultimate piece of trash, Obama.
But, oh, she is dumb. ::) ::) ::) ::)
Sorry guys, Sarah is doing more to help out than any of these other fools like Joe S., Karl Rove, the Bushes, or any of the other RINO establishment trash.
-
Wrong, the left secretely, and now openly, admits they wish sarah were on their side.
The reason they want someone like Baby Girl on their side is because she has become a NIGHTMARE for their goofball ideology. That never would have happened had they left her alone to govern Alaska in peace after 2008, instead of piling on these bogus lawsuits.
Now, the gloves have come off (replaced with brass knuckles). She's become TEN TIMES the force, she would have been behind the desk in Anchorage.
-
are you telling me you would want her going to other countries and talking for this country. oooooboy what the fuck have we come to
DARN SKIPPY!!
Baby Girl, KICKING BEHIND or Obama, kissing behind?.....
Palin, standing tall and proud for (and of) the USA or Obama, groveling and sniveling like a punk?
Hmmmm........THERE'S A TOUGH CHOICE TO MAKE!!! ::)
-
The reason they want someone like Baby Girl on their side is because she has become a NIGHTMARE for their goofball ideology. That never would have happened had they left her alone to govern Alaska in peace after 2008, instead of piling on these bogus lawsuits.
Now, the gloves have come off (replaced with brass knuckles). She's become TEN TIMES the force, she would have been behind the desk in Anchorage.
Yup, and i don't care what people say, I like her. She has guts and fire in the belly to try to take out the trash.
Lead, Follow, or GTF out of the way.
-
Yup, and i don't care what people say, I like her. She has guts and fire in the belly to try to take out the trash.
Lead, Follow, or GTF out of the way.
You said it, PEA! That's why I KNOW Sarah is your FIRST choice to take on Obama in '12, right? You are contributing to her PAC and starting a grassroots campaign for her in your housing project in Yonkers, right PEA BRAIN? We all know Palin is the real deal. ;)
Fired up! Ready to go!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qaR83Z5EiIQ/S4Shhi_-gDI/AAAAAAAACKI/GNDM-4_D__0/s640/palin2012-americaisback.JPG.jpeg)
-
Benny - do I really need to bump more of your kneepadding threads that make you look even worse than Blacken?
Seriously, after the utter embarassment you have suffered on these boards, one would think you would know when you quit.
-
Benny - do I really need to bump more of your kneepadding threads that make you look even worse than Blacken?
Seriously, after the utter embarassment you have suffered on these boards, one would think you would know when you quit.
You lost me, PEA BRAIN. ??? Virtually every post you make on this board is a daily embarrassment to you and is often hilarious in its sheer stupidity. By the way, your lack of formal education is showing...you spelled "embarrassment" wrong. ::)
What say you to my simple questions, PEA BRAIN? :-\
That's why I KNOW Sarah is your FIRST choice to take on Obama in '12, right? You are contributing to her PAC and starting a grassroots campaign for her in your housing project in Yonkers, right PEA BRAIN?
-
You lost me, PEA BRAIN. ??? Virtually every post you make on this board is a daily embarrassment to you and is often hilarious in its sheer stupidity. By the way, your lack of formal education is showing...you spelled "embarrassment" wrong. ::)
What say you to my simple questions, PEA BRAIN? :-\
::)
You supported the stim bill, cap & trade, etc etc and you have the balls to call anyone else out?
Keep up the laughs. I love it. See you in November fool. Get your raft ready since you will be drifting off to Cuba.
-
Ayotte is declared winner in NH GOP Senate primary
Houston Chronicle ^ | 9/15/2010 | NORMA LOVE
________________________ ________________________ _________________
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire has certified former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte (AY'-aht) as the winner of the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
Ayotte was endorsed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and won a narrow victory over Ovide Lamontagne (LAH'-mohn-tayn). His conservative credentials and courting of the tea party pulled him close in the final days of the campaign.
Lamontagne has until 5 p.m. to decide whether he'll seek a recount because the margin of victory fell within 1.5 percent of the total votes cast.
The secretary of state's office says Ayotte's official margin of victory was 1,667 votes.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
________________________ _______________________
Sarah is going to send Obama home in tears.