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Will Sarah Palin be a factor in 2010?
Will Sarah Palin be a factor in 2010? | The 2012 Presidential Election


Sarah Palin has joined FOX News and will be another voice on the media right, joining Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Huckabee. She won't get elected to anything herself, but her mouth might help right-wingers win in GOP primaries. But now she is making money. With her deal at Fox, her paid speeches, her book deal --she is racking in the dollars.

YuhannaEl

GOP Concern Growing Over Selection of Palin
The website Politico reports a growing number of Republicans are expressing concern about John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin’s performance on the campaign trail and her understanding of key issues. National Review columnist Kathleen Parker has called on Palin to step aside. Parker recently wrote, “Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion.” Criticism of Palin intensified last week after her interview with Katie Couric on CBS. During the interview Couric asked Palin about the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.

Sarah Palin: “But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—oh, it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So, healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we have—we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.”

On Monday, Palin returned for another interview with Katie Couric, this time with John McCain. Couric questioned McCain about Palin’s interaction with a voter in Philadelphia on Saturday when she contradicted McCain’s stated position on Pakistan by saying that US troops should absolutely go into Pakistan if that’s what needed to stop the terrorists from coming into Afghanistan.

Katie Couric: “Is that something you shouldn’t say out loud, Sen. McCain?”

John McCain: “Of course, not. But, look, I understand this day and age, ‘gotcha’ journalism. Is that a pizza place? In a conversation with someone who you didn’t hear the question very well, you don’t know the context of the conversation, grab a phrase. Governor Palin and I agree that you don’t announce that you’re going to attack another country.”

Couric: “Are you sorry you said it?”

McCain: “And the fact”—

Couric: “Governor?”

McCain: “Wait a minute. Before you say, ‘is she sorry she said it,’ this was a ‘gotcha’ sound bite that—well, she was in a conversation”—

Couric: “It wasn’t a ‘gotcha.’ She was talking to a voter.”


( Let Be Real Here She Was A Joke Then And Still Is ( NOWWW )

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JackFlash

YuhannaEl,

Here is the problem with your assessment:
Republican Party policies only benefit a minority of Americans, the ones with money and businesses owners. After the Great Depression, the Republicans were denied control of Congress for 50 years. In order to gain control they needed to convince enough of the middle class and poor that their policies would benefit them.

From the 50s to the 80s they pushed this trickle down theory of economics, stated in several different ways. The public just didn't buy it in the aftermath of the Depression. By the 90s, fewer people from the depression era were still here to remember, and economic collapse seemed to be impossible.

The Republicans, led somewhat by Newt Gingrich, changed their strategy and became the "Family Values" party. This really caught on with the fundamentalists, who like telling everybody else what their morals should be. Also, during the 90s, the right wing radio jocks began to pick up large audiences, which the party soon learned to coordinate along with churches.

Conservative politics has now been transformed into a moral crusade, moving their primary objective into the limelight. The Republicans didn't get control of Congress because of their economic policies, they won because of the Crusade.

My point is this...Never expect people to act in a rational manner when they are on a crusade. Sarah Palin catered to the crusade and became a focal point for their cause. She doesn't have to be smart, educated or know anything about government, all she has to say is "damn the liberals" and "God bless America," and she does it like a pit bull with lipstick. She has the ability and opportunity to influence millions of Americans, she has and she will.