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Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Awwwww...
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Sarah Palin may have electrified the 2008 Republican presidential ticket when she was picked as John McCain's running mate, but just four years later her wattage has dimmed on the Republican stage.

She was snubbed for a coveted speaking role at the Republican National Convention in Tampa even though McCain, the senator from Arizona who surprised many when he selected Alaska's governor, is scheduled to speak. Other speaking spots were doled out to lesser lights like Rick Santorum, who vied unsuccessfully for the nomination this year.

Once the face of the tea party movement, Palin is not among speakers listed for the Tea Party Unity Rally on Sunday. Former presidential candidates Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, and pizza magnate Herman Cain are headlining.

Palin has hit the trail for down-ballot candidates in competitive congressional races, stumping for such political mavericks as Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock and more mainstream politicians like Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.

Palin's mission: to recreate the same kind of success she had in the 2010 midterm elections when many of the candidates she endorsed won.

Political experts say Palin is also carefully calculating how to wield her burgeoning kingmaker status and star power to position herself for even greater prominence in the party.

"She has a tremendous amount of pull among the people who make up the 800-pound gorilla in the party -- the conservative base of the party," said Keith Appell, a Republican strategist and senior vice president at CRC Public Relations. "She will be a force to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future and beyond."

During this presidential election cycle, Palin has been relegated to the farm leagues, said Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of the book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism." It is a role that she slipped into through her own failure to bone up policy matters, he said.

"I think it's really interesting that she has fallen so far in the last year that they have no interest in having her appear at the convention," Ornstein said. "In a lot of ways this political capital she pretty much squandered by becoming a Fox News commentator and going on reality television instead of deepening her knowledge of policy issues. She decided to focus more on making money than on throwing herself into remaining deeply relevant in politics."

"If Romney loses by a big margin there will be a move by center-leaning Republicans to recapture dominance," Ornstein said. "But you're not going to see a lot of conservatives saying 'we were wrong about this.' You're going to have another chapter in this ongoing struggle. There will be a vacuum, Sarah could fill that vacuum."

And if Romney wins Palin will be right there on his heels making sure he sticks to his conservative promises, political experts say. She'll be joined by other conservative voices such as Bachmann, Cain, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina—all vying for dominance of who represents conservatives.

"If Romney and (Paul Ryan) win, the question is do they implement a series of policies that fit the sharp conservative agenda," Ornstein said adding that conservatives will rally to force the Romney administration to keep its promises. "If (the Romney administration) tack to the center, who's going to be leading that charge ... Sarah Palin."

Pretty much what many of us have been saying all along; she's in it for the money. Obviously the Repubs are scared of her, poor babies, as she represents that "ungovernable" gorilla in the room.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:52 AM

JONGSSTRAW


The fact that the RNC and Romney have invited McCain to the Republican convention, let alone actually speak, is reason enough for every Conservative to vote for Obama. As for Palin, I just don't know. She occasionally appears on Greta or Hannity, but her high-pitched, whiny emotionalism isn't as cute as it used to be.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:41 PM

PENGUIN


Yep...She electrified it right into the ground.





King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:02 PM

WHOZIT


You guys just learning this now? This is old news.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:38 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Grrr...rawr.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:59 PM

WHOZIT


BREAKING NEWS! Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan for his VP.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:16 PM

JONGSSTRAW


I suppose this is old news too. I read that Democrats are trying to officially change the name of the San Andreas Fault to Bush's Fault.

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Friday, August 24, 2012 1:36 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Don't worry, Palin will be making an appearance there after all.

Well, the porn star who played her in "Nailin' Palin" will be there, offering lapdances to the faithful at one of the many, many, many strip clubs in Tampa...

http://www.tampabay.com/features/celebrities/lisa-ann-aka-serra-paylin
-brings-her-sarah-palin-act-to-the-rnc-in-tampa/1247462


Hopefully she doesn't sound anything like the real Palin, 'cause also too, that's a certified fer-real boner-killer, don'tcha know, you betcha!



"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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