Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Palin

[DearAbby]

Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.

Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns.


There is rising expectation among GOP elites that Palin will probably run for president in 2012 and could win the Republican nomination, a prospect many of them regard as a disaster in waiting.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Tell them to talk to mccain

he created her .......... mccain creates the devil spawn

[Merlot]

7. Actually, she was putting herself out there as VP prior to mccane

She has had presidential ambitions for longer than we've known her. She was hob-nobbing with washington repub elites to get the VP nod. I think mccane just let the jeannie out of the bottle before she was ready for prime time. He may have done us a favor as we were able to see her before she was polished by the machine and all her scandals scrubbed.

Sorry no link, but googling will turn up her pre nomination activities.

[Angry Dragon]

11. I did not know that .......... Thank you

[jimlup]

2. It would be quite amusing to see the republicans falling all over themselves about this one.

They will piss their pants if she even starts to get close to the nomination. I would even guess that the hard core of the party might resort to violence to keep her from happening. Not that she is likely to be elected - she might be a good sacrificial lamb for Obama. She would prove to the rank and file that "Sarah Palin" extremists populism is a bad idea for them.

Make no mistake, despite the lack of substance, Sarah Palin represents the hope and dreams of many ignorant and sad people. I don't think she is a threat to the country but I said that about Reagan back in 1979.

[PSPS]

3. Politico

This is Politico, of course. However, I think Palin would be the preferred candidate of the plutocrats, including the media. After all, the corporate media has been promoting her non-stop since she was plucked from the Wasilla backwater, and she's got guaranteed funding ad infinitum by Murdoch and the Kochs.

If they can put together a plan to make her ultimate election as president plausible (cooked polls, "it's a dead heat!!1!!1," Rove's election fraud machine, etc.,) they will probably go for it. If they pull it off and she gets installed into office, she'd be the perfect front for the international corporate class as they finish off what's left of the country, its treasury and its citizens.

[nc4bo]

5. Even if it is Politico,

I've been getting the sense that the GOP would like to put this chick away soon. She was good for the coffers but she's out of control. They'll ride the Palin Express until the wheels fall off then they'll finish her off.

Her fans aren't going to like it one bit.

[nc4bo]

4. Made sure I've enough to share for the very interesting times ahead.

[bluestateguy]

6. Anyone up for a little Operation Chaos of our own in the '12 primaries?

Anyone, anyone?

[Blue_In_AK]

8. John McCain should never, ever have taken her out of Alaska.

People here were just starting to wake up to how lazy and ethically challenged she is (remember Troopergate?), and if we had had just a bit more time, we could have dealt with her ourselves. John McCain did not vet her at all here. He didn't talk to any of her colleagues or people in the Alaska legislature, not her friends, not her enemies. He didn't talk to ANYBODY. He didn't know how divisive she had been in the Republican Party here or what kind of secrets the people in Wasilla were hiding from the rest of us. He probably didn't even know about the Murkowski/Palin feud, which anybody here could have told him about.

The national Republican Party can thank themselves for the monster they've created. Alaskans won't take responsibility for it anymore.

[Demeter]

9. They should have stopped her before they got her started

It's really too late now. Similarly, they should have stopped Phyllis Schlafly back in the 70's.

In GOP politics, the women are so much more deadly than the males.

Although, after some reflection, the GOP male is no prize, either. Maybe they all deserve each other. But the country doesn't deserve them, for sure.

[Erose999]

10. She still has a year before the real campaigning starts for 2012. In that time I would imagine she

will be co-opted by the powers that be at the RNC. They will coach her on public speaking and try to fix her image as a wingnut. The corporate media will comply and suppress any reporting that cuts too close. But in exchange for this help, Sarah will adopt the mainstream GOP party line and she will not be allowed to deviate. The puppet masters Rove and Cheney will control her as they did W.

Thats assuming of course, that she really wants it. Which I don't think she does. She just wants the fame and the money. She will run, no doubt, but I think she will drop out somewhere about mid=pack in the primaries.

[Marie Marie]

12. Yeah right.

and if she should, by chance, win the Republican Primary, (bear with me a minute while I try to stop shuddering so I can finish typing this) watch how quickly they turn around and throw their support and boatloads of money her way.

[nc4bo]

13. Unless Obama causes The Apocalypse, I can not see how the majority of Americans would

accept her as POTUS. Diebold, etc. will have to work extra, extra hard.

GOP wants a winner. Sarah ain't gonna be it.

Hey, may be wrong but at this moment, I can't see it.