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Something Conservatives & Liberals Can Agree On: Let Sarah Palin Speak at the Republican National Convention

Posted: 08/15/2012 9:12 am

Conservatives and liberals disagree on many things like, for example, Sarah Palin.

Liberals have caricatured Sarah Palin as a dumb, rifle-toting, government-slashing, hot Alaskan mama. They're actually right about all of that except the dumb part.

In addition to that, Sarah Palin is also the most prominent woman in the Republican Party and the finest feminist role model currently walking on terra firma. After all, is there anybody who comes closer to realizing that feminist maxim "You can have it all" than Sarah Palin? She's a former beauty queen who has a successful marriage and a big family; she worked her way up to governor of Alaska, became our VP candidate, was a MVP player in the 2010 elections, and did more to help women get elected during that cycle than anyone else alive, became a TV star, wrote best-selling books, has gotten wealthy, and she's considered to be a great leader by conservative men across the country. That's 4-5 successful lifetimes' worth of work wrapped up in one woman who hasn't even hit fifty yet.

Getting beyond her almost superhuman resume, Sarah Palin has earned her right to speak at the Republican National Convention. Just the fact that she was the VP selection in 2008 should get her an invite. Furthermore, look at the incredible impact she made in 2010. She endorsed Nikki Haley, Renee Ellmers, Kristi Noem, Susana Martinez, Chris Christie, Sean Duffy, Bob McDonnell, Tim Scott, Rand Paul and Allen West, among others. Say what you want about Palin, but she helped elect some of the biggest up and coming political rock stars in the Republican Party.

She's also a wildly successful woman who understands how to articulate conservative values, which might be helpful given that the Democrats have falsely claimed that the GOP is waging a "war on women." Last but not least, Palin is such an electrifying speaker that some Republicans oppose inviting her because they fear she might overshadow Romney and Ryan. Is that really a big concern for the GOP? Having too many charismatic spokesman presenting the Republican message?

That's why we should hear from Sarah Palin in Tampa. She has earned the opportunity, she would fire up the crowd, she'd help the Republican Party, and even liberals should be happy if the American people get a chance to hear a little more from Sarah Palin. That's why Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee should let Sarah speak.

 

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Conservatives and liberals disagree on many things like, for example, Sarah Palin. Liberals have caricatured Sarah Palin as a dumb, rifle-toting, government-slashing, hot Alaskan mama. They're actua...
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02:43 PM on 08/16/2012
I saw Palin's book in 80% clearance bin. Timely, no?
11:47 AM on 08/16/2012
Come on at least we would have someone we could laugh at for four years instead of these guys who do nothing anyway and are boring to watch. It would be like a reality show in the White house. She could learn new words and learn which fork to use, plus she's hot, you would be able to watch her use a weeed wacker on the lawn and drive a tractor to valet the cars. More fun than Biden who forgets that he's supposed to keep quier, because everytime he opens his mouth another bomb gets dropped, "he would make a good CIA director", or "NSA", imagine, lol. Any day now the citizens are going to just lose it and throw them all in a cell someware on a deserted island.
09:39 PM on 08/15/2012
Speak at the convention??? Really

Todd palin has a high school education and worked on a oil rig
sarah got voted in city coucil and mayor from the majority of her church and had to have a manager keep her from breaking the law so he basically guided her from getting impeached

her children yell faggot and gay like a tossed salad and the 3 year old has a potty mouth that the mother adores and laughs at

The republican party says vote for me and I will fix the economy??? Hello we cannot even fix something simple like the Postal Service let alone Social Security

While I am on it In 1936 social security was passed by democrats nor republicans and in 1965 medicare was passed by democrats not republicans, Just a little hisory in the books

The hillbillies from wasilla and when they say the circus is in town the ringmaster is sarah in tow with her munchkins and the other one.

The olympic athlete lo lo jay is a virgin an old virgin by standards Here is a clue for bristol (cross you legs and guys keep the zipper up and no it did not cost $250,000 for me to solve that one
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05:53 PM on 08/15/2012
Check out a rebuttal for this nonsense at
http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/four-years-later-palin-remains-an-embarrassment/

One of the favorite things I enjoyed at that linked post is the commenter who wrote:
... Sarah Palin makes this guy tight in the pants and drains all the blood from his brain. It’s embarrassing.
05:36 AM on 08/16/2012
Its embarrassing that that is where HIS brain is at.
05:28 PM on 08/15/2012
John, as a Republican woman, you offend me with your characterization of Sarah Palin as the finest feminist role model walking terra firma. She's the absolute worst example of a smart, articulate, altruistic woman. I was just at a gathering of my old highschool girlfriends, the group includes engineer, doctor, psychologist, Air Force helicopter pilot, etc., all are moms as well. We all agree that SP is pure DUMB. Two people from the group live in Alaska and they hate her up there. It's sad that of all the smart women in politics, SP gets the attention because she's a trainwreck. She should speak at the convention....to announce where the bathrooms and exits are located....that's it!
05:35 AM on 08/16/2012
Talk about a snob. We've seen enough snobs in Washington. They keep getting it wrong. Your friends must have been among the 7% in Alaska that didn't think Palin was doing a grate job.
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09:12 AM on 08/16/2012
"grate"? Hi Sarah!

*pageant wave*
04:01 PM on 08/16/2012
Grate? Yeah, that's the exact word, Dr. Freud.
04:58 PM on 08/15/2012
Palin lost the beauty contest. She lost the election. Nobody is willing to pick up her and Todd's new reality show. She's done zero for disabled children and Alaska. She violated her oath and quit her job. She's still as uninformed as she was in 2008. Other than that, she's been wildly successful. And congrts on the lovely PR release.
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04:45 PM on 08/15/2012
Hilarious snark! I could barely tell it's satire. Good job!
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03:45 PM on 08/15/2012
The GOP Establishment has been stuck on stupid for so long they would not know a winning hand if they tripped over it. Basic principles and techniques of advertising and consumer psychology are ignored.

You cannot make an intellectual argument to an electorate where 51% are feeding at the public trough of entitlements. The People have bitten the apple of socialist orthodoxy ..and they like it.

That means The People WANT TO be manipulated and so in order to WIN THIS that is exactly what you must do. How? By applying those basic principles and techniques of advertising and consumer psychology.

The Romney Campaign is already distrusted by The Base and even though he has lots of money his strategy is McCain 2.0 without the electricity or name recognition of Governor Palin ..on their team.

They have allowed party infighting and ego to diminish the GOP appeal to the Base as well as the converts from the other factions like Independents and DixieCrats (Reagan Democrats).

The one in the middle is flat out ignored yet is the only genuine conservative that truly excites the base.It is time for the Romney camp to get a "come to Jesus" moment and kiss that damn ring.

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03:29 PM on 08/15/2012
John agree with everything you wrote. I don't know how the Liberal cause though. It certainly didn't on September 3, 2008. She electrified a nation and moved McCain's poll numbers from 8 down to 4 up. Rarely has a VP speech ever change the dynamic of a Presidential race. It became known as the "Palin Effect". As portrayed in the book 'Game Change' her speech had the impact of panicking the Obama Campaign. Unfortunately with ten days while still leading in poll numbers Lehman Brothers was taken down, and the Stock Market crashed.
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11:37 AM on 08/15/2012
Alasks's astute, articulate, adorable Gov. Sarah Palin is the personification of principled patriotism & common-sense conservatism. Woe be unto the GOP if they alienate her faithful followers.
03:33 PM on 08/15/2012
Two thumbs up dude!
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04:44 PM on 08/15/2012
Sarah is that you?
10:54 AM on 08/15/2012
Look up in the air! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Sarah the 50 foot woman!! The massive right wing giantess with super powers who can reduce an entire city to rubble with one stomp of her foot while wearing a flag bikini and holding a rifle! Was Sarah hit with a growth ray or was the blogger hit with a shrink ray? Mr. Hawkins your fetish has a fancy name: macrophilia. If you want to experience the total awesomeness of your larger-than-life one-hot-grandma there are tons of groups on the internet where your imagination can run wild viewing the art of massive women and the tiny doll-like men who love them. A lot.
03:33 PM on 08/15/2012
What in that article stated anything about Sarah Palin on a personal level?
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MNKen
You're not the boss of me...my cat is!
10:22 AM on 08/15/2012
Geez dude. Your pup tent is showing.
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09:13 AM on 08/16/2012
does it come with wine coolers? ha ha ha ha ha ha
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09:36 AM on 08/15/2012
"the finest feminist role model currently walking on terra firma."

HUH? REALLY? Your kidding......right?

Hillary Clinton leaves Sarah Palin in the dust! Sarah Palin is no dummy by any stretch of the imagination, but neither is she a Rhodes Scholar! She is an outright, at any cost, self centered opportunist.

HILLARY IN 2016!
03:31 PM on 08/15/2012
What executive positions have Hillary held? Hillary not self-centered? How about she ran for Senate in a State she never set foot in.
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05:50 PM on 08/15/2012
Successfully working as Secretary of State for the United States is WAY more executive-oriented than being a half-term, quitter governor of something like 600,000 residents of Alaska.
09:25 AM on 08/15/2012
Seriously, liberals and conservatives need to agree on a lot, put ideological differences aside and get something done on budget, taxes, entitlements. The country can not afford not to. Stop making this about preserving power at the expensive of the country.
09:51 PM on 08/16/2012
Tell it to congress. Better yet tell it to congressman Paul Ryan.