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Palin using the LBJ strategy?

Posted: July 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Back in the late 30’s early 40 a young congressman named Lyndon Johnson used Texas oil money to get elected decided to expand it’s use to the entire democratic congressional campaign.

In bits and pieces he produced the funds that saved and/or elected many a democrat congressman. These people remembered who they owed their election to.

Over the next 15 months there are going to be many congressional candidates all over the country who will be looking for exposure and funds. Imagine if these candidates held A fund-raising dinner featuring the most famous former vice presidential candidate there has ever been. Picture the local/national media coverage, the large crowds and the money raised.

Let’s say that scenario is repeated in 100-150 districts all over the country coupled with short interviews with local media, unfiltered by the national press. Picture building an organizational base in each district from the crowds. Imagine the DNC having to spend money to play defense in all of those districts. Finally picture congressmen and woman from different states and their political allies farther down the ticket in your political debt by the start of 2011.

If Sarah Palin is picturing that then our democratic friends will have a lot of worrying to do.

Sarah Palin has Krytened the media…

Posted: July 4, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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…and it’s fun watching their heads explode, from the Huff post having to pull an article to the daily beast et/al.

Kausfiles is great, but as the oldest of the bloggers he would be woudn’t he?

The most fun part will be the networks forcing major media people who take this weekend off to come to work and have to cover the person they most love to hate. The Anchoress put it well yesterday:

Watching CNN & MSNBC: One gets the impression they really are dying of curiosity and desperately want to shout out, “WTF is going on here? WHO ARE WE GOING TO HATE NOW? How dare she take herself out of our sites?” 4:33PM

It also means a lot of husbands and wives of bloggers are going to be upset that their mates will be on the PC instead of on the grill, then again we bloggers might have been doing that anyway.

It will be speculation, speculation and more speculation.

I think this is going to force the media to cover every moves she makes for years, She is playing Eddie Kagle to the media’s Smiley Williams from Angel on my shoulder.

The democratic party will be going nuts too, what is her plan, what is her angle? What is the plot? It’s going to drive them all crazy and it will do the same for Mitt “Elect me because I have good posture” Romney too.

Those who say she is this and that can take a lesson from this line spoken on another subject by the Pope yesterday. I’d say it was written for Sarah Palin:

For Paul, said Benedict XVI, “following the prevailing winds and currents of the day is childish.”

Not following the prevailing winds of the day; that’s Palin all over.

Update: “Krytened” explained here.

Update 2: Via Hotair and the Radio Equalizer Rush agrees with the “it’s all speculation” business:

My own speculation is here.

Palin Resigns My jaw is on the floor.

Posted: July 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Wow!

Lots of speculation and shock. She’s resigning to run for president, She’s resigning because of scandal, she is resigning because she can’t take it, etc etc etc etc.

I gotta tell you, I have absolutely No idea what the actual story is…

…and no matter what anyone else says neither does anyone else.

If I had to guess I’d take her at her word, and there is almost no other candidate that I would say that about.

The Other McCain bottom lines it best…

Posted: July 2, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…for republicans unclean on the concept:

It was almost an exact repeat of what happened with Dole in 1996. Republicans never seem to learn: Your best candidate is always the one most hated by liberals.

It’s a very easy one keep that in mind and we will be fine. Nordlinger has a few more things to say about that hated one and Vanity Fair:

I’ve read the little blurb that precedes the piece. Actually, I’ve read just part of the opening sentence of that blurb.

The sentence begins, “Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin . . .”

Okay, was it? Was Palin’s performance disastrous? There were bad moments and incidents, to be sure — particularly the Katie Couric interview, as I recall. (I thought that the Charles Gibson one was not nearly as bad as some other people thought. I also thought that the interview reflected far worse on Gibson than on Palin.) But Palin had some very, very good moments — starting with that boffo, electric acceptance speech. And she was generally good — quite good — on the stump.

Also, consider this: John McCain has had about 3,000 debates on the national stage, running for president all those years. Palin has had exactly one. Who did better: the GOP presidential nominee, in his three debates last fall, or the vice-presidential nominee in her one — in her maiden effort?

Palin in NH 2008 Photo DaTechguy

Palin in NH 2008 Photo DaTechguy

You know I watched a lot of the Palin events on TV and attended one myself with my youngest son. I was even interviewed by the BBC concerning her at the Dover rally. Anyone who actually saw this woman in action knows what kind of candidate she was and would be. In my opinion she would be an even better leader.

This administration knows how things will be in 4 years. The media and the democrats know how they will be in 4 years.

Colbert joked yesterday about the second coming of Reagan in 2012. The Washington Post talks about a Clinton like rebound. If Sarah Palin is the nominee she will not be the 2nd coming of Ronald Reagan, she will be the first coming of Sarah Palin and that will be even better.

Update: Since this is way down the list as update 5 on this post i’m including here since the Anchoress take is not to be missed.

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