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Palin a hero to many in Tea Party, but not their pick for president

2:22 AM 11/17/2010
Jon Ward

But Reasin, who is on the steering committee of the Cecil County Tea Party Patriots, said he thought Gen. David Petraeus, the decorated military official who commands U.S. forces in Afghanistan, should run for president.

As for Palin, Reasin said, “She’s got too many negatives, not for me, but for too many people. So I think she’s better off on the outside looking in.”

Reasin’s comments point to a growing recognition that while Palin is intensely loved by her supporters, she is strongly disliked by a larger percentage of Americans. The most recent poll to demonstrate this, a Politico/Penn Schoen Berland survey released Tuesday, showed 36 percent who view her favorably and 53 percent who view her unfavorably.

Brenda Tackett, a white-haired retiree from Bristol, Tennessee, traveled to the rally Monday with 29 others on a bus paid for by Americans for Prosperity, a Washington-based conservative group. She held a hand-painted sign that read, “Listen to the People.”

Tackett said Palin might make a good vice president.

“She’s a very smart lady, a very good speaker, but being a woman I think they’ll be after her tooth and nail,” Tackett said. “I don’t think she would hold the main ticket … I think it’s going to take someone a little more powerful than Sarah, that has more connections, that will be able to carry the country with more supporters.”

At the Glenn Beck rally on the National Mall in August, some of the most committed attendees who traveled thousands of miles and slept overnight to get spots up front said similar things.

Katherine McArthur, a 58-year old retired real estate agent and mother of two from Newport Beach, Calif., flew to Washington for the Beck rally and showed up 48 hours early, sleeping two nights on the Mall with nothing more than a camping chair.

“I guess I don’t have confidence in her, at this point in her career,” McArthur said of Palin.

Her friend, Linda Lumsden, a 58-year old skincare specialist also from Newport Beach, was more forceful in her opinion.

“I would like to see someone else emerge. I think she’s too divisive,” Lumsden said. “It’s good for her to be part of the party. I have nothing against her. But I just think a leader has to be more articulate than she is. I just don’t think that person’s emerged yet.”

Adam Washburn, a 47-year old plumber from Oceanside, Calif., also slept on the Mall overnight in a camping chair to save his spot up front at the Beck rally.

“I could support Sarah Palin, but I don’t think she is the one. VP yes, president not so much,” Washburn said in an e-mail this week. “Unfortunately I think the media beat her up too much, and I think she can be more valuable doing other things for the conservative movement.”

“I’m not sure if we have seen the one who needs to run. It has to be someone who can articulate the conservative message like a Buckley or Reagan,” Washburn said. “We have time to find someone. I do like Chris Christie, and Marco Rubio.”

Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Christie, Dancing With The Stars, David Petraeus, Jim DeMint, John McCain, Jon Ward, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Steve King, Tea party, Terry Branstad
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  • michstan

    Great article! I’m definitely NOT on the Sarah 2012 bandwagon, even though I do like her and respect her abilities. She is not made to be President. She has many other talents and could help the conservative cause immensely in other ways – RNC chairman – YOU BETCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, not President.

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  • rowdygirl

    I don’t dislike her, but I don’t think she is anywhere near qualified to be POTUS. We’ve seen what happens when you vote someone in based on all the wrong reasons. We don’t need to vote her in the same way.
    It’s fine for her to stump and give her opinion, etc. but someone with real leadership and experience needs to be the GOP candidate.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jasmine-Clark/1785223171 Jasmine Clark

      what??? she DOES have leadership experience!

      • thephranc

        Didn’t you know being a mayor and governor isn’t real experience? AT least not as real as community agitator or running for senate then running for senate then running for POTUS.

        • des1

          Being a Mayor is fine, but being a half-term governor is anything but a ringing endorsement of someone’s character.

          She had an argument in 2008 that she was as (or even more) qualified than Obama. In 2012 he’ll add 4 years of being President to that resume and she will have TV appearances (only on Fox and her reality show) and Facebook posts. Anyone claiming that is serious credentials for POTUS can stop pretending that they are serious about their political beliefs.

          • truebearing

            Des,

            Obama can accurately claim four years as president, but it has been an unmitigated disaster, and since he is the cause of the rampant corruption, divisivness, power grabbing, economic destruction, treason, etc., it doesn’t exactly redound to Obama’s credit.

            I don’t necessarily think she should run for president, but I’m not ruling her out. The experience factor is only one aspect of a candidate, and Palin still has more hands on management experience than Obama, who never does anything but blather, lie, squander money, and golf.

            The role of the president varies according to the needs of the nation, or at least it should. Obama decided we needed a revolutionary when we needed a good constitutionally correct manager. We need someone who isn’t trying to reinvent the nation, but who loves this nation. We need someone who will surround themself with good, honest, capable, hard working people, not rabid, insane, evil ideologues. Palin does fit that prescription. That being said, she still has to get elected, if she runs.

            My rule of thumb is: don’t feed the left’s narrative. Therefore we need to stay positive about our possible candidates, even ones we won’t vote for.

    • truebearing

      rowdygirl,

      If I listed all of the presidents who were said to be too inexperienced I’d have to list them all. Every presidential candidate is hit with that charge, and it’s generally true. The only people “qualified” for the presidency are those who have already been president and can no longer run.

      We need to shift from the resume mentality to the character mentality. The ethical characteristics of a candidate, and their loyalty to our constitution are far better ways to measure a candidate.

  • Sonny119

    Gov. Sarah Palin is a True Do it Yourself, Strong, Self-Made, Self-Reliant, Independent, “Andrew Jacksonian” / “Ronald Reagan”, Constitutional Conservative Patriotic American.
    Gov. Sarah Palin’s Tenacity, Intestinal Fortitude, Strength, Fighting Spirit, Political Insight, and most especially her Faith, has not only allowed her to survive the far left Liberal media’s onslaught, and their campaign to personally destroy her and her Family, which is unprecedented in US History, because they fear her with a passion, as they know she has the charisma, charm, and Political ammunition, to completely destroy the Liberal Democrats, and particularly Obama, their only ace in the hole, from power. Like the making of steel, Gov Palin, has gone through the far left liberal media’s furnace of fire, and has grown even stronger and tougher, and has emerged as the undisputed and undeniable major Political Force in American Politics, today, tomorrow, and especially on 6 Nov., 2012.
    The more they attack her, while Obama and the democrats continue to destroy the country, the jobs, the economy, and Bankrupt the Nation, the more the American People see right through Obama, and the Liberal media’s Lies Gov Sarah Palin, thus the more the American People are rallying to her side, to the American Conservative Tea Party side, and Republican side.
    Gov. Sarah Palin, has managed to not only beat the far leftwing Liberal media at their own game, but she has turned their own apparatus, the media machinery against them, using their own platform and publicity, to her advantage.
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    As divisive as Gov. Sarah Palin may be to all you radical far leftwing Liberal Socialist Marxist Obamacrats, as perpetuated and blown out of proportion, by the radical far leftwing Liberal Media, she is still the best candidate out there, as she is the only one that can draw Tens and even Hundreds of Millions of Americans, to Vote for the Republican Ticket in 2012, to Counter the Radical far leftwing Liberal Socialist Marxist Facist Agenda and Policies of Obama, as well as being the only real true Constitutional Conservative Ronald Reagan Republican, out there..
    If America is to survive the onslaught of Liberal Socialist Marxism, by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc., and all the George Soros’s out there, it must have someone in the White House, a President, who is absolutely committed to Preserving, Protecting, and Defending, the U.S. Constitution, by all means, and at all costs.!!!!! This is NON-Negotiable.!!!!!!! And Gov. Sarah Palin, is the only Patriotic American, with the Experience, Intelligence, and most of all, the absolute WILL to do so, against All Enemies, Foreign, and DOMESTIC, period.!!!!!
    Here’s a Prediction for all you Hate Mongering Obamacrat Socialist Marxist Liberals out there..
    -
    “Breaking News from Election HQ’s for Nov. 6th, 2012, America has just Elected it’s first ever, Woman President in U.S. History, Conservative Republican President Elect, Sarah Palin, is now the Nation’s 45th President of the United State of America”.!!!

    • junkmaninohio

      yeah, what you said…whew! Write a book.

    • des1

      “And Gov. Sarah Palin, is the only Patriotic American, with the Experience, Intelligence, and most of all, the absolute WILL to do so, against All Enemies, Foreign, and DOMESTIC, period.!!!!!”

      Dude, you need to loosen the buckle on your tinfoil helmet.

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  • tmbodok

    Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President. The Palins are a bunch of uncultured country bumpkins hillbillies. They have decent education, no social class, no fine taste, no decent family pedigree.

    People like most of us are highly educated, highly cultured, highly developed, well-born, well-nurtured and well-bred should never be allowed to be led by those Wasilly Hillbilly. America is the land Of the Best, By the Best, and For the Best. We are simply the Best and those uneducated, uncultured, unsocialized barbarian like the Palins are simply the worst.

    America has become such a great country because we have never allowed serfs like those Hillbilies ever become our leaders. India becomes a great civilisation because they keep those uncultured Untouchables caste at the bottom of the society. Europe becomes great nations because they never allow the Gypsies become leaders. We should continue to follow the great foot-steps of our Indian and Europeans mentors to keep those Hillbillies at the bottom of our feet forever. Low-class Hillbillies like the Palins are only worthy to be cheerleaders and ball-pickers. These Untouchables are born to be led, not to lead.

    • The_anniebanannie

      True,,true…we can’t all be the offspring of a white hippy and a Kenyan polygamist.

      • des1

        This guy has to be a Republican trying to mock the Left. He can’t even complete a simple sentence and wants to tout his education?

        Sorry, I don’t find it amusing when Poly pretends to be an Independent, so I don’t find it amusing when this guy does it (no matter how true his point may be).

        • The_anniebanannie

          “This guy has to be a Republican trying to mock the Left.”

          Yes, des, I knew that…..which is why I made the sarcastic retort.

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