First, why would they care if Palin destroyed the GOP?
Second, why would you tell your enemy they're making a bad choice?
Here's David Corn advising the GOP that Palin is bad news for them..........
As goes Palin, so goes the Grand Old Party? Not necessarily. But the party does run the risk of being defined -- in a guilt-by-association manner -- by Palin. This week, I participated on the roundtable for ABC News' "This Week." One of my fellow panelists, David Brooks, pronounced her a "joke." Presuming Brooks is right, I noted, the Republican Party has a problem: If GOPers take a "joke" seriously, doesn't it reflect poorly on the party? Republican leaders, who fear or covet her conservative supporters, have been publicly embracing her as a serious player. On "This Week," Rudy Giuliani called her "an exciting figure in the Republican Party." He added, "There's something extra-special that Sarah Palin has in terms of reaching out to people, and my party needs that kind of excitement." Last month Pawlenty recklessly followed Palin into the fray of that GOP civil war over a special congressional election in upstate New York.
Nice to see David Corn has so much compassion for the GOP.
I've got mixed emotions on Palin but here's one thing I do know. The country wouldn't be worse off today if she had the one's job.
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I'll tell you what's bad for the GOP. The GOP itself. The replublicans have screwed themselves. They've moved left but let the media paint them as hard right. The worst of both worlds. McCain was perfect example. Nothing would please the left more to see us nominate centrist after centrist so they can be taken out like ducks in a shooting gallery.
Personally I love Sarah Palin. I don't know if she will be our nominee in '12. But her presence on the playing field will result in a conservative nominee.
The problem we have in the country right now is that the republican party has been easing left for years. The core republican political class is to the left of JFK really. All this does is give democrats the green light to go even further left.
Someone needs to step in and stop that trend. Sarah Palin is that person.
Anonymous raises an excellent point. Terms like "moderate" and "centrist" are not absolute, but temporal, changing with the times. They have shifted leftward because the entire political debate has shifted leftward. Conservatism got lost along the way.
Nothing frightens the left more than a popular female Republican or a popular black Republican.
It gives the lie to their claim that Republicans are sexist and racist.
The only they way they can explain it away is to accuse the Republican woman of being stupid and the Republican black of being an Uncle Tom or a house negro.
Disgusting, but people fall for it.
I figure if liberal news hates her, she must be doing something right.
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