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Draft Sarah Palin For RNC Chair

By: BigGator5 (Diary)  |  July 8th, 2010 at 10:00 AM  | 

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(H/T BigGovernment) The petition to draft Sarah Plain, is on:

WHEREAS the current Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, has woefully and repeatedly misstepped in his capacity as party Chair, failing to provide the leadership and vision necessary to battle the Progressive Socialist Left’s agenda, and

WHEREAS he has also failed to cultivate and facilitate emerging Conservative candidates who are able to convincingly argue that Liberty is superior to dependence upon the State Apparatus, and

WHEREAS Sarah Palin, by way of radical contrast, consistently and enthusiastically argues on behalf of Liberty, Free Enterprise, Individualism, and a small and Constitutionally limited Federal Government, and

WHEREAS she has also demonstrated an innate affinity with the great majority of Liberty-Loving Americans, a capacity to inspire them to action, and a willingness to act as a National Leader on important Conservative Issues,

THEREFORE, We, the undersigned, submit that Sarah Palin, as soon as is practicably possible, ought to replace Michael Steele.

I will not hide anything from you, I actually liked Michael Steele. Still like him. However, like Joe Biden, he’s a walking gaffe machine and he’s become a liability. His latest comments on Afghanistan shows he’s out of touch.

I love Sarah Palin. Sure she has had a couple of misteps, but never on the scale of Michael Steele. I might actually give to the RNC if she was choosen as it’s chair and ushered in a new era for the RNC.

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  • indyjohn

    The image of the liberal bedwetters in the media having a collective hissy fit and the blue-blood establishment Republicans chewing handfuls of Tums brings me great satisfaction. The Republican Party needs an unapologetic, outspoken, no-holds-barred spokesman. Sarah Barracuda is a perfect choice. Plus, there is the bonus that she has an axe to grind with the media weenies who tried to destroy her and her family. I think that I might faint from an excess of glee if she rhetorically gut-shot a few members of the Washington press corps.

    • luciusacius

      I do not think that Sarah Palin has what it takes in temperment or skill to do the sort of behind the scenes cat herding that is the job of the RNC Chair. She has an electric personality, but how does that type handle letting others, the candidates, take center stage? Not well I think. She also has no proven record of organizational skills that I have seen. Here, I rely on recent coments on another diary by Achance. Her only large administrative responsibilities were as governor of a sparsely po[pulated state, that she left early for personal reasons (yes, she was attacked relentlessly by the media and falsely, she is a pro-life republican, it is part of the deal). After she left the governor’s office contrast her actions with Reagan’s after he lost the nomination to Ford. He worked his tail off for the party, goving speeches for others. She cashes in at Fox and doles out recommendations and endorsement as favors that appear to be carefully calculated to advance her politically. That is not wrong, just not the sort of more selfless action needed from whoever becomes Chair of the RNC. I do not see her as successful in that role. We need the next Haley Barbour, and that s not Sarah Palin.

      • RealQuiet

        If a person can govern a state, monitor her own administration and encourage legislators to pass legislation she approves of, work a tireless schedule of campaign stops as a VP candidate, and manage a family of five children, she no doubt has organizational skills. Even MSNBC is talking about Palin replacing Steele for chair. The RNC coffers would explode to overflowing if she was named RNC head.

        http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/08/former-alaska-governor-sarah-palin-may-be-running-for-rnc-chair-or-president-of-the-united-states/

        However, you might be right. That link would indicate she has presidential aspirations. Either as RNC chair or as President, she would be just fine.

        • Achance

          “govern a state, monitor her own administration, and encourage legislators to pass legislation…? Oh, I see, her press releases.

          Actually, she did almost nothing that could be called governing. She got her spike of popularity because the state was rolling in money and she was giving it away by the ton. She never had an administration; she just gave a few retreads and some buddies from Wasilla jobs and left the government in charge of a bunch of congenital crats and Democrat holdovers. And ACES and AGIA were passed mostly by cooperating with Democrats and made possible by the fact that Republicans were afraid to support anything the oil industry supported for fear of finding themselves indicted by the USDOJ. There are more sides to Palin’s little governor adventure than the one she tells.

          Anyway, neither RNC Chair or President pay enough for her these days.

        • luciusacius

          What were her legislative accomplishments during her two years as governor? What were her successful initiatives? Why did she have such large staff turover? Your suppositions are not concrete proof.I agree she was a great campaigner. She also is a grassrots money magnet. She rouses the base, but, in the era of the democratic totalitarian president, rousing the base is not as difficult as before. Look at how well Chris Christie is managing after a not so great campaign.

          • indyjohn

            What is it about Sarah Palin that stirs the passions of some conservatives? I understand why she gets progressive unisex panties in a twist. I understand why she gives metrosexual sophisticates the vapors. But why would any conservative denigrate her when she has so many positive attributes?
            Apparently many have forgotten Reagan’s 11th Commandment.

          • luciusacius

            to question that person’s talent mix to assume a particular role. She has strengths, strong ones. I believe that they are not the areas of expertise required for the job of Chair of the RNC. “What is it about Sarah Palin that stirs the passions of some conservatives” that causes them to react reflexively and uncritically about her? We have to get things exactly right to reverse the socialist edifice erected over the last one hundred and ten years. We must select the best people for each task. I simply think that her high profile and media lightening rod attributes would interfere with a job requiring selflessness on behalf of the party and conservatives.

          • indyjohn

            I agree with everything that you say, with one exception: I believe that a media lightning rod is exactly what the party needs. The media weenies have thrown a barrage of punches at Sarah Palin, and she’s still standing. RNC chairman would be a great place from which to exact her vengeance.
            In an era of unprecedented media obsequiousness to and collusion with the organs of state power, this country needs a high profile conservative in a position where he or she cannot be ignored, warning the people on a daily basis about the dangers of one-party control of conventional mass communications. Who better than Sarah Palin?

  • RealQuiet

    I would love to see her in this spot. She is the perfect person for this position and has lots of fundraising clout.

  • acat

    If she’s the head, then I want to know who’s going to be doing the behind-the-scenes work.

    I agree that Sarahcuda would open a number of wallets to the RNC that would otherwise remain closed – but attracting donations is only a part of the job.

    I agree that Sarah would be very well placed (and even harder for the MSM to ignore, much as they’d like to…) to take shots at Obambi. Again, only part of the job.

    I agree that Mrs.Palin would be murder on the entrenched old-boy-network that infests the GOP, especially the gutless {excrement}heads in D.C. That thought alone is why I don’t rule this out as an extremely bad idea.

    However.

    What Sarah has not got is a resume that suggests solid competence as a chief executive – even though hers is *still* longer than Obama’s – and head of the GOP is very much a work-by-persuasion kind of a job.

    I think she’d do much better than half the D.C. schlubs who will think they’re in line for it, but .. realistically, the most successful ones haven’t been lightning rods, and have very quietly ensured that the GOP has good candidates, and that the donors think they’re getting good value for their money. That’s definitely not Sarah – but if it is her #2, then I’m fine with it.

    Mew

  • Martin Knight
    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      Steele was pushed by the old guard establishment types. Once again they make a bad choice.

      • Martin Knight

        I think Mike Duncan and Katon Dawson were more to their liking than Steele. Either way, Blackwell should be called up to do the job now – better late than never. Palin is right exactly where she belongs, raising profiles, cash and firing Tomahawks at the Obama Administration.

        Unless of course, the RNC decides to go for the General Chairman/Executive Chairman thing and have Palin as GC and Blackwell as EC. That would probably be ideal.

        • pilgrim

          I think the party old guard did the right thing in the past when they picked people like Mary Smith, Bill Brock, Richard Richards, Frank Fahrenkopf, Lee Atwater, Clayton Yeutter, and Richard Bond. Invisible people nobody in the general population ever heard of who quietly worked tirelessly to raise more money than the donks. I prefer that to a high profile well known celebrity.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

            hurt, would he?

          • pilgrim

            My point is that while the old guard of the GOP made their fair share of mistakes I do not believe selecting an RNC Chair who could collect money for them is one of their mistakes. That model of selection works, and that is why I favor someone with less celebrity for that job.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
    • E Pluribus Unum

      I could have worked just fine with Blackwell though.

      My two favorite picks at the time were (a) anybody but the incumbent (forgot his name), and (b) anybody but Steele.

      I was not totally nuts for Dawson. One reason I really liked him was out of contrarian instincts – because the REASON he was opposed by so many was, in my view, a bunch of cowardly media-fearing crap. I’m tired of the leftist media getting a say-so in our presidential candidates, our RNC chairs, or anything else.

  • renny

    We have no one person in the Republican Party dedicated to expounding loudly and clearly on conservative beliefs and vision for the country. I hate to mention the “vision thing” and bring back shades of Bush I, but Steele always seems slightly off target, and he has evidently chosen to stay in position by seeking out and/or endorsing the typical professional pols who hung around the Republican Headquarters for decards and the ever popular country club hangers on, proving he doesn’t get “it,” which is what new grass roots people and tea partiers are looking for.
    Sarah brings out the people and can deliver the money. Also, she seems, now that she no longer a daily target for nuisance suits in AL, to have a good, thick skin, quick wit, and that homey patois that just drives the NYTimes bats. And, so far, whoever she’s endorsed has won. That’s a lot more powerful than, say, liitle o who can’t even pick a sports team.