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	<title>Comments on: Sarah Palin: Going Rogue? Or Vogue?</title>
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		<title>By: Statesman</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/16/sarah-palin-going-rogue-or-vogue/#comment-75788</link>
		<dc:creator>Statesman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Palin is the best thing the Dems have going for them in 2012.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palin is the best thing the Dems have going for them in 2012.</p>
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		<title>By: WorkingTommyC</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/16/sarah-palin-going-rogue-or-vogue/#comment-75781</link>
		<dc:creator>WorkingTommyC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>R-O-G-U-E? 

I thought it was a book about make-up entitled:

&quot;Going Rouge&quot;

If she&#039;s all about the Constitution and legal government, fine.  Otherwise, I&#039;m not excited about her (politically speaking, that is).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>R-O-G-U-E? </p>
<p>I thought it was a book about make-up entitled:</p>
<p>&#8220;Going Rouge&#8221;</p>
<p>If she&#8217;s all about the Constitution and legal government, fine.  Otherwise, I&#8217;m not excited about her (politically speaking, that is).</p>
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		<title>By: Red</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/16/sarah-palin-going-rogue-or-vogue/#comment-75775</link>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Palin is qualified to be President- President of the high school  cheer leading squad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Palin is qualified to be President- President of the high school  cheer leading squad.</p>
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		<title>By: AmericanMuser</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/16/sarah-palin-going-rogue-or-vogue/#comment-75762</link>
		<dc:creator>AmericanMuser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>America’s elite and Palin-haters worldwide should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin.  No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America’s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as Sarah Palin.

Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day.  Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?

Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America.  The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.

The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.

However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement.  The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012.  Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.

More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend—public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.

In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president.  Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.

However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin’s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.

These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.

Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska’s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away.  However, don’t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.

We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has.  Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.

Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012.  In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.

A. Muser
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America’s elite and Palin-haters worldwide should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin.  No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America’s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as Sarah Palin.</p>
<p>Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day.  Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?</p>
<p>Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America.  The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.</p>
<p>The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.</p>
<p>However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement.  The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012.  Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.</p>
<p>More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend—public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.</p>
<p>In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president.  Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.</p>
<p>However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin’s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.</p>
<p>These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.</p>
<p>Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska’s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away.  However, don’t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.</p>
<p>We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has.  Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.</p>
<p>Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012.  In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.</p>
<p>A. Muser<br />
<a href="http://americanmuser.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://americanmuser.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: follydude</title>
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		<dc:creator>follydude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nice redirect, HIT.

i&#039;ll see your Obama bow and raise you a Bush kiss on the lips with a Saudi Prince.  

what&#039;s that?  

you&#039;ll fold?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nice redirect, HIT.</p>
<p>i&#8217;ll see your Obama bow and raise you a Bush kiss on the lips with a Saudi Prince.  </p>
<p>what&#8217;s that?  </p>
<p>you&#8217;ll fold?</p>
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		<title>By: hit</title>
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		<dc:creator>hit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scootie,
            Dems ain&#039;t skeered of her, huh? Then why have they emptied the Soros/Media Matters war chest to marginalize her? The bead has been on her since day one...to little avail.

            Keep repeating your talking points. It makes you look desperate. &quot;Brainless, clueless and stupid&quot; seem to define Obama more and more.
             To whom will Obama bow next?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>scootie,<br />
            Dems ain&#8217;t skeered of her, huh? Then why have they emptied the Soros/Media Matters war chest to marginalize her? The bead has been on her since day one&#8230;to little avail.</p>
<p>            Keep repeating your talking points. It makes you look desperate. &#8220;Brainless, clueless and stupid&#8221; seem to define Obama more and more.<br />
             To whom will Obama bow next?</p>
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		<title>By: scooter</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/16/sarah-palin-going-rogue-or-vogue/#comment-75740</link>
		<dc:creator>scooter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Note to the person that thinks Palin has the Dems. scared. Are you kidding me? You can not be afraid of a brainless, clueless, stupid person. She has no cred.  She did not even write that book. Not sure she ever read a book.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Note to the person that thinks Palin has the Dems. scared. Are you kidding me? You can not be afraid of a brainless, clueless, stupid person. She has no cred.  She did not even write that book. Not sure she ever read a book.</p>
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		<title>By: Rapine</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/11/16/sarah-palin-going-rogue-or-vogue/#comment-75710</link>
		<dc:creator>Rapine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Palin also told Winfrey that she prays for her former son-in-law Levi Johnson . . . &quot;

You&#039;ve got another fact error here, pal.

Levi never married Palin&#039;s daughter.  Oh, they promised the nation that the blessed nuptials were to happen soon, but life somehow got in the way.

Hey, I&#039;ve got an idea, Fits:

Let&#039;s not get you to check for fact errors in her light-weight, ghost-written book thingy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Palin also told Winfrey that she prays for her former son-in-law Levi Johnson . . . &#8221;</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve got another fact error here, pal.</p>
<p>Levi never married Palin&#8217;s daughter.  Oh, they promised the nation that the blessed nuptials were to happen soon, but life somehow got in the way.</p>
<p>Hey, I&#8217;ve got an idea, Fits:</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s not get you to check for fact errors in her light-weight, ghost-written book thingy.</p>
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		<title>By: OnNoNotAgain</title>
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		<dc:creator>OnNoNotAgain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Palin, who has come off as whiny and high maintenance (i.e. prima donna-ish) ever since the end of the 2008 race, did score some points with us earlier this month when she bucked the GOP establishment by supporting a fiscal conservative candidate in a special Congressional election up in New York.&quot;

How&#039;d that work out for her, Jeri and the GOP?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Palin, who has come off as whiny and high maintenance (i.e. prima donna-ish) ever since the end of the 2008 race, did score some points with us earlier this month when she bucked the GOP establishment by supporting a fiscal conservative candidate in a special Congressional election up in New York.&#8221;</p>
<p>How&#8217;d that work out for her, Jeri and the GOP?</p>
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		<title>By: henry</title>
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		<dc:creator>henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Palin has Dems terrified.

They are running scared.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palin has Dems terrified.</p>
<p>They are running scared.</p>
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