Title: Palin: If Tea Partiers Were Terrorists, Obama Would Pal Around With Us (video) Source:
Real Clear Politics URL Source:http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi ... _would_pal_around_with_us.html Published:Aug 4, 2011 Author:staff Post Date:2011-08-04 00:58:33 by Murron Keywords:None Views:43133 Comments:68
Palin: If Tea Partiers Were Terrorists, Obama Would Pal Around With Us
Fmr. Gov. Sarah Palin responds to a report that Vice President Joe Biden said Republicans were "terrorists" during a closed-door meeting with Congressional Democrats about the debt compromise.
Palin says "enough is enough" and she's "not going to sit here and take it anymore" when it comes to the left accusing the Tea Party of racism.
"It's all talk and no real action. Otherwise he'd be on Biden and tell Biden to tone it down a little bit. Yeah, right, independent patriotic Americans who desire fiscal sanity in our beloved nation being called terrorists. Heck, Sean, if we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn’t he? I mean he didn’t have a problem paling around with Bill Ayers back in the day when he kicked off his political career in Bill Ayers' apartment," Palin said on FOX News' "Hannity."
As much as those on the Left would like Palin to be the nominee, I think they're going to be disappointed.
She's waited too long, and the big money donations have gone to others. Besides, I think she sees her role as "tea party" spokesperson - and hopes to have a tea-party approved candidate emerge. She will try to influence the process to that end.
IMO it's going to come down to Romney vs. Perry. The tea-party will never support Romney (he will be the establishment, McCain candidate this go-round). Perry MIGHT get tea-party support if he's seen as a legitimate alternative to Romney.
Rubio will be the VP candidate in either instance.
She's waited too long, and the big money donations have gone to others.
ACtually, the "Big Money" in the GOP has been notably on the sidelines at this point in the 2012 election cycle. I'm about to post an article about that very topic.
ACtually, the "Big Money" in the GOP has been notably on the sidelines at this point in the 2012 election cycle.
If that's the case, it's probably because none of the announced candidates have managed to get out of the 20s. (Only one is IN the 20s - Romney - and he's only at 22 percent.)
You might argue that the lack of the big money getting behind someone shows the weak and lackluster field - but to me it shows how weak ROMNEY is.
If the field IS that weak - he should be running away with it by now. At least in the high 30s or 40s.
The next GOP convention is going to come down to the tea party vs. the establishment. I don't see them resolving it without splitting.
And that (or a manufactured crisis that will cancel the election) is Obama's best hope.
