Palin is great for the GOP, Giuliani says.

Source: CNN Political Ticker

CNN) – A prominent, socially moderate Republican said Sunday that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has achieved iconic status with the Republican Party’s conservative base, is an asset to the GOP.

“I think Sarah Palin is great for the Republican Party,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in an interview that aired on CNN’s State of the Union.

Giuliani said Palin generates a lot of enthusiasm for the party which has struggled to define itself and identify its leading voices after the McCain-Palin ticket lost its White House bid a year ago.

“She gets a tremendous reception even here in Democratic New York,” Giuliani, who hosted Palin at a New York Yankees game, told CNN’s John King.

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A ticking clock attached to a mess of wires and dynamite creates tremendous interest. That's the thing about loaded alarms clocks, they go off. Choice one: Run! Choice two: oblivion. "Sarah Palin is great for the Republican Party" ranks right up there with "I am not a crook" and "Read my lips, no new taxes": Rudy Giuliani's epitaph in my humble opinion. You can't turn back teabaggers with herbal tea lite nor even espresso.

The breach is open and Palin is void stuff. (Doctor Who reference for my beloved avian freeper.)

as he is. blech.

offers generous Rudy the Homeland Security post.

The void separates the teabagger universe and reality.

top job. He appears to have enough support to make it worth his while to run, but perhaps not enough to win nomination. He tried last time and Sam Brownback almost took him out at the knees in Iowa.

And neither charming Huck nor big-bucks Romney could defeat an old fool like John McCain.

It doesn't look as if Huck or Willard will just step aside but were circumstances to conspire to force one or the other out of the nomination race, or if their campaigns cancel each other out, Palin could emerge as a stronger contender.

A good analysis is here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/how-sarah-palin-made-hers_b_358434.html

Excerpt:

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For the 2010 mid-term elections, Palin's endorsement is already a coveted commodity -- as Mark Kirk's desperate bid to secure it demonstrates. The more she is attacked, the more the Republican base adores her. As she sets out on her book tour, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune only propel her forward. Her influence on a party largely devoid of leadership is expanding. If she doesn't prove to be the Party's future queen, she may have positioned herself to be its future king-maker -- and potentially its destroyer. You betcha.
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an expanding crack in dark glass.

for Palin's endorsement.

This is her big week, described in this morning's NY TIMES as her "second chance for a first impression." It's a unique position she finds herself in in that regard and I wonder if she and her handlers have thought this through.

My guess is they've only thought through the marketing component and still are not savvy enough politically to convert her celebrity into political clout or inevitability for the nomination.

Also it would be very interesting to see a breakdown of support in the 2008 Republican primary vote among McCain, Romney, and Huckabee, and among those, how McCain's supporters would split between just Romney and Huckabee, and then throw Palin into it to see if the numbers shift dramatically.

I think the GOP nom is Huckabee's if he wants it.

He's intelligent, articulate, intensely ambitious, and totally insane politically.

Sarah Palin would be the crowning grace on the bankrupt Republican party

What we have here is a Z-80 Republican party running against a Pentium class Democratic Party

sensationlize the howling and raving the Right has been doing for a while now.

And if anything, the howling is getting even louder and more incoherent.

I say we strike while the iron is red hot and do it in all districts.

Campaign Manager: You scored big points tonight, Sarah.

Palin: What are you talking about? They ate me alive out there.

Campaign Manager: Yes, but your body stayed on message. And that message is, "Look at my shiny new body". The Republicans ate it up. You've got real charisma from the neck down.

He's having a hard time getting laid these days.

With typically twisted republicon family values

He once shared his house with his mistress AND his wife, for crying out loud.

I'd hardly call that a "cheap shot".

I suppose he could have a public affair and sink both of them. That WOULD be an achievement.

And they didn't really ignore over 60 warnings before 9/11?

And they were the heroes of Katrina?

And they didn't borrow-and-spend America's economy into the crapper?

And they didn't diss our Armed Forces by paying Megabucks to their Crony Mercenary corportions?

And they didn't really have diaper sex with hookers?

The truth hurts denemem, and they are pack of liars. Lying is typical Republiconism. It's stupid to claim anything else.

A shiny object to distract them and give them false hope!

:rofl:

any of her GOP rivals, and I imagine they will more than consider using it should she show any kind of electoral surge in the weeks before the Iowa caucus.

She doesn't appear to have done herself many favors with that resignation, except it positioned her for a lot of media attention and revenue-enhancement.

I bet that's what the Repuke party is looking to her for.

She's the gift that keeps on giving.

every day, she provided us with yet ANOTHER unintentional laugh, lol. She actually made the race fun for a change.

I presume a lot of people felt likewise, which is why it's important not to be dismissive of her public appeal.

-Giuliani
-Sarah Palin
-Bobby Jindal
-Joe Wilson
-Liz Cheney
-Newt Gingrich
-Meg Whitman
-Michael Steele

All of them have been described by the media as a "Republican rock star" ... for a few days, when they say something stupid and get in the news. And then they move on to someone else.

The GOP doesn't have a "rising star." They have nobody. Reagan was an actor so he could read his lines decently, throw in a few jokes and do the photo-ops. In other words, he knew how to play for the TV. But now, none of the Repukes can even manage to put on the act, let alone actually govern well.

But never mind that...Failin' Palin' is GREAT for the GOP!!1! YESSSSSSSS!!1111111111!!!!!!!!!!1!




She's sure as fuck fantastic for the Dems.

Because she's an empty suit. Ford, Reagan and Bush Jr. were all cut from the same cloth: mediocrities who are coachable, salable and who will do what they are told. They are beating the drum very, very hard for Palin, which I think is a good thing, because she will be overexposed (as in overexposed for who she really is) by the time 2012 rolls around.

and laughed till he cried in the men's room.

Newtie, the fundies who run the Christian Coalition, Cheney, Michelle Bachmann, etc.

Oh ... wait ...

How wonderfully insincere! Kiss up some crazy ass to keep in the Republican fold.

Keep talking, Julie.

Is Sarah Palin qualified to be president?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=6496


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at being the GOP nominee in 2016.

If she does win the nomination in 2012, he'll have been the good party soldier.

I think she's good for the party because she is so bad for the party. Sure, the very basest of their base love her. Broad appeal? Ok, no. You're not going to win over a single moderate conservative, independent or moderate Dem with that kind of "leading voice".

Julie--who thinks Palin is a gift to we Dems