Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Palin. "...Barack Obama would crush her." (Politico)

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Palin
By: Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei
October 31, 2010 08:31 PM EDT

Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.

Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns.

There is rising expectation among GOP elites that Palin will probably run for president in 2012 and could win the Republican nomination, a prospect many of them regard as a disaster in waiting.

Many of these establishment figures argue in not-for-attribution comments that Palin’s nomination would ensure President Barack Obama’s reelection, as the deficiencies that marked her 2008 debut as a vice presidential nominee — an intensely polarizing political style and often halting and superficial answers when pressed on policy — have shown little sign of abating in the past two years.

"There is a determined, focused establishment effort … to find a candidate we can coalesce around who can beat Sarah Palin," said one prominent and longtime Washington Republican. "We believe she could get the nomination, but Barack Obama would crush her."

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44449.html <--- The Palinistas comments at Politico are hilarious. This will be fun to watch.

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Just for the laughs alone.:rofl:

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So which side of the GOP civil war will Faux pick? Heh heh

Palin is not a corporate candidate.

Then... I'm not so sure Mama Grizzles and her sheepish nutjobs will bow out gracefully. A third party run is definitely not out of the question with this wacky bunch.

vs. Obama.

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:evilgrin: Remember, Todd Palin was a radical inde who wanted to secede from the union.

yes.

When she appears on their shows the ratings skyrocket.

she is a really nice gremlin for them now, but when the chips are on the table they will go with someone they know is in the fold ...

With a VP of their coice. Then they can martyr her as soon as she does her first really stupid (anti-Republicorp) thing

A friend who has ties to RNC batcave meetings has said essentially after Palin quit her Alaska gig that they will destroy her with a treasure trove of unreleased scandals that would sink her in a week unless she just plays cheerleader.

I want her to run!

Lots of "unfortunate accidents" around those two guys.

else instead, most of her support would wither.

and let her run and/or take lots of attention away from whomever they do run, as in, romney, bushIII, ???

One visit by KKKarl Rove and she will be crying in the corner. Republicans kill.

She is indeed a completely ignorant air head who can hardly manage to avoid serious scandals which follow her like flies follow a pile of shit (sorry, that's an insult to shit).

The republican elite are stupid enough to have built their base on the truly ignorant. If the truly ignorant bit them back by nominating Palin it will be a fitting lesson indeed.

go third party...all the way into oblivion.

Yes, she'd likely get crushed by Obama. But there's always a chance that a person nominated by a major party can win. And this woman is a crazy, unhinged, idiot who would be a catastrophic president. Seriously: she makes Dubya look like an intelligent, sober, level-headed statesman. And I genuinely fear, not just for our country but for the world, if she's elected.

So yes, I would be willing to hand Obama a stronger GE opponent just so we don't risk a Palin presidency.

especially if he remains somewhat popular in NJ.

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the Pukes' nomination process.

I wish her the best in that endeavor.

But the GOP power-brokers are going to do everything they can to derail her. In the best scenario, they'll only be half successful.

He's the only candidate who can consolidate the Republican base and unite all the desparate groups. If he decides to run, and he says he won't as if that really matters, he will crush Sarah Palin like an ant.

On the one hand, I think she would get crushed like an annoying and poisonous insect.

On the other hand, I don't think I could take months and months of seeing her yapping, vapid face and her getting even more attention.