What Is Sarah Palin Up To?

October 23, 2009 / 1:18 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

In my editorial at Pajamas Media today, I talk about Sarah Palin’s decision to endorse the conservative, rather than the Republican candidate and what it all means:

With her decision to endorse Doug Hoffman, the conservative (not Republican) candidate, Sarah

Palin sends the Republican Party a very clear message. She will be using her considerable fundraising ability to fund candidates who ideologically match what it used to mean to be a Republican. Since the Republican Party, from its toes to its nose, has difficulty identifying candidates with those credentials, she’ll help them do it.

The Republican Party has a choice. They can continue to antagonize those who vote them into office or they can start paying attention. They mistakenly buy the D.C. bubble philosophy that moderation is the way to find good candidates. What they’re seeing is a base willing to lose if the Republican Party doesn’t change its ways.

I also talk about identity politics and how it is blowing up for the Republican party. The love the party has for Sarah Palin has less to do with her beauty or gender than her beliefs and ideology. So the Republican party, while looking for women candidates needs to remember what’s most important: the beliefs. The base is sick of people who pay lip service to ideas like small government and fiscal responsibility and then turn around and govern like drunk liberals spending other peoples’ money.

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  • Rignerd

    I think she is send a message loud and clear. The only thing that counts is ideology. Trumps party and identity politics. The RNC wonders why they aren’t getting the donations, they are not backing conservative candidates. The candidates they have foisted off on us in the past have turned on us at the time when we need to count on them the most, Jeffords and Spectre being the best examples. We want conservatives and we will support them. Palin drew voters to McCain because she is conservative, McCain did not excite the base because he was too willing to go along to get along.

  • http://thecruxofthebiscuit.wordpress.com/ Chuck Wheeler

    Thank you. You (always) put into words what I have been thinking…

  • Morrisminor

    Wow, another moron for Palin, she lied about death panels, but I guess when you are a fake doctor and all around reactionary dimwit, it’s all about pandering to the paranoid morons of the con base. She’s such a lady, a self described pitbull with lipstick, or a stupid vicious dog who mauls little children and innocent pets.

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  • DaveR

    Wow, another moron trying to sound smart on a Conservative Website. I’d really edit or delete your post Morris before too many other people see it.

  • democratsarefascists

    “Morrisminor” refers to the size of his…..intellect.

    Now back to what the adults were talking about.

    Isn’t it interesting that when a conservative runs as a conservative, he wins? Hoffman’s winning, at least so far.

    Gee, I could’ve sworn several conservatives who matter have said this all along. Run as a conservative and win. Run as a moderate (meaning liberal) and lose.

    Hmmm….

  • fuster

    Hoffman is neither winning nor going to win, fascist.
    He might end up as a close third or a distant second.

  • DaveR

    And what liberal poll are you reading from fuster? Back it up.

  • fuster

    Check the Siena poll, Davie, and talk some more after the election.

  • DaveR

    Ok, fussy – how about let’s talk now. Or now that Dede the Lib has suspended her campaign – you probably won’t post anymore on this.

    So who did your poll say was ahead? (Betcha behind the scene they knew who REALLY was ahead – and didn’t report it. But it’s not surprising you didn’t know that.)

  • http://www.melatoninfaq.com Bong Marcus

    Sarah Palin is a woman with a very strong character and personality that is why i like her. ~