Rush: 'Now this looks like the makings of a very lucrative lawsuit'

"These people are telling us who they are afraid of, and they'll stoop to anything..."
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h/t: Breitbart.tv

- JP

Quote of the Day (June 17, 2011)

Don't Doubt Me! A Brand-Name Conservative Will Clobber Obama
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Rush Limbaugh:

“So here's Rasmussen saying 45% of Republican primary voters don't want her to be the candidate. They love her, they think she's great -- and she can probably be a king- or queen-maker, and it's hard to see any Republican winning a nomination unless Palin is somewhat supportive, but we don't want her to be the nominee... If Sarah Palin, as a candidate, can't win, how in the world does she help anybody else by supporting them? ... I am not disputing Rasmussen. Because, as you know, I'm not a professional pollster, but I don't get the disconnect. To me it is a disconnect. On the one hand: Love her be, love her feistiness, love the way this woman takes on the media -- we love her issues -- but don't want her to be the nominee. But, boy, whatever the nominee is can't get anywhere unless she supports 'em.... Fascinating.”

- JP

Rush: If Gov. Palin Runs, She Will be the One to Beat

Margaret Thatcher would never speak about Gov. Palin that way
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Rush Limbaugh told his 20 million listeners today if Sarah Palin does decide to get in the race, she will be the candidate to beat:

I happen to know Margaret Thatcher. I happen to know her pretty well. I haven't talked to her in years, but I've known her for years.

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I have been with her in social and professional settings as well. It's obvious that her health is not today what it was, but back in the day, Margaret Thatcher would in no way allow an aide to refer to anybody, Sarah Palin notwithstanding, as nuts. She talked to anybody and everybody that came into her orb. I mean she literally had to talk to some people that were nuts. I saw it and she was as gracious as she could be. It was an education being around Lady Thatcher. It was one of the experiences of my life that I'll never forget. I can tell you that you have here an aide saying, "Ain't no way Lady Thatcher's gonna meet with that nutso Sarah Palin." I guarantee you Lady Thatcher is probably not aware that the aide is even saying this. That is not the way she speaks.

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Now, for all of the stated Republican opposition to Sarah Palin, if she gets in the race, and you heard it here first, and don't doubt me, she is going to end up being the one to beat. Now, I'm not gonna mention any names here because it's not the point, but I have spoken to a number of people in the Republican presidential field.

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I make it a point to bring up Palin because I want to see how they react, 'cause I know how I react when people bring up so-called competitors to me. (interruption) Well, Snerdley, that's my point. You know, it doesn't benefit me at all to comment on anybody else who does what I do. There's no win in it. So I don't. But these guys, you know, I've thrown Palin's name out and the reaction that I get from virtually all of them is cautious respect. None of them have trashed her to me. None of them have done anything other than demonstrate or express respect for her. I've not talked to all of them, of course, but I've not heard one of them just lambaste her like you see other Republicans doing. If she does decide to get in the race, and I have no idea about that, she will be the one to beat.

Now, there's a reason McCain picked her. He picked her ostensibly against the wishes of the party at large. He picked her because he needed somebody fresh and energetic to restart his floundering campaign, and it worked. And anybody who's willing to be honest will tell you that the crowds that were drawn during the McCain campaign stops were due to Sarah Palin. And the energy that she brought to that campaign was unmistakable, and the attachment that Republican voters had to her was also unmistakable. Now, we've gone through all the reasons Republicans don't want her in the race, the insiders versus the outsiders, the Beltway elites and all that, the consultants, GOP operatives. They don't want her in the race not because they fear she will lose.

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And again, for whatever it's worth, the Margaret Thatcher that I knew would in no way, even if she thought it, in no way would she say it or allow an aide of hers to describe Sarah Palin or anybody else in the American political system, a former governor, a former vice president, as nuts. She doesn't even talk about her opponents that way. She never did. So even across the pond people working for Margaret Thatcher or speaking for her have gotta get in their digs at Sarah Palin. And again, I don't know that Margaret Thatcher would support her or not; this is not the point here, and the fact that she won't meet with Palin, she's not meeting with anybody.

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- JP

Rush Limbaugh: Sarah Palin vs. The Establishment

It is breathtakingly mean-spirited what some Republicans have done to Palin
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Here are some excerpts from the transcript of Rush's Thursday show:

Conservatism in the Republican Party is still considered an outsider no matter who you are. If you're a conservative you're an outsider -- I mean a genuine conservative... I think the way Palin has been treated has really been a shock and an eye-opener for a lot of Republicans, because it really has been vicious. It is breathtakingly mean-spirited from the Republican side what's been done to Palin, not just the Democrats where you would expect it to come from.

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It is hilarious, folks, to read some of the press about Palin. They just are bugged to no end, accusing her of creating traffic dangers with her bus convoy! You know, she snuck out of the hotel in Gettysburg. She snuck out the back door to head up to New York, I think maybe to meet Trump or something. She beat the media out and they're livid that she gave them the slip. They just can't believe that she got away with that. They can't believe she gave 'em the slip. They can't believe that she would even try to give 'em the slip.

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She is driving them insane. In fact, this story in the Boston Herald makes mention of the fact that Romney's not too happy about this because this is his big coming out day, his big announcement. She's up there stealing his thunder in a different part of the state. He's in New Hampshire announcing. She's drawing all the crowds; says that she's not concerned about the party; she's not concerned about delegates and this, that, and the other thing. You know, I have never met Sarah Palin. I've spoken to her twice in interviews. I don't know her. People ask me for insight. I couldn't tell you. So I don't know. People ask me, "Is she doing this stuff because she has a score to settle with the Republicans, too?

"Does she think they were unkind to her during the campaign with some of the stuff they put out or let get out about the wardrobe?" and I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I don't know if she's settling scores. I don't know if what she's doing is, quote, unquote, "establishing the brand" and making money. I don't know if what she's doing is having fun tweaking the media. Well, yeah, I do know she's having fun doing that -- and I think that represents a stunning reversal. That she's able to is a stunning reversal. She has them on the run, she has them on defensive, she has them making themselves look like utter high school gossip-mongering fools. It actually is hilarious to look at the dander these people have been worked into.

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- JP

Rush Limbaugh: Where is the GOP Churchill?

"The left hates Sarah Palin because she reminds them of why they hate themselves."
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Here's an excerpt from a segment of Rush's Tuesday program:

Now, you talk about, "Where is our big conservative leader?" You see what happens to them in Sarah Palin. Now, there are any number of explanations for what has happened to Sarah Palin. Remember the story we had yesterday from Politico in which I said I don't think I have ever seen a more purposeful, willful effort to destroy, impugn, degrade, everything else, a person's character, reputation, and life, as though it was a game. It happens every day in the leftist media, but that story yesterday and the eagerness with which the left is looking toward the destruction of Palin. Now, imagine, folks, none of this stuff happens in a vacuum and I'm not offering excuses for anybody. I'm just trying to explain. People ask questions, I'm trying to explain. Suppose you are a Republican candidate, and you see that? Let me ask any of you, how would you like to have that kind of press coverage of your life? The constant investigation, the lies, paparazzi constantly following, reporters buying the house next door to where you live.

As much as anything, this takedown of Sarah Palin is a warning to anybody else who's thinking about trying it. We can get you, too. Don't think they don't think that. Now you might understand why they speak through the PC machine or try to keep a close vest as to what their real intentions are. I'm guessing here, folks, I don't have answers here with ontological certitude, but you ask yourself these questions, and I know that there is paranoia on the Republican side about being seen as friends of Big Oil. People on our side think the media is setting a trap every time they ask about Big Oil. That's why our guys will say, "Big Oil needs to be paying their fair share." It's just the path of least resistance. It's easier. Sarah Palin, "Drill, baby, drill." Look at what they've done to those three words, drill, baby, drill. They have built an entire policy around destroying that whole concept, even though it's the epitome of common sense and logic. Drill, baby, drill.

The left is a formidable bunch and there aren't a whole lot of people who want to take them on in politics. There just aren't a whole lot of people who want to take them on. It's a scary thing for a lot of people. Meanwhile, here's Obama shaking down BP. Remember that $20 billion slush fund he got from BP, and he hadn't spent it? It was ostensibly to make people whole who had lost all in the BP spill. But no, they only spent $3.8 billion of it. Interesting, isn't it? And, meanwhile, it's the GOP that's in the back pocket of Big Oil. Big Oil is donating all this money to Obama. Obama shakes a finger at 'em, BP says, "How much you want? How much you want?" and they write a check for $20 billion. There's genuine fear of these people. Ask Scooter Libby. Ask Robert Bork. Ask Clarence Thomas. Look at what happens. Again, I'm just throwing out possible answers. You're gonna call here and you're gonna ask me things. I'm gonna do my best to answer the question.

The left hates Sarah Palin because she reminds them of why they hate themselves. You have to understand who you're dealing with on the left, the self-loathing and the self-hatred on the left. We're not dealing with happy people.

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- JP

Rush: The Left's Unprecedented Conspiratorial Hatred for Sarah Palin

"I don't recall such a coordinated effort for so long to destroy anybody."
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Rush LImbaugh weighed in on his Monday show about Kenneth Vogel's hit piece on Gov. Palin published at Politico today. Rush said he doesn't know if he's ever read such a piece of reporting "where the reporter is writing about a coordinated effort to destroy somebody's character and reputation as if it's some kind of a game":

I've always said they will tell us who they fear. But, now, folks, this has gone beyond rational. I mean, actually it went beyond rational a long time ago... How would I compare this to the hatred of Reagan? I'm racking my brain, and I want to be... I'm tempted to say, "I don't recall. I don't recall such a coordinated effort for so long to destroy anybody."

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But in the case of a story like this, I don't think I've ever read a piece of reporting like this where the reporter is writing about it as fun. I mean, there is an ongoing effort to destroy this woman. Forget anything about Sarah Palin other than she's a person. The left always talks to us about compassion. She's a human being. She has kids. She's got a family. Yeah, she sought public office, but there's no sense of proportion to any of this. No sense of proportion whatsoever to any of this. I'm wracking my brain trying to think of a period of time with anybody else other than Nixon, where there has been anything like this.

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That doesn't even compare to what they're doing to Sarah Palin. Ah, what they've done to me doesn't compare to what they're trying to do here to Sarah Palin. We have a vast conspiracy here to destroy a political figure. This is not the imagined fantasy from Hillary Clinton who said that the Monica Lewinsky claims were made up by "a vast right-wing conspiracy" to discredit Bill. This is a genuine, real, existing, right-in-front-of-our-eyes conspiracy. Now, Reagan was attacked by Republicans, too, and hard. People forget that he was an outsider who threatened the establishment GOP base. The Democrats on the left attacked him, too.

But Palin seems to be in a class of her own, and it just keeps ratcheting up. It just keeps becoming even more intense. The attacks on her daughters and her Down Syndrome child is beyond anything I've ever seen...

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- JP

Rush Reads An Open Letter To Sarah Palin

"She's freedom! Standing!"
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Rush Limbaugh read this open letter to Sarah Palin and commented on it on his Tuesday show:



Rush also had more to say about the attacks on her by the Conservative Lite™ elites:


h/t: The Daily Rushbo

- JP

Rush: The problem is Obama, not Palin

This anti-Palin vitriol from "the right" defies logic
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Rush Limbaugh commented Monday on the Palin-bashing by alleged "conservative" intellectuals:


h/t: The Daily Rushbo

- JP

Quote of the Day (February 25, 2011)

No, Newt didn't credit Jeffrey Lord or Rush Limbaugh
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Newt Gingrich via Newsmax:

“Imagine that Governor Palin had become president. Imagine that she had announced that Roe versus Wade in her view was unconstitutional and therefore the United States government would no longer protect anyone’s right to have an abortion because she personally had decided it should be changed. The news media would have gone crazy. The New York Times would have demanded her impeachment.”

- JP

Quote of the Day (February 24, 2011)

Imagine President Palin Doing This
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Rush Limbaugh:

"Imagine, for the fun of it, Sarah Palin is elected president... Imagine that Sarah Palin appoints scores of czars who are not confirmed by the Senate. These czars run the government out of the White House; they bypass the cabinet structure... Imagine if President Palin directs her attorney general to sue California to enforce border security and to stop granting taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens, in violation of the supremacy clause... It explains everything, this sickening spectacle that is the left. Whether they pretend to be journalists, whether they are politicians, this is a dangerous force in this nation. We have to continue to expose them."

- JP

Rush Limbaugh Caller DemonstratesThe Meaning of 'Mind-Numbed'

Idiot caller can see Tina Fey from his back mind
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Rush exposes the ignorance and mind-numbed stupidity of the average leftist:


Transcript excerpt:

CALLER: Well, that's what I'm saying. That's why it's, "Like who?" You don't do it. You have people messing up all the time. What about Sarah Palin? What about Michele Bachmann? What about some of the crazy statements they make?

RUSH: What do you want...?

CALLER: You never say a word.

RUSH: Give me an example of some crazy things. Just give me a crazy thing Sarah Palin said.

CALLER: All you gotta do, uhh, is pull her up. Anything she says, to me, really is kind of crazy.

RUSH: No, no. No, no, no, no. You're gonna have to tell me. Give me an example.

CALLER: You know... You know, and... You know what? I've noticed this tactic, too. Whenever I talk to a right-wing person, the first thing they want to do is deflect the question you ask them by asking you a question.

RUSH: I'm not deflecting anything. I'm trying to find out exactly what it is that you think Sarah Palin said that is stupid.

CALLER: (laughing) Oh, so you don't think anything she said is dumb, huh? Okay. I see. This is what I mean. You don't have anything. Everything she said is very intelligent and -- and is correct. That what you believe, right?

RUSH: Uh, this is --

CALLER: What about...? Okay, let's go back, when she first came out. What about seeing Alaska from -- or seeing Russia from -- her backyard? Do you think that was stupid or not?

RUSH: She never said it. See, this is --

CALLER: Oh, my God.

RUSH: He's my God, too, so watch it.

CALLER: Well, you don't act like it.

RUSH: And I'm going to tell you something: She never said it.

CALLER: She never said it? Okay.

RUSH: This is the problem. Kevin... You're a walking cliche.

You are partly responsible for the problem this country's in, because you are willingly ignorant. You willingly keep yourself stupid and ignorant and uninformed, and you run around and live in your political cliched world, and you unwittingly are contributing to the problem that we've got by not getting up to speed and understanding what's really going on. The people that I assume you support are actively destroying whatever opportunity you might have to make something of yourself someday -- if that opportunity still remains for you. That's an open question. (sigh) Anyway, Kevin, thanks for the call. I appreciate it.

- JP

Rush: The left knows Palin 'would wipe the floor with Obama '

"The left is terrified of her"
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Via Palin TV:



See: We Just Witnessed The Media's Test Run To Re-Elect Barack Obama

h/t: US for Palin

- JP

Sarah Palin was right: Krugman calls for 'Death Panels'

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Lefty economist Paul Krugman would never overtly admit that Sarah palin has been right all along about Death Panels, but his Freudian slip on network television Sunday was tantamount to such an admission. NewsBuster Noel Sheppard reports:

Although he was likely taking a swipe at former governor Sarah Palin with the reference, Paul Krugman on Sunday recommended "death panels" as a means of helping to balance the federal budget.

In a Roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week," the New York Times columnist said of what recently came out of the President's deficit commission, "Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes"

KRUGMAN: No. Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.

After he realized what he had said, Krugman later tried to clarify his remarks:

By trying to clarify, Krugman seems to be digging himself deeper into a hole, for "how much we’re willing to spend for extreme care" was part of Sarah Palin's point when she first wrote about this at Facebook in August 2009.

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In the end, Krugman's attempt at being "deliberately provocative" was really him saying in front of the cameras what Palin and others warned was the danger of allowing further government intrusion into healthcare.

If only such dangers were better explained to the public before Congress voted on this bill in March.

Rush is all over this.

We love the smell of liberal hubris in the morning. It smells like... vindication!

- JP

Bush to Rush: 'I never said that' about Sarah Palin

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Rush Limbaugh interviewed former president George W. Bush today. They had the following exchange which completely refutes a bogus NY Daily News hit piece which is being pushed around the moonbatosphere by the lying left:

Rush: "I want to give you a chance to comment on something. There are stories going around that do not quote you -- that quote "associates" or "friends" -- saying that you are telling them that Sarah Palin was a bad choice by Senator McCain to be vice president..."

Bush: "Yeah."

Rush: " - And that she -"

Bush: "I had never said that, of course, nor have I read it about it. I'm not going to comment on anybody that might be running for president. But that's what happens in today's world and blogosphere, you know. People get to hide behind some code name or something. They toss out gossip and rumor and it floats around the internet. I never said that and never would have said that."

Yet another leftist lie by the lamestream media exposed... How many does that make? There have been so many false stories they've propagated about Gov. Palin that we've lost count.

The full transcript of the interview is here.

- JP

Rush Limbaugh on the Politico anti-Palin hit piece

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Rush had Politico's Allen-Van DeHei hit piece on Gov. Palin pegged before it ever hit the web or the wires. On his Friday show, the king of the talk show hosts called it:

"Now, folks, I want to tell you something here. I saw that... Where did I see this? Oh! Oh! I didn't have a chance to reply to it. I got an e-mail from Mike Allen of The Politico last night. They're working on a story; they may have already run it."

"Some Republican leader has told them that the Republican leadership is right now as we speak coalescing to find somebody to oppose Sarah Palin. They didn't identify whoever this 'Republican leader is,' so I can't tell you who it is, but they say that there's a Republican talking to them at Politico that they are trying to find somebody to beat back Palin, from the Republican establishment, because they are convinced that if Palin is the nominee, the party loses. That's, at least, what they say. It could also be they're scared to death that Palin wins it's the end of them: The Republican establishment."

"Mike Allen wanted to take my reply, and I got his e-mail in the midst of a whole bunch other stuff. I just now remembered it so I haven't had a chance to reply. But let's see. This kind of thing, I think the reason I didn't drop everything and reply is 'cause the little antenna go up. It could be a disinformation campaign before the election. Why write a story right now about Palin in 2012? What's the point of running a story like that right now if not then to sow dissension in the ranks?"

Emphasis ours.

- JP

Rush Limbaugh Show: Ernie in Harlem defends Sarah Palin

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Captured by Palin TV:



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h/t: Andrew Malcolm

- JP

Rush comments on his admiration for Gov. Palin

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Monday night on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh made a rare guest appearance on Greats Van Susteren's 'On the Record.' The interview concluded with Greta asking Rush which politician he admires most...

"Which politician do I currently admire the most? Is that the question? You're asking me a question that if I answer this, I'm going to make a lot of enemies. It's really hard to say. I really look at Sarah Palin, however, and I look at everything they've thrown at her. I look at the attempts they have made to destroy her, a decent, good patriotic woman who's not done anything to anyone."

"In fact she has lived the life that the feminists told us women should do. She's had it all. She's a family woman. She started out in the PTA, got involved in her kid's lives, took it further and wanted to go into politics at a higher level, try to fix things. She's done it all, and she has not withered under the efforts to literally destroy her. You have to admire that. You have to admire people who don't quit and don't give up, especially doing it with a smile on her face. She's defied them all along the way. Even Republicans said when she retired with the governorship, 'Well, that's the end of her career. She's never going to amount to anything.'"

"Look at her. Her daughter's on 'Dancing With the Stars,' crossed over into the so-called 'mainstream.' Entertainment Tonight's up in Wasilla. Entertainment Tonight! I mean, that's the Hollywood Left. They're up there being entertained with exclusives from Sarah Palin. It's got just be rubbing the Democrats raw. This is not what's supposed to happen. This woman's supposed to be a standing joke, and they can't make a joke out of her because she's a pretty serious woman who loves being an American, loves life. And you have to admire how she's stood up under this withering attack.."

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- JP

Quote of the Day (September 27, 2010)

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Rush Limbaugh:

"I know it sounds so simple it can't be true, but the simplest way to understand why liberals do everything is that everything is a lie, and when anything comes along and threatens to expose the lie, those people have to be destroyed. What's Sarah Palin ever done to anybody? What has Christine O'Donnell ever done to anybody? Nothing. Who have they hurt? Whose businesses have they destroyed, unlike Obama? Whose kids have they condemned to death via abortion? None. What actions have they taken that have created harm for people around them? Nothing. So what is it that warrants this almost unspeakable assault on these women? It's very simple: They're feared. They are just afraid of them, and on a whole bunch of levels. I mean, Sarah Palin is really at the top of the list here..."

- JP

Gov. Palin and Rush Limbaugh will be Greta's guests Monday

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According to Fox News Insider, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh will be Greta's guests Monday night "On the Record":

"The Tea Party impact: Is the grassroots movement signaling a changing of the guard in D.C.? Former Governor Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh have expert insight."

9 PM Texas Time, with a replay at Midnight.

- JP

Rush: They'll always tell us who they fear.

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Thursday, Rush Limbaugh talked about the establishment Republicans who are being played like violins by the Left and their media lapdogs:

What do you think the Palin business is? You know, Palin is a great example of what I'm talking about. They tried to embarrass as many Republicans as possible into not supporting Palin from the moment she was named the vice presidential running mate by McCain, and it continues to this day. They're insulting her, attacking her, making it embarrassing to support her...'

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I'm listening to people complain about Democrats, complain about Obama, complain about liberals -- that they fully understand Obama is the worst thing that could happen to America in terms of our economy, traditions and so forth -- and then Palin's name comes up and they say, "Well! (snort) We can't have her! She's not smart enough, she's not bright enough."

I look at them and say, "Compared to WHO? Compared to Joe Biden? Compared to Harry Reid? Who's she dumber than? Would you rather have Obama?"

"Well, no, but I want somebody that can win."

"You tell me who packs arenas more than Palin does right now." At the time we're having these discussions it's last summer and after the Convention and so forth and after the election. "Who's creating more excitement among Republicans, in an electoral sense, than Palin is?"

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"How do you even know what she knows or doesn't know? You're falling full prey to what media critics and the Democrats are saying about her. Why do you want to be so easily swayed? Why...?" I asked these people, and on a couple of occasions, I was really shouting. "Why do you want to echo the very people that on every other day of the week you rip: People like the media, people like Democrats, people you know you can't trust? You know they lie. Why all of a sudden do you start talking about Palin and now any of the other tea party people like Sharron Angle? Why do you want to believe 'em?"

So the dichotomy is people want outsiders and they want challengers and they want people who have not been part of the system, and then when some people show up who are outsiders and not part of the system, some of our people that want that then say, "Weeeell, I don't think they're good. They're not polished enough." What do you mean "not polished enough"? If we're gonna fix this, it's going to have to be made up of people who have enough passion and care enough to run the gauntlet of having their personal lives exposed, running the risk of having the political establishment -- both Republican and Democrat in the media -- destroy them and their lives, their families and so forth, with never-ending criticism publicly.

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If you enter the political arena, and you're not a liberal Democrat, you know that the moment you show any potential of rallying people or winning an election, they're gonna come out and destroy you. Palin is a classic example of that. They'll always tell us who they fear.

That's another thing I said to this guy: "If they really thought Palin was the blithering idiot that they say she is, they wouldn't be worried about her."

- JP