May 22, 2012, 12:10 am

Posts Tagged ‘Palin’

Is Marco Rubio the Sarah Palin of 2012?

AP: 25 days 22 hour ago

Mitt Romney’s potential VP pick boasts the same charisma and crossover appeal as Mama Grizzly, but also suffers from the same lack of experience
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How Sarah Palin Did As Co-Host of ‘Today’

AP: 48 days 9 hour ago
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Matt Lauer and Sarah Palin on “Today.”

Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska, co-hosted NBC’s “Today” show this morning.

During the show, Palin said that “anything is still possible” in the race for the GOP presidential nomination and that there could still be “a bit of a shakeup.” When co-host Matt Lauer asked her directly if she would be happy with Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee she replied “Anybody but Obama. I honestly believe that anybody running on that GOP ticket would be infinitely better than what we have today.”

She added that “There is no perfect candidate.”

Palin’s appearance came as the morning show wars are heating up. “Today” has long been on top in the ratings, but “Good Morning America” is looking to challenge that dominance this week by featuring Katie Couric as a guest host. Adding to the drama: Couric’s interview with Palin, in which Palin seemed to struggle to name newspapers she read, was one of the flashpoints of the last presidential campaign.

Palin appeared on “Today” in a black top and black pants; the Alaska native didn’t wear a coat for the chilly outdoor segments. She was labeled a “Fox News contributor.”

Although her appearance had been heavily hyped, she was absent from the screen for much of the first hour of the show.

In an opening interview with co-host Matt Lauer, she said that when she came to 30 Rock yesterday a person outside mistook her for another celebrity and blurted out “I told you Tina Fey is here!” Fey has famously impersonated Palin on “Saturday Night Live.”

When Lauer asked her if the economy was improving, she replied “For whom?” She added that, in her view,”We still have fewer jobs today than when Barack Obama took over.”

On “Today” this morning, Palin appeared in segments with actress-reality star Tori Spelling, and on a panel about raising confident teen daughters. She also appeared in a segment called “Today’s Professionals” in which she was on a panel commenting on pop culture news.  “Do any of you here have experience with people being paid a lot of money to pretend like they’re you?” Palin asked the other panelists.

Palin was recent portrayed by actress Julianne Moore in the HBO movie “Game Change.” She told Lauer she didn’t watch the movie, but gave Moore’s performance a thumbs down. She added  “I do have to admit that Tina Fey has been pretty funny.”

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“Game Change” Director and Writers: No left agenda, film ‘fair’ and ‘favorable’ to Palin and GOP [VIDEO]

AP: 73 days 1 hour 15 minutes ago

Despite only donating to Democrats in the past, the director and writers of the new HBO film “Game Change” say that the movie is a fair and accurate portrayal of Sarah Palin and John McCain’s campaign for the White House.
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Palin: ‘Competition will lead us to victory in 2012′

AP: 99 days 20 hour 32 minutes ago

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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks to the American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Saturday in Washington, D.C.

 

WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin argued Saturday that a long, competitive battle between the remaining GOP presidential candidates would lead to a Republican victory in November.

“In America we believe that competition strengthens us. Competition elevates our name,” Palin told the crowd as the closing speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “Competition will lead us to victory in 2012. We must stay true to our principles. I believe that the competition has gotta keep going but let’s make sure this competition brings out the best in our party.”


Palin did not make an endorsement of any particular candidate during her speech but did tell NBC News afterward, she “would endorse whomever it is who is elevated to the top by this process.”

A brokered convention, Palin said, wouldn’t necessarily be bad.

“We are going to see how this process evolves and if it if ends up as a brokered convention at the end of the day, well that would be a really exciting time for all,” she said just before departing the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.

The former Alaska governor, who flirted with a presidential bid this year herself, spent a big chunk of her speech criticizing President Barack Obama.

“Mr. President, we don’t want an economy built to last. We want an economy built to grow,” she told the overflowing crowd. “We certainly don’t want your economy built to last, we want your administration to end.”

Palin also picked back up on the populist tone of her speeches from last summer, speaking about the need to rid the government of “crony capitalism.” She said many people who come to Washington calling it a “cesspool” get all too comfortable there in the “hot tub.”

“It is time that we drain the Jacuzzi and we throw the bums out with the bathwater,” the former governor said, drawing loud applause from the audience.

Palin spoke at CPAC directly after the results of the organization’s straw poll were announced.

Mitt Romney won with 38%. Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum all spoke at CPAC Friday.

The former governor said the nominee must “be ready, strong, fortified, passionate, a fighter for American ideals,” but most importantly, people need to rally around him to beat Obama.

 “Whoever our nominee is, we must work together to get him over the finish line so we can start tackling this defense of our Republic,” she said.

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Julianne Moore Offers Her Spin on Sarah Palin in ‘Game Change’

AP: 110 days 18 hour 30 minutes ago

HBO has released a trailer for its coming movie “Game Change” that offers more of a taste of Julianne Moore’s performance as Sarah Palin. The coming TV movie, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. We know how it ended of course. The new movie purports to offer some of the dramatic details. “We have to win this thing–I so don’t want to go back to Alaska,” Moore as Palin says in one scene. Check out some of the footage from the movie. What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

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Todd Palin to robo-call for Gingrich; Gingrich calls Romney campaign ‘pathetic’

AP: 111 days 13 hour 5 minutes ago

FORT MYERS, FL–Thousands of Floridians will hear the voice of Todd Palin in their homes tomorrow as they head out to the polls on primary day. The former GOP vice presidential candidate’s husband is recording a get-out-the-vote robo-call in support of Newt Gingrich that will go out across the state, campaign spokesman RC Hammond told NBC News.

Gingrich also revealed that Todd Palin will campaign on his behalf on the trail, though he did not specific exactly how.

“I’m also delighted Todd Palin has agreed to do calls for us and campaign for us,” Gingrich told a crowd at Page Field this afternoon.

“And I thought Sarah Palin’s op-ed that she posted on Friday and the interviews she did this weekend are pretty clear.”

Arriving more than 90 minutes late to the fourth stop of his fly-around trip across the state without any mention of his delay, a worn out-sounding Gingrich also slammed the Romney campaign as “pathetic.”

Citing a New York Times article about the Romney campaign’s strategy to defeat Gingrich in Florida, the former speaker of the House responded, “What a pathetic situation to be running for the President of the United States with nothing positive to say.”

“All you got to do is try to tear your opponent down to where they get smaller than you are, that’s the Romney model,” Gingrich added, referring to negative television ads and press conference calls by Romney’s organization.

“Now that’s not my model…I want to run a big campaign against Barack Obama, not a small campaign.”

Gingrich aggressively criticized the millions of dollars Romney has raised for his campaign, that he believes funded ads attacking him.

“Your money is recycled through Goldman Sachs to Mitt Romney to tell you a bunch of falsehoods,” Gingrich said.

Herman Cain, who along with Michael Reagan introduced Gingrich today, chimed in on the same note.

“Let me say this: to any undecided voters…look past all of the gutter politics and negativity and all of the sideshows,” Cain bellowed.

“Look at where Newt Gingrich stands on solving stuff!”

Beyond the campaign jabs, it was abundantly clear that Gingrich believes he needs a surge of last-minute support to finish on top tomorrow. Although he cited two unnamed polls that he said show him closing the gap and tying Romney, Gingrich implored voters to mobilize for him: “We have a lot of work to do in the next few hours.”

“Go home and email your friends this afternoon,” he told about 300 voters in the setting Florida sun. “Get on Facebook this afternoon…Twitter on the way home.”

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Sarah Palin: ‘Rage against the machine, vote for Newt, annoy a liberal’ [VIDEO]

AP: 113 days 12 hour 49 minutes ago

On Saturday night’s “Justice with Jeanine” on the Fox News Channel, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin once again stopped just short of giving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich her outright endorsement for the Republican nomination.
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Palin urges SC voters to support Gingrich in primary

AP: 124 days 18 hour 12 minutes ago

 

Sarah Palin on Tuesday urged South Carolina voters to support Newt Gingrich in their GOP presidential primary, offering the closest thing to an endorsement the former Alaska governor may come before this weekend’s contest.

“If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I’d vote for Newt and I would want this to continue,” Palin said during a FOX News interview Tuesday night.

Her support for the former House speaker, however, was somewhat qualified. Palin said she believed it would be best for the primary campaign to continue, so as to continue to add scrutiny to candidates and forge their strength as an eventual nominee against President Obama.

“More debates, more vetting of candidates because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate that was not vetted, to the degree that he should have been,” Palin explained. “I want to see that taking place this time because America is on this precipice — it’s that important. We need this process to continue.”

“We think its a pretty darn clear call to arms,” Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond told NBC News shortly after Palin made these comments this evening.

The conservative vote in South Carolina remains split between Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Gov. Rick Perry going into the closing days before the Jan. 21 primary in the state. 

Each has been rallying voters behind their candidacy as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who would see as the heavy favorite to win the nomination if he were to score a victory in South Carolina. 

“If you consolidate the three conservative candidates, we clearly would have a huge margin over Romney, and the challenge for me is to convince conservatives to come home and have a single candidate on Saturday,” Gingrich told a crowd in Florence, S.C. today.

Palin offered words of flattery for Gingrich beyond her support this weekend, crowning him the winner of a Monday night debate. Her husband, Todd Palin, has formally endorsed Gingrich for president.

“Newt Gingrich is a true leader, which he has proven not only since the beginning of his campaign, but throughout his career,” Todd Palin said in a written statement sent out by the Gingrich campaign on Jan. 9.

It is still unknown if either Palin will actually campaign for Speaker Gingrich on the trail.

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Palin supporters to run TV ads in Iowa encouraging her to reconsider

AP: 177 days 8 hour 51 minutes ago

Some fans of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin haven’t given up yet on the prospect of her jumping in the race for the White House in 2012 and say they plan to run television ads in Iowa begging her to reconsider her decision.
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Palin fans plan to run Iowa ad

AP: 177 days 17 hour 57 minutes ago

For the folks at Conservatives4Palin, the dream has not yet died:

Your contributions have made it possible for us to run the Palin reconsider television ad next week in the Sioux City, Iowa market. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make it possible.

You’ll be able to see the ad that will be shown on televisions on KCAU-TV across the Sioux City, Iowa market … What we do next after the television ad goes up is a more difficult question. If this ad is able to build some momentum for the Governor, the best way to keep that momentum going may be to commission a national GOP primary poll that includes the Governor as one of the options.

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