Regarding Sarah: Quotes, Part 8

Rep. Steve King:

“And now we're looking at a socialized medicine program that takes away 17% of our economy, that takes away your ability to manage your own health and puts it in the hands of the government and a panel of 15 iPad bureaucrats that Sarah Palin correctly identified. That has got to go.”

Lee Stranahan:

“True Story: When I was on the left and worked for MoveOn, they asked me to find a clip of Palin saying she could see Russia from her house.”

Brien F. Lundin:

“In New Orleans, Gov. Palin will participate in our Summit on America's Future panel with Charles Krauthammer and Rick Santelli, and give a rousing closing address. In the process, she will reveal the dire stakes in this year's national election, and what you can do to prepare regardless of the outcome.”

Rob Long:

“This is Obama's Jimmy Carter moment. And Palin is pressing the case.”

Ed Driscoll:

“It’s one thing for John McCain to get blown out by Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican Convention in 2008 — he was old and tired, and she was new and fresh and energetic, and the audience — and even the MSM for that one night before they went into full-blown destruction mode — loved her. But the mediocre Biden was deliberately hired in 2008 to make Obama look more impressive in comparison.”

The Virginian:

“I wish that President Palin had been running the country for the last 4 years. We would now be on the way to genuine energy independence and not have lost billions in ‘green’ payoffs to bundlers.”

Jim Geraghty:

“Remember, the McCain-Palin ticket had a lead in the RealClearPolitics average from September 7 to September 15. Everything Obama had done before — the victory over Hillary, the speech on race relations after the Jeremiah Wright controversy arose, the big crowd in Berlin, the stadium speech in Denver — all wiped away instantly by the Palin excitement. Voters weren’t in love with the then-mandate-free notion of Obamacare, or his foreign-policy vision, or the Biden pick, or anything else. Then Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, Obama took the lead, and didn’t look back.”

Mychal Massie:

“For those who may have forgotten, Rove constantly ridiculed Sarah Palin when she was the vice presidential candidate, even as he now lauds Paul Ryan for having the same skill set Palin displayed as governor.”

T.D.:

“According to NBC-Wall Street Journal polling among registered voters, no other vice presidential candidate from 2000 to the present has gained more votes for the ticket than Sarah Palin who had a positive vote getting effect on an astounding 34% of registered voters... Ryan has shown himself to be a strong campaigner with a clear, concise message. So far he and his family have not been targeted with the media personal vendetta aimed at Palin and her family in 2008.”

Daily Mail (UK):

“Mrs Palin scored in the 95th percentile.”

John Jannarone:

“Viewership for the Republican National Convention plunged sharply on its second night compared with the same evening of 2008, when Sarah Palin made her debut as the vice presidential nominee. An average of 21.9 million viewers tuned into the nine broadcast and cable networks that were broadcasting convention proceedings Wednesday night between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., according to Nielsen. That was 41% less than the 37.2 million who tuned in the same night four years ago, the research firm said.”

Ed Morrissey:

“Palin obviously isn’t passionate about Mitt Romney as a GOP nominee, which surprises no one. But she does see the practical issue of the election in clear precision.”

Mike Flynn:

“Brunner had the backing of many GOP insiders because of his ability to partially self-fund his race. Steelman had the backing of Sarah Palin. They both lost to Akin in large part because Sen. McCaskill ran a lot of ads ‘attacking’ him for being too conservative. (Think of it as a Republican dog-whistle.) Among the two, Steelman probably has the edge as the GOP may want to put the Akin debacle to rest by nominating a woman. It is also expected that Palin would campaign aggressively for Steelman, which would be helpful as 2012 is turning out to be a base election.”

Ted Cruz:

“If you look at the Senate races across the country this cycle and last cycle, Governor Palin has had a game-changing impact, one after the other.”

Edward Olshaker:

“As Bill Maher continues to attack Palin with the vilest language that can be used against a woman, an Obama super-PAC gladly keeps his million-dollar donation, while the president approves, knowing the mainstream media would never report a story that might damage his significant lead with female voters. Vulgar insults of Palin and her daughters never stop, and Obama never stops signaling his approval.”

Christian Toto:

“What about the other, darker side of Letterman's public and private persona? He publicly called Sarah Palin a ‘slutty flight attendant,’ made a crude sexual joke about her teen-age daughter and riffed about Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's derriere.”

Mytheos Holt:

“Sarah Palin has been out of the news for a while. Moreover, she has mainly confined her focus to the GOP (endorsing candidates, etc.). Yet apparently for Democrats, Palin is still an oppressive, frightening presence whom they loathe so much they won’t even mention her name. Witness this story from Red Alert Politics, in which DNC Executive Director Patrick Gaspard compared Palin to the villain of the Harry Potter series – namely, the murderous, psychopathic, child-murdering, Hitler-esque racist terrorist leader, Lord Voldemort...”

Dr. Boyce Watkins:

“What struck me most watching Paul Ryan brilliantly deliver his speech was an unmistakable sense of wholesomeness which emanated from the man. It is the same quality possessed by Sarah Palin which is as repulsive to the modern Democratic Party and mainstream media as showing Dracula the cross.”

Dan Popkey:

“Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008, will appear with former presidential hopefuls Rudy Giuliani and Steve Forbes for the all-day "PowerUp Live Boise" event in Nampa just 20 days before the presidential election.”

Kevin Fobbs:

“The recent RNC Convention in Tampa, Florida was missing one of its most essential conservative ingredients to showcase the essence of the conservative 2010 Republican comeback story. That comeback was largely due to the grassroots organizing tenacity of Sarah Palin... Palin not only helped develop the new political conservative narrative for America, her heart and her soul is the heart and soul of every American patriot who does not need to watch a political convention to be told and shown what is relevant to them.”

- JP