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babylonsister

(171,059 posts)
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 03:20 PM Jun 2013

Palin open to idea of leaving the republican party




http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/06/30/quote_of_the_day.html


June 30, 2013

Quote of the Day

"GOP, if you abandon us, we have nowhere else to go except to become more independent and not enlisted in a one or the other private majority parties that rule in our nation, either a Democrat or a Republican."

-- Sarah Palin, quoted by the Daily Caller, suggesting she is open to the idea of leaving the Republicans party if it "continues to abandon its conservative principles."
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Palin open to idea of leaving the republican party (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2013 OP
Just go away dummie !!!!! olddots Jun 2013 #1
Bye. AtomicKitten Jun 2013 #2
Republican Party: Oh please, please, please... pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #3
Arcane1 says "go for it!" arcane1 Jun 2013 #4
Cariboopsies of the World UNITE! Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #5
Ooops... KharmaTrain Jun 2013 #6
The iNews 5000 WiFi Headline Translator strikes again! longship Jun 2013 #21
She's going to travel back in time Brewinblue Jun 2013 #7
I think ALL Tea Partiers should be encouraged to leave the jazzimov Jun 2013 #8
I agree! DJ13 Jun 2013 #10
She really cannot edhopper Jun 2013 #9
More half-measures from the Wicked Witch of Wasilla. Why not just leave the planet? 11 Bravo Jun 2013 #11
Do we have a colony on Mars yet? Alaska just isn't far enough away. nt bluestate10 Jun 2013 #13
Hopefully she will and think Jun 2013 #12
Is this an acknowledgement that the Tea Party is just a stalking horse for the GOP? nt nyquil_man Jun 2013 #14
It is, and 2016 might be the watershed year Warpy Jun 2013 #29
Ok. But she would make herself irrelevant Gman Jun 2013 #15
By now, she probably thinks she can start her own party and be head of it. Frustratedlady Jun 2013 #16
Mark this date. I predict within 6 months she declares herself an independent AND Drew Richards Jun 2013 #17
Why stop with the GOP BlueStreak Jun 2013 #18
Doooooo eeeeeeeet. Brickbat Jun 2013 #19
Meaning: A Democratic majority/plurality even earlier. Fine,I can really really live with that. n/t UTUSN Jun 2013 #20
As usual, the closer she gets to being accountable for any intelligent discourse, R B Garr Jun 2013 #22
Sorry Repukes, but it's not that easy maxrandb Jun 2013 #23
she'll do anything to pretend she's still relevant....pathetic...a never was has-been spanone Jun 2013 #24
The Republican Party is keeping their fingers crossed. They won't admit it in public Cleita Jun 2013 #25
If they really mercuryblues Jun 2013 #34
I don't think they are doing the funding of these crazies. Cleita Jun 2013 #35
The fringe lunatics are the Republican Party truebluegreen Jun 2013 #39
If it works that way, then I'm all for it. n/t Cleita Jun 2013 #41
Oh, so she's thinking of QUITTING the rethuglican party? lpbk2713 Jun 2013 #26
How about leaving planet earth? MFM008 Jun 2013 #27
Im open to the idea of her leaving the country SummerSnow Jun 2013 #28
Maybe she might find the Moscow Airport inviting. Cleita Jun 2013 #36
Putin would send her back fast..then we will close the borders before she returns.lol SummerSnow Jun 2013 #42
Hummm. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #30
Grifters gotta grift. FSogol Jun 2013 #31
Wait a bit and the Democratic Party will catch up with her, in its ever rightward shift. RC Jun 2013 #32
The Pied Piper of Wasilla is blowing the dust out of her flute. tanyev Jun 2013 #33
The republican party abandoned its conservative principles some time ago Turbineguy Jun 2013 #37
Don't let the door hit ya...you know the rest... truebluegreen Jun 2013 #38
Leader of the new Bull-Pucky Party n/t n2doc Jun 2013 #40
Plain is bailin'? Well color me shocked. Blue Owl Jul 2013 #43
don't go away mad sister...just go away tjwash Jul 2013 #44
NOOOOO!!!!! Freedom Party sounds great to me!!! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! Major Hogwash Jul 2013 #45

jazzimov

(1,456 posts)
8. I think ALL Tea Partiers should be encouraged to leave the
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 03:29 PM
Jun 2013

Republican Party. The whole immigration issue PROVES that the Party isn't conservative enough.....

edhopper

(33,575 posts)
9. She really cannot
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 03:29 PM
Jun 2013

speak in plain English. That is a very tortured sentence. I guess she believes that if she drags out a sentence as far as she can, she will sound smarter. A read of Strunk & White would be in order. (If she can get through the 43 pages)

Warpy

(111,255 posts)
29. It is, and 2016 might be the watershed year
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:36 PM
Jun 2013

when they stomp off to form their own party of the air headed and hyper religious. If the party plutocracy tries to tell them to sit down and do as they're told like it did in 2012, there will be rebellion. Mitt didn't turn out to be so electable, after all.

I'm just hoping the fist fights are on camera.

Gman

(24,780 posts)
15. Ok. But she would make herself irrelevant
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 03:55 PM
Jun 2013

Which would affect her cash flow. So rest assured she's going nowhere.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
16. By now, she probably thinks she can start her own party and be head of it.
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 03:56 PM
Jun 2013

She's helped ruin the Republican party (not complaining, here!) and made a joke out of the Tea Party, so what's left?

Pelosi said it the other day on another subject..."Who cares?"

Drew Richards

(1,558 posts)
17. Mark this date. I predict within 6 months she declares herself an independent AND
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:07 PM
Jun 2013

A member of the alaskan independence movement again...

R B Garr

(16,950 posts)
22. As usual, the closer she gets to being accountable for any intelligent discourse,
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:26 PM
Jun 2013

the more she regresses into her comfortable role of just being a harpy. Now if she's an independent, she can just moan and groan her nonsense without having to articulate anything at all.

maxrandb

(15,324 posts)
23. Sorry Repukes, but it's not that easy
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:28 PM
Jun 2013

she's all yours.

Is your doddering fool of a Presidential Candidate hadn't picked her to be his Vice President, most of American would have thankfully never heard of her, but now that you let the genie out of the bottle, you can't be absolved that quickly.

She will always be a Repuke, because her values, ideals, ideas and policy proposals ALL COME FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMMER....ERR, I MEAN THE REPUKE PARTY

To lose Palin, you'll also have to lose all SHE AND YOU BELIEVE IN

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
25. The Republican Party is keeping their fingers crossed. They won't admit it in public
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:32 PM
Jun 2013

but rumor is that they want all these fringe lunatics to go away like her, Bachmann and all the other Tea Party crazies. They are destroying the Party from within. Frankly, I hope she and the Tea Party crazies keep up the good work. Don't leave the Repugnants Sarah. We need you to stay.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
34. If they really
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:52 PM
Jun 2013

wanted them to go away they would stop funding them. They would stop catering to their ever increasing conservatism.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
35. I don't think they are doing the funding of these crazies.
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:55 PM
Jun 2013

It's people like the Koch Brothers and their various foundations like the Heritage Foundation that are funding them. I heard some pub operative from the RNC make a slip of tongue to that effect on one of the more obscure TV news channels, that they weren't giving the Tea Partiers any money.

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
39. The fringe lunatics are the Republican Party
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 05:04 PM
Jun 2013

At least, they are the ones voting in the primaries. And if Caribou Barbie and the Girl with the Faraway Eyes and others of that ilk leave, they will split the party and hasten its demise in the polls.

I'm all for it.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
26. Oh, so she's thinking of QUITTING the rethuglican party?
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:33 PM
Jun 2013



BWAHAHAHA. They should have seen this one coming a long time ago.





Cleita

(75,480 posts)
36. Maybe she might find the Moscow Airport inviting.
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:57 PM
Jun 2013

She can commiserate with fellow outsider Edward Snowden.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
30. Hummm.
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:46 PM
Jun 2013

She leaves, takes many with her mind set with her.

They run their own candidates, weakening Republicans.

We could take many a general election as long as we don't pick "republican lites".

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
32. Wait a bit and the Democratic Party will catch up with her, in its ever rightward shift.
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 04:51 PM
Jun 2013

Then many here will welcome her with open arms because she has a (D) by her name.


I shouldn't need the , but this smacks of too much of the truth.

Turbineguy

(37,324 posts)
37. The republican party abandoned its conservative principles some time ago
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 05:00 PM
Jun 2013

and went with "I'm with Stupid".

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
38. Don't let the door hit ya...you know the rest...
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 05:01 PM
Jun 2013

and take all your whack friends too!

That would be stellar.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
45. NOOOOO!!!!! Freedom Party sounds great to me!!! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 01:00 AM
Jul 2013

She says that she wants to form the Freedom Party!!

Dear gawd, please let this come true!!!

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