Palin Says U.S. Has Two-Party System; Asks Tea Partiers to Do the "Smart Thing" and Pick the GOP

[heli]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/17/politics/main6215033.shtml

Palin: Tea Partiers "Have to Pick a Party"
In Arkansas, Former Alaska Governor Heaps Praise on Movement, But Says U.S. Has A Two-Party System
By Scott Conroy

(CBS) In front of a crowd of Republican Party activists and the tea-party movement’s rank and file here on Tuesday night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin seemed to put a damper on speculation that she might consider running for president in 2012 as a third-party candidate.

Asked what her advice would be to conservatives as the November elections approach, Palin first lavished praise on the Tea Party movement, calling it "a grand movement" and adding, "I love it because it’s all about the people."

But she quickly pivoted to the broader question of whether the Tea Party movement might successfully field its own candidates in national elections, and on that point she sounded far from convinced.

"Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party," Palin said. "Which party reflects how that smaller, smarter government steps to be taken? Which party will best fit you? And then because the Tea Party movement is not a party, and we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’."

Palin said that the Republican platform best meshed with the Tea Party’s creed...

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Fast Forward: Palin Calls Tea Partiers Retards, Says It's Satire.

[c brand]

1. Now they know she was a Trojan horse

[tridim]

2. That would be Trojan moose.

Actually she's more of a sellout. Since she's now a faux newz employee, she's 100% pwned by the GOP machine.

[Contrary1]

3. Aka: Trying to put the genie back into the bottle.

She's the gift that keeps on giving.

[c brand]

4. They're the ones who gave - $100,000

[Ian David]

5. I predict she will STILL run as a third-party candidate. n/t

[KittyWampus]

8. not much money in such a quixotic venture. She's not intelligent but she's able to figure out

the most promising revenue streams.

[tanyev]

6. As if any teabaggers would have ever picked D.

:eyes:

[c brand]

7. Michael Steele treated tea party leaders like an ugly date Tuesday afternoon::

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021605516.html>
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele treated tea party leaders like an ugly date Tuesday afternoon: They were good enough to take upstairs, but not good enough to be seen with in public.
Steele invited leaders of the conservative movement over to the GOP's Capitol Hill headquarters (to the adjacent National Republican Club, technically) for a private meeting on the third floor. But Republican leaders, probably wary of TV footage showing a tea party takeover of RNC headquarters, denied the activists' request to use the facility for the news conference they had planned for afterward.
"They wouldn't allow it," said Karin Hoffman, the grass-roots activist who organized the meeting.
The tea partiers were out in the cold -- 21 degrees with the wind chill, to be exact. They held their news conference, sans Steele, on the sidewalk across from the Capitol South Metro entrance.

[Jester Messiah]

9. Wait, which is it?

Do the smart thing, or pick the GOP? You can't do both! :-D

[eppur_se_muova]

11. LOL! DUzy worthy! nt

[bullwinkle428]

10. She was just reading Mr. Cheney's memo off of her palm!