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November 2, 2009 10:43 AM

Palin Jumps into N.J., Virginia Races

Posted by Stephanie Condon
(AP Photo/Jeff Topping)
Sarah Palin helped bring national attention to the special election in New York's 23rd congressional district earlier this month, and now the former Alaska governor is jumping into the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia.

Palin has recorded a robocall message to encourage Virginians to vote on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports.

"Virginia, hello, this is Sarah Palin calling to urge you to go to the polls Tuesday and vote for Sarah's principles," Palin says on the call, according to CNN. "The eyes of America will be on Virginia and make no mistake about it, every vote counts. So don't take anything for granted, vote your values on Tuesday, and urge your friends and family to vote, too."

The recording was funded by the Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition, which is part of a national conservative group founded by former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed.

The campaign team for Virginia's Republican candidate Bob McDonnell told the Post it did not request Palin make the calls, nor did it have any firsthand knowledge about them. While McDonnell sought out Palin's endorsement over the summer, he stopped seeking out her help by August, in order to appeal to Virginia's swing voters.

By the Numbers: The Race for Governor in New Jersey
The Virginia Governor's Race: A Look at the Electorate

Meanwhile, Palin took to her Facebook profile to target New Jersey's third-party gubernatorial candidate, Chris Daggett.

"Despite what candidate Chris Daggett is claiming, I have never contacted him or his campaign. I have never asked him to drop out of the NJ Governor’s race," Palin wrote. "Now, if a politician is going to play loose with facts like this, the electorate needs to know it... I've never even suggested he should drop out of the race. But, come to think of it…"

It is generally believed Daggett has siphoned votes away from Republican candidate Chris Christie.
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by dan1967win November 3, 2009 3:32 AM EST
When Bush was our President 3.6 million manufacturing jobs were lost. How can the people in Virginia or New Jersey vote for another Republican? Here is a Link that gives details about the failed economic policies of Bush and the Republicans: http://budget.house.gov/doc-library/fy2009/7.31.08_Bush%20economic_%20and%20fiscal_%20record.pdf
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by TrakerJon November 3, 2009 12:08 AM EST
Typically in Virginia we don't take advice from quiters and losers. Ms. Palin is advised to take her soap opera bcak to Alaska and her front porch where she can admire the view of Russia.
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by voxpopulus November 2, 2009 7:11 PM EST
"and vote for Sarah's principles," Oh, who is standing for the single-mom daughter constituency?
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by excoachken November 2, 2009 6:37 PM EST
When most people "jump in" they pinch their noses. But, when Palin "jumps in" we all have to "pinch our noses." She is the Queen of lies and her hypocrisy has a distinctive degrading odor.
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by omded November 2, 2009 6:37 PM EST
I have to admit, Palin DID do some very important things for Alaska. She recognized her incompetence, and how badly she was embarrasing her state, and she resigned. For this, I guess Palin truly is a hero, and should be recognized as such. In fact, I think the Alaska Legislature should declare the day she resigned a state holiday. Call it "Sarah Palin Day", in honor of the way she had the guts to recognize and admit what a complete failure she was, and did the only honorable and good thing she could have done to make things right: step aside and let someone with the necessary skills take over and fix the mess she made. THANK YOU Sarah Palin! I will always honor you for that!!!
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by dan1967win November 2, 2009 6:16 PM EST
When Bush was our President 3.6 million manufacturing jobs were lost. How can the people in Virginia or New Jersey vote for another Republican? Here is a Link that gives details about the failed economic policies of Bush and the Republicans: http://budget.house.gov/doc-library/fy2009/7.31.08_Bush%20economic_%20and%20fiscal_%20record.pdf
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by mahdeealoo November 2, 2009 5:59 PM EST
Sarah's principles: Killing innocent animals for sport and leaving them to suffer and die mercilessly.
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by briannorwood November 2, 2009 5:53 PM EST
For all you new-found fiscal conservative GOP-stoppers. Here's a list of the top 10 states who receive more federal dollars than they give:
1. New Mexico $2.03
2. Mississippi $2.02
3. Alaska $1.84
4. Louisiana $1.78
5. West Virginia $1.76
6. North Dakota $1.68
7. Alabama $1.66
8. South Dakota $1.53
9. Kentucky $1.51
10. Virginia $1.51

Here are the top 10 states who give more than they receive:

1. New Jersey $0.61
2. Nevada $0.65
3. Connecticut $0.69
4. New Hampshire $0.71
5. Minnesota $0.72
6. Illinois $0.75
7. Delaware $0.77
8. California $0.78
9. New York $0.79
10. Colorado $0.81

Other than the fact that biggest "takers" are red states, and all the "givers" are blue states. I recommend that the Republicans put their money (or lack of) where their big fat mouths are.

Every GOP Governor in the "receiver" states should accept no more than the average "giver" state accepts. This will do two things:

1. Guarantee Democratic victories in each of those states.
2. Reduce the deficit by 50%.

It's a win-win situation!
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by themooniac November 2, 2009 5:20 PM EST
leaning a little to the left I just love the right wing crazy people's Troika: Palin, Rush and Beck. They are quite entertaining and, ....Hey, I can see Russia from here!
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by myopinionpal November 2, 2009 5:11 PM EST
Palin jumping into the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia.Funny she jumped out of her gubernatorial job in Alaska. This women is hooked on attention getting she could care less about the people of NJ or Virginia.
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by nh4ronpaul November 2, 2009 5:25 PM EST
Palin is wise and wonderful and did great things for Alaska. I am glad she is helping out elsewhere. She is a hero! Someone we can look up to, someone with class and courage and brains and CHARACTER, unlike the president we currently must suffer with.
by filmguy107 November 2, 2009 5:40 PM EST
Dude...oxycontin should not be taken lightly! Stop sniffing the stuff!!
by merlgrey November 2, 2009 5:44 PM EST
nh4ronpaul - guessing you really dont get ron paul's message of liberty or what authentic libertarianism is... cause it most def aint palin. she's all about republican gomorrah.
by omded November 2, 2009 6:29 PM EST
NH4RonPaul, I think you mispelled a word in your post. You referred to Palin as "a hero", when I'm sure you meant to say that she's "a Nero". Next time, be extra careful to check your spelling before you hit the "submit" button!
by Treadlightly2 November 2, 2009 5:03 PM EST
Don't let Palins psychotic soccer mom persona fool you. Her face is on all the news because "THEY" have done their homework and "THEY" know who to appeal to. I don't understand her appeal but apparently there ARE people out there willing to brave cold weather to vote for whoever this "Backwoods Bimbo" recommends. GO FIGURE.

Not that there is anything wrong with being from a rural area or having less than a sparkling wit. I just like a little more sanity in the people who are SUPPOSEDLY responsible for leading the country.
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by BeckieBest November 2, 2009 4:22 PM EST
I think that Sarah and Rush are doing a fine job leading the Republican party..........................over a cliff.


lol!
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by thesevenveils November 2, 2009 5:02 PM EST
Sarah is no longer representing the Republican Party. This is evident by her support for a non-Republican candidate in NY.

What Sarah represents is the Fundamentalist Christian's beliefs and goals to implement their beliefs into law directly or indirectly.
Her tag line "Vote your principles" states it all.
by November 2, 2009 4:05 PM EST
stillwaters6 - So you are a genius intelligent scientist, I take it you believe in global warming too! Did you invent the Internet also! The funny thing about you liberals is you think you are so smart you know everything and no one has a right to present an opposing view. You probably love to blame religion for all of the problems we have. The real problem is arrogant and intolerant people like you. Bet you are OK with homosexuals and abortion but God rubs you the wrong way. Just keep your empty mushy skull stuck where the light does not shine!
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by BeckieBest November 2, 2009 4:23 PM EST
You sound like you really don't like people who are smarter than you.

That's unfortunate becauese most people are smarter than you.
by nick_the_cat November 2, 2009 4:41 PM EST
So, you're upset with intolerant people
by November 2, 2009 3:58 PM EST
If Sarah Palin is weird then Obama is an allien from outer space.
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by briannorwood November 2, 2009 3:57 PM EST
Sarah's principals? ***!
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by nh4ronpaul November 2, 2009 5:27 PM EST
Yeah better hers than some ignorant newbie who thinks we have 57 states!
by filmguy107 November 2, 2009 5:42 PM EST
I assume you are talking about yourself.. (your IQ please)
by November 2, 2009 3:56 PM EST
Some of Obama's many Promises during the campaign:

LOBBYIST RULES
Pledge: "When you walk into my administration, you will not be able to work on regulations or contracts directly related to your former employer for two years." -- Obama, during a June 22, 2007, speech in Manchester, N.H.

Verdict: Promise Broken. This pledge was broken from the very beginning of Obama's presidency, with the nomination of William Lynn as deputy defense secretary. Lynn was registered until last July as a defense lobbyist for Raytheon Co., where he advocated for a range of military programs. Even though Obama did issue the ethics rules he promised on the campaign trail, he ended up issuing a waiver on Lynn's behalf after senators threatened to hold up the nomination. Lynn was confirmed, and the administration continued to grant waivers for subsequent former lobbyists.

SPENDING
Pledge: "When George Bush came into office, our debt -- national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it. ... But actually I'm cutting more than I'm spending so that it will be a net spending cut." -- Obama, during an Oct. 7, 2008, debate in Nashville

Verdict: Promise Broken. The federal budget deficit for fiscal 2009 tripled to a record $1.4 trillion, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate out in early October. That's nearly $1 trillion more than the $459 billion deficit recorded in President Bush's last full year. The recession-driven declines in revenue accounted for a large part of Obama's red ink, but so did increases in spending -- on everything from the economic stimulus to Wall Street bailouts (sealed before Obama took office). Though Obama still says he wants to bring the deficit down significantly before the end of his first term, projections show the fiscal 2010 deficit will also exceed $1 trillion. Even if Obama does make major changes to fiscal policy and cut the deficit in half, that's still hundreds of billions of dollars every year to the national debt.

TRANSPARENCY
Pledge: "That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are." -- Obama, during a Jan. 31, 2008, debate in Los Angeles

Verdict: Promise Broken. While Obama and his congressional allies have given countless briefings and speeches on health care reform, much of the negotiations have taken place behind closed doors. These private meetings have grown more common since the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of the bill in mid-October, becoming the last of five congressional panels to clear the bill. Lawmakers are now trying to hammer out versions that can pass the full House and Senate.

HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATE
Pledge: "If you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I'm going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You'll still have choice of doctor. There's no mandate involved." -- Obama, during an Oct. 7, 2008, debate in Nashville
Verdict: Promise Broken. All of the health care reform plans before Congress endorse some kind of requirement for people to get health insurance. And during his Sept. 9 address to a joint session of Congress, Obama endorsed the idea as well. "Improving our health care system only works if everybody does their part," the president said. Obama expressed a wholly different point of view during the Democratic primaries, when one of the few policy differences between him and Hillary Clinton was that she supported an individual mandate while he did not. He persistently defended the decision, arguing that the reason people don't have health insurance is because they can't afford it -- not because they don't want it.
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by whatithink-2009 November 2, 2009 4:24 PM EST
Love how you RepubliCONS and that is what you are a bunch of CONS want to blame Obama for all the deficit spending considering he took over TWO WARS that have lasted longer than our involvement in WWII and bailouts that started with a Republican administration. Where were your protests these last 8 years? You should have been protesting before we got into Iraq, if you cared so much about the deficits. SILENCE is what we got from you.

You are more responsible for this deficit than Obama as you voted for Bush TWICE. If Bush had been a man of personal responsibility, he would have ended the wars that he started on HIS WATCH. He had 8 years to do it and NOTHING. Yet, you want to blame Obama after a little more than 8 months.

Obama can't do anything right with you, so you would whine regardless.
by pickaguitar1 November 2, 2009 3:29 PM EST
Sarah's principles? Huh? Weird.

She is scary.
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by nh4ronpaul November 2, 2009 5:28 PM EST
Yep scary to you progressive losers. AT least she knows there are NOT 57 states! Bwahahaha.
by filmguy107 November 2, 2009 5:43 PM EST
What DOES she know? What she learned at her 6 colleges??
by Raichugeorge November 2, 2009 2:42 PM EST
I am a beliver in the Bible. Bible truly says that we are living in the time of powers of darkness. That is why people dont like Sarah Palin. In my opinion she is wonderful human being . I wish people like Sarah Palin will be America's president. I am pretty sure Lord will return to this beatiful country.
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by whatithink-2009 November 2, 2009 2:44 PM EST
There is a reason to separate church and state and this is exactly the reason. SAY NO TO THE AMERICAN TALIBAN. Please do not lead us to a Christian Iran. I am fine with religion and faith. I am not fine with HUMANS AND THINKING THEIR BAD DECISIONS ARE COMING FROM GOD.
by stillwaters6 November 2, 2009 2:53 PM EST
That's your Bible...the absence of intelligent thought...

for the rest of us who read, study, and attempt to scientifically think before shouting fire in a crowded theater we prefer a president with the ability to THINK and REASON on the WORLD stage.
by Lawyers-Guns-n-Money-01 November 2, 2009 3:08 PM EST
Hey jsilver, this one's definitely not a Goldwater fan. If the Republicans dropped this whole infatuation with the religious right, they'd be a whole lot more appealing to independent voters.

That and acknowledge our foreign policy over the last few years was a complete disaster.
by jsilver2th November 2, 2009 2:39 PM EST
"A lot of so-called conservatives today don't know what the word means. They think I've turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to a pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the religious right." Barry Goldwater
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by mrleme November 2, 2009 3:03 PM EST
NOoooo abortion is a moral issue and has been for centuries. Only now in America it has become a political issue. Where are the "Democratic or Liberals" who do not uphold a free for all for abortion? Only conservatives in both parties have taken this stance. So the REAL question is, do you believe the Bible or man? More simplified, do you believe God, i.e. the Biblical God, THE God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God? It's a spiritual thing and if you don't get it, it's okay, you will, someday.
by slownewsday-05 November 2, 2009 3:35 PM EST
"More simplified, do you believe God, i.e. the Biblical God, THE God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God?"


Who says you have the right god, mrleme?


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by jsilver2th November 2, 2009 2:34 PM EST
"You don't have to be straight to fight for your country. You just have to shoot straight."

Barry Goldwater
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