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November 1, 2010 12:15 PM

GOP Leaders: Sarah Palin Must be Stopped

Posted by Brian Montopoli

Last night, Politico posted an anonymously-sourced story reporting that advisers to top potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates are united in their desire to stop Sarah Palin from winning the presidential nomination out of a fear that she would lose badly in the general election.

"There is a determined, focused establishment effort ... to find a candidate we can coalesce around who can beat Sarah Palin," someone described as a "prominent and longtime Washington Republican" told Politico. "We believe she could get the nomination, but Barack Obama would crush her."

Palin quickly responded to the story on Fox News' "On the Record" last night, criticizing the use of anonymous sources and stating, "The paper that we just printed this article on was not worth even wrapping my king salmon in."

"This is a joke to have unnamed sources tearing somebody apart limb by limb," said Palin.

She also lit into those quoted, telling Greta Van Susteren they "want to lead the nation and run the world" and yet "they're not brave enough to put their name in an article." She called them "the GOP the establishment -- the self-proclaimed elite" and added that "if they would man up and if they would, you know, make these claims against me, then I can debate them."

The story focuses on what has become obvious to many in Washington: The fact that while Palin is an undisputed superstar on the right who can drum up significant enthusiasm among her base, she represents a significant risk as a general election candidate. A CBS News poll last month found that Palin is viewed unfavorably by nearly 50 percent of Americans, and favorably by just 22 percent.

Last week, former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove told the UK's Daily Telegraph Palin may lack the "gravitas" to become president.

In his widely-read "Playbook" e-mail this morning, one of the authors of the Politico story, Mike Allen, wrote that, "We didn't even set out to write this. But it came up so often that we had to: It was the worst-kept secret in D.C.!" Allen and co-author Jim VandeHei were called "jokes" by Palin for writing the article.

There is a good reason why no Republican wants to be quoted criticizing Palin: She has shown herself to be adept at painting her opponents as just the sort of Washington insiders who have fallen so out of fashion with the GOP base. No potential 2012 contender wants to be set up as the establishment alternative to the former Alaska governor.

Some are already distancing themselves from the sentiments in the story. Rudy Giuliani said on Fox News today that Republicans should not be attacking each other and that Republican voters - not "so-called leaders" - should decide who should be the nominee. Palin, he said, should get the chance "to make her case and let the Republican Party decide." The "so-called leaders" quoted in the story, he added, "are missing the whole point" of what the current election cycle says about voters' moods. He called on the Republican National Committee to discipline Republicans who criticize each other.

Still, there are signs that the "top advisers to the candidates most frequently mentioned as running in 2012 and a diverse assortment of other top GOP officials" who were interviewed for the story have good reason to be worried.

Look at the Senate race in Delaware, where the Palin-endorsed Christine O'Donnell's upset victory over Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP primary turned a likely GOP pickup into what looks like an easy Democratic victory. While O'Donnell's appeal won over enough primary voters to get her to the general election, that has seemingly not translated to the overall electorate.

The Palin-aligned website Conservatives4Palin is using the Politico story for fundraising, as well as for the opportunity to cast what it calls the GOP establishment as an all-boys club.

"The GOP Establishment deems that nominating Governor Palin in 2012 would spell disaster," writes Whitney Pitcher. "However, for whom would a Palin nomination be a disaster? The GOP Establishment? One of the GOP boys: Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Thune, Barbour, Daniels?"

"If Governor Palin were to win the GOP nomination, the Establishment dies," adds Pitcher.

One Republican leader told Politico that party leaders hoped that a strengthened Republican National Committee could be used to hobble Palin. Yet the Republican Party has become increasingly decentralized in the 2010 election cycle, thanks in part to the rising influence of outside groups and the Tea Party movement, raising questions about how much influence the RNC will ultimately have on the nomination.

Brian Montopoli is a political reporter for CBSNews.com. You can read more of his posts here. Follow Hotsheet on Facebook and Twitter.

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Bailed Out Companies Give Donations to Republicans

By: David Dayen Monday October 25, 2010 10:05 am

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We know that all the money sloshing around on TV will culminate in a last-week push to flood the airwaves with anti-Democratic messages. Basically, a series of outside groups are coordinating their spending together, apart from the party infrastructure and outside of any meaningful campaign finance constraints. They’ve gone completely around the RNC, seen as ineffectual under Michael Steele, as well as the campaign committees, eliminating the middle man in an attempt to purchase the midterm elections directly. This has allowed poor candidates with no fundraising capacity the chance to win without firing a shot:

A vivid picture of how outside groups are helping Republicans across the country can be found here in central Florida. The incumbent Democrat, Representative Suzanne M. Kosmas, had a nearly four-to-one fund-raising advantage over her Republican challenger, State Representative Sandy Adams, at the end of September.

Ms. Adams, low on cash, has not run a single campaign commercial. But a host of outside groups have swept in to swamp Ms. Kosmas with attack ads, helping establish Ms. Adams as the favorite without her having to spend on television.

I’ve said before and will say again that I question exactly how effective all the ad money will end up being. I can count the states where advertising has actually turned around races so far this cycle on one hand – mainly, Joe Sestak’s advertising in Pennsylvania, which is home to the second-highest concentration of older Americans than any other state. I don’t get the sense that others have the same television viewing habits or that they get the bulk of their candidate information from such sources. I think the national mood contributes a lot more to what will happen on Election Day, something that gestated much longer than at the last minute in an orgy of campaign spending. The outside groups may take credit for a Republican takeover, when reality is actually quite different.

What we can all agree on is the obscenity of watching bailed-out companies, coddled and protected by a Democratic Administration after delivered the laissez-faire regulation to speculate wildly by a Republican one, spend big on campaigns. And not surprisingly, most of that money is flowing to the party of big business.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was a fierce critic of the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler last year, saying he could not “ask the American taxpayer to subsidize failure.”

But GM doesn’t seem to hold a grudge.

The political action committee formed by the company, which is now largely owned by taxpayers, cut McConnell a ,000 campaign check in September, a small piece of the 0,000 it donated to campaigns in the past month [...]

It is not alone: Companies that received federal bailout money, including some that still owe money to the government, are giving to political candidates with vigor. Among companies with PACs, the 23 that received billion or more in federal money through the Troubled Assets Relief Program gave a total of .4 million to candidates in September, up from 6,000 the month before.

Most of those donations are going to Republican candidates, although the TARP program was approved primarily with Democratic support. President Obama expanded it to cover GM and other automakers.

This would have been expressly forbidden by the DISCLOSE Act, by the way, a provision that was wildly popular. In case you needed another reason to determine why Republicans blocked that law.



Tags: Democrats, Republicans, fundraising, Election 2010, political advertising, bailouts, GM