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Should Sarah Palin 'butt out' of GOP primaries?
posted on August 13, 2010, at 1:15 PM from http://theweek.com
Palin's push to support "Mama Grizzlies" is dividing the Republican Party at the worst possible time, says a GOP congressman
New York – At least one prominent Republican wishes that Sarah Palin would stop using her superstar status to endorse GOP candidates. Georgia congressman Jack Kingston took Palin to task for getting involved in his state's gubernatorial primary run-off — and pushing a once-fringe candidate, Karen Handel, into a tight second-place finish. "I don't know why [Palin] feels compelled to get into primaries all over the country," Kingston said on a talk radio interview, at one point agreeing that Palin should "butt out" of GOP primaries. "What she is doing is dividing the Republican Party at a time when we don't need to be divided," he said. Does he have a point?
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Palin's endorsements are bad for the GOP: If the Republican Party allows Palin's "short checklist of slogan-ready, litmus-test issues" to shape its candidate lineup, says an editorial in The Washington Post, it will find itself in a "very snug tent" filled with "hard-core partisans" rather than candidates with "character [and] pragmatism." Palin's strategy is "so narrow that it amounts to self-marginalization."
"Sarah Palin endorsements help push GOP farther from the center"
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Do you think that she's helping the party - or is she creating problems for it? Do you think that she actually has a chance to be the presidential candidate in 2012? Leave a comment
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