It\u2019s always great to see conventional wisdom types baffled when someone shuns their advice and proves successful anyway.\u00a0 This week\u2019s example is Sarah Palin, the political icon who continues to irk the government-media establishment by endorsing people she thinks should govern \u2013 not those whom others think should win.<\/p>\n
No other likely 2012 GOP presidential candidate has been as outspoken in endorsing 2010 candidates<\/a>.\u00a0 True, Palin doesn\u2019t always taste victory (see Washington state\u2019s Clint Didier), but she wins way more than she loses.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0According to Time, she\u2019s 8-3 this cycle<\/a>.\u00a0 Even more impressive that record was made in 11 tightly contested races where many of Palin\u2019s endorsements went to underfunded long-shots.<\/p>\n Time will tell if Sarah Palin can muster enough support to win the GOP presidential nomination, and after it, the presidency.\u00a0 But for now, she is the unquestioned difference maker in tight GOP races.\u00a0 Come 2012, there will quite a few people owing her their support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s always great to see conventional wisdom types baffled when someone shuns their advice and proves successful anyway.\u00a0 This week\u2019s example is Sarah Palin, the political icon who continues to irk the government-media establishment by endorsing people she thinks should govern \u2013 not those whom others think should win. No other likely 2012 GOP presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,914,1768,1017,1769,365],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-endorsement","tag-msm","tag-palin-effect","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}