{"id":733,"date":"2009-03-03T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/the-less-palin-is-attacked-the.html"},"modified":"2009-03-03T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:16:45","slug":"the-less-palin-is-attacked-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/the-less-palin-is-attacked-the.html","title":{"rendered":"The Less Palin Is Attacked, the Less Conservatives Like Her?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck that Sarah Palin did so poorly in <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/28\/romney-cpac\/\">the straw poll of conservatives<\/a> (13%, tied with Ron Paul) at the big conservative confab this weekend.  It may be that participants were just annoyed that she didn&#8217;t show up but I also wonder whether we have another Dan Quayle scenario. Conservatives rallied around Quayle because he was mocked by liberal elites.  But when he actually went out on his own and presented himself as a leader of the Republican Party in 2000, he fizzled  (came in 8th in the Ames Iowa straw poll).<br \/>\nIt turns out that conservatives loved him because liberals loathed him. It also turns out that, while useful, that&#8217;s not quite enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck that Sarah Palin did so poorly in the straw poll of conservatives (13%, tied with Ron Paul) at the big conservative confab this weekend. It may be that participants were just annoyed that she didn&#8217;t show up but I also wonder whether we have another Dan Quayle scenario. Conservatives rallied around Quayle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Less Palin Is Attacked, the Less Conservatives Like Her? - Steven Waldman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/the-less-palin-is-attacked-the.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Less Palin Is Attacked, the Less Conservatives Like Her? - Steven Waldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was struck that Sarah Palin did so poorly in the straw poll of conservatives (13%, tied with Ron Paul) at the big conservative confab this weekend. 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