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She can fire-up the hard right base, and bring them out to vote, and fund raise, but that's all.

Plouffe: Palin would be 'catastrophic' as 2012 GOP nominee 2009

Been a Marlin guy for years and just convinced frugal wife that the old 336 is finally worn-out and no longer safe to fire-up.

Rifles of Interest, Vol. 2 2009

We account for that today by having a lot of coal and natural gas generation on "standby" to fire-up when renewables can't produce.

The Green Energy Economy Reconsidered 2011

Back in 2004 Phil Collins and company tried to fire-up a tour centered around the group's 1974 prog-rock masterpiece, but Peter Gabriel -- who was the group's lead singer through the early '70s -- backed out.

Four classic rock records that could stand an in-concert revival Aaron Leitko 2010

Been a Marlin guy for years and just convinced frugal wife that the old 336 is finally worn-out and no longer safe to fire-up.

Rifles of Interest, Vol. 2 2009

That they were facing weak Democrats so they wouldn't need someone polarizing like Palin that could fire-up the Democrats and they could start gaining traction.

Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail 2009

Jeff Frederick can be forgiven for getting a bit into the hype while trying to fire-up a band of canvassers, just as Mark Warner can be forgiven for getting a little over the edge while talking to a partisan crowd about the Religious Reich, gun nuts and those who elect to home-school their kids.

Waldo Jaquith - Frederick, speaking for McCain’s volunteer base. 2008

The moral tale is just a fantasy to fire-up self-righteousness.

Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism) 2009

They ` ve been doing all sorts of things, people are very fire-up about Madonna trying to adopt another child in Malawi.

CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2009 2009

But as Presidents Agnew, Dole and Quayle learned the hard way, it may feel good to be placed on the ticket and assigned to fire-up the wing nuts, but it also can take a rookie on a one-way journey across a political bridge to nowhere.

Joe Cutbirth: The Incredible Lightness of Being Sarah Palin 2008