PalinTracker: What’s Happening on September 3?
July 13
Rotten Tomatoes Lists Palin Film as “Science Fiction & Fantasy”
Palin Points to Late-Summer Presidential Decision
Consider the Source Department:
Mother Jones on The Rise and Fall of Sarah Palin
July 20
Mainstream media putting negative spin on Palin film box-office take?
July 21
Byron York at the Washington Examiner: Without running, Palin stays near top of GOP field:
There’s a near consensus among Washington insiders that Sarah Palin will not run for president. But a new poll suggests the former Alaska governor would become an instant force in the race if she did choose to run.
Los Angeles Times: Palin second only to Romney in Washington Post/ABC News poll
July 23
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Palin: Obama now a Lame Duck President:
Palin also warns the House leadership not to “get wobbly on us now,” but says that the main problem with Obama is that he “leads from behind.”
July 24
Maggie Walsh in Human Events: Palin and Bachmann: Room for Both on the Ballot, But Not in the Tiny Minds of the Media
July 25
Why Are We Not Surprised Department:
SayAnythingBlog.com: New York Times Columnist Calls Palin, Conservatives “Ideological Fellow Travelers” Of Norway Terrorist
July 26
Interview with Greta Van Susteren: Palin Blasts “Obama Drama” in Debt Debate: “It’s the Spending, Stupid … The President Does Not Know What He’s Doing”
July 27
Sarah Palin to keynote September “tea party” gathering in Iowa:
The former Alaska governor will headline a major “tea party” gathering in Iowa in September, just as the Republican nomination fight begins in earnest. Tea Party of America Wednesday announced Palin’s participation in the Sept. 3 “Restoring America” event.
“We don’t need a ‘fundamental transformation’ of America. We need a restoration of all that is good and strong and free,” Palin says in the group’s news release. “The 2012 election will be a great debate between those two conflicting visions for our country.”
“Gov. Palin embodies the spirit of public service that our founders believed was essential to the survival of our liberties and our republic itself,” Charlie Gruschow, Tea Party of America’s co-founder, said in the release. “We couldn’t be more delighted to have this citizen leader who represents the values that Iowans and Americans hold so dear.”
Paul Bedard in U.S. News: Why Palin, Bachmann Have Plenty of Time for Their Kids:
GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway has an answer for those who think Palin, Bachmann, or other women with children don’t have enough time to raise them while serving in public office.
“As far as I can tell, she doesn’t have a boyfriend. So right there it frees up like 15 extra hours a week,” she says of Palin, with a swipe at the parade of male politicians caught in affairs.
“And she doesn’t play golf,” adds Conway. “That’s like seven hours every Saturday, eight hours every Sunday because there’s always a brunch involved. I just gave her 30 extra hours a week. These kids will be fine.”
July 28
Palin at Facebook: Congressional Freshman — For Such a Time as This. A biblical allusion exhorts new conservative members of Congress to stay true to the principles on which they were voted in November 12.
July 29
The Right Scoop: Rush: We Are All Sarah Palin Now:
I don’t want to hear any more crap from Democrats about civility! I don’t want to be preached to one more time by these holier than thou, better than everybody else, smarter than everybody else craven villains about civility!
I have to tell you folks and I know I am not alone, I am mad as all get out [that] the Democrats and their cohorts in the drive-bys have collectively ratcheted up this divisive, uncivil, reactionary language to trash the Tea Party and by extension conservatives. We’re not terrorists! We’re not killing people! We are Americans who disagree with YOU! We are Americans who disagree with statism! We are Americans who disagree with socialism, communism, and liberalism! We’re not holding anybody hostage, we ARE the hostages!
August 3
Associated Press: Ethics complaint against Sarah Palin dismissed:
Alaska officials have dismissed an ethics complaint filed against former Gov. Sarah Palin that alleged she violated state law because the TLC docu-series Sarah Palin’s Alaska took advantage of a state film production incentives program she signed into law.
Just part of the relentless targeting which caused her to quit the governorship to save Alaska (and herself) the time, trouble, and funds to defend herself.
If she doesn’t run, it will be a dereliction of duty.
Agreed. The Perry mania must be stopped. Why settle for second best when the real thing is yours for the taking altho it is asking a lot of anyone to take the job!
Perry is not the guy.
Yep.
Doing the Kingmaker thing and positioning herself for 2016 or 2020 are a slap in the face to her admirers and to what she has said and done since 2009.
To say nothing of the state the country is in. She is needed NOW.
As much as I like and respect Sarah Palin, I don’t see a path to the nomination for her. That being said, she is a much better candidate than Santorum, Huntsman, Gingrich, and the other guy (Johnson?). Plus, no one gets under Obama’s skin like Palin. Just my opinion, she waited too long to get in. If she does, she’ll change the conversation for the better on our energy policy.
Run Miss Sarah, RUN!!!! One ole guy wants you to do it; for America and the World.
I’m with you Ike Ms Sarah has taken all the heat so why not stay the course…
She may not be the most polished, but she is the best this country has to offer..
It does appear that she’ll run, and as Dan Riehl has counseled, I’ll welcome her entry. I’m just praying that having three viable conservative candidates doesn’t cause the “base’s” support to split in such a fashion that we get Romney or Hunstman for our nominee.
I still think Sarah Heath Palin “has it all.” I’d love to see Mama Grizzly in the Oval Office. But let’s not kid ourselves: Getting her the GOP nomination, against the wishes and efforts of the party elite, will be tough…and if she gets it, we’ll have to battle the most determined and unprincipled opposing forces in political history to win her the White House.
That’s the plan! The establishment disliked Reagan as well!
They will grovel and fold like cheap suits the instant they “wind” that unmistakable, sweet smell of success. The beauty part is, for many of them it will be a flip-flop of momentous proportions. They’ll be seen for what they are, doing a complete 180 in front of God and everybody, relegating many of them once and for all to the ranks of pathetic, has-been hacks, in stunning contrast to her unwavering constancy all this while. American politics is in for a sea-change. Go, Sarah!
The elites want to push her for an early announcement so they can bring Jeb Bush or Christie upon her once she starts to dispacth crazy Perry.
She is doing great by holding back her announcement. Then the elites will not have time to recruit Jeb Bush and Christie at the last minute and steal her mojo in November-December.
Perry is starting to implode. His porno dealings, his rumored homosexuality and his crazy Texas attitude will not fly in Northern states. There are 16% of undecided out there. Those are mostly Palin voters waiting for her.
I believe the elites boy this time is Romney-in 2008 they gave us McCain with the intent to elect Obama. The Bushies-Rove worked with Donna Brazile to make that happen.(The Bushiesd dislike Sarah Palin)
They really screwed us in 2008, and I believe we are not that stupid thinking the elites are sperate from democras/liberls/progressives. Tehy are all and one!
What’s Happening on September 3?
Hope makes a comeback.
This is going to be soooooo much fun!
I love it when the Liberal/Left/Communist Media starts frothing at the mouth, with bulging bloodshot eyes, arteries throbbing in their neck, and sweat dripping off their chin.
And all their articles are stained with bile.
GO SARAH, GO!!!
The whole game changes when Sarah gets in. A clear and CHARISMATIC alternative to the alien. There is a visceral connection between Sarah and The People, those the Left loves to mock as bitter clingers. That connection will sweep all before it. Sarah is inevitable.
The speculation is fun, isn’t it? I hope she decides to run.
Will it split the Conservative vote and help Romney? That’s the conventional wisdom, but these are not conventional times. I think it will just give that much more attention to the Conservatives. The news will all be about Palin and the other Conservatives. Palin or Perry? Palin or Bachmann? Bachmann or Perry? Romney? Who? Romney would have to commit a crime in order to get any news coverage were Palin to get in.
Palin sucks all the oxygen out of the room for the others. She has “it”, and the others do not. She’ll still have to campaign, but it really helps to be able to draw attention, and she does. She paints her toenails and she gets coverage. It’s crazy.
In the end it comes down to Romney versus the top conservative-Tea Party candidate. Romney will lose there.
Why? Because Romney only shares the establishment vote with Huntsman (insignificant). Together they share about 25 percent between them.
Conservative-Tea Party candidates share about 55 percent of the vote. This includes Bachmann, Perry, Santorum, Johnson, and Cain.
Newt, depending on the day, vacillates between both sides at 5 percent and Ron Paul gets a steady 10 percent.
I don’t see Bachmann, Johnson, Santorum, and Cain lasting beyond September. Gov. Palin will bite into Perry’s votes and pick up votes from Bachmann, Santorum, Johnson, and Cain.
“Just part of the relentless targeting which caused her to quit the governorship to save Alaska (and herself) the time, trouble, and funds to defend herself.”
And what does she think it would be like as president? Or even as candidate? I’m sorry folks, I think very highly of her, but I think she’s a second banana.
The POTUS is immune to the harassment she suffered as Governor of Alaska,
You can’t do such stuff to the POTUS and make them face bankruptcy as was done in the 49th State.
It’s a whole different ball game.
Yeah, that would be a good story if it were true. All she had to do with most of the things that caused the Ethics Act complaints is go to the Attorney General, lay out what she planned to do, e.g. collect per diem while staying at home, use private email for State business and get the AG’s OK. The if someone complained, the complaint would have been against the State, not her. Now why do you suppose she didn’t want to tell the State’s top law enforcement officer, and her appointee, what she was doing or planned to do? Could it be that she knew the problems and didn’t want the AG to be obligated to tell her not to do it or even bring charges against her. Then all she had to do was quit and raise a lot of money and she and her private attorney laughed all the way to the bank.
Gosh, I’m dumbstruck!
You know, I bet MSNBC would be delighted to report your special news.
Drop them a line.
Don’t be shy.
Well, mind-numbed Palinbot, unlike you, I actually know her and know Alaska law. I worked under the Alaska Ethics Act, so I don’t get my knowledge from C4P and the other Palinbots. The woman is a fraud who did incalculable damage to the Republican brand in Alaska. Now she belongs to the Nation and most Alaskans are glad for her to be yours rather than ours.
Eman, you’re arguing with a leftard. Nothing to gain there.
They are the same scum who did the ethics crap on Palin. All of which was proven to be total democrap.
What’s stopping you from getting on the news and telling the world all about how Palin is lying about this?
Surely, someone in the Media would take your call.
It’s all common knowledge here. Outside, you can always tell a Palinbot, but you can’t tell them much. In any event, she’s not going to run; she hated being Governor and she and Todd are both so thin-skinned that they can’t stand the parry and thrust of being in public life outside a circle of devotees. She has a particular schtick that plays well to a resentful populist streak that typifies Wasilla and much of Interior Alaska’s politics and which plays well to some elements of the Tea Party. Having to actually do a job and be accountable for it ain’t in Sarah Palin’s makeup; as soon as the going gets tough, she gets going – somewhere else.
She got vaulted to the National stage by that old fool McCain and then had to go back to real work in Alaska with the price of oil having fallen precipitously. She was facing a budget that would force her to actually say no to people who didn’t already hate her. Most Republicans here already detested her and she had governed mostly with Democrat support. She tried to avoid dealing with the revenue problems by sending a budget to the Legislature based on unrealistically high oil revenues, which would have forced the Legislature to make the cuts rather than her. They balked and told her to come back with a budget based on realistic revenue. The bureaucracy made a half-hearted attempt at a budget, she essentially checked out of governing except for a stupid diversion of several weeks over appointing a State Senator from Juneau – which left Juneau without a senator for most of the session. After not having any fun and with people of both parties now saying bad things about her, she realized that her National fame had a shelf life. So, she quit so she could be free of that nasty old Ethics Act that she liked to brag about so much and she cashed in. But don’t worry, she’s not running for President or doing anything else that would make her accountable or subject to legal scrutiny now that she can be famous for being famous and has legions of blind devotees.
Is this Alaskan common knowledge in the non-Alaskan Media, in any media?
Why would they hesitate to broadcast it?
The Outside media have their meme regarding Palin. They want to portray her as some sort of troglodyte, religious fundamentalist, bomb thrower, etc., not a clever manipulator. When she was in politics here, nobody even knew she had any religiousity other than the pro forma “goes to church” that most Republicans have to have here. She didn’t take any strident stands on either same-sex benefits for public employees or the AKSC’s overturning a parental choice bill, two issues on her plate as Governor. In fact, she got really cross-threaded with Sen. Lyda Green over refusing to call a special session over the parental notice thing. When she ran for Lt. Gov. the religious right here supported her opponent, Loren Leman, who defeated her and served as Murkowski’s Lt. Gov. She badly wanted Frank Murkowski’s senate seat and when he didn’t appoint her, she began her crusade against all things Murkowski. The Outside media has plenty of info about her actual governance, Hell, I even got my lunch paid for by a reporter for the first time in a long career of dealing with reporters. But, it doesn’t fit the meme that she’s stupid; she’s not. She is petty, thin-skinned, and self-serving but very clever.
Her reputation here is somewhere between political “black widow” and rank opportunist. Her career in Alaska is built on the politically dead bodies of people who tried to help her, backed her, or appointed her. She went through staff like crap through a goose because she simply will not tolerate being told anything she doesn’t want to hear. In her thankfully short tenure as Governor, she basically ran and governed as the un-Republican and un-Murkowski. She ran off almost all the Murkowski appointees, which was pretty much every Republican in Alaska who knew where the light switches and rest rooms in state offices were, installed a few of her Wasilla buddies who’d never run anything bigger than a small real estate office or such, gathered up a few malcontents from the Murkowski administration that had gravitated to her, and governed with a bunch of holdover Democrats left in place from Knowles’ second term and which Murkowski hadn’t replaced. That July day was a great day for Republicans in Alaska and in ’12 we may even get the State Senate back after several years of a Democrat led coalition that she directly caused and worked with until they turned on her after the VP nomination. She is almost singlehandly the cause of Alaska turning from one of the Reddest of Red States to a Purple leaning Blue state, but she got rich and famous doing it.
Ah, a murkowski scumbot. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/murkowski-on-voting-with-dems-no-biggie.php Even worse than a libtard.
“…she began her crusade against all things Murkowski”. Uh, you do know that’s considered a plus down here, right?
So, the national media is too stuck on their preferred Palin meme to use your assessment of the legal harassment issue?
They also won’t reveal the shocking details of her back-stabbing and sinister political career?
So, perhaps you tried to alert the media about Palin, the wolf in sheep’s clothing, but were rebuffed?
Reporters came to me, I didn’t go to them. Frankly, I don’t care what the MSM says. The only interest I have is that she not be the nominee based on the legend of herself that she has ginned up because it will not survive a campaign and she will not survive a campaign as a functional nominee that has to go into unfriendly territory. That said, if she were the nominee, I’d vote for her, or anybody else, who isn’t a Democrat, but I would sincerely worry for the fate of my Country. Actually, if you want a good view of what she’s like from someone who sacrificed a lot on her behalf, read Frank Bailey’s book about his time with her. It has, of course, been panned by the Palinbots, but it certainly comports with my observations of her.
Now that you’ve convinced me Sarah Palin is Hitler’s sister please tell me how the Nazis pulled it off.
Was Brazil involved?
I understand that Romney and Perry immediately went out and got polka dot painted toe nails too. Obama has had painted toe nails that across the ten reads “Bush Fault.”
Personally, I would like for Gov. Palin to wait until the end of September to announce. Why? Because sharing the stage over three debates with 9 or ten other candidates diminishes her image. No one has time to expound on his/her point of view, it’s all sound bites.
And she doesn’t need to announce this soon. By the end of September, it is likely Cain, Santorum, Johnson, and possibly Bachmann will bow out. Ron Paul and Newt are in it for vanity at this stage.
Besides, there are still four debated scheduled from October to the end of 2011.
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She has all the credentials and is able to handle any media “traps” that will be set out there on the campaign trail. Will she betray us? I trust her, whereas the other candidates seem to be for a issue and then again they seem “weak” in holding forth. I would be thrilled if she choose to serve our nation.
What if any information is available that supports the notion that Romney is the Establishment’s candidate? I believe the opposite is true. The would be stoppers of Romney, dead and alive, now line the streets of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and the real Establishment insiders would like to see Jeb Bush, Obama light, as the next President of the United States.
Rick Perry is the useful idiot they finally discovered and his entry into the race is probably being financed by George Soros much in the manner that Ross Perot as useful idiot helped finance the election of Bill Clinton. Perry’s job is to find a way to stop a real outside the criminal conspiracy candidate such as Mitt Romney.
Contrary to all the lies of the Romney bashers, he is a man of honor and a patriotic American. He would not sell out the country as the current President has done for fame and fortune. Mitt Romney made a fortune outside of politics in the private sector and based on prior performance, no announced candidate even comes close to matching his record. He turned around economic disasters for more than twenty years and turned them into success stories. Just exactly the type of person that this country desperately needs at this time in history.
Even after the entry of Rick Perry, and his taking the lead in most of the creditable polls over Mitt Romney by ten to twelve percentage points, other polls show Perry losing the election to Obama while also showing that Romney would defeat Obama by at least two percentage points. Facts are facts and the truth is the truth no matter what liars might say to the contrary.
It’s time for the crazies to sack up their marbles and move on. They have no credibility. Religious bigotry is not a good reason to have Obama as President for another four year term.
Run Sarah and Go Mitt.
Mittens gave us “gay marriage”, Mittens gave us “Obamacare”, just say no to Mitt!
I think the MA judiciary and legislature might have had more to do with both. I’m not a big Romney fan because he has too much used car saleman karma with his “flexibility” on issues, but he was, after all, the governor of the Peoples’ Republic of Taxachuesetts.
Musing Lew:
The state of Massachusetts and a bunch of leftists in black robes gave you both. Mitt Romney as Governor signed the bills. If you don’t believe me, ask Barney Frank.
Sarah will run & beat OBAMA!!!
YOU BETCHA!!!
I am supporting Michele Bachmann so I am opposed to Palin running. This week Rick Perry is going through the honeymoon phase of his candidacy. Michele had the same honeymoon in July. Herman Cain had a honeymoon phase right after doing well in the first debate. Goodness, even Donald Trump had his honeymoon!
Although Perry has snatched a big piece of support that was Michele Bachmann’s, I don’t see him as a threat to the Bachmann campaign. There is a lot of time left and compared to Michele, Perry is a RINO.
If Palin jumps into the race I see Michele joining her pal Tim Pawlenty in Loserville. Palin has at least as much “street cred” as Michele, a Governor trumps a Congresswoman in this particular game and (forgive me Michele) Sarah Palin has more charisma than Michele (My dear Michele, I am so sorry I had to say that).
I’m not saying Michele Bachmann has the nomination if Sarah Palin stays out. It’s going to be an uphill climb because the Republican establishment hates Michele worse than a pack of rabid liberals. But if Palin jumps into the race Michele Bachmann’s numbers could fall to Huntsman levels.
But I don’t believe Sarah is going to run. If she does I will post a comment here (as well as a lot of other places where I’ve said this) that I was wrong. But right now, to me anyway, it lookks like Palin is just teasing a run. She is doing very nicely with her new career as a celebrity. Will Palin be willing to give speeches for free after getting $50,000 for speaking engagements? Will Sarah be willing to speak to the mainstream media? Does she plan to be like Paul Revere and ring those bells? or will she stay on the sidelines. My hope is that she stays out.
Vote Bachmann!