Just tweeted by Mark Levin: “BREAKING: GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN TELLS MARK LEVIN SHE IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012.”
Concurrently, ABC prints the letter that Palin sent to her supporters:
October 5, 2011
Wasilla, Alaska
After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.AdvertisementMy decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.
From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.
I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables. We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.
More as it comes in. Or in this case, doesn’t.
Even before Palin’s announcement, Jonathan S. Tobin wrote at Commentary that it’s “Romney’s Race to Lose.” What do you think?
On Twitter, a few people have noted that in the above excerpt, Palin wrote that she’s not seeking the Republican nomination, leaving the door open to a third party run — but Allahpundit writes, “Apparently she told Levin that she’s ruled out a third-party bid as well.”
Update: Here’s the audio of her interview with Mark Levin.
Related: Byron York tweets, “Seems like bigger GOP ’12 news is Marco Rubio saying: ‘I am not going to be the VP nominee…the answer is gonna be no.’”
I’m saddened by this……I think she is what the country needs right now. Someone outside of Washington, someone who doesn’t suffer from “Beltway-itis”.
This is indeed a sad day for America and I hope she can be a voice of reason, particularly for the common sense use of energy in this country in the future. Those who are not or have not made themselves acquainted with her views outside of what they think they know from the “popular” media will never get what she stands for and against.
Gov. Palin has waaaay too many family obligations to even consider a run for President this time around. Give her 8 years, let the kids grow a little, let the PDS calm down some and she can still look at a run if its in the cards.
Truth is Sarah Palin will help countless other Republicans get elected and will now have the time to help each and every one with her charismatic appearances that fire up the entire base every time she makes an appearance. Especially in key races where the every vote counts.
Sarah Palin/Marco Rubio are the two greatest assets the Republican Party has.They both advocate conservatism and will work to save the country in its time of need.
NOt to support either of their decisions on our part would short sided thinking,IMHO. I know I will support both in every way I can.
Please not with Rubio or Perry.
Allen West by that time will be a good VP for her.
If you want amnesty for 18 million illegals then Rubio and Perry want the same thing.
They both said they did not think SB 1070 was good. Rubio changed is mind only after thousands of calls came into his office. He then said he changed his mind because the words were changed. (B.S.)
Perry said he agreed with Vicente Fox’s dream of open borders with the US….
If you don’t believe, call his office and ask.
Now that Palin is out we must still support her on sarahpac so she can help like she did for the 2010 elections.
Because of Palin and only Palin,the Republicans wow the House.
Remember she worked tirelessly running all over the country.
She won, not Rove, O’Reilly, Beck or any of the other A** H big mouths.
All her travels were paid for from her pac.
She donated all that time and energy and what thanks did she get?
Don’t forget there’s only three people that get a min. of 100.000 for speaking, Palin, Clinton and Bush, Palin gets most of the jobs.
When she worked for the candidates in 2010 she did not get any pay.
Now I hope she endorses Romney for president..
Hope Romney picks her as his VP.. If Romney did, below is what the VP debate would look like between Biden and Palin. See the 2008 VP debate between Biden and Palin right here just click on the link or copy and paste in your browser.
………. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/VicePresidentialCandidate ….
Now with Obama’s record she would go for the truth and Biden would not be able to defend him…
Romney would put away Obama big time in the debate..Then in 2020 we would have Palin run for President..Eight years of Romney and Palin we would have the stongest country and economy again. She would run on that and win for sure..
Sheriff Joe to replace Janet at Homeland Security.
Jeff Sessions to replace the crook Eric Holder.
Allen West, Mark Levin, Herman Cain, Michelle Malkin, etc to be somewhere in the cabinet
Please, not Romney.
What if it is Romney? Will you vote for him? Or will you abstain, or post a third-party protest vote, and so help Obama stay at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? I know a few people who refused to vote for John McCain in 2008 because he wasn’t conservative enough. I have occasion almost daily to ask them “so, are you happy now?”
We can’t afford four more years of The Won. We just can’t. If Romney is the nominee, we have to go all-out to see that he wins. Whatever his warts, he’s better than Obama.
No he isn’t. Because Romney favors all of Obama’s policies, just a little less. The country will still crash, but the Socialists among us will be happy to coo about Romney’s “bipartisan” approach.
Nope, if Romneycare’s the nominee, I vote straight Democrat. Because apparently the mass of sheeple hasn’t “gotten it good and hard” enough to endure real course corrections.
Agreed SDN. I will vote BO before voting another idiot into office. Least we know BO’s a twit.
The GOP party machine has already lined up behind Romney and selected him as the candidate before we, the People, had a chance to vote. That what Georgette Mosbacher and some guy named Campanidis(?) said. Well, since they don’t need us to select the candidate, then they don’t need us for him to win. Happy trail is, GOP! Go ahead and win with the Elites and Bundlers. This part of we, the People, will watch the show from couch on election day since my input is not essential and I’m not a lockstep GOPbot.
This.
The establishment most wants that the current corrupt system stays in place, just with them in charge.
Truer words were never said, except by Christ.
I have always believed that “Nothing succeeds like success.”
Romney will use his considerable skills to fix the U.S. economy and bring us back to full employment. By 2016, the U.S. economy will be humming again.
And THAT, not “true conservatism” or making the GOP base feel good about themselves or having a candidate who is “one of us,” is the biggest thing that could make the GOP brand shine and discredit the Dems.
Romney fixing the economy after Obama failed to do so will give the GOP all the political capital it needs to do other things. It will so discredit liberalism that Americans won’t vote for liberals again for years to come.
The best thing Reagan did for conservatism was that–unlike Jimmy Carter–he left the nation in better shape than he found it. That’s the best advertisement for conservatism that one could hope for.
That’s right, sinz. There is one candidate who has already successfully fixed an economy, the state of Massachusetts, and he did it against a Democrat super majority. I am a 20-year resident of Massachusetts and I can assure you Mitt is a conservative (and I’m a mid-western conservative as red as they come). I watched him in action up close and personal. He governed according to conservative principles and did a great job. Like Chris Christie he did what he had to do to win and be effective.
Religion? Not an issue then or now, except when the vile Ted Kennedy had Little Joe slime his religion in the 1994 senatorial election. He’s gotten it from the hard left and now the hard right. He is prepared as his reply to Perry’s marionette demonstrated. He will make a very fine president.
I understand Sarah’s decision. I wish she had run, if only to strengthen the Republican field of Presidential candidates even further. However, I also understand that few, if any, Presidential canduidates (much less Vice-Presidential ones) have been put through the MSM hell that she has. She has handled that onslaught with true grace. We are a lesser people for the immediate loss, but in the long run I believe she will have more of an impact on American life (political and otherwise) than a thousand “community organizers” could ever dream of.
Thank you, Sarah..
Not much of a choice left for a truly conservative Republican candidate in the field of former Democrats, blue-state liberals, career politicianists, shameless self-promoters, and holders of various whack-a-doodle beliefs left on the stage. Obama could pull it out based on a general malaise toward the pitiful choices now presented as “not-Obama”. I have no enthusiasm for or faith in any of them. The last time around we got McLame, an albatross around Sarah’s neck and the neck of the conservative cause. This time around bodes no better for those of us who dream of a return to a constitutional Republic.
Reload, Sarah. Got your six.
Agreed.
She didn’t stand a chance and she’s smart enough to know that. Too bad.
She will be missed, but I don’t fault her decision.
Missed? Sarah’s still around–and much more influential from outside political office than in.
Go, Sarah!
Now if she’ll just move to her new digs in Arizona and stay out of Alaska politics.
Why vote for a woman to be President of the United States who had earlier resigned her office as Governor of Alaska?
Most of what has been said about this Sarah Palin via the media has been based upon emotional aspects.
Where are her leadership, stability, and experience to be considered a valid, effective President of the United States?
Good grief! Whatever her troubles, we don’t need them inside the White House as a successor to the present occupant.
Sarah Palin has made a wise decision.
Charlie, You are drinking the Kool Aid, and you have bought into the “Republican Establishment” and the MSM attacks on Sarah Palin. I will only say to you what I’ve been saying to others – When have you ever watched an individual, who was a former Governor of Alaska, and a former Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket vilified, crucified, tarred & feathered, called every name the media could come up with, gossiped about, family attacked verbally WHO HAD NOT, AND DID NOT, ever announce she was a candidate for even local dog catcher?? Why do you suppose they would do that, and keep it up incessantly since 2008?
Art,
Your support of Murkowski is well known. Murkowski went back on her word when she lost the primary.
Murkowski is everything that’s wrong with Washington. But, hey, you’re okay with that, because it’s your guy. Or gal, as the case may be.
No, I’m actually not at all OK with Murkowski, at least not with Lisa Murkowski. I think appointing her was the worst thing Frank Murkowski did and it ruined his administration; we never recovered from it.
What I wasn’t OK with was Sarah Palin’s puppy, Joe Miller, as her proxy in her never-ending war against all things Murkowski since he didn’t appoint her to the Senate.
If Lisa has a sane, legitimate Republican challenger in the Primary, I support that challenger. If she has another whacko like Joe Miller opposing her, sorry, I’m interested in the well-being of my State and I’m not sending some whack job to DC. The Bush Justice Department already caused us to lose one seat when they tortured Ted Stevens out of office with their fake prosecution. Small states need effective, senior representation.
You and others, especially a couple of the more obnoxious RedState posters, push this meme about her going back on “her word.” Lisa was asked, begged really, by practically everybody who was anybody in Alaska business and politics to run a write-in campaign. Alaska had a “coyote” morning when it woke up and saw that it had nominated Joe Miller and it proceded to try to knaw its arm off rather than wake him up. I don’t know what I would have done if she’d actually run as a libertarian or some other Third Party since I detest Third Party campaigns and have only seen them elect Democrats by siphoning of conservatives who should know better. We endured eight years of a liberal Democrat as governor here because the same basic groups that supported Joe Miller decided the Republican nominee, and Anchorage businessman, wasn’t a “true conservative,” so they put up a Third Party “true conservative” and handed the election to the Democrats. If the Alaska Ds had been able to get their act together and put up anyone with Statewide name ID, Alaska, once completely Red would have had two Democrat senators and a State Senate controlled by a Democrat-led coaltion. And we can mostly thank Sarah Palin and her friends for that.
Unfortunately, Lisa took support from Native Corporations and organized labor that may well come at a very high price. They’re going to expect some return on their investment and some would be OK with the electorate but too much support for either the Corps or labor will seriously hurt her with the Republican base here.
Even though it has long been a reliably Republican state, Alaska is not a conservative state; it is far more libertarian and there are a lot more bars and whorehouses than churches. Both Palin and Miller however do come from the Interior, roaded area of the State where there is a significant SoCon presence. A generally dull, largely uncontested primary ballot also had a parental notice initiative on it that got the SoCons out in droves, which fact accounts for Miller’s narrow victory in the Primary – and it was a very narrow victory, about 2K votes. Interestingly, outside Anchorage proper, mostly carried by Lisa, Miller carried every district connected to the Continental road system and Lisa carried every district accessible only by air or water.
I could happily vote for either Herman Cain or Rick Perry. If Mitt Romney is nominated, then this will be another presidential election where I have to hold my nose.
Hold your nose, RebeccaH? Are you crazy? I am NO Romney fan and I’m all for standing on principles, but if Obama snatches victory in ’12 we are through.
If you live in a swing state, it’s Anybody But Obama. If you live in a safe red state, meh. If you live in a blue state, move.
Thank God Almighty, the apocalypse has been averted. We can all now sleep at nights. Thank God Almighty.
What God do you worship? I am sick and tired of the Palin haters and they come out at every opportunity. In fact, they and you do not have the courtesy to keep it to themselves no matter the circumstances. This country is indeed in trouble.
Patrick Connors,
I’m sure you’ve spent every penny that you’ve had donating to SarahPAC. My question to you and all the Tea Partiers like yourself is this – was all your money well spent? What will happen to all the donations that went to SarahPAC? When will you people realize that this lady does not have the intelligence or the know how to run for the POTUS? When will you people realize finally that it was the fame and the fortune that she was truly after and not your well being?
Well Dave… First,let’s assume that money you believe was wasted was used to promote other candidates in the many states she visited over the past two+ years. That activity costs money, Stuart Williamson posted correctly. Second, while I am struggling to keep my head above water under the current leadership there was very little on my part to be given. In fact, in my case, I was waiting for her to enter before making any sacrifices financially.
I doubt very much Dave, you are capable of recognizing or discerning fact from fiction when it comes to the intelligence of others or what they are capable of. We do know that Americans were sold a bill of goods regarding Obama and his alleged intelligence. We now know that he possesses very little more than a “street” sense of survival, which somehow passes for knowledge.
Further, do you have some greviance with the Tea Party? It is obvious you hold folks who desire smaller government, a strong defense and a lesser tax burden (to name just a few needed corrections) in low regard.
Thank you sweet Jesus! I hate everything Palin stands for: phony religion, “patriotism”, actually having children instead of choosing another end for them, motorcycles, oil, working late, etc…. But I love her today, I LOVE HER. Thank you Sarah, I was left sweating over the last 6 months. 4 MORE YEARS!!!
“I hate everything Palin stands for…actually having children instead of choosing another end for them”
You mean aborting them? Are you for real?? Did you gain these great intellectual insights from the enlightened Tibetans during your recent walkabout? Do they abort their children?
You really are a Loki troll, aren’t you? It’s hard to believe anyone could be naturally this thick.
Wow, that is one of the most pompous posts I have seen in a while. And you hate kids too. You, sir, are a douche.
Or he’s putting us on, to parody the classic Palin hater. Who hates all of those things on his list?
Yes, LovelyEarth is a spoof artist. He is so good, you cannot tell he is not a true whackjob Democrat. No sarcasm, here. He is THAT good. He is spoofing them.
Well, now I safely tune out political news now.
I think it will be interesting to see how her support breaks among the existing candidates.
Forget Romney. It’s time for a little Cain Mutiny in the GOP.
Governor Palin can do far more good on the outside.
Just consider the number of congressmen who were helped by her endorsement in 2010, now multiply that by the number of seats open in 2012, coupled with a much larger and more experienced TEA Party movement. Obama may be able to pull out billions of foreign dollars and millions of dead ACORN voters, but he will still be facing a Republican Senate and House, as well as a legislature far more tilted towards the small government TEA Party movement.
Even better, there wil be many gains in the downline elections, and much of the progressive rot can be expurged over the next four years.
As for Governor Palin. if a new Republican administration is in place, they will probably reward her support with some sort of appointment, perhaps even a Cabinet post. Pretty good launching pad for 2020; and Governor Palin will still be in her prime in eight years, with an impressive resume and a mighty political machine behind her.
Run in 2020? You Betcha!
“As for Governor Palin. if a new Republican administration is in place, they will probably reward her support with some sort of appointment, perhaps even a Cabinet post.”
I sure hope so. Secretary of Energy, to be exact.
#14 Thucydides
As for Governor Palin. if a new Republican administration is in place, they will probably reward her support with some sort of appointment, perhaps even a Cabinet post. Pretty good launching pad for 2020; and Governor Palin will still be in her prime in eight years, with an impressive resume and a mighty political machine behind her.
With all due respect, I disagree; not on the possibilities if there was such an appointment, but of there being such an appointment. The odds are that the Institutional Republicans will force the nomination of Romney. Keeping in mind that the Institutionals are always more than happy to lose to a Democrat if it means that a Conservative is blocked; the Institutionals will make sure that she is not offered any position. I would be happily surprised if a putative President Cain or Perry offered her a position, because she would be a danger to the careers in their administration because she would outshine them.
#10 LovelyEarth, Ed Driscoll, Marc Malone
One constant amongst those who have opposed Sarah Palin purportedly from the Republican side; has been their willingness, nay eagerness, to promote the memes generated by the Left, Journo-List, etc. as their own. It has been interesting watching the reactions in the conservative blogosphere. While there have been calls welcoming Palin supporters to rally around whoever is the eventual candidate is; the most rabid anti-Palin people supposedly on the Right have been having a field day with insults, claiming that it is their right to do so after the campaign so far, and that they will “make nice” later when Palin supporters come crawling back. That kind of tactic, while not outside the bounds of possibility for the Institutionals; strikes me more as part of the Obama For America type thing; which casts the actions and loyalties of those loudest and most insulting to Palin so far in a very different light. Go ahead and insult us, whether OFA operative or Institutional Republican. I for one, have lived by the motto that one is known in part by the quality of one’s enemies.
#9 Dave
I’m not rich by any means. But I had arranged my affairs so that every month from her announcement to the election I would be able to send $100 to her campaign. That money definitely will not go to the Romney campaign. Could go to a Cain or Perry campaign. Most likely will go to fund primary challenges by Patriots against Institutional Republican incumbent Congressmen, and their eventual general election campaigns. And yes, it may well go through SarahPAC because she has a good track record in supporting those; as opposed to the Institutional Republicans who will support a Democrat over a Conservative every time, even after the primaries.
If Romney is the nominee, I will control my rising gorge and vote for him. But it will be with the clear knowledge that a putative Romney first term will be very close to being Obama’s second term unless he is coerced by a Patriot Congress who will not let him go along with the Democrats.
Romney is many things. A fighter is not one of them. Nor is he a Conservative. Nor will he push back. He refuses to commit to repealing Obamacare, restricting himself to “granting waivers to everyone”. Granting a waiver to the individual mandate does not cure the problem. The bill is full of power grabs, mandates, tax increases, and reductions in funding for actual medical care. There is no reason that Obamacare means that the Federal government is now the sole source for student loans, or that the government should tell every medical practitioner to forward copies of all medical records for everyone to the Federal government as custodian. Or that the “Death Panels” which are real should exist. Or that $500 Billion should be cut from Medicare. Waiving the individual mandate does not suffice.
So I will look for a fighter; until the nomination is settled. And if I can’t find one, I will work to help provide a Patriot Congress to provide the needed coercion to prevent someone with the Institutional’s ‘R’ behind their name from giving away everything.
Subotai Bahadur
This best thing she can do is to be president-elect on November 4th 2012.
Don’t count her out just yet, this will only increase demand. She lists as her reason “at this time”, and she may be gambling that it’s more important to be involved in primary battles to keep alive the success she had in that same kind of participation in the 2010 off year elections, that started in the primary nomination process. This moves her possible nomination to that of draft candidacy, most remote. The only candidates so far worthy of the mantle conservative, restorationists are Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachman. Ron paul gets some creds for his libertarian constitutionalism, but not so on foreign policy.
But we hear the constant drumbeat of how “unelectable” they supposedly are. Oh, I see, and crony capitalist whores such as democart party “front runners” whores Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are? Sheesh.
Why are we putting up with this? Hmm?
10. LovelyEarth “Thank you sweet Jesus!”
Shouldn’t you be thanking Marx, Lenin, Che, Fidel, Mao, and the Big Zero – the true gods to whom you pray and seek guidance?
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to type and remove all doubt. Palinbots really need to develop a sense of humor and learn to recognize sarcasm.
Who’d want to step into this toxic mess that was once a mighty nation? Politicians have created this catastrophe by making promises they couldn’t keep and looting programs like Social Security. It’s such a mess, who’d be interested in the job? Sociopaths and more scum like Obama I suppose…
Well this sucks.
Cartwheels all around for the beltway snobs, the usual golf claps being insufficient in this case.
Rubio too, huh? Great. Just great.
Guess I’ll have to read up on this Elmer Fudd character Limbaugh is always saying could beat Obama. As it stands now he’s got my vote.
Seconding what Tex said up the thread, thank you, Sarah. God bless you for the work you’ve done for the cause.
Devastating news. Was really looking forward to a Palin presidency. No one else comes close to her. But she is still in the game and will bring out the crowds for any candidate she supports. Cain looks like the real conservative with integrity I will get behind. You look at his history and you know he can go the distance. I doubt if he falls for any more media traps. Sarah remains the de facto leader of the conservative opposition until Cain beats Obama.
Good. If he’d run, it would be too easy for the MSM to slander him as an Obama wannabe without experience – regardless that MSM hosannas for the workless Obama were what put him over the top in 2008.
Marco Rubio will be worth watching, in future elections, and will have Dems quivering in fear and hirings brigades of slanderers to smear him.
Whether she intends it to or not, this will create a backlash by conservatives against republican party. One they cannot recover from. The steps being taken by republicans to get crony capitalist (A), Mitt Romney, or crony capitalist Plan (B) from outer space, Rick Perry, will not work. She’ll be working elsewhere, and GOP establishment will find themselves with an insurmountable problem and one that only Sarah Palin as nominee will solve.
The bigger news in Rubio taking himself out of the running for V-P.
Personally, I would prefer Bobby Jindal in that spot. In fact, I would have preferred Jindal for the top spot, let alone #2.
It’s my understanding that neither Rubio or Jindel are eligible for nomination for President or VP since they don’t fit the definition of “Native Born”.
Of course, I did read the Constitution. It clearly states that someone born with divided loyalty’s is not eligible for the office.
Let’s get back to basics here… Of course, that didn’t stop the Democrats from getting Obama into the White House. That was a huge mistake,,, IMHO.
The problem is that the Constitution is not at all clear. It uses the term “natural born citizen” but never defines it. That’s how we got into this mess.
That is not, of course, what is “clearly stated” in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly states:
Which part of that clearly says anything about “divided loyalties”? Let’s not let our strong Constitutional disagreements with the current Socialist-in-Chief reduce us to incoherence about what the Constitution actually says.
To add a little to my previous comment, Bobby Jindall was born in Baton Rouge, Louisisana, in June of 1971. Marco Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, in May of 1971. You might argue that there is something (though I don’t know what it would be) that makes them not qualify as “natural born” citizens – but claiming that this is clearly stated in the text of the Constitution appears to me to be an unsupportable assertion.
I expect the leftists and establishment Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief, as they were terrified of her. But her teeth have been pulled, and they can now celebrate her destruction. She will ride off into the sunset on a snow machine, and vanish from the political landscape, as she is no longer a political threat, and can be ignored.
She’s young enough that 2016 or 2020 will still be an option. ^_^
RebeccaH wrote about a Romney nomination: “… this will be another presidential election where I have to hold my nose.”
I agree 100%. But the difference this time is that a very large percentage of the independents who voted the guy with ‘D’ by his name in 2008, WILL feel comfortable voting for the guy with ‘R’ by his name.
President Romney will not be my idea of a conservative President by any stretch of my imagination. Even so, he will be a huge improvement in the correct direction over the current ‘far left of center’ guy who is there now.
Once in, it will OUR duty to continue to hold the new Presidents ‘feet to the fire’ to make sure he understands how the entire country will him to govern.
She did the right thing. Nobody deserves what she has already had to endure. They would have figured out a way to make it even worse a second time. She wouldn’t have come out of it alive.
What those people have done to her and her family is absolutely unforgivable.
In the meantime, I am sure Sarah will fight for her family – and her reputation, whatever is left of it. I expect for the entire Palin clan to sue Random House, that creep McGinnis, and everyone else involved in the defamation of her family’s character.
When the reckoning comes, that clan will come out the winners.
I do believe Karma will bite all their enemies – and when it does…
I note that she said she would not seek the Republican nomination, not that she wouldn’t run.
A Romney nomination would be proof positive that the Republicans are not serious about fixing the country but only about the latest swing of the revolving door that is the political class. He is not the candidate to repeal Obamacare and otherwise roll back the welfare state, not the candidate to stand up to the crazed anti-growth liberals, and especially not the candidate who can be counted on to appoint responsible judges. I never pay attention to what politicians say, only to what they have done when they had the power. His record there is highly liberal. And Republicans wouldn’t resist his initiatives the way they have Obama’s.
Not true.
A Romney nomination will be a sign that the GOP is serious about fixing the economy and putting Americans back to work. And that should be the main focus of the GOP platform. Everything else should be secondary.
We used to blast Rahm Emanuel for his “Never let a crisis go to waste” agenda–using the economic crisis as an excuse to push all kinds of liberal legislation down the public’s throat.
Yet I see a whole lot of conservatives who want to do exactly the same thing: Use the economic crisis as an excuse to push all kinds of conservative ideas, even if their connection to the current economic mess is unclear.
First things first.
Fix the economy and restore full employment.
Romney’s success will contrast with Obama’s failure.
And that will provide political capital to do lots of other things–later.
Unless, how shall I say, a VERY ‘CREATIVE’ Supreme Court decision were to rule to the contrary, Rubi is NOT a Natural Born American citizen as his parents were not both (or even one) American citizens at the time of his birth, and is hence ineligible to be President or VP. If someone wants to throw the United States Constitution ‘under the bus’ they have already got their man, Obama.
Agreed,,, 100%. The Dumbocrats threw the Constitution under the bus when they nominated Obama. He is/was not “native born” by definition, because his father was not a U.S. citizen. I still don’t understand how he pulled that off.
I think I need some really smart Supreme Court Justice to ‘splain that niggling little point of Constitutional law to me. Up until 2008 I thought I knew what it meant to be “native born”.
I am terribly disappointed with Palin. She is obviously not what I thought. How could she tease the whole world for three years and in the end go away?
I have made a decision never again to dedicate more than five minutes to politics. From now own I shall concentrate only on those little things in which I can contribute something, at work and for family.
> After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that…
a) I can make a larger pile of money outside the Oval Office than in it.
b) I can fill a room of Tea Party nutjobs — sorry, supporters — willing to pay just about anything to listen to me blather about god, families etc.
c) I’m not accountable to anybody if I’m not elected by anybody.
d) Hordes of morons — sorry, supporters — will continue to send me all the money I can eat if they think there’s even a remote chance that I’ll run in 2016. And there is!
e) I’m going to sell the Rogue bus. Anybody want to buy a bus?
“e) I’m going to sell the Rogue bus. Anybody want to buy a bus?”
Obama’s in the market, after the epic fail of the Darth Vader Battle Bus this past summer.
You’re not sorry Darrell, you are a snob and a rube (like many of your confederates here attacking Palin and those who supported her)and read like a Paul supporter.
I was convinced she was running and she proved me wrong.
Not the first time I was wrong.
Now what?
Cain gets a lift?
I wonder if people will pay less heed to her words knowing she has made herself moot.
She is a Christian, but sadly for her, the Goddess Irony is God’s favorite pet.
Sarah Palin has done exactly what she said she was going to do on the day she resigned her Governorship: work tirelessly, OUTSIDE POLITICAL PARTY FENCES, for the cause of Exceptionalism and the defeat of the Socialist/Democrat machine.
She is truly not interested in political position or status. She got into politics not because of ambition for office, but because she wanted to keep dishonest candidates from running her home town. She did so well she was urged to run for higher office. When she was appointed to head the State Commission for the oil and gas industry, she found out that the GOP machine was totally corrupt, and blew the whitle. She ran against their candidate for Governor and won in spite of their dirty tactics – her first big lesson in dealing with unscrupulous, entrenched, top level pols. She cleaned up the State House, selling the private plane, and won re-election. When McCain picked her as his running mate she got thrown off the end of the dock by the RNC elitist crony insiders. She confirmed, for sure, that she would hate living in D.C. and dealing with dirty conniving and back-stabbing and venomous attacks from the old school on both sides and the Marxist press.
A straight-talker, she has done exactly what she promised: carried the message of the T Party, roused conservative middle Americans against the regressive and destructive Obama strategy, and will continue in that role, bringing the full strength of her rhetorical skills, sharp eye for phonies, and hundreds of thousands of followers behind the candidate she prefers, and then behind the eventual nominee. Her objective has never been the White House, or a Cabinet role. It remains what it has always been: honest, cost-cutting government in the service of the electorate – and continuing to live her family life in her beloved Wasilla, AK. Just like she said.
Bravo! Your post nailed it.
You came closest to the true Palin and those who knew (supported) her. Any more and it will be coming from Sarah herself.
Sarah Palin has played this perfectly… she stayed “in the running” without running for as long as was even vaguely plausible, thus causing the lefty loons to waste ammunition shooting at an illusory target. They can only use the words “crazy” “evil” “racist” etc so many times, and after having called Sarah Palin names so many times, those names will have less impact when the next conservative candidate comes up.
Of course, the liberals hate her so badly that they are *still* attacking her, and will do so on autopilot (as seen in these pages) for some time… again, wasting resources they could be using against people who are running. They can’t help themselves, you see… Ms. Palin is a decent person, and nothing inflames the liberal senses like someone who is genuinely good.
Sarah Palin has played this perfectly… she stayed “in the running” without running for as long as was even vaguely plausible, thus causing the lefty loons to waste ammunition shooting at an illusory target….Ms. Palin is a decent person, and nothing inflames the liberal senses like someone who is genuinely good.”
You just contradicted yourself.
Genuinely good and decent persons don’t engage in that kind of cynical scheming.
A true political operative like a Karl Rove or a Rahm Emanuel might dream up a strategy like that.
But a “genuinely good and decent person” doesn’t volunteer to be a cat’s paw.
I have been saying that Sarah wasn’t going to run for three years. I usually also said that if she did run I would post that I was wrong in every place where I had confidentally predicted she wasn’t running.
I was right.
Palin, Christie, and Rubio are not running. Time to focus on the candidates who are. By staying on the fence so long, they distracted the O-campaign and the MSM. Well done.
Romney?!! NO!! NO!!! A thousand times NO!!!!!
Sarah Player is out. Now its Bachmann turn to take her supporters and women’s vote. Can Bachmann do it and take Iowa??? YES
Democrat and Republican parties alike are dancing for joy now that Sarah Palin’s not running. Stupid Republicans!
“Anybody but Obama” will fail.
A brainwashed public that chose Obama first time around will do it again. Not one GOP candidate left has the inner
strength, character, and popular appeal to beat the Obama organization in the no holds-barred campaign to come.
Nobody but Sarah could do it.
Maybe the Divine Sarah has been reading her Greek and Roman and American history? Maybe she realises that the situation is not salvagable? Maybe it’s too far gone? Maybe she is tired of being stabbed in the back by her own Party? The Divine Sarah almost got John McCain elected. He chose to throw it away by pushing for and voting the bank bail-outs which no-one wanted. By doing so, he gave the election to Obama. Our present state can be legitimately placed at his feet. Knowing all this, I never wanted her to run for President. Also, the Presidency might well turn her into something less than she is. I wouldn’t want to see her diminished. Hoch sollst du leben, liebe Sarah! Leb’ wohl!
Let’s see. For the Palin supporters here, good for you. But the fact that many of us, indeed most of us, do not support her, may reflect serious and careful observation of her deficiencies – not “buying into” some line that other people have developed. she was a terrible VP candidate. She was not ready. Indeed, as I have written elsewhere, she is the white female Barack Obama – way out of her depth, photogenic, divisive, ideological, representing a missing demographic – but indeed, out of her depth. And a lover of luxury and perks, just like the President. She has more common sense and better positions than Obama, but she simply has no business being anywhere near national leadership. Barack Obama = black male Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin = white female Barack Obama. Divisive and unqualified.
Look hard at Mr. Cain. He is bright, a fast learner, refreshing, and has solid ideas. He knows what’s broken and, unlike Romney, will not be “Obama Lite.”
Unusual times call for unusual candidates.