Is Sarah Palin running for president? This video strongly hints in the affirmative.
Palin will be in Iowa September 3 for a Tea Party event that has grown in interest so much over the past day or so that event organizers say they have had to switch to a larger venue. The video above sets Palin up as the transcendent kind of figure presidents tend to want to be, while it also lays down her vision and its stark differences with Obama’s. Palin has also set a self-imposed, albeit soft, deadline to run — around Labor Day. Which is the weekend of the Iowa event.
There’s a lot of 2 and 2 to add up in all that.
My own preference would be that Palin not run, not because I’m not a fan. I am; she’s one of my favorite people in public life. I’d have preferred to flip the 2008 ticket and have her be elected president in 2008. But her current position outside the party fray but in the media spotlight makes her a perfect lightning rod to draw some criticism away from those who are running to replace Obama. She’s serving the country quite well in this role and there’s no reason to think she will become less effective as the election gets nearer. And the electability question can’t be ignored, as unfair as the abuse that has been hurled at her has been.
If she runs, though, it’s obviously a game-changer. The GOP field would have three governors or former governors at or near the top tier in the polls, which would make for a very strong and experienced field.
Tatler Flashback: Palin: ‘I do have the fire in my belly’ to run for president
This is just more propaganda and selective quotations from America’s Top MILF. Continue looking and watching because your tax dollars and hard-earned money are paying that gas and keeping Palin in the spotlight. Do you want someone in office whose main focus isn’t on the people but on her bank account? What Sarah’s after is fame and fortune and everything that goes. See how scandalous she’ll get for that CASH at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ecstasy-of-sarah-palin_15.html
I see the world’s most obsessed “artist” is back.
Wow. You are loose with the word ‘artist’. I’m catching a serious Jared Loughner vibe off of this creep. Alert the authorities.
Regarding the query from yesterday: Who would be found ‘up there’ during
obomination’s proctology exam. Mayhaps it’s Post #1.
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The irony of your own pursuit of fame and money while castigating Palin for doing the same…totally lost on you. Guess I should flag you for epic stoopid.
Bryan is patient and generous; he doesn’t bar the trolls. The Tatler is like a bar. A troll will stroll in, dump on us, we dump on it. Free Speech at work…
I know that Barack the Hussein of Obama has stolen my tax dollars to build the buses and fuel the buses for his campaign’s ‘Not Listening Tour’, but tell me…what tax dollars does Sarah Palin have access to?
I know you’re a troll, probably an Organizing for Obama troll, but…what? She has as much access to tax dollars as I do, which is none. The only association with me and tax dollars are those that they confiscate from me, as I am a producer of government revenue, not a taker.
My tax dollars and hard-earned money are keeping Sarah in the spotlight? How? To the contrary, she’s doing it on her own earnings and possibly donations to her PAC. Barack Obama’s Magical Misery Tour on the other hand . . .
kinda makes you appreciate the drooling everyday trolls, doesn’t he?
Anyone know where Dwight is?
I see that someone from Obama’s Office of The Director of Progressive Media and Online Response has joined us.
I see that you fear her greatly.
Just another song from a whore of Marxism.
Maybe your tax dollars pay for Governor Palin’s bus tour. How did you manage that? You must be the only person in the U.S. who’s bankrollin’ her tour. You must be one of those millionaire or billionaire Republicans I keep hearing about, which is odd, because I don’t know any. Just about any millionaire/billionaire list I hear of starts with George Soros and Warren Buffet.
Sahara, unlike obama started and paid for her own bus tour. Unlike obama who went on the taxpayers dime. Obama also bought a bus for a little over a million dollars. Obama is already walking around the white house saying choo choo train, choo choo train. You talk about somebody stuck on themselves and in it only for the money that would definitely be obama!
Man! ~ You Palin bashers are so passe’ it’s unreal…
Don’t you imbecile’s get it, Palin won and you lost.
But you can keep trying, I’m sure you have nothing else to do.
Just want you to know that you are the laughing stock, not only in this country but all over.
Hey Brandt. I would really like to see a twit like yourself call Sarah a “MILF” to her face while her Husband was standing next to you. I don’t think you would have the guts. Get out of your mothers basement, put on some clothes and get a job.
‘Get out of your mothers basement, put on some clothes and get a job.’
No. For God’s sake, ask him to put on some clothes before he comes out of his mothers basement.
“The GOP field would have three Governors or former Governors at or near the top tier in the polls, which would make for a very strong and experienced field.”
Key phrase. Really important point. I really am tired of the 7-Dwarves act.
Santorum – Great SoCon. Wrote good bills. Nothing else.
Cain – Ignorant on foreign affairs.
Bachmann – Sarah-lite. Keeps putting her foot in her mouth.
Paul – The Libertarian voice. 72 years old. Quit wasting our time.
Huntsman – Who?
McCotter – Can’t even poll enough to qualify for debates.
Johnson – Pothead. See McCotter above.
How could you have forgotten Newt???
Never mind. Stupid question. Sorry.
Sarah Palin is such a breath of fresh air from all the shrill botoxed feminist bull bitches and their anti everything lecturing. A voice of common sense in a sea of arts degree babbling and know it all elitism, totally useless people with big mouths. I sentence you all to two years less a day in Saudi Arabia.
For some reason I have this gut feeling that she is not going to run. I think we have a lot of qualified people already in the race, so if she does not run I still think we would win.
But if she did run, my biggest fear would be that the poor woman would get hit on all sides by not only the main stream media, the liberal press, and far left, and all of the late-night commedians, but also all the RINO establishment Repbulicans that can’t stand her because she not one of them, not one of the elitist crowd (Carl Rove comes to mind). It would be like seeing Custer at the Little Big Horn. I would dealy love her to run and win, but with all that firepower against her, I don’t know if she could. I don’t know if anyone could.
The only way she could pull it off (maybe) is by running as a modern-day Andrew Jackson. A grass-roots type of candidate that may get most of the states. Heck, she could even pick Michele Bachmann as her running mate! Could you imagine that, the first all woman presidential ticket? Republicans always seem ahead of the curve on these things.
I hope she runs, but it would be a very, very, very, hard fight. I don’t know if she could make it against those long odds.
“The poor woman”? Shirley, you jest. She “would” get hit? She HAS been hit, in all the ways you’ve named, and yet I don’t see her tottering or gasping for breath. The only way she could win would be by running as “a grass-roots type of candidate”? What on earth do you think she is? Ever hear of the Tea Party?
If she ran, I suppose you would gallantly attempt to spare “the poor woman” the hardships of the nomination by charitably voting against her, eh?
If anything sinks Sarah, it’s your type of misguidedness and negativism. Your post is a perfect example of mindless, self-fulfilling doubt.
“If anything sinks Sarah, it’s your type of misguidedness and negativism. Your post is a perfect example of mindless, self-fulfilling doubt.”
Excuse me dick head for having an opinion. Just remember, a great conservative in 1964 also got the grassroots nomination. His name was Barry Goldwater, and that didn’t turn out too well for Republicans, either. Maybe you should read up on a little recent history before blindly following a feel-good candidate like Palin. Unlike you, I WANT to beat Obama in the next election. There is not one poll where she beats Obama, not one. I do NOT want to lose because she can’t carry independents, let alone any conservative Democrats that may cross over and vote Republican like they did for Reagan. Take your head out from inside of your butt and look at a few facts for a change, before people like you doom the Republican party to four more years of Obama.
your head’s up your butt, pal, all you see are polls and piles.
Sticks and stones, crap head jr., sticks and stones. Cowards like you don’t even make a lotical point. People like you DESERVE four more years of Obama.
What GOP candidate will have an easy time facing the MSM, RINOs, etc?
Sarah Palin has taken the worst they can give and is poised to run against and defeat Ebola.
In July 2009 she escaped the trap set for her in Alaska and now is so “unpopular” that a September 3rd rally at which she is to speak has been moved to handle the expected enormous crowd.
Somehow, this idiot, this poorly educated boob, has flummoxed the credentialed elites from all sides and can make Ebola answer her straightforward and concise critiques with feeble and whiny farts of left-wing drivel.
Yeah, Ebola will clobber her.
Oh, so the main stream media isn’t so important? I seem to remember what they did to McCain and Palin in 2008. Wasn’t pretty, was it. They made McCain look like a senile old man and Palin like an idiot. The press kept carrying Obama’s water (like they will this time around) and the rest of the main stream media will ridicule Palin (with endless Saturday Night Live skits about her, just like last time). And if you can’t see that coming, then you’re an idiot.
And where was your much vaunted Internet back in 2008? It was around back then, you know, and what was it used for? Oh, that’s right, it was used to get Obama elected! That and DESTROY Palin. We have so many other, good, candidates in the race right now, from Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry and Rick Santorum. So if you want four more years of Obama, go right ahead and get Palin to run.
“Excuse me dick head for having an opinion.”
I think you have the dick head opinion market corned here, Liberty.
“Just remember, a great conservative in 1964 also got the grassroots nomination. His name was Barry Goldwater, and that didn’t turn out too well for Republicans, either.”
That was the MSM in all it’s glory. They have no monopoly now, and they already used all their bullets. They’v used the rock. They’ve flung the poo.
They have nothing.
Oh look,Tommy boy can actually spell dick. Wow, that must have put you up on top in your Head Start program.
Look, poo boy, just you WAIT until the main stream media gets into action if Palin is the nominee. There will be endless Saturday Night Live skits about her and the late night commedians will have a field day with her. And the press will carry Obama’s water just like they did in 2008. Again. I don’t really have to remind you about what all of them did in 2008. Well, they’ll just double down on her this time around because they can’t let their boy Obama fail. So you just know they’ll crucify her endlessly on TV.
Why does any of this matter? Because most people don’t read books or read political comments on the Internet. In fact, most people don’t even vote. They get all of their news and, by extension, their political opinions, from TV. So unless ALL of them are watching FOX News, you’re really screwed. The main stream media and the entertainers like Jon Stewart will MAKE political opinion for them, especially the younger people. So wake up and smell the poo, buddy. If Palin is the nominee, it will be the biggest gift you could be giving Obama and the Democrats. And she will lose.
Oh, and for the record, just remember what the Goldwater loss got us in 1964. It got us four years of Lyndon Johnson and the introduction of the Great Society. And these are programs we’re still paying for and losing money on today. Don’t think it can’t happen again, especially if the Democrats manage to hold on to the Senate.
It’s ridiculous to compare Palin to Goldwater! As a savy and gorgeous woman, Palin has the ability to wrap people around her finger. I can just see her getting the European heads of state to do pretty much what she wants. Don’t remember Goldwater ever having that kind of charm. Anyway, when Palin runs, I hope the left-wing media blasts her every day, because every time they do that, her popularity goes up. As for the polls showing Obama ahead, those polled are reluctant to sound “racist” by dissing Obama, even to anonymous pollsters. They have been so intimidated with the race card, that they don’t respond truthfully. Consequently, the polls show NOBODY can beat Obama. I don’t believe the polls. In addition to being reflective of intimidated people, the purpose of polls is to influence opinion, not gather it. Having said that, I believe the ONLY way Obama can win over ANY candidate, including Palin, is by fraud, and that’s very possible, as ACORN is still alive and kicking, as well as OFA, SEIU, et al. We should all commit to being a volunteer in our local polling place on Election Day. It’s not hard, just being visible is often enough to prevent cheating by the Dems.
Convenient senility. Goldwater ran and lost on the heels of the assassination of a then-much-loved President Kennedy.
Bull. Goldwater was portrayed as an insane conservative that would get us into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Remember the daisey commercial with the little girl and the nuclear bomb? It’s senile jerks like yourself who refuse to admit the truth and will get us four more years of Obama.
Liberty!!!!!!! What got into you today, sweetheart? You are usually so even-tempered and classy with your posts and replies! I’m the rude, crude and lude one! lol Don’t be takin’ my ‘spot’ in the “ewwwwww” place!
Alas, I share some of your fears. But, can Sarah be made any more of a laughingstock than Bam? I think NOT. They’ve already used all of their bullets on her and her armor is stronger than ever. Yes, she’s a bit of an attention whore like bozo, but, she has actual EXPERIENCE and she has had to be confronted with TOUGH questions which BOZO has never had to answer.
Honestly, if someone put an amoeba under a microscope and ran it for president, I’d vote for it just to get the scumbag and his crew of commies out of the white house.
I remember the Goldwater run. I was a brand new citizen and I voted for him. What did him in was the entire media that scared the public with threats of Goldwater starting a nuclear war! Just as today, the voting public is about two third stupid and one third reasonably informed.
Come on guys! Can we dispense with all the name calling? What’s the purpose? Is that the sum total of your command of the now defunct English language?
This woman – Sarah Palin – has been chased 24/7 by our Main Stream Media, as well as other nations. From the so-called “gotcha” interview with Katie Couric, to the recent Iowa State Fair; they want her drawn and quartered – nothing less is acceptable. My memory is not as sharp as it once was, but am I the only one who recalls her comments, addressed specifically to the Main Stream Media, following her address at the Rublication Convention, 2008 (paraphrasing) “I’m not going to Washington to represent you, I’m going to represent the American People”. I don’t really care what your personal feelings are about Sarah Palin – One just doesn’t say things like that to ABC,CBS,NBC, MSNBC, CNN, et al. You really think the President, Congress and the Judiciary are running this country? How naive can you be?
Think I’m nuts? May well be, but you are all salivating about will she, or won’t she run. She has gotten more press in the past 3-4 years than all the “announced” candidates, combined. She scares hell out of the MSM primarily because they have been unable to get her to “heel”. The name “Mama Grizzly” fits her well. I don’t think she will announce for President,but no one asked me. My point is simply this – the MSM wants her to completely disappear, forever. They can’t have a dangerous maverick like her, running loose, and stirring up the natives.
With all do respect my friend, Ronald Reagan was 25 points down four months before the 1980 election to Jimmy Carter and won with 51% of the vote in a three way race with Carter(41%)and Anderson(6%). Reagan also took the vast bulk of the electoral votes.
We don’t need a moderate anything to turn this country around we need a leader who will bring people out to the polls who haven’t voted in thirty years. Sarah Palin is that person. The media wants to smear her so we won’t nominate her, but the time has come for clear choices and only Sarah Palin has the guts to take the establishment of both parties on and win. We need a real man in the next election and Sarah Palin is that candidate.
Palin is the most vetted potential candidate around. The media has examined her every which way to Sunday (while ignoring Obama), thus they have no more ammo to hit her with. This is what pisses them off so much – and scares them at the same time. Based on how Palin has withstood what we know she’s withstood, I have no doubt that NOTHING can knock that woman out or down. Not one declared candidate has her strength of conviction or her backbone. She can take whatever’s thrown at her, and the worst of it will be hurled by the RINOs – under the table, of course – who do NOT want their sandbox disturbed, as they know she’s done it before and will do it again.
I’m tempted to write her in even if she doesn’t run.
Please don’t write Palin in if she doesn’t run! In Texas, if you don’t qualify with petitions or dollars to make the ballot as a candidate, EVEN A WRITE-IN MUST MEET THE SAME REQUIREMENTS, then the county election judges are REQUIRED to TOSS YOUR VOTE. If you write-in and they aren’t running you might as well not show up. You wasted your time. It would be better to put a big sign on your yard to show your support for someone without wasting that vote.
Elites and their wannabes despise Sarah palin for many reasons.
Reason Number 1: She’s a treat.
Reason Number 2: She’s a threat.
Reason Number 3: She’s a threat.
I think something is being overlooked by those who say Sarah is more powerful outside formal politics than in: it is the THREAT, as eman, notes, that she’ll wind up in Washington — whether as an elected or appointed official — that makes her powerful. If she declares that she’s not running, she will lose her power and a good bit of her audience.
Very true. And so what if she takes some of the attention and heat off the other leading candidates? Why make the job of the democrat press easy by having only one front runner to attack? The competition will also force Romney and Perry to work hard to attract votes.
Prelude to a run? I hope not.
You betcha.
The USA is facing a life-threatening fiscal crisis.
The folks who created this crisis mock Sarah Palin day and night.
This alone is reason enough to vote for her.
hard to see why she would run now. The field already has 4 people in her space. Two or three of the declared candidates can beat the Marxist. She would diminish her brand if she runs and loses. As it stands now, she is a hero and will be the same eight years from now as well. She has a couple of decades to run if that is what she wants. If she really wanted to win, she could have closed out 90% of the competition with an earlier declaration. Declaring will bring the piranahs out to devour her new daughter in law and grandchild. She doesn’t need the fame and fortune.
we need her, and need her now
Exactamundo. She has nothing to defend, she can attack at will. If she declares, she has to “play fair”. She has plenty of time to get to the top.
Perry will dig the hole to bury bambi and Palin may be the one covering it up.
I’d sure vote for her and apparently so would a lot of people I am hearing.
Perhaps this time she wouldn’t have to deal with the RNC throwing the election. Read her first book. I sure looked to me like the entire campaign was hog tied almost from the get-go.
I’ve heard severl people speculate that Steele threw the election for his bud, dunno, but it sure seems plausible to me.
How can you watch that video (and this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBoS1mZZRZ4&feature=player_embedded) and not get a lump in your throat and misty-eyed?
NO ONE has made me feel this way about my country since Ronaldus Magnus.
The difference in feeling that you get from watching and hearing Palin speak in her videos couldn’t be more different than the sensation you get from Obama. Her patriotism is so far ahead of Obama’s mealy-mouthed vapidity that it takes my breath away – and I’m Canadian!
I concur – and I’m Australian.
same here, and I’m an ecuadorian in Italy..
God bless America!
Well, if she isn’t running, that is a waste of a rousing campaign commercial.
I keep reading from “concern trolls” that Sarah is unelectable…. is that why there has been a relentless attempt by the left, by the elitists in the GOP, and by the make-believe media to destroy her, and her family? She is VERY electable, and they know that she will make changes that THEY DON’T WANT.
I don’t know enough about Perry, but he strikes me as almost Romney-esque, and I REALLY don’t like him.
I like Bachman, but she’s a Congresswoman, not a Governor. That makes a difference.
If the next GOP is not gunning for the elitist RINOs who dominate the Republican party, we will get to exactly the same place where Obama is taking us. It will just take a little longer.
The “flash mobs” popping up all over the US, is just a hint of what is yet to come.
Wait til the price of electricity and gasoline doubles, and doubles again, and see what happens to our unemployment rate.
We don’t need to appease the hard left, or compromise for the mushy middle.
Voters will turn out for someone who seems to have common sense, principles, and competence.
And they will stay home when another McCain, or Dole, or Bush is foisted upon us.
The latest news is that a lot of the US coal-fired power plants are going to be regulated out of operation by the EPA, and of course power prices will skyrocket and we will have blackouts and brownouts.
NASA is now trying to raise hysteria that space aliens will come down from the stars like Keanu Reeves to punish the Earth for having too large a “carbon footprint”.
Would Romney or Perry have the guts to shut down this insanity?
Would Sarah? You betcha!
Exactly!
Texas is already toe to toe with the EPA over regulations.
And we’re wearing boots…steeltoed boots.
I see many people still don’t understand Palin or the Tea Party. we are not just looking to replace the Democrats.
Hopes she runs and would vote for her as apposed to voting against Obama. Only thing I fear is that the press would pit her and Bachmann against each other. Otherwise it would be great. All the people I dont like heads would explode!
Palin will be attacked as a quitter. Financially and image wise, her decision now appears to have been correct: to flex herself permanently on the campaign trail in the lower 48 rather than be diverted fighting spurious and expensive charges that would have replaced the apparently accurate quitter charge with phony but multiple corruptions charges. Among her fans like me her correct choice is a plus. But it is easy to see how many like Troll No. 1 will dismiss her as a failed half-term governor, not someone we need after a failed half term senator. Sarah can continue in her roll as Stalking Horse, if that’s the right term, and then serve a solid term in the Cabinet. From there, her Star can take her anywhere though since Jefferson, Madison (?) and JQ Adams, the cabinet has never been the launching pad to the White House.
Edmond: What makes you think that the RINO’S that are trying to steal this primary,(and probably will), will allow Sarah in their administration. Murkowski in Alaska tried that, and see what it got him. You can forget her being a cabinet member. Ain’t gonna happen. They’re doing everyting in their power now to elbow her out of the running as it is.
By the way, for all you whine bags (not you Edmond) that are scared spitless of the media; I say get some backbone. Where is your fighting spirit, your love of country? Are you just going to roll over and let the bastards win.
This country wasn’t founded and made the greatest nation on earth by a bunch of cowards. Grow a pair and go hell bent for leather. We will never win if we don’t challange the unholy.
Go Sarah/2012 & Beyond
America can’t stand a natural conservative, a natural fighter and one who doesn’t like to lose. America doesn’t deserve Sarah Palin. We’re not worthy. Well, most anyway, and you know who they are: those who put responsibility for themselves on the back burner and put the government’s involvement in their lives on the front burner. They traded liberty for tyranny long ago and the chains, those heavy chains, have yet to weigh on them- but they will.
As others have said defeating O’Blame-a is paramount because a second term for this fraud is unthinkable and not survivable. The dirt shoveled on Sarah and her family over the years should disqualify her, shouldn’t it? But look at her, look at how people resonate with her message and know this, when she announces, money will pour into her campaign that’ll dwarf O’Blame-a’s war chest.
I’m putting my money on Sarah because the others all seem ‘manufactured’ conservatives to me, not natural. Some even have recent Dem pasts.
I really want America to win this time. I won’t settle for a compromise as I’ve had to in the past. No Dole, Bush II, or McCain for me this time. After watching the recent debt/deficit debacle I’m all too aware of the compromisers amongst us. Me, I’m no longer willing to run America into the ditch on the promise of a brighter tomorrow. I want to see results today. And in that regard, I’ll be sending the Palin campaign some cash as soon as she announces. A bunch of it.
Well said, my friend. and good on ya!
Go Sarah/2012 & Beyond
You and me, both, buddy. When Sarah announces – and she’s got great political instincts as to “when” – she will start a firestorm of support. Watch for it.
Palin is waiting for Bachmann to move out front to the head of the pack, in which case Palin will not run or for Bachmann to be outpaced by one of the other males, in which case she will run.
I hope McCain campaigns for her. hehe
Just kidding. I like her and will vote for her if she wins the nomination.
But my first choice is Mittimus Romney. We need to win a blue state or 2 to win this thing.
“But my first choice is Mittimus Romney.”
Why bother voting against Obama, then? Romney is a liberal who will get some of what he wants out of 2012, if elected!
My family and I will not vote for Romney, too slick and smarmy at the same time. His record as governor is not much to brag about. As for his business savvy I am unable to judge. If they run Romney it is another write-in for me personally. If we get a Repub president I would like to see Sarah appointed to a prominent cabinet post. The media would go ballistic as they wouldn’t know where to turn, tearing down Sarah or tearing down a Repub president. What fun to contemplate.
dougx, please do some research on romney. I liked him, too, until I found out about his leaning towards one world govt and Agenda 21. Now he looks like too much of a politician to me, which equals RINO. We are in such a mess from Obama that we need a strong constitutionalist who is not in anyone’s back pocket, beholden to no one. Same feeling about Perry – he’s a NAFTA devotee who signed up to allow Mexican trucks roll throughout TX, favors open borders, as well as a Bilderberger who likes one world govt. Palin wouldn’t be caught dead doing any of this stuff. She is pro-America, through and through, no matter what or who gets in front of her.
I believe she has already decided to run. I deeply resent Rove trying to pressure her to announce by Labor Day or be judged as not serious.
She should wait until late September so as to avoid the Reagan Library debate. No Republican should show up for any more debates sponsored or conducted by the MSM (including Fox but especially NBC/MSNBC/Politico). The field will thin out and if we must have these “cattle call” debates they need to be moderated by conservatives!
I am not sure if she can win the nomination but if she does I am certain she will be our next president.
I deeply resent that, too. Rove, Krauthammer et al are just pissed because they are so used to being “in the know” with pols, and Sarah is a different pol. It’s driving them nuts, so they try to intimidate her into going on THEIR timeline by saying stupid stuff like, “well, if she doesn’t declare by such and such date, she can just forget it!” Palin has excellent political instincts as to “when”. Frankly, I hope she holds off and declares 10 min before the deadline, for these reasons:
1) The focus needs to be on Obama and his ruinous assaults on our country for as long as possible leading up to the 2012 election. We need to literally follow his daily moves on effing up the country. The minute Sarah declares her candidacy, the spotlight will be turned off of Obama and onto her. That would be unfortunate for us and for America, and I think Sarah knows it.
2) A late entry affords Sarah the ability to stretch her campaign funds to the max, and gives her more time to raise money and gather support.
3) A late entry allows a current candidate sufficient time to put their foot in their mouth, and also allows time for potential voters to scrutinize them and, as they learn more about them, perhaps to discard them as a good choice.
4) A late entry will cause potential voters to become more weary of and dissatisfied with the current line-up. And it will give them more time to notice Sarah and to see what she’s made of as she critiques Obama and his regime. As voters become more frustrated with their current choices, they will be more interested in Sarah as a candidate. Nothing makes people want something more than if they think they won’t get it – human nature.
5) A late entry will allow Sarah more time to get organized behind the scenes -which is what I think is going on right now. By having a reputation as an “unconventional” politician, Sarah has the freedom to ramp up and conduct her campaign however she wants to. That’s a big part of her attractiveness to voters – she’s different from the usual run-of-the-mill pol.
6) As a private citizen and pundit, Sarah has the freedom to criticize Obama or anyone else as she sees fit, a luxury she would not enjoy as a candidate right now.
Palin is not a typical politician (thank God) and as such, runs an atypical campaign. She already has the name recognition, which has enabled her to create and fund Sarahpac, and also enables her to draw huge crowds with little notice – heck, she draws huge crowds just on a rumor that she will appear!
I think, by holding off, Sarah has made another brilliant political move, much like the brilliant political move she made to resign as AK Gov. She would have never been able to bird-dog Obama like she has from the AK governor’s office.
Sarah is no RINO. ’nuff said.
I’d vote for Barney the dinosaur at this point just to get the Marxist cretin we currently suffer from out of the white house.
Imagine this: Palin-Rubio 2012
Now that combination I can live with! Although I like Rubio in the senate.
It would be an amazing event to have two serious female candidates run for the Republican nomination for president!!! Hear more glass ceilings shatter!! And I would love for it to be a Republican while the Democrats just talk about being the “party of women.” What a joke!! It’s the R’s putting women on the ballot!! Bachmann’s victory in Iowa was important and even if you don’t agree with her positions, it was a good thing. Here’s why:
http://womenwintoo.blogspot.com/2011/08/michele-bachmann-kicks-ass_14.html
And we need to be ready for the sexism about to shower down on both of them!! Here are two links with some ideas on that score:
http://womenwintoo.blogspot.com/2011/08/any-woman-just-not-that-woman.html
http://womenwintoo.blogspot.com/2011/08/any-woman-just-not-that-woman.html
oops—-here’s the other link:
http://womenwintoo.blogspot.com/2011/08/21st-century-feminism-call-to-action.html
@ Libertyship,
You seem to be PO’ed I used the word dick to describe your opinions when you used it first. I suppose the same sort of anonymous coward who has so little faith in themselves and their opinions that they won’t sign on to them by name, does not have the mettle to dish minor digs and take them too.
This isn’t 1967.
“Look, poo boy, just you WAIT until the main stream media gets into action if Palin is the nominee.”
I’ve seen what they can do and I’m deeply unimpressed. So is a majority with this President. I’ll happily take the bet that Palin can win and then accomplish much when the alternative is Obama winning and getting none of his agenda done. Heads we win, tails they lose. I should not countenance the nomination of a GOP squish who will in the same circumstances that get Obama nothing, be such a RINO that Reid and Pelosi get some of what they want in a “compromise”.
I’m not concerned about a “daisy” ad–what like circumstances are possible now? None. And Palin has been quite thoroughly vetted, the MSM has no ammunition left against her, nothing. Who knows what they can dredge up or invent against Perry? Why give them a fresh canvas to paint their lies on? Why would they bother inventing anything against Romney–he’ll be the choice between his fake Republican to Obama’s real and impotent liberal. Romney can not win, and it may be better for the country for him to lose–he’s the liberal who will get some of what he wants if he wins. Also, in 1967, there were no alternatives to the MSM. Now there are.
“Because most people don’t read books or read political comments on the Internet. In fact, most people don’t even vote. They get all of their news and, by extension, their political opinions, from TV. So unless ALL of them are watching FOX News, you’re really screwed.”
A great many of them do watch FOX, and I don’t care if the dyed in the wool leftmost 49% or so of the electorate only reads or believes everything Obama wants them to. Why you let it be an obsession to you I’ve no idea–you must not be that bright. It’s the 2 or 3% in the “middle” who will decide this, and many of them are being political for the first time–in the Tea Party. They won’t vote for Obama mo matter what.
“The main stream media and the entertainers like Jon Stewart will MAKE political opinion for them, especially the younger people.”
And every indication is those younger voters are less likely to vote this time around, because they don’t have their unicorn rainbow ponies with flowers coming up from their droppings, and those younger voters know they ain’t getting them.
“Oh, and for the record, just remember what the Goldwater loss got us in 1964. It got us four years of Lyndon Johnson and the introduction of the Great Society.”
I know it can’t happen again. You should also be bright enough to know it can’t happen:
1) The money doesn’t begin to be there for it, and the D’s can’t even pretend it is.
2) Johnson had a compliant Congress, Obama won’t. At best his party will hold the Senate by two seats, 51-49, and more of those 51 will be nervous and pliable than will the 49. It is more likely the Dems will lose the Senate than not.
3) There was no Tea Party in 1967, now there is. They will keep the R’s feet to the fire and the Dems will have no rest from them.
Why on earth do you continue to believe the MSM is all powerful when they can’t:
1) Persuade a majority that AGW is real.
2) Sell the idea to a majority that more money printing and borrowing is the answer.
3) Convince us Islam is religion of peace.
4) Convince a majority we should give up one/lose the war against Islamism.
5) Convince us the TSA’s security theatre is worthwhile.
These are the MSM’s failure, among many others.
While do you think they’ll have more success when it comes to Palin? We’ve already seen what they’ve got there, it ain’t much compared to Obama’s failures, and they can have nothing new against her.
Why worry about what they have accomplished against her in the past, and in addition to which they can do nothing new, when that is counterposed against what Obama has done, most of which a majority of Americans are passionately opposed to?
In making these comparisons to Johnson, you are preparing to fight the last war as if it is the last war and as if the battlefield was the same. Neither is true.
The question is answered–whether by birth or decision, you aren’t that bright.
Tom: This back and forth from you and Libertyship makes me very uncomfortable. I feel like I have somehow stumbled into a DU or KOS comment thread. Over the years I have read comments from the both of you and for the most part you both are intelligent and articulate. I would hate for both of your voices to be silenced by a disagreement with each other. What you have been engaging in here in this thread is not healthy debate, but rather vicious ad-homenin attacks of each other. Please stop! Both of you have valid points, but the personal attacks detract from the value of what you are saying. Thank you
“Oh, so the main stream media isn’t so important?”
No, they aren’t.
“They made McCain look like a senile old man and Palin like an idiot. ”
And in each case they had substantial help from McCain, didn’t they? He was the man who refused to fight, to scrap, to contend. He actually went to Washington to fight FOR the bailouts instead of opposing them. He had no fire, no better plan, and in the end no clue or victory.
In a second go around, Obama has to defend his record, Palin to attack it–which do you think is going to be far, far easier?
To Libertyship,
You usually have great responses and I think it’s great that you and many others regularly contribute to the debate. The issues are monumnetal and far reaching. I was surprised to see your use of derogatory language toward a guy who obviously is in our camp, albeit with different opinions of who should run. Save the angst for those who deserve it.
The fact is, if Sarah wants to run, she has earned the right. Personally I don’t believe she’s electable for many reasons. You touched on a few. Regardless, she is a Lady whose walked the coals and is a great American. Our process for nominating a republican candidate will in the end, represent “us”. Regardless of who wins that nomination, they will have my vote.
That the debate is vigorous and that we have a good field, speaks well of us all. I would also like to point out that gravity of what’s at stake merits credible debate. Not sophmorish responses. From what I’ve read in many of your threads, you shouldn’t need to resort to that anyway. It’s beneath all of us.
I agree. Libertyship, buddy, that was really not like you. Such nasty little fights really poison the well for all of us readers. Not feeling too well, I take it? Be well.
I have always thought Sarah Palin to have the greater honesty and grip of reality that a true leader (Reagan; Thatcher) simply needs in times of trouble.
May God bless and guide America, indeed.
The media hates her and that’s all you really need to know.
She’s got the ability to reach the people where they know it’s true.
The truth does its own marketing and needs no gimmicks.
Go Sarah!
Palin/ Paul 2012
The true freedom from federal tyranny ticket, and the restore the Republic ticket as well.
Paul Takes New Hampshire Young Republicans Straw Poll With 45% of Vote
Palin is a smart, hard working, fearless, gutsy, patriotic, Mr. Smith goes to Washington type of LEADER that is heads above all the other candidates running for 2012. Sarah represents the life we wish we could live… purposeful, selfless, courageous. She seemingly has it all & is doing it the right way… being a paragon of the feminist ideal, to an inspirational force that makes us nostalgic for the founding fathers & Americana in all it’s patriotic, frontier-style glory.
Sarah accomplished more in her 3 yrs as Governor than most Governor’s do in their two terms, not to speak of the backward direction Obama has taken us. She brought the GOP victory in 2010 w/ her endorsements & campaigning, & her star, can-do power will rally the crowds for 2012. She’s Obama’s antithesis & can win.
Besides, she’s fun to watch & has been running an unconventional campaignsince 2009. No way are we going to let the media or the establishment Rino’s in the GOP pick our candidate for us…it’s still a competition & whoever has the fight & devotion to country should run.
I don’t care if she -wants- to run. I don’t want her to run unless her plan is to get her following to follow someone more electable. I don’t want Palin as president, and I don’t believe it’ll ever happen. She’s no more presidential material than Obama is…which, for the slow, means that neither are presidential material.
I’d love to see her speak in person, and I’d love for her to make a run for the presidency!
For decades I have been a San Francisco Dem, but now I’d vote for Sarah in a split second. Put her on the ticket. The Democratic party is frantically moving towards being a totalitarian, fascistic, ideology. Many of their members are too stupid to see what they’re doing and what the price will be for them, as well as for the whole country. It’s frightening and it’s happening at a very alarming speed. It’s critical that someone strong be elected — this could be our last chance. Time is running out.
I’ll hold my nose and vote for Anyone who has a chance against Obama. If Sarah Palin runs, I won’t have to hold my nose. (I held it less tightly than usual last time because of her.)
She has the stuff. The MSM and the progressive’s hatred of her proved that long ago. You don’t go all out against someone who’s no threat.
My take on Sarah Palin is that she means what she said: if the declared candidates do not put forward the agenda that she thinks is needed to rescue the country, she will step forward and declare. I don’t see her calculating odds as so many of the comments here suggest to make the decision even though she is quite capable of weighing alternatives once a decision has been made. That is the hallmark of a real fighter.
Mrs. Palin is one of if not the most worthy leaders America has been presented with since our founding. In terms of principle and virtue I believe Mrs. Palin stands with a great leader such as George Washington, in terms of her resolute belief in our greatness, she embodies the hopes and aspirations of those who fought and sacrificed to win and create a system of Liberty and Self determination, the likes of which not seen in recorded in history.
Sarah Palin has the qualities of true leadership to unite and inspire America to a level of prosperity and success that eclipses the last two centuries.
Sarah Palin believes in you and I, what America is, what it stands for, with such honesty and resolution, she is prepared to do whatever it takes to redress and restore that inherent greatness in America, in you and I, through inspiration, through example, through leadership that instills the idea you are more than you thought possible, that believing in something greater and better, larger than yourself is the greatest idea man has ever had.
As a resident on THE GREAT WHITE NORTH, one matter confounds me.
Many conservative commenters here have expressed the opinion that Sarah Pallin is light on foreign policy matters.
It has been obvious from the get go that the “won” is totally clueless about geopolitical matters…starting with his apology tour to his handling of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and general treatment of Isreal.
Clearly anyone would have a better grasp of foreign affairs and would be a signal improvement.
This is Sarah, hear her roar. I don’t know, call me an old fool but there are times when she gives me goosebumps. If she were just a bit frumpier in a Margaret Thatcher kind of way.
It is obvious to me, Sarah is ALREADY RUNNING… she’s running a campaign by directly talking to the people of America…
fact: America has a void of real leadership in Washington right now
she’ll fill the void quite easily
Clinton announced his candidacy in October
Reagan announced in December
WHAT’S THE RUSH? The rush is because people are DESPARATE to get Obumbles ‘n’ crew the HELL OUTTA THERE…
2012 can’t come fast enough
She’ll formally announce when she’s ready… I, for one, will really enjoy the sounds of lefties heads exploding around the globe when she does
the restoration of America will begin under her term… It will be hard, but she’ll get the job done
ENERGIZE AMERICA’S FUTURE – Palin 2012
Palin is the anti-establishment candidate, including the repubs. Just look at what she did in Alaska.
Given the current mood, she will shoo in, ddespite massive thermonuclear attack from the MSM
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