Posted on 06/19/2011 7:01:27 PM PDT by RED SOUTH
I dont think I can buy that idea but I give you credit for laying out your thoughts on this in detail. If Romney got the nomination I wish she would do this.
And your point is?????
What most FReepers still captive to the Republican delusion don't understand is that the GOP nomination is worthless to Sarah Palin.
The defeated Romneyites, Pawlenty, Huckabee and Huntsman will endorse Obama (or Hillary), and the "Palin as Goldwater" strategy will succeed.
After Bachmann endorses Romney, this will be even more clear. It is ESSENTIAL for Sarah to run against Romney AND Obama, or Romney AND Hillary.
Running alone against Obama, with the defeated RINOs lukewarm or, worse, in opposition, won't work. Romney, and many others, will be validating Plouffe and Axelrod's main campaign themes for the MSM, either behind the scenes or outright (she's crazy, too stupid, etc, etc).Sarah's political people need to be very patient, to wait until the election crystallizes as "them against them", until "none of the above" is over 40% or 50% in the polls, and THEN (and only then) can the embryo campaign now being put together uncloak.
What an exciting time!
Even if it's true, so what?
Obama=Romney=Huntsman=Pawlenty=Huckabee.
The inner party is fighting for it's life. If we can't elect an American nationalist and true believer as President, restoring the Republic will need to move on to other means, anyway.
Maybe Sarah running against Obama and Romney will win. Maybe she will lose.
But whether Romney is the GOP nominee, or Obama's VP, or something in between, Sarah still has to beat them both. Denying Romney the GOP nomination won't solve the problem.
It is not a given that Iowa will go for Obama. With a strong Republican at the top of the ticket, we are very likely to vote for the Republican. We had a huge Nov. last year.
A Romney loss would also thoroughly discredit the Northeastern/Beltway establishment with the rank and file which is already disaffected with the establishment GOP.
The tea party (and Palin)could well emerge from a Romney loss as the successor to a devastated GOP.
If Palin wins the Republican primary then Hurrah! for our team. If she goes third party without even fighting for the Republican primary then she is Ross Perot. If she loses the primary then goes third party she is Lisa Murkowski.
There is another theory floating around these threads that Palin will endorse Rick Perry when she announces she will not be a candidate for 2012, assuming he is a candidate. That one obviously contradicts your idea.
You may be right, I don’t know but I’m not going to surrender.
Exactly
To vote for Obama is to spit on Christ
Most significantly, a Palin victory is highly likely.
But even if things turned out otherwise, Sarah Palin is not—based on what we know of her and on her life in general—the kind of individual who would stand in the way of a Palin-led American victory by worrying and fretting about some imagined “mark of a loser.”
This kind of shallow-minded image crafting is only used by rinos, progressives and other narcissists as they scheme for their personal advancement.
You are correct.
A run brings her nothing, with the possibility of major losses. Why run?
Here you miss the entire backdrop.
Murkowski acts on a need for personal gain. Palin acts on principle.
There is a vast difference between the two. Palin can never be Murkowski.
Understanding the difference between them, based the reason given above, defines one’s competence to fill out the voting ballot.
I'm sorry, but she would lose the general badly, however, because of the media-generated attacks that still linger over her.
Remember, we do not elect the president. Neither does DU. Middle America does, especially the women, and women who break late (critical in any Presidential election) usually vote AGAINST the female candidate.
All we conservatives have to do, is beat you guys in the primary.
What you really mean is, "All we hyper-conservatives have to do is beat the mainline, Ronald Reagan conservatives.
That would be a disaster, again.
Winning the general is everything. Nominating a candidate who cannot win the general is idiocy.
Has not Tea Party favorites Sharon Angle and the O'Donnel loon from Maryland ("I am not a witch") been nominated, Harry Reid would be gone and we would have another seat in the HOR.
Remember, Dem's want us to nominate the far-far-right, so they can be defeated in the General!
Slice of Raw onion, Amazing what that will do.
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