I think the primaries are being moved up to force Palin to declare sooner than she intends...

10/01/2011 | E. Pluribus Unum

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I believe that the ruling class politicians see Palin as a real threat to their status quo, and her postponement of announcing her candidacy as a hindrance to their stopping her.

One way to force her hand earlier than she intends is to move up the primaries.

Anybody else see a pattern here?

[Grunthor]

Mitt was the one who pressured FL officials to move up their date knowing that the other states would move theirs up as well...

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I hadn’t heard that. Source?

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

If she has no intention of running, than she is basically playing games with her supporters.

Ya, think? Why was she running around the country in her brightly marked bus drawing attention to herself and her family? Why didn't she do this in an unmarked Winnebago?

[DJ MacWoW]

That being said I like her also

This hold out on her part is about her staying in the spotlight not about the nation getting rid of Obama.

So which is it? Do you like her or think she's a user? It can't be both.

[onyx]

PDSers flocking here...LOL. They just can’t stay away.

How many retreads can you spot?

[DJ MacWoW]

I say she polls no higher than 4th until she sets foot on a debate stage and has to go through what all of the others have been going through.

Those debates are setups by the left and the others "go through all that" because they are too stupid to pick and choose. They play the lefts game and get hammered. How is that Palins fault?

Candidates should REFUSE until the left gets serious about honest debates.

[trisham]

Run Sarah, run!

[DJ MacWoW]

Love it!!!

[Diogenesis]

With Romney in your own bed, why not just reach
over and ask him, yourself?

[DJ MacWoW]

Why was she running around the country in her brightly marked bus drawing attention to herself and her family? Why didn't she do this in an unmarked Winnebago?

Because she's smarter than you...........

[DJ MacWoW]

She’s in their heads! LOL

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

So you don’t know either?

[Aria]

I agree....she isn't running and when I last saw her on Greta she didn't sound like someone who ought to run. Don't need a “title”? “shackles”? How many serious candidates would think of the title of POTUS being too shackily?

Besides she was talking up Herman.

Hopefully she will continue to influence policy.

[DJ MacWoW]

Anybody that can think clearly knows exactly what she was doing. Haters can’t figure it out though. Try harder.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ya, think? Why was she running around the country in her brightly marked bus drawing attention to herself and her family? Why didn't she do this in an unmarked Winnebago?

Because she IS running, knucklehead.

I am bookmarking this to contact you when she declares to hear what deranged nonsense you spout then.

[precisionshootist]

“So which is it? Do you like her or think she’s a user? It can’t be both.”

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Yes it can be both really. It works like this. Any politician, even the rare honest ones like Sarah, must keep their options open to run even though there may be only the slightest chance of running. I think in her case she has known from the start that the chance of her running was very very low, like 5%, but still possible if the stars were to align just right. You can’t fault her for that, it’s just the way national politics works. At some point however a potential candidate must say “I’m not running” or risk looking like a loose cannon that can’t be trusted to support the party. She is dangerously close to losing the trust of the conservatives that supported her up until now. It time for the game playing to end.

[tcrlaf]

OK folks, use you HEADS for a minute...

Given the timing of the release of the McGinnis book, and yesterday’s movie “Sarah Palin-You Betcha!” by the Palin-hating Daily Kos Left, Sarah is looking like a FREAKING GENIUS.

Had she declared before now, she would be forced to deny the allegations made in these, lies or not, and it would be the ONLY thing the press would be covering, SNL and the Daily Show would be running endlessly with it, and the Late Night Comics would have had a field day...

If you don’t think the timing of these releases was designed to DESTROY her, you haven’t been paying attention.

[trisham]

Run Sarah, run!

[Grunthor]

No seriously, do you not know how crazy you sound? Just how absolutley insane this man has made you?

or can you source your claim that Romney made Florida move up it’s primary?

[Diogenesis]

Here you go. GAME ON.

”With the bus tour and hagiographical documentary,
I think at this point we can assume Palin is going to run
for the Republican nomination,
unless …her bus runs over a cute kitten named Mr Mittens live on Fox News “

[MikefromOhio]

So when this fad of starting primaries earlier began after the 2000 election it was really a conspiracy to force Sarah Palin to run earlier in 2012?

LOL