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Posted on 07/07/2011 7:28:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
His problem isn’t organization: He hired anyone who would take a paycheck and some of them left 25K a month gigs to sign up. He has paid county leaders. He has more TV than a network. He is just so stand for nothing boring, as we’d rather watch the corn grow than even post a reply on the blogs when he does a press release. Leadership is needed. A conservative willing and able to take the fight on our platform issues to the left and to the establishment. He is the lukewarmest candidate in a century.
Fortunately, Perry is well enough understood that he is no threat to anyone in 2012.
Palin’s endorsement in his gubernatorial contest was no endorsement of Perry the person, but a rejection of the crud that opposed him.
Let’s hope that President Palin has the good sense not to put Perry in any position in her administration.
Well, jla, in all seriousness, it is sad. The Palin supporters really want to believe. The problem is that reality has passed them by. I know that, you know that and Sarah Palin knows that but they still don't.
The fact of the matter is that, right now, Sarah Palin is behaving in a very rational manner which, I must admit, I hope works out exactly as she plans:
Right now, Sarah Palin is working on a Win-Win situaion for herself and for America.
1.) By teasing to run or pretending to run, Sarah is maximizing her very high earning potential in the "motivational speaking" and entertainment industry. (Can we really blame her? She earned $12 million between leaving the Governoship and April 2010.)
2.) She is backing the dog (I will admit that the dog has fleas and is not "Perfect") that can actually WIN and rip out the throat of the Marxist dog in the November 2012 dogfight (Go, Sarah! Go, Sarah!! Polybius backs you up 100%!!!)
Sarah Palin is not dumb. She may have a poor fund of knowledge in certain topics crucial to the Presidency but she is very intelligent. There is a difference between being "dumb" and simply having no interest in the geopolitics of, for example, how the Yalta Conference led to the formation of two separate Koreas.
Sarah knows that an unsuccessful Presidential run can leave you millions in debt (as it did Hillary) so that is why her paid organization is non-existent. Sarah wants nothing to do with a genuine run for the Presidency that will adversely impact her financial bottom line.
Sarah knows what she's doing. She's politically smart and she can read polls. She knows that running outside the safe confines of her Fan Club will be a financial and PR disaster of Biblical proportions.
Here are the latest Favorable/Unfavorable polls in her own State of Alaska:
July 7, 2011 .... New Alaska poll on Palin (update)
Unlike her supporters, Sarah Palin has her feet firmly planted in reality.
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" There's another poll out that says former Gov. Sarah Palin has an approval rating of less than 40 percent among Alaskans. .... The Moore poll gives Palin a 39 percent positive rating and 49 percent negative rating among Alaskans. Twelve percent said they were neutral. .... The results are similar to other polling on Palin in Alaska, although a Dittman poll in March had higher negatives for her. That poll by Dittman Research of Anchorage found 36 percent favorable to her in Alaska and 61 percent unfavorable."
What is not "understood" at all by Palin supporters are the political realities that Sarah Palin herself understands perfectly.
See Post 23.
Take a look at the Favorable/Unfavorable polls that Sarah Palin had this week IN HER OWN STATE OF ALASKA.
And that is in ALASKA.
There will never be a "President Palin" any more than there will ever be a "President Tinker Belle" or a "President Tooth Fairy".
Sarah Palin understands that perfectly well and is acting accordingly. Again, see Post 23.
Her more rabid supporters, however, are still clapping their hands furiously so that Tinker Belle won't die.
Peter Pan - Believe in Fairies!
Is Perry perfect?
Hell, no.
Like any chief executive that has actually governed, he has political skeletons in his closet and lots of them. Ronald Reagan, for example, had 3 million amnestied illegal alien political skeletons in his closet.
That's called The Real World.
Perry, like all mere mortals that have actually governed, is not perfect but, as Jim Rob says:
Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 10:13:29 AM by Jim Robinson
“ Either way, Palin, Bachmann, Cain or even Perry would all be excellent alternatives to Obama the commie. …… Posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 10:13:29 AM by Jim Robinson”
The scenario you broach is interesting. I wouldn't discount it. Who knows what meanders thru the minds of these politicians.
I eviscerated the Moore poll earlier today.
In a post to *you* of all things. Imagine that.
And less than 12 hours later you are posting it again.
Troll.
I eviscerated the Moore poll earlier today.
In a post to *you* of all things. Imagine that.
And less than 12 hours later you are posting it again.
Troll.
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