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The reasons Sarah Palin wouldn’t run for president
Washington Post ^ | 07:53 AM ET, 08/22/2011 | Aaron Blake and Rachel Weiner

Posted on 08/22/2011 6:15:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

It’s the question that has been asked over and over for well more than a year now: Will Sarah Palin run for president?

The former Alaska governor has people talking yet again after her PAC on Friday released an Iowa-themed web video teasing her appearance at a tea party rally there on Sept. 3. And former Bush adviser Karl Rove, for one, thinks she’ll do it.

For what it’s worth, so too do an increasing number of Palin’s potential opponents in the GOP presidential campaign. But many others remains skeptical.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: notrunning; notrunningmeme; palin; palin2012; runsarahrun; sarahpalin; smellthefear
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To: HerrBlucher

oh, man, don’t you know that is sooooooo true!

there is going to be one camp with mouths wide open, and on the receiving end of a whole lot of (justly earned) abuse on the day we know for sure!

I hope Palin runs. I’m just not certain she will. I tend to be neutral, to veering over into the “mild doubter” column at times. Then, she lines up an Iowa event, and that keeps us all guessing! If nothing else, this is great fun.

and you are right, it will be a vicious feeding frenzy here on FR on that day when it becomes clear that one side of this speculation is dead wrong!


21 posted on 08/22/2011 6:47:43 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: mrspeelwerneeded
It’s at a point where it’s ridiculous

Do you keep a copy of this screed or do you have to re-type it each time you re-post it?

We all know that you've been beating this drum since April.

22 posted on 08/22/2011 6:50:28 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: USS Alaska

LOL!

Do you keep a copy of this screed or do you have to re-type it each time you re-post it?

We all know that you’ve been beating this drum since April.

See my response to a like minded poster such as the one you posted to:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2767209/posts?page=31#31

We seem to have reached our PDS tipping point.

Have a really good day.


23 posted on 08/22/2011 6:56:24 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Your post is quite true.

I think the thing that everyone here can agree on is this:

IF Palin runs, it will be, quite literally, unlike any presidential campaign in the modern era. Including Reagan 76, and certain vastly (!) different from Reagan 80 - and for precisely the reasons you point out. That level of, what should we cal it, professionalism does not happen overnight. Or even over a period of weeks. It takes a minimum of several months. (Perry organized furiously for 2 or 3 months before announcing).

So. A Palin campaign would have to be very, very different.

Moreover, it would seem that a true, deep grassroots uprising which would compel a non-traditional campaign would be the very thing this country needs.

Is Palin willing to lead that charge?

I don’t know.

I think we’ll know with much more certainty by October 1.

But before that? Maybe not.....


24 posted on 08/22/2011 6:58:43 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: SoConPubbie
Patience is a virtue. Every minute that Palin waits to declare just drives those forces arrayed against her up a wall a little bit more. She's calculating this for maximum effect, making them spend all of their ammunition, throwing everything they have out there, just so when they have shown themselves for what they really are, exhausted every barb and jab, that's when She'll come out with both barrels loaded for bear.
25 posted on 08/22/2011 7:04:51 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: SoConPubbie

“...her bus tour, which went on hiatus after a trip up the East Coast and then resumed — apparently for just one day — for the Iowa trip”?

Shows just how clueless the hacks who write for the Washington Post.


26 posted on 08/22/2011 7:06:40 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: frogjerk
When did Reagan announce his candidacy?

What does that matter? As everyone is so fond of pointing out about Perry, Palin is no Reagan. At this point in 1979, Reagan had a 40%-40% approval/disapproval rating - Palin has about a 33%-55% approval/disapproval rating. She has a lot more ground to cover than Reagan did, and fewer undecideds that she can win over. I don't think waiting is in her favor.

27 posted on 08/22/2011 7:10:25 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: mrspeelwerneeded
Considering Perry is the last likely candidate what exactly is Palin waiting for?

Just a guess, but consider: Bachmann's the favorite; the media savages Bachmann: Perry's the favorite; the media savages Perry. Maybe Palin's simply giving the MSM time to make it obvious even to disengaged voters that their coverage of her will be equally corrupt.

28 posted on 08/22/2011 7:10:53 AM PDT by Grut
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To: Lazlo in PA

Palin’s been working on her message for years and she apparently has the best organization in Iowa without spending a cent.

But yes, her unconventional approach to fundraising—including simply minimizing the need for it—could be seen as risky.

On the other hand, if she pulls it off, we’ll have our first president who didn’t sell his/her soul for the office 100x over.


29 posted on 08/22/2011 7:12:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Jonty30
I really wish she’d run for a senate seat. She’d be great there.

She would be great in Lisa Murkowski's seat. Senate is where she could be much more effective. We need her to help to pass oil and gas drilling in ANWAR, for just one thing.

30 posted on 08/22/2011 7:34:27 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: mrspeelwerneeded
"....what exactly is Palin waiting for?"

She's waiting for them to bleed each other out - why should she use up money and energy sparring with the others?

31 posted on 08/22/2011 7:34:48 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SoConPubbie

The Independents won’t get behind her in a Presidential race. She can’t win.


32 posted on 08/22/2011 7:35:08 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: 9YearLurker

If she gets in the race, I’m happy and I hope she wins. If she sits it out, I hope she gives her followers a clear direction who she wants them to support and then campaigns for that candidate.

My fear is that if we have too many conservatives and too few RINOs in the field, the RINO will take the early primaries and become harder to defeat (McCain ‘08). The Tea Party wing needs to coalesce behind one candidate by the end of January and ride that horse as far as it takes them.

The RINO wing won’t cede power easily and it certainly won’t respect a splintered conservative base.


33 posted on 08/22/2011 7:37:04 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: SoConPubbie

It does not look to me like Sara is going to go for it. I wish she would but you have to want to be president. And you have to believe you are the best person available for the job. Lacking either belief disqualifies you. I am curious has Dick Army said anything on this subject?


34 posted on 08/22/2011 7:50:33 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: NeoCaveman

And when were the first primaries then? I am guessing MUCH later than February, which is where they are now.


35 posted on 08/22/2011 7:57:00 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Grut

“Bachmann’s the favorate”

Bachmann illustrates what happens when you have a spine of titanium and your main theme consists of abstractions about your toughness and conservative-ness, but after hearing that for awhile audiences lose interst.

Recently Palin told Hannity that she still has that “fire in my belly”. Does that mean she has so much fire that she’ll decide to not enter the primaries? Not in my opinion.

Perhaps the main reason she’ll run is that win or lose, she’ll have much more stature and influence than if she sits this thing out.

The only thing that could cause her fear is that she might become President, and that could be harmful to her family.


36 posted on 08/22/2011 7:58:42 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: 9YearLurker
quote “Palin’s been working on her message for years and she apparently has the best organization in Iowa without spending a cent.”

?

what? um... Palin’s votes were so low they got lumped in with the tiny “other” write in category. How that translates into “apparently has the best organization” I can't imagine.

37 posted on 08/22/2011 8:02:27 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: frposty

———Bachmann illustrates what happens when -——

you have nothing to lose.

Her chances of being nominated are slim to none. Although a Congress critter, she lacks the gravitas of a real experienced conservative like Herman Cain. She is little different from any of several highly dedicated Tea Party leaders


38 posted on 08/22/2011 8:07:58 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ....Rats carry plague)
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To: SoConPubbie
In the past I have repeatedly said she has more time to say yea or nay.

Not anymore, the situation for her is now reaching critical mass. I do believe a no will hurt her brand for any future endeavor to run, for after all the teasing hoopla, who will give her any due for being a serious candidate. It would be extremely difficult to rekindle any future enthusiasm for her with me.

39 posted on 08/22/2011 8:08:21 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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To: mrspeelwerneeded

Of course she knows whether she is running, but why would she want to deprive the press of the time they need to vet Perry?


40 posted on 08/22/2011 8:12:07 AM PDT by Jess79
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