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Six Clues Palin Is Running For President
Conservatives4Palin ^ | June 30, 2011 | Nicole Coulter

Posted on 06/30/2011 10:04:11 AM PDT by LaybackLenny

When I was back in high school, a popular phrase was, “Get a clue.”

When it comes to media and everyone doubting whether Palin is running for president, I can only say, “Get a clue.”

Here are six CLUES for the doubters.

(Excerpt) Read more at conservatives4palin.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; notrunning; palin; palin2012; sarahpalin
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To: Responsibility2nd
No problem here's another excerpt that people on this thread may find interesting: Why hasn't she announced yet? Two reasons, in my view: 1. She is supremely confident. Think Kobe Bryant/Dirk Nowitzky confident. She knows once she jumps in the race, the game is hers. She knows her ground game is being quietly assembled by people who are passionately committed to helping her win the presidency. She is likely doing things behind the scenes, as well. Remember how surprised everyone was about the bus tour, the movie, and the house in Arizona? What else will we be “shocked” to learn in coming weeks? 2. This is war. She is not going to give her opponents any advantage. She wants them to waste their efforts preparing for a no-Palin campaign and then have to suddenly adjust to her presence. In other words, she’s toying with them. Meanwhile, she can prepare under the radar, conserve resources, and scout her competitors.
21 posted on 06/30/2011 10:39:55 AM PDT by erod (Unlike the President I am a true Chicagoan.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Why hasn’t Palin announced yet?

(Paraphrased reprint from source site, with my own modifications and expansions)

This is war. This is, quite literally, a war for the very heart, soul, and future of our Republic. Sarah is way too smart to give any unneccessary advantage to the vile scum (on either side of "the aisle") who want to destroy her. She wants them to waste their efforts preparing for a no-Palin campaign and then have to suddenly adjust to her presence. In other words, she’s toying with them. For this tactic to be effective, she has to give the very plausible appearance of leaning toward NOT running. Meanwhile, she can prepare under the radar, conserve resources, and scout her competitors.

In her appearance at the preview of "The Undefeated" in Pella, Iowa yesterday. she referred to announcing her candidacy as an "earth shaking decision." She wasn't exagerrating. Think seismic event. Think tectonic plate-shift magnitude 9.0 on the political Richter Scale.

When she announces, the whole game changes. Immediately, and irrevocably. She's gearing up for throwing herself into the lion's den... but you can count on her bringing a .50 caliber Desert Eagle with plenty of Plus-P loads.

Sarah will not run just to make a statement, she'll be running to kick O'Bunghole's boney ass from here to Oahu and back, and then stick her flag in the front lawn at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the next eight years.

She is runniong, and she's doing an amazingly creative and effective job of it. Then again, what else should we expect from The Barracuda?

8^D

22 posted on 06/30/2011 10:42:02 AM PDT by Gargantua ("Palin 2012 ~ Going Oval")
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To: Robe
Man!!!! ........... Wouldn’t a PALIN / BACHMANN ticket make their heads explode!!!!

That would almost make MY head explode, albeit for different reasons.

It's an nteresting concept, but it might be a bit too 'out there' to sell on Main Street. Sarah and Michele are almost interchangeable in some people's minds.

Dunno. We'll see.

23 posted on 06/30/2011 10:42:38 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

He’s so right Sarah Palin is like the Michael Jordan of the GOP field. When she gets in this race it’s hers to lose. All the other candidates are just B level players or pretenders (Romney) that are seeking to get the nod.


24 posted on 06/30/2011 10:43:12 AM PDT by erod (Unlike the President I am a true Chicagoan.)
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To: kentramsay
7. She looks better in a golf shirt than 0bozo does





(Probably has better short game than he does, too.)
25 posted on 06/30/2011 10:48:56 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Can you afford to board the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?)
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To: RockinRight

1. The economy.
2. The novelty of Obama has worn off.
3. Palin has killer instincts.
4. She’ll be the youngest and most attractive candidate in the race.
5. She controls the media narrative, he does not anymore.
6. November 2010 happened.
7. The economy.


26 posted on 06/30/2011 10:50:24 AM PDT by toddausauras
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To: erod; LaybackLenny

Thank you erod.

I’m not sure why many FReepers can’t (or won’t) post properly.

I appreciate you’re stepping up here.


27 posted on 06/30/2011 10:53:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: Windflier
This is war. She is not going to give her opponents any advantage. She wants them to waste their efforts preparing for a no-Palin campaign and then have to suddenly adjust to her presence. In other words, she’s toying with them. Meanwhile, she can prepare under the radar, conserve resources, and scout her competitors.”

Since you made the "war analogy", I'll take it a bit further. Palin's game is to "wrong foot" the opposition. They expect her to get in, she can't really hide all the preparations. But she can get in in an "unconventional manner" by playing with her technique & timing. IOW's the longer she waits the more convinced they will become that "she won't". Then the trap is sprung.

It's like the Germans thinking that the invasion was coming at the Pas de Calais. OK. Let them think that. Invade Normandy instead.

28 posted on 06/30/2011 10:54:58 AM PDT by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: Windflier

That’s pretty good strategery for someone so dumb.


29 posted on 06/30/2011 10:58:41 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Windflier
"Man!!!! ........... Wouldn’t a PALIN / BACHMANN ticket make their heads explode!!!!"

That would almost make MY head explode, albeit for different reasons. It's an interesting concept, but it might be a bit too 'out there' to sell on Main Street.

Spot on as usual. My thought from the start is that Palin must have a man for a running mate. Having an all-woman ticket rattles even my sensibilities -- it's a little too much estrogen for me, and I'm a woman! Of course I'd vote for Palin regardless, but ... an all-woman ticket, in a nation that has not yet had a woman VP, let alone a woman President, smacks just a little to much of "gimmick."

30 posted on 06/30/2011 10:58:48 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: RockinRight
How about clues that she could beat Obama?

You're obsessed with shooting down Palin. You show up on most Palin threads, and post the exact same talking points, every time.

It's just doesn't appear to be in you to allow a group of like-minded people to have a conversation about a topic they're all passionate about, without you sticking your nose in and trying to rain on their parade.

I think that's an anti-social trait.

I don't support the presidential ambitions of Cain, Bachmann, or any of the others, but I don't go out of my way to find every Cain and Bachmann thread, just so that I can post derogatory, depressing, or demoralizing things about them. Mostly, I just skip past those threads, because I have nothing positive to add to those discussions.

So, why do you feel 'called' to attend ever discussion about Palin on the forum? We Palin supporters have heard what you have to say, over and over and over and over and over, and we have countered your lame talking points every time.

Just what do you think you're accomplishing? What cause could you possibly be serving? Do you really believe that you're achieving anything? What exactly do you gain from all this disruption? Glee? A paycheck? What?

31 posted on 06/30/2011 10:59:22 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: LaybackLenny

#1: She’s Sarah Barracuda. Of course she’s running. She always has been. These pundits are clueless.


32 posted on 06/30/2011 11:19:26 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (God humbles and (if need be) destroys the false idols of the peoples. Be patient, folks...)
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To: LaybackLenny

#1: She’s Sarah Barracuda. Of course she’s running. She always has been. These pundits are clueless.


33 posted on 06/30/2011 11:19:41 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (God humbles and (if need be) destroys the false idols of the peoples. Be patient, folks...)
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To: LaybackLenny

You can post the whole article on FR........C4P don’t mind


34 posted on 06/30/2011 11:28:24 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Windflier

I am trying to prevent a Goldwater style loss, that’s all.

However, in the spirit of the greater good, I.e., the advance of conservatism, I will leave this and other Palin threads for the time being.


35 posted on 06/30/2011 11:29:00 AM PDT by RockinRight (Nobama 2012.)
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To: erod
Sarah Palin is like the Michael Jordan of the GOP field. When she gets in this race it’s hers to lose. All the other candidates are just B level players or pretenders

In another time, I would have considered that we have a pretty strong field with which to challenge such a weak and failed Democrat president.

With Sarah in the wings - not so much.

Borrowing from your analogy, it's like an All Star game where we have Michael Jordan on our team. The rest are perfectly capable players, and some are even stars in their own right. But Michael is so much better than the rest, that he's simply in a league of his own.

I just cannot imagine our side showing up to the All Star game of politics without our very best player as Captain of the team.

36 posted on 06/30/2011 11:43:17 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: LaybackLenny
I think she may well run, but none of these "clues" is particularly persuasive. Each of these stands just as well for the proposition that it is Palin's business, as well as her pleasure, to become, and remain, a wealthy and influential political thought leader who doesn't run for office herself.

Saying nothing about her actual ability to win, if she doubts her ability to win, than it would be prudent for her not to run. An unsuccessful Presidential general election campaign is not a route to greater prominent or influence. She would most prefer to be the next Ronald Reagan (and, who wouldn't?), but I think she'd prefer thereafter to be the next Rush Limbaugh (and far better than him given her ability to campaign in addition to entertain) than to be the next Michael Dukakis or Bob Dole.

The argument is a bit ahistorical insofar as it takes a high probability of getting the nomination as persuasive evidence that a nomination will be sought. It's been the rule, not the exception, for a cycle to see a strong favorite (sometimes a relatively stronger favorite than Palin) decide for reasons of his own not to campaign. Ted Kennedy in 1972. Jerry Ford for the rematch in 1980. Ted Kennedy again in 1984. Cuomo in 1988 and 1992. Colin Powell in 1996. Al Gore in 2004 and 2008.
37 posted on 06/30/2011 11:45:22 AM PDT by only1percent
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To: Windflier

Well said Windflier. Thank you.


38 posted on 06/30/2011 11:48:59 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad ((((( )))))
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To: LaybackLenny
Photobucket Independence Day...what better day?
39 posted on 06/30/2011 11:55:40 AM PDT by RetSignman (It's Summertime...the "Goebbles Warmers" are back from hibernation.)
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To: Gargantua
In her appearance at the preview of "The Undefeated" in Pella, Iowa yesterday. she referred to announcing her candidacy as an "earth shaking decision." She wasn't exagerrating. Think seismic event. Think tectonic plate-shift magnitude 9.0 on the political Richter Scale.

No kidding. The reverberations and tremors from Palin's entry into the race are going to travel around the globe and back again. Several times.

She's going to knock everything else off the front page for a solid week or more. It's going to be all that anyone in the media can talk about.

I can just see Obama way over in the corner going, "Hey! What about ME???" Or, perhaps he'll be locked in the Presidential Boy's Room, crapping bricks. LOL

40 posted on 06/30/2011 11:59:03 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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