Run Sarah, run!
Posted on 09/12/2011 2:48:42 PM PDT by Windflier
According to this post title at The Other McCain, Gov. Palin has turned down the invitation that CNN had extended to her to participate in the debate being sponsored tonight by the network and Tea Party Express. We had gathered as much when no news came over the weekend that she had accepted the invitation, and Greta Van Susteren announced that Sarah Palin would be a guest on her "On The Record" program tonight.
If she had accepted the CNN invitation to debate, it would have likely been a violation of her contract with Fox News, a job the governor doesn't appear quite ready to give up -- at least not just yet.
Stacy also reports the results of CNN's latest GOP presidential poll, which has Gov. Palin in third place with 15 percent, behind Ranger Rick with 30 percent and Mitt Romney with 18 percent.
- JP
SP in third place and not even in the race...yet. Now that’s funny. Latest poll has her climbing up since the last CNN poll eh?
If she had accepted the CNN invitation to debate, it would have likely been a violation of her contract with Fox News, a job the governor doesn’t appear quite ready to give up — at least not just yet.”
This is an accurate statement of what we know, at this moment in time.......nothing more, nothing less....anything else is speculation. Some speculation is more rational than other, but even so....THIS is what we KNOW at this point in time.
There is the Fox contract.
There's also the overall unimportance of debates this far out from the first primary voting.
Why give the media chances to ask questions designed to make you look bad. The media is 100% on Obama's side in this race. Anything they are doing with the Republicans, they are doing to discredit all the Republican candidates. When Palin gets in, she'll be the focus of more of that than any other candidate. She's letting the media soften up the rest of the Republican field with some early salvos first.
And make no mistake, this is a CNN debate masquerading as a "TEA Party" event. They want the TEA Party there to make these candidates look extreme. The folks at CNN are in no way trying to legitimize the TEA Party. They are trying to support The Won's statement this morning that the TEA Party is so extreme, and that "the vast majority of Americans" have rejected the TEA Party and what it stands for. That's the goal tonight, along with tying the Republican candidates to that (supposedly) rejected platform.
Not running, so why should she?
The plan is working. Being the one on the sidelines in a crowded field keeps the spotlight on you. As each candidate folds, the camera pans to the quarterback warming up to replace him or her. Elections are in large measure about name recognition. It’s hard to find fault with her strategy, and anyone who still doubts that she is running should readjust their medication immediately.
That will probably be the LAST ‘common sense’ post on this thread... :-)
Elections are won on POSITIVE name recognition, something that Mrs. Palin is sorely lacking.
Of course she did! She cant make money at the debate can she? She’s a celebrity! She isn’t now, and never will be, a candidate for president in 2012.
Which is especially noteworthy since my post said basically....nothing!
Sadly I was mistaken in my belief that conservatives had learned anything from previous elections. Unfortunately conservatives are even more willing to trade their principles for the first RINO to rattle the grain bucket.
It just amazes me that now we’re not only trying to eliminate candidates before the first vote is taken but even before the candidates even decide on running.
I’m not even a Palin supporter and I’m not counting her out.
**********Palin Ping**********
Also, Gov. Palin will be on Greta’s show tonite 10:00 PM EST.
I said a while ago that more to the point, Fox will NOT allow her to end her contract and it has spurred some animosity between her and Fox. It is more likely they have given her a drop dead date and she must fulfil her contract until then. That is why I think she went to Fox while she was on her first bus tour.
They might be trying to hold on to her until they think she would no longer be a viable candidate. She HAS been trying to reach out to other networks in ways that she does not break her contract with Fox, but she can’r sit for an interview or appear as a guest on any other network. I really don’t think she has a choice.
Really? Gov. Palin has the gravitas and sincerity
that are lacking in Bishop Romney and Captain Gardasil.
LOL...exactly! (Worked well for Seinfeld...)
Run Sarah, run!
“If she had accepted the CNN invitation to debate, it would have likely been a violation of her contract with Fox News, a job the governor doesn’t appear quite ready to give up — at least not just yet.”
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I thought Palin had already accepted invitation to attend debate? If so, she would have done so knowing her status with Fox. What changed? Am I mistaken that she had already accepted?
Palin would never have entered a contract with FOX that she could not have left at will. She is an independent contractor.
She is smart enough to know that FOX could screw her.
Best,
Chris
You're digging pretty deep for excuses.
So, Fox News would risk the animosity of a potential future president by not letting her out of a contract? So, Sarah's so naive and innocent that she didn't include provisions in the contract to end it were she to run?
I sense you're a Palin backer, but you really cut her short shrift.
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