Report: Sarah Palin turned down invitation to tonight's CNN/TPX debate

Texans for Sarah Palin ^ | 12 September 2011 | Josh Painter

[Bigg Red]

Nailed it!

[Bobbisox]

You simply cannot take any encouragement or discouragement from the polls right now. Until Sarah actually gets in, all the polls are designed to make her and her supporters think she does not have a chance.

As for the NEGATIVE name recognition, depends on who has contracted the poll, and where the poll was taken. Most polls are done in the larger cities, and also cities with more democratic or independent registrations. The media and the RINO establishment are desperately trying to keep Sarah from running. It is so evident...look at the FoxNews poll. You do not really think that 65% of the Tea Party does not want Sarah to run? I simply do not believe it and neither should any of you.

Just my opinion, however. Anyone for a piece of pie?

[MestaMachine]

No. There was a RUMOR that she might accept, but she didn’t.

[deport]

What I think happened is that this election season started far earlier than anyone anticipated...and the reason for THAT was to jump in BEFORE Sarah Palin to try and minimize her.

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You do realize don’t you that by this time in the 2008 GOP primary season there had already been five (5) debates, four televised - one not. The first one was in Simi Valley Ca on May 3, with MSNBC being the tv outlet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_debates,_2008

[Longbow1969]

Here’s the deal. A contract is a contract. Why would Fox enter a contract with anyone that allows them to just leave *at will*? What is far more likely is that there is a minimum timeframe she must adhere to in the contract and THEN she has the option to withdraw. What I think happened is that this election season started far earlier than anyone anticipated...and the reason for THAT was to jump in BEFORE Sarah Palin to try and minimize her. That is what happened with Bachmann AND Perry. I am an independent contractor and not once have I signed a contract with a client that allows me to simply walk away in the middle of a job left unfinished...unless it is under the most egeregious circumstances.

Utter and complete nonsense. Why do you keep posting this theory? It is total made-up hogwash. Palin has a 3 year contract with Fox News that runs THROUGH THE END of 2012. Her contract has nothing to do with when the election season started because it runs THROUGH 2012.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/02/news/la-pn-fox-candidates-suspended-20110303

From the article:

while Palin is making $1 million annually in a three-year agreement that goes through the end of 2012.

Reporting from Washington — Fox News announced Wednesday that it is suspending the contracts of political contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because both have demonstrated that they are seriously considering running for president.

All it took was for them to seriously consider a presidential bid and Fox suspended them.

Fox News still has two other potential White House contenders on the payroll: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. "As soon as each of them shows some serious intention to form an exploratory committee, we would take the same action," Brandi said. "Huckabee is on a book tour, so I think his present intention is to sell books." As for Palin, "She hasn't yet shown a serious intention to form an exploratory committee."

Fox did not think Mike Huckabee was running for President so they did not suspend him, they were quite correct. Fox still does not think Governor Palin is running for President, she has not indicated to them in any way, shape or form that she is, and therefor Fox has not suspended her.

It's as simple as that. Your theory is just completely bogus.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Is that you Nostradamus?

[thouworm]

Final question on this...

Are we just learning today that she declined?

[Longbow1969]

Were either Gingrich or Santorum a threat to the status quo as Palin surely is? Was fox visibly hostile to either Gingrich or Santorum as they are to Palin? Both appear on Fox as often, or even MORE often, than they did before. Does either one of them generate the numbers that an appearance by Palin does?

Now your just making stuff up. The status quo has nothing to do with it. Fox is not conspiring to tie Palin down. In my previous post I showed you very clearly that her contract, that she signed, runs through 2012 (that means through the campaign season and election day 2012). Your claim about the election season starting earlier than she thought and whatever other contractual points you were trying to make are just not true at all.

Palin can announce, publicly or privately, at ANY time that she is running for President and Fox would suspend her just as it did Gingrich and Santorum. They have said so publicly and often. Whatever theory you've cooked up is just destroyed by the actual facts. It's time for you to let it go.

[tomkat]

bingo !

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[mupcat]

Not running, so why should she?

Besides that, how strange of them to even issue an invitation to someone not running. Has that happened before,someone debating who isn't even in the race?

[tomkat]

Governor Palin is keeping her options open I suppose, but she has made exactly zero preparations to run for President in 2012

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The same Poll asked who had the best chance of being elected, beating Obama and the result was;

[”Of all the questions in the CNN poll that was released today, the one on electability had to be the most important.’]

ORC International Poll — September 9 to 11, 2011

Question 42

Which Republican candidate do you think has the best chance of beating Barack Obama in the general
election next November?

Perry 42%
Romney 26%
Palin 7%
Gingrich 5%
Bachmann 5%
Paul 5%
Cain 3%
Huntsman 2%
Santorum * N/A

[MestaMachine]

No. She never accepted.

[carjic]

Perry will have a hard time even winning the Texas primary if Palin does indeed run. I don’t blame you guys for trashing her and trying to keep her out. She will or she won’t but one thing is sure...if she does run she will beat our Governor as his support is very shallow. Hers is deep. If she does not run Perry won’t even come in second place at my house. We support conservative who actually believe what they say.

[MestaMachine]

Didn’t they issue an invitation to Michelle Bachmann before she had formally declared for the first *debate*?

[RitaOK]

It was clear from the onset that this was going to be an election cycle like no other— that we were going to hit early and hard. My stars, we’re under attack! The contenders were all aware of that. If they knew it, and we knew it, then you can bet Sarah knew it. The game has been on and the bench is emptied.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Better than a debate why not call it the Ernest T Bass Roundtable discussion.

All we have tonight is a bunch of rock chunkers...

[MestaMachine]

Polls are wondrous things to behold. I saw one today that had Perry first, romney second, Palin third, and Paul fourth ahead of Michele Bachmann by three points.

[CA Conservative]

It’s hard to find fault with her strategy, and anyone who still doubts that she is running should readjust their medication immediately.

If she is already running, as you and many others claim, isn't it unethical and dishonest for her to keep her FoxNews position, since they have made it clear since last spring that any candidate who worked for them would have to leave that position for the duration of the campaign? Isn't it dishonest for her to say on national television just a couple of days ago that she hasn't decided, if she really HAS decided and is running a "stealth" campaign? If she is willing to lie to Fox News and to her supporters just to continue receiving a paycheck and/or to gain a political advantage, what else will she lie about?

[RitaOK]

” Better than a debate why not call it the Ernest T Bass Roundtable discussion. “

That is hillarious! The Ernest T. Bass Roundtable! Too funny! %:D