Run Sarah, run!
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?
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?
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.
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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.
Run Sarah, run!
Good for her!
Looks more like a Two man race between Palin and Perry, why go be humiliated by CNN and their homophobe questions?
Pray for America
If she had accepted the CNN invitation to debate, she would have been an idiot, like the other candidates. Why on EARTH would Republicans agree to have gangs of leftist jerks from CNN, MSNBC, and Politico run their debates?
” Palin Turned Down Invitation...”
Well, I guess so. Why would a non candidate NOT turn it down? There’s millions of non candidates. They are calling her out, huh? Gawd. How embarrassing.
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
This is real simple. Sarah Palin doesn’t need these debates to get her message out. She can get on TV anytime she wants. No sense exposing herself to inane questions by the media and loser contenders looking to gang up on her.
Good for her. Why should she go get abused by Blitzed on CNN when she isn’t even a candidate? LOL! The left is flummoxed.
Why would Sarah participate in a debate for Presidential candidates?
She hasn’t yet declared.
She is playing the chess master with a bunch of checkers players, Chinese checkers if you count Huntsman.
Her right between the eyes shootdown of Rick Perry on the vaccine issue when she appeared with Greta was something better done as a commentator.
I take it as a sign she is running that she went after Perry.
Again, IMHO the winners of the debate are unelectable: Newt, Santorum & Herman Cain. There is a wide open space for Sarah.
