Posted on 10/01/2011 2:13:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
By Gary P Jackson
The media and anti-Palin forces [many times one and the same] went nuts on Friday when Sarah Palin didn’t announce her candidacy for President of the United States. As the day went on, it became quite comical.
Never mind that Sarah, who appeared Thursday evening on Fox Business News’s Freedom Watch, told the viewers she wouldn’t be announcing on Friday and was holding her cards close to the vest.
I’m always amazed that people think Sarah should lay her cards on the table, spell out exactly what she intends to do to win the presidency. Would you expect a general going to war to tell the enemy what his plan of attack would be? Err, no. Nor would any other candidate be asked to do this.
At this point in time, Sarah has no reason not to tell her millions of supporters if she’s not running. Nothing to gain. That said, a candidate who is planning an unconventional campaign, one like she’s successfully ran before [the Alaska governor's race] would certainly keep her entire strategery to herself until it was time to act.
Getting back to the point. Somehow answers Sarah Palin has given in interviews have turned into hard dates that Sarah herself has never set. In fact, she’s been purposely vague about hard dates, only kinda-sorta agreeing with the reporters asking the questions. The only hard and fast dates Sarah has ever talked about were the legal filing deadlines. Those are the only “drop dead” dates she’s specified.
We went back to an interview Sarah did with David Brody and the Iowa State Fair in August, that is representative of the interviews she’s done that have asked “the question.”
Palin: There is still a lot of contemplation that goes on within a family, deciding whether to engage in such a life-changing venture, putting yourself forward in the name of service, in such a position as President of the United States. So, we’re still thinking about it, and the impact on family.
Family comes first in my life, and I just don’t want to adversely affect the family. So, we’re still talking about it, thinking about it. And that’s what I want supporters to understand.
At the same time, I want to be very fair to supporters and not keep them hanging on in perpetuity. It’s fair to them to give them an answer here, in short order, so that they can jump on board with someone else, and/or to decide for themselves what they want to do. So, still haven’t made up my mind, haven’t decided when that announcement would be yet.
David Brody: Is that short order by the end of September? October?
Palin: I think that that is a fair timeline for people, because Fall time, they can start getting engaged with different campaigns, but still thinking about it, and really, really desiring to be a participant in the positive change that needs to happen in this country.
Economy getting back on the right track. Jobs created for Americans. I want to be a part of that, whether it be as a candidate, or as a supporter of the right candidate. I’m still in that decision making phase.
As highlighted, the answer is the end of September or the end of October.
See the entire interview here.
If people and the media want to take the time, they can go back and look at interviews that talk about a timeline, and they all go about the same.
What is most curious is how it’s the anti-Palin people who are all wee-wee’ed up because Sarah Palin hasn’t announced yet. Her supporters couldn’t care less when she announces as long as she announces!
What is also curious to me is it’s been guys like Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, and now Chris Christie who have played the “is you is, or is you ain’t” game, teasing their fans by saying they might, then the won’t, then they might run. [with Perry actually getting in, after promising Texans he would serve his full term as Govern on numerous occasions]
And yet, it’s Sarah Palin, who has always been consistent in her answers to questions about a possible run, who is the “tease.” You’d almost think there was some sort of agenda at work!
What’s interesting to me, is with all of the problems of the world, the Obama scandals [Fast and Furious, Solyndra, etc.] the crappy economy, terrorism, and everything else the media should be covering, they are spending their time worried about a woman they claim is insignificant, and could never win, is up to.
The constant hand-wringing over Sarah Palin betrays their fear. Sarah Palin lives rent free in all of their heads.
That’s probably why it’s going to be so enjoyable to watch her beat them all.
AWYHO.
Am I the only one who really read that sentence?
If she has no reason not to tell her supporters if she's not running, then whose side is this guy on? Actually, I think he's just such a poor writer he got tangled up in his double negatives.
Sarah can wait till next August if she wants and I still might support her -- it's her supporters' hysteria and the personality cult developing around her that annoy me. They've started to remind me of another group who slavishly supported a candidate back in 2008.
And I think they're hurting her in the long run.
She can plainly see it as if she was traveling to play basketball at another town against a team with rigged players, on steroids, some with sex changes and officials all on the take.
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Running a 100M dash against kids with moustaches when I was in the 6th (7th?) grade.
I did that.
All lies by the LSM and you breathlessly blubber, what?
Thou shalt not speak evil of thy fellow Republican.
- Ronald Reagan
right?
Then why do you lament over it?
U need to read my post #14 link. It will make u laugh.
LOL, all have lost interest, except Lazlo in PA, and the other Palin ankle biters on FR as to when.
I have a link to that speech but haven’t read the whole thing. Maybe I can later.
Right. I haven’t spoken evil of her. You must have misunderstood me.
My hunch is she never seriously planned a run, but kept her options open.
Everyone can have a hunch/opinion about her intent, etc. She still has some time to make it known and until that time passes that time is hers to use as she deems fit. It maybe best for all that she get in and let the cards fall where they may. That way the electorate will have a chance to accept or reject her during the campaign season. Whether she is accepted or rejected that’s okay. Life will go on and we still have major things to reverse in our gov’t both nationally and locally. JMO....
Take care.
So, you're a victim here?
Ir looks like 10/30 or 31 is it.
Then, too, she doesn't have to formally announce, just file....which amounts to the very same thing. Considering the investigative powers of the legacy media these days, it might be 11/13 before they realize that she actually IS in the race!
Now THAT would be funny! Can you imaging the heads that would be exploding to find out that she's been running all along, but just under the radar! I doubt it, but it would be funny as heck!
* rolls eyes*
It was more like three quarters of the way through it, and the people of AK, when asked at the time, understood her decision completely. None of the plans she'd made, and on which she'd campaigned, were abandoned, because of her exit. Her Lt. Governor picked up right where she left off.
I saw that! I would say he is not a fan.
Drives you nuts, doesn't it? That pretty lady, so successful, every word repeated a hundred times by the media, making millions...
...and now she's going to be the most powerful person in the Free World.
LMAO!!!! Gag on it!
8^D
No. Don’t be a dick. Post whatever the Hell you want. Why don’t you post a pic of somebody being drawn and quartered. Cooool!
As a father, I find the picture endearing.
Reminds me of when my daughters were small.
Sarah Palin is coming, and she's bringing The TEA Party with her!
8^D
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