Posted on 12/03/2010 8:02:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Just sit back and watch her go, because she’s running for the White House right now.
>Questions about Sarah Palin’s future political plans are ubiquitous. From the left and the right, political pundits wonder aloud if she’s really thinking about running for the office of president in 2012. And depending on the pundit, the questions over whether she will run are usually tied to reasons why she should or shouldn’t.
But missing in all this guesswork over Palin’s intentions and the weighing of the pluses and minuses of her possible candidacy is the simple fact that she’s already running for president, and so far, she’s beating Obama and the mainstream media at every turn.
While I’ve suspected that she was already running for some time, it dawned on me with near certainty after she released her “Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States” last week. Her willingness to mock Obama’s 2008 claim that he’d campaigned in “57 states” proved that she has absolutely no fear of running against him. It also showed that she meant what she said about running against Obama in 2012 when she told Barbara Walters she could beat Obama.
I believe she started running for the office on the first weekend of February 2010, when she stood before the Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and asked: “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working for you?”(It doesn’t seem a great stretch to reach back to 1980 and juxtapose this with then-candidate Ronald Reagan’s famous question about the Carter years: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”)
At that same Tea Party convention, the mainstream media seized on the fact that Palin had written speech notes on the palm of one of her hands before ascending the podium. Groups like ThinkProgress.org and media figures like Andrea Mitchell mocked Palin for this, so Palin simply mocked them back by showing up a few days later at a campaign stop for Texas Governor Rick Perry with the words “Hi Mom” written on the palm of her hand.
Since then, she’s continued to dismantle the assaults of the mainstream media while simultaneously taking Obama to task on point after point.
For example, she seized on Obama’s April 2010 statement that “the United States will not use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear country” as being indicative of his ignorance about nuclear weapons in the first place. She then mockingly added that it was just more proof of “the vast nuclear experience [Obama] acquired as a community organizer.”
More recently, she told Fox News that her reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, could soon be followed up by a sequel titled Barack Obama’s golf courses. The implication being that the current “commander in chief will have plenty of time on his hands after the 2012 elections.”
Counting her time on the national stage as a vice presidential candidate with John McCain, America has had over two years to watch Palin speak from the heart, while listening to Obama speak from a teleprompter. They’ve heard her relentless calls for a strong military, while watching Obama try to appease (instead of destroy) terrorists the world over. They’ve heard her defend the free market, while living with the ramifications of Obama’s stimulus package, nationalization of industry, and takeover of health care.
The American people have even seen a microcosm of a Palin-versus-Obama matchup via the 2010 midterm elections in which 30 of 43 of the House candidates she endorsed won, as did 7 of the 12 Senate candidates she supported. Moreover, those elections proved that while rank-and-file citizens largely support Palin’s worldview, they are rejecting Obama’s.
No wonder CBS News’ Nicolle Wallace said of Palin: “She is one of the shrewdest political figures in our country at this moment. She’s also one of the most electric.”
So while the pundits guess, stabbing blindly into the air in an attempt to come up with proof of whether Palin will or won’t run, the rest of us should just sit back and watch her go, because she’s running for the White House right now.
And if I had to place a bet on who wins in 2012, my money would be on Palin.
No, no. Go where your heart is. Get yourself down to Sarah's local campaign HQ when she announces and go to work. I will.
Its true that some of this may have to wait until 2012..
BUT.. the TpCaucus is growing, GROWing, GroWING.. (Jaws theme)..
2010 was an earth-quake, 2012 will be a Sea Change.. a Tsunami..
The New congress can get its feet wet, paint ball the democrats, and make magnanimous Statements..
Cause 2012 is coming, coming, coming.. when Hope and change can really come..
> Repeal all laws to 1890 = limited government.
Legal heroin! 100% legal abortions! No hunting/fishing licenses!
Woo-hoo!
I like Sarah and would vote for her.. but the truth is, she still has the STINK of John McLame on her.. I told her it was a mistake in an email to her website.. That she should distance herself from that turncoat.. She has somewhat but not totally.. I would still vote for her..
She can still be a force to reckoned with.. as she already is.. Paul Ryan / Rubio would be better.. Being President would be terrible for her family.. not to speak of the fact I don't think she NEEDS to be President personally.. She seems very secure..
Don’t you just love it? That has to be God-directed.
I don’t think she NEEDS to be President personally.. She seems very secure..
LOL. Penelope, the private mail function is where we exchange our “passwords”. Giggle. You just told the whole world your password, now you have to change it. (I’m pulling your leg).
“Can she miss any of the primaries? Is there a deadline to throw your hat in race?”
I don’t think you need to worry. I suspect that by being unconventional, one of the things that she will be doing is announcing her candidacy officially, and soon.
Most candidates play the coquettish “belle of the ball” routine by setting up exploratory committees, putting their toes in the water, hmmmming and hawwwwwing and then finally running. Part of that is how the financing game runs and part of it is to keep interest in the candidate.
I doubt that Sarah will play that game at all. She won’t need to worry about the money, and I don’t think anyone is going to forget about her. I believe it will be an early announcement, and an unequivocal one.
“I am going to find her Texas campaign headquarters the minute she announces and volunteer.”
Why wait? She already has a PAC.
Only to those who refuse to understand that Sarah only endorsed McCain in his Senate bid because it was the morally correct thing for her to do.
Her moral code is at a much higher altitude than McCain's, and he knew that she would feel compelled to pay him back for introducing her to the American public.
Another thing. If she had rebuffed his request for an endorsement, she would have been called a back-stabbing traitor by the left-wing press until her dying day. The charge would have stuck, too.
I understood the dynamics that were at work with Sarah's endorsement, the moment it happened, which is why I didn't feel betrayed by her in the least. It really wasn't all that difficult to see what was occurring there.
she should distance herself from that turncoat..
Oh, I think she has. She's 100% paid in full, as far as McCain is concerned, and is many miles down the road from that, now.
That floored me. It's just too coincidental for words. Like an omen or something.
I watch everything going on with her, and think to myself that it's no accident that this incredible, patriotic warrior just suddenly appeared, right when the nation needed her most. This has happened time and time again in America's history.
And then I see something like that definition, and I find myself speechless.
Not to go too far out on a limb here, but there's almost a mystical quality to certain aspects of her story. I mean...what are the odds that her name would be the root of a word with such a definition? Simply mind blowing...
They’ll have to wait for the next Palin daughter. Todd ain’t gonna dance.
Let's hope.. I live a couple of miles from her and wish her the best..
Moosecowski should be made the hat check girl in the cloak room..
I think I will do the same in Texas.
My husband likes her.
And he doesn’t like anybody except The Dog.
LOL. I got jammed-up, but now I’m here!
Wow. I'm jealous.
Alaska is an incredible place. It's only fitting that Sarah's from there.
Good to see ya! Sure are some lively Palin threads tonight, aren't there? Love the article at the top of this one. The author is spot-on.
Did you read post #28? If not, check it out. It’ll knock your socks off.
Your words, Windflier, leave me.... almost speechless.
Perfectly stated. My heart is pounding.
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