High gasoline prices may boost a Palin presidential run

Texas for Sarah Palin ^ | March 8, 2011 at 10:30 PM CST | Josh Painter

[Bigtigermike]

For your information Reagan entered late into the process.....but I don’t think that Palin will do that similar plan -

Also for your info, Palin said herself that she will not do an exploratory committee if she ran, she would just jump in. Palin did not deny that she got people in Iowa and if you read her book, she hates the massive amount of advisers and consultants and will not hire those type of people......the thing is that after two years many people around here still have no clue on how Palin thinks or how she do things but the information is out there if someone really wants to find out.....in fact some of the very things that she is doing now is very similar to what she wrote in her book ‘Going Rogue’ when she was planning to run for Governor.

[scooby321]

Gas Prices always elects Presidents.

Larry Sabato of UVA studied it.

[RayChuang88]

It's turning out to be a repeat of the second half of Jimmy Carter's only term in office as President at the rate things are going.

[Matchett-PI]

"I think Palin running for POTUS is not going to pan out. She just doesn’t seem like she is interested."

We'll see. I would never underestimate Palin. She just had a big meeting in Alaska with Jan Brewer, Gov. of Arizona.

Top issues for Americans are Energy Independence / oil/gas drilling and Immigration/border security.

I can just see her formulating a sound argument right now that shows how solving those two problems will create jobs, lower taxes, and out-of-control-spending.

Maybe there will be a Palin/Brewer ticket. :)

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

Based on what you wrote in #21, what do you think of this?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2685844/posts?page=24#24

[thackney]

The old media is dying but they are far from dead.

Wise words. We need to understand that a very, very small percentage of the voting population is going to read Free Republic. We have to reach them where they are, not where we wish they were.

[thackney]

For your information Reagan entered late into the process

Good point, he announced his candidacy for President less than one year before the general election.

[moose-matson]

Drill here...drill now....tax the hell out of the drillers....the palin way.

[deport]

the thing is that after two years many people around here still have no clue on how Palin thinks or how she do things but the information is out there if someone really wants to find out.....

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I think you make a valid point. Now considering that only a fraction of the voting public is deeply interested in politics the way people of FR follow are indicates to me that reaching them becomes a very big threshold to be crossed. I’m not sure you can cross it without some very strong and controlled groups operating in each state with a very detailed plan and message to reach the voters. It is much different to run in a small populated area like AK than it is to run in 50 states with most that are basically much larger in population by large numbers.

An unconventional campaign maybe the route for her but I think she’ll need a lot more of the campaign style that has traditionally been used to reach the voters. We’ll see but in any case it will make for an interesting next 12-15 months.

Take care.

[Dead Corpse]

Selector must have been on “Auto”. ;-)

[Dead Corpse]

"Tax the hell out of the drillers"...

You mean the drillers that were camping on their leases and not actually producing anything? The same drillers who used cronyism to artificially restrict the markets? Those drillers?

Drill here. Drill now. Drill every where... Free markets work.

[deport]

Drill here...drill now....tax the hell out of the drillers....the palin way.

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It is much larger than just drill baby drill. At the minimum there are several very different processes needed to bring the crude from below the ground to the pump at the local gasoline station. Each process has its own unique problems and steps. The steps/processes are as I see it:

Drilling and finding the crude
Gathering and delivery of the crude to the refineries
Refining
Retail distribution of the product to the local gasoline station

Oil speculators of a world wide fungible product have been one the reason that prices rise out of control like they have in the past few weeks/months. How do you control the world markets when they aren’t under the US control? I don’t think we have refineries sitting around idle waiting on crude to be delivered at this time. No easy solution exist imo.

[Dead Corpse]

One of the primary drivers for the price increase is threatened scarcity. Remove the threat of scarcity, and the price will drop back.

[unseen1]

yeah because she doesn’t know how to do good ads that can reach the people /s

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVy2SBbg64&feature=related

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=xr3sj8q5lfY

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=X67qgNtZPdQ

and she doesn’t know how to push the narrative and get the media attention /s

and she can’t reach the people when she speaks /s
http://il.youtube.com/user/SarahPalinAK#p/u/0/fPq8bF49NBU

[meadsjn]

Well, you only have to wait about five weeks to know for sure.

[Bigtigermike]

Bingo! Very close to what I was thinking......Sarah had once noted last year in very detail how that Obama had defunded or took money away from border security in the budget - I remembered in her book how she and her people went through her opponent Murkowski budget to point out things that very few people had looked at.

I do know that immigration and energy independence are winnable issues to the rest of the country - yeah it will get the leftist and enviro nuts in a uproar but it will drive many conservatives and independents out to vote

[moose-matson]

Nope....I mean the excessive windfall profit tax that she imposed on top of all the existing taxes...it drove a few companies to look in friendlier places...

[Lazlo in PA]

For your information Reagan entered late into the process

You are correct that Reagan jumped in late in '80. The difference now is that the Pres race kicks off earlier. Also, Reagan had tons of operates in states from the '76 run. He had existing groundwork in place. You need people on the ground working to get support for your candidacy. Mark Levin talks about this once and a while on his show because he was one of these people. It is super important. Especially if your negatives are so high.

Reagan also did a daily radio show to get the message out to the base. He was campaigning behind the scenes. He was not just occasionally hitting FOX news programs to slam some no name comedy hack. You can not entirely throw out the playbook for winning nat'l office because of the way some states have their primaries set up. Your message will not get out to the base in time. It is a PR battle with the base.

How disastrous will it look if she jumps in late and Romney routs her all the way through till the southern states vote later in the season? She will be done for good.

[Dead Corpse]

Excessive? Conoco, no longer having it's legislators in their pockets, scaled back their diesel production project. In the meantime, other marginal producers like Eni were able to come in and set up shop since they were no longer being artificially restricted from the market due to an inequitable taxation policy.

Oh heavens! Competition! Can't have that... :-|

[thackney]

How would an additional tax on production and an increased tax on profits make any difference on the Point Thompson field? If anything, it gave more reason not to produce the condensate and more reason to invest the capital in places like Canada.

This was/is a separate issue from non-producing leases as it would have no effect on them.