[curth]

She just won the June Hot Air Poll, which is one of the few internet polls that is uncompromised:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2735934/posts

[gotaz]

Totally agree. I was telling my husband the exact same thing. Shame on these guys! I heard or read something about Rove and Bachman at some event and said then Bachman was a set-up for the establishment. I liked her but I don’t like this AT ALL. When you add in Rove, Rollins and the rest, this makes for a stinky pile of you know what. Shame on them!

[Polybius]

This is simple. If Sarah Palin does not enter the presidential race, Mitt Romney will win the GOP nomination--no ifs, and or buts.

Did every other conservative in the United States of America get taken away by a UFO?

Considering that 65% of all voters have stated they will "definitely NOT vote for Sarah Palin", surely, in a country of over 300 million, there must be at least one conservative candidate that does not guarantee Barack Hussein Obama an easy reelection with such utterly toxic poll numbers.

Of all the debaters in the recent Republican debate, most American voters would choose "None of the Above".

Bill Clinton did not announce his first winning candidacy until October of the year before the election. The GOP has until around October of 2011 to attract a strong conservative candidate whose poll numbers are not lower than whale scat at the bottom of the ocean and who can actually defeat Obama.

If not, we will have either RINO Romney or Marxist Obama as the President for the next four years.

[free me]

Very well put together and spot on Techno.

[Ronin]

I agree with most of your conclusions, but I don't agree with calling it a "Right Wing" conspiracy. It is a conspiracy among the "elite" Georgetown Cocktail Party set both Republican and Democrat against the Country Party -- which is pretty much the rest of America.

Sarah represents such a clear and present danger to the established political order that no effort is being spared on her destruction.

In her they see an essential threat to their cozy control of things. A control that evolved over the last hundred years and one they are determined to maintain; a control that allows them to play the partisan game in public, while being good buddies in private.

The way things stand now, the political infrastructures of both major parties depend; absolutely depend, on allegiance to an unwritten yet ironclad system of pragmatic give and take whereby they wrestle for power in just a few arenas, while simultaneously, both sides quietly work to ensure that nothing threatens the other side's lock on their respective bases.

It is truly ironic that -- while the Democrats claim to support the poor and the Republicans claim to support the middle class -- the ruling elite of both parties consists primarily of hereditary millionaires who have become a virtual aristocracy!

Sarah, with her working class credentials, her small business experience, and her hard fought for and hard won university degree, threatens that.

She did not attend the right universities, she did not join the right clubs, she did not do yeoman labor in the campaign office trenches, serve as a congressional aide, intern at the right companies or do ANY of the things that political scions are expected to in preparation for elective office.

It's not so much that outsiders can't join, it's that at some point in time they must indicate willingness to accept the established order -- and that is something Sarah refuses to do.

Sarah epitomizes the Tea Party as it appears to the average American voter in ways so basic they actually find it hard to articulate. She works hard, she plays hard. She has a big family with at least one kid that really needs a good kick up the pants, and another kid that has special needs. She has a husband she loves and who loves her and is not afraid of anything on God’s green Earth.

No other contender even comes close. We have to have Sarah this time around.

[9YearLurker]

I think you’re right about the vastness of the conspiracy, but I don’t think the motivation is just or even primarily Jeb ‘16. Lots of operatives know they would be on the outside of a Palin campaign and the GOP Establishment knows she’ll take on corruption within her own party. In a lot of cases with those in government, I think the true deep fear goes all the way to the possibility, however slight, of jail time.

[chemicalman]

Palin has something none of these other candidates have...PASSION!

[freekitty]

Something is going on since West, Ted Poe, two conservatives along with some others votes to continued the Pigford scam?

[techno]

More confirmation of the conspiracy:

Wall Street Journal article promoting Romney-Bachmann:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304186404576387663298296794.html

[Darkwolf377]

There is no precedent for Palin in either party. She inspires passion in supporters and incites hatred in her opponents to a degree I have never seen, not even in Reagan’s supporters and opponents.

But I don’t see any conspiracy. I think we’re just seeing the same old country club sorts who’ve always been with us, who want Romney and don’t want Palin.

There’s no need to find conspiracies when the sides are so plainly exposed.

Palin is an anomaly. There is no predicting what impact she will have until she declares, IF she declares. I am starting to suspect she will not run, and part of that is seeing the full scope of those who are against her.

I have an continue to believe that Palin is the only person who could run who shares my values, and I still think she is the one person I could enthusiastically vote for. Yet I have reservations about her, which one cannot have without being labelled a hater or whatever. That, in part, is the core of her problem—the fanatical hatred for her is mirrored by the fanatical love for her, when in reality Palin is a political figure who should be judged and whose positions debated as would any other candidate.

The rabid loathing of her by the press have made that impossible, and thus her fans respond with fury to the lunacy of the leftist media. All of this is about feelings, and makes rational, dispassionate discussion of her qualities and flaws as a candidate (as opposed to as a human being) impossible, and makes predictions about her impact difficult.

But as more time passes, I for one am less convinced she will actually run. Palin’s impact on the 2010 election should be seen as an example of how she is most valuable, as a party-builder. How many ‘conservative’ politicians go to Washington and suddenly they’re not so conservative anymore? I think Palin has the potential to be a president whose conservatism would be revealed as the real thing in Washington, something that could secure conservative power (if conservative pols GOVERN the way they RUN) for a long time.

Yet Palin strikes me as more realistic than some of her fans. I suspect she knows what her fans don’t want to admit—that the forces against her that have such a hard time defeating her as a party figure would have a much easier time defeating her as a presidential candidate.

It’s just the same old moderate Republicans having the common goal of the liberals. It’s an old story, not a secret conspiracy.

[The Wizard]

bttt

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I believe this vast right-wing conspiracy was probably hatched sometime before the debate in the back rooms and officially launched once the debate ended and especially after Bachmann exceeded expectations in the debate.

No, the conspiracy actually started immediately after the 2008 election and accelerated after the 2010 mid-terms.

Pawlenty Raises "Moderate" Flag At RGA Conference

GOP Governors Pull the Plug On Palin's Press Conference

Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin (October 31, 2010)

And Romney's minions have been attacking Palin ever since the day McCain selected her as his running mate. Diogenesis has the links.

And as most folks at Conservatives4Palin already know, Bachmann made some kind of deal over the Christmas holidays, and in January, members of her staff showed up in South Carolina and Iowa and began bad mouthing Sarah to local GOP chairmen and leaders.

[USS Alaska]

1)Rumors that are afloat that Jeb Bush wants to run in 2016 and to ensure he has clear sailing to the nomination his allies in this venture (including the Bush 43 team) want to ensure Romney gets the GOP nomination because they know he will lose to Obama.

I call bullshit on your first fantasy.

Even the worst rino can't stand the idea that obama gets a second term.

You are taking up too much oxygen and creating too much methane.

Stop the vanities that are just your delusions.

[sarah palin rocks]

Thank you, Techno for this Must-Read post.

That Rasmussen poll was bogus because he left Sarah’s name out but included her in all the prior polls. So it’s like apples to oranges.

I’ve noticed that just about every Palin hater on the planet, including Tingles, now loves Bachmann even if they said she was batsh!t crazy before. Coincidence? I say not. MB is a useful tool to those who want to stop Sarah from running.

Ain’t gonna work. No one puts Baby in a corner! ;)

[mo]

In 1980 the RinoCrats got shut out by a Flyover Country candidate named Reagan. From their perspective, he put things “behind” about 20-30 years. They will do ANYTHING they can to pre-empt Palin who is the lat stumbling block to World Gov’mt.

[arasina]

Good analysis and speculation, techno. It ultimately boils down to stopping the people from electing their own representative for the executive branch of government. I'm not so sure about the VRWC part being totally responsible. I think it's more of a NWOC and the right wing is being used to further that.

Have you heard anyone raving about Romney other than the talking heads in media or politics?

[freedomfiter2]

There’s nothing right wing about this list of Palin haters. These are the same moderate at best enemies that all conservatives have been fighting ever since Reagan.

[9YearLurker]

Michael Barone is one of the most informed pundits out there. Surely he knows that Palin is running a close second to, if not ahead of, Romney in recent polls.

Yet, here’s his entire article discussion of the newly declared Romney/Bachmann nature of the race. He goes so far as to include the prospects of such possible late additions as Perry, Giuliani and Ryan—without so much as a mention of Gov. Palin:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/269698/romney-leads-bachmann-gains-pawlenty-michael-barone

[wtc911]

Although I'm sure that your Social Studies teacher will give you an A for effort there are glaring 'real world' problems with your little paranoid essay. Here's just a few...

The Bush/Rockefeller/elitist/establishment/RINO/Neo-con elements of the GOP are absolutely not the "right wing"...in fact they are the opposite within the party.

Your ten reasons de[end on "rumor" and "speculation".

Your citation of the supposed fact that Palin was not prominently mentioned in post-debate coverage....Why would she be? She was not up there with those who are actually actively running...

Nice try though.

[Friendofgeorge]

EXCELLENT!!!!! Great article Techno, excellent! Post of the year perhaps!

You covered everything perfectly, what could I possibly add other than THANK YOU and AMEN :) AGREE WORD FOR WORD 100%