Why should she give up her strategic advantage?
To make it "fair" for the RINOs and 'Rats?
Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.
Posted on 09/05/2011 7:33:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Right Scoop has full video of Sarah Palin’s speech today in Manchester, N.H., and if nothing else, Palin is driving political reporters nuts. At one point during the speech, she referenced the media “ignoring the fact” that the Tea Party movement was a decisive force in last year’s mid-term elections. Her remark clearly irritated Dave Weigel of Slate:
This is what the media ignoring the Tea Party looks like: Palin is speaking to a crowd of maybe 700 people. Every protester holding a reasonably witty or weird sign — or a sign with Sarah Palin’s visage on it — is being interviewed by a reporter. There are at least 50 of us looking for quotes. CNN is taking the event live, and the Tea Party Express, which put on the event, is raffling tickets to the presidential debate it’s going to co-sponsor in seven days with that network.
Translation: “Lies! All lies!”
It’s kind of hard to get regular people to feel sympathy for reporters forced to put together a story in this kind of pack-journalism environment, but I certainly feel Dave’s pain. Palin’s expertise at inflicting pain on journalists, however, is one reason she’s so popular. Note the well-aimed shots in her official statement from Sarah PAC:
Just wrapping up an awesome four day trip to the Hawkeye and Granite States. Visiting with residents there it’s easy to see why they play such an important role in vetting America’s leaders. Todd and I were able to interact directly with informed Americans and hear their concerns first hand outside the media spin. . . . Thank you to the citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire for your hospitality, your thoughtful questions and picking up where the media left off in vetting and challenging us all on our vision for America’s future.
Love her or hate her, wherever and whenever Palin ventures out in public, she’s still headline news — even though 99% of the political press corps is certain she’s not going to be a candidate in 2012. Being assigned to cover the non-candidate who won’t say whether or not she’s running is, understandably, a frustrating experience for reporters. Nobody can get an exclusive scoop on the Palin beat, you see, and the wizards of the national media resent being reduced to trying to assemble an article under such circumstances. Congratulations, therefore, to Sarah Boxer of CBS News for this insightful headline:
Palin, not even in the race, draws double the size crowd as Romney
Darn it, why didn’t I think of that first? I was at Mitt’s rally Sunday in Concord and the CBS reporter is exactly right: Palin drew at least twice the crowd as the supposed New Hampshire front-runner, which rather tends to contradict the “experts” quoted on the front page of Sunday’s Manchester Union Leader:
At this point, Palin’s drawn-out flirtation with a candidacy has turned excitement over “The Sarah Factor” to “Sarah Fatigue” in some quarters. “You tend to get a sense now that the times have passed by her,” said UNH political science professor Dante Scala. “People are looking elsewhere.”
Kevin Smith, executive director of Cornerstone Action, a conservative issues group, agreed.
“Some people have become so weary of her stringing the media along and stringing voters along as to whether she is or isn’t going to run, that they’re kind of over Sarah Palin at this point,” he said.
“Her coy game of, ‘I’m not telling anyone whether I’m running but I’m going to visit the early primary states,’ I think is turning people off, quite frankly,” said Smith.
See? That’s the kind of plainly biased story that makes people hate the media. (It isn’t exactly difficult to find political science professors who will say bad things about Sarah Palin, I’ll bet.) But I’m happy to report that, despite resentment toward the journalism profession, no reporters were beaten up by angry mobs at the Tea Party rally.
Also, my buddy Da Tech Guy checked with Manchester police and confirmed that no black people were lynched or assaulted at the event, no matter what Rep. Andre Carson may try to tell you. (It’s an awful thing when irresponsible people incite political hatred, y’know.)
Conservatives4Palin has an excellent round-up of today’s news. Meanwhile, I’ve got a midnight deadline to finish my column for The American Spectator, then I’ve got to check the Amtrak schedule and try to figure out how I’m getting back home. It’s been a great trip, and I hope it’s been worthwhile for the readers. If Sarah Palin hates me, that’s not your fault, and your contributions to the Shoe Leather Fund are still greatly appreciated.
Why should she give up her strategic advantage?
To make it "fair" for the RINOs and 'Rats?
Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.
Boy was I snookered. Palin wont win NH, Mitt Romney will. Perry will win SC and Florida. Palin might win Iowa if she runs.
Those that claim to know better, feel that a third party would always benefit the democrats, at this time I believe both parties are despised by a larger number of voters than at any other time.
Would not surprised me if she chose to the third party route.
But polls go up and down.
At this stage, you have no idea who will win SC or FL.
Palin was the one drawing those crowds, McCain and his handlers would not allow her to be herself.
Is that a poll?
Do you think Palin’s support will go down or up, after she makes a formal announcement?
Wonder what those reporters FR names are................
So their timeline fails, and they vote for Obama? I don’t understand what the ramifications are for those who are upset with her timeline. They will vote for the one who enters the race first? Are their votes not based on principles over timelines? These people would not have been supporters anyway, if they vote by date of entry.
Reagan declared November 13.
Heh....heh....informed?
Will Romney supporters (14-20 percent) go for her? Will Perry (29+) percent defect?
I try to look at people I know who like her and I hang out in Republican circles and no one likes her. Oh my wife, myself and my dad (like) vs. my brother, my mom and my wifes cousin (not like) now every one is against her because she acts like a self righteous smart alec who bashes her own party and wants to be loved. Sorry that is what I hear. When my dad said he was sick of seeing her or hearing her, I was shocked because he used to call her "my Sarah". That's how far over the shark she's jumped in my circles.
Not. A. Chance.
Palin OWNS the GOP, the RINOs just haven't figured it out yet.
Within a month of declaring her candidacy, she will have more money than the RNC.
More likely that the outcast RINOs will form their own third-party of "moderates," AKA Democrats.
You have it totally wrong. Most people, even Palin supporters, don’t know Palin’s record.
(The people you describe in your post don’t sound like real people.)
The reason I ask is that according to CNN in June she and Rudy had the highest favorability rating among Republicans and Republican leaning Independents.
Because Republicans want to beat Obama. There seems to be a big difference between Palin die hards and Republicans. Republicans want to beat Obama and want to rally around a common candidate. Palin is acting like Jesse Ventura and frankly pissing off a lot of Republican voters.
I want her to announce on September 17, 2011, Constitution Day in the USA. And she will use it as the theme of her campaign: take back and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.
When your dad who is 65 and was a big Palin guy tells you he’s sick of seeing her on TV, when your brother tells you he cant stand her and when your wife tells you her followers are like a cult, and the truth is all those once liked or loved her, she’s toast.
Thank you Mr. Romney for the comments!!!!
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