Ping!
Great treatise as always. I watch for your writings with pleasure.
All I know is this comment had anyone near Chris Matthews needing a face shield on Hardball yesterday.
I think they’re going to throw Christie or Jeb Bush at her if she jumps in and she knows it. It seems to me that her plans require her to be the last one in the race. Probably to capitalize on the ‘instant front-runner’ status that new blood seems to bring to the race. They know this and want to take the wind our of her sails with a ‘big name’ candidate.
Once the first filing deadline has passed, the threat of throwing another candidate at her is gone.
I brought up a theory that was shot down instantly by a couple of people here the other day, but I think it might well come into play: Sarah may just wait silently until the first filing deadline and file for it very late on the last day possible without announcing anything to anyone.
Someone told me that she’d never give up ‘her moment’ by doing such a thing, but remember when she said you wouldn’t be able to miss her announcement? Well, if she files without announcing, it’ll be front page news everywhere within hours. And the quieter she is, the more they’ll go insane over it. When she makes a statement, it would be something along the lines of “I still haven’t made my final decision, but I wanted to keep my options open. Why should I be forced to announce or not announce based on some artificial deadline??”
Either that or she’s decided not to run and is just throwing cold water on supporters. Frankly, that was my initial impression from the interview, though reflection after the fact makes me wonder what the motive would be to do that at this point. Who knows...we’ll find out soon enough, I guess.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see some true humility in our politicians? Someone who knows it’s not about them, but about our country & keeping our gifts of freedoms...for future generations. When Michelle Bachmann went after Perry so harshly, she lost me. Yes, she believes in the Constitution, but gave bullets for the liberals to use against one of our candidates. I am NOT a Perry supporter at all, but I thought she was fighting for herself and not our values and principals.
I love Sarah Palin...But if she doesn’t announce by mid mite Sept 30th...Her Presidential Aspirations are going to quickly turn into a pumpkin and mice. If she doesn’t, the spotlight she has, is going to leave her in a heartbeat, and no one will care what she gas to say any more. No one will take her seriously again, if she does not enter now, gird her loins and earnestly enter the fray. No “Make ups” or “do overs” for missed primaries or to build any political machines. The time is now or never. Does she really think many will care whose lance she puts her favor on, if she remains in the stands?
Respectfully, I think you’re applying “strategery” where it didn’t exist. Palin is still clearly undecided and talking through her issues with running.
In her last appearance with Greta, she responded that she was tired of giving the same dopey answer about whether or not she is running but that that was all she had at this point because she’s still thinking about it and talking about it with her family. It spoke volumes to me when she referred to her indecision as a “dopey answer.”
I expect her to go the route of Glenn Beck to try to effect change that way. I think she saw how GB was shackled by Fox News and is now free to say what he really thinks and tell the whole truth. She wants that level of freedom. She doesn’t want the verbal restraints that inherently come with being a candidate or the leader of the free world.
I don’t think she knows how to let us down easy. JMHO
>> “Will a campaign shackle someone like me from effecting positive change?” <<
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A campaign, and subsequently winning office, is the only means anyone has to effect positive change.
All the commentary, and editorializing in the world will not make the final moves necessary to make positive change. (for negative change, that is not the case; all one need do is scream the lie loudly until it wins by attrition)
“...she sees the title as an instrument to CHANGE the flow.”
The same would be said for BHO.
It could be a diversion, or it could be Palin trying to start the process of letting her supporters down gently, by giving them time to realize that she doesn’t need to run for President to be effective.
Her statements work either way, so you can’t really be sure. But in any case, we should start thinking about the second, in case it is true, so we won’t be too dissappointed.
At ojne [piont even she said she’s make her decision by the end of Se4pyember., and there is the harsd reality of what she would need to do, to build an effective campaign and get on all the state primary ballots.
The longer she waits from now, the more likely her campaign will fall into disarray, the less people will take her seriously, and her ability to attract even a small scrum of reporters, will geometrically begin to shrink. You think Herman Cain has difficulties? The longer she waits, the more of an MSM joke she will be. Eventually if she doesn’t act, she’ll be liucky to get a stringer from Wassilla to show up for her. There is a point in time....Gers is going to pass her by, quire soon IMO.
Knowing how liberals lie, that confirms her running (hubby Prevert is knee-capping Teh One every chance he gets).
So, The Plan is for Hill to contest Sarah for First Woman President and the history that goes with it. Not that Hillary gives a sh*t about the mess this country's in, she just wants that brass ring (title) so BAD!!!!
We're being played, folks and Sarah is in on it (but the real sting will be when she goes all-in-to-win and the cankeled Queen has to sit on the poison apple that'll put her into a deep sleep until a Frog/Prince comes along with his seven midget friends who break that Mirror, mirror, on the wall over her head to wake her up.
Knowing how delusional liberals are, Hillary believes her resume and experience will take her over the top in a contest with Mama Grizzly- or as I like to think of her- the Alaskan Avalanche (tm). If it gets close, her Prevert hubby can have a medical emergency, with well-wishers arriving at the hospital in stained Blue Dresses all. Either way, look for Hill to play the victim card for bonus points (should Bill's condition deteriorate to the point of black demons hauling him away from the light, many extra bonus points would accrue).
Thank you so much for articulating this for me. Actually though, these were the thoughts I was thinking about Mitt Romney (and to a lesser extent, Perry). To them, it's just another stepping stone, another thing to add to their resume. They may have the fire in their bellies, but they don't have it in their hearts. "Servants Hearts". And that's why I still just believe that Sarah is the best of the lot.
Palin is making herself irrelevant.
I have no idea why. But she is.
Get back in the race, or stand aside Palin.