Posted on 12/28/2011 4:34:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Iowans might feel a bit overwhelmed by the choices for next Tuesday’s Republican caucuses for the GOP presidential nomination, but one independent group has begun running radio ads insisting that there is still room for one more choice. Calling itself “Sarah Palin’s Iowa Earthquake,” the group will target specific markets in Iowa asking voters to line up behind the Republican Party’s most prominent non-candidate, and other ads will apparently follow:
Can Iowans caucus for Palin at this late date? Sure. Unlike primary states, there is no “ballot” in the legal sense at caucuses. Attendees can write in names on the list of candidates they receive at the caucuses, and those votes will count. Of course, without Palin on the ballot and not officially in the race, not too many caucus-goers may choose to vote for her. If enough are dissatisfied with the current choices, though, she might be a handy code for None of the Above — and might get some significant level of support if the ads prompt enough Iowa voters to consider this as an option.
If so, who does that hurt most? Probably not Mitt Romney, whose base of support doesn’t have a lot of overlap with Palin’s. Newt Gingrich rose in the polls mainly on Tea Party support, so he’d be likely to feel the sting a little more, especially for those who backed Gingrich because he looked like the only viable alternative to Romney or Ron Paul. Paul might lose a little of his more recent support, but he’s going to get hurt more over his old newsletters and the vetting of his foreign-policy kookiness. It may end up hurting the candidates in the second tier struggling for an Iowa miracle — Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. That’s assuming, of course, that it has any impact at all.
Let’s take a look at all five. The first two spots focus on the need to clean up crony capitalism:
Nope, just wondered why you don’t fly your state flag, Thought you were proud of where you are from!
Maybe I got them mixed up or something, maybe I have two flags. They do look pretty much the same.
“sorry I meant that last rely to our community leftist.”
Who would have thought we would have Freepers spewing the left’s propaganda right here on FR?
Disagree with a candidate (or non-candidate in this case) all you want.
But these clowns have to keep repeating the leftist propaganda as a legitimate factor in support of their arguments.
It blows my freaking mind.
Should we?
They remind me of a few times when a dog decides to keep chasing after your truck, I mean they have to do the long chase. they pant, their eyes open wide with the inner fire of the chase, they know not that they can catch it, its all about the chase.
“she quit her supporters that wanted her to run in this race...”
She declined to run.
Is she required to run?
Is she somehow obligated to run just because some people would support her?
I don’t think so. And I was one of those who wanted her to run. But she didn’t and she isn’t and here we are left with a pack of half assed candidates to choose from.
The “quitter” label is unjust and unearned.
What is it about Palin that scares you so?
They remind me of a few times when a dog decides to keep chasing after your truck, I mean they have to do the long chase. they pant, their eyes open wide with the inner fire of the chase, they know not that they can catch it, its all about the chase.
Sorta like you and Sarah, right?
She damn sure did quit, she quit her supporters and y’all are still willing to do a write in campaign??? She told ya she wasn’t interested, but she appreciates the donations anyway!
I don’t know if this applies to you personally, but I’m convinced there are very many individuals out there who can’t get past Sarah Palin’s looks because they have had bad experiences with good looking women in their youth.
In other words, Palin reminds them of being rejected back in high school, or wherever. So they think they’re supposed to be against her, and never get to the point where they actually realize what a great and brave leader Palin has been throughout the years.
But the error is this: Palin does not fit the mold of the typical stuck up girl on the cheerleading team. Sarah Palin is simple, honest and down to earth.
Maybe this doesn’t apply to you. But somehow or another you have fallen for the cliche of “She’s too good looking to be a leader.” Please think about it, because it doesn’t make sense.
Oh BS, I guess the anti- Cain supporters felt the same way??? Give me a break. I didn’t care for him much either!
I've seen this charge before. SarahPAC is for support of conservative candidates and not Sarah Palin. The website is still in operation to support OTHER candidates. It's a scurrilous charge as she never had any apparatus to raise funds for a presidential run. But you'll dutifully repeat the untruth.
Jimmy Carter was simple , honest and down to earth and look how that turned ouy.
I would say you need help, but that would be inaccurate.
What may help you is an epiphany of realization, which I fear is far to far out of reach of your present state of mind.
It may be she just scared the crap out of you, or you prefer simple theater.
Try to be more serious in your replies.
None of the Cain critics said “He’s too good looking to be president.”
Looks like the Democratic/Obama effort to split the votes goes on and on one way or another...golly we'll be in a mess come 2012 if we all don't get behind one candidate...
I'm still sticking with Newt. He's the only one in my opinion who can put his hands on the levers in Washington and steer things where they need to go and do away with that preventing the ship from turning.
Ladies and gentlemen of the declared field and their supporters...there is a price for not bringing your A game. Or worse, for bringing your A game and having it be like this. In short, there is a a price for sucking. And this is it. And as embarrassing as it might be for you to pay it in the primaries, it’s not remotely as embarrassing as it would be for any of you to have to pay it as the nominee in November. I’ve said it before, and I will say it again and again until it starts sinking in: If the field were better, Governor Palin would long since no longer have been an issue. But it’s not and she is. Deal with it.
I've always thought you see things very clearly. ;)
You gonna tell me she never used any money for herself or that no one donated to her?? Her busses and expenses, the books she wrote and movies she made along with her TV show, you think democrats went to the store to but those books or went to see her movie. She made million in the hopes that she would run, and she let all of you down who supported her.
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