Sarah may have the last laugh when she endorses Herman Cain.
not quite. and it’s a mark of her character that she made her decision knowing full well there would be an idiot’s chorus singing this tune.
Let me sum it up for the author...
WAH! WAH! I’m a two year old! WAH! I’m taking my toys and going home! WAH!
So let me get this straight, the fools who hated her from the start now wish she had run?
The “fire in her belly” turned out to be a bad case of gas.
The left would complain if she was hung with a new rope.
How do you “quit” being a candidate when you never WERE a candidate?
She’s not defeated she didn’t want to take a pay cut and she doesn’t have to be PC to the msm.
Looks like the msm has to suck it up.
You HAVE to have the JOB (president) before you can be called a Quitter.
Sort of like..... OBAMA had a job as a Senator, and he QUIT. That’s a Quitter.
Geez, people can’t even insult Palin anymore.......too eager and too desperate to prop up Obama.
Sarah made the decision not to run for President for a very similar reason to bowing out of the Alaska Gocernorship.
The lame-brained, half-witted Demonrats and their bedfellows the media would have pelted her with a barrage of stupid charges (lies) until she wouldn’t have had time to tend to her job of President. In Alaska the Demonrats were inundating her with false charges that she (the state) had to pay lawyers to refute.
They would do a similar thing again and it would mount up to a large mass of needless distractions. She’s smarter than they are and she saw that coming.
I wanted her to run as much as anyone on these boards, and although I’m admittedly a bit disappointed, I’m also at the same time oddly quite content over her decision. Even a bit happy for her. And I look forward to following her just as much as ever, as she continues her fight against the ‘permanent political class’ and Obama and the whole corruption in the system.
Although she has the right message and right vigor, the media-political complex was going to fire-bomb her to oblivion every hour of every day had she gotten into the race. They proved they will peddle out-and-out lies and smears with no moral qualms, towards not just her but her family. The GOP establishment would continue stabbing her in the back, preferring an Obama win over a Palin win. It would be like facing a fully armed, modern regiment with an antique shotgun.
I truly believe she has made the right decision, and it very well might allow her to get her ‘messages’ out more effectively, not being under the immediate media barrage. True, she loses a little by no longer perceived a potential candidate, but not nearly as much as I think some folks might be predicting.
Good article.
Wish I hadn’t paid my $100 for an “advance” copy of The Undefeated.
When duty called she hung up the phone.
This quitter business is getting ridiculous. If she did decide to run, IMO the top four would have been Cain, Palin, Perry and Romney. The odds of the Conservative votes having a three way split between Cain, Palin and Perry and Romney walking away a winner were too great. I am very disappointed that she didn’t run but for my own selfish reasons which generally showed more concern for my own future wellbeing than what might be best for her, her family and the potential outcome of the election.
I just heard Sarah on Hannity. She said that she didn’t “retreat” and now she felt free to say whatever she thinks. I don’t see why a campaign would have restricted her message in any way.
She rattled off half a dozen or more objectives and qualities that she hopes to see in a candidate. After each, I said, audibly though to myself, “Yeah YOU are that candidate who could have espoused those issues.” The “guy” that she is looking for has left for the North Slopes. The magic is really gone now. It’s a shame. I’m sure that she feels relief that the decision has been made, but as the campaign unfolds, “what might have been” will hang around like a long shadow at sunset, and its lurking will be painfully obvious to all, including Sarah.
This author is obviously not up to date on Cain.
Since I don’t feel like typing another long response, I’m just going to repost my thoughts on Sarah’s decision and statement that I posted on another thread:
1) Good for Sarah. I bet she realized that she would not win the general election and instead will allow an electable conservative to run. It takes a strong character to put aside their personal ambitions to do what is best for their country.
2) If she is really not running for fear of her family, that is a telling reflection on the state of this country and should serve as a wake-up call for all.
3) The reactions of her most ardent supporters are amazing and unsurprising. This is what happens when you put too much faith in one imperfect woman.
4) The stool of conservatism has three complementary legs. They are social conservatism, fiscal conservatism, and national defense conservatism. Her letter reflects a disturbing trend, which is emphasizing fiscal conservatism at the expense of social conservatism and national defense conservatism.
Sorry, but economic issues are the least of our worries right now. Sure, Obama is implementing the worst economic policies in the history of our nation. However, our nation is sill very wealthy. People all over the world still dream about living at the high material standard that we do, and most people who ever set foot on this earth would die to live like the “poorest” among us do. On the other hand, a million of our most innocent are butchered a year in their very own mothers’ wombs, its becoming more and more the case that we are beginning to be forced to pretend that Adam and Steve are married, and the institution of the nuclear family is still in shambles. On the national defense side, suicidal mullahs in Iran are beginning to get nuclear capabilities, a new and better than ever caliphate is potentially forming in the Middle East, the existence of Israel is being put in ever increasing danger, not-so-friendly China is still on the rise, and we have porous borders that our emperor refuses to close. As for miscellaneous issues, our Second Amendment rights are being pried away from us, we have a ridiculous amount of illegal immigrants, people are acting like global warming isn’t a laughable scam, race-relations are being set back decades, and we have a wannabe president in office doing his best to either destroy this nation and/or become dictator of America, caliph, or ruler of the universe.
So yeah, fiscal conservatism is important, and it complements the rest of the conservative platform. But the economy is not the #1, consensus, by-far most important issue right now, and conservatives should stop acting like it is.
Sigh...
Suffice to say it would have been so MUCH better if she had decided and announced this months ago. Better for the country, better for Conservatives, better for the Republican Party -- and better for her own credibility -- which has now been shot to pieces.
She is never going to regain the level of trust and passionate dedication that was hers until yesterday. That's a fact.
At the national level, she has one more chance. She will have to choose a candidate, back that candidate enthusiastically, and that candidate will have to win. If she doesn't, two years from now she'll probably be hosting a 3 a.m. talk radio show somewhere in the boonies.
Its obvious you “missed the point” ! Ms. Palin most decidedly chose not to run in order to support the Republicans. IOW, she - unlike you, apparently - knows a “third party” political division at this point would mean another Obama term - and all that implies !
IMNSHO, Ms. Palin isn’t “quitting” on anything ! Rather, she’s remaining true to her credo of faith in America and its Libertarian principles she’s so long espoused !
But, by all means, parrot the lamestream media meme ! Its your perogative and right ! But, I humbly suggest, you take some time to learn a little more history and political science ! >PS