Posted on 11/26/2011 5:26:04 PM PST by raccoonradio
Is it too late for Sarah Palin to enter the Republican presidential nomination sweepstakes? Conservatives4Palin hope not, and they plan to run an ad in Iowa aimed at convincing caucus-goers to draft her into the race...The Hill reminds its readers that Palin had plenty of time to jump into the race...However, Palin faces a bigger problem outside of Iowa. Most of the early contests are not caucuses, but primaries and those states do have filing deadlines, which have all passed. Palin wouldnt have contended in New Hampshire anyway, but can any candidate fail to win South Carolina, Florida, and Michigan and still expect to seriously contend for the nomination? Filing deadlines for all of these states have already passed.
Besides, Palin didnt have an organization built in Iowa or anywhere else when she demurred on a run in the first place, and she certainly doesnt have any now.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
If only she was as courageous as a nobody like you.
You’re a victim? How democrat of you! I was sure she’d run too. I wanted her to run. But not one person held a gun to my head and told me I had to support her. There were others to choose from. When she decided not to run(or rather her and Todd prayed about it), I looked over the other candidates in the pool, read about their positions, followed some threads here (joined ping lists, etc.), listened to speeches & debates and found a few I liked. The world did not end despite my disappointment and neither has my respect for Sarah. Putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea. I know this because I raise laying hens and I’ve dropped a few baskets in my time.
Cindie
I’m with you brother...
Ms Samantha, he doesn’t sound nuts and he expresses what many believe. What...entering an opinion opposite of yours makes him nuts? really? Well take your blinders off. You might still be on the Palin bus but she threw everyone, including our country, under the bus; you just don’t seem to be aware of it yet.
A lot of sicko PDS-ers around here just disappointed Palin didn’t run, because they were so looking forward to enjoying witnessing the ramped-up media gang-rape of her that was to come.
They’re sooo disappointed! But I guess it alleviates the terrible sadness by calling her nasty names.
I disagree with her decision, but I don't blame her. And it's not her own party, it's the GOP, and she's not a true republican. Sarah Palin is a true American, and if there is a conflict between country and party, she will side with our country. That's why the Beltway GOP can't stand her.
Maybe Palin will be inclined to run in 2016 or 2020, but barring extraordinary circumstances, it's time to turn out the lights for Palin with respect to 2012 and hope that the best non-Romney gets the nomination. It's sad to say this because I had such high hopes for Palin and 2012.
I was not defining her allegiance, just pointing out that she was the GOP Governor of Alaska and she was on the GOP ticket in '08 as their VP candidate and was expected by many to join the chase for presidential candidacy under the GOP banner.
IMHO, the GOP political syndicate is more afraid of her than are the Socialists.
I agree and folks I know some out there do really respect Sarah and I could see myself possibly voting for her if she
runs in the future but this year it’s out of the question apparently and some (on that C4P site) seem convinced it CAN happen still and regard her the same way the Obama-nuts looked at him. The ones who proclaimed him the Messiah,
the ones who had schoolkids singing “We’re gonna spread happiness/ We’re gonna spread freedom/ Obama’s gonna change it, Obama’s gonna lead. We’re gonna change it..and re-arrange it”—anyway, similar idol-worship to that.
>>If Palin didn’t have the “fire-in-the-belly” to throw her hat in the ring this go-around, despite all the support she had, what is there to be gained with a draft movement?
Draft Palin: Tastes great AND less filling. The more we saw she wasn’t entering the race, she wasn’t taking part in debates etc., it was clear she wouldn’t be running. Yet some on here were calling her Madame President (um, she hadn’t even DECLARED yet?) and were shocked and saddened when she finally said, no, it wouldn’t happen. It was getting late and there were no indications her run would
be happening—and they were shocked?
>>The world did not end despite my disappointment and neither has my respect for Sarah. Putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea.
I agree and am just having a little fun with these Palinistas. Again I could see myself voting for her (was a bit disappointed with her resigning—but mostly because I knew the Dems would start running ads: “She says she’ll fight for us...but she quit”..THAT would be more upsetting to me
than the fact that she resigned; the fact that the Dems would pounce on it) and in fact did vote for her and McCain in ‘08.
Even though my state, MA, would no doubt have cast its electoral votes for Obama. I couldn’t sit out the election and I damn well sure couldn’t vote for The One.
>>Palin didn’t bail. She never planned to run in the first place
Correct. Maybe she should have come out and said it early on, “I won’t be running”; though maybe she did entertain some thoughts of it (only a very small chance she might have changed her mind) and didn’t come out and say “no” because perhaps it
might happen. But there came a time when she had missed
her chance to declare, missed all those debates, and it was getting close to the deadlines for entering primaries—and she knew some still had hope for her—there came a time when she had to say “look, I’m not running” (and gave her reasons) just to put it to bed.
Only some folks won’t take no for an answer. And running an ad like this, in the 0.000000001 per cent chance she MIGHT reconsider...Waste of money. Sorry, C4P. It isn’t happening.
>>Well, looking at the pathetic stumblebums that are currently running in the GOP primary, Pat Paulsen, Lyndon Larouche and Kermit the Frog dont really look all that bad.
Hmm! And I mentioned it just to prove the point that they have about as much chance of running/winning as she does at this point. Paulsen, of course, is dead. (Slogan: “We Can’t
Stand Pat”.)
During the past summer, I was one of those who was absolutely convinced that Palin was running this year. All the signs seemed to point to it. The Iowa and NH speeches on Labor Day weekend. The campaign-style ads that PAC groups put on the Internet. Her delayed announcement seemed to be part of a well-thought out strategy to enter the race late as possible, after many of the other candidates had flamed out.
So when she announced in early October that she wasn't running after all, I was surprised, but quickly got over it and moved on. I didn't feel betrayed. I didn't pout and stamp my feet like other so-called Palin supporters seemed to do. For those who felt led on by the "tease" - grow up. It was the Palin cheerleaders who kept raising the expectations. It was the Palin cheerleaders who obsessively micro analyzed Palin's every move during the past summer to find signs of her running. It was the Palin boosters who attached undue importance to every key date as a possible announcement date and who even obsessed over the hidden meaning of the artwork on Palin's tour bus - like it was a Beatles album or something.
So to the Palin fans out there (of which I am one), stop blaming Palin for falling short of the expectations that we artificially created for her. Stop treating her as a messiah-figure. Respect her decision not to run this go-around and support the next best candidate that can beat Mitt Romney for the nomination and advance the conservative cause.
Also, do not become so focused on the presidential campaign that we lose sight of the congressional elections. Even a Palin presidency will be for naught if we fail to capture the Senate and lose ground in the House.
In fact, so important is Tea Party control of Congress that faced with the two scenarios of either Obama getting re-elected with the GOP gaining control of the Senate and super-majority in the House OR somebody like Palin getting elected president but failing to capture the Senate and losing the House, I would prefer the first scenario in a heartbeat.
The Obama agenda was virtually stopped in its tracks when the GOP took control of the House earlier this year. If we can continue the momentum and secure a super-majority in the House and control the Senate in 2012, it simply will not matter if Obama gets re-elected. The conservative agenda will get advanced and any presidential vetos will get overridden. With super-majority in the House and Senate control, we can give Obama a set of golf clubs and tell him to make himself scarce the next four years. He'll be a non-factor.
We focus too much on the presidency when the real power is in Congress.
Most of the Palin supporters still think she is the best candidate,but think HC is the only one that comes close to her especially being an outsider. Giving an opinion is one thing, but flipping out is another.
She did nothing to you, and if you think she did you are beyond help. Crybabies are not cool.
lol...whatever samantha
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