Barack Obama had better be very afraid.
Posted on 02/18/2012 2:22:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the more fascinating aspects of writing about Sarah Palin is how other people react so irrationally to her. Julianne Moore, an actress who is purported to play her in an upcoming HBO film "Game Change," does not like her one bit.
Big Hollywood has reported how the actress has trashed the politician she plays, claiming she was "unqualified" to be vice president.
Now a new narrative is arising about the former Alaska governor that is more suggestive of Machiavelli than of a bimbo.
The U.K. Daily Mail suggests, ever so gently, that Palin might be maneuvering to have herself nominated at a brokered Republican convention in August, thus avoiding the messy primary process that has not been edifying for any of the candidates involved.
The Week echoes that view and suggests, by quoting Jim Newell of Wonkette, that a brokered convention has been Palin's plan all along. How else to explain her wish that the primary process continue, by slyly hinting support for Newt Gingrich. The theory is this is less a play to help Gingrich than it is a way to stop Mitt Romney from clinching the nomination.
The scenario works like this: None of the candidates comes to the convention with sufficient delegates to clinch the nomination. The convention becomes deadlocked with ballot after ballot failing to pick a nominee. Then Palin and her activist army goes to work, cutting deals in the great tradition of "The Best Man" and becoming the compromise candidate.
One of the candidates who actually ran -- probably Gingrich -- is given the vice presidential nod....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
I'm saying she's not running because she doesn't want the office. At least not now. And she surely wouldn't want it under the circumstances suggested by WONKETTE. Are you kidding?
Me likee. Hope it happens.
You have NO idea what He has in store for America.
I pinged my friend because I no longer want to be the negative nellie I have been.
The simple truth (which most people toss aside) is that we just DON'T KNOW. When is the last time we have come this close to a brokered convention?
Exactly. bttt
The Power of Palin
"Write 3 words on your palm for question hour, and suddenly the entire drool-cup left and the crack-pipe media is giving itself a handjob for a long weekend"
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"...she's more macho than Biden and more feminine than Obama....If you don't think castration anxiety is real, just watch the reaction of the media elites as they instinctively cross their legs." It happens only every time Palin opens her mouth.
Wonkette,
Wonkette? is that the female vertion of what the british call wankers? it would seem so
One thing a lot of people seem to forget. The evil ones are nothing but a party of "unintended consequences".
I'm saying she's not running because she doesn't want the office. At least not now. And she surely wouldn't want it under the circumstances suggested by WONKETTE. Are you kidding?
That's what The Week does -- it "echoes", i.e., excerpts from other publications. They're not an independent second source.
I dunno.
What if her change in plans wasn’t about avoiding the leftwing media at all.
What if it instead, was about first keeping herself from becoming enemy number one of the GOP-e Mitt Romney / Matt Drudge / Fox News / Karl Rove slime machine, so it could be directed at tearing apart everyone from Herman Cain to Newt Gingrich and now Rick Santorum.
What if instead, Palin really is as smart as many of us believed her for some time, to be.
What if her strategy (there’s an unconventional word) has been all along - letting Romney run himself into the ground, then step in at exactly the right moment.
I keep recalling the word “unconventional”.
With some glimmer of optimism. A tiny speck. A sort of “you don’t suppose” just nagging out there.
I certainly hope so. I’m all in, if it does. Heck I’m all in already.
I picked my lane now. Let’s see how this plays out.
Mitt would love a brokered convention. The GOP-e working with Rick would seal the deal for Mitt.
At this point, the best path for Sarah that would advance the cause of Liberty is to chose the best time to endorse Newt.
1976.
She also said that, if she ran, we should expect a very unconventional campaign. Could there be a more "unconventional" campaign? I doubt it.
Yes, this is exactly her style, and she's easily brilliant enough to have forseen the "Romney-????" stalemate coming last summer. GVnana doesn't know our Sarah.
True. A descriptionist, not a prescriptivist.
Pffft. Care to make a wager on that one?
Obviously, Mark Whittington doesn’t know squat about Niccolo Machiavelli.
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Palin/West? Naaaaaah, just a dream or wishful thinking. But they would be interesting, couldn’t be any worse than what we have now. I am looking forward to the doozy of a convention that we have coming. TMOAC :)
When they don’t have Bob “Eight Defeats” Shrum giving advice to the GOP.
Barack Obama had better be very afraid.
No, historically brokered conventions are run by whoever can get the loyalty of big blocks of delegates once their pledge to vote for candidate X on the first ballot has been fulfilled. The GOP inside-the-beltway types may have sway over the Romney delegates, but if it comes to a second ballot, they’ll have precious little influence over the Gingrich, Santorum and Paul delegates.
I’m charmed by the scenario, but unless there’s a plan to have some Alaska delegates pledged to Palin as a “favorite-daughter” candidate, I don’t think I buy it. (If there is, though, I think the folks noising this idea may be onto something.)
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