Posted on 04/08/2010 11:29:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Sarah Palin, with her mega-wattage superstar status sucking up all the available oxygen in the room, is it worth sharing a stage and competing for some attention?
Between now and the first GOP nomination season debate a year from now, that will be the question asked over and over again by the smart political operatives plotting Tim Pawlenty's, Mitt Romney's, and other nonreality show starring Republicans' paths to the White House.
The cattle call season for the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls is upon us, but the media obsession with all things Palin and her knack for dominating a news cycle calls into question how valuable it is for various potential White House contenders to show up and play.
Every four years in the spring of the midterm election year, thousands of Republican activists gather in the South and size up the politicians seeking to lead the GOP charge into the future.
Two Big Names Opt Out
In New Orleans this year, the two most serious potential White House contenders who have already started putting the organizational pieces in motion for a likely run, former Gov. Mitt Romney and Gov. Tim Pawlenty, will be no shows.
Both of them have decent excuses, but the Southern Republican Leadership Conference takes place over three days and if either of them believed it was a must-do event, they probably could have found a way to be here.
"He's on a nationwide book tour that has him speaking to audiences and signing books this week in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Minnesota," said Romney's spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Three page article.
There goes ABC, trying to sow the seeds of dissension within the GOP -- or at least let the masses think dissension exists.
News cycle. Didn't ABC used to have one of those?
Michelle Bachmann - Savage's favorite elected official.
TSN agrees wholeheartedly!
Hilarious!!!!!!
At least Ron Paul is going to be there...magritte
It's the one picture of Obama that I actually like and crack up over. Just wish he wasn't holding up Rove's book too.
He couldn't fill a 4,400 seat venue in Salt Lake City (Mormon capital of the world), had about 450 in Detroit (his boyhood home), 250 in San Jose and 100 - 150 in Des Moines. He apparently drew about 450 in Phoenix. Before the Phoenix event, Romney’s Free & Strong America political action committee sent an e-mail invitation to the 4,500 names in its supporter database carrying ZIP codes within a 50-mile radius, according to the Boston Globe.
Same here. It's really funny picture. I even thought it was a photoshop earlier.
Ok Mitt. We believe ya.
what reality show abc? get your information right.......
I guess I’m not seeing the humor in that picture. Can’t stand to look at the bassturd to begin with,
but,
It’s yet another glaring example of Obamas childishness. Mocking and ridiculing any and all he disagrees with.
I’ll laugh AT him but never, ever WITH him.
I spent about half of my life in Des Moines and other parts of Central Iowa. Any Z-list country music, rap, rock or hog-calling star could draw more people. Heck, we once had 10,000 show up for a job fair with space for only 500, and we did precious little publicity. He might want to back out now before he’s embarrassed like Mayor Giuliani or Governor Connelly. I’ll bet Rep. Dennis Kucinich could draw a bigger crowd in Des Moines (especially if his wife was with him)!!
Is that photo shopped or is our girlish metro-sexual president really holding up and mocking those books and their authors?
I beleive it’s real. A Freeper posted it yesterday for captions.
It’s appropriate that Mr. O is captioned with “Women’s Studies”.
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