Posted on 12/13/2010 7:01:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Missing: Republicans. Must be willing to declare candidacy for president of the United States. Missed terribly. Last seen dancing with the Tea Party movement.
What's going on? Usually, by now in the "campaign cycle" (shortly after the midterm elections), at least a handful of candidates have declared their intention to run for president to much fanfare. But for the Republicans this time around, nobody is ready to announce. They're not even close.
Yes, of course, there are names being floated around: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour and – needless to say – Sarah "the Barracuda" Palin. But nobody seems to be in a rush to declare their candidacies or even signal an intention to run.
"What's happening now has the feel of a huge workforce slowdown," says my friend and former colleague Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist closely aligned with Mitt Romney.
On its face, this is surprising. Usually, the press is already in a fevered frenzy about the early declared candidates, their publications awash with polls and pontification on the ongoing electoral "horse-race". But, much to the Washington press corps' chagrin, the Republicans seem to have come down with a pronounced case of cold feet. Sure, a few are racking up frequent flier miles travelling to New Hampshire and Iowa, those critical first states in the primary calendar, but nobody has had the guts to come out and declare a candidacy.
Part of this phenomenon is overall election timing. Unnoticed by many except the most astute Republican strategists, the all-important early primary caucuses and elections in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada have been pushed back a month from January to February of 2012.
There is also a great deal of uncertainty around new Republican rules that govern the primaries....
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Wouldn’t that be the Manchester Guardian?
Maybe....
I have a hunch, that she’s not going to run in this cycle. Just a hunch, and nothing more and I may very well be full of $h!t. Just seems like she’s having way too much fun giving the media and liberals fits.
I have a hunch you should stay away from 'Vegas.
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Simple. Like all good gentlemen, they're waiting for the lady to go first.
Actually, they're not gentlemen at all. They're a bunch of chickesh!t cowards, who are waiting to see if Sarah announces. If she does, most of them will opt out.
You’ve nailed it!
They are all waiting on the girl.
chickenshit is right.
Sarah is going to win the nomination in a cakewalk and the White House in a landslide.
To those who think she isn’t going to run I’ve got a news flash for you....she’s been running since August of 2009 and is working her brilliant strategy to perfection.
People have no idea what they are in for...
She sure is.
I don't know when I first realized that she was going to be our next president. Probably right after McCain threw the race to Bambi. Even when she was the VP nominee, I thought to myself that our ticket was upside-down.
It's been clear to me for a long time now, that her life's trajectory leads straight to the White House. It is her destiny.
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