![](http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff499/redmder/FR/SP45/SarahReadyToServe.jpg?t=1297831753";)
Posted on 03/27/2011 1:34:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Sarah Palin is going to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, she is sure going about it her own way.
A conservative TV idol and household name, the former Alaska governor sees little need to behave like a traditional presidential candidate.
Palin has been nowhere to be seen recently in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, while potential rivals scour in search of staff and supporters.
Instead, Palin has relied on her appearances on Fox News and often caustic comments on her Facebook page to rally support for conservative causes and perhaps prepare the ground for a run against Democratic President Barack Obama.
"She's certainly feisty and doesn't think that the normal rules and the normal conventional wisdom apply to her," said Republican strategist Charlie Black.
A relative unknown who burst onto the national scene as John McCain's running mate in 2008, Palin is adored by millions of conservative Republicans.
But she is a polarizing figure who is behind in national polls compared with other possible candidates like Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
Last week, Palin visited India and Israel to beef up her foreign policy credentials and dispel criticism she would be a lightweight on the world stage.
She skipped an opportunity to speak to conservatives in Washington recently at a conference that most would-be Republican presidential contenders used to test the waters.
Unlike the others in the Republican field, she is not advanced in planning, saying there is plenty of time to organize a campaign if she wants to do so.
"I don't think that there needs to be a rush still to get out there as a declared candidate," she said in New Delhi. "I think there's still plenty of time...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Please show us a tape or post where she said troops on the ground.”
http://www.examiner.com/sarah-palin-in-national/palin-continues-to-push-no-fly-zone-over-libya
“Certainly a no fly zone,” Palin said. “I hate to say, jeez, more troops on the ground. You know send more of our brave young men and women over there in Libya. When yes, 41 years of Gadhafi. He’s got to go.”
Video at the link.
I think McCain is irrational, and likes to talk tough. I think certain neocons want to be Imperial Rome. And then there are people like Palin, who don't have any idea what they're talking about.
“normal rules and the normal conventional wisdom”
This is the line I just loved from the article....what the heck is normal and who decided it? This is PRECISELY why I support her 100%....she doesn’t take the “normal” route.
Why should she deal her hand on policies as yet? She hasn’t declared. She is a private citizen at this point and has opinions...as I do...but I don’t have anything to speak of that would be considered “policy”. Why give people any information until it is necessary in a campaign?
Besides, any buffoon who says she doesn’t now this and doesn’t know that should just look at that jerk in the White House....he absolutely knows nothing and he isn’t even trying to do a good job. At least I firmly believe Sarah Palin would work her bee-hind off for the American people!
I have already signed up for AZ to help her in any way I can. IT’S COMING....HER CAMPAIGN...AND I CAN’T WAIT!!
I didn’t say she called for ground troops. I said she wouldn’t rule them out. Despite having no idea who the rebels are, or what our national interest is in getting involved in Libya’s civil war, she was absolutely ready to send the US military over there to get involved, and she was at best squeamish about ground troops, but didn’t say no.
“Conservatives only need to find one thing they disagree with the candidate on and it’s curtains for that candidate.”
You are so dead right on!!......and that is why we haven’t had a TRUE Conservative POTUS in...how long?....years?? And...it is going to happen again this election because we are going to be snarling at each other and the elitist controllers will put their candidate in ONCE AGAIN and we will have let it happen!!
That’s true. Like how Mitch Daniels gets attacked around here.
Well if anyone figured she would get any kind of serious money for large corporation they would be wrong. Oil companies (large ones anyway) don't trust people like Palin. She actually believes what she says. They much prefer phonies like Romney and Huckabee.
I like Palin but for that very reason I don't think she'll win the nomination.
Huh? What does that mean?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014601450_alaska27.html
Again I will ask: Do you know how many US presidents we have elected with only a background as a House member? We’ve elected many governors, generals, senators and vice presidents. Do you know the number I’m looking for?
Huck, you and I have exchanged ideas before and I do respect your thoughts and writings but why would anyone that may aspire to a public office ever say they would not take into consideration that ground troops may have to be considered when an altercation has happened?
I went back and watched that video again. I had seen it when it was on the first time on TV but I wanted to see what I had missed. Anyone who has ever listened to the speeches that Palin gives knows she does not follow a polished format...she speaks from her mind and her heart. You need to watch her body movements and facial expressions when she is talking. When she was speaking about the troops she certainly didn’t look like that would be her first choice in this situation. She emphasized on “no fly zone” and “Gaddafi has to go”...but on that statement about troops...it was like a “oh, that’s not what I would WANT to do” kind of response...at least to me. It was my feeling she wanted to make it quite clear that anytime you put a choice to another leader that all options would be on the table.
“I like Palin but for that very reason I don’t think she’ll win the nomination.”
She will if we vote her in....if we don’t then we vote in “annuder like the udder” one....and, for me...that is a big ole “ain’t gonna happen to my vote”.
The Seattle Times?! REALLY?! Funny that you guys would use attacks against her from the lamestream media, that the big fat homosexual blogger Andrew Sullivan and loudmouth Hollyweird lefties Bill Maher, Roseann Barr, Margaret Cho, Aaron Sorkin and that crew would use. Who’s side are you on, pardner?
If she did al Reuters way, they could have destroyed her by now.
She doesn't play their game, and it enrages them.
Abraham Lincoln was only a Congressman, he ran for the Senate but failed both times.
An altercation didn't happen. Libya is embroiled in their own civil war. Mrs. Palin was calling for us to get involved in it. And yes, once you get entangled in something like that, it's difficult to rule anything out. That's what they call mission creep. You get sucked in deeper and deeper, like a gambler trying to win back his money on a losing night.
You and I both agree that Mrs. Palin wanted us involved in Libya's war and wouldn't rule out ground troops. I strongly disagree with her entire concept of US policy towards Libya. Her position is no different than Obama's, really, except that she'd execute that policy more aggressively.
A bad policy is a bad policy, whether it's executed aggressively or otherwise. We have no business in Libya. We don't even know who we're helping.
Unlike Governors Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty and Speaker Gingrich, she has skin in the game. Her son, Specialist Track Palin, has already served in the Iraq war. No Romney has EVER served in the military, IIRC.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.