Posted on 05/13/2011 11:08:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Obviously no one will challenge Obama ... there were faint hopes in that direction earlier but they’re dead and gone.
Be glad when Sarah gets in, but she will announce when it is time.
I wouldn’t call Palin a coward if she doesn’t run. Any prospective candidate has family questions to answer before running, and Palin may have more than most, including factors we’ll never know about.
But I hope she runs and I agree, this is her time to do it.
I was certainly hoping that SOME State legislature would pass a bill requesting the State of Birth DOH send directly to the Secretary of State of the ballot issuing State a COLB of whatever acceptable form under the Full Faith and Credit clause.
But all that got caught up in ‘long form’ madness.
I figured at least one State requesting a State to State transfer of official documents would do a few very important things-
1) WTH? There IS no mechanism for making sure the Constitution is being adhered to? Just the gentleman's assumption that no party would run an ineligible candidate?
2) Further marginalize the birthers, as any plausible story whereby this is all a conspiracy gets even deeper and more bizarre.
But yes - the opponent our candidate is facing in 2012 is 0bama.
It is known.
AND THEY ARE FREEKIN’ AWESOME!
Todd the hunky Eskimo Snowmachine ironman.
Track the military man.
Bristol the Pistol - ug - step AWAY from the camera and get on with your life - don't try to make the camera your life.
Willow - the little sister the big sister should emulate.
Piper - cute
Trig - special needs child.
As a former rural American it is cool to see another family that fills the freezer from hunting - fishes - and really cares for each other. She is a modern day frontier woman!
Freekin’ AWESOME!!!!
I wasn’t meaning to slight her family in any way. Just saying she could choose not to run for family reasons that we wouldn’t necessarily know about.
(Not sure Willow’s the little sister Bristol should be emulating, however—as about all we know about her is the slurs she posted on FB.)
Again, I hope she runs.
I don't think he has any dominant popularity than his TV show and blind allegiance from a segment of Evangelicals that think women belong in the home. He most certainly does not have the dominant support of conservatives or TEA Party Republicans. He won't even be the RINO's choice when Mitch Daniels enters the race. "My Man Mitch" is the Rove/Bush choice, and Paul Ryan also likes Daniels.
His TV show has been a campaign!
He's been running since '08 amd I'm just surprised he's let himself regain so much weight, which is the only reason, I am not 100% certain he's going to run.
He's had that ad running for signatures to repeal obamacare running on Fox for months, which is nothing but a ruse to get an email/phone call list of potential donors for his campaign, since fund raising *remains* his major stumbling block.
Like it or not, [and you don't] the sideline money will remain on the sideline, until Sarah Palin announces her decision.
Oopsie, Willow makes the papers again:
I hope she runs also. I await her performance in debates before I am “sold” - but she is MY ‘front-runner’ for the nomination the very nanosecond she announces.
If this is the quality of “dirt” they have on Willow - bring it on.
She called characterized the attacks on her family as “gay” and called a guy a f*ggot and told him to stop attacking her family.
Not little Ms. Prim and Proper - but not anything out of the ordinary (i.e. no dog murders - speaking of Huckabee).
Yup.
Huck would have been a Palin spoiler. The establishment candidate such as Daniels would have been the beneficiary.
Not anymore.
As far as his TV show being his campaign, his overall numbers are not at all in line with this small audience. If it were just his viewers who were driving his numbers, he would be lower than Palin right now.
The truth is, Huck plays well with moderates and Independents. Since the majority of American voters are not political junkies, Republican/Conservative affiliation is nearly at a record low, and over 38% of the General Electorate call themselves Moderate/Independents and have no party loyalty, candidates like Huck who cater to the middle, seem to have the edge.
The way I feel about her exactly. She’s always going to have the charm and charisma and adherence to principles, so I want to see her come out wonking it in the debates and all—but my support is hers to lose.
Watch for the Bush team to (at best) sit on their hands in 2012 especially if Daniels doesn't get the nomination.
The media would absolutely destroy Huck with the moderates if Huck were the nominee.
They don't do that now, because they want Huck to be the spoiler in the nomination process.
Ditto. I hope she has acquired more polish and expertise on the issues than in 2008. She is known to do such things and what has always been said about her is that she is underestimated at your own peril.
I already have a high opinion of her - and a few good or great debate performances would cement it.
It would also absolutely blow away anyone fooled into thinking she is any less informed than your average Presidential candidate (who I must say - the typical Ivy League Yale Harvard lawyer we seem to like to elect have NOT been the pillars of knowledge and philosophy that one might hope to expect - too much “everybody passes” elitism I suspect.).
If he does run... we will have fun destroying his candidacy... such a target rich environment.
LLS
Why thank you mam!
LLS
I don’t know where you come up with your numbers, but this nation of ours is right of center.
RINOS lose. Conservatives win.
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