Posted on 06/29/2011 9:30:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative muckraker Andrew Breitbart said he believes former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will throw her hat in the ring for the Republican nomination for president.
"My guess is yes," Breitbart said when asked by CBS News Tuesday if he thought Palin would run.
Breitbart, who is featured prominently in the newly released movie on Palin's political rise, "The Undefeated," attended the film's world premiere in Pella, Iowa, where he was greeted by Palin with a hug.
While he explicitly said he was not endorsing Palin, he did describe himself as a "defender" of the polarizing politician.
"She represents something defiant and fearless and righteous and decent," he explained, and said the two hour pro-Palin movie "represents vindication" from her detractors.
But it's not just vindication from the so-called mainstream media. Breitbart called out "establishment Republicans," accusing them of sitting on the sidelines, "watching [Palin] be devoured because they don't want to see her succeed."
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Shell be held back alright...when Obama wins 45 states.
I’ll eat crow if I am wrong...and do it gladly. I just hope you are prepared to eat it, too.
Because the incumbent's number is more static than any challenger's. If Obama is over 50% "disapprove" as an incumbent, he's in serious trouble, and it's going to take a lot to turn that around.
A challenger has a lot more flexibility in moving that number, and in Palin's case, the fact that she's nowhere near as well known as people think she is (witness the number of even Palin supporters who are still surprised at seeing her full record laid out in something like The Undefeated) -- I've said before and I'll say again, "Sarah Palin", the media caricature, might be well known, but the real Sarah Palin isn't. Her own doppleganger is her biggest, and possibly only, real obstacle to gaining the White House.
The question becomes whether or not she's able to do so. Personally, I think she can and will.
The movie and emails do help her, I can agree with that. However, could she handle the “quitter” accusations?
If she didn't think she could, she wouldn't even be contemplating running. I'm sure that was thought through before she even made the decision to resign.
My attitude on the whole "will she run and if so, why is she waiting?" is to trust that she knows what she's doing. If she's right, it just further proves her capability for the job, and if she's wrong, it will prove some of her detractors correct. Either result is better than seeing her dance to someone else's tune.
That may be true and it may be why she’s hesitating, FWIW.
Yeah, Bachmann is so known to the public and in a much better position. We’ll only find out with an actual election and it will be nice to actually have the choice. It is quite obvious you wouldn’t like the choice to be there and that is not very confident. Keep on keepin’ on.
I just don’t want to sit there and watch state after state falling to Obama on Election Night.
The fact that Palin is that well known and still does that poorly is bothersome.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/13/ziegler-palin-cant-beat-obama/
I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Garbage. Pure garbage.
If you listen to polls a year-and-a-half out, we, as a human race, would never get anything done. Imagine all the people who “couldn’t win”:
“But, Mr. Reagan, you’re 30-points behind Jimmy Carter, how can you get over that since people hate you so much.”
“But, Mr. Churchill, the Nazis are unstoppable and the RAF only has a skeleton Fighter Command.”
“But, Mr. Washington, the British are the world’s greatest superpower, how is a gaggle of farm boys going to beat them?”
“But, David, Goliath is just too big to be beaten by a little boy like you.”
“But, Abraham, Sarah is too old to bare children.”
“But, Noah, how are you going to fit all those animals into the Ark?”
If everyone who ever heard the “but you can’t win” argument followed it, we’d be lost in the woods of debauchery and tyranny. How many times does God have to make the impossible happen before people finally get the message drilled into their heads to never underestimate it?
Is Palin one of these people? Only time will tell I suppose. Until then, I’m willing to give the good fight a shot.
Palin is as low as she can go. The others are not. And the fact they have ‘vetted’ her and everything against her is a myth anyways. She will be campaigning on her terms and that’s why the media is in such a panic and will be when she announces showing all along people like me were right when we said she was the one they feared. Your own candidates will/would get the same media treatment and act as if it is the same old, same old civility politics. NO IT’S NOT. These people are the enemy and Palin is in the position to take on them like no other candidate who will be able to turn THEIR narrative around on them. Anyway, it’s very telling you don’t even want her to enter which really shows you are not so confident with yourself and your point and she has every right to enter and we will find out.
The truth is that Palin isn’t polarizing. The MSM opinion of her makes her polarizing. There is a HUGE difference.
But people fall for this. Liberals who like to think of themselves as “cool,” and being “cool” is deeply important to them, know that the correct thing to do is to MOCK Sarah Palin, always. She is to be laughed, scorned, and mocked. Why? Because comedians call her stupid and joke about her. So that’s final: she’s stupid and a joke.
And on the other side of the spectrum, you have people like my Mom, a great conservative, historically informed, but older and likes to rely on newspapers and Fox News for info. So she bought the Fox News mantra that Palin is absolutely UNELECTABLE because she has “too many negatives” — and my mom has been inches away from Palin at speaking events, has said she is the “real deal,” likes and respects her, but Fox News says she is unelectable. And people who watch Rove and Krautie say this believe it and give up on Palin.
It reminds me of insecure girls in elementary school who love their best friend but dump her when the cool crowd doesn’t like her.
Conservatives backed off Obama in 2008 because they were scared of being called a racist, and they let him win with the most nonexistent, hidden past of any president, just because he happened to be somewhat black. Do we always have to be so ASHAMED OF OURSELVES that we have to let the other side choose our candidates??
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