Posted on 09/05/2011 6:03:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican activists in early voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire generally speak of Sarah Palin’s presidential prospects in encouraging terms. She’s a star, they say. If she decides to run, she’ll shake up the field.
Lately, the praise has been tempered with warnings about how her time is growing short.
But on Monday, the day Palin appeared before a large and very enthusiastic crowd at a Tea Party Express rally here, and two days after her much-anticipated speech to the Tea Party of America in Indianola, Iowa, a plugged-in New Hampshire Republican said he believes her window has already slammed shut. At least in the Granite State.
“I think it’s too late for Gov. Palin to get into the race,” said Steve Duprey, a former New Hampshire Republican Party chairman and veteran of John McCain’s 2008 campaign. ”
Duprey, who is not aligned with a candidate, said he does not believe Palin has time to put together an effective organization in New Hampshire, which holds the nation’s first primary in early 2012. That event is hugely symbolic in the course of the presidential campaign.
But supporters say that if Palin were to get in the race – she has said she will make her intentions known by the end of September or so—she could run an unconventional campaign without the usual apparatus....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“I suspect she will announce some time in September or early October. ... Sarah Palin will formally announce a run for President before midnight ET on 31 Dec 2011. “
Good luck with that. Looking like a Fred Thompson redux campaign.
I was at the Palin speech in Indianola on Saturday. Sure sounded like a campaign speech to me. “Here’s my plan...”
She’s running. I think she’s smart to wait longer. And it will no doubt be an unconventional campaign. She made it a point to say that she doesn’t hire campaign consutlants just so they’ll say nice things about her on TV.
She’s got time.
I think she can wait quite a while longer to announce if she’s going say “Yes”. If she waits much longer and says “No”, it’s going to look like she was scamming people. That she’s taking so long to announce makes me think she’s probably leaning toward “Yes”.
She has indicated in pretty clear terms that she would decide by the end of September.
For some time now I have honestly tried to wrap my head around how a person in the public eye can so easily turn themselves into a laughingstock with these asinine statements.
But I guess Lib/RINO types CAN put a price tag on their reputations (such as they are). It’s one thing for Perky Katie to do it for millions a year, but this dipstick makes what? $150K a year max? And to what benefit? It’s not like they get bonuses for stupid statements. Then again, with Soros paying for the agenda, perhaps they do.
So says The LA Times.
Steve Duprey is best buds with Perry's chief strategist, Dave Carney.
They’re all going to look like idiots.
I suspected there was more to the story.
When Palin announces, the detractors who say she isn’t running deserve a good ribbing.
We will see that whole gang including Karen Hanretty working at MSNBC, once Sarah wins the nomination
Palin isn’t running. The MSM says she’s not running. The Obama Regime says she’s not running. The Romney campaign says she’s not running. And now a McCain staffer says she’s not running. With the entire left wing of our country in agreement, what kind of person would form an independent opinion by observing her actual behavior? I’m not going to believe my own eyes and ears, not when I can listen to so many expert opinions that contradict the only logical conclusion from Sarah’s actions. It’s a shame too, since the huge crowds of highly motivated supporters are clear evidence that she would be a formidable candidate, but I guess we get Romney instead, which is okay, since he agrees with me on every issue . . . and with Obama . . . and with Sarah . . . and with Hugo Chavez . . .
Sounds like a glass window.
dead seems to think we are smoking something:
So you’ve never heard of the Tea Party movement, Organizing4Palin, Veterans4Palin, JewsforSarah or Conservatives4Palin, etc, etc.? How is that?
Well “the Tea Party movement” is pretty vague and as far as I know, they are supporting a variety of people and have endorsed none. They can’t “endorse” anybody since they don’t speak with a united voice on individual candidates.
And I’m guessing the other groups combined must number in the hundreds (”Jews for Sarah”?! How many on the roster of that political organization?) Not much of an infrastructure in a nation of 300 million.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/2773990/posts?page=11#11
But, I’m sure it would be “open” for Chris Christie.
Seriously. Palin has the thinnest of smokescreens up, and you haven't see through it?
She's been campaigning for at least a year now. She's done everything but participate in a couple of early debates and file her papers. Outside of that, she's doing pretty much everything that any presidential candidate does to win the nomination.
She said she'd run an unconventional campaign, and she's doing just that.
‘Ed Rollins was talking by phone on CNN and said that this is a Romney/Perry race. Which caught Ari Fletcher by surprise for him to say, leaving out Bachmann. That is probably why he left the campaign although he is saying for health reasons. He also slipped up and said that she’s going back to congress in the fall—then changed the conversation real quick. He’s probably leaving the sinking ship before it sinks further.”
And then hard on the heels of that cock up the report comes in that Bachmann’s deputy campaign manager
David Poyansky has quit “wishing Michele all the best”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/us/politics/06bachmann.html?_r=2
Ed Rollins is the perfect example as to why you “don’t hire consultants to praise you on tv and then stab you in the back off the air”.
Please Vote in this Poll, Could Sarah Palin win the New Hampshire primary? Hell Yes! http://www.necn.com/pages/politics
at 9:55 Eastern time it is
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Now that's a window that really has closed. If Palin were really going to stay out of it, she needed to inform the public no later than January of this year. That she didn't, told me then that she had already committed.
Now that the primary is in full swing, I've got 100% certainty that it's only a question of WHEN, not IF she'll announce. Sarah knows full well that the hopes of millions of Americans are riding on her entering the race. She would have put those hopes to bed a long time ago if she was honestly unsure about it.
Or she is filming a girl on girl scene with Rachel Maddow. Remember, Meghan McCain went on The View claiming she was a "pro sex republican" AKA "I'll sleep with anything, even a mop"...
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