In order to win the nomination, she has to outwit and outmaneuver them.
The longer she delays announcing her candidacy, the longer she keeps the ruling-class RINOs, state-controlled media, DemocRAT and Republican opponents, etc. in complete and total disarray.
Why should she give up her strategic advantage?
To make it "fair" for the RINOs and 'Rats?
Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.
Clinton didn’t announce his candidacy until October 3, 1991
Ronald Reagan didn’t officially announce until November 11, 1979
Here ara a couple of great audios re the two magpies and Sarah kerfuffle:
Mr.L’s Tavvern - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wV3-zxJSU
and
Tammy Bruce - http://www.sarahnet.net/sarahnet-news/5344-tammy-bruce-is-this-why-we-never-hear-any-criticism-of-sarah-palin-.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
All in all, a well-written, evenhanded article. Thanks for posting it.
ML/NJ
(via Mighty Serf) About That Fox News Poll http://bit.ly/ozD4kk
Rank Fear!
By both the Left, and the GOP “Crony Capitalist” Establishment!
Ann’s still trying to get Christie in. It’s not too late.
This is NOT a ‘hijack’ attempt ...
This issue reflects a nearly fatal flaw in the current operation of the National Election ‘cycle’. By some objective criteria, THIS ‘cycle’ is already almost a year old and the National Party Nominating Conventions are still a year away !
Self-nomination as a candidate this early in the ‘cycle’ is tantamount to suicide as it serves ONLY to position oneself as a target for the Media, the opposition party and the other nominees of your own party.
Ignore the sheer waste of time and resources spent ‘campaigning’ to create or merely maintain some degree of relevancy and then SUSTAIN it through the primaries and the nominating convention.
What appears most likely for the overwhelming majority of potential candidates is simply to provoke destructive attacks from all sides and to become the victim of ennui or over-exposure to friends and foes alike.
What MATTERS, ultimately, is who’s still standing late in the primary season and who is still ‘relevant’ come the nominating convention.
By delaying entry into such a self-defeating venture, a potential candidate MIGHT preserve a certain degree of dignity, resources and ‘relevance’ for when the contest actually matters.
‘Campaigning’, ‘debating’ ( !!! ), polling and producing ‘positions’ at this remove from the actually contest is a wholey ‘empty’ exercise for ALL concerned — the potential candidates, the potential voters, the potential contributors, etc.
The only ‘winners’ are the Media and the professional political hacks and operatives egging on the participants.
One Man’s Opinion ...
21stCenturion
The pundits keep asking if it’s too late for her to run. The question should be if it’s too late for her to not run.
I think she can wait until October 31 to get in because that’s the deadline for being on the Florida ballot. I doubt she will wait that long.
If she keeps on waiting and ultimately says she’s not running, she ends up looking like a grifter to a lot of people.
Millions of dollars of investigation...unending liberal and Rino refutations...the death threats, the SNL impersonations, four years of smear and she’s more influential than ever...the 24 hour a day 7 days a week obsession with a woman who supposedly is of no relevance whatsoever.
I guess people need a hobby. ;^)