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GOP looks past Sarah Palin for 2012 (More nonsense)
The Politico ^ | October 5, 2011 | Alexander Burns

Posted on 10/05/2011 10:16:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin hasn’t closed the door yet on a presidential bid. But few Republicans appear to be waiting for her answer.

Never was it clearer than Tuesday, when Chris Christie’s announcement that he would not run in 2012 prompted a throng of strategists to conclude the Republican field was finally set – never mind Palin’s indecision. A new poll published on the same day revealed that two thirds of Republicans don’t want her to run.

After spending the better part of three years in the center of the national political spotlight, the former vice presidential candidate appears to have worn out the patience of the GOP.

Even as Republicans continue to cast about for new options, only a distinct minority are gazing longingly toward Wasilla – or wherever else Palin is in her secretive, largely apolitical travel schedule.

“She stirs up a lot of conservatives in the base, but I don’t think conservatives are looking to her as a presidential nominee who can save the conservative movement,” said Chuck Muth, the Nevada-based conservative activist....

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: palin; palin2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good Point!


21 posted on 10/05/2011 10:43:57 AM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: Loud Mime

We have primaries in 100 days and when will she enter the race? This is getting ridiculous. People have given every damn excuses for not running. Atleast let us get behind the most conservative in the group and stop Romney. If sarah makes people guess, the conservatives are going to be split and give Romney the nomination


22 posted on 10/05/2011 10:45:37 AM PDT by Ranjit
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To: gardencatz
BTW, what reality show is she doing now?

None, since she skipped the debates...

23 posted on 10/05/2011 10:46:03 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( The Prudential Governor... Have you bought your piece of the Rick)
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To: Astronaut
Keep dreaming. She’s a reality TV star, not a candidate.

And a well paid one at that! One million bucks per year from Fox News alone - much better than that dreary job as Governor she left mid term.

24 posted on 10/05/2011 10:47:02 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They know she's inevitable.

They knew it the first time they saw her.

It's why they go insane every time the think of her.

ineluctable

25 posted on 10/05/2011 10:47:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: ken5050

That’s a whole month on October and middle of November. Primaries are in January !


26 posted on 10/05/2011 10:48:32 AM PDT by Ranjit
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To: Ranjit

November 13, 1979. Know what happened on that date?


27 posted on 10/05/2011 10:51:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The rest of the field could make her a lot less of a problem by being better. That they aren’t better (and most of them frankly can’t be) is neither her fault nor her supporters’.


28 posted on 10/05/2011 10:51:45 AM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Ranjit
Atleast let us get behind the most conservative in the group and stop Romney

Agreed. But why do we have to decide right now instead of, oh, say when the filing deadlines arrive?

29 posted on 10/05/2011 11:02:06 AM PDT by kevkrom (This space for rent.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter; gardencatz
BTW, what reality show is she doing now?

None, since she skipped the debates....

LOL. Post of the day!

30 posted on 10/05/2011 11:03:09 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“November 13, 1979. Know what happened on that date?”

Ummm....was that the date Nancy Pelosi had her 37th face lift?

Just kidding....I know it was the day that Ronald Reagan announced his formal intention to run for the GOP nomination.

Only thing different now is the primaries are more “front loaded;” many states that had primaries in the spring now have them in January or February. So some of the deadlines are earlier now than back then.

That being said, I would never under-estimate Sarah Palin.
I wonder if she plays chess?

Sarah Palin and Herman Cain are my favorites. Either one of them would make a fine president.


31 posted on 10/05/2011 11:05:11 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Obama inherited a mild recession from George W. Bush and turned it into a major depression.)
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To: Lakeshark

:)


32 posted on 10/05/2011 11:07:02 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( The Prudential Governor... Have you bought your piece of the Rick)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Man, the PDSers have spammed this thread!

With that said, the filing deadlines are fast approaching and if she's serious, Sarah needs to SOGOTP soon.

33 posted on 10/05/2011 11:11:50 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

LOL! That gave me a chuckle!

Cindie


34 posted on 10/05/2011 11:12:49 AM PDT by gardencatz (Proud mom US Marine! It can't always be someone else's son.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There’s a sense, in other words, that Palin’s moment has already passed, whether she knows it or not.
“Sarah Palin can and should have done so much more in the last two years to bolster her credentials, to demonstrate depth, to demonstrate substance as opposed to style,” said former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. “She had a window and I don’t think she used it wisely.”

The Washington elites are entirely clueless. She's written two best-selling books, helped numerous conservative candidates get elected in 2010, drawn supportive crowds wherever she's gone, and made major addresses to conservative organizations. They believe that because she doesn't have the "good-old-boys" type organization that Romney and now Perry have, she's crippled.

The other conservative candidates have risen and fallen in the polls these past couple of months and it shows how mercurial the Republican field is viewed right now. They (meaning the conservatives) are not decided on a candidate just yet while the elites have settled on Romney. I guess we shall see how it all shakes out in the next couple of weeks.

35 posted on 10/05/2011 11:14:22 AM PDT by CedarDave (My Sarah prediction: Announcing for President between October 12 and 28.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
After spending the better part of three years in the center of the national political spotlight, the former vice presidential candidate appears to have worn out the patience of the GOP.

The GOP are nothing but a bunch of spineless, elitist pigs. They've never supported Sarah Palin, not while she was under attack nor while she was on point attacking the Obama regime. I have no use for the GOP establishment elite. My goal is to defeat them along with their Democrat buddies including Obama.

36 posted on 10/05/2011 11:16:36 AM PDT by upsdriver (to undo the damage the "intellectual elites" have done. . . . . Sarah Palin for President!)
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To: ken5050
4. If Mitt and Perry both washout, then look for Palin to get in within 4-6 weeks..she would probably immediately be the front runner.

She doesn't have that long -- the early primaries will require her to declare her candidacy before the end of this month. She has three weeks to do it.

37 posted on 10/05/2011 11:19:30 AM PDT by CedarDave (My Sarah prediction: Announcing for President between October 12 and 28.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Saying she isn’t running isn’t an “attack” on her unless she is actually running. It’s the truth. Right now, she isn’t running. So saying she isn’t running isn’t an attack. Quoting people who say that she isn’t running isn’t an attack.

I am happy that the news media keeps on focusing on her, because she is critical to the conservative movement. We’d all be worse off if the media decided to just ignore her. And even if she announces that she isn’t running, I don’t expect her to go quietly into the night, or to allow the media to ignore her.


38 posted on 10/05/2011 11:41:48 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Retired Greyhound

To support Herman Cain is not to settle, he is an outstanding candidate who will beat Obama.

Palin would lose because far too many hate her with a passion. They would come out in droves just to vote against her.


39 posted on 10/05/2011 11:42:34 AM PDT by Java4Jay
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To: Responsibility2nd
Romney really is getting every break so far. Palin hasn't announced. Perry came in, and he was a solid conservative who could challenge Romney, but because Palin was still out there, her supporters, along with the existing candidate supporters, cut him down viciously, ignoring Romney at the debates to try to clear the field of a conservative. When Perry was finally falling over, the Palin supporters cheered how they had "cleared the way" and "opened the door". But then Cain started rising. And the attacks by all the other candidate supporters started on him as well.

Meanwhile, the one new entrant who might have cut into Romney's base, Christie, keeps announcing that he is NOT running. So Romney has the moderate/left field to himself, while conservatives have multiple major and minor, announced and unannounced, choices, and are stubbornly sticking with their own choices and trashing all the others:

"Bachmann is mean and shrilly, Bachmann attacked Palin, Perry is a racist, Cain supports new taxes, Palin isn't running, Perry supports open borders, Bachmann is crazy and retarded, Cain is a race-baiter, Gingrich spends too much time on the couch with Pelosi, Perry loves muslims, Bachmann never served in an executive position, Cain strongly supported TARP, Palin supported TARP, Perry wrote a note to Hillary about health care, Cain supports affirmative action, Bachmann is unelectable, Perry is a RINO, Cain has no government experience, Gingrich had multiple wives, etc., etc., etc.,"

Romney is the luckiest candidate out there right now. He has money, he has the establishment, and yet he actually got away with attacking PERRY as the establishment, with the help of the other conservative candidates who thought it would help them (and it did Cain, who is now the flavor of the week until the media gets through with him).

40 posted on 10/05/2011 11:50:30 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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