When and how did Rush weigh in?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070309/content/01125118.guest.html
RUSH: This is Rush. Im on a golf vacation, parts unknown, all week long. Six cities, six courses, starting today. On this Palin business, you know, one of the reasons I havent said anything to anybody is I dont know what this means and I think all of this is just speculation. We dont know what her reasons for doing this are yet. The speculation here and the predictions here rival some of the irresponsibility I saw with people speculating on the cause of death of Michael Jackson when nobody knew and we still dont know with Michael Jackson. We think we do but we dont. We havent had an official autopsy report.
As far as I know, nobody in Palins camp or Palin herself has said what the hell this is about and why shes doing this. So everybodys guessing and everybodys applying their own, either inside-the-Beltway formulas to this... All I know is this: If Sarah Palin has any desire to do a TV show, to do speeches, to raise money, to earn money whatever its for if she has any desire for a future, be it in politics, be it in media or whatever, shes going to have to do it in the Lower 48. She cannot do it in Alaska. Its not going to get it done.
I dont think this precludes her running for office down the road, the presidency in 2012, at all. I think these people saying that shes an instant target because she quit, thats just inside-the-Beltway formulaic and shes not that. If anything this woman, her m.o. is outside-the-box and not formulaic. So until we know what this is all about, I think its just everybody trying to be the smartest person in the room trying to predict or analyze, when nobody can really know. All I know is that she is going to continue to fire-up people in the conservative Republican base as often as she speaks to em.
Judging from my emails, I havent seen a whole lot of em from people who are disappointed or who will throw her overboard like a lot of people are. It boils down to this: When you have so many establishment types inside-the-Beltway, elite, establishment types (Republican, Democrat, it doesnt matter) just so eager to destroy this woman, it means theyre still scared to death of her. And that, to me, is the bottom line. You know, Im living proof that you do things outside the box, that you dont do them formulaically and if you do it the right way, you dont have to be part of a formula.
And I think its one of the problems with D.C. Beltway types and wannabe D.C. Beltway analyst types or whatever. So I hope this helps, but Im not going to sit here and tell you I know for sure what this means because I dont, cause I havent heard her say I havent heard anybody in her camp say what this is all about and why shes doing it. Its all just speculation, and until we know, its just stupid to sit here and say, I know for sure what shes doing, when nobody does except her and shell tell us at some point, and then well know.