Sarah Palin told the world with one particular endorsement at the 11th hour she was running and that was the Terry Branstad endorsement for governor of Iowa who is definitely NOT a mama grizzly, is not considered a social conservative but more an establishment candidate, had never asked for Palin’s endorsement and actually confessed on You Tube that he had never met her or communicated with her. You could tell he was caught completely off guard by it.
Think about it. Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Branstad had nothing to do with 2010 but everything to do with 2012. Endorsing Branstad makes her at least acceptable to the party establishment in Iowa. In other words they are not going to sabotage her efforts to resonate among the GOP caucus goers of Iowa, and really that is all that Palin wants from Branstad, that he tell the party big wigs to lay off attacking Palin. Palin will do the rest.
And finally if Palin doesn’t run what is she going to do with her Facebook and her Twitter. Do you think that people are going to pay attention to what she writes any more or do you think they might pay more attention to those folks running for POTUS? Sarah has got all her ducks in a row to make a run. To forgo the opportunity to run in 2012 is not conceivable imho. She has too much going for her in terms of political leverage because of the success with her many endorsements. Do you think she is just going to throw that away and abandon her mama grizzlies and the clout she now has with the Tea party movement? Not on your life.
Er, is that post directed at me?
At the beginning of every NFL season the pundits speculate to which team “is the team to beat” in the coming year. That team now has a target on its back and the teams that face this team in the regular season know if they can beat it they have a decent shot to make it to the conference championship game and then to the Super Bowl.
Sarah Palin “is the team to beat” or the top seed in the 2012 GOP primaries. In other words she will be in the crosshairs of the other candidates. Whoever can beat her will prevail, but if she cannot be beaten be any of them she will win the nomination. The primary season must be played out before one can determine what scenario will occur. But to count out Sarah Palin at this point in the proceedings would be absolutely ridiculous but by the same token to pronounce her the victor now would also not make any sense either.
Do you think she is just going to throw that away and abandon her mama grizzlies and the clout she now has with the Tea party movement? Not on your life.
Thank you, Techno. Your post is a statement of simple observed reality in an ocean of scattered and aimless speculation, based on little more than SRM talking points and liberal blather.
Good job.