Posted on 03/10/2011 4:54:38 AM PST by Hawk720
Sarah Palin talks a lot about the tea party.
On Fox News last week, she said, "I find inspiration in tea party patriots [and] those with common sense who aren't playing a lot of games."
She could be considered the tea party's godmother. With her Sarah PAC and support for 2010 tea party candidates, Palin has generated a lot of good will, not to mention publicity, for a movement that began only two years ago. She also isn't afraid to attack popular Republicans such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Further proof that Palin isn't always a GOP team player: She is skipping the first GOP primary debate on May 2 to give a keynote address, "Tribute to the Troops with Sarah Palin," at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colo. Some take this as a sure sign, along with her tanking poll numbers in key places like Iowa, that Palin will not seek the White House in 2012.
Could Palin, ever the rogue, be concocting a different plan?
What if Palin is building a grassroots army of patriots to help her undertake this mission? Palin, unlike any failed vice presidential candidate before her, has taken an opportunity and spun it into a gold mine. But to remain relevant in a crowded 2012 field of attention-seeking veteran politicians, Palin may have to make an unconventional move.
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I know you're joking....
Like she wants to hang around with you losers..
LLS
She could, but she’s not going to. It’s going to be as a Republican, or not at all.
LLS
Secondly, if you take Gov. Palin at her word, she would not be running for her own benefit. Why would she want to walk away from a nice lifestyle she's built in the past couple of years? The way Gov. Palin would decide to run is if she viewed a void in representation of Tea Partier's and Conservatives by any potential candidates. Like Sen. Fred Thompson said in ‘08, it wasn't his life long dream to become President. Instead, he felt like the Country needed him to make a sacrifice for the good of the Country.
If the Republican Party establishment is successful in nominating another of it's “Moderate” candidates, then I would think the odds of Gov. Palin running as a Tea Party candidate would be fairly good.
To those who complain that a third party would probably mean an Obama victory, another “Moderate” Republican nominee would guarantee an Obama victory.
It would help Obama’s reelection very well.
Good old Left wing Suzi Parker from the Dem party rag the Daily Commie promotes a Third party run to help keep her Muslim Soros Puppet in the WH. The radical left will be pushing this third party crap for the next two years.
Sarah Palin lives rent free in Suzi Parker’s head. How many stories has Suzi done on Palin in the last 2 weeks?
Sheesh lady, you hate her, we get it.
Well said, Sister! I've said it before and I'll repeat it in the hopes that they will finally believe me. I will vote for conservatives only. If the republicans want my vote, they had better nominate conservatives. I will not vote for a RINO again.
I will find a conservative and write their name in if I must. For too long, I gritted my teeth and voted for the least bad candidate. I've gone with the idea of trying to keep the worst one out and look where that has gotten us. NEVER AGAIN! NEVER AGAIN!
/RANT
And the GOP can then go to hell.
I've been voting for the candidate regardless of party affiliation since 1996. IMO the Republican Party has continued its leftward bent even more now than ever before and I see little if any chance of it returning back to right of center.
Who??
“Sure she could. So could I. But she’s politically savvy, and knows that would be the ticket to an Obama second term.”
Unfortunately, politics is non-linear. You can’t predict the outcome from any given set of inputs. The more solid conservative candidates we have the more likely we’ll split up the conservative vote and end up with a RINO. (Heck, three of us voted for Fred Thompson.) We can only hope that a truly conservative candidate does not launch a third party campaign. On the good side, I don’t think a genuine conservative would. I’d expect them to lose gracefully and get behind whoever the pick is. (Unlike what happened in Florida when Gov Scott won the primary. Scott, btw, is turning out to be the real deal.)
The Republican party tends to use the presidential nomination as their party’s gold watch. They give it to somebody who has been in the party for two generations and has faithfully plowed the party lines. (Bob Dole and John McCain.)
Unfortunately, I don’t see a potential spoiler arriving on the Democratic side. If somebody does, they’ll concentrate their smear machine on that person until he or she is reduced to non-voteable.
“And quite frankly, if the GOP sabotages her campaign, then I’m finished with the Republican Party, period. I’ll write her name on the ballot in 2012, and then go independent, voting for individual candidates as I see fit.”
It’s the Establishment GOP/RINOs that are sabotaging her. But, they are the GOP, since all of the rules are set up in the Primaries to benefit RINOs.
It’s still early, but I’m a little disappointed in the GOP in Congress right now. I want to do this within the GOP.
But a combination of GOP attacks on Palin and retreating GOP’rs in Congress could have me begging for an Independent run in 2016.
AIP .... Look at the history and I think you’ll find its place in obscurity and not really a factor in any race except maybe in CA where it has it largest registration. History has a way of giving meaning to things, the former Presidential nominees:
1968 George C. Wallace/Curtis LeMay
1972 John G. Schmitz/Thomas J. Anderson
1976 Lester Maddox/William Dyke
1980 John Rarick/Eileen Shearer
1988 James Griffin/Charles Morsa
1992 Howard Phillips/Albion Knight, Jr. – U.S. Taxpayers Party
1996 Howard Phillips/Herb Titus – U.S. Taxpayers Party
2000 Howard Phillips/Curtis Frazier – Constitution Party
2004 Michael A. Peroutka/Chuck Baldwin – Constitution Party
2008 Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle – Constitution Party (disputed) (write-in candidate)
2008 Alan Keyes/Brian Rohrbough – America’s Independent Party (disputed) (ballot candidate)
Compared to what we have today, I could go for a C- Republican as POTUS, as long as he/she let the Republican House and Senate run the country and the advisers were top-notch. Let’s toss the veto pen into the Marianas Trench.
That way the agencies could be constrained in their rule-making and regulation drafting ability.
I think the prime objective of 2012 is to take all three branches of government and undo the damage that Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd have done to our Country.
If that means voting for Kermit the Frog as the Republican candidate against Obama, well, then GO KERMIT!
IMHO, of course.
No...not in a million years. Never, ever, ever.
How about GOP honchos don't give a hoot about the voters and living up to their promises once the election is over?
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