Posted on 04/18/2011 10:45:15 AM PDT by Anamnesis
As many of you know, Palin for the most part--other than the occasional foreign trip or Facebook post countering the Obama agenda-- has gone dark these past few months, up until her speech in Madison this weekend.
Pundits have claimed that she isn't running because she hasn't kissed the rings of GOP insiders from New Hampshire or Iowa, despite reports that her people have been talking to local tea party groups.
I will now make the argument, that Palin's 2012 campaign is soon to begin or is at least is all but confirmed. I will briefly begin with some of the obvious hints, but I will later go into some recent hints that I think most people have missed.
First piece of evidence:
She shored up her foreign policy credentials with her trip to India and Israel. That was one of the primary arguments against a Palin Presidency. (That oddly enough the media doesn't seem to bring up for potential canidates like Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels) Why would she overcome this criticism if she wasn't planning a run?
Second piece of evidence:
Her latest facebook posts for the most part have ended with teasing line about 2012.
Commander in Chiefs Appalling Action with Our Troops: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150150273028435 "2008 seems like such a long time ago, but 2012 is just around the corner. There is a leadership vacuum in the White House right now, but thats nothing that another good old-fashioned election cant fix."
FLASHBACK: What We Were Saying One Year Ago About Obamas Failed Energy Policy: "I have always been in favor of an all-of-the-above approach to energy independence, but "all-of-the-above" means conventional resource development too. It means a coherent, practical, and forward-looking energy policy. I wish the President would understand this. The good news is there is nothing wrong with Americas energy policy that another good old-fashion election cant solve. 2012 is just around the corner."
Do you honestly see Sarah Palin sitting back and hoping that the GOP canidate will take charge on energy issues? Out of all policy domains, this is her personal policy baby. If you watched her speech in India, you would know that would be one of the central planks of her platform.
Third piece of evidence, SarahPAC:
The SarahPAC website has been recently updated (today I think). SarahPAC has also been making a big push for fundraising as it sent letters out in the span of less than two weeks. Check out this "hint" on the envelope from her latest letter: http://twitpic.com/4jrpq4
It should also be noted that this letter was the first time in AGES that she used her title of Governor on the letterhead.
Evidence Four: The Madison Speech
In case you missed it: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150157894008435
Let's look at the end of this speech:
And Madison, you defended the 2010 electoral mandate. You are heroes, you are patriots, and when the history of this Tea Party Movement is written, what you accomplished here will not be forgotten.
Your historic stand brought down the curtain on the last election. And the 2012 election begins here.
We will take the courage and the integrity that you showed all of America. We will take it and we will win back our country!
God has shed His grace on thee, America. We will not squander what we have.
We will fight for America! And it starts here in Madison, Wisconsin!
It starts here! It starts now! What better place than the state that hosts the Super Bowl champs to call out the liberal left and let them know: Mr. President, game on!
This was a direct challenge to the President. This was not the speech someone sitting on the sidelines would give.
What also needs to be noted is that attendance to this speech was pushed by Rebecca Mansour (Palin aide and original founder of C4P). She left messages on C4P to not miss the event.
Evidence Five: Speaking of Rebecca Mansour, she had also gone dark with Palin. Her tweets have lessend in the past few months and have ramped up since the eve of the speech.
What NEEDS TO BE NOTED is what she has been tweeting and retweeting recently:
First she's been retweeting tweets about Palin as President or as a 2012 canidate
From chipster1999 RT by RAMansour @SarahPalinUSA THIS IS WHAT A PRESIDENT LOOKS LIKE #madison
From JimPethokoukis RT by RAMansour Talked to someone other day who knows Palin. Said he didn't know if she'd run. Sounded like a candidate today #madison #palin
From JedediahBila RT by RAMansour For the "@SarahPalinUSA can't win in 2012" folks:Today was a sample of why she can. And there's a lot more where that came from. #mamagrizzly
From rebeccafeldman RT by RAMansour Palin boldly & directly challenges Obama to a duel in 2012. What is the rest of the field doing? And more importantly, who cares? #gameon
From Rusty1026 RT by RAMansour Just finished listening to Sarah Palin's speech. The woman is amazing! Run, Sarah, run!
From jjmnolte RT by RAMansour CORRECTION: Last night on the great @HeyTammyBruce's podcast I suggested Palin wait till Winter to announce. No. ASAP.
From jjmnolte RT by RAMansour GREAT photo of the next President of the United States -- http://bit.ly/i6ygsf #Palin
From RAMansour *must resist commenting* RT @whitneypitcher I also had a T-Paw fan tell me Palin shouldn't be president because she's too honest. What!?!
Second, she has been pushing Organize4Palin:
From Valerie RT by RAMansour I'm READY! RT@O4Palin: Spring Training begins with Organize4Palin! #gameon Put me in, Coach Palin! Sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/33r7fg8
From RAMansour Thanks @O4Palin for all you do! You guys are the best! Folks, this is a great grassroots group to join. Visit www.organize4palin.com
Why would Palin's aide be rewteeting tweets about her Presidential prospects and encourage us to join for O4P? What should not go unnoticed is that RAMansour had not been doing this until VERY recently.
I don't know how soon Palin is going to announce; however, I think the evidence shows that a run is seriously being considered. I suspect she is still getting her ducks in a row; however, she has been giving us a "secret" "Go Light" to get her grassroots organizing underway.
“I love Sarah Palin, but I dont think she is electable (right now) for President.”
Not many giving Obama much of a chance in April 2007.
FLASHBACK APRIL 3 2007 Iowa Polls
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/april/040307poll-data.pdf
DEMS
Clinton 25.5
Edwards 23.2
Obama 16.3
Nope, she’s on the record. She loves this country too much to guarantee us four more years of Ødumbo.
“This will truly be a reform movement by, for and of The People.”
Sounds like fun.
Sarah Palin may not be as great as Ronald Reagan but Barack Obama is even worse than Jimmy Carter and so that levels the playing field. Thus, we are setting the stage for the 2012 election to be a repeat of 1980. In which a true conservative absolutely crushes a weak and ineffective incumbent Democrat.
How pathetically low can you set your standards in regards to Sarah Palin?
A single "trip" to India and Israel and a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister "shored up her foreign policy credentials"?
Well, in that case, Madonna for President!
Madonna Celebrates Jewish Sabbath with Prime Minister
Madonna tours India with Australian author
The average FReeper is a foreign policy genius compared to Sarah Palin. The average FReeper knows that Obama's rush to overthrow Gadhafi played into al Qaeda's hands because the "rebels" in Libya and al Qaeda are joined at the hip.
The average FReeper knows that but Sarah Palin, despite her recent tourist trip to Israel, was totally clueless on that point.
A few weeks ago, many FReepers were wondering how Obama put the U.S. into the situation that we were providing tactical air support for a likely al Qaeda takerover of Libya. Imagine Libya's multi-Billion dollar oil wealth being used to finance al Qaeda terrorism.
Many FReepers though that Obama must be in bed with al Qaeda. What other explanation could there possible be?
Here was my reply:
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In regards to U.S. airstrikes in Libya helping al Qarda
Obama will be pleased. ...... Comment from FReeper Number 1
Why do you think he acted so quickly ...... Comment from FReeper Number 2
Because of stupidity. Because, in foreign affairs, Barack Obama is totally clueless. Because Barack Obama never bothered to do his homework and educate himself. Because Barack Obama was an Affirmative Action candidate that too many irrational people gushed over because of the way he looked and sounded instead of what he knew and you can't realistically expect anything but FUBAR's from such a President.
Barack Obama got into the "Let's overthrow Gadhafi" chess game without ever bothering to study what would happen beyond the first move of "Pawn to King 4".
Barack Obama had not thought out the chess game beyond the extremely naïve notion that you can:
1.) Topple Gadhafi so that
2.) America can then Cut & Run so that
3.) The Democracy Fairy can wave her Magic Wand and everybody lives happily ever after
The three major problems with that childishly naïve lunacy are that:
1.) There is no such thing as a Democarcy Fairy
2.) In all of military history, air power has never, ever, secured a single square mile of territory. To secure territorry, you need "boots on the ground". The 8th Air Force may have flattened East Berlin in World War II but East Berlin became Communist because, after the bombing, it was the Soviets with "boots on the ground" there.
3.) The one warring faction that is pouring fighters into Libya in order to have "boots on the ground" to secure the final Victory in Libya is al Qaeda. ("Thank you, U.S. air power, for giving us the future Billions of dollars of Libyan oil revenues that we will use to kill Americans!")
After his intial blunder, saner heads at the Pentagon pointed out to Obama:
"Mr. President, what about the fact that al Qaeda has been flooding Libya with radical Islamist fighters in order to be the only warring faction with the necessary "boots on the ground" to secure the final control over Libya? You specifically expect to "get out" and leave a power vacuum in Libya that al Qaeda is already mobilized to fill? It will turn over Libya and it's oil wealth over to the Islamic radicals just as surely as Jimmy Carter's blundering with another dictator turned Iran over to the Islamist fanatics."
Then, Obama realized what an idiot he has been.
"What should I do now? How can I fix this?"
"Stalemate, Mr. President. We will claim a stalemate. With Gadhafi still in power, we can use him as a proxy to keep the radical Islamists in check just like George H. W. Bush used Saddam to keep the Iranian-backed, radical Islamists in southern Iraq in check in 1991 after the Gulf War."
So, the Pentagon starts making statements about "Stalemate".
This is the Charlie Foxtrot that happens when voters support a ridiculously unprepared and unqualified Affirmative Action candidate just because they absolutely adore how that candidate looks and sounds without ever bothering to figure out if that candiate would lead America into FUBAR after FUBAR through sheer ignorance and incompetence.
You do not have to be a secret al Qaeda supporter to get America into such a FUBAR and hand Billions of dollars of future oil revenue over to al Qaeda.
You just have to be so utterly unqualified to be Commander-in-Chief that you actually have the extremely naïve notion that you can:
1.) Topple Gadhafi so that
2.) America can then Cut & Run so that
3.) The Democracy Fairy can wave her Magic Wand and everybody lives happily ever after
Case in point:
"So what our president said at first, that our mission is to see Qaddafi go, he's got to go, but then we're told by one of his top advisers, the president's top advisers, saying, Well, no, really, Qaddafi is probably going to prevail on this. He's probably going to prevail over the opposition. And then our president changes the tune again, saying, Well, it's not our mission to oust Qaddafi. A lot of confusion. I would like to see, of course, as long as we're in it -- we better be in it to win it. And if there's doubt, we get out. Win it means Qaddafi goes and America gets to get on out of there and let the people of Libya create their own government" .... Sarah Palin in interview with Greta van Sustern
"But, Governor Palin, what about the fact that al Qaeda has been flooding Libya with radical Islamist fighters in order to be the only warring faction with the necessary "boots on the ground" to secure the final control over Libya? You specifically expect to "get out" and leave a power vacuum in Libya that al Qaeda is already mobilized to fill? It will turn over Libya and it's oil wealth over to the Islamic radicals just as surely as Jimmy Carter's blundering with another dictator turned Iran over to the Islamist fanatics."
"Umm ... What do you mean by "boots on the ground"? What's an "Islamist"? What does al Qaeda have to do with any of this and the Democracy Fairy?"
Sarah didn’t mess up with that Couric interview. The McCain team did. It was falsly portrayed to Palin by Nichole Wallace. Sarah did a 3 hour interview which was edited down to the few minutes the public saw. Couric had repeatedly asked her the same questions during the 3 hours [intentionally irritating Palin], then they edited it to show what they wanted.
Second, I dont think Sarah is ready for the White House too. Seems like she cannot handle interviews with the Rats in the media and press. For instance, the interview with Katie Couric was disastrous. Its not so important what the Rats say during the interview, but how Sarah responds. All they need is one bad answer (I know its B.S.) to just beat Sarah with it endlessly. For example, reading books or about Russia, etc..
I have seen just about every interview she’s done and haven’t seen anything that she didn’t handle well. She whipped O’Reilly’s ass so bad that he turned against her and bad mouths her every chance he gets. Yes it was on Fox, but O’Reilly is more friendly to Øbama than he is to Governor Palin.
About the only thing I might complain about is that she is too nice sometimes and doesn’t blow off the bullshit questions about Kathy Griffin and Levi and other nonsense like that.
Don’t forget to get your children involved, after all it is there future that Øbama is determined to destroy. Check out Youth For Palin on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_144741688925106
First of all, Ronald Reagan never, ever, had polls this utterly toxic.
FOX News Poll (February 7-9, 2011)
Question 3: I am going to read you a list of names. Tell me if you think that person would make a good President or not.
Sarah Palin:
.................YES.........NO.......DK.....Never heard of
ALL...........23%.......72%.........4%.......1%
Dem ...........7%........87%........5%.......1%
Rep ...........40%.......56%.......3%.......1%
Ind ...........25%........69%.......3%.......1%
Secondly, Ronald Reagan knew his foreign policy and showed it:
In regards to foreign policy, Sarah Palin is totally clueless and painfully shows it.
See Post 45.
Sarah Palin: "In Libya, the U.S. should overthrow Gadhafi and then get out."
What about the fact that that would hand Libya over to the rebels that are highly infiltrated by al Qaeda?
Sarah Palin is not educated enough in the very basics of foreign affairs to have thought that far ahead.
"So what our president said at first, that our mission is to see Qaddafi go, he's got to go, but then we're told by one of his top advisers, the president's top advisers, saying, Well, no, really, Qaddafi is probably going to prevail on this. He's probably going to prevail over the opposition. And then our president changes the tune again, saying, Well, it's not our mission to oust Qaddafi. A lot of confusion. I would like to see, of course, as long as we're in it -- we better be in it to win it. And if there's doubt, we get out. Win it means Qaddafi goes and America gets to get on out of there and let the people of Libya create their own government" .... Sarah Palin in interview with Greta van Sustern
The Republican Party is people. If you don't want Romney, join the party and get your candidate nominated.
Take your RINO-abetting, Democrat-enabling, intentionally strained and poorly punctuated mainstream media talking points elsewhere, troll.
I agree 100%. In fact, I’m calling The Madison Speech her unofficial announcement for 2012 run for the Presidency.
Hopefully by “sitting out the first presidential election...” you mean forgoing marking your ballot for President.
There are, you may or may not be aware, or care; OTHER races that are going to be decided that day.
Staying home/sitting out is NOT an option for anyone who is serious.
That’s what I was asking about...didn’t even know RA was a female. Thanks for the answer. Conspiratorial mode /off.
People who puke this kind of retarded garbage don’t deserve a hero like Palin for President. O’Bunghole’s more your speed.
;-\
Well, in that case, Madonna for President!
Hey genius, Madonna never held office or accomplished half the things Governor Palin did, and your troll posts aren’t going to dissuade our support for her so why do you even bother posting that crap here?
Definitely wrong, and it's not even worth two cents.
Let me ask it this way. How old are you? What is the first Presidential Election you were eligible to vote in?
Cheers!
Madison speech on Friday, totally revamped and expanded Sarahpac website on Monday, officially announce on Thursday? : )
Good to hear from you.
The poll you've quoted (and have been relentlessly thumping, promulgating, posting, and generally shamelessly plugging for close to a couple of months now) is a sham.
Speaking of which, you seem to post the same stuff a lot.
I already debunked the poll here.
With respect to foreign policy? Palin has already explicitly modeled her foreign policy after Reagan's foreign policy, as she indicated in Going Rogue>. Furthermore, foreign policy has changed somewhat since Reagan's day: Russia is no longer an active existential threat in the way it was, but China is trying to become one. And Palin is right on the mark, as opposed to the educated enlightened auto-fellating globalists who sold out the US manufacturing base and defense industry to China for short-term gain. This is from the Wall Street Journal:
Sarah Palin was pounded by the media as a foreign-policy novice during last year's presidential campaign. But when it comes to the U.S. approach toward China, she has ideas worth listening to.
"Twenty years ago, many believed that as China liberalized its economy, greater political freedom would naturally follow," the former Alaska governor and Republican nominee for the vice presidency told a Hong Kong audience yesterday. "Unfortunately that has not come to pass."
Mrs. Palin sees China's authoritarian nature as a security concern for the U.S. and its allies in Asia-Pacific, and she has a point. North Korea, Burma and other rogue regimes couldn't sustain themselves without Chinese support. Not to mention the hundreds of missiles Beijing has pointed at Taiwan and its navy's increasingly muscular attitude in the South China Sea. "How many books and articles have been written about the dangers of India's rise?" she asked.
It's funny how you systematically misrepresent her qualifications by comparing her to Reagan: as though if you can make her seem inferior to Reagan in any one respect, everyone is obligated to go into a PDS trance and reject her candidacy out of hand immediately; upon pain of being labeled a "CULT MEMBER".
Those aren't the only two choices: merely the false horns of a dilemma on which you want to skewer supporters of Palin, in order to gain ground without any substance of your own.
Rational thought is not your strong suit; or else you are a mere shill, whore, and propagandist for parties unknown.
As for Libya? The entire hue and cry among everyone is that we cannot get bogged down in yet another war, that Bush's "nation-building" (with associated expense of an occupying force, and large numbers of troops maimed or killed by various guerilla tactics) is no longer tenable.
And of course, your argument is begging the question -- hasn't it been bandied about on FR that the entire round of uprisings (beginning in Egypt) was instigated by Obama's cronies? In other words, the comparison isn't valid, since under Palin, the uprisings wouldn't have happened.
Incidentally -- have you noticed that Palin's response largely agrees with John Bolton?
"Had we acted in those early days, we could have tipped the balance conclusively against Kadafi and this whole thing might be over," Bolton told hundreds of delegates over dinner in the ballroom of a downtown hotel. "Instead the president dithered, and he watched, and he waited, and he temporized." "In the course of his ruminations, he said Kadafi has got to go and then he still didn't do anything about it thus exposing the United States to an enormous credibility problem with our friends and allies, as well as our adversaries."
And hasn't he been one of Palin's main advisors?
Good luck calling *him* a dolt.
Nice try, though, troll.
Cheers!
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