“I am not sure the numbers back up your dramatic rhetoric a la l Perry — though I think the time lines you present are instructive. I think Median self destructed and Perry would have beaten KBH anyway.”
Well, her rise was pretty steady until February 7 (her high water mark), three weeks before the primary and the day before Palin’s high profile rally with Perry. There were two polls after the rally (but before her truther comment on Beck on February 11) that showed her support falling to 17%. She wound up with nearly 20. I don’t think the comment hurt her in any material way. Most Texans probably don’t care about such matters as they are speculative and the Governor has nothing to do with foreign policy. They would be more interested in taxes like the business taxes Perry was so hot to hike. Perry might or might not have won. He certainly wanted Pain’s endorsement in the worst way. And he spoke of her as “ knowing his heart” Sheesh.
And Perry swore up and down during the 2010 campaign that he would not run for President and recently said he would only enter if Palin refused to enter.
I can barely read those comments, and his other prevarications, without my skin crawling.
Seriously, do you trust this guy? If so, please tell me the basis. He looks like southern freed Romney to me.
I do not like Perry very much and he is my third choice out of the three folks discussed here - except that Bachmann is pushing him with Rollins for third, frankly. My respect for Palin remains extremely high and probably has increased with the e mail dump. She seems spotless even among the private world of email, a world that would not fine ME spotless by any stretch.
I simply am not sold, based on what you have said versus other research I have done on Perry-KBH that your rhetoric matches reality — and therefore I am not sold on your premise that Perry is violating any kind of trust.
But given the three, I’m Palin for sure.
Here’s our problem: Perry could never convince himself to believe we were all voting for Sarah and not McCramp. He also probably doesn’t believe what Sarah did last November.
And he’s not likely to settle for anybody’s VP.
He has two choices: take the RINO Establishment up on destroying Sarah (no cabinet posts or otherwise) in exchange for a POTUS shoo-in, knowing he
can destroy zero by 5 points WITHOUT Sarah’s support, or include her as a matter of principle, and courtesy to conservatives.
The Establishment wants Sarah gone, vaporized, regardless of what her base is willing to do to keep her relevant.
Sarah loves the country too much to go third-party and put zero back in. She may decide Kingmaker is the way to go. If the Establishmnt can keep the MSM silent about certain parts of his past, he’s got her checkmated already.
Upon further thought, I think Perry want pick Cain for VP, although I doubt Cain’d take him up on it. Not that I expect Cain to get past Florida.