If the election prospects of your candidate-of-choice depend upon what Sarah Palin does or does not do, then your candidate-of-choice is a loser who does not have a snowball's chance in Hell anyway.
The longer she delays announcing her candidacy, the longer she keeps the ruling-class RINOs, state-controlled media, DemocRAT and Republican opponents, etc. in complete and total disarray.
Why should she give up her strategic advantage?
To make it "fair" for the RINOs and 'Rats?
Sarah needs to do no such thing. Am I impatient, waiting for her to announce? YES!! But it also gives me time to save up my coins and singles for my Sarah Palin 2012 contributions.
She said she would run an unconventional campaign (which she has been doing for the past couple of years now).
If you are a true Sarah supporter, do you really think she would string us along and then decide NOT to run?
Not her style. I do believe she loves toying w/ the lame stream media (and does a heck of a job exposing them for what they truly are) and will do so as long as possible, much to my delight.
My impatience has NOTHING to do with her....it is my problem and mine alone.
She being unconventional is one of the things I love about her. I certainly CANNOT hold it against her.
I see you just signed up a couple of weeks ago.
Nothing about Sarah Palin’s strategy reminds anyone of Fred Thompson campaign. As a “veteran” of FR, you must know that Thompson had no grass roots organizers out for him in advance of his announcement, Thompson had no blockbuster movie touting his achievements in an Executive office and in fighting corruption, Thompson was never featured on the cover of a national magazine with the caption “I can win”, and Thompson had the energy level of a snail on valium, whereas Palin is perhaps the most energetic candidate ever to dome down the pike.
Other than those “minor” differences, they seem pretty similar, /sarc/
1. I am convinced that she is running!
2. I am convinced that there is a 'strategic' element as to the 'when' she announces!
3. I am convinced she's the best at 'political strategies', so I have full trust in her judgement as to the "when"!
-"remind me of Fred Thompson's candidacy"
1. Fred had no "fire in the belly", and it showed!
2. Fred campaigned 'part time', and it showed!
3. Fred had no 'grass roots' structure, and it showed!
Sarah Palin's name is the most searched name on the web. Her ability to keep the MSM's following her and trying to trip her up is just ONE of her strengths. She has a bag full. She also has lots of us folks speaking her up in our local communities.
I just sent $100 to SarahPac so I can get a copy of the movie "The Undefeated". I live in a retirement community with 500 voters. I will be using our theater to screen the movie and sway some additional votes her way. She is likely gong to be the winner, either way.
In the 2010 cycle, she traveled around giving help to burgeoning campaigns. Wherever she went, crowds came together. Whenever she spoke, people listened. It hasn't changed. She is the OBVIOUS front runner, without declaring. Why else have the trolls been after her.
They are scared sh'tless. Their insides are quaking and their mouths are foaming. It's fun to watch. In the mean time, her family is having a good time, she is gaining in popularity, and she has the attention of the world.
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Fred Thompson declared, and I put all my eggs in 1 basket.
His problem was there no fire in his belly. That didn’t bother me; however, looking back in hindsight (which usually is a big kick in the a$$), no fire in the belly = no support.
I cried the day he dropped out the race....now I had no one.
I live in Suffolk County Long Island. Fred was not on my ballot, but he was still on the ballot in NYC.
If he were on mine, I would have given my vote to him. My choice? mittens and mclame.
Ugh, yes, I pulled for mittens, which I thought was the lesser of 2 evils.
I will NEVER vote for a lesser evil again. If Sarah does decide not to run, I am writing her in. Period, end of story.
This country wants to take itself to hell, so be it. I’ll go down fighting, standing on my own 2 feet. If I die, I die.
Fred never had the fire in his belly.
There is absolutely NO reason for Sarah to be out there now wasting precious campaign money and running the FEC gauntlet when she does not have to. Moreover, by not declaring yet, she remains a moving target for her enemies and is able to keep on outflanking and humiliating them. That ends as soon as she formally announces since FEC campaign and election laws suddenly kick in when that happens.
If you really saw what happened there, you'd know the two situations are pretty much nothing alike.
Thompson truly got started "late" -- one of the things he tried to show was that you didn't have to start 2+ years out to have a chance, and found out just how wrong he was. Especially in South Carolina, a state which he should have won (and needed to win), but came in 3rd, IIRC, because he didn't have the organization or groundwork.
Palin is a completely different story. She's been laying the groundwork, both personally and organizationally, since she reigned the governorship two years ago. Not that it was ever a guarantee that she would run (although I think she basically made up her mind at that point that she was going to), but when she does enter the race (likely on or slightly before Labor Day), she won't be doing so "cold".
There was an article about the premier of "The Undefeated" in Ames, Iowa, where a supporter was asked why he was expending so much energy for a yet unannounced candidate.
IIRC his name was Livingston. Paraphrasing his reply was something like this, "Our job is to hold this piece of ground, we'll get air support or artillery when the time comes...."
Well, if that's not at the heart of any campaign, I don't know what is. We are the ones that have to muster and organize at the local level, do the groundwork, gathering voter lists and contact numbers, all the necessary grunt work to set up and hold bridgeheads in advance. The DNC already has their union thugs and fools mobilized. The TEA Party folks have been playing catch up with amazing speed for the battle ahead and that's a good sign.
I guess the bottom line is that if your candidate, and Palin is mine, has your trust to head our government and be the Commander in Chief, then it should follow that that same trust is necessary during the political campaign and it's run up.
Even if Palin does't declare, the groundwork has to be done to effect the removal of this administration from power. C.S. Lewis had a lot to say about continuing to chop wood and draw water until that day when we are all called to account.
Patience along with preparation is a virtue in all things, but especially in times of peril.
Didn’t Ronald Reagan wait till September to announce his candidacy?