Posted on 08/13/2011 5:35:56 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
Rick Perry who just announced his candidacy received more votes than Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
How much longer can Palin just drive around the country not doing much of anything and still expect to run for POTUS?
A potential candidate without the organization to even manage 100 write in votes looks really really bad.
Lol... seek help.
A.C.O.R.N.
Fine, call it whatever you want but 17,000 Iowa Straw Poll voters gave Palin less than 35 votes. That is a very large representative group.
Rush Limbaugh huh ? Say, tell me, when did Rush Limbaugh ever hold office, run for office or act in any official (unofficial capacity) as a Redpub lican?
I am calling it exactly what it was : an unrepresentative, tiny group of students of no known antecedents and more than likely a rented mob of far left crazies from moveon.org, who shout out anti-Palin epithats, and you think that is relevant to Republican politics?
17,000 bought and paid for (at $30 at pop). party goers are a “very large representative group” of the GOP? Since when? Tell me, how did John McCain do. In the Iowa straw poll back in 2007? Didn’t Mitt Romney win this straw poll in 2007? What good did that do him in the GOP primaries?
Going. By your reasoning, Ron Paul will come close to winning the GOP the Iowa straw poll, no? If you believe that, I got an ice skiing slope in Florida to sell ya.
The post referred to “the defacto head of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.” Didn’t mention one of the qualifications was short-term governor of a minor league state. Limbaugh has been the heart of the Conservative Movement for a long time...others are just following his lead.
However, the vote is a whole different matter. There is tremendous significance in the fact that Palin got no more than 35 write in votes. If Palin is as popular and in as much demand as the Palin fans believe her to be, people should have been crawling over broken glass to get to vote for her. They didn't, they are nonexistent.
Iowa's job is NOT to choose the winner--our job is to winnow the field. Pawlenty did not meet expectations and saw the handwriting on the wall and he dropped out. He knows the money is not going to be there.
If Palin is smart, she will look at this dismal showing and not run, Huntsman also needs to get a reality check, along with Newt. Those on the bottom need to drop out and let the support from them go to those still in the race.
For those who think votes are paid for, this quote by an Iowan at the SP is typical: "Got free tickets from Paul, ate Santorum’s food. Voted for Herman Cain."
This will eventually shake out.
“Oh and Obama won because of voter fraud.”- my quote
ACORN was part of that.
Although you are kind of nutty...
Palin's organizations will come out of the woodwork gangbusters once she declares.
Ask Tim Pawlenty.
W
August 14, 1999.
Yes you are right.
And he won the caucus also.
I since saw that after my post where I hedged by saying “I don’t think” any 1st etc etc
Thanks for putting it on the thread
Rush Limbaugh hasn't been anything in the Republican Party, let alone the head of any wing of the GOP.
“Didn’t mention one of the qualifications was short-term governor of a minor league state”
Only thing is, Limbaugh hasn’t been governor of anywhere for even one second, let alone Governor of the biggest state in the country, which Alaska is.
“Limbaugh has been the heart of the Conservative Movement for a long time.”
The conservative movement is quite distinct from the Republican Party.....that is why Freerepublic is not a part of, or controlled by the Republican Party.
You will need to get off your anti-Palin fanaticism and face reality for a change.
Lik what for example?
” If you want to discount the group that yelled they didn't want Palin to run for president, that's fine, no big deal”
If it's not a big deal how come you used that as one of your main talking points in your post?
“but I doubt very much they were a rent a mob from moveon.org but whatever, it doesn't matter.”
They acted and sounded like a rent a mob from moveon.org.(If it wlks like a duck...) Meanwhile, you are yet to provide any evidence that this small group of extremist crazies had anything to do with the GOP or the primaries.
“However, the vote is a whole different matter. There is tremendous significance in the fact that Palin got no more than 35 write in votes.”
In the minds of the anti-Palin nuts perhaps. In real life, its of little significance. These votes were bought and paid for at the rate of a a few dollars per vote.
If I recall correctly, McCain did not even bother to participate in the Iowa Straw Poll at all in August 2007, and in January 2008, he only came in 4th in the Iowa Caucus with only 13.1% of the vote, as against the 34% of the vote that Mike Huckabee (who won the Iowa Caucus) got. Who ended up winning the GOP nomination?
Hint: It sure wasn't Mike Huckabee.
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