Karl Rove and Rachel Maddow Agree: Sarah Palin Will Run

Last weekend, ex-Republican campaign strategist/current Fox News political commentator Karl Rove repeated twice that Sarah Palin will run for president. He’s obviously right.

Appearing on Fox News Saturday, Rove stated that Palin “has a schedule next week that looks like that of a candidate, not a celebrity.”

He then appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” pointing to a campaign-like video recently released by Palin‘s Political Action Committee, as well as upcoming events in Iowa as evidence that Palin will soon announce her candidacy. Watch the video below.

“If she doesn’t get in next week, I think people are going to basically say, ‘She’s not in, she won’t be in and if she gets in, I’m not going to be for her,’” Rove added. “You can only tease so many times in the political process and I think she’s getting to the end of that.”

Much evidence seems to back up Rove’s comments. Back in late June, Bristol Palin told Fox News that her mother had definitely decided about whether or not to run, but that “some things just need to stay in the family.”

Since around the time she made that statement, Palin’s schedule has, as Rove put it, “resembled that of a candidate, not a celebrity.” Celebrities don’t paint a giant tour bus with American flags and tour U.S. historical sites with their families, nor do they show up at the Iowa state fair to talk about the future of the country. And they especially don’t release campaign videos.

Rachel Maddow shared Rove’s prediction, Tweeting: “Why is it political common wisdom that Gov Palin is not running? What’s her new Iowa ad for, if not for a campaign?”

So what does Palin have to gain by launching her full-on campaign three months before announcing her candidacy? (If, in fact she does.)

Back in October 2010 Palin said that she would run for president in 2012 “if there’s nobody else to do it.” She included that she’d “take a real close look at the lay of the land to consider whether there are those with that common sense, conservative, pro-Constitution passion, whether there are already candidates out there who can do the job … or whether there’s nobody willing to do it, to make the tough choices and not care what the critics are going to say about you, just going forward according to what I think the priorities should be.”

By delaying her official entrance, Palin may simply be waiting for the other candidates to say enough regrettable things to justify her entrance using the criteria stated above.

When each new candidate enters the race, he or she tours New Hampshire and Iowa stating positions and usually saying something either regrettable or downright stupid. Bachmann has so far provided the richest examples thus far, as has Rick Santorum who claimed in May that John McCain doesn’t understand torture.

The media, of course, endlessly exploits these gaffes and excoriates the new candidate for anything he or she has ever said that could be construed as controversial and/or unpresidential.

Eventually, media attention eventually moves from the new candidate to settle back on the group as a whole. By delaying her big announcement, Palin may simply be waiting for the excitement surrounding each candidate to burn out.

In doing so, she is also minimizing her time under intense scrutiny, which is essential, as Palin has proven herself to be more susceptible to gaffes than any other candidate.

Really? I’m now somehow a Nazi because I merely pointed out it is difficult- not impossible but difficult- for Palin to win in the general?

That's a neat trick you're trying to pull, but accusing me of calling you a Nazi is really just a covert personal attack. I never said that, nor did I come close to even implying it.

What I said, is that you posted three of the most well-worn leftist talking points against Governor Palin. Talking points that have been posted, then debunked thousands of times on this website. Essentially, you're throwing mud at her that didn't stick the first thousand times it was tried, but somehow you think that posting it just one more time will do the trick.

What I asked, is are you applying the Goebels propaganda method? It would seem so, since you're posting lies that have been uttered thousands of times before. Doesn't make you a "Nazi", but it does cast you in something of a questionable light.

Perhaps you're new to the conversation, and the questions you raised are something you just thought of, but I doubt it.

Don’t call me insane until your reading comprehension improves.

I said Palin haters were like Nazis or their stooges, not those with informed, legitimate opinions.

You are right, but can moderates and independents separate truth from lies?

Should Germans have let the holocaust occur just because the media had too much sway over “independents”?

I have talked to way too many people I consider basically decent who are rabidly anti-Plain because of the lying trash media epidemic. “Tea Partiers” are the new Juden.

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