Posted on 08/26/2011 10:21:29 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
There is some evidence that while waiting for a potential Sarah Palin presidential run, her potential voters have moved on and now support other tea party-backed candidates, such as Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann.
Has Sarah Palin waited too long to announce she’s running for president?
(...) So if she does throw her snow machine helmet into the ring, she might start a White House race closer to the back of the pack than the front.
First, let’s address the waiting part. The former Alaska governor on Tuesday denied that she intends to announce a White House bid on September 3, (...)
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Palin might use the September 3 address to endorse another candidate. She might use it to make it clear she will announce at some point – Governor Perry used that same sort of slow-unveiling strategy as he edged into the race.
But the problem is at this point she may be exhausting the patience of potential Palinites.
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“I think Palin could get back a number of voters should she get into the race – people who gave up on her running and moved on to someone else. But, I do not think it would put her in a strong enough position to get into first or second place,” writes Erickson.
Some other analysts are less negative. In an opinion piece for CNN, political scientist Paul Sracic of Youngstown State University in Ohio writes that Palin’s on-camera optimism about America seems natural and akin to that of GOP icon Ronald Reagan.
“This offers at least the possibility that, despite her current low standing in the polls, she will be able to leap-frog over the more negative sounding Bachmann and Perry, and compete head-to-head with Romney,” writes Sracic.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Regards, Mr. Sol.
They need to get real instead of writing crap like that.
Good point.
>>I hadn’t thought about her ‘til this loser thread popped up.
I love to mess with SOROS PsychOps.
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Let me check your posting history.
How many Freeper posting names you got?? <<
You strike me as a psychopath. Get help. I gave an opinion. Agree with it or disagree with it.
But you should really learn to deal with differing opinions, like any mentally-stable grownup does.
I am Sarah! /Spartacus
Another is November 1, the filing deadline for South Carolina.
I made my “original” PALIN bumper sticker from the mclame/Palin one in 2008. I waited and wondered and waited and wondered, seemingly to no end.
All this “maybe yes, maybe no” does is add some credence to the “fickle feme” stereotype. I think the writer’s contention is a good one, she may have just pissed away too many of us...
Now I see Perry as out best shot at the Whiteyhut in 2012, but would be so nice of Palin would join forces with Perry to be a totally undeatable combo.
Where are the optimist today? I don't look at it the way you do. Go back to last year at this time when it looked like the field was going to be the same names as 2008 minus Fred Thompson and McCain.
Huntsman, Huckabee, Romney, Rudy, Paul were the names popping up. It looked pretty dismal. Nothing but RINOs and those unelectable. Move forward one year and we could have a debate stage field with people like: Cain, Palin, Bachmann, and Perry, and maybe one or two more good names added soon. That would be a dream come true if you were to ask us a year ago. There is plenty of room for Palin.
Summer ends September 23.
True, a lot can happen between now and election day.
I remember McCain being counted out many times, before he was the nominee.
I truly hope she keeps that promise so that we can get the current, extremely divisive distraction over and done with and concentrate on the task of defeating Obama in 2012.
An actual candidate is forced to compete, head to head, with the other actual candidates and the reality of competition soon settles the issue one way or the other. Case in point: Tim Pawlenty
An imaginary candidate will always be a sure winner, to some, will always be unelectable, to some, but never wins, never loses, never goes away and prevents a strong candidate against Obama from ever emerging.
"If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
My sweet imagination"
Don't be tricked by the games some play. Most Palin supporters and most Perry supporters I've seen cross over and don't fight. If you look at the backgrounds of those who are really starting the fights, you'll find a lot were Ron Paulites in the last election. If you go to their websites like ronpaulforums.com you will see them actually strategize to try to split these camps and get them fighting each other (I'm sure the same can apply to the Romney camp but I don't follow them that much.) I think I am like a lot of Palin supporters in that I'll be happy with Palin, Perry, Cain or Santorum and am tired of folks trying to get us fighting amongst ourselves.
You are in TX and you think Perry would be a good president?
You of all people should be aware of Perry’s open borders, statist actions.
Sorry, Perry is a RINO
We’ll know one way or another soon.
True but they won’t succeed, because they are attacking him from the wrong side. Perry is only vulnerable to attack from the lunatic angle, but unless he has a ARRRRG! Moment like Howard Dean, he will win easily.
Perry is in the drivers seat, and only he can destroy his chances at this point.
Until Palin categorically states that she is not going to be a candidate, she's MY candidate.
Real conservatives need to realize the WE are the radicals now and the Leftists are the hidebound orthodoxy that needs to be invaded and destroyed. Palin is the only candidate who has taken on a corrupt corporate/political machine and won.
I’m sure the Perry Apologists hope so!
No, I absolutely would have supported Reagan.
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