Posted on 09/02/2011 2:09:26 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The bad news for Palin fans? If NRO’s Robert Costa and CNN’s Peter Hamby are right, tomorrow’s not “the day.” The good news? Per Hamby, “the day” may still be coming.
The source said Palin is attempting to burnish her image as an outsider and a reformer, reminding the audience of her record in Alaska and specifically highlighting her battles against what she called the state’s corrupt Republican political class that was in cahoots with the oil and gas industry.
Palin plans to unleash a furious criticism of “crony capitalism” and attack the “permanent political class” in both parties: thinly veiled criticisms of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has surged to the top of most polls for the Republican presidential nomination.
Political opponents have long accused Perry, who has held some form of elected office since 1985, of rewarding his allies and campaign donors with plum government posts and contracts.
Though she has no plans to mention Perry or any other Republican presidential hopeful by name, Palin will implicitly contrast herself against the current crop of GOP candidates and further define her brand in case she does decide to run.
Scott Conroy of RCP got a preview of the speech too and also seized on those phrases as veiled digs at Perry. Whether that’s a case of him and Hamby reading things the same way independently or, more significantly, whether their sources inside Palin’s camp are pushing that reading on them, I can’t tell. If she does end up taking a dig at Perry, the only reason to do it is that she’s planning to announce herself in a few weeks. Criticizing him just to criticize him would be unthinkable given the mileage the left will get out of it, but it makes sense if she’s running per her “I’ll jump in if there’s no one else to carry the banner” rationale from months ago. She needs to distinguish herself from Perry somehow in order to justify that logic and this would be one way. (Conroy notes that she’ll also tout her record as governor, another sign that she’s in.) But don’t jump to conclusions: Much depends on how all this is framed in the speech. By “permanent political class,” she may mean the Beltway; and the attack on “crony capitalism” might be aimed explicitly at Obama, with good reason. Who knows? She could throw us a curveball by praising Perry or the other nominees outright in the speech. Or maybe tomorrow’s “the day” after all and the leaks to Costa and Hamby that she’s not announcing are merely a feint designed to throw the media off her trail.
John Fund thinks she’s not running and will probably end up endorsing Perry, but if Hamby and Conroy are right about those veiled digs, that endorsement will be highly nuanced indeed. Via the Right Scoop, here’s her old pal Karl Rove on Fox this morning warning her that she’s doing damage to her prospective candidacy with this endless game of “in or out?”. Is he right? Her core supporters will forgive her anything, but Rasmussen’s latest finds 52 percent of Republicans think it would be bad for the GOP if she jumped in. No doubt Rick Perry agrees. Does Mitt Romney? Click the image to watch.
It would not surprise me if she aims at both. Crony capitalism is not a good thing, give me the plain old free enterprise system as unfettered as possible. If that's what she's saying, she gives me another reason to think she's our best candidate.
So you feel like an elected executive should not appoint people they know and trust to important positions in their administration? Perhaps maybe they should just pick people off the street? Maybe appoint opponents of their platform in order to avoid charges of “cronyism”. Yeah...that’s the ticket!
But I'm beginning to grow weary of her sh!t and will drop advocacy for her very soon.
Once I do that she'll not win back my vote in 2012.
I’ve learned to treat “sources said”, when the subject is Sarah Palin, as sort of like “once upon a time” or “Dear Penthouse Forum”.
I hope not.
Sarah needs to stay away from these worn-out phases. While cute sounding at first, they now lack impact. Every time I hear the word "sheeple" or "lame stream media" it drives me crazy. Cutesy language does absolutely nothing to communicate a serious, thought-out approach to solving this nation's problems. That is exactly what her speech needs to demonstrate. She isn't speaking only to her fans. She'll be speaking to the nation. I'm sure she knows that. I want Sarah to be Sarah... and we'll be waiting anxiously.
LOL!!
Agreed. There’s a very good chance that if Sarah enters, it sends Mitt to the nomination.
With all due respect.
Bull (bleep)
Given the chance, you’d vote for her. You would.
She does need to quit parroting with pride how she went after the “corrupt GOP” in Alaska. If she is going to do that she needs to say which Dems that were corrupt she went after.
This is not a state race, it is national.
McCain is one of the good ole boys. Perhaps she could go after him.
Sounds like she’s running as Third Party Rogue. If so, she’ll likely split the conservative vote. I won’t be following her into third party land...
I think she is running in 2013...around the block.
Thanks for Your part in driving up gas prices Sarah. And contributing even more to the Subsidies (welfare) for Alaska Residents. Gotta love those windfall taxes...just like Zero.
Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil
While Congress and the presidential candidates debate the wisdom of a windfall tax on oil companies, Alaska has already imposed one, hauling in billions of dollars in new revenue for the state treasury.
By Ángel González and Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporters
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008103325_alaskatax07.html
Screw Palin. I’m sick and tired of the soap opera. Shit or get off the pot and go away.
These are serious times, and we need serious people. We already have someone in the Whit House that can’t make up his freakin mind.
I know everybody loves her, but I’m done...
Flame on.
If she were to run for and win Senator Kyles seat which opens in 2012, she could poke old McCain in the eye real good!
Problem is we’ll get him as well.
Gov Palin has more class and better focus than that. Somewhere Palin supporters and Perry supporters have lost sight of THE ENEMY. I thought people were actually listening to her all these months.
As Sarah says, “It’s not negative to point out the truth of someone’s records or associations”
Now that, would be worth all the angst! But would she do that? I have my doubts.
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