Posted on 09/07/2011 1:59:52 PM PDT by CedarDave
Iowa's senior senator told the television station WHO that he doesn't expect Sarah Palin to take the plunge in 2012. From reporter Dave Price:
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley just told me he doesn't expect Sarah Palin to run for president. Grassley said with a smile, "She sure is acting like a candidate. But I believe she will not be getting in." When I asked him why she won't run, he replied, "She hasn't staffed up for it."
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Didn’t she say she was planning to announce in September? Since the elections will come down to 7 crucial states, independents will be a pivotal factor. Sarah we are told has high negatives among this group.
So a few questions:
1. What are the odds of receiving the nomination and getting elected if one is perceived to be ducking the preliminary rounds of debates?
2. Isn’t staffing important such as to have a “Rapid Response” team like Clinton and Obama had and which Bush pere and McCain did not have?
3. Running a national election campaign isn’t like winning state elections- You need sizable mounds of dough and know exactly where and how to spend it. Don’t we need people who have done the groundwork before just like Reagan had when he came close to clinching the nomination from Gerald Ford?
4. If September comes and goes and we have no announcement, then if its not too late by now, wouldn’t this be a tease gone to far?
BTW- these questions come from a Palin supporter but thinks her time for announcing and gearing up for what would be a battle royale is up or soon coming up. To be sure, the remaining choices, Bachmann excepted, are insipid.
Just asking
Bingo.
Good analysis however one thing that has made the process begin earlier is the moving of a lot of the primaries to early in the year. Thus one has to be a player or maybe not able to complete at all.
One time constraint pending on the candidates is the deadline to apply for a GOP primary ballot position. Depending upon the state criteria varies from just a notification to things such as fee payments and petition signatures.
Example:
Oct. 31 — Florida
Nov. 1 — South Carolina
Nov. 21 — New Hampshire
I wish I could find a state by state listing of the dates but so far I’ve not found one.
I can’t help but think you somehow missed my point ...
21stCenturion
I wasn’t addressing the trappings of the failed process.
It matters not WHY the ‘nomination’ run-up season has been stretched out so much. I was addressing the wasteful and pointless exercise itself — THAT it is broken, not so much the symptoms of HOW it is broken.
And don’t get me started on the primaries themselves or I’m liable to mention ‘open’ primaries and other such shenanigans ...
21stCenturion
You would think all those “we need to get the money out of campaigns” politicians would be applauding Palin. She is showing the way of not playing the political money game. Instead of criticizing her, they should shut up and take notes.
Of course, they don’t “really” want to limit their campaign money. The Establishment Elites true desire is to put limits on challengers.
Wouldn’t it be great if others could grasp how monumental this election could be if they’d only get over their one track “we have to beat Obama” mantra.
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She keeps doubling up Romney’s crowds in New Hampshire and she will.
Truthfully you wouldn’t think it was getting old if the MSM quit harping on an issue they have no control over.
They want red meat and Palin refuses to help them destroy her. The establishment politicians of both party want to control the debate and she is not cooperating.
Whatever she decides, I am going to vote for her, even if it is a write in.
Nope, just saying.
If she waits until then because it is someone else's turn, then it won't matter the deed will have been done, and we will have become a full blown democracy, exactly like Churchill described. Two Foxes and a Chicken deciding what is for dinner.
1. How many of the voting public are paying attention to the preliminary rounds of debates? I suspect the average voter doesn’t start paying attention to anything regarding the election until shortly before their state primary.
2. Palin responded on Facebook within 24 hours of Hoffa’s SOB speech. We’re still waiting on some candidates to make any comment.
3. Do we know exactly who Palin may already have working for her, that are out of the spotlight?
4. Palin herself said she would announce by the end of September. The closer it grows, the more we’re hearing the shrieks of ‘she will!’ ‘she won’t!’ from the ‘experts’.
The independents are as tired of politics as usual as we are.
Nor you mine. The political process is a river, never the same at an any point. Grassley has not a clue what lies just around the bend, though because he has traveled far. Because he has traveled far.
esp since palin said at the fair her camapign will not be “staffing up for it”
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