Posted on 09/08/2011 4:24:58 PM PDT by upchuck
The clock is ticking for Sarah Palin, and her time is almost up.
With Mitt Romney and Rick Perry taking control of a quickly shifting Republican presidential campaign, Palin may have already missed her best chance for a late entry in the race.
"I think the window for Palin is closed, and every second that ticks off the clock things get more and more difficult for her," said Craig Robinson, a former state party political director who runs the Iowa Republican website.
"People are really ready to say this is our field of candidates, these are the people we have to choose from," he said. "They are growing frustrated with Sarah Palin's game of peekaboo."
On another visit to Iowa last weekend, she told reporters she was happy with the field of Republican candidates and quickly added: "I always think there is room for more."
But with the first nominating contest in Iowa less than five months away, little time is left to organize a national campaign, hire a staff and raise the money to compete.
The once unsettled battle for the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012 has taken shape with last month's entry of Perry, the Texas governor who has roared to the top of the polls with strong conservative support.
Perry zoomed past Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, by appealing to the same coalition of social, religious and Tea Party fiscal conservatives that Palin would target if she gets in the race.
"Now that Perry and Romney have begun to draw the battle lines between them, I don't think there is any room for Palin in the campaign," said Republican strategist Rich Galen. "She's still a big personality, but she's not a potential candidate."
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1. The lamestream keeps raging about the "closing/closed window." Sarah is gonna do what Sarah feels is best for her, her family and us. Lamestream be damned.
2. I'm pretty sick and tired of the lamestream telling me who I should vote for.
Related article from September 5th:
N.H. Republican says Sarah Palin's window is closed.
They are so frightened of her....it is really getting pathetic. If last night is an indication of gaining steam.....we are in huge trouble. That was dreadful watching last night......not as bad as watching the President right now, but pretty darn close.
As my dear sainted mother used to say,”If wishes were horses, beggars would be riding instead of walking”.
An idea for Sarah’s campaign song.
Ted Nugent singing “You were always on my mind” to a copy of The Constitution;)
Here’s Elvis -but the lyrics really do work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BirclTYVh74&feature=related
Five months? That's a pretty fair amount of time. More hand-wringing projection...
She has to file by October 15th, I believe, for any of the early caucuses and primaries
IF Sarah runs...the campaign she runs will probably break all the molds...
“With Mitt Romney...”
At that point I had already read enough.
I love a kid like Craig, with no direct knowledge of politics before 1999, opining on this subject. Ever backed a winner in presidential politics, Craig?
Y’know, at our house, when we have a window that keeps closing itself over and over and over again, we fix it, usually by jamming something in there to keep it open. Just sayin ...
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Or, since Jimmy Hoffa Junior seems to be standing by his remarks, why not have Nuge doing “Hair of the Dog”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXz6eMCj2k
Cuz now they are!
she would definitely do things differently — but she’d need money, and the big donors are coming on board now.
Read my tagline.
She said she would decide by “Late August or Early September.”
We are entering “mid-September”.
Palin's political learning curve is astronomically fast, she's light years ahead of Roooters et all.
[But with the first nominating contest in Iowa less than five months away, little time is left to organize a national campaign, hire a staff and raise the money to compete. ]
only five months? Oh noes! How will she gain name recognition in so short a time? That means she will only be able to attend ten or so debates between now and then! And she’ll never be able to post a facebook request for donations from three million followers in that amount of time!
>>2. I’m pretty sick and tired of the lamestream telling me who I should vote for<<
Should Gov. Palin NOT run she will decide for whom you will not vote.
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