“At this point in the game, more than a month before the official starting bell, WHY is it so important? ‘
Official starting bell?!
Please give reference where is an “official starting bell” stated for presidential campaigns?
I guess all the other candidates just like to waste money, all getting in before “the official starting bell”.
Palin supporters are so emotionally invested, it seems they are getting more and more detached from reality.
In strictly technical terms, the "starting bell" would be the Iowa Caucus on February 6, 2012. That is the first contest in which actual delegates are won and lost.
Obviously there are filing deadlines involved in order for a candidate to be part of those contests. Not sure when the filing deadline for Iowa is but I assume the candidates and potential candidates (including Palin) would have a handle on that.
Yes, candidates do have a history of announcing their candidacy well in advance and expend a lot of money and resources doing so. Usually it is candidates that have a strategy of building early momentum so they can generate some buzz and get themselves at the front of the pack early on.
I believe that it would be wasteful for Palin to do this. She already has near 100% name recognition. She is one of the few candidates that is capable of coming into the race at the last minute and make a big splash. Hell, in Palin's case, I think it will be more on the magnitude of a nuclear bomb. If she gets into this race, by the time of the Iowa caucus on Feb 6 (still almost four months away) - people will have seen so much of her that nobody is going to remember that she waited until late September or October to get into the race.
Until writing this post, I had no idea that Clinton himself waited until October to enter the 1992 race. All I know is that I was already sick and tired of him by that Christmas!
So while many here seem to have their panties in a wad over the fact that Palin hasn't deigned to inform them one way or the other on the status of her running, it will all be forgotten about in a few short months.
Your question was a dodge in any case -- WHY do you think it's so important to convince Palin supporters more than a month before the first official filing deadline for candidates to be on the ballot in any state primaries, that Palin isn't going to run?
Your opinion is that Palin supporters aren't dealing with reality because of being emotionally invested in a person whose political acumen, record, and judgment they admire: fine, fair enough. You decline to admit that it's your opinion that Palin won't run; instead, you don't just say, you repeatedly SHOUT it as fact that she won't. Which is fair enough as well, I guess. All I'm asking is: WHY, when we have yet to know if Palin will run or not, and she is on record saying that she'll announce one way or the other sometime in September (or early October, if I remember correctly) is it so important to you to convince people she won't? What is your purpose in doing so?
The moment Perry or one of his spokesmen begin speaking, a bell goes off in what you call your mind, and you begin to salivate reflexively.
Cheers!