Sarah Palin's Iowa Operation Seems Non-Existent

Atlantic Wire ^ | 042811 | Erik Hayden

[Artemis Webb]

Sarah Palin hasn't been getting as much attention lately as a presidential candidate. Maybe that's because people don't think she's actually running. If the former Alaska governor wants to keep up appearances, however, she's going to have to do a better job laying the groundwork in Iowa, that bellwether first-in-the-nation caucus state.

But, looks like she's not doing very well at that either: her operation in Iowa is non-existent. The Los Angeles Times tried looking for it:

Iowa's Palin for President operation pretty much consists of one guy with a computer in Storm Lake and another who is crisscrossing Iowa in a rental car, armed with a laptop and a sunny attitude.

Tell us more about those men with the laptops, are they some sort of beltway gurus? Nope:

With no formal political operation here, Palin's fate right now is in the hands of a California lawyer and "tea party" supporter who has anointed himself her unofficial Iowa state director, and a retired potato chip salesman who is trying to coalesce support for her online. They know each other, but neither is officially connected to SarahPAC, her national political operation.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I know nothing about Rick Perry other than that he’s been Governor of Texas F0REVER. I guess I should start reading up”

Be sure to read up on Rick Perry and the Trans Texas corridor and Rick Perry goes to the Bilderberg meeting 2010.

[Jim Noble]

“Announcing” and “running” play into the enemy’s hands.

Sarah will be on the ballot in all 50 states, and she will be campaigning by October 2012.

She may wait until the “anybody but these 2 losers” vote is >50%, who knows?

Be patient. She’ll be sworn in on January 20, 2013. Don’t worry about the other stuff.

[BubbaJunebug]

The candidate will be the best salesman...period. The one who can tell anyone anything at anytime who will take both sides on any issue...pull the wool over everyones’s eyes...will be a rino when need be and a tea partier the next

[BCEagles]

I don’t think we’ve reached the “too late to run” point yet for any candidate. The first primaries aren’t until late January according to the calendar I read, so we’re still about 9 months away.

If we get into the summer, say June or even July, and there’s no indication of anything going on with Palin, then I’ll be concerned.

[redinIllinois]

I have seen her say something to the effect that it may depend on who ends up getting into the race.

I’d love to see her get informed about and take a position on the Fair tax - it may be the only thing that can save our republic.

If Herman Cain actually gets in, maybe that would be a good enough candidate for her to support.

Maybe someone worse than Carter will give us someone better than Reagan, because the Fair tax wasn’t around for Reagan to embrace, but I believe he would have.

I keep looking at the “frontrunners”, and thinking - NONE OF THE ABOVE.

We need a candidate who is:

Not an elitist

Not from Harvard

Not a politician

Not an insider

Not part of the “establishment”

Finally we have our man.

Herman Cain IS “none of the above”

As patriotic as Reagan, he is an articulate, engaging speaker, who would mop the floor in a debate with Obama.

Now that Trump has gotten people to start thinking that maybe we need someone who understands the economy and job creation, a lot of people will vote for Herman Cain who wouldn’t have before.

We need the Fair tax, to take power away from the politicians and lobbyists, but Rush keeps saying it won’t happen with the crowd that’s in DC now, and even if Herman doesn’t get the nomination, if he is in the primaries, more people will understand how abominable the current system is.

[The Wizard]

The Governor has been running since she stepped down as Governor

[EveningStar]

She’s not running.

[Anamnesis]

People clearly don't know the Gov's political history.

The groundwork for her Alaskan Gubernatorial campaign was also kept under the radar for a long time. Palin won the campaign because of her skills as a retail politician. It's a mistake to think that those skills won't transfer over to her Iowa campaign.

There is already a grassroots campaign working for Palin: Organize4Palin. We know who the big players are in Iowa, and we have already established contact. Some of up have uprooted ourselves from our homestate to move to Iowa to campaign for her.

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Palin supporters (especially those in Iowa),

DON’T WAIT UNTIL PALIN ANNOUNCES!

Palin and her aide Rebecca Mansour have already given the green-light, without “officially” announcing.
I've highlighted tweets that Rebecca Mansour has retweeted and other hints that Palin has given over the past few months:Why a Palin 2012 Run is Inevitable

Most notably, her aide is pushing Organize4Palin. Check out this tweet from Rebecca Mansour:

O4P Iowa's Blog: http://iowans4palin.blogspot.com/ O4P Iowa's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Iowa4Palin O4P Iowa Mailing List signup (List Iowa as your state in your profile): http://tinyurl.com/33r7fg8 The coordinator can be directly contacted here: iowa@organize4palin.com

Donate to O4P, Iowa*

Recent News and Ground Reports

Check out this article published in the WSJ about the Iowa O4P state coordinator: http://tiny.cc/t3kr5

*Note: If you want to donate to another state O4P chapter, just click the button above and change the url of the link to your desired state.

	O4P Signup: http://tinyurl.com/33r7fg8 To opt-in for text reminders and alerts: Text 4PALIN to 74679     Newsletters: April 17: http://conta.cc/fOdkf3 April 9: http://conta.cc/fKR3Dg March 19: http://conta.cc/fmJ20C	Donate to O4P, General Fund
	On November 2, 2010; O4P helped Sarah Palin elect: 37 House Reps, 6 Senators, 7 Governors, 2 Attorney Generals, & 1 Secretary of State.O4P had a 67% success rate in November 2010!

Email yourstate@organize4palin.com to directly contact your local coordinator, if it already has one. I've listed the ones that I believe already have a state coordinator, but go ahead and email yourstate@organize4palin.com in case my list isn't up to date:
alabama@organize4palin.com alaska@organize4palin.com arizona@organize4palin.com california@organize4palin.com colorado@organize4palin.com florida@organize4palin.com idaho@organize4palin.com illinois@organize4palin.com	indiana@organize4palin.com iowa@organize4palin.com kansas@organize4palin.com maryland@organize4palin.com missouri@organize4palin.com nebraska@organize4palin.com newyork@organize4palin.com	northcarolina@organize4palin.com northdakota@organize4palin.com ohio@organize4palin.com oregon@organize4palin.com pennsylvania@organize4palin.com southcarolina@organize4palin.com wisconsin@organize4palin.com

Organize4Palin is a project of American Grizzlies United, a grassroots organization dedicated to organizing, educating, and training volunteers for American political elections. Contributions or gifts to American Grizzlies United are not tax deductible. Paid for by American Grizzlies United and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

[Anamnesis]

Broken Image Replacement:

[FreeReign]

Lots of hyperventilating from the chattering class 10 months before a state chooses about one percent of the nation's delegates.

Why even write this story?

Romney is on it in Iowa, isn't he?

And Palin isn't running, is she?

[Friendofgeorge]

Bachmann/Palin ticket you say??? Alice in Wonderland comes to mind.....Sarah Palin on the bottom of the ticket..I personally find that offensive, sorry.

I would think/hope that Sarah Palin would find that offensive as well.

[Friendofgeorge]

MB is not Presidential for starters..

[PaleoBob]

Nobody runs for VP a second time unless they win the first time.

[PaleoBob]

Winning in Iowa requires pandering to the corn subsidy. I don’t think Palin would do that, and thus wouldn’t win there. Iowa is the capital of corporate welfare. The entire purpose of that caucus is to protect the billions Iowa rips off from the other 49 states to waste yet more money on the ethanol rip-off. If she’s in, I hope Palin loses there.

[Windflier]

Most of us well recall the friendship between Sarah Palin and Rick Perry at the RGA and other venues. I just have a hard time escalating that to Palin's support of Perry for POTUS.

Same here. Sarah came out in support of Rick Perry when he was facing off against the (Bush supported) RINO, Kaye Bailey Hutchison in the gubernatorial primary.

I think Sarah well understood that we couldn't lose the governorship of a key Republican stronghold like Texas to such a weak-kneed Democrat appeaser like KBH. Lord knows we all would have liked to have had a more reliable conservative on the ballot, but we had to work with the hand we were dealt, and Perry was the best of a bad lot.

As you said, much of the public across the nation still harbors a bit of distaste or disdain for Texas, which in my mind is simply a hangover from the Bush years.

For that one simple reason, I think it would be foolish for Perry to throw his hat in the ring so soon after Bush's departure. He will not beat the Democrat challenger in a presidential general.

Hey, thanks for the nice compliment. Much appreciated.

[jla]

So Mansour is pushing O4P. This could be indicative of Mansour wishing to secure potential future employment.
Unlike many here whom Mrs Palin obviously confides in I have no idea what she's planning. I merely take her at her word that she hasn't made up her mind.

[rob777]

"It's a tactic called "under the radar," and it will make heads explode."


An "under the radar" approach did not work so well for Fred Thompson. I think that this tactic is a bit over rated.

[rob777]

"It's still very early in the game. Reagan did announce his first run until Nov 1979, just a year before the elections."


Waiting to officially announce is not the same as neglecting to build an on the ground filed team in key states that would be ready to go once the announcement is made.

[rob777]

"Sarah Palin on the bottom of the ticket..I personally find that offensive, sorry."


Why, she can play second fiddle to McCain, but not Bachmann? Also, we have this from a Boston Herald article last April: "PUNCHING HER TICKET: Sarah Palin said at Wednesday’s Tea Party rally that she’s open to running with Mitt Romney."

In that article she did not specify that she had to be on top of the ticket. It would be OK to play second fiddle to Romney, but not to Bachmann?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Rubio Marco Rubio, PawPawlenty, Mitt Romney, Mike HuckFinn you have a call on line uno.