Posted on 02/04/2012 2:05:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In October, Sarah Palin announced that she would not run for president in 2012, ending the media frenzy around her potential candidacy even as she vowed to remain politically active and influential.
“I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets,” she wrote in an e-mail to her supporters.
Just over three months later, her attempts to wield influence in the presidential campaign the way she did during the 2010 midterm elections have largely fizzled.
And the Tea Party movement that she helped to turn into a powerful political force in 2010 has so far displayed little impact on the course of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.
Over the last two weeks, Ms. Palin has urged voters in South Carolina and Florida to vote for Newt Gingrich as a way of striking back against the Republican establishment in Washington and against liberals.
“If for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt. Annoy a liberal. Vote Newt. Keep this vetting process going, keep the debate going,” Ms. Palin said on Fox News two days before Tuesday’s primary in Florida.
Ms. Palin, who pointedly said she was not endorsing anyone in the Republican contest, draped her remarks in the anti-establishment rhetoric of the Tea Party, saying that Washington Republicans who oppose Mr. Gingrich were fighting against the cause of freedom....
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
The New York Slimes: all the lies that are fit to print.
I understand he won most counties in Florida too.
So what happened to her in Florida? Had a previous obligation or something?
Maybe not. Where can I find good information?
“I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets,” she wrote in an e-mail to her supporters.
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That is the exact same thing as Nurse Sarah giving me a soothing warm sponge bath.
We peeked too early in 2010. This election cycle proving to be an EXACT rerun of 1994/1196. And it's just as depressing to me now as it was back then.
We won a glorious victory in ‘94 that stopped clintoon and the hildabeast from completing their destruction of America. But we ran out of gas in ‘96. We allowed a really weak candidate (Dole) to get the nomination, and the ‘bent one’ was allowed to infest the Oval Office for four more years.
Is that why every media outlet goes into helium voice whenever she comments on the Presidential Primary race?
When Sarah ran away from running, I knew that we had all been had by the Republican Machine.
I warned all who would listen and argued with those that wouldn’t to the point of getting banned.
Sarah Palin has been compromised by someone or something.
She is not now helping us and will not in the future.
Unfortunately she is now a total non-issue in this campaign!
It remains to be seen if the faithful can muster enough numbers and votes (ones that are counted) to stop Romeney-the-RINO in the Primaries in the Flyover Country, AND, to overcome the Fraud and Illegals that will count in the General Election of 2012.
We are underground getting ready to throw another tantrum that will even stun the RINOs. How dare they think we would give up our country for a European version!!
I think what happened in Fla. was the geographic nature of Fla. The Tea Party, being the independent groups that they are, are too scattered and not working together at the state level. S.C. has a strong TP connection within the state. The Tea Parties within states need to work closely together. That is the only way we can be effective. Sarah can’t carry the whole load.
THE BLACK VOTE (95% of them voted for The Messiah in 2012)
The Unionistas (public parasites feeding at the behest of Taxpayers)
"In 2011, 7.6 million employees in the public sector belonged to a union, compared with 7.2 million union workers in the private sector. The union membership rate for public-sector workers (37.0 percent) was substantially higher than the rate for private-sector workers (6.9 percent).
Within the public sector, local government workers had the highest union membership rate, 43.2 percent."
Spot on
Reagan himself couldn't have beat Clinton in 1996, thanks, in part, to the new Republican congress who forced Clinton to govern from the center --which he was able to do successfully. It's strange to consider that had the Republicans not taken control of congress in '94, Clinton would've likely been a failed one-termer ala Carter. Clinton took credit for everything (including the then booming tech industry that he had absolutely nothing to do with).
The Tea Party’s motto should be: “Flying Below the Radar.”
Well I wondered what happened to you but was glad to see you were back.
I don’t know about your theory on Palin being compromised but fully agree...she’s no longer a help.
She diminished herself; the reason she had credibility is because the majority believed she was going to ultimately ‘run’ for President in THIS election cycle. Deception in the highest degree.
“I think what happened in Fla. was the geographic nature of Fla. The Tea Party, being the independent groups that they are, are too scattered and not working together at the state level.”
That and FL is half full of northerners at this time of the year. And many of them are registered to vote there - snowbirds. They declare that they live in FL six months and one day out of the year, thus they get all the tax breaks, etc. that FL has to offer over the northern states.
A lot of our older neighbors here in NY like Romney because they like how he LOOKS and SPEAKS. Obama all over again. It was shown in the FL exit polls that the bulk of the people that voted for Romney did so because they think he is the more “electable”. Remember that this has been the meme about Romney since FOREVER. It has become embedded in the narrative. People don’t even know what the hell it means. It just sounds “good”.
And Sarah, well in my opinion, she did wait too long to declare that she would not run. If she had done that even a couple of weeks earlier, she would have held on to her potential to influence voters. As it is now, while still popular, she has made herself less relevant as to a serious positive impact on whomever she endorses. Sad really. And don’t everybody yell at me.
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