Posted on 07/04/2011 6:54:41 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
Im sure the list is even longer in reality but these 43 people have some explaining to do if/when Governor Palin runs for the presidency. I have a feeling that these 43 people will just move on to a back-up explanation if/when they are proven wrong.
Whats worse is that many of these 43 people are objective political analysts, rather than just bloggers like you and me. I get the sense that many of the objective political analysts on this list will face no punishment if/when their assessment on Governor Palin is proven wrong and they will continue to opine on Palin if/when she is in the race.
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43 Beltway Insiders/Pundits: "Palin Won't Run" Career Ending, Egg On Face Statements?
These 43 assorted Beltway insiders, pundits, columnists, talk show hosts, political television show hosts, religious leaders,"progressive" and other bloggers all agree on one subject (or variations thereof) "Sarah Palin won't run for president in 2012."
Some said she shouldn't run "for the good of the GOP" or their preferred alternative candidate. Some allowed for her running "but she has no chance of getting the nomination". And for the tiny minority of these prognosticators who think she actually has a chance of getting the nomination "Reagan Palin has absolutely no chance of defeating President Carter Obama"
In their "objectivity" they have variously described her as running a clown show, a reality TV show, an ego parade, a personal rehabilitation exercise, a narcissistic agenda, a revenge against the media program and other, varied, descriptions of Palin and her motives. These opinions pontificated from their elitist seats at the table of the oracle's temple.
I haven't included the mad "Trig truther" bloggers of course-not crediting them as seers (much less as human beings).The following pundits, linked to their statements so they can't run and hide/deny them, may,shortly, all have egg on their collective faces, damaged, hopefully irreversibly so, reputations, and will have been given a lesson by the master of the new Realpolitik. N.B. If I have left anyone of significance off the list the name/blog and link would be appreciated in the comments section.
Palin Should Not Run/Palin Will Not Run For President/Palin's Role Should Be A Supporter Of The Nominee/Palin Would Not Get The Nomination If She Runs(TBC)/Obama Would Easily Beat Palin (TBC):
Joshua Green (Boston.com)
Taylor Marsh
Hot Air (Patrick Ishmael-Palins most likely role in the 2012 cycle would be as a coronator. I still believe thats basically right.)
Thomas Taschinger
Ace Of Spades; Gabriel Malor "but my money says she's not running " June 26th/11 Newsweek
Dennis DiClaudio
Bill Kristol
Dennis Miller
Robert Paul Reyes
Eugene Robinson
Brit Hume
Bill O'Reilly
David Letterman-Palin's not running, I wish she were, it would be entertaining.
Charles Krauthammer " Showed her power in 2010 as kingmaker and opinion shaper. Must know (I think) she has little chance at the nomination and none in the general election. Why risk it and the inevitable diminishment defeat would bring?. Mitch Daniels has 6-1 chance for nomination/Barbour 7-1.
George Will
David Brooks
Fred Malek
Michael Savage
Karl Rove
John Harwood
Michael Stickings (Moderate Voice)
Dan Karipides
Big Think
Grover Norquist
Franklin Graham
Booman Tribune
Tim Heffernan (Esquire)
Lawrence O'Donnell
Jonathan Capehart
Ann Coulter
Mark McKinnon
John Feehery
Opinion L.A.
Jason Campbell
Joshua Green (The Atlantic)
Jumping In Pools
Kathleen O'Brien (Star-Ledger)
Paul Harris (Guardian U.K.)
Opinion Writings
Ian Stevenson
If she runs, I’m behind her 100%.
I don’t have to explain anything to anyone.
OK,first time I saw the like.
Dudes been around a long time,hate to see an old timer zotted over a little dig at Rush.
I’m curious and honestly not trying to be facetious but why do you come on these threads? You convinced she’s not running and from everything I’ve read I don’t think you care for her all that much and that’s okay. So why continue to bother people on these threads? I’m sure there are plenty of topics you enjoy. What do you get out of denigrating your fellow freepers on nearly every thread? Honestly, if you’re convinced she isn’t running why not just leave these threads to those who do think she is or are hoping she will. You aren’t going to change your opinion and those who support her aren’t going to change theirs so why create all this bad blood? I’m betting you have plenty in common with people here beyond their support of Palin. Debate is fine and even enlightening but this has become an opportunity to insult (and yes, calling her “the trademark” IS an insult) her supporters. It’s not like you even try to have a genuine, respectful debate, so why bother?
Cindie
No Michele Bachmann or Ed Rollins listed?
You folks need to get some perspective and sanity quickly or you'll kill a Palin campaign faster than anything going.
That looks like the entire Country Club.
Pray for America
457 days? The nomination will be history long before then.
My ballot gets submitted less than 200 days from now.
I HOPE she runs and thought that today, the Fourth of July would be the day she announced. I now fear that she is NOT running since this day has passed.
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Kind of surprised if she runs now...IMHO
Awesome.
An Enemies List.
Those are always a good idea.
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. The war on domestic terrorism begins!
How about FOX’s Dana Perugino?
Objectively more signs point to "not running" than running. I noticed no one admitting being wrong about her candidacy announcement on July 4. There was a thread this morning about an AK radio show just in case it happened.
Yet, if you suggest she isn't running or might not run, you're smeared as having PDS by those claiming to be supporters. I have to wonder if they really are or not.
You can almost hear, 'How dare you question the truth of inevitability?! Unbeliever! Attack! Attack!,' in some posts.
If she forgoes 2012 or even if fairly defeated for the nomination, a lot of people will go off the deep end. It's scary.
It runs off people who would naturally support her candidacy. At times I wonder if they actually know this and work to that end.
What??
The poster made a list of people who definitively say that Palin isn't running. The poster wishes to hold these people accountable for their statements if they are wrong.
And you call that what?...an enemies list??
LOL!
Another. One.
I have wondered how many votes a candidate would get by saying outright that if elected the entire weight of the government would be harnessed to see that their predecessor and top level administration do serious prison time. A thought experiment.
Cheers!
If pundits had to pay a penalty for every wrong prediction... well I’d hate to be Dick Morris.
Will there also be a list prepared of the people who said they believe she IS running?
Will they also be held accountable? If she doesn't run, should they apologize? If yes, to whom? If no, why not?
Well, 98.7% of the time anyway.
He commits an act of PDS, then tries deflecting it in the post above. This may help explain it.
The nature of the PDSer
In a time not so very long ago, a man of logic, reason and rationality, upset by the injustice of the mindless and their baseless attacks upon his candidate of choice, did undertake a quest to discover the nature of the PDSer.
And so did the man travel to the far corners of the Earth, for in his travels he could find no wisdom, nor wise man, to satisfactorily explain the root cause of Palin Derangement Syndrome, nor its effect on those so smitten. It was not until a chance encounter with a Zen Master high atop a remote mountain in Tibet that our hero found his answer.
To discover the nature of the PDSer, said the Zen Master, One must understand the logic of why the sky is yellow.
Confused by the sage words of the old wise man, our hero listened intently as the knowledge of the ages sprung forth from his old and weathered lips...
To discover the nature of the PDSer, One must understand the fact that dogs meow and cats bark at passing cars.
To discover the nature of the PDSer, One must understand the reason why the sun shines brightly in the night sky.
For what seemed like hours the Zen Master spoke thusly until finally our hero looked upon him and said Master, dogs do not meow, nor cats bark. The sky is not yellow but blue and the sun shines in it by day, not by night. To spout such nonsense is neither logical, nor rational, nor factual. In fact, youd have to be nuts to believe any of that!
And so did our hero gain enlightenment into the nature of the PDSer.
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