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Has Sarah Palin exhausted the patience of her supporters?
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 08/24/2011 | Peter Grier

Posted on 08/26/2011 10:21:29 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan

There is some evidence that while waiting for a potential Sarah Palin presidential run, her potential voters have moved on and now support other tea party-backed candidates, such as Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann.

Has Sarah Palin waited too long to announce she’s running for president?

(...) So if she does throw her snow machine helmet into the ring, she might start a White House race closer to the back of the pack than the front.

First, let’s address the waiting part. The former Alaska governor on Tuesday denied that she intends to announce a White House bid on September 3, (...)

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Palin might use the September 3 address to endorse another candidate. She might use it to make it clear she will announce at some point – Governor Perry used that same sort of slow-unveiling strategy as he edged into the race.

But the problem is at this point she may be exhausting the patience of potential Palinites.

(snip)

“I think Palin could get back a number of voters should she get into the race – people who gave up on her running and moved on to someone else. But, I do not think it would put her in a strong enough position to get into first or second place,” writes Erickson.

Some other analysts are less negative. In an opinion piece for CNN, political scientist Paul Sracic of Youngstown State University in Ohio writes that Palin’s on-camera optimism about America seems natural and akin to that of GOP icon Ronald Reagan.

“This offers at least the possibility that, despite her current low standing in the polls, she will be able to leap-frog over the more negative sounding Bachmann and Perry, and compete head-to-head with Romney,” writes Sracic.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; notrunning; palin; palin2012
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To: rodeo-mamma; BuckeyeTexan
Good grief! You slam Palin and accuse her of the NASTIEST behavior with no facts, even saying "I don’t like her pretending that she is still deciding, and dragging God into it while she lies.", but YOU want posters to be more rational?! LOLOL!!!

Your Post 137 is full of irrational accusations.

261 posted on 08/27/2011 2:13:27 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: rodeo-mamma
That’s just weird. I’m with Jesus, anything else is just creepy. Can’t get on your bandwagon, not now, not ever.

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What's weird about supporting Sarah?




Run Sarah, run!




262 posted on 08/27/2011 2:15:42 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GatorGirl
Well think about it.
We as a country are pretty well doomed in any event.
We are headed for a Default, the mathematics our situation is what it is.
This will sound cynical but we are headed for a major event whether it be Default or a collapse of some kind.
It doesn't matter who is elected the outcome is the same.
Congress had it's chance but lets face it no one in DC is going to fix anything.
So might as well let Obama be the one to go down in history as the last President who destroyed the US Economy. We will then have the chance to rebuild.
263 posted on 08/27/2011 2:31:24 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

LOL @ “Perrywinkles” - LOVE IT! :)


264 posted on 08/27/2011 3:57:33 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I perfer the team “Perrykrishnas” ;)


265 posted on 08/27/2011 4:19:34 PM PDT by ak267
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To: carjic

Put me down as a ‘no’ on this one.


266 posted on 08/27/2011 5:20:20 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (Sarah Palin: America's last, best hope for survival.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Palin quit because she couldn’t take the political heat and she sidestepped inevitable bankruptcy deliberately intended by Democrat opponents who were using a law she’d lobbied for (”championed”) and signed, which was so full of obvious abusable loopholes that her Democrat opponents thanked her for it. No other of the current crop of Repub candidates has had the unfortunate experience of seeing a policy he pushed turn, almost immediately, into such a “weapon of choice” for the opposition. Once bitten, twice shy, the Sarahphiles may say, but that didn’t seem to be the case for her in the Gibson/Couric interviews in 2008, when she, apparently having seen how polite and sweet G&C were to various affirmative action/minority liberals in the recent past, seemed to somehow expect similar sugar from our all-Dem all-the-time TV people.

And “resigned in tears”? She cried. Maybe not during the speech, but she’s a woman. She cried.


267 posted on 08/28/2011 4:53:53 AM PDT by flowerplough (Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
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To: flowerplough
Your PDS is in full bloom, ain't it.

You blame her when even lawyers didn't see that there may be abuse. That's a lib strategy. Alinsky at it's best.

Then you make statements that you can't back up as fact, insisting that she cried. Well I have a response for ya.

Post 482 - Jim Robinson

268 posted on 08/28/2011 4:59:03 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Alright, she didn’t cry in the speech. You’re right. I was wrong. You just rewatched the speech, and have my sympathies; I can never stand more than about 2 minutes of any politician’s speech, even Reagan’s or Churchill’s. Lincoln knew what he was doing when he kept the Gettysburg address so short. But did she sniffle, or did her voice quaver? It was Patricia Schroeder, D-Denver, Colorado, who set the bar for bawling, capitulating women pols.

But Sarah still resigned. Because of the unforseen treachery inside a law she rooted for and signed, she re-signed. Her lawyers shudda caught the garage-door loophole in the new law she “championed”; the Democrat lawyers certainly did. But she was Governor, her lawyer wasn’t. She helped push that law along and decided to sign it, her lawyers didn’t. She was in charge. She was leading. And where did she lead Alaska to? Into court, into an impossible snarl of insignificant-yet-incredibly-expensive Democrat pettiness. Sarah apparently trusted her Alaskan opposition the way Carter trusted Soviet Premier Brezhnev in the late 70s, the same way she seemed to trust Gibson/Couric’s intentions on two seperate occasions in 2008. You call my info straw-man derangement, I call my info obvious, and my conclusions common sense. And I call your references to Jim Robinson a childish threat to tattle.


269 posted on 08/28/2011 5:38:11 AM PDT by flowerplough (Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
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To: flowerplough

So if you load a gun, it’s your fault if someone shoots you with it?


270 posted on 08/28/2011 5:46:34 AM PDT by bigjoesaddle (“to crush the bourgeoisie...grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation" V. Lenin)
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To: bigjoesaddle

So if you load a gun, it’s your fault if someone shoots you with it?

Not at all, but if you help build the gun, load it, and naively hand it to your worst enemies, is it your enemies’ fault if the gun goes off while pointed in your general direction?


271 posted on 08/28/2011 5:51:31 AM PDT by flowerplough (Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
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To: flowerplough
...if the gun goes off, repeatedly, while pointed in your general direction?
272 posted on 08/28/2011 7:10:07 AM PDT by flowerplough (Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
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To: BuckeyeTexan

aaah, NOPE! Elections are over a year away. And I want the others vetted to the max at the same time.


273 posted on 08/28/2011 7:12:41 AM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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To: Ladysmith

aaah, NOPE! Elections are over a year away.


Nope, the primary election process is well underway and the first elections occur in early 2012. In about six months we’ll know who the GOP nominee will be to take on the democrat in the election that will be held over a year away.

Late Oct. 2011 begins the drop dead dates to apply for a position on the primary ballots in some states. Example: Oct. 31, Florida: Nov. 1, South Carolina: New Hampshire, a couple of weeks later....


274 posted on 08/28/2011 7:18:14 AM PDT by deport ( In Texas it's hotter than two goats fighting in a jalapeno patch.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

RE: your”blame her when even lawyers didn’t see that there may be abuse. That’s a lib strategy. Alinsky at it’s best.”, this from gusopol3 in response to one of my threads seems somewhat apt.

‘Still suffering’ (PM Naoto Kan ousted, tsunami survivors still personally overwhelmed)
Sunday, August 28, 2011 10:11:56 AM · 3 of 3
gusopol3 to flowerplough

Just like baseball, you can’t blame your problems on the previous manager; that’s the message for the failure Obama.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2769970/posts


275 posted on 08/28/2011 7:30:57 AM PDT by flowerplough (Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
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To: flowerplough
Palin quit because she couldn’t take the political heat

Complete nonsense.

276 posted on 08/28/2011 7:32:27 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: flowerplough
I call my info obvious, and my conclusions common sense.

I call both your info and conclusions bullcrap.

277 posted on 08/28/2011 7:34:14 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: flowerplough
She cried. Maybe not during the speech, but she’s a woman. She cried.

Oh, yeah, she looks like she's really crying, doesn't she...


278 posted on 08/28/2011 7:36:44 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: DJ MacWoW; Jim Robinson

The day reckoning is soon approaching for these PDS’ers, who seem to think that JimRob is bluffing..


279 posted on 08/28/2011 7:38:49 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Politically-motivated legal and financial heat generated directly from an ethics law she championed, then?


280 posted on 08/28/2011 7:39:09 AM PDT by flowerplough (Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
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