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John Fund: Why Sarah Palin Is Not Running
Newsmax ^ | 09-02-11 | John Fund

Posted on 09/02/2011 10:37:38 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA

Sarah Palin will swoop into Iowa and New Hampshire to speak at tea party rallies this Labor Day weekend, whipping up talk she will announce her candidacy for president. After all, this coming Saturday will mark the third anniversary of her acceptance speech for vice president at the Republican National Convention – a speech which established her as both a conservative icon and a magnet for criticism.

Her supporters are certainly encouraging talk she will be a 2012 candidate. Peter Singleton, her Iowa political organizer, told National Review’s Robert Costa last month: “I believe she will run. Labor Day will kick off the Republican campaign for the nomination. She is going to make a major, major speech.”

But Team Palin is extremely sensitive about anyone else who speculates about what she’s up to. Karl Rove, President Bush’s political strategist, told Fox News last month he thought Palin’s schedule in Iowa meant she would announce her candidacy this coming weekend. That prompted this riposte from Team Palin on the website of her PAC:

“Any professional pundit claiming to have ‘inside information’ regarding Governor Palin’s personal decision is not only wrong but their comments are specifically intended to mislead the American public.”

At the risk of being accused of misleading people, let me state that Sarah Palin isn’t running for president.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016; dropout; johnfund; notrunningmeme; notthisyear; palin; rickperry; smellthefear; tease; teasememe; texas; theygotnothin; waronsarah
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To: Interesting Times

Pfffft. Obviously, he hasn’t one clue about Organizing for Palin in every state which has been going on for almost one year.

Get real. Fund isn’t solid. Maybe in your mind.


21 posted on 09/02/2011 10:57:45 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: rintense

Fund is not claiming to know for sure. Part of his job is to speculate, and that’s what he’s doing. There is nothing unfair about it. Frankly, I don’t understand the defensiveness when someone speculates that Sarah isn’t running. All one can do at this point is speculate.

Sarah is the only person that knows for sure.


22 posted on 09/02/2011 10:58:02 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Beelzebubba

Isn’t funny that a bunch of girls wearing shirts for Perry are flocking to Palin?!?!?!?


23 posted on 09/02/2011 10:58:31 AM PDT by rintense (ABO can KMA.)
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To: Interesting Times

Sorry, he has already said he has no source. He is just busy putting out the fire he started while burning his bridges.


24 posted on 09/02/2011 10:59:00 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: rintense

BTTT


25 posted on 09/02/2011 10:59:06 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Beelzebubba

So she should’ve refused to be photographed with people because of their t-shirts. Yeah that would’ve gone over well with the press who are constantly looking to nitpik everything she does.

Cindie


26 posted on 09/02/2011 10:59:14 AM PDT by gardencatz (Proud mom US Marine! It can't always be someone else's son.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Well, of course she isn’t running, no one’s heard of her, no one talks about her, how can anyone take an obscure housewife from Wasilla seriously...just a flash in the pan, 15 minutes of fame, besides, all the polls show that 74% of women say her boobies can’t possibly be real, how can you trust those breasts with the highest office in the land. Case closed...well, it will be closed if more Rinos would sit on it...

El Sarcasmo.


27 posted on 09/02/2011 11:00:45 AM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: Beelzebubba

Oh yeah, that’s why she’s focusing on crony capitalists tomorrow—because she’s about to endorse Perry.

(eye roll)


28 posted on 09/02/2011 11:00:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Lazlo in PA

Well, of course she isn’t running, no one’s heard of her, no one talks about her, how can anyone take an obscure housewife from Wasilla seriously...just a flash in the pan, 15 minutes of fame, besides, all the polls show that 74% of women say her boobies can’t possibly be real, how can you trust those breasts with the highest office in the land. Case closed...well, it will be closed if more Rinos would sit on it...

El Sarcasmo.


29 posted on 09/02/2011 11:00:48 AM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: rintense
Isn’t funny that a bunch of girls wearing shirts for Perry are flocking to Palin?!?!?!?

LOL. That's right! It's clearly a sign that Perry is going to endorse Palin!!!

30 posted on 09/02/2011 11:00:57 AM PDT by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: Lazlo in PA
Sure it can. No one knows except Palin and her family, as most Palin supporters here have said. But for Fund to use his media pedestal to state speculation as fact in the MSM is ludicrous.

Fund, BTW, is the epitome of beltway RINOism. You can bet his wishful thinking goes into much of what he's written.

31 posted on 09/02/2011 11:01:28 AM PDT by rintense (ABO can KMA.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I hear Palinista’s head exploding all over FR. LOL!


32 posted on 09/02/2011 11:01:33 AM PDT by Sudetenland (There can be no freedom without God--What man gives, man can take away.)
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To: Lazlo in PA; rintense
Three years ago DC pundits predicted with glee the demise of Sarah Palin's political career.

This past weekend their tune changed, citing false information that she has made a decision and set a date regarding a future campaign.

Any professional pundit claiming to have "inside information" regarding Governor Palin's personal decision is not only wrong but their comments are specifically intended to mislead the American public.

These are the same tired establishment political games that fuel the 24 hour news cycle and that all Americans will hopefully reject in 2012, and this is more of the "politics-as-usual" that Sarah Palin has fought against throughout her career.
33 posted on 09/02/2011 11:01:47 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

F*** John Fund. He’s just another in a long line of Elitist pigs who have virtually destroyed our country.


34 posted on 09/02/2011 11:02:13 AM PDT by upsdriver (to undo the damage the "intellectual elites" have done. . . . . Sarah Palin for President!)
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To: onyx

Please. This doesn’t have anything to do with Fund. You’re cocked and primed to attack anybody who suggests that Palin might not be the next president, for whatever reason. If he’d written that Palin was likely to run and might very well win, would he still be an idiot? I don’t theenk so.


35 posted on 09/02/2011 11:02:23 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: gardencatz

As I said before, doesn’t anyone see the irony in having Perry supporters rushing to shake Sarah’s hands. They’re wearing another guy’s shirt but flocking to her. Hilarious. If anything, its a swipe at Perry.


36 posted on 09/02/2011 11:02:58 AM PDT by rintense (ABO can KMA.)
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What part of

“Any professional pundit claiming to have ‘inside information’ regarding Governor Palin’s personal decision is not only wrong but their comments are specifically intended to mislead the American public.”

do you not understand?

37 posted on 09/02/2011 11:03:39 AM PDT by McGruff (Why settle for second best.)
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To: Interesting Times
Three years ago DC pundits predicted with glee the demise of Sarah Palin's political career.

This past weekend their tune changed, citing false information that she has made a decision and set a date regarding a future campaign.

Any professional pundit claiming to have "inside information" regarding Governor Palin's personal decision is not only wrong but their comments are specifically intended to mislead the American public.

These are the same tired establishment political games that fuel the 24 hour news cycle and that all Americans will hopefully reject in 2012, and this is more of the "politics-as-usual" that Sarah Palin has fought against throughout her career.
38 posted on 09/02/2011 11:03:41 AM PDT by onyx (If you enjoy FR, support it! If you support Sarah Palin & want on her Busy Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Interesting Times
If he’d written that Palin was likely to run and might very well win, would he still be an idiot?

If he'd said it based on a misquote and somebody else's T-shirt, then yes. He would still be an idiot.

39 posted on 09/02/2011 11:04:06 AM PDT by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: Sudetenland

No, what you hear is a bunch Perrydrones on their knees praying Fund is right. Big difference.


40 posted on 09/02/2011 11:04:06 AM PDT by rintense (ABO can KMA.)
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