Blucher! Blucher!
Posted on 09/22/2011 8:22:52 PM PDT by Clairity
Political logic and election law suggest that anyone hoping to make a serious run for the White House next year will need to be formally in the race by November.
Sarah Palin isn't so sure.
' The former Alaska governor appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Tuesday, where she hinted ever so slightly that the current "unconventional" political landscape may allow for a later entry. (At the least, she has already proved that the current landscape has allowed would - be candidates to drag out their decisions much longer than one would expect.)
Here was her response to Hannity's first question about whether she was ready to jump in the race: "There is still time, Sean, and I think on both sides of the aisle you’re going to see people coming and going in this race. ... And I'm still one of those still considering the time factor."
(Excerpt) Read more at slatest.slate.com ...
Flex time — I am still putting in a lot of hours, but I take breaks. I quit smoking years ago and torturing you and your ilk is a great substitute.
You gotta admit that you guys make it all worthwhile.
Blucher! Blucher!
How is that working out for them?
Unlike Sarah Palin, they are taken seriously.
Even Bachmann, who has the least experience as compared to Perry, Romney and Obama, is given the grudging respect of being somebody that at least entered the Arena and is trying to win.
Outside of her extremely loyal Fan Club, Sarah Palin is seen merely as the punchline of countless jokes and seen as the epicenter of fights and dramas that have more to do with Levi Johnston, Joe McGuiness, Reality TV and getting grilled by the National Enquirer than they have to do with Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, getting grilled on Meet the Press or getting grilled on prime time in the nationally televised Arena of a Presidential debate.
Michele Bachmann Meet the Press Video Aug. 14, 2011 Full Interview with David Gregory
Sarah Palin would be totally irrelevant except for the fact that her extremely loyal Fan Club (13% of GOP voters) believes that their mission in life is to throw bottles at any and every GOP candidate in the Arena that is more conservative than Romney whose name is not "Sarah Palin".
Sarah Palin would be totally irrelevant except for the fact that the Reality TV show that her Fan Club are interactive participants in is now helping Mitt Romney secure the GOP nomination because her Fan Club plays along and throws bottles into the Arena while they wait for the Great Pumpkin to fly in and defeat Romney some time around next Halloween.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." ..... Theodore Roosevelt
Well this last debate fully exposed Perry as a RINO like I’ve been saying. And though I hate to admit it, Michele has been failing lately.
Sarah might really be our last hope, and there is finally a niche opening up for her.
“Sarah Palin would be totally irrelevant except for the fact that the Reality TV show that her Fan Club are interactive participants in is now helping Mitt Romney secure the GOP nomination because her Fan Club plays along and throws bottles into the Arena while they wait for the Great Pumpkin to fly in and defeat Romney some time around next Halloween.”
This is exactly the problem. And they are so blind they don’t see that all they are doing is helping Romney, because Palin is NOT running, just leading on her obsessive fans.
Hostile environment?
Sarah Palin has not allowed herself to be grilled in a hostile environment since 2008.
Sarah Palin's interviews consist of ultra-safe, cream puff interviewers by her fellow FOX News employees, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren.
When faced by an actual hostile interviewer whose job is not to protect her, Sarah Palin becomes a deer in the headlights that cannot even come up with the name of a single national newspaper.
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VIDEO: Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads
Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
Palin: I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.
Couric: What, specifically?
Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.
Couric: Can you name a few?
Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where it's kind of suggested, "Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?" Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
34-33-32? Wow, that scenario is remote but not impossible. I'd like to see a proposed EV breakdown of that.
Get over yourself and your complaints, please it gets very tiresome. No one likes negativity all the time.
“...This is exactly the problem. And they are so blind they don’t see that all they are doing is helping Romney, because Palin is NOT running, just leading on her obsessive fans.”
Palin is helping Obama get re-elected. Four more years of President Zero means she can keep renewing her lucrative contract at Fox News. Maybe she will run in 2016 if there still is a United States.
A thousand pardons ...
Your trying to frame the argument as if given a real choice I, and may others, would chose Romney over Palin. Probably most conservatives would still chose Palin. Third party bids are simply not a real choice.
I don't follow your logic at all, but there you have it. Again--that kind of thinking is how we got where we are.
It just sounds like your one of these hard heads that just can't accept that the US has a 2 party system. We have a winner take all set up and no option for coalition government. I'd have thought you could look at the last hundred plus years of history and see pretty plainly that 3rd party bids don't succeed and only serve as spoilers.
Not only would I not vote for Palin if she ran a dopey 3rd party vanity bid, I would pretty much lose all respect for her considering she's be essentially helping Hussein win a 2nd term.
“But she has to commit, NOW. Not later.”
Why????
The only time constraint I can see is the various filing dates for state primary elections.
When does the first one close????? Iowa???? When? middish Oct.......
Since Iowa is a caucus state and subject to masssive manipulation by various campaign organizations I hold the results there in little regard. Candidates have been known to skip some of the earlier primaries......so even Iowa’s filing deadline may not be limiting factor.
The small state of NH seems, at least to me, of more import than Iowa because you actually have to campaign there to win (just getting your people to hang around a caucus room isn’t enough).
Still I believe Palin will run and do well in Iowa, and will have a creditible presence in NH with vote totals that put her on the map. From there Carolina and Florida will establish direction and energy that will carry the day into super tuesday........
Being a Palin supporter I have faith that, because this isn’t her first rodeo, she knows what she is doing and has mapped out a plan of action/strategy that suits her campaign style and tactics....... as in all things, time will tell.....I plan to relax and enjoy the ride...
“she should have put herself up for scrutiny like everyone else.”
Are you suggesting that over the past 3 years Palin hasn’t been scrutinized? LOLOLOLOL.........
“Are you suggesting that over the past 3 years Palin hasn’t been scrutinized? LOLOLOLOL.........”
She was scrutinized plenty on personal matters but not on political issues.
I'm marking your post for future reference, to see if you're correct.
Because I think you are.
I've been saying all along that people should prepare for the distinct possibility that the Dem nominee won't be Obama. A lot of folks are now thinking "Hillary" again, but as far as I'm concerned, she's only the most obvious possibility at this time. We really truly have ZERO IDEA who the Dem nominee is going to be -- it could very well be someone totally off our radar at this moment. It's wise for us to focus on WHAT the Republican will be running against, and forget about the WHO, because we simply have zero idea who that WHO will be.
By the time there IS any vote, she will either be in or out, so how is the “splitting the conservative vote” by not announcing yet? These polls that are being taken right now don’t mean a thing, unless they convince people to close their minds before the time to vote ever comes up. And if people are going to do that, then people are stupid and this nation is probably not worth saving anyway.
The longer she is out of the race, the more time she can spend hitting Obama rather than hitting the people seeking to replace Obama. The campaign season is too long. By the time we get to the vote, everybody is sick of politics. And by that time we know every bad thing about the R and nothing about the D. Especially if the R’s have a primary season and the D doesn’t.
I didn’t want there to be a primary season this time at all. Or at least as short a primary season as possible. What we need is for the conservatives to join together to hit Obama and then from among those who are fighting the good fight we choose one who can carry the standard for us all. I dreaded seeing, for instance, Palin and Bachmann get into a cat-fight. That would diminish both of them. Right now they should be fighting Obama, and we should be watching to see who is most effective at doing what is best for the country within the roles they have.
We have to be smart. I think of the Bilbo Baggins thing of getting the two trolls to fight about how to prepare Bilbo for supper, until the sun came up and turned them to stone. I can’t help but think that in a time like this, having this long a primary season does the same thing. These people should be helping to fix the nation’s situation, not bickering with each other. More than anything, we need somebody who puts the good of the country above their own personal ambitions.
Sarah is smart to give herself the option of doing just that. As long as she is hitting Obama/Pelosi/Reid she is serving this country. And I wish they all were doing the same. The other person who seems to understand that is Newt Gingrich, and his attempts to keep the focus on battling Obama rather than battling each other in (vain) personal ambition make me respect him more than I otherwise would. We can’t just win the battle, we also have to win the war.
Folks, this is why I long ago ceased reading posts by dumb03. The words excerpted above happened to catch my eye as I was skimming past his post because the post was addressed to Windflier, and I'm a big fan of Windflier.
It's bad enough that dumb03 posts stupid clutter, as opposed to the Palin detractors here whose posts are worth considering because what they say is worthy of thought or at least provides insight into the opposition, even if I think their opinions and conclusions are wrong. But this guy is an empty plastic cup, and a malevolent one, at that.
I stopped wasting my time reading his predictable crap. I just pass him by and move on to the next post. "It makes for a more harmonious outcome."
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