Posted on 09/29/2011 8:15:34 PM PDT by Bratch
What will it take to get Chris Christie to say yes and run for the GOP nomination?
Come on down -- Sarah Palin.
If the queen of the Tea Party makes a grand entrance into the Republican primary sweepstakes the New Jersey governor will finally say yes to all the calls for him to jump into the race.
At this moment Palin has reason to think she should run. A mid-September McClatchy/Marist poll of registered voters put her only 5 percentage points behind President Obama in a head-to-head match-up. No previous poll ever put her in the elite category of Republicans within striking distance of defeating the president.
This week Palin, appearing on Fox News, said she has to make up her mind soon because “You have to get your ducks lined up in order to get your name on ballots.” She emphasized that she doesn’t need the title of president to make a difference in American politics. Still, the former Alaska governor, apparently responding the recent good poll numbers, said she is confident she can win the White House in 2012 because “Americans are ready for someone outside the box.”
All the talk about Palin has the Republican political establishment seeing red. They fear losing control of the nominating process and the whole party spiraling down, sinking into a sea of far-right polarization and the cult of personality around Palin if “Sarah Barracuda” – her nickname as star high school basketball player -- swims into their waters and begins eating up Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and the other current Republican candidates.
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Juan wants to see Obama re-elected. He’s an ass-cr@ck Dem RAT as far as I’m concerned and I’m not falling for his cr@P... although you are more than welcome to it.
LOL
“Christie is not running. Palin is not running. Both are completely compromised potential candidates and they know it.”
Sigh.....
Hatin’ Palin
Jimmy Hendrix/PDS version ;)
Hatin’ Palin all in my brain
Make up things, just like it’s a game
I’m deluded, but I don’t know why
‘She’s gonna run, And I think that I’m gonna cry
PDSers, all around
Don’t know if we’re droolin’ up or down
Are we stupid or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl has made life hell for me
Freep me Freep me
Oh no no... no
Yeah
Hatin’ Palin, all in my eyes
Don’t know if it’s today or night
She’s not announcin, blowin my mind
Maybe tomorrow or at the end of time?
No, Freep me aw yeah! oh no no oh help me...
Do you have any intelligent response or just a bunch of juvenile attempts at insults?
Others of us will just move on and concentrate on getting our nominee elected.
Please do.... (snicker) “Move-On (.org)” Spare us the Lib talking points. I hear Perry Supporters use them a lot. Hitch up with them. You’ll like it there.
I’m not exactly sure why you are so bitter Precision...but IMO your statements concerning Palin don’t seem to gel with the reality of the womans impact on these elections, even if she doesn’t run.
No other candidate has taken the media and the democrates to the mat as Palin has and successfully so. You are sadly mistaken to think she has nothing to do with what the candidates consider about what her next move might be...obviously the media has pretty much run to keep up with her moves at every turn...talk show hosts desire her presence not to mention the International Communites invitations to their nations and honoring her as their guest.
Do you honestly think any of them care about the “stuff” her opponets might throw at her? ...You see they’ve also heard it all as we all have....and yet still she gains the publics trust and support...and is sought after on the International Stage.
I wouldn’t say Im a Palinite...but I do admire the passion of those who love and support her as they do...and if she runs I too will vote for her and then I’ll be a full fledged Palinite. Either way she goes I admire the woman greatly and respect her fully...as do even those who oppose her.
You know of course Universities teaching political Science are also watching Sarah Palin very carefully and her unique and intruiging style of gaining not only the following she has btu as well her stratgedy....who wouldn’t? She has certainly changed the course of how one might campaign...and as we all noted even the Pres. copied her style with his bus.
Now you’ve really gone off the edge with those statements and then you wonder why you get the responses you do....ask and ye shall receive...
Perhaps, but this isn’t politics as usual. 0bama was sold as something different, but he was crony politics and corruption on steroids. People now realize they were duped and I think in this environment and with her political savvy she’s quite capable of selling the fact that she resigned because she put the people of Alaska ahead of political ambition and she has a record to stand on for that.e .she’s had a very principled career for 20 years in the public sector and she also has the advantage of having run a small business, our biggest job creator. People, from the political class to ordinary folks, people continue to underestimate her, to her advantage. She’s very good at framing issues that show how much like us she is (well because she actually is). I’d quit a job for principled reasons. You have ATF agents testifying on Capitol Hill that have put principles ahead of career. That’s a rare and moral stand to take. And she didn’t do it for ambition or cynicism or any other lame reason we expect from the political class. The fact that she was willing to risk her future and give up a job she truly loved because it was best for her state says a great deal for her character. If she runs an loses, she’ll still be right. If people aren’t capable of looking beyond the “she quit” meme, she’ll still have her principles and a solid moral compass...something that no one can take away from her. Perhaps, if we’re not willing to look beyond the surface (that’s how we ended up with 0bama so we should’ve learned that lesson) then we don’t deserve someone like her.
It’s the same with Cain. The argument I hear is that he doesn’t have any political experience. But that’s superficial because he has practical and responsible executive experience. I know Perry is very popular with people here and that’s fine, we need to choose the person who we identify with. Choosing who “we” (I mean the collective we, as in Republicans) can win is always a losers gamble. Been there, done that...we either end up losing or lamenting we’ve elected a RINO. I look a Perry & Romney & I see 2 used car salesmen or members of the “hair club for men” executive board. I don’t buy their reasons for Romneycare/TX Dream Act/breaking a promise not to run. For others those aren’t deal breakers. That’s what the primaries are for though.
Cindie
You go girl....
Keep on layin’ it out like that and SOMEBODY might actually listen to you ya...
I'm responding in kind, genius
Palin will announce her candidacy, campaign for the nomination and win, without wasting her time on a single debate. MSM and precisionshootist heads will explode.
If there is ANYONE who KNOWS what is going on in GOP
conservative minds across Ameerica,
how could it not be the NPR/FOX liberal Juan Williams,
who demanded that Americans dutifully eat DOG FOOD
to support HIS “authentically black”, albeit Kenyan, King?
Well then, inform us all of the number of ethics charges leveled against her successor. How many exactly?
You may be precise but inaccurate.
The fact that NPR ousted him in a rare moment of clarity (on Juan’s part) does not overcome a career full of very shallow liberal talking point analysis and a slavish devotion to polls he has to know are fatally flawed simply to make a point.
I reject that Juan is a straight shooter over all. His normal analysis template is to find a BS poll - usually a Washington Post poll - and then use it as a nasally sniveling argument that always starts with “but polls show the American people....blah blah blah.”
PS:
Sarah Palin resigned from the Oil and Gas Commission in AK because it was corrupt then beat a powerful AK incumbent governor in the primary and put many “Republicans” in jail.
Now, this does not mean she is a shoo-in for the Presidency but this story does fascinate me as a conservative.
The resignation was a risky thing but if you are a conservative it can be defended and certainly not held against her. She has resigned before and come back and held exective office and accomplished a lot for 2.5 years. As for faulting Sarah, i think it would be fair criticism that the AK ethics law was too tough, too pollyannish with a belief that whistleblowers themselves could be presumed right. So to the extent that SP pushed this, it does show some naiivete. At this point though, I can not imagine anyone less naiive in America than Sarah Palin. Not nearly as bad a screw up as being in Washington for 20 years and getting on the bed with Pelosi on global warming or the Rick Perry/La Raza/no heart debacle.
anytime :)
well said
Juan is not a doofus...he has shown us the inner workings of the Republican establishment that is very anti-Palin.
Obviously, since he’s a democrat, he would want Palin defeated, but his insight into the establishment rejecting her is really something we already knew from the way the McCain campaign treated her.
Williams is just reminding us of what we already knew. His sole shot at her was that she stepped down as governor 3 years into her term.
I wonder what he’d call it that Christie would be doing after promising his state that he simply would never go after the presidency.
Besides, Christie is a big government liberal. He will lose.
I have never smoked weed, but from what I have HEARD about it, I have concluded that to understand Juan Williams you need to be smoking a joint when you’re listening to him.
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