Posted on 10/07/2011 11:31:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Unfortunately, it looks like the forces of smear, slander, and threat have finally claimed their intended victim. With Palin's announcement that she won't run for president, the election is essentially over.
The calculus is fairly simple: the media and GOP establishment want Romney to be the nominee. Once a progressive is at the head of the Republican ticket, low turnout for Republicans will hand a narrow victory to Obama.
So here is how the election will go. The media hasn't seriously opened up on Herman Cain, but most assuredly they will. Cain has been in business for decades, and the liberal media will troll through every relationship, every business deal, every word he has ever spoken. If that fails, the lies will start. To see evidence of this, we need not look at far as Palin. Rick Perry, another progressive, was attacked for something that someone painted on a rock on land his family leased out. That narrative will be used to attack both Perry and Cain -- Perry for having "allowed" it and Cain for making a big deal over "nothing." Both narratives will be forwarded, potentially in the same program. Once the liberal media goes through Cain's past with a fine-toothed comb, they will doubtless find disgruntled business adversaries, accusations of infidelity, and more.
If Palin had been in the race, the smear tactics would have failed, as the establishment and media threw everything they could possibly throw to get her out of the race. Who knows what her personal reasons, in her heart of hearts, were for not running? Perhaps she feared for the safety of her family. At any rate, there is no other conservative that has as much of a head start on the slander as Palin did....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wow. This is sad.
O'Donnell had him down in a trice and Cain has NEVER even competed in anything other than a state primary and he lost that.
Withdrawing means you enter the race then decide to leave it. She did not officially enter.
Some called her a polarizing figure. She would need Republicans and independents to win but I'm not sure she would have won the latter.
Never forget the lies, distortions, deceptions, scare-mongering, race-baiting, voter intimidation, govt clubs and thugs over non-existent disenfranchisement and just downright vote fraud.
They have no morals, scruples or ethics.
The Dems may be unhappy with Obama, but do you really think there's going to be a mass shift of their voting habits that sends them to vote for a Republican?
I agree with the premise of the article. If Mitt is the nominee, he's only the slightest bit to the right of Obama. Witness the two healthcare programs. If Mitt is the nominee many republicans are going to figure, "why bother. A difference that makes no difference, IS not difference."
Just imho of course.
To paraphrase John Kerry she could say, “I actually did
withdraw from the race before I entered it.”
She did not go through a bunch of campaigning then said she would drop out of the race. She simply never entered and one cannot withdraw from a race one has never entered. She “chose not to run”, instead of “she haltered her declared campaign
and decided to quit the race.”
The people who stay home are not Freepers. They aren't people throwing tantrums because their candidate is not the nominee. They don't follow the news. They are people who have never thought of voting as a critical part of their lives. Don't tell me how dumb that is, that's just the way it is. The only way to get them out to vote is to find a candidate who grabs their attention. Ronald Reagan did, Pat Robertson did, and in local elections around the country someone occasionally does, or a ballot issue gets them out to the polls. At the same time Gerald Ford, Bob Dole and John McCain didn't grab their attention. I didn't plan it that way, nor do I approve, but after 20+ years in the business I understand it. So take it or leave it, but that's the way a HUGE number of eligible voters on our side behave.
I would like Cain/Palin, or Palin/Cain.
No check-pants/pink tie RINOS for me.
If one is the nominee, I will not even bother with an absentee ballot, but I am from Tennessee, so not to worry.
Anyone is better than Obama. It’s my only conclusion since Sarah is not running. Out with the fascist.
“find Cain a much harder nut to crack”
Yes, Black Walnut. http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/herman-cain-on-palin-comment-9-30-11/1359495
I think the demonic Obama machine will do everything necessary to ensure re-election. This doesn’t bother me because I know God wins in the in. I’m just greatful to be one of the ones to experience the end of this revealing age through which we will all pass... one way or another.
As to the headline: Bullcrap!
Please “like” www.facebook.com/draftsarahpalin . That will register support . Phase two is to write a letter or send a postcard to The Office of Sarah Palin, PO Box 871235 Wasilla, AK 99687 asking her to reconsider. She has said in the past that her ideal candidate is not someone seeking the office pandering to voters, but someone who is reluctant to serve and is found by the people and asked to make the personal sacrifice to serve. Ask that she make that sacrifice.
The title says it all... How can one “withdraw” from a race they weren’t in to begin with? I find it ironic in that he says lies and slander claimed a victim when, although mild, he participates in what has plagued Palin all along - little digs from the media.
I am also going to donate to Sarahpac and ask her to come out for Cain. All he PAC money will go to help finance the campaigns of Conservatives for House,Senate, and Governors. The sooner we get rid of the Corrupt Liberal Pubbies the better it will be to take our Country back.
obama has won, deal with it. Lets focus on 2016
That’s excellent. Sarah may have decided not to run this time but we haven’t heard the last from her. She’s just getting warmed up. IMHO.
You missed that course on how to win friends and influence people hey?
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