[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sarah Palin needs to run.

She needs to gather her supporters, and run.

Talk. Organize. But RUN.

[goldstategop]

No.

I couldn’t vote for someone who couldn’t finish out her term as Governor.

And someone from AK brings no political heft to the table.

Tez Cruz on the other hands brings that and much more.

[ansel12]

I don’t see her running for 2016 anyway, whatever her long term strategy is, I don’t think that is part of it.

[InterceptPoint]

Dear Sarah:

Some advice.

1. We love you dearly. But don’t run for President.
2. Endorse Ted Cruz tomorrow.
3. Run against McPain in the primary and send him to the old folks home.

[x]

Is “not really wanting it” somewhere on the list?

[Hugin]

I think it’s pretty clear she has no desire or intention to run. She did a huge disservice to conservatives last time out by stringing potential supporters along until months after she should have made an announcement one way or the other, while hinting about running a “different kind of campaign”. It helped prevent conservatives from rallying around a single candidate and let Romney win the nomination much more easily than if she hadn’t. Either way she needs to let people know unambiguously within the next six months.

[moovova]

5 Hurdles Facing GOP Presidential Hopeful:

1) A plan
2) Money
3) Conservative’s support
4) Gonads
5) An Obama executive order declaring martial law and canceling elections.

[Rusty0604]

“4. 2008 election: Some conservatives say John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate cost him the election and gave America Barack Obama.”

I say his pick of Sarah Palin was the reason he got as many votes as he did.

[SoFloFreeper]

Sarah is not going to run.

[KC_Lion]

A Bookmark and Cautionary Ping to Sarah's List!

While I would love nothing better to see Sarah or any True Conservative in the White House, simply having them there will not Magically fix our Problems.

And IF they can, by the sheer force of their wills alone, than we have become truly lost, if all we need is a Fearless Leader to lurch the country in whatever why they want us to go.

As in my Last Ping, I feel my tagline offers the best advice.

Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin

It is the only way.

(P.S. These types of threads bring out lots of Haters, Don't want to ruin your day, so this is a counsel ping before any of her awesome list come here without back-up)

[Mr. K]

she will face hurdles... and overcome them all by a landslide

[TomGuy]

Sounds like a ‘do not run’ preemptive shot across the bow from Alana Marie Burke, whoever she is.

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I think Palin allowed her political electiveness to wane. She resigned from her governorship before finishing her first term. She has not run for anything since. She has been attracted to the glamour of TV via Hollywood and reality shows.

She still may be influential in supporting others, but I think she waited too long and allowed her ‘electableness’ to pass by. She is too incendiary to run for the presidency, as she would be a major distraction overshadowing the primary process.

She should have jumped into the 2012 cycle. That was hers, as the last party VP-nominee (from 2008).

[RKBA Democrat]

Hurdle number six and the only really important one: having to give up an enviable and happy lifestyle and time away from a nice family to be the target of hatred of millions of progressives, uniparty hacks, effete snobs, and assorted dregs of humanity. And then realizing that if you do win, you have to move to the beltway and deal with said individuals on a daily basis for 4 or 8 years.

[TBP]

Sarah has a strong and committed following, unlike a lot of the GOP hopefuls.

[RichInOC]

1. Mainstream media? You mean the ones who served as Obama and Biden’s communications shop on their employers’ dime the last six (eventually eight) years, and not just sliming the Palins? You mean the ones who are going to be just as servile to Joe, or Hillary Clinton, or Liz Warren, or Bernie Sanders? That lot? Sure, guys, let’s have that discussion on whose campaign field’s got the biggest idiots. I welcome that.

2. Communication style? Yeah, let’s have that discussion as well, except now we bring in our guys also. And since we’re still using the Couric and Gibson interviews from ‘08 as such serious missteps, let’s break down tape on everybody else’s stuff over the last several years as well. Fair’s fair. I think several folks, in both parties, are very quickly going to be a lot less comfortable about rubbishing what the gov says and how she says it if that happens.

3. Sarah Palin is not everything that’s wrong with the center right. She’s not even a major problem with the center right. I think a calm, sober review of the last few years would reveal much the opposite. Anybody who non-ironically tries to make that argument is either trying to run against her or trying to make money off her. (Yes, Mr. Schmidt, Ms. Wallace, I am, in fact, looking right at you.)

4. Speaking of which, I think it’s stupid that we’re even still doing the post-mortem on 2008 this far out. That said...Steve and Nicolle, the vice-presidential nomination isn’t the only thing that went right in the 2008 campaign, but it’s at the top of a very short list. Steve, Bob Mosbacher was the campaign chair, Rick Davis was the campaign manager, but you were the guy running the campaign day to day. Nicolle, you were the, or at least a, major player in the communications shop, because that’s your specialty. Actually, Steve, that was your specialty as well, before you started running campaigns. John McCain and those other guys might have been running the railroad, but you two were running the train. If you think you can argue that run was a train wreck and also avoid any blame for it, bless your hearts.

5. Overexposure? Well, first, I can think of several potential 2016 candidates who show up in the media as often or more so. Problem? Second, a lot of people complaining she does too much media stuff would accept a recurring commentator job offer like hers from Roger Ailes or the guys at CNN or whoever in a heartbeat. Host their own hour-long show? Half a heartbeat. Third, I don’t know what the gov thinks about the idea of everybody making money off her but her, but in her place, I’d find it deeply offensive. Fourth, bluntly, the last several years haven’t just been about enriching herself. She’s been a pretty good team player with the Tea Party folks, establishment conservatives and even establishment Republicans. Has that teamwork, either during the ‘08 campaign, during her time in office after that, or from when she left office until now, been reciprocated as well as it could and should be? I think an honest answer would shame a lot of people. And fifth and finally, if you prefer somebody other than Palin on her merits, fine. That’s legitimate. If you prefer somebody else because you’re trying to be safe, and by that I mean not have somebody who’s going to have to deal with conflict with the other folks in the primary, and then deal with being hazed by your opponents and the media in the general election, don’t. Forget it. Your 2016 nominee is deeply unlikely to get there out of the primary field without a fight, and completely unlikely to get through the fall campaign without one. Whoever he or she might be. Forget safe. Go for who you think is right and who you think can stand the heat.