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talkpolitics...Sarah Palin is not running for President:
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone - she's been telegraphing this for well over a year. While I was absolutely on the Palin bus until she resigned from the Alaska governorship, her negatives have risen so high that there was no chance she could actually come out of the primary victorious anyway.
Who do you think she endorses? How does this impact the race now that the folks who were holding out on her word need to line up behind someone?
My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone - she's been telegraphing this for well over a year. While I was absolutely on the Palin bus until she resigned from the Alaska governorship, her negatives have risen so high that there was no chance she could actually come out of the primary victorious anyway.
Who do you think she endorses? How does this impact the race now that the folks who were holding out on her word need to line up behind someone?
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Date: 6/10/11 14:57 (UTC)Jayzeus!
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Date: 6/10/11 14:39 (UTC)I'm betting she endorses Cain.
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Date: 6/10/11 14:11 (UTC)Quitting the governorship
Starting up a TV show in Alaska
Being a pundit on Fox
Doing book tours
Having her daughter being on Dancing with the Stars
Her endorsement would actually harm a candidate.
Of course, considering the rotating line of Tea Party "favorites" -- it doesnt change the race since the race has already been changing on its own moving from Romney...to Cain...to Bachmann...to Perry... back to Romney...
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Date: 6/10/11 15:02 (UTC)Both Christie and Palin are extremely egotistical people who crave attention and praise. They figured that by pretending to run they could get these things. Neither of them wants the negatives that come from actually running though (actual media scrutiny, having to lay out real policy positions, etc...) and Palin's not going to give up her millions of dollars in appearance fees for the slim chance of getting a job that pays a few hundred thousand dollars a year.
I don't think Palin will ever run, her chance came and went. Christie however will wait until 2016. He's not going to waste his chance on trying to unseat an incumbent when he can wait 4 years and run in an open election.
What I find fascinating...
Date: 6/10/11 15:43 (UTC)As for "telegraphing" not running, just the other day she implied that she was keeping her hat out of the Republican circus in order to maintain a maverick position. It had all of the earmarks of an independent run for office. Also, her bus tour telegraphed political hucksterism associated with a run for office.
Whoever she supports will bear the mark of Cain.
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Date: 6/10/11 16:40 (UTC)Are you saying family shouldn't be more important than community service? I...I can't even wrap my brain around that, and I'm in fact somewhat horrified by it.
As for "telegraphing" not running, just the other day she implied that she was keeping her hat out of the Republican circus in order to maintain a maverick position. It had all of the earmarks of an independent run for office. Also, her bus tour telegraphed political hucksterism associated with a run for office.
If you had read her first book, it became very clear to me that she wasn't going to run, even if it wasn't 100% clear to her at that point. If you look at her previous reasons for seeking office, you would notice that those reasons didn't really apply here.
Whoever she supports will bear the mark of Cain.
I agree - I'd put my assumptions on her endorsing Herman Cain.
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Date: 7/10/11 07:58 (UTC)On the other hand, it wins her a few more Maverick points.
Maybe she should change that US-flag pin with a pic of her daughter or something.
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Date: 7/10/11 06:11 (UTC)of running for President.
Any talk was talk to keep interest going and money coming in, but she
was never a serious contender and she knows it...
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Date: 6/10/11 17:50 (UTC)But seriously. Maybe Bachmann.
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Date: 6/10/11 18:54 (UTC)In spite of her apparent shortcomings in what passes as important must-have-knowledge to be President, and is not, say, a Constitutional law scholar or a professor of history, she does have a keen enough understanding of exactly what is going on (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/us/10iht-currents10.html?_r=2&emc=eta1) in the world of U.S. politics, government and business, and calls it out at that piece for exactly what it is, bullshit.
For this reason, I'd hate to see her embrace any of the current candidates, and if she were not what I call crazy-religious, and perhaps a little more environment-friendly, I might be inclined to think a vote in November of '12 might actually mean something.
That's not the case, however, so for now I'll be more than pleased if she just disses the whole gang of them, thereby standing firmly behind what she's quoted at the article as having said, rather than just becoming another one of them for whatever purpose at all.
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Date: 6/10/11 20:36 (UTC)Sarah Palin.
She's the best grifter I've seen since "The Sting".
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Date: 7/10/11 06:14 (UTC)and hasnt been the moment Perry threw his hat in the ring...
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