Posted on 07/27/2011 8:47:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Whitney was the first person to notice that the Tea Party keynote address she is scheduled to give in Waukee, Iowa falls on the third the three-year anniversary of her speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention (September 3rd).
The Governor seemed to provide a Preview of her speech in a press release from the Tea Party group:
I’m very excited to join grassroots Iowans at the ‘Restoring America’ event over Labor Day Weekend…Gatherings like this of independent liberty-loving Americans from every walk of life exemplify our commitment to come together to seek solutions to the problems confronting our nation. As I’ve said many times, including at Pella during my last visit to Iowa: We don’t need a ‘fundamental transformation’ of America. We need a restoration of all that is good and strong and free. The 2012 election will be a great debate between those two conflicting visions for our country.
I'll be manning the phones and partying down at the local Palin campaign office, while you're waiting to figure out whether she's running or not.
Geeez, it's going to be fun re-posting all of your "She's NOT running!!!!" posts, in a couple of months.
The TEA Party vote in AZ was miniscule, compared to the massive crossover Democrats who voted for McCain in the open primary.
Any Hawkeye FReepers want to host a couple from AZ? We’re definitely coming.
This is the rally I’ve been waiting for. I just wish it had come sooner in the summer; but I think I understand.
Read my post, McCain was in a safe seat and won with a 24 point margin, grow up, and don’t create a fantasy that he was one endorsement from being swept away from his 24 year seat following his running for president as the Republican nominee.
NOW is the time. Is she just going to let this slide unanswered? That is business as usual and I have had enough of that.
I almost punched the radio when I heard him give this speech. This is 100% unacceptable. She is supposed to be on our side here. This is the perfect time to throw down the gauntlet with this human debris like McLame and put them on notice that we are not going to take this attitude. We made the GOP a force in '10 after they were left for dead. Maybe if you hear this you will be as outraged as I am on this issue.
What are you going to do when Cain drops out, even before the real primary season takes flight?
Get over yourself! She has McCain marginalized, as well as Graham. She knew exactly what she was doing. And she knew McCain would win anyway. He carried a freaking 24%.
Marginalizing McCain was a brilliant strategy move.
Nope. Definitely not.
That is, not unless she wants to intentionally hand the MSM something they can bludgeon her over the head with for months on end, AND right before she's set to announce her intention to run for office.
You don't need to be educated on "The Art of War" to see what a boneheaded strategic blunder that would be at this time.
He was a shoe in? Then there was no need to do “business as usual” and get involved with his race at all. She did. It is time to clear the air on this matter. Mclame hates everything we stand for. She backed him. I was fully in the mood to support her 100% when she announced, if she did. This McLame thing has me boiling and she needs to denounce him immediately.
I think Gov. Palin has moved on past that.
It's time for us to do so as well. We all know why she supported him last year.
If she decides to run, she can denounce what McCain stands for in her own way. And I believe she would.
You people really get upset when someone introduces potential reality into your world-picture.
It provides great amusement for many.
Note you don’t answer the question.
For me, if Gov. Palin runs, I think that will be interesting. If she gets the nod, I will back her.
But to invest so much into a simple probability is a head-scratcher, to say the least.
I have never seen people who get so angry when people suggest that the future may not unfold as said people desire.
I think it will be around 101 degrees in Dallas tomorrow. Does that make you angry? If it is 102 will you accuse me of misleading people?
Read the rest of my post, if the ticket had turned on itself then it would have shown the 2008 ticket as a sham, a fake out of the American people, it would have dominated the news, destroyed Palin, stopped our gains in 2010, made Obama look like the only sane choice in 2008, and McCain would still have kept his Senate seat.
Marginalized? Get real. A Palin approved Senate candidate just skewered the Conservative movement on the floor of the Senate and the MSM is using that to show that we are the crazy nuts screwing up DC. If "Conservatives" like McLame are saying this, then it must be true will be the new Meme.
I’m going to try to be there also!
You can hope for whatever you want but Sarah Palin isn't going to get into a public fight with John McCain. There is no point in her doing so, just to satisfy those who despise McCain but don't think much of Sarah Palin, either. If Palin attacks McCain, he'll fight back - viciously - and the left will be happy to hold their coats while taking McCain's side, calling Palin 'disloyal' and, all together now: 'extreme'.
Unlike some, I won't go quite so far as to predict that Sarah Palin will run for president, I simply hope she will. If she does, I seriously doubt John McCain will be much of a factor in her campaign. She'll likely accept his predictably tepid endorsement and then, ignore him. Picking a fight with McCain at this juncture (presumably pre-announcement) or at a later date, is counterproductive for Sarah Palin. She doesn't need John McCain and ignoring his sporadic anti-conservative tirades is the best way to diminish him.
>>Forgot to mention, it looks like your man Cain is done, but I guess you didn’t see that news either ..<<
Mr. Cain is still learning the ropes and has some serious mis-steps (unlike your holy saint).
Your point being what? Are you playing sandlot “my candidate is better than yours?”
If Cain doesn’t get the nod, it is from tactics, not principles. Or do you say otherwise?
Like I said, get over yourself! He was going to be in the Senate anyway. And he would’ve been prattling just like he’s prattling now. He hates the Tea Party because they wouldn’t back him.
It has absolutely NOTHING whatsoever to do with Sarah Palin! So STHU!
McCain asked Palin for her public endorsement. She didn't just show up and offer it unbidden. He forced her into a moral dilemma for his own selfish reasons, not caring a whit that people like you would carry a grudge against her for doing so.
She could not refuse his request, once he'd asked. If she had, her future in politics would have ended that very day.
Most of us who support her, immediately saw what McCain was doing, and realized why Palin could not refuse. We despised McCain despite her endorsement, and lots of us enthusiastically supported JD Hayworth, warts and all.
Palin didn't give us another six years of McCain. JD Hayworth and the voters of Arizona did.
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