It begins: Radio ad asks Iowans to caucus for Sarah Palin ("Vote rogue")

Hotair ^ | 12/28/2011 | Ed Morrissey

[SeekAndFind]

Iowans might feel a bit overwhelmed by the choices for next Tuesday’s Republican caucuses for the GOP presidential nomination, but one independent group has begun running radio ads insisting that there is still room for one more choice. Calling itself “Sarah Palin’s Iowa Earthquake,” the group will target specific markets in Iowa asking voters to line up behind the Republican Party’s most prominent non-candidate, and other ads will apparently follow:

Can Iowans caucus for Palin at this late date? Sure. Unlike primary states, there is no “ballot” in the legal sense at caucuses. Attendees can write in names on the list of candidates they receive at the caucuses, and those votes will count. Of course, without Palin on the ballot and not officially in the race, not too many caucus-goers may choose to vote for her. If enough are dissatisfied with the current choices, though, she might be a handy code for None of the Above — and might get some significant level of support if the ads prompt enough Iowa voters to consider this as an option.

If so, who does that hurt most? Probably not Mitt Romney, whose base of support doesn’t have a lot of overlap with Palin’s. Newt Gingrich rose in the polls mainly on Tea Party support, so he’d be likely to feel the sting a little more, especially for those who backed Gingrich because he looked like the only viable alternative to Romney or Ron Paul. Paul might lose a little of his more recent support, but he’s going to get hurt more over his old newsletters and the vetting of his foreign-policy kookiness. It may end up hurting the candidates in the second tier struggling for an Iowa miracle — Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. That’s assuming, of course, that it has any impact at all.

Let’s take a look at all five. The first two spots focus on the need to clean up crony capitalism:

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[DJ MacWoW]

LOL!!!

[glock rocks]

I am not comparing her to the big O

It's time you do.

That's exactly what this is about.

[TayNinhCrusader10]

A number of years back 19% of the voters sent a message that we were tired of the typical Democrat and Democrat-lite choices.
The Republican party didn't get it then and they don't get it now.
I have been advising concerned friends and relatives to not vote for president if they don't like the choices. I have told them that I will write in Sarah Palin.
I also told them that they should not stay home as the real importance in this election is below the presidency on the upcoming ballots.
I served in our military for ten years in places I cannot even tell my family about. There is no room for compromise; ask any veteran who served in conflict after WWII.

[eastforker]

I never felt that way because of the media, thats just the vibes I got from her. Hell, I don’t take anything to heart what the media says.

[Eye of Unk]

I for one would gain patriotic satisfaction knowing I as an individual can as an individual can express a vote not under duress, and I consider this weak batch of candidates a good example of voting under duress.

We are being intimidated to vote for these others, NOT who is a better candidate.

[mo]

makes better sense than almost anything else presently going on in the GOP field presently...

[Jim Robinson]

Go, Sarah!!

If I lived in Iowa, you’d get my vote next week!! You betcha!!

Unfortunately, my vote won’t count out here in la la land.

Rebellion is brewing!!

Go TEA Party!!

Drill, baby, drill!!

[eastforker]

Yeah, I am sure all those cainites felt jilted. They are just as bad.

[DJ MacWoW]

Vibes? You pick a candidate based on vibes? *sigh*

[eastforker]

No it is not, it is comparing her to the other candidates who just happen to be running. Those that actually got in the race.

[meadsjn]

If she was a man with the same credentials, no one would give her a second look for a place in the White House. But you Palinisties just keep on with your love afair with a prety face and a skirt.She’s got that going for her.

Someone is wrong on the internet again (and this time it is you).

[eastforker]

Sure Jim, you promoting that we should split the vote, sorta like voting for a third party candidate don’t ya think? You think any Romney voters would write in SP?? I hardly think so, I guess we give it to Romney then, just everybody write in Sarah!

[eastforker]

You don’t?? You just buy the paint without looking at the warranty. Of course I vote by the vibes I get from a candidate

[Eye of Unk]

I think many people would rather take a leap of faith, write Sarah in from now on and just go for the hail mary than accept Romney, Newt or Paul.

We go together or fall divided.

[The Cajun]

LOL, oh nooooooooos, you're gunna cause some people around here to burst blood vessels with a *Sarah* ping :^)

[gitmo]

Someone is wrong on the internet again (and this time it is you).

No, he's right. That's why the GOP nominates beauty queens every four years. The democRats think we're sexist ... that we would never consider someone from the male sex.

[DJ MacWoW]

I vote on their record. Vibes are for the left.

[eastforker]

Oh you gonna tell me if you didn’t like SP personally you would vote for her anyway???HAHAHAHA LOL

[DJ MacWoW]

Nixon and McCain were beauty queens? Lord! And I thought I was blind! LOL

[DJ MacWoW]

I don't know her PERSONALLY. I didn't like McCain and I voted for him. I liked Obama even less.

I don't vote based on VIBES. What a lefty notion.