Posted on 09/07/2011 2:00:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is NOT a ‘hijack’ attempt ...
This issue reflects a nearly fatal flaw in the current operation of the National Election ‘cycle’. By some objective criteria, THIS ‘cycle’ is already almost a year old and the National Party Nominating Conventions are still a year away !
Self-nomination as a candidate this early in the ‘cycle’ is tantamount to suicide as it serves ONLY to position oneself as a target for the Media, the opposition party and the other nominees of your own party.
Ignore the sheer waste of time and resources spent ‘campaigning’ to create or merely maintain some degree of relevancy and then SUSTAIN it through the primaries and the nominating convention.
What appears most likely for the overwhelming majority of potential candidates is simply to provoke destructive attacks from all sides and to become the victim of ennui or over-exposure to friends and foes alike.
What MATTERS, ultimately, is who’s still standing late in the primary season and who is still ‘relevant’ come the nominating convention.
By delaying entry into such a self-defeating venture, a potential candidate MIGHT preserve a certain degree of dignity, resources and ‘relevance’ for when the contest actually matters.
‘Campaigning’, ‘debating’ ( !!! ), polling and producing ‘positions’ at this remove from the actually contest is a wholey ‘empty’ exercise for ALL concerned — the potential candidates, the potential voters, the potential contributors, etc.
The only ‘winners’ are the Media and the professional political hacks and operatives egging on the participants.
One Man’s Opinion ...
21stCenturion
The pundits keep asking if it’s too late for her to run. The question should be if it’s too late for her to not run.
I think she can wait until October 31 to get in because that’s the deadline for being on the Florida ballot. I doubt she will wait that long.
If she keeps on waiting and ultimately says she’s not running, she ends up looking like a grifter to a lot of people.
Exactly. Everyone screams war, war, war, but when they finally come up against someone who knows how to fight, they shriek that it's unfair.
Which, of course, is also war.
They aren't affecting Palin. This is a meme war to turn her voters away from her, by making them doubt her. And as it goes, it's a pretty good plan, as long as her voters are her voters for the typical reasons Americans vote for somebody.
But they're not.
And Sarah knows it.
LOL!
@MrLTavern
Mr.L Erick Erickson, had “enough” of us? Feeling is mutual. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wV3-zxJSU
Millions of dollars of investigation...unending liberal and Rino refutations...the death threats, the SNL impersonations, four years of smear and she’s more influential than ever...the 24 hour a day 7 days a week obsession with a woman who supposedly is of no relevance whatsoever.
I guess people need a hobby. ;^)
And by today's standards Reagan would have not been on the ballot in Florida or South Carolina. Very few things stay static over a long time span. Change is inevitable
Ann Coulter + Laura Ingraham = two Ivy League BA holding women w/ law school degrees who at some point in their life, dreamt of holding high political office (Coulter almost ran for Congress in Connecticut!)--but neither had the courage to challenge the old boy establishments of which they hail from, so they instead "worked within the system" (as ivy leaguers are trained to do) and settled for the sole outlets by which feminist-minded women (the conformist breed of feminist) can gain the kind of stature they were desiring:
This meant settling for something "easier" and less adventurous aka: professional punditry and criticism, sitting on the SIDELINES of the arena, while catering to heartland audiences all while "living the elitist" life they supposedly decry and stand above (both are notorious for dating liberal, pro-abortion, elite men. Ingraham dated Keith Olbermann, Ann Coulter dated liberal NY Congressman Andrew Stein.)
Did they offer valuable insight and contributions to the conservative movement? OF COURSE! Are their writings worthwhile reading? SURE! Do they have some honest convictions behind what they say? Absolutely.
BUT at the end of the day, they are WOMEN, trained to believe in ever-so-limited roles for influence. SARAH PALIN threatens their STATUS. Yes, the woman from Alaskan wilderness, with a husband of 25 years, 5 children with a Down's Syndrome one to boot, and an actual RECORD of *TANGIBLE* ACCOMPLISHMENT -- not just an archive of commentary written behind a desk in a nicely lit Manhattan apartment! YES. OF COURSE, they resent Palin -- however subconscious this resentment may be.
Their whole lives have been defined by working within the system--never truly challenging it. ANd here coems Saintly True-Christian, Naturally Pretty, Provocative (in a non sexual way) and Controversial without even trying--> Sarah from Wasilla with a journalism degree from podunk, Idaho (ironic isn't it? No J.D. like the others?), and she actually has risen ABOVE the system and demolished the strongholds of the very old boy networks Ingraham and Coulter have kissed up to their whole lives, with their ever well-maintained blonde hair and carefully lotioned legs.
As the years pass them by, and the landscape of the media changes, the last thing they would want is someone to outshine their "starpower" roles within the conservative movement and its legacy. You betcha they don't want Palin to be President. She just steals all the attention!
Well said. I was once a fan of both Ingraham and Coulter, but I have found their continued support of Mitt Romney and Coulter’s promotion of Chris Christie to be a considerable disappointment. This most recent conversation they had about Palin is the final straw.
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