Verrrrrry interestingk!
...and verrrrry sneaky of her!
Run, Sarah, run! :)
Posted on 08/16/2011 8:11:57 PM PDT by RonDog
Well, I thought of it first! LOL
Thanks for the ping, 2DV. This is one of the best pieces of reasoning/deduction about Palin running that I’ve seen.
Excellent stuff.
The clincher is the report that Sarah met for some time with O4P organizers, who then stayed on in Iowa, meeting with party operatives after she left for Alaska.
Very telling.
And the stuff about luring Rick Perry into the race so that she could pit him against Romney is political brilliance of a grade we’re unaccustomed to in politicians. That’s playing the game at the Art of War PHD level.
Heh...well, to be fair, 2DV pinged me to it. Saw the title, and couldn’t help but click ;-)
Awesome piece.
TokyoRove was thinking so yesterday on Hannity and then today he said the same thing, that it looks likes she’s about to announce, now Rove probably doesn’t know Palin’s inner circle thinking but something probably trigger him to say that
Didn't realize the Governor was in attendance for the speeches. Was this the same one where Bachmann cut short the speech and left early?
I think Rove was just considering her Labor Day an St.Louis keynotes when he said that about her coming schedule looking more serious. He would be one of the LAST people to know any inside baseball on her. Plus he is incapable of thinking outside-the-box.
Well, Rove has been a major player in big league politics for a long, long time now. He can probably see through these kinds of chess plays from a thousand miles away.
I can't stand the guy, but he is an expert in this area.
Maybe, but he is one who is entrenched in the "conventional wisdom" of the DC crowd. My best 'guess' is that someone spilled the beans recently as the Palin's have admitted recently to reaching out for "advice".
Plus Rove is an unprincipled weasel, but he's not stupid.
Per the writer's analysis, that may be part of Palin's strategy. If so, she will have likely caused him to get beaten to a pulp without ever lifting a finger.
Sneaky like a fox....an arctic fox.
Can't argue with that reasoning, but he probably put those pieces of data into a larger data set, and came to that conclusion.
I just have to believe that he's watching everything that's going on, and is seeing the underlying strategies and tactics being employed by all of the candidates. I think you just would, after such a long time in the business.
I still think it's interesting that he went on record with that prediction. Could be a warning signal to the establishment crew, ya think?
Agreed. Whatever tidbits of data he's using to analyze this, he's seeing something develop.
Now, if he were a Freeper, he would have figured it all out a long time ago .. LOL
Accidental Good Fortune? Or Strategic Genius By The Woman Tony Knowles Called ‘Alley Cat Smart’Whoever picked the title to this article was a SERIOUS student of Governor Palin.
For those of you who:
- are not from Alaska,Tony Knowles is:
- have not seen "The Undefeated" yet, or
- are not HARD CORE Sarah Palin fans...
an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as the seventh Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002.And, even if you **did** know that much, here's MORE, from www.businessinsider.com:Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in 2002, he ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2004 and again for governor in 2006. [losing to SARAH PALIN]
Before she was Sarah Palin, she was the governor of Alaska.Like Johhny Carson used to say, "I did not know that!"The story of her rise in Alaska politics is not one that conforms with her media image, so it is rarely told. But it is an extraordinary tale; one woman against the vaunted Murkowski machine, who used all of her considerable political skills to defeat the state's thoroughly corrupt Republican Party.
Joshua Green of The Atlantic Monthly tells this story well.
Some excerpts:
-- snip --“She’s what I call ‘alley-cat smart,’” Tony Knowles, the former Democratic governor, told me.
“It’s not about ideology. She knows how to pick her way down the political route that she feels will be the most beneficial to what she wants to do.”
In the Republican primary, Palin crushed Murkowski, delivering one of the worst defeats ever suffered by an incumbent governor anywhere. She went on to have little trouble dispatching Knowles, an oil-friendly Democrat...
The number of people who **did** know this kind of "inside baseball" information must be farly small, one would suppose. ;)
I imagine you're right. Figured that the "establishment's conventional wisdom" was purely a ploy to dissuade her from running. The DC folk are very predictable, yet so many get sucked into that thinking. If she wins, the establishment loses, and that fright just encourages me all the more. Seems we are THIS close.
“Fun read. Wonder who ‘John Smith’ is? :)”
Todd. :)
Ya beat me to it.
Yes, and now that Rove sees that she's up to something, he's got to alert the 'good ole boys'.
Good luck with that, Rove. You trained 'em all in the old school machine politics, and now none of them has the skills to beat a real stealth fighter.
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