Posted on 08/22/2011 10:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last weekend, ex-Republican campaign strategist/current Fox News political commentator Karl Rove repeated twice that Sarah Palin will run for president. He’s obviously right.
Appearing on Fox News Saturday, Rove stated that Palin “has a schedule next week that looks like that of a candidate, not a celebrity.”
He then appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” pointing to a campaign-like video recently released by Palin‘s Political Action Committee, as well as upcoming events in Iowa as evidence that Palin will soon announce her candidacy. Watch the video below.
“If she doesn’t get in next week, I think people are going to basically say, ‘She’s not in, she won’t be in and if she gets in, I’m not going to be for her,’” Rove added. “You can only tease so many times in the political process and I think she’s getting to the end of that.”
Much evidence seems to back up Rove’s comments. Back in late June, Bristol Palin told Fox News that her mother had definitely decided about whether or not to run, but that “some things just need to stay in the family.”
Since around the time she made that statement, Palin’s schedule has, as Rove put it, “resembled that of a candidate, not a celebrity.” Celebrities don’t paint a giant tour bus with American flags and tour U.S. historical sites with their families, nor do they show up at the Iowa state fair to talk about the future of the country. And they especially don’t release campaign videos.
Rachel Maddow shared Rove’s prediction, Tweeting: “Why is it political common wisdom that Gov Palin is not running? What’s her new Iowa ad for, if not for a campaign?”
So what does Palin have to gain by launching her full-on campaign three months before announcing her candidacy? (If, in fact she does.)
Back in October 2010 Palin said that she would run for president in 2012 “if there’s nobody else to do it.” She included that she’d “take a real close look at the lay of the land to consider whether there are those with that common sense, conservative, pro-Constitution passion, whether there are already candidates out there who can do the job … or whether there’s nobody willing to do it, to make the tough choices and not care what the critics are going to say about you, just going forward according to what I think the priorities should be.”
By delaying her official entrance, Palin may simply be waiting for the other candidates to say enough regrettable things to justify her entrance using the criteria stated above.
When each new candidate enters the race, he or she tours New Hampshire and Iowa stating positions and usually saying something either regrettable or downright stupid. Bachmann has so far provided the richest examples thus far, as has Rick Santorum who claimed in May that John McCain doesn’t understand torture.
The media, of course, endlessly exploits these gaffes and excoriates the new candidate for anything he or she has ever said that could be construed as controversial and/or unpresidential.
Eventually, media attention eventually moves from the new candidate to settle back on the group as a whole. By delaying her big announcement, Palin may simply be waiting for the excitement surrounding each candidate to burn out.
In doing so, she is also minimizing her time under intense scrutiny, which is essential, as Palin has proven herself to be more susceptible to gaffes than any other candidate.
See here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/275146/she-will-run-robert-costa
Obama 50%, Palin 33% (Rasmussen Poll)
Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
If she does it would require every person in every corner of the US to work phones, knock on doors and contribute As Beck says...”Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing—no matter the personal cost.”
Click on the link below and scroll down to see those crowds.
I believe she will double and treble those numbers in 2012 as a presidential candidate.
I believe she is going to announce on 9/3...and I welcome her into the race and will work as hard as I can to help her win. Watch her numbers climb through the roof. I believe she will take on and defeat the other GOP candidates, and then clean the floor with Obama.
And doing a damned fine job of it.
She has the ruling class, RINOs and Liberals alike, in total disarray.
I’m a bit surprised. The MSM is going to literally have a reporting pool following every one of her children around.
Then you split the 17% ‘undecided’ (for a 2-person race) with the traditional 80% of that going to the challenger and you come up with Obama leading Palin 53% to 47%.
Not bad, not bad at all for this stage in the game.
There ought to be some idiocy level at which we don’t post personal political commentary blogs—and this one is screaming 5-alarms for not making the cut.
Not sure what that poll matters right now. What matters is how she stacks up against the rest of the GOP field, now and going into the primaries. If she is nominated, and if she picks a good choice for a running mate, Obama will have good reason to fear her.
Palin is going to need a lot of money this late in the game.
The media trashed her too much last go around. If she gets the nomination she won’t win. The fact she resigned half way into her first term as a governor of one of the smallest (population wise) states doesn’t help her case any. I know a lot of people here love her and it has nothing to do with how well she’d do as president but she’d simply not be able to beat Obama if she did decide to run.
I like her but she can’t win. IF she runs, and is nominated, she will be handing it Obummer.
Rich Lowry, writer for National Review, disagrees with Rove. Lowry says that Palin will announce her support for Perry and will be used to pull Bachman votes to Perry. Palin is a good friend of Perry’s and, in fact, people wear Perry t-shirts in her film.
Rich Lowry, writer for National Review, disagrees with Rove. Lowry says that Palin will announce her support for Perry and will be used to pull Bachman votes to Perry. Palin is a good friend of Perry’s and, in fact, people wear Perry t-shirts in her film.
Why is Palin going to support Perry when she knows full well that Bachmann is closer to the Tea Party (who Palin supports) than Perry is?
I just don’t get this — (Unless of course Palin already acknowledges that Bachmann just can’t beat Obama ).
WOW! Thank you!
That is stunning!
A sitting president versus a housewife in Alaska who isn't even running yet, and she's already within 17% of him?! That is extrememly bad news for team Obama, and a virtual iron-clad guarantee and vindication of what has been my assertion all along:
Once she announces, that immediately tightens up by 10-12%. After one-or-two months of campaigning, long before she wins the GOP nomination, Palin will be in the lead never to look back. The drooling ass-monkey will just keep fading in her blast-trail as she rockets upward in the polls.
These early totals pretty much guarantee a Palin landslide by minimum 65-70%, and possibly more.
Thank you again for the great news! RUN, SARAH RUN!!!!!!!!!!
8^D
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