Posted on 09/03/2011 11:45:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
November 13, 1979. That’s the day then former Governor Ronald Reagan declared his candidacy for the 1980 presidential nomination. Today is September 3, 2011.
May I cut in?
Leto, when she *does* declare, the PDS brigade and the Perrysites are going to crap their pants so hard, even their clothes hangers will have little skid marks.
How's that for scatological?
Cheers!
She may choose 13 November in honor of Reagan when she declares her candidacy.
FOX did not cover the speech at all as far as I can tell. I guess the orders have come down.
I noted that she once again used the phrase, you don’t have to have a title, to make a difference. Wish she had not dropped that line into her excellent dissertation.
She did however make it clear that crony capitalism isramp tant in both parties. She will be attacked viciously for suggesting no corporate taxes at all, mainly because they will drop the next sentence entirely. She also wondered if we ever noticed how politicians come to the office poor and leave wealthy.
Anyone who believes any corporation actually pays taxes is seriously lacking in common sense, because they are merely tax collectors, in the governments redistribution plan.
There was a lot of red meat in the speech, should give Tokyo Rove an Charlie the Kraut plenty to make fun if.
“Why should she give up her strategic advantage?”
There is nothing strategic about not building an organization. There is nothing strategic about not announcing. There is nothing strategic about trying to tweet your way into office.
I’ll make this prediction: By the time Arizona votes in the primary, Palin won’t be a factor on the ballot.
If Palin runs, and I like millions of others are tired of her dodging the question, would not get the nomination nor would she stand a chance in the general. Her poll numbers are terrible. A majority of REPUBLICANS don’t want her to run. It isn’t Palin Derangement Syndrome, it is Palin Fatigue Syndrome. She is yesterday’s news, the second half of a failed bid to capture the WH in 2008.
Take away her great looks and considerable charisma and you are left with a fairly pedestrian politician who says some real obvious things to fire up the base. Her track record is spotty at best. No typical ugly fat male politician who had her record who was doing and saying the same things would be in the news at all much less the presidential race.
She should admit she is not running and get behind one of the other candidates of her choice. She could then concentrate on what she does best, drawing crowds and generating enthusiasm among the faithful.
“She may choose 13 November in honor of Reagan when she declares her candidacy.”
Maybe, but then she won’t even be on the ballot in some states.
“There is nothing strategic about not building an organization. There is nothing strategic about not announcing. There is nothing strategic about trying to tweet your way into office.”
UNLESS you are not planning to participate as a Republican, but as an independent who is going rogue.
My prediction has been she built a pipeline outside the party so she can run from the outside. If so,
she will gather + or - 20% and give it to Zero... if any other semi-conservative gets the R ticket...
destroying the country.
Now the True Believers of the Shining, think that if she runs as a third party, she will win it in
a walkaway. I just don’t see it happening. Lots of independents have a negative view of her that she
will have to work hard to change.
I will vote for third party palin if the R ticket has Romney...
I repeat; the purpose of polls is to shape public opinion, not measure it.
But if you haven't figure that out yet, you deserve another four years of The Great Pollster.
I agree, great strategy - the left has no target, no lightning rod to hit. I say keep them guessing until the convention. Also ingenious, the “officially” leaderless Tea Party.
The first primary wasn't until January 2008 in the last election. Sarah has plenty of time to announce and get on the ballet.
OOps.... ballet = ballot
September 17, 2011. Constitution Day.
Two weeks.
Book it.
“The first primary wasn’t until January 2008 in the last election. Sarah has plenty of time to announce and get on the ballet.”
Every state has their own deadlines for filing the forms and paying the fees to get on the ballot in that state. Some require extensive signature-gathering. The first deadlines are in late October. If she wants to be on the ballot in Florida, for example, she has to file and pay the fee by October 31. South Carolina is November 1.
See this article for more info:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62090.html
Okay, so she has September and most of October. That’s a lot of time. Thanks for the info.
I’d be FURIOUS if Palin ran as a 3rd part candidate. That would almost certainly give us 4 more years of Obama.
I would vote for Palin as the GOP candidate in a general election, but a bit reluctantly. People like to compare her to Reagan, but Reagan spoke at the GOP in 64, did 2 full terms as Gov, and ran for the GOP nomination in all 50 states in ‘76. By 79, EVERYONE already knew him.
Palin is largely known as a character on Saturday Night Live. If she thinks she can step in at the last minute and capture the nomination, she’s delusional. If she runs 3rd party, she’s both delusional and evil.
The man leads his donkey around the campfire. “Water! Water!” cries the donkey with a raspy voice.
“Patience, jackass, patience” says the man.
The man leads his donkey around the campfire. “Water! Water!” cries the donkey with a raspy voice.
“Patience, jackass, patience” says the man.
The man leads his donkey around the campfire. “Water! Water!” cries the donkey with a raspy voice.
“Patience, jackass, patience” says the man.
The man leads his donkey around the campfire. “Water! Water!” cries the donkey with a raspy voice.
“Patience, jackass, patience” says the man.
And they keep walking in circles around the campfire and repeating this (about 5 times) until someone in the audience yells, “Hey, when are you going to get to the punchline???”
The man yells back “Patience, jackass, patience!”
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