Posted on 09/27/2011 10:33:16 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Sheila Marikar
September 28, 2011
A Palin presidency: Too “shackle-y?”
That’s what Sarah Palin suggested on Fox News’ “On The Record with Greta VanSusteren” tonight, saying that she’s concerned jumping into the 2012 presidential race will muffle her message.
“Is a title worth it?” she asked, rhetorically. “Does a title shackle a person? Are they someone like me who’s maverick? I do go rogue and I call it like I see it and I don’t mind stirring it up in order to get people to think and debate aggressively.”
“Is a title and a campaign too shackle-y?,” she continued. “Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of a box, not allowing handlers to shape me and to force my message to be what donors or what contributors or what pundits want it to be? Does a title take away my freedom to call it like I see it and to affect positive change that we need in this country? That’s the biggest contemplation piece in my process.”
Palin expressed a concern about “being caricatured” if she runs, and asked again “whether a title is needed to make a difference or someone can be rogue, can be maverick, can be passionate about issues and can get people to think very wisely about issues.”...
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There’s a link to her appearance on Greta tonight at post #14.
Cain has much more executive experience than Palin, and has the added benefit of not quitting an elected job mid-term.
Palin should strongly consider backing Cain, though.
I am just interested in seeing her up on the stage with the others. We knows that she has deliver a heck of s stump speech, but exactly what are her positions on certain issues? I don’t think we know.
I know her contract runs through 2012. You apparently do not. So, either she was fired or she quit.
That would be newsworthy on its own, wouldn’t it, and a big sign about her immediate political future.
It’s accurate I saw it. Understand what she said but I think it was ridiculous. A title? Oh you mean actually being president?
IF Sarah Palin ever listened to anyone else, someone needed to tell her long ago to stop running her mouth on shows like Greta. Going on Greta is not real leadership, and Sarah P needed to learn to say less and make it count. A lot less.
I am with you on this one. I think she hoped against hope that someone would shine so she could relax. She had great words for Herman Cain as the “only consistent conservative” in the race. I think she was hoping he could overcome but his luster is already fading too. The FLA straw poll was to send a message ro romney and perry, and maybe even to Palin. The current field stinks.
I know her contract runs through 2012. You apparently do not. So, either she was fired or she quit.
That would be newsworthy on its own, wouldn’t it, and a big sign about her immediate political future.
You're welcome...it's a special service I do for those in, near and about little Warsh-ington. :-)
And thank you for the Rick Perry lip-reading clip. "Save a pretzel for the gas jets."
Wait, so she wanted someone to shine, yet she smeared Rick Perry with “crony capitalism” slime from her media chair? What the heck did she expect would happen after that? That her supporters would get all ‘shackle-y’ and not go after Perry?
Actually, if you listened to her speech in Iowa she mocked McCain for his “hobbit” remark. That’s a strange way to show support.
Cindie
I don't think so, she has qualities that can't easily be forgotten. Her common sense conservative message resonates with the American people. She will always have an audience and a following if that is what she wants.
I might remind her, in her own evangelical vein, that her running (and serving if elected) would itself be a message, one authored by God. She should not sell herself short. It's true that she will have to tone down her role as commentatrix to be a credible, concentrated candidate, and she'll have to concentrate on being president if she's elected. But she can't be so obsessed with the talk that she can't see the value of the action.
I don’t understand this hesitancy on Mrs Palin’s part. Her drones here have assured us that she indeed is/has been running since 2008. Why would the drones state this if it wasn’t factual? I would hate to think that they, the drones, are ignorant fanatics.
All of this stuff Sarah said about “being shackled” and is a “title worth it” is about the GOP trying to muzzle her. Remember the title of that article after the 2010 election? Next stop for the GOP: Stopping Sarah Palin
This what’s going on
Once she becomes a candidate or especially the nominee - the GOP will try to flood her campaign with more” Nicole Wallace and Steve Schmidt” like-aides and other people that will be more willing to fighting her than go after Obama (She brought up how inside the campaign in 2008, she was being caricature to the media)
She is contemplating how she can be FREE against the COMING inside attacks from some in the GOP trying to sabotage her as she pursuing the nomination (she mentioned the Newsweek article about Ailes and Fox moderators trying to sabotage candidates in the debates and attempting to moderate the Network)
She is going to be fighting the GOP elites more than that Obama in her pursuit. (they see her as more of a threat to them than Obama)
She’s thinking “how can I speak out FREELY and unshakled and speak the truth without being bound because I have the title of Republican candidate or Republican nominee?””is having a title worth it?
LOL, like moths to a flame.........They have been getting very boring lately in an almost Obama like way.
Just one "blah, blah, *Sarah* blah, blah" after the other.
At least old pissant could be entertaining sometimes in a nutty kind of way, this bunch just boring same old, same old.
Wonder did Governor Perry really mean it when Sarah came down to Texas to campaign for him, that we was NOT going to run for president? Like so many say the ‘devil’ really is in the details.
She doesn’t work for Fox news anymore?
Cain has never won nor served in an elective office either. Running a business has no relation to being President of the United States and dealing with Congress and a hostile Media. Would you like Meg Whitman to be your President?
Cain's attempts at articulating his Foreign Policy ideas are rather frighteningly naive. That's why he floundered and fell back to also-ran status after he was "all the rage" a few months ago.
Is it possible for you to not come on every Palin thread and take digs at people. Seriously, can you not just leave it alone once in a while. You just inflame people and it serves no useful purpose. You don’t like her, you don’t think she’s going to run. Honestly, what more is there to say?
Cindie
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