Posted on 10/04/2011 3:10:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! Taylor (Charlton Heston); The Planet of the Apes, (1968)
This classic line is all that came to mind when I read this piece in POLITICOfollowing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christies decision not to enter the presidential field, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palins law firm made a number of calls requesting early state filing deadlines thats right. She thinks she can blow it up. She just might.
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Palins political action committee (Sarah PAC) employs attorney Mark Braden, with the firm Baker Hostetler, made the calls on Palins behalf on Tuesday afternoon.
It is not entirely clear if this is a genuine attempt to enter the race or another in a long line of attempts to get the press to focus on Palin, whereas most of her press coverage in recent weeks has come exclusively from Fox News Channels On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.
While not yet official, due to the ongoing shuffling of the primary calendar, the likely filing deadline for the New Hampshire primary is going to be October 28making it the earliest in the nation and the formal deadline to enter the2012 presidential contest.
If she did enter the race, it would result in the most devastating internecine battle among Republicans since 1992when Patrick Buchanan challenged President George H.W. Bush in a primary. Palins supporters, while smaller than they were only three years ago when she was the Republican vice presidential nominee and the toast of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis St. Paul, remain doggedly supportive. Her detractors are slightly more numerous and are securely in control of the nominating process following Christies exit from the race.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has already landed The Home Depot investor Ken Langone, a committed Christie supporter. He will receive the greatest bump (if there is one) from Christies exit from a race he never entered (but he was polled anyway). Palin would almost certainly take from businessman Herman Cain (now in second or third place across several polls) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (tied for second with Cain).
The battle would be fierce and bloody, and Sarah would likely loose. However, if she gets in without any semblance of a staff or donor base required to run a national campaign, she has no intention of winning. She wants a fight.
Its a wish that will be granted with likely spectacular results.
Bingo!! This is why I think that the only way we will ever see these kinds of changes is through an overthrow of the current system and resetting things back to the Constitution our Founding fathers left us.
I simply don't have any faith in our elected politicians taking the steps that are necessary to make these things happen.
Things look so bad she has to run....pretty please with a cherry on top
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