Posted on 07/03/2011 11:06:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bristol Palin told Fox News her mother has made up her mind about running for president, but Sarah Palin told The New York Times she's still thinking about it.
According to the conventional wisdom, it may be too late for her to run. Ms. Palin's done no fundraising, hasn't built a campaign team. Republicans who supported her are drifting to active campaigns, chiefly that of Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.
The conventional wisdom is more conventional than wise. Candidates start early to build name recognition and need a campaign organization to get supporters to the polls.
Sarah Palin has 3.2 million followers on Facebook -- about 800,000 more than all the declared GOP candidates combined. Palinistas tend to be the sort who would crawl over ground glass to vote for her. She has less need of a get-out-the-vote operation than any political figure in modern times.
The Republican National Committee's new rules favor late entrants. There will be more delegates in 2012 than ever before. A higher proportion will come from heavily Republican states. All but a handful will be selected after March 1. In the four February contests, 129 delegates are at stake -- 23 fewer than in Texas alone.
Delegates in the early states must be selected by proportional representation, the RNC says. So whoever wins these contests probably will wind up with fewer than half. After March 1, delegates may be selected on a winner-take-all basis.
The early contests are unlikely to produce a clear frontrunner, but will winnow the field. This is most important for debates. It's stretching the term when seven or eight candidates are on stage. Cut the field to three or four, and debates have real meaning....
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
I would NEVER change my screen name. Heck, I was just called “no gray zone” on Tuesday.
My screen name is me. =)
She will get all of our egg money the day she announces.
We raise 26 chickens, as well as ducks and geese.
We sell farm fresh brown eggs from healthy hens, that are free ranged and chemical free, to friends and neighbors for $3.50 per dozen. It may not sound like much, but when these girls are in the mood, the eggs add up very quickly. I toss the cash into the “Palin jar” that’s just waiting for her to announce.
Last year we pulled a bit over $500 out of that jar to use for a different gift. I look forward to donating this years egg money to Palin.
He can try it, but it'll backfire. The truth is, he doesn't have the same level of grass roots support that Sarah does, and can't manufacture it at the drop of a hat.
Surely, his organization's internal polling must have shown them that his support in the public is very weak. I honestly don't know why he's running at all. Perhaps he hopes the MSM will somehow force him to the top. Dunno.
Ditto!
The money I’ve saved for the past 2 years+ belongs to Sarah Palin and I have not touched it, even when I’ve had worthy reason.
Saving and restoring our Republic trumps everything, and like you, I am certain we need President Palin.
Just think of the millions of us waiting to hear her give the word GO!
2012 will go down in history and I'm so glad we get to be a part of it!
If I were your neighbor, I'd be buying them as well. Now I have to go to an organic farm to get them. Where do you live?
Lol.... Yep.
I’m not sure what Sarah’s true intentions are, but it would not surprise me if she and Michell Bachman have been talking and Sarah would have no problems playing 2nd fiddle to Michell as they are good friends anyway and would work closely as a team. I’ve said all along that a Bachman/Palin ticket would scare the be-jesus out of Mr. Obama and cause foaming at the mouth and brain embolisms in the media and liberal hard left.
Thanks for the kindness gray, but I have health issues only prayer can fix, and I will accept all that help I can get.
“She doesn’t need to. We are all holding our bucks until she gives us the word GO!”
Ditto what you said.
Sarah has already done the "2nd fiddle dance" and won't take part in that again. If anyone is to be "2nd fiddle" it is Michelle.
Personally, I am hoping and praying for a Palin/West 2012.
"Thanks for the kindness gray, but I have health issues only prayer can fix, and I will accept all that help I can get.
I’m looking for all in After Labor Day...Summer with the family and then GAME ON..
Once she announces, she will have so much money, she won’t be able to spend it all.
Good point; fund raising for what? To waste money spinning wheels?
Everything that money would do for her is being done anyway. Money is just to sort and sift. She is doing the Ali rope a dope and letting the others spin their wheels.
She said she would do things differently. Why don't people believe her?
“She’s not a hillbilly. I would ask if there is nothing too low for them to throw at her, but we all know there isn’t.”
Not to mention, who was more hillbilly than the liberals favorite pervert in chief, Bill Clinton?
In one night no less!
“This next election, if Sarah is not on the ballot, I will be writing her name in. If this country wants to go to hell, so be it.”
I completely agree with your sentiments. Quite frankly, if we as a country can no longer go in the direction that Palin would take us, I’m not sure I will continue to give a damn.... I know that I will survive regardless of how far down we go.
However, there are days when I think I would vote for a week old roadkill before I would stand down. I guess I won’t really know with certainly until we get down to the grand finale.
Sarah has it in the bag, if she announces.Then any diatribes against her will be laughed at, scoffed at, and those making them, shall be memorialized by their own infamy.
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