Posted on 07/04/2011 6:54:41 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
I’m sure the list is even longer in reality but these 43 people have some explaining to do if/when Governor Palin runs for the presidency. I have a feeling that these 43 people will just move on to a back-up explanation if/when they are proven wrong.
What’s worse is that many of these 43 people are “objective political analysts,” rather than just bloggers like you and me. I get the sense that many of the “objective political analysts” on this list will face no punishment if/when their assessment on Governor Palin is proven wrong and they will continue to opine on Palin if/when she is in the race.
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43 Beltway Insiders/Pundits: "Palin Won't Run" Career Ending, Egg On Face Statements?
These 43 assorted Beltway insiders, pundits, columnists, talk show hosts, political television show hosts, religious leaders,"progressive" and other bloggers all agree on one subject (or variations thereof) "Sarah Palin won't run for president in 2012."
Some said she shouldn't run "for the good of the GOP" or their preferred alternative candidate. Some allowed for her running "but she has no chance of getting the nomination". And for the tiny minority of these prognosticators who think she actually has a chance of getting the nomination "Reagan Palin has absolutely no chance of defeating President Carter Obama"
In their "objectivity" they have variously described her as running a clown show, a reality TV show, an ego parade, a personal rehabilitation exercise, a narcissistic agenda, a revenge against the media program and other, varied, descriptions of Palin and her motives. These opinions pontificated from their elitist seats at the table of the oracle's temple.
I haven't included the mad "Trig truther" bloggers of course-not crediting them as seers (much less as human beings).The following pundits, linked to their statements so they can't run and hide/deny them, may,shortly, all have egg on their collective faces, damaged, hopefully irreversibly so, reputations, and will have been given a lesson by the master of the new Realpolitik. N.B. If I have left anyone of significance off the list the name/blog and link would be appreciated in the comments section.
Palin Should Not Run/Palin Will Not Run For President/Palin's Role Should Be A Supporter Of The Nominee/Palin Would Not Get The Nomination If She Runs(TBC)/Obama Would Easily Beat Palin (TBC):
Joshua Green (Boston.com)
Taylor Marsh
Hot Air (Patrick Ishmael-Palin’s most likely role in the 2012 cycle would be as a coronator. I still believe that’s basically right.)
Thomas Taschinger
Ace Of Spades; Gabriel Malor "but my money says she's not running " June 26th/11 Newsweek
Dennis DiClaudio
Bill Kristol
Dennis Miller
Robert Paul Reyes
Eugene Robinson
Brit Hume
Bill O'Reilly
David Letterman-Palin's not running, I wish she were, it would be entertaining.
Charles Krauthammer " Showed her power in 2010 as kingmaker and opinion shaper. Must know (I think) she has little chance at the nomination and none in the general election. Why risk it and the inevitable diminishment defeat would bring?. Mitch Daniels has 6-1 chance for nomination/Barbour 7-1.
George Will
David Brooks
Fred Malek
Michael Savage
Karl Rove
John Harwood
Michael Stickings (Moderate Voice)
Dan Karipides
Big Think
Grover Norquist
Franklin Graham
Booman Tribune
Tim Heffernan (Esquire)
Lawrence O'Donnell
Jonathan Capehart
Ann Coulter
Mark McKinnon
John Feehery
Opinion L.A.
Jason Campbell
Joshua Green (The Atlantic)
Jumping In Pools
Kathleen O'Brien (Star-Ledger)
Paul Harris (Guardian U.K.)
Opinion Writings
Ian Stevenson
I think Sept 11 is pretty late in the game....A lot of the money will get off the sidelines by then....I think its too late...IMHO....
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July 4th would have been a perfect ending to her History tour and timed well with the movie etc.....
Palin is running. Take it to the bank. It just isn’t yet the strategic time for her to announce.
“Objectively more signs point to “not running” than running.”
Riiiigggghhhhttttt.............
By announcing later she lets the also-rans duke it out and eliminates them from targeting her. Sound strategery.
Bookmarking link.
It's still a guess so so what.
Its the PDS “She is not running because she is a blank and she won't run because she can't win as all my RINO and Leftist buddies tell me,that get me. Oh and my favorite is,”if she doesn't run she will be no good and all her supporters will have to eat crow.”
Sheesh! Sarah Palin was a key player in the Tea Party Miracle of 2010 and she kept the 2008 GOP ticket from being an embarrassing landslide thus preventing Obama from getting a much bigger mandate.
She has done more than enough for the conservative cause already and all this anti-Palin hate is sickening.
I think your response is the appropriate response to this article.
And, my answers to your first two questions are yes, and yes again.
The only reasonable thing that would keep her out would be if someone she truly trusts declares. Doubt that this will happen.
BTW, I believe her first choice for a running mate just expressed interest in being VP.
Palin/West 2012
Well, anyone would hate to be him, even him.
Stop. Just stop. You’re going about this all wrong. You are using logic and reason along with fact. That will not be tolerated by the PDSers on FR. You have to make emotional arguments with no basis in fact and you have to grasp straws, bake red herring and weave whole cloth. Then they will embrace your boldness in the face of the evil Palinistas ;)
“These 43 People Have Some Explaining to Do If/When Governor Palin Runs”
I would’t care to hear the RINOs explain themselves. I’d be content if they all would just keep their big mouths shut about Gov. Palin.
Can we also have a list of Freepers who say she won’t run :-)?
Took the words out of my mouth, person seems to wish to belong to a state that has edicts instead of free speech.
I think she’s going to run.
Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for President on November 13, 1979.
If she WAS running, July 4th would be a great day to announce. If I was her (I’m not of course) and I was running, today would have been the day.
But its not.
Folks, this is sounding a lot like a rerun of the Fred Thompson experience. He did run ... sort of. But it was not a full-on multi-year massive effort, it as too little too late. Maybe she doesnt have the hankering for that office that say, Mitt Romney, running since god knows when, has. I dont blame her, she been brutally roughed up by the media and more to come if she runs. If she doesnt want it, no explaining needed, but we dont want 4 more years of BHO and we need to know who the field is, so a decision soon either way is welcome.
This is misdirection. Reagan’s official announcement was then, but Reagan was laying the groundwork for years prior, and nomination races have moved earlier since then.
She could wait that long, but there are a hot of reasons why it would make her less viable.
I think Hannity is in her corner too. In the Republican Primary that translates to FIREPOWER.
It would have been incredibly presumptuous to announce on the 4th. I am VERY happy she didn’t do that.
run Sarah run!!! :-D.
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