Posted on 08/25/2011 2:35:30 PM PDT by Hawk720
Even for Sarah Palin, there are deadlines.
The former Alaska governor seems to believe that most of the rules of politics don’t apply to her – that with her media appeal and her grassroots following, she could waltz into the presidential campaign at the 11th hour and make a go of it.
But if she does want to run for president, she’ll have to get on the ballot. Palin has gestured vaguely at various self-imposed deadlines — the latest being late September — but there are some drop-dead dates that she cannot escape, starting with Oct. 31.
That’s the day presidential candidates’ names have to be submitted for inclusion on the primary ballot in Florida. By the next day, candidates have to file for the South Carolina primary ballot – along with a $25,000 fee. And the deadlines for other states come fast and furious after that. It’s $1,000 by Nov. 18 in New Hampshire. On Dec. 5, thousands of signed petitions are due in Illinois.
“It isn’t inconceivable that somebody could get into the race as late as the first or second week in October and manage to get it all done,” provided they knew what they were doing, said Matt Seyfang, a Democratic lawyer who’s handled ballot-access and delegate issues for five presidential campaigns, including Bill Clinton’s 1992 effort — which didn’t get started until October 1991. But any later than that, he said, would probably be impossible.
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Reposting a corrected version of my earlier post to you. Apologies for the error, I’m not too good with cut & paste on my droid just yet (Yes, I’m really blaming the droid):
I can’t speak for JR or really anybody but myself, but there be trolls among us who do more than ordinary disparagement, but engage in vile slander, and these should be the first to go. Disagree with a candidate’s policy, dislike their personality or their voice, wonder openly about their electability, all fair game in civil political discourse. But to insidiously suggest they are systematically and intentionally duping millions of good people, just to make a buck, is defamatory, and in Sarah’s case, against the evidence.
Such unfounded slander has no place in the conservative household, and especially no place on a site that touts itself as the beacon of conservatism on the web. Conservatism is grounded first of all in truth, and second of all in respect for the unalienable rights of our brothers and sisters made in the image of God, the foremost of which is the right to life. A close cousin to that right of life is the right protect one’s reputation from the caustic of life-destroying slander, hence the defamation laws. As conservatives, we all have a right to our opinions, but where our right to speak and another’s right to an honest reputation collide, we should observe that boundary and do as the Founders intended, govern ourselves, and our tongues, lest we prove unable to do so, and another come to govern us against our interest and our will.
But it's so darn fun to toy with the anti-Palin crowd.
So here it is, still in August, and this writer is trying to cobble a story out of absolutely nothing. So October 31 is the first deadline...it's still August!
Has anybody noticed that there are more articles about Sarah Palin than any of the announced candidates combined? Has anybody noticed how Sarah Palin can upstage any event just by being there? Hell, she can park her tour bus in a Wal-Mart parking lot and within an hour, network satellite trucks will have it surrounded. Everybody is obsessed with Sarah Palin!
Third party? No way. She’s actually made statements that strongly suggest she’s eliminated that option. I saw it in an interview. I’d be hard pressed to remember which one it was, I’ve seen so many. But she was pretty clear, no third party, not this go around.
Well even better than that, there’s a theory running around that Rove’s little “hard count to draw her offside” gambit revolves around a candidate as yet not in the race, a secret dark horse. But if she goes in last minute, his whole strategy collapses. Now yes, it’s a highly speculative theory (the dark horse is supposedly Jeb Bush, not even imaginable, IMHO), and there may be nothing to it, but I can definitely see SaraCUda intentionally putting Rove in a squeeze play like that. Despite what her detractors here say, I believe she is skilled at knowing where her advantages are and how best to use them, and as she’s a free agent and calling her own plays, she is radically unpredictable to her opponents. That’s a good thing.
Correct, there need not be any $10,000 a plate rubber chicken dinners for the Palin campaign. Let Romney and Perry hold those. All Palin has to do is launch a donation app on her website and watch the money roll in from the grass roots. A few million people throwing in a few bucks will raise $50m or more in a week or two.
I plan to set up a monthly donation as soon as the website is launched and will keep it going throughout her entire campaign.
That's old news.
Well said. Good info. It could be Jeb, it’s not that unimaginable. The funny thing is Perry looks and sounds more like W than Jeb does in terms of people saying “oh we don’t need another Bush”. I’d take another Bush in a hurry as compared to Obama if course.
Palin 2012.
“of” course typo
Correct. Not Governor Sarah Palin! Where do silly rumors like these start?
The Donald is the only one I know of that has made 3rd Party statements/threats.
Think of Baghdad Bob and make him a Rino.
“Sarah isn’t getting in. She unfortunately missed her window, found her negatives unmanagable and is perfectly content with admonishing the meanies and the galactically stupid 24/7, tutoring the populace and generally stepping on the real candidates efforts to unfold their campaigns. There are fewer and fewer left who appreciate that much, and as another has said, the candidates will squirm if they get her endorsement. Game on is game over.”
There you go again.
I think you know deep in your heart that Gov.Palin will run and it’s terrifying you to no end.You pretty much say the same thing in differing forms on each Palin thread you post on.
No disrespect intended,your obvious conservatism is admirable.
Game On!
re: “I ask Palin’s supporters with a wide open mind: What is she waiting for????”
Any number of things:
Money [She won’t have the $ that cronyism provides the other candidates. Sarah will do it without strings attached and the sooner she gets in the more it will cost];
Trig’s possible health issues/care;
To gauge if there will be enough support and dedication to the restoration-of-America-cause to back her when President [Turning this ship around is going to take the people, not just President Palin].
Those are just 3 things I can think of off the top of my head.
“I ask Palin’s supporters with a wide open mind: What is she waiting for???? “
FYI Reagan didn’t anoounce until November of ‘79.
Answer to your question: For the right time.
Now I have a question for you: Why does a kid keep asking “are we there yet”????
For more heads to explode and more sleepless nights for people who don’t know anything about her true character yet they can’t keep talking about her.
Please site your source: ‘But she has said she will make an important announcement.’
She has not said that.
“Third party? No way. She’s actually made statements that strongly suggest she’s eliminated that option. I saw it in an interview. I’d be hard pressed to remember which one it was, I’ve seen so many. But she was pretty clear, no third party, not this go around.”
The real question is, would the Republican establishment go third party if their candidate loses to Governor Palin in the primary?
Right Sarah never said she’d run 3rd party. Just a thought that makes sense to me since we all know the tactics of the GOP and this year, more than ever, will they be in full force because of Sarah - they are in anyone but Sarah mode. It’s a perfect way to go around them, IMO.
Perhaps not a good idea as we’ve been told but we have never been in this place before with the best candidate to restore our country - and they, vehemently, do not want her but ‘We The People’ do! Just can’t be the same old mindset, adhering to old rules on what’s been considered a no no. And not a good idea because they can’t be assured to get their candidate in.
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