Did it ever occur to you those who supported Palin wouldn’t support Perry anyway? If you read the conversation here you’ll see most are supporting Cain. He’s most like Palin in his philosophy, conservatism & outsider status but with boatloads of executive experience. And do you honestly think a few posters on FR are responsible for his drop in the polls? Perry fell because of his horrid debate performance, his stumbling all over his words, and having policies people don’t like. I don’t like being called heartless because I have a different opinion on illegal aliens. And I don’t like that he broke a promise to his state and has never given an explanation why. Maybe you’re a little too obsessed with Perry. Considering how horrid he’s been in all three debates I’d be worried about him debating 0bama. No candidate has lost anything by people waiting for Palin. There hasn’t been one vote yet and it would be no different than if we’d supported someone who dropped (or will be dropping out). If you think about it, those supporting some candidates right now will be supporting them longer than the people who waited for Palin.
Cindie
Well said~
Your right that Perry was not good in the debates so far and truly bungled the most recent one, but I do think many Palin supporters were so convinced she was running that they felt they were championing her cause by tearing down the other candidates. So I disagree with you that none of the candidates have lost anything by Palin dragging out this announcement.
I think some realism is going to begin setting in. We seem to have 3 candidates at the moment that are in contention - Romney, Perry and Cain. Romney is such a flip flopper that it is hard to tell what he is other than a power hungry politician. If he wins he'd be largely beholden to the Republican party, but we don't get a real conservative (unless he's been hiding how conservative he actually really is all along). Perry is mostly a conservative with a few glaring flaws. His biggest problem is he appears to be a poor communicator. Cain is a real conservative, but I think it won't be long before the electability issue sets in and people rethink supporting him. It's really time to rationally discuss Perry and Cain and maybe some of the others and see if we can prevent Romney from winning the nomination. The days of the Palin folks sitting on the sidelines taking shots at ALL the other candidates really ends now.
If Herb Cain is the guy, great! He hasn't convinced me yet, and he's not at all experienced, but since he is up in the polls, the next debate should be interesting, since he will likely get many of the attacks from Bachman, Santorum, and the other Romney sycophants. I wish Herb well, but I'm uncertain if he has the political bona fides to actually pull off the nomination over Romeny. I do realize that you, and other Palin supporters, cannot possibly support Perry at this point, based on the Gardisil/heartless/crony capitalism attacks by Bachmann, Palin, and other.
Oh, and Palin is now just a member of the media, right?