Posted on 11/25/2011 11:24:58 AM PST by presidio9
The most sought-after endorsement of this political cycle will be from a woman who holds no political office and is not currently seeking one. That is why each of the Republican candidates have done the equivalent of kissing Sarah Palin's ring.
RealClearPolitics believes that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has the inside track for getting the Palin endorsement. Of course, reports about what Palin will or will not do is largely conjecture, even if it is sourced from people said to be within the Palin inner circle. Only Palin will know who she intends to endorse and when. Any definitive statement that does not cite her personally as a source should be taken with a grain of salt.
The criteria Palin will use to determine who to endorse will be who will be best for the country, in her judgment, and only secondarily who will be best for her own political fortunes. Palin has some definite ideas about how the United States should be governed, particularly in the suppression of honest graft in the congress and crony capitalism. Whomever is best suited to advance her agenda will get her endorsement.
Not one of the current candidates are perfectly suited for Palin's likely criteria. Romney is too squishy. Perry has been accused of practicing crony capitalism as governor of Texas. Herman Cain, while likely appealing to Palin, has stumbled since the sexual harassment allegations. Gingrich himself has been in politics for decades and
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she did not take her stand against cronyism until after she fire her old adviser. Many of use thought she had matured some in thought. Now if we could get you to move in the same direction. Think about it.
Exactly. I don't think she will endorse any Republican candidate in the primary but will get behind the eventual nominee.
Well, for one, I would care. Endorsements have virtually always been meaningless to me, but in this case, Palin’s would indeed carry weight with me. Not just because her unique brand of conservatism is aligned with mine moreso than any other politician, but also because of the nature of this particular race.
For example, looking at this potential scenario, Romney is a no-go with me. I’ll never vote for him under any circumstance. Then, if I’m stuck with the proposition of Newt/Cain/Perry by the time the primaries come to me, I’m flummoxed. I’m not remotely sold on any of them. They all have some positives and (many!) negatives, in varied areas. It pretty much adds up to a very ‘equal’ level of unenthusiasm for each, in my book. Why even bother to vote in the primary? I might indeed not, if presented with this.
But if Palin comes out and throws her weight behind one of them, yeah, that might very well enough to motivate me to get off the fence. So this could be a very, very rare case in which an endorsement would matter to me.
Rick Perry has a scary face
If Sarah Palin endorses Newt Gingrich I’ll be here on FR watching heads explode all day.
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Recover...to what status? She's done now - been done - regardless of whom she endorses.
What about Gingrich's support for the extremely liberal Dede Scozzafava in the 2009 special election that almost every Conservative, including Palin, endorsed the Conservative party candidate who ended up losing a very close race after Dede Scozzafava dropped out, and endorsed the democrat in the race that surprised no one who knew anything about the race.
Sarah Palin should endorse the Conservative Republican outsider Herman Cain if she cares about her reputation, and influence in the coming years. Cain is exactly what most of the Conservative TEA party said they wanted in a candidate instead of a career establishment politician who are almost all the same, because they are controlled by the establishment who thinks they are going to get the Hispanic vote when they pass amnesty for some ridiculous reason.
They don't seem to know the difference between illegal, and legal Hispanics. Sarah Palin would be better off not endorsing anyone before she would be supporting Gingrich, who was endorsing the liberal Dede Scozzafava while she was endorsing the Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman, along with Fred Thompson in the 2009 New York Congressional special election. Gingrich, along with the log cabin republicans went with the extreme liberal, even for a RINO, in Dede Scozzafava who went on to drop out of the race, and then endorse the democrat candidate who went on to win a close race. For a guy who's suppose to be the smartest candidate of all time, he screwed that race up which only happened in 2009! It wasn't a surprise to any Conservative who knew how liberal this RINO he was endorsing was.
Herman Cain is even heartless, and inhumane on illegal immigration which only means he wants to actually stop it by enforcing our laws, considering anyone with actual ideas that can solve the problem are considered to be these ridiculous words by some people who are nothing but talk on the issue. We are sick of hearing things like “humane”, which reminds Conservatives of “compassionate Conservative”. Those things imply some of the other candidates, and Conservative voters are supporting “inhumane” solutions to illegal immigrations which means anything less than amnesty to the establishment GOP, just like “Compassionate Conservative”, implied most of us were not compassionate; the word just meant liberal in reality.
I don't want another “liberal Conservative” like Bush, whatever the hell that's suppose to be. I guess it fit him though considering he was cutting taxes while his spending was out of control.
If Palin doesn't support Herman Cain, or at least a Conservative candidate like Bachmann her influence, and popularity among Conservatives will drop big time. She said she supported something new in politics, and it makes no sense for her to endorse a guy who's been in politics since the 50’s, and just recently had the big New York special election embarrassment where he put party before principle.
If Palin doesn't endorse Gingrich yet, it's probably only because of his recent illegal immigration garbage that hopefully kills his campaign, but she will probably end up doing it anyway, just a little further down the road. She would be better off not endorsing anyone that Gingrich, Perry, or Romney even though that would rightfully hurt her as well.
Join the Cain Train, and stay aboard through the ridiculous onslaught by the liberal media and Republican establishment, that's always in pursuit with the intent to destroy not only the campaign, but the man himself.
I'm still getting over her support of McCain in 2010.
If Newt picks Sarah Palin as his VP it is likely the only way I would vote for him.
I couldn’t agree more.
Sarah will not be anybody’s VP. The reason she and the TEA party are running silent right now is to deny the state run media the targets it so desperately needs.
Some serious Sun Tzu rules of warfare hands are being played now.
I think she will endorse no one.
I don’t believe she will endorse anyone in the Primary.
Who cares? I never have understood this whole endorsement thing anyway. It is for the weak minded.
Who cares? I never have understood this whole endorsement thing anyway. It is for the weak minded.
Palin will endorse, campaign for and actively support whoever wins the GOP nomination. Period. Even if that person is Romney the chameleon.
So she is only smart if she agrees with you, otherwise she is stupid, right?
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