Posted on 04/27/2011 10:29:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Lets hope someone steps up because Romney, Huck and Newt are an awful bunch and each will lose.....A sitting Gov with balls needs to step up....
I hope she decides to go with it - hate to vote for some dumbocrat but I will NOT hold my nose and vote again. I am going to stand for what I want this time, not just go with the Republican candidate - not happening. If they don’t run who I want this time I wont vote for them. It doesn’t have to be Sarah - but I wont vote for Trump, Romney, Paul, Huckabee. Pawletny etc I will vote for West, Palin, Bachmann, Cain.
Mike, settle down there, pardner. I was going to reply to it as well but then I saw the nick: JustADumbBlonde. I thought that explained everything.
Not very, and I live in Iowa. Especially on the GOP side. If I were Sarah, June would be about right I think.
RE: A sitting Gov with balls needs to step up....
How does Mitch Daniels sound?
I think Sarah Palin could go to Iowa or anywhere else for the weekend and gather more potential voters than any of the other Republicans combined.
She’s not running.
We need her desperately. She has my vote for sure. She is conservative, she is not afraid, she is brave, she is not corrupted by Washington and that is HUGE, She does not play the politician’s game of not taking stands on issues
She will come on strong when it counts. She is married, has 5 children, is a Christian, and is against the health care bill, and spending our nation into oblivion, etc.
Florida trumps iowa
Ah, yes. The old "our Sarah is utterly unique" line.
Thank you for proving my point, sir.
She can not afford to yet make it obvious she is running.
Give the others some time yet to step into the ring.
Meanwhile she will keep building up momentum just in case no good GOP candidate steps up.
And she has to hold on to Fox as long as possible.
Patience, patience!
Romney spent all that time, energy, and money can barely got more than half the votes two guys who entered the fray "late" with no real organization pulled off (these two "outsiders" managed a near majority - 47% - of all votes in a crowded field).
I think all of this early attention to who's running, who's not, and what their "networks" and "organization" are is a bit overblown. Yes, that type of thing helps, but it is no guarantee of success nor is a lack of it at this point fatal to anyone's aspirations.
And honestly, Iowa and New Hampshire may be early "tests", but South Carolina and Florida are more important in the grand scheme of things, because they are larger states and show how well candidates play in solid GOP territory (SC) and a key "swing state" (FL).
Hardly "unique". Huckabee entered late in 2008 as an "unconventional" candidate and pulled off a clear plurality in Iowa, beating Romney who was going by the usual playbook handily.
"Conventional wisdom" is often anything but. At this point in 2007, "conventional wisdom" was that Hillary Clinton would edge out Rudy Guiliani for the Presidency. How'd that election turn out again? The polls and talking heads have such a poor track record at actually predicting how things will go (this far out) that it's amazing anyone takes them even remotely seriously.
The people that will run, will run. Those that won't, won't. Any poll or prediction made today is pretty much worthless.
Iowans need to get over themselves.
End the ethanol bribes and this Iowa caucus stuff will end.
Good case in point is that McCain was an almost forgotten candidate late in 2007 heading in to early 2008. Yet he had organization in and stumped almost every community in South Carolina at very low cost and the effort paid off in a primary win in SC. At least in preidential politics it is never to early to lay the groundwork.
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Like a loser...
She is not running!! Moot question!!!!!
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