Palin declines a presidential run

Post Reply New Topic

I suspected this from the beginning.

She had a chance to be taken seriously years ago, but she blew her chance with gaffes and silly hockey mom anecdotes. Her attempts of being folksy were intrepreted as being simplistic or even stupid. Not that she had depth.

The GOP field has filled up with various candidates (esp. for Tea Party supporters), leaving less room for her than there seemed to be in 2008.

If she did decide to run, it would be impossible to organize and fundraise in such a short time.

Politics changes a lot in a few years. Most in 2008 saw her as a strong 2012 candidate. In 2010, she was seen as one of the only candidates who could stand up to Romney.

Now, she's faded away.

She really should stay home and look after her children. Keep them out of mischief.

Good. I wonder who she will endorse, that would be a huge get for whoever receives it.

Not really her negatives are incredibly high.

Whats you're real problem with this lady?

She likes hockey?

True, but her negatives with who? If you're running on say a religious conservative platform, an endorsement from someone who's hated by gays and liberals is a double plus, to use but one obvious example. I've always internally referred to strategic offensiveness as "Marylin Manson Marketing", i.e. pissing off people who would never go for you in the first place but are also hated by people who might go for you. In that case, a heavy metal rock band rightly figured that Christians were never going to buy their product anyway, so why not bait them into attacking the band in public and providing both free advertising and enhanced credibility with their intended audience? I know if I were running as a Republican I'd take her endorsement in a heartbeat negatives and all, because a good chunk of her negatives are people I'd want pissed off at me if that's the platform I were using.

Her negatives amongst independents and moderates are irrelevant when it comes to the GOP primary.

Well, if it isn't handling poisonous snakes, it might be those Rorschach photocopies.

Then, all those disgusting groupies appearing whenever a few fresh supporters are
exposed to the open air, would instill a major problem with any such pile.

Tadzio

I always associated Palin with the religious right, but Perry and Bachmann have stolen all of her thunder. Bachmann is really tanking in the polls, and Perry is in hot water over the name of his hunting camp.

So it's down to Mitt Romney and Herman Cain, and maybe Ron Paul.

Well it has been said that if she did run for President that she would be "shooting herself in the foot". This is mostly true because she is making millions off of book royalties and speaking fees. Why give it all up for the President's salary?

Quite so. And liberals are counting on the republican base to select an absurd candidate.

But Palin is only saying this because she's jealous of all the attention Governor Christie has been getting.

Jon Stewart's clip on this last night was pretty good. In his "Take the Money and Don't Run" segment, he pointed out that she was asking for campaign donations as recently as 2 weeks ago, but had actually decided back in June that she would not be running. Hmm, I wonder if she'll be returning those donations...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/0 ... 99738.html