Report: Palin to decide on run next week?
posted at 5:16 pm on June 17, 2011 by Allahpundit
So says R.S. McCain, who once co-wrote a book with Lynn Vincent, Palin’s collaborator on “Going Rogue.” Palin’s non-denial denial via Twitter:
Really? Hmm, guess they forgot to inform me what I’m “expected to do” next wk
I figured her announcement would be timed to coincide with the release of “The Undefeated,” which is supposed to premiere in — ta da — Iowa sometime this month. She’s not formally associated with the film but it’s potentially important to her campaign insofar as it’s aimed at winning over voters who aren’t already in her camp. The easiest way to maximize its exposure would be for Palin to unveil her candidacy as it debuts, and since it’s debuting in the most important early primary state, she’d benefit twice over by making a splash with Iowans. Could be that the timeline for the premiere has changed — the filmmaker hasn’t chosen a venue yet, in fact — but if not, then it makes sense that she’d decide soon.
Or maybe I’m way off and she’s not planning to time anything to the film’s release. She did say at the end of her bus tour that she was planning a West Coast tour this summer too, which may mean no announcement until that’s done. If anyone can afford to jump in late, she can, but note Geraghty’s post on how it’s already later in the campaign than you might think. If she runs she’ll rely mainly on small donors, but she’d surely like to enlist some big donors to help keep the campaign moving; the longer she waits, the fewer of them are left. And of course, she has to worry not only about Bachmann’s poll surge (and Herman Cain’s?) but the possible entry of Rick Perry. She still could, and probably would, leapfrog all of them once she’s in, but the more time they have to lock up voters, the harder it’ll be for her to consolidate tea partiers against Romney and/or Pawlenty once she hits the trail.
Exit question: Did Michele Bachmann really mean to suggest that she thinks the field is large enough as is, or is that just The Hill’s spin?
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fossten on June 18, 2011 at 9:23 AM
Yes, that kind of dismissal is disrespect that stems from a level of contempt for his fellow posters. He has proven himself to be nothing but a propagandist.
fossten on June 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM
And that is your opinion. You are entitled to your opinion, and I’m not going to get into it over a simple difference of opinion. We’ve had presidents whom you probably thought were articulate, and utter disasters for the country. That is a verifiable fact.
gryphon202 on June 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM
I watched the Bannon video at the Heritage Foundation, and that’s Sarah in a nutshell. She’s a breath of fresh air, and it’s why so many hate her because, by contrast, she puts so many to shame, and not just the politicians. Those who believe that it’s necessary to lie and cheat to get ahead and have convinced themselves that “everyone does it” are forced to look inward when they see her, a successful, effective, ethical, self-made leader, and find themselves wanting.
About half the Democrats fall into this camp and virtually all of the Democrat leadership and their pundits.
Their push back is to hate her. They need to believe that she’s a liar and a cheater — like them but better at concealing it — and so they will magnify any fault in her, rationalize anything, twist, spin, whatever it takes to bring her down to their level and below.
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 9:45 AM
I’ll try once again -but you guys know this anyway. MacArthur finished the job, but was sufficently smart enough to know when to fall back (1942 Phillipines) to a non-suicidal position -that he might return as he did in Tokyo harbor 1945) to claim absolute victory.
Even Kenny Rogers understands better than you “quitter-ites”
“You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em.”
Dead heroes make lousy leaders.
Don L on June 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM
FWIW, I left a comment a while back stating that I had very much misunderstood a comment you had made (a long time ago) and very much misunderstood the depth and quality of your conservatism.
I always read your comments now and they always add more light to the discussion. You’re a great voice on HA.
hawkdriver on June 18, 2011 at 9:58 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo…
I’ve been predicting an announcement from Sarah in July. She just cannot do this to me! /sarc
As for Bachmann, after her coming to Michigan to hold a meeting with WE TEA Party Patriots, I’ve come to see her as being just a bit too arrogant for my tastes.
DannoJyd on June 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM
That is why the 24,000 email dump was so devastating. I kept hearing the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, this is the Palin we were promised when she was picked to run as McCain’s VP. They go on, not the bitter Palin, yada, yada, yada. Sarah Palin never changed. What they are commenting on, the different Sarah Palin, is all the mud they slinged at her to shape her into the target they could attack, the liberal spin. According to their narrative they had nothing to do with smearing her, and can’t understand current inconsistent phenomena.
If that’s their story, they are at the least derelict in their vocation to report the news, and not interpret the news for viewers. But they aren’t, they are propaganda arms for the Progressives not to be confused with Democrats. After 2010 election all that’s really left of the Democrat party -Is the progressive -left wing. Which Obama claims to be a proud member of the “social justice” crowd. The Democrat Party is in essence the Progressive Party. A smart politician would point this out when they are campaigning. I used to be a Democrat, I don’t even recognize my old party anymore. Apparently they are a bunch of Anglophiles, that want to ape their European counterparts. Except all their Euro counterparts have instituted “Austerity” measures, and have claimed in mass that multiculturalism has failed – Great Britain, France and Germany. This means they can’t adapt to new political landscape, because of their conformist handicap. cslouis for example, states it’s staying focused on message, but it’s just regurgitating group think. It’s past time to clean house in the Senate. The new meme, same as the old meme, don’t trust anyone over 30 kids ;)
Dr Evil on June 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM
I just watched that clip above with Judge Napolitano again.
Sarah was very articulate, very energized, and persuasive.
He asked good questions, and let her answer them.
What a concept.
Brian1972 on June 18, 2011 at 10:18 AM
The funny thing is, no matter how badly MJB and csdeven attempt to hijack threads, or how condescending and downright ugly they are to Conservatives at HA, it has no effect on Sarah Palin, her electoral chances, or the innate goodness and Conservatism of the vast majority of HA posters.
They are engaged in an exercise of unrelenting futility.
kingsjester on June 18, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Yep, the emails that revealed an ethical, hard-working, literate Sarah Palin were a jolt because their pathology led them to believe that something had to be there.
Their denial is a form of mental illness. Most of the press won’t admit that the MSM is biased, much less that they cooperated with the Palin take down, even though the trail is wide open for all to see. As you say, they don’t have to be allied with the Democrats, although some are, it’s enough to be philosophically in tune with them.
The publication of George Orwell’s 1984 was delayed by his socialist publishers until after an important election. Orwell noted that there wasn’t any direct collusion between the publishers and the socialists, but there didn’t need to be: they were all on the same page.
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 11:03 AM
True, and if people would ignore csdeven and toliver and MJBrutus instead of trying to engage people who are absolutely never going to be won over by ANY argument, they would give it up. They’re here to disrupt and fling poo, nothing more.
pseudoforce on June 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM
And exactly how many times was MacArthur and Kenny’s gambler elected to public office?
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 11:32 AM
You do understand that this is what I have been telling you for weeks now right? Glad you’re finally on board!
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 11:33 AM
I’ve been pretty much ignoring your screeds for a long while now. I’m just wondering why no one else does.
pseudoforce on June 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Wow – nailed it with that one!
drunyan8315 on June 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM
On the ham radio bands, we call this QRM. You ignore them and continue running your pileup, and they eventually go away.
“What you resist persists”
Jocundus on June 18, 2011 at 12:02 PM
It doesn’t appear to be the case. You go out of your way to level personal insults quite a bit. Or are you saying you aren’t really ignoring, ignoring?
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Nah, just calling a spammer a spammer. Why don’t you go get your anti-Palin rocks off at DU or DKos? You’d be among more like-minded people there.
I ignore the “substance” (such as it is) of your comments. I’ll still comment from time to time on your obsessive wackiness.
pseudoforce on June 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Why are you back to this? You already agreed that Sarah Palin resigned honorably, and that the perception is the problem, not the reality.
You’re backsliding into the depths, cs. I’m disappointed.
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM
So it isn’t ignoring, ignoring like you suggested. Got it.
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 12:50 PM
“The dog returns to his vomit and the sow to the mud…”
Uncle Sams Nephew on June 18, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Don L insisted that Palin’s resignation wouldn’t be a problem with her election because of MacArthur and the Gambler. The only way one can begin to compare the two would be if they had quit elected office and then been elected again. If that cannot be established then the comment is proof by assertion and deserves no real consideration. I’d like his explanation so I can determine if it has any validity.
Did you neglect to read his comment and my response? It seems you did not read it, or you would have realized why I was “back at it”.
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 12:55 PM
I see SPs resignation close to, say, a fighter pilot bailing out of a crippled plane
only to land safely and return with the latest p-51 with the “Merlin” engine.
Reborn as a more effective ram against the gates of communism.
It’s ironic that, in a sense, the lefty scum had a great part in creating their bane.
Well, HaHa!! to that
we will file that as, Put Paid to the lefty morons
Sonosam on June 18, 2011 at 1:19 PM
I’m repeating myself here, but…. What you’re trying to do is set up a distinction that doesn’t make a difference. There are all sorts of positions in this world, some public, some private, some elected and some not. The bottom line question is: “Did he/she behave honorably?”
Through no fault of her own, Sarah Palin was placed in an impossible position where she and her staff couldn’t function as the state required. Her obligation was to the state. As an honorable public servant, she did the only honorable thing she could do. She resigned, leaving the state free to function again. Unless you can come up with something more honorable than resigning her position for the good of the state, it’s case closed.
You’re not back to, “She’s a quitter,” are you?
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Rumor mill..
“I asked O.P Ditch on his facebook page if he has heard anything at SRLC and he posted this:
O.p. Ditch: I think the rumor is getting stronger, someone said the bus is in town and has been seen.”
C4P
http://opditch.com/
http://www.srlc2010.com/
Viator on June 18, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Apparently, that bit of spin isn’t working with the people of Alaska nor with anyone else. And she didn’t resign solely for the state. She resigned for her family first and foremost. And had I been in her shoes I would have also. One difference between me and her is that I would not have put my family in the position to be exposed to the political corruption that she knew was rife in Alaska. Another difference is that if I did resign, I would never expect the voters to vote for me again. And last, after the experience in Alaska, I would never expose my family to the politics of personal destruction until the kids were grown and gone.
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM
Yep, you’re back to “She’s a quitter.” {sigh}
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM
csdeven, you’re a turkey and she’s an eagle.
Viator on June 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM
Fortunately, Sarah Palin and her family are all more courageous and civic minded than you are.
Thank God someone is willing to step into the breach for everyone else, and stand for what is right.
I hope they all decide to do it again.
Brian1972 on June 18, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Yep,,Hot Air is becoming hopeless…I too skip over most posts especially from csdevan, mjbrutus, petunia, meredith, annoyinglittletwerp, dire straits, knucklehead, hollowpoint, thebluesite,and others whose only point in posting is to thrad hijack and/or annoy… Whether they work for Obama or Romney doesn’t matter, their objective is the same … demoralize and sap Palin supporter’s energy…not going to happen…as they are surely finding out.
CCRWM on June 18, 2011 at 3:44 PM
What is this about?
CCRWM on June 18, 2011 at 3:48 PM
Don’t confuse 2010 with 2011.
Palin did speak at the 2010 conference, not sure about 2011.
Brian1972 on June 18, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Apparently, that bit of spin isn’t working with the people of Alaska nor with anyone else. And she didn’t resign solely for the state. She resigned for her family first and foremost. And had I been in her shoes I would have also. One difference between me and her is that I would not have put my family in the position to be exposed to the political corruption that she knew was rife in Alaska. Another difference is that if I did resign, I would never expect the voters to vote for me again. And last, after the experience in Alaska, I would never expose my family to the politics of personal destruction until the kids were grown and gone.
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM
Shorten this to,
I’m ascared of things that SP isn’t
Sonosam on June 18, 2011 at 5:20 PM
She did quit and all the spin you apply to it is never going to change that fact. She knew Alaska politics was dirty, but she brought her family into it anyway. Then when the enemies she made came after her, she went to her family and asked if they wanted to quit. She got 4 yeahs and a 4ell yeah.
I don’t vote for candidates that break their commitment to me because their family told her too. And you will find most Americans wont either.
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 6:06 PM
csdeven, despite overwhelming evidence that points to SP’s courage and ethics, doesn’t seem to want to give her the benefit of the slightest doubt. cs’s arguments have been here and there and back and forth, and even conciliatory once or twice, but sadly, csdeven has returned to the same Democratic talking point that he or she has been saying in dozens of posts, that Sarah is a quitter.
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 6:08 PM
This is what happens when you run out of arguments – you copy/paste old ones.
BTW csdeven, I didn’t know that you were an Alaskan. I mean, you claim that Palin broke her commitment to YOU – my understanding is that her commitment as governor was to Alaskans.
fossten on June 18, 2011 at 6:44 PM
In Alaska and Wisconsin, among other states, the Democrats try to defeat conservatives and their ideals in the courts because they have not been able to at the ballot box. By doing so, they have “quit” on American democratic values and resorted to chicanery. And when that doesn’t work, the go to thuggery.
drunyan8315 on June 18, 2011 at 6:46 PM
That’s the thing about One Trick ponies; they just have the one trick!
rmel80 on June 18, 2011 at 6:58 PM
One trick ponies that support a candidate who believes in Man made global warming, Cap & Tax, ethanol subsidies, abortion with a $50 co-pay, NRA Lifetime memberships. Or a candidate that believed in these “conservative principles”, and more, before that candidate decided to run for higher office…Kinda like, “I was for it before I was against it”…
Gohawgs on June 18, 2011 at 7:23 PM
That’s a clever way of looking at it. The Democrats have “quit” on the Constitution, ethics, and American exceptionalism. They have embraced socialism, post-modernism, PC, and global government.
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 7:27 PM
Democrat? So let me get this straight…..the truth is called democrat talking points, and your twisting of the facts and reality are the truth? Okay, I get it!! Up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right. That is the progressive mindset. Have fun with that.
You continue to use the same excuses to justify her quitting her governorship. You act as if it was the only choice she had. What she did was pick her family over Alaskans. In her abdication speech, she listed her priorities as faith, family, and Alaska in that order. You can argue about what she really meant, which seems to be the MO with lots of Palin supporters, but you cannot ignore the words. She put it to a vote for her family to make, NOT the voters of Alaska. She was elected by 114,000 people. Yet she let 5 decide what was best for them.
Her record is her record, her behaviors are hers to accept the consequences for. She now has a record of bailing on the people who vote for her in favor of what is best for her family. No thanks.
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 7:44 PM
Let me get this straight. She conducted a cute poll of her children to see how they felt about her resigning to move into a new direction. They supported her, as could be expected, and you claim that this children’s poll was the reason she deciding to resign from a job she loved, but was unable to do because of what she accurately described as “blood sport?”
Jesus H. Christ, what an incredible stretch. And have you considered for the few seconds it should take to come to the proper conclusion, that instead of retiring to family life, she went straight from the Governorship into a hornets nest of speeches, campaigns and fundraisers that made her a national figure and helped elect the Republican wave in 2010, wrote articles that changed law, and is now close to running for POTUS, which she may well win? Are those the acts of a “quitter”?
Please. It’s over. Case closed.
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 8:35 PM
Take a few moments and watch her abdication video. She states clearly that the family was unanimous and it was the “4ell yeah” sealed it.
For a Palin supporter, you certainly don’t pay attention to her very well.
Case closed.
csdeven on June 18, 2011 at 9:24 PM
It must be true, the Mitt supporter says so…
Gohawgs on June 18, 2011 at 9:51 PM
I did watch her resignation speech, just before I wrote my last reply. You misrepresent what happened. To claim that her kids caused her to resign, just because she asked them how they felt, and pretend that it was anything except a mother getting her kids to buy in to her next course of action, is absurd.
It’s not even a serious question. I’ve heard some whacked reasons for resigning from the left: for the money, because she lost the legislature, because she couldn’t get any of her new laws to pass, because she was bored after the big stage, because she wanted to run for higher office, etc. but this is the nuttiest.
Did you know that Obama asked his kids if they wouldn’t mind him having one term as President, and they said yes? According to your logic, it means that Obama isn’t going to run in 2012. I guess we’ll have to see, huh?
Aardvark on June 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM
As soon as she announces the film becomes a political campaign contribution. It’d not be wise for her to announce for another month, at least.
{^_^}
herself on June 19, 2011 at 12:40 AM
So you don’t believe her own words and thank is your prerogative. I believe what she said. The fact is the decision was hers to make and not her families. The commitment one makes when they voluntarily seek office is to the voters. If the job gets too tough and a person must resigned to save their family, well that’s fine. But don’t expect anyone to give you another chance to underestimate the difficulty of exposing ones family to the public spotlight.
csdeven on June 19, 2011 at 9:18 AM
And this is another curious comment. Why do you Palin supporters compare her to the scummiest politicians around? You guys have compared her to Weiner, Obama, Biden, and every other Marxist traitor.
It is stuff like that which confirms the skepticism people have concerning Palins ability to be POTUS.
csdeven on June 19, 2011 at 9:21 AM
They’re not discussing her resignation. You are. Everyone else has moved on, and you’re trying to move the discussion back.
If you don’t perceive that, you’re delusional. More likely, you’re ignoring that so you can try to make it all about the resignation again.
tom on June 19, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Yes, well he didn’t resign his commission did he?
And he went back to the Phillipines, right?
Maybe Palin should then go back to Alaska and run for governor again.
And finish rhe term this time.
Dreadnought on June 19, 2011 at 1:53 PM
old news…….
unseen on June 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM
I would rather see Sara Palin as a Senator for a longer stay vs. POTUS. She could do more good there and straighten out those Senators. What fun that would be.
mixplix on June 19, 2011 at 7:48 PM
She got ‘em twice during the time of her East Coast tour (the Paul Revere dust-up & the email brouhaha) and even managed to somehow get herself attacked for having too big a flag! God . . . someone prove me wrong — that had to be a set-up! “Your flag is too big, you . . . you . . . American patriot!”
Now, she has the very-soon-to-be ex-NY Times Executive Editor, Bill Keller, writing an entire NY Times Magazine screed describing in detail why he and the liberal press hate her, thus proving once and for all what we’ve been saying for years . . .
Here was his confession number one, right there in the first graf of the article:
That, I remind you, he asserts a mere 10 days after Keeler and his “newspaper” actually published a thuggish public appeal, seeking to publicly gin up a mob of crazed progressive creatures, by enlisting their help in reading through 13,000 of her past emails from her term as Governor of Alaska, the whole load of which the NYT was about to post on-line, en masse and completely unvetted. It was a desperate, and as we now know, a stillborn bid to dig through all of her communications with her staff and family from back then, looking for even the slightest hint of controversy!
Yet here he is, the primary perpetrator of what can only be called a contemptibly un-American act, a mere 10 days later, now literally spitting and bawling in righteous indignation because she refers to them as the “lame stream media!”
It is just beyond belief.
Trochilus on June 19, 2011 at 9:12 PM
Here was the link to Keller’s screed.
Trochilus on June 19, 2011 at 9:37 PM
Clearly it’s time to stop reading/commenting at HotAir. If they would at least maintain even a thin veneer of integrity, and go ahead and post about all those scandals produced from within Gov. Palin’s official emails I might feel differently. Well then they have proven themselves unable …
What?
No way. It’s impossible, IMPOSSIBLE, I tell you, for a politician elected to high state office to actually be what they “pretend” to be. It is well established fact that you can’t become a governor without being a slime-bucket who just knows how to hide it well. You cannot tell me that this “quitter” truly has character, integrity, values, principles, and acts from conscience.
That’s … that’s …
Freelancer on June 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Sarah Palin is precisely the strong leader that a majority of Americans want to lead our country, at this time, in history. She is an amazing woman, with steadfast core values and a credible knowledge of our fiscal problems, as well as our disordered social problems. I am hoping that she announces soon. Since Cain and Perry blew it by not signing the Pro-life Pledge and Romney and many others are RINOS, through-and-through, she has a major shot, at winning the nomination and this election!
sinsing on June 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM
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