Sarah should be encouraged to run.

[kentuck]

She could get enough votes to divide the Republican Party and Barack Obama could pull a Clinton and win the election with less than 50%.

Hey! It's an idea! Let's pull for Sarah to get in the race as an Independent Tea Party candidate.

Whaddya think?

[livetohike]

1. I'm sick of seeing her, hearing her voice and the drooling

idiots on tv who think she is hot.

So I guess my vote is for her to disappear.

[Rex]

2. If we could get her on the ticket, she would take away Perry votes!

Good idea kentuck! They would be divided and that is what we need the most in 2012.

[pretzel4gore]

14. remember George Wallace..

another of those 'devilish details' that the newsmedia carefully manages in order to hide the results. In 1968 Wallace was the real thing, a hard core white supremeist with massive popular support (the 70's song 'sweet home alabama' was about Gov Wallace) who almost certainly deny nixon the WHouse- and that was after mister pig had just murdered ML King and RFK!... so the 1968 election was a pivot history would have turned on. The Wallace shooting crippled Gov Wallace and removed him from the poll, which nixon then won handily (though nixon himself was already being set up for watergate etc)..the important thing was the JFK murder, or ongoing government coup, was old news, and we all moved along, as told to by the pohlice....nothing to see etc

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I Don't Understand

In 1972 Nixon got most of the Wallace votes and won in a landslide. Rememember the "Southern Strategy." Without Wallace on the ticket in 68 Nixon would have won by a much larger margin.

[pretzel4gore]

24. yes...Wallace shot in '72

the 'southern strategy' was effective and incorporated Wallace's effect. I mixed up the two nixon prez terms. Sorry. Nevertheless, you can be sure the rightwingers trying to unseat Obama aren't above thinking about using firepower to get them... whatever

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. A Right Of Center Third Party Would Be A God Send To "Us"

If the economy continues to suck I don't see Obama winning a two person race. I used to think Perry presidency was unfathomable but if the economy continues to suck even a Perry presidency is fathomable.

Reelection races are referendums on the incumbents.

[Rex]

20. Thank you, I love history.

Yeah the assassination of JFK and his brother imo were the pivotal points for that generation. Sadly, we all moved on (just like 9/11), because we were told it is better NOT to ask too many questions. :eyes:

[Broderick]

3. Would be a nice 3rd party addition

Split the vote. Ross Perot redux!

[wuushew]

4. Why? Bachman is already in the race

The religious right has what it wants in a younger more vocally coherrent package.

[Rex]

6. True, but a third idiot couldn't hurt! I would weaken their chances.

IMO.

[MH1]

5. I like her as a 3rd party candidate. A lot.

:evilgrin:

[tridim]

7. I think that's her plan.

Especially if Mittens gets the nomination.

[Exilednight]

8. The only way Obama is going to win re-election is if there are three people in this race and one of

the three is a Ross Perot type candidate that takes votes away from the Republican nominee.

I can only see Sarah entering the race if someone like Romney wins the Republican nomination.

[Motown_Johnny]

9. Her or Ron Paul. I don't think she will do it even as 3rd party

She knows now that she can't answer even one debate question in an intelligent manner


She got away with one VP debate but just barely.



I think Paul is the better choice because he actually thinks he can make sense.

[treestar]

10. Sounds just like the phantom primary challenger

Interesting that is often advocated here yet in this instance, we see the harm.

[sufrommich]

11. Yep. nt

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[calimary]

13. But Dear God, my ears!!!

She was just squawking some outdoor speech on CNN, and I tell you, it was seriously painful to listen to. OUCH!!!! She's better suited for a job as the AFLAC (?) duck.

[MineralMan]

15. Maybe she'll run against Obama in the primaries. Nobody else

seems inclined to do so. If she did, that would probably satisfy everyone, I think. :shrug:

[WI_DEM]

16. only if she runs as an independent.

[hexola]

17. I think it was more of an announcement that she is NOT running...

After she said "here's my plan..."

She said "You dont need a title to..."

PALIN NOT IN

[Andy823]

23. I agree

If she can't pull in bigger crowds than this one, if over 75% or republicans DON'T want her to run, if Rove and the gang keep going after her and making her mad, and if fox news is not going to giver her coverage like I hear the did "NOT" do today, it's highly unlikely that she will jump in the republican primary race, and also highly unlikely she would run as an independent who would get a very very small number of votes which would make her pretty much a two time loser, and hit her where it hurts the most, her huge fees to speak, or should I say "squawk"!

[MilesColtrane]

26. The main reason she won't run is that nobody will pay for it.

She's not about to spend her own money or go into debt to run a campaign.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59021.html

The former Alaska governor's burn rate for the six months appears to have been almost 100 percent, meaning she spent almost what she raised. She doesn't appear to be refueling her coffers with fundraisers, or using the PAC to build an infrastructure.

The figure she raised, just over $1.6 million, is dwarfed by others in the field - and while Michele Bachmann won't release hers until tomorrow, it's expected to be far larger, and raised in just three weeks.

It's also not that Palin didn't attempt to raise money - her "One Nation" bus tour served as something of a rallying point for her supporters, and she did send fundraising emails.

-snip-

...with the time frame she established just last night for establishing a candidacy drawing close, her filing doesn't give much indication that she is as yet working toward a campaign.

[hexola]

19. It all sounded like the liberal politics of the late 60s and early 70s

All that anti-establishment/anti corporate stuff sound more like Archie Bunkers son-in-law Meathead than conservatism...weird!

[gulliver]

21. She may be running for Vice President

A lot fewer debates, more time to make money on the way, easier job, stepping stone to the presidency. Also, it's a do-over for a very humiliating experience for her.

Palin may realize she has no chance to win a GOP primary, and losing would finish her off, politically and as a media phenomenon. If she hangs back and flirts, she can be on the short list for VP.

[Gregorian]

22. I think Americans need to move to the left without the threat of a Palin.

Hell, our left is to the right of the Tories.