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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:12 pm Post subject: Palin ain't runnin' |
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How will this effect the dynamics of the GOP pick? |
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: Palin ain't runnin' |
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Zackback wrote: |
How will this effect the dynamics of the GOP pick? |
It all depends on how the media plays it. They talked up Perry (excitedly naming him the "frontrunner" only 72 hours after he announced his candidacy) and now he's crashed into the second tier. With no "savior of the establishment" in sight, they may talk up Cain to be the alternative to Romney.
Perry led fundraising for Q3, though half of that was from his home state of Texas and only from 20,000 donors. Next is Romney with $12 million in Q3, though he has personal wealth to draw from. In third is Ron Paul at $8 million for Q3 from more than 100,000 different donors. If the media backs Cain, his poor Q3 fundraising numbers wont matter. If they don't back Cain, Paul's fatter warchest could propel him to be the alternative to Romney. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:46 am Post subject: |
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It won't make a bit of difference. She eliminated her chances the moment she resigned the governorship.
It might however, affect the bottom line of Fox News or whoever pays her to spout her gibberish. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:40 am Post subject: |
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She would have been eliminated by the Islamists if she did. |
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Adventurer

Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:58 am Post subject: |
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She is too much of a liability. The GOP wouldn't support her. The establishment is not too keen on her, I am guessing. She resigned her governorship. There are questions regarding her credibility. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Palin never intended to actually run for President. She would have remained in the Governorship in AK if that were the case. She resigned to make the big money that seemed available then, that might not have been available later. Since then it's been a run for the gold not for the White House, but she'll use the possibility of a Presidential bid if it makes her more marketable.
She's unfit to hold office again, but at least lining her pockets outside of office is more honest than some other recent governors and Presidents have done. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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On a somewhat related topic, was I the only one who caught the thinly veiled way Chris Christie stuck it to Palin and the way she quit her job in Alaska when he announced he would not run for POTUS.
"�The deciding factor was it just did not feel right to me in my gut to leave now, when the job here isn�t finished,� he said. �I have a commitment to New Jersey that I simply will not abandon. That�s the promise that I made to the people of this state when I took office 20 months ago....." |
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