Good Thing I'm Not The Kind Of Guy Who Says...

[Lord Jim]

I told you so...

Sarah Palin not running for president

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin announced Wednesday evening that she would not be running for president in 2012.

On the Mark Levin radio show Wednesday evening, Palin said she believed she would have more impact outside of the race. The decision ends over a year of speculation about the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee’s plans.

“Not being a candidate, really you are unshackled and you’re able to be even more active,” she told Levin. “I need to be able to say what I want to say.”

Palin is still a huge star, but she has steadily sunk in polls since the 2008 campaign. If she ran and fared poorly, it would only diminish her influence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... _blog.html

Ahem...

Let's go to the tape:

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:23 am

Sarah Palin is certainly "acting" like someone running for President, but I am convinced that "acting" is operative word here. It's the best way for her to keep the cash register ringing....

I think she'll pretend that she's running right up until the moment she would actually have to throw her hat in the ring and then beg off....

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Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:37 am

I remain convinced that Palin is not going to run for the nomination; (if she did she would lose and lose badly) that's nothing but a 'shroom dream of the left.

What Palin is doing now fits quite well with what I predicted; that she would go through a lot of motions to act like she was going run to improve the market and brand value of Palin Inc.

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:39 pm

The money is one major reason Palin won't run, the other is she knows that if she tried to get the nomination she'd get her ass kicked, and that would greatly diminish her "mystique" with her fans....

I agree with Lawrence O'Donnell, (now there's a phrase I don't write very frequently) that she'll act like she's going to run right up to the moment that she has to actually jump in and then not pull the trigger...The way he put it was that "she's running for billionaire"...I agree...

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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:13 am

As I've said before, I don't believe there's a snowball's chance in hell that Palin will actually run, though she will act like she is right up to the last possible moment to milk every available dollar out of the free press the speculation generates.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:42 am

Steve will be elected President of Optimists International before Palin is the Republican Nominee for President of the US.

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It took me a while to get this post together...

I had to do all the typing and copying and pasting with one hand ....

I dislocated a shoulder patting myself on the back....

[Gob]

IOn the Mark Levin radio show Wednesday evening, Palin said she believed she would have more impact outside of the race.

"More impact"? I wonder what she means by that?

[The Hen]

She is going to be the race umpire and declare the race nul and void!

The woman is fooling herself if she thinks that when there is a race on, she can have more impact by NOT being in it.

I reckon the US can now breathe a sigh of relief that such a brain-dead potential candidate has realized she is wasting her own time.

[Lord Jim]

"More impact"? I wonder what she means by that?

Even Palin must realize that is pure BS...she knows that as the country focuses more and more on the candidates and eventually the nominee her relevance to the debate becomes less not more...

It's nothing but a cynical rationalization for her doing what was in her own best interest...

I saw a poll a couple of days ago showing that more than 60% of GOP voters were opposed to her getting in the race; recently she's been running in the low single digits as a nominee choice....

As I've said all along, (as the record clearly indicates... ) if she got in the race she'd get her ass kicked.

[Scooter]

Good thing those of us who saw her for what she is years ago aren't the kind to say I told you so to those who were actually stupid enough to vote to put her into the position to become POTUS had the stress of the job turned out to be too much for an old man to bear.

[dgs49]

Oh, puleeeeeeeze,

Is there anyone in the whole world with a three digit IQ who actually thought she would run?

Pat yourself on the back?

Jesus.

[Lord Jim]

Is there anyone in the whole world with a three digit IQ who actually thought she would run?

I wasn't writing those posts for the hell of it Dave...

If you follow those links and look at the threads they are in, you will find that yes indeed, there were people who thought she was going to run....

There were also a number of pundits who believed she would.

[liberty]

IOn the Mark Levin radio show Wednesday evening, Palin said she believed she would have more impact outside of the race.

"More impact"? I wonder what she means by that?

I suspect it is pay back. I think behind that pretty face is mind that wants revenge against her democrat liberal enemies. If she campaigns she can persuade her supporters to vote for the republican. This is just extra ammunition for the Republicans and there is nothing the Democrats can do to counter her; the more they attack her the more support she will have. She has a better chance to get a republican elected than she does getting herself elected and she can make some money in the process..

It would have been better for the Democrats if she had run.

[Gob]

If you follow those links and look at the threads they are in, you will find that yes indeed, there were people who thought she was going to run....

I remember a lot of us hoping she would run Jim....

[Sue U]

This just clears the way for her to take the VP spot for Bachmann.

Or better yet, for Herman Cain! The GOP can save a lot of money by re-using old campaign materials!

McCain/Palin!!!!11!!!1!!!11!!!!!

[Lord Jim]

I remember a lot of us hoping she would run Jim....

Yes, just as I said:

that's nothing but a 'shroom dream of the left.

And btw Dave, I not only said Palin wouldn't run, but for at least the past 10 months here, (and if I could access the archive of the CSB, I could show that it was even longer) I've said that she would act like she was going to run right up to the last possible moment...

So I believe my back patting is entirely justified....

[Lord Jim]

McCain/Palin!!!!11!!!1!!!11!!!!!

[dales]

IMHO...any American voter who prefers the status quo will pull the lever or contact the touch-screen for the R or D candidate come voting time.

Addendumb: as it is now, there is not a single person who I will be voting for, I will keep my options open and when the time comes, be voting for the individual who aligns closest with my core beliefs.

[loCAtek]

Just in case, anyone needed any more persuading;

The Documentary Palin Will Hate

In-your-face documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield turns his uncompromising lens on the former Alaska governor in ‘Sarah Palin: You Betcha!,’ opening Friday. He talks to Marlow Stern about his subject, Joe McGinniss’s Palin biography, and the Palin rumors too hot to include in the film.

The Frommer’s travel guidebook on Alaska describes the city of Wasilla as “the worst kind of suburban sprawl of highway-fronting shopping malls and gravel lots.” With a population of about 8,000, it’s also filled with an abundance of churches and, oddly enough, has the distinction of being the state meth capital despite its citywide ban on strip clubs. But in Nick Broomfield’s new documentary, Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, the city more closely resembles Twin Peaks, with its most popular resident, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, serving the role of the malefic Killer BOB, having brainwashed her former constituents into believing she’s someone worthy of their undying admiration.

...

“I kind of like Sarah Palin for doing cocaine and sleeping with Glen Rice. It makes her kind of human and wonderful,” said Broomfield with a chuckle. “Of course I heard stories about her and Todd taking drugs and a lot of stories about her temper as a mother, but I didn’t really feel like that was part of my remit. Who hasn’t done drugs at some point or another? If you’re going to bring somebody down, I would bring somebody down for other reasons.”

“Her irrational way of dealing with people, and the way she gets rid of people and makes them enemies, should have people thinking twice,” said Broomfield.

...

While it’s looking incredibly unlikely that Palin will jump into the 2012 race, Broomfield said he still believes she’s a “kingmaker” within the Tea Party, and recent polls still have her in the mix behind GOP presidential hopefuls Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. Despite her reality TV-diminished clout, Broomfield is more fearful of what Palin—and the Tea Party—represent in American politics, and what that means for this country’s future.

“The Rick Perrys and the Sarah Palins have created this romantic fiction of a piece of American history that never existed that people have bought into,” said a fired-up Broomfield. “Until the liberals come up with their own equivalent, and come up with their own heroes, and actually have the balls to stand up and argue their beliefs in a consistent way in terms of a larger political framework, the Perrys, Bachmanns, and Palins are going to be very powerful, and I think the country will go into a very dark period—both within the country, in terms of the dwindling middle class, and the world stage.”

[Andrew D]

The salient point of this thread:

Good thing those of us who saw her for what she is years ago aren't the kind to say I told you so to those who were actually stupid enough to vote to put her into the position to become POTUS had the stress of the job turned out to be too much for an old man to bear.

[BoSoxGal]

Looks like Rubio's a big fat liar. Maybe not such a good VP pick?

[Lord Jim]

I assume you're talking about this silly BS about exactly when his parents fled Cuba?

So they left Cuba two years before Castro came to power. It's not like Cuba wasn't already in upheaval and Castro coming to power wasn't a real possibility.

In the two commercials I saw, (MSNBC has really tried to puff this up; it plays well to their lefty audience) he doesn't even mention a date; he just refers to his parents as "Cuban exiles".,,

So? If they stayed out of Cuba because they didn't want to go back and live under Castro's totalitarian dictatorship they qualify as "Cuban exiles" in my book, and I'm sure most people will see it that way. I think the political traction value of this for the Democrats is exactly zero. It just looks petty.

I actually see two very positive things with this. First, even though it's trivial, and doesn't amount to a fart in fish bowl, it's still always best to have anything that could create a distraction come out early, (frankly I'm a little surprised that the MSM came out with this so soon; I would have thought they would have preferred to spring it during the GOP convention, when it might do the most for their candidate, Obama)

The second positive thing is that if after all the digging that's been done on Rubio this is the best they can come up with, he's in great shape.

[BoSoxGal]

The story I heard was a bit more extensive than that, and involved recently redacting his official website to remove past significant factual inaccuracies.

But, your mind's made up, so I'll not waste my breath - I will just sit back and enjoy the show.

[rubato]

Looks like Rubio's a big fat liar. Maybe not such a good VP pick?

More like a job requirement:

Palin: "So I said thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere."

yrs,
rubato