Now I am Convinced Palin is running 2012...Five myths about Sarah Palin

[Peacetrain]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/14/AR2010101404794.html?nav=hcmodule

If this is not a set up for her to run in 2012 by the Post, I do not know what is. Ish Kabbittle what a revolting development that would be.

[WI_DEM]

1. What is this media obsession with Palin? Now she has her own reality show

on Discovery--Sarah Palin's Alaska!!

[Seedersandleechers]

9. Actually it's The Learning Channel

Would that be an oxymoron?

[Clio the Leo]

2. Oh PLEASE let her. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Yeah, worrying the Post would give room to such brownnosing

A riposte here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010150007

I think she will be easily beatable - probably in the Republican primaries as well as the general election. All her opponents can truthfully call her a quitter who put money above service to her state - and thus to her country. Many traditional Republicans aren't at all keen on unpatriotic quitters.

[stevenleser]

4. I agree. She wants to be President, thinks that she can be, and her chances only go downhill after

2012. Fortunately, she has no chance in 2012, but she theoretically could get the nomination in 2012. Not so afterwards.

[Cosmocat]

5. She is going to run - it is a win/win ...

she gets the nomination or actually wins the presidency OR she loses and gets to play the victim card that she loves to play ...

AND, not running back benches her ... She in fact cannot NOT run for that reason ...

The 5 myths are written by some Weekly Standard douchebag - pretty much ensure there is not intelletual honesty ...

NOW, the media will have no problem carrying water for it, but anyone who spews even the first "rationale" or excuse for this twit quitting her governors job halfway through a FIRST friggen term needs to be cracked across the head with a baseball bat ... Sorry, there is no way, no how you can justify someone flat out quitting an elected post like that for no reason other than to make money and generate a cult of personality, then try to say that person should be president ...

NO way, NO how ...

[pnwmom]

7. Not a win/win for us if most of the media continues to back her.

At least half of the country is dumb or deluded enough to vote for her.

[Cosmocat]

13. I would put good money on her imploding ...

in the primary - she won't want to do the hard work, and she is going to have a hard time putting a good staff together because she has burned so many bridges and the high end campaign manager types see that the establishment is not behind her ...

It won't be Guiliani bad, but I think she will come up with some hair brained idea, and the reality is, she has herself buffered completely from any level of scrutiny, but once the field opens up and the race starts, she will have to enter into the open public sphere, and while the media will glam her, she WILL say some stupid A and mean A stuff that they won't be able to buffer - again, in light of the fact that the party establishment is not going to back her ...

[suston96]

6. Sarah Palin should be taken seriously.....

She has no or few qualifications for the job but judging from the midterms just concluded......

...a large segment of the population will be interested in her.

I suggest that we ignore her, but at some risk.

[CakeGrrl]

8. I've said over and over that the MSM would love nothing more, and

anyone on the Left who wants her to run had better get used to nonstop brownnosing and promotion. Don't expect them to expose her complete stupidity and incompetence.

[emulatorloo]

10. "[Myth] 2. Resigning as governor was rash." LOL

I don't see how Palin can get past that she quit halfway through her term. Anybody running against her just has to put up an ad saying:

WHEN THE GOING GOT TOUGH, SARAH PALIN QUIT.

HOW DO WE KNOW SHE WON"T QUIT AGAIN/

[treestar]

11. Have to disagree with them about quitting

There is no way people can take her seriously as President when she did not serve her full term as governor. No matter that there weren't any scandals. It's just not a good thing to have done.

[leftynyc]

12. That was quite the tongue bath

the author gave her. I'd love for her to run and win the nomination - unfortunately, Democrats are not that lucky.

[ampad]

14. If the GOP is serious about getting rid of her

Do you think she will run under the tea party? Oh please let her run under the tea party. I can see her doing this. Her ego is off the chart and she would love nothing more than to give it to the GOP after they "let her down."

While channel surfing I saw the commercial for her new show on TLC. She said that she would rather be out in the wild than being in some stuffy political office. Couple that commercial with the fact that she ran out on the job and you have a great attack ad.

[flamingdem]

15. My concern is that Palin will encourage an independent leaning Repuke to run

like Bloomberg, and with this scenario split the vote for essentially a return to Repuke power.

It's the alternative that many would chose if the MSM keeps the drumbeat against Obama.

[JoePhilly]

16. She is NOT running ...

I know we would LOVE her to run, but she will not.

What she has said is that if no one else runs, then she will. Really? If no one else runs? Hello????

What she WILL do is hold the option open for as long as possible because doing so helps her stay relevant. But, as dumb as she is, even she knows she is not Presidential material. She is MILKING the attention for the money, period. Same as NEWT. Neither has a chance, and neither has any skills that would get them paid, other than "Fox News Contributor".

If she plays this right, she'll never work again. Right wing think tanks will pay her to speak. Fox will help her ghost right another book or two. And she will shut up and support the GOP leaders again.

Write it down. She will not run. And, if she does run, her run will last only minutes so she can quickly jump on the gravy train I describe.

[Cosmocat]

17. Not running hurts her ...

again, she loses, she plays her WELL worn victim, mean old liberal media card ... She wins even if she loses ... Losing further makes her the martyr ...

If she does not run, she loses her cult following ... She gets backbenched for the better part of two years for those people who do run ... She is vulnerable to the next big thing rising out of the presidential, not saying he will, but if a Christie or Rubio type who the R sheeple get all hot and frothy about ...

[JoePhilly]

22. Her only risk to her insane base would be for her to support Romney.

She could support Jeb, Christie, or Rubio and be just fine.

[blue_onyx]

18. I don't think she will either

I do think she enjoys campaigning. Palin, however, doesn't have what it takes to make it through a primary....and she knows it. If she was anointed the nominee, I think she would accept. This is why I think it would be more likely for her to run as a third candidate. She could just go out there and preach to the choir.

[StevieM]

23. I agree that Palin might not run. But I think Gingrich will this time. (eom)

[Arkana]

19. That guy is a Palin-worshipping nut

who wrote a book about how the LIEBRUL MEDIA was trying to destroy her. I wouldn't read into it.

[zulchzulu]

20. The RNC is going to take Palin out by mid-2011 n/t

[golfguru]

21. If Palin runs and wins, the best job available would be that of her

VP because he/she will become president after she resigns half way through her first term, after serving 2 years, citing family needs or whatever comes up.

[StevieM]

24. I am starting to think that the GOP nominee in 2012 will be Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana (eom)