Why Sarah Palin Needs To Run For President In 2012
While always open to the idea of one day supporting Sarah Palin for President, since 2008, I've gone back and forth on whether or not I thought it was smart for her to run next year. Re-visiting my thoughts yesterday, what with Palin's appearance in Iowa, not only am I convinced she should run, she needs to run and, regardless of one's preferred candidate, all Conservatives should encourage her to run and welcome her into the race, assuming she does.
Put aside the purely Republican primary politics of it for a moment. Also, I'm not endorsing her, or anyone at this point. But what happened in Iowa yesterday was electric, not just for any Palin faithful, but for many Conservatives and especially the media. For better, or worse, Sarah Palin has star power – whatever that is. But she does have it; that's for sure.
TRENDING: Palin swarmed at Iowa State Fair
Palin has two critical qualities, unique in that they combine in her. Beholden to no one, without fear, or restraint, Palin articulates today's conservatism in a prudent, positive and cogent manner. More than that, the media, while much of it both loves and hates her, conveys her message to an audience far more broadly than they do for any other contemporary politician. I suspect, no matter who ultimately secures the 2012 Republican nomination, that will always be the case.
We are at a pivotal time in our American history. The future of this great nation is at stake as two competing ideologies prepare to go head-to-head in electoral competition come November 2012. It is absolutely critical for a genuine conservative voice to be heard and heard as widely across America as is possible. Whether you support, or ultimately vote for Sarah Palin, or not, I would encourage my fellow conservatives to think in these terms.
With no intention of demeaning a potential Palin candidacy, nor suggesting that the only purpose she could serve is as a conservative spokesperson, of sorts, – I do believe she would be a viable candidate – that she can play such a critical roll at such a crucial time in American politics is a fact not to be ignored by any conservative.
If you believe in conservatism and that it can win national elections in America, as I do, Sarah Palin's abilities to both speak out fearlessly and plainly for conservatism, while generating increased media interest in, not just herself, but the other candidates and the primary as a whole, would be of significant benefit for all on the Right. As we prepare to campaign and politically fight for the future of America in November of 2012, as things stand today, because of that, we should all encourage her to run and welcome her into the race if she does … for that reason alone, if no other right now.
After watching the Iowa Debate, all I can say is that the Republican field needs to be reinvigorated. All of the candidates have lost focus–in her short interview with Hannity she showed that she had more energy and fight than the rest of them put together.
I am a Palin supporter, so indeed I may be biased. However, win or lose her entry into the race could only be a good thing.
“Conservatives should encourage her to run and welcome her into the race, assuming she does.”
100% agree.
All to the good.
Palin’s appearance on Hannity’s Fox show last night was stunning. Video at C4P.
Wow.
I still would rather have her as VP. Simply because I am not sure the country is ready for a female president. My 15 YO son just said the same to me last night. We live in a hugely diverse area(people from all over the world live in Sugar Land) and he just said,”Mom I just don’t think some of those cultures especially from the middle east will respect a woman president.” I said not even one who hunts and dresses her own wild game? He said no they are just not wired to accept or respect any woman in position of power. That’s why I think Palin as VP first may start changing some attitudes and her display on the world wide stage may change some views.
Perry/Palin 2012
Because Perry is educable. He will change course when he hears from the people, unlike our current disaster in chief. Plus, Air Force!
Although almost anyone would get more respect than our current president
Two words, TexasMom…
Maggie Thatcher.
But, we could go on…
Angela Merkle,
Golda Meier,
Jean Kirkpatrick
Sarah captures the same power that 20 steadfast Tea Party congressmen held during the recent debt ceiling debacle. She defies the establishment mathematics while the establishment and its stooges keeps dishing out the “logic”.
Do we really need to hear about how the Republicans “won” in that debacle because although Republicans only control 1/2 of 1/3 of the government, that lame compromise was a first step victory on the way to bigger victories? If that is true, how did 20 Tea Party congressmen stand the government on its head? Had the GOP run with the Tea Party and insisted on CC&B, we would have won!
Same with Sarah. If you now decide to back her, it can’t be with that gutless spirit of compromise that always snatches defeat out of the jaws of victory. If you are going to be a “movement conservatives”, you are in it fighting for every inch at all times. This time you mean it? Is that what you are saying Dan?
I can’t believe how many “conservatives” completely caved during the debt ceiling debacle.
“Because Perry is educable. He will change course when he hears from the people, unlike our current disaster in chief.”
Really?
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/25/277846/rick-perry-still-supports-the-dream-act-to-punish-kids-for-parents-actions-is-not-what-america-has-always-been-about/
Bush redux. Another bible-thumping, pro-amnesty liberal from Texas. How many times are we going to get taken in by liberals in cowboy hats?
Philly, are you really quoting from Thunk Progressive…????
REALLY, Philly???
If you don’t like that,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/jun/19/picket-does-gop-want-perrys-dream-act-too/
I can produce 100 links on the same subject saying the exact same things. Do you want to see them? How many sources do you need to be convinced that water is wet? Is this one of those “science by consensus things” Raggie? Texas + Republican = Conservative? Yeah, just what we need, another liberal Texan for president. It really would have helped if more Texas “conservatives” than Californian had voted against the Boehner compromise. I guess California IS more conservative than you drug store cowboys?
“I guess California IS more conservative than you drug store cowboys?”
Boy, Filly, the wheels flew off REAL fast that time.
How’s Gov. Moonbeam v.2.o workin’ fer ya…???
Wanna compare job creation, Filly…???
Are you lovin’ your new Collectivist congresscritter from Pasadena…???
But, to get past your BULLSPIT and back to substance, Perry HAD to do some damn thing. Consider–
1. he did not create “anchor babies”
2. they are here
3. under current law, they ARE citizens of the U.S….and therefore Texans if they live here
4. if they came here as illegal alien kids, they ARE here, and Texas cannot expel them en mass
5. is it better to educate them, or have them running the streets, given the above?
6. what is your alternative?
It’s not a dance. It’s not a game. And f*ck those who treat it as such. Really. I ain’t backing down.
BACHMANN OR NOTHING.
If I hear the word compromise one more freakin time? Sarah’s coy vacillation/gamesmanship/three card monty/media-network contract. Should have ALL taken a back seat to any candidacy. They did not. I’m through.
BACHMANN OR NOTHING.
It’s the titanium stupid.
The past three winning Presidential candidates have won on their first try.
Palin has already lost one Presidential race.
She had her shot and blew it.
Today’s affirmation that barfa is alive…
and lying.
Any word on if the Grifter actually showed up for jury duty?
Holy ambiguity, Scatman…
are we talking $60,000-a-plate Pres. Holiday…???
Imagine all those white trash kids and their bastard offspring at Inaguration. More fitting for the president of a trailer park.
How’s The Undefeated doing? Hit $100k yet?
“Imagine all those white trash kids and their bastard offspring at Inaguration. More fitting for the president of a trailer park.”
My, my, you can sure feel the hate radiating off that line of lies…!!!
Why does Terry hate so much that he would just lie like that?
What does it tell us about how he really feels about “working people”…??? (As if there was any doubt!!!)
Sorry Grandpa but white trash needs to stay out off the White House. It’s no lie either. The trampy daughter got knocked up and now her winner of a brother just got some other klassy snowbilly pregnant.
Those trashy breeders are Undefeated!
Iraq war veteran Track Palin and bride Britta Hanson welcomed a baby girl over the weekend, according to Us Weekly.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/09/track-palin-wife-have-a-baby-girl/#ixzz1UvafJB3y
And the mother is a nursing student.
So, you decide if Terry is just a lying, hate-twisted Collectivist.
It would help his case if he could post a cite where he used the same terms respecting John Edwards…
Jesse Jackson…
ETC…
(LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG odds offered here…)
Oh, and a challenge to Terry…
Come down to Houston’s Fifth Ward, and announce that all the unwed mothers are “trash” and their child “bastards”.
This would give me an opportunity to prove that I do not hate Terry.
See, I WOULD piss on him if he was on fire…
The quality of mercy…
Terry,
how very judgmental, smug, self-righteous and bigoted are you; you are all that is Liberal.
Settle down grandpa. You may give the white trash a pass but decent (as opposed to Real) America doesn’t.
Agree whole-heartedly. I felt the winner of the debate Thursday was Sarah Palin. She has the moxy. As much as I like Bachmann, she is Sarah Palin light. Fast forward 12 months and imagine Palin taking on Obama mono-on-mono. She would literally drive him crazy. He would lose his cool and turn into his whiny petulant girlish self. She can attack and counter attack the cool facade, and in the end it will not be about ideas and programs. It will be about persona. Mc Cain let him keep his halo, Palin will knock his chip of that shoulder.
What would Terry know about what decent people think…???
And note the racism in his comments.
And, again, where are the cites to his posts about John Edwards and Jesse Jackson…?
Which were more worthy of his sanctimonious name-calling…?
A teenaged girl (who did marry the father of her child)?
Or the married, fully grown, with children of their own men mentioned…????
Who spent the money of others to hide what they did?
I question…
you decide.
If Palin gets in the race then Mr. Governor Perry gets an extra bonus boost of free gravitas every time they stand on a stage together. This might could prove really helpful for him both in terms of fundraising and in positioning himself for the general.
so run run rudolph sarah save the christmas I think
the important thing is that president bumble goes away as soon as possible cause it’s scary how much damage he’s done and how fast
TexasMom:
Indira Ghandi.
I have a Palin 2012 bumper sticker on my car. Someone told me “you are inviting PDS liberal road rage” and “better watch those PDS libs will key your car.” Guess what? No road rage, no keying the car and I even get a few thumbs up. BTW – Anyone notice the lack of re-elect The One bumper stickers? Guess the only way the libs can try to make people believe there is enthusiasm for his re-election is to make his stickers standard equipment on all Government Motors cars.
It’s not about what “your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” and I know Palin can put our country on the road to recovery. So I want her to cut, cap and balance – and she is just the right person to tell those DC pols to “cut the crap and balance.” This is about saving our country and supporting Palin is something I can do for my country.
Palin has not lost a presidential race. I am pretty sure John McCain was the person for president. Palin brought his numbers way up so he wasn’t beaten as badly as it would have been for him. He was picked not to win, that was his job…not to win.
It never has been the job of a VP pick to deliver the win. Their job is to pick up swing states. The person actually running for the position loses or wins.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/attack-on-althouse-at-wisconsin-capitol.html?spref=tw
Here’s a couple of videos of Terry’s “decent” people physically assaulting 5’2″ (I judge) Ann Althouse (lawyer and professor) at a Madison thug-fest.
Excellent example of the Collective…
Dan,
I’m with you on this, but I think Palin’s not been deciding whether or not to run, but whether or not to run as a GOP candidate or not. I am actually thinking that she’ll run as an independent. She doesn’t need to fight through a primary to gain name-recognition. She makes her points clearly and rather eloquently if with a bit of Midwestern inflection to her phrases. This is especially true when compared to Mr. Teleprompter when he goes off script. She doesn’t need to prove herself against the GOP field. In a three-way debate between any GOP candidate, Pres. Obama, and herself, she’s going to mop the floor with them, no matter who it is.
Her appearance in Iowa strongly suggested that she has an appeal which makes her a front-runner in a race where both the incumbent, and the GOP challengers will likely be regarded as “party insiders”. With all of the economic indicators still in the dumps, and Fed spending off the charts, being an “insider” will be the absolute worst thing possible.
I think she may run as third party, and even more surprisingly, I think she might actually win.
“I will work every day to make Washington, DC as inconsequential in your life as I can,” says Rick Perry as he announces for president. Well, there it is. The 2012 race in a nutshell—”America is not broken. Washington D.C. is broken,” as Perry said, in contrast to Barack Obama’s continuing insistence that government must somehow lead the way out of the economic doldrums with infrastructure banks and payroll tax cuts and extending unemployment insurance. If the dividing line between Republicans and Democrats is that Democrats want, in some sense, to direct America from Washington, Republicans believe the United States should not be directed, and should instead be managed as close to the citizenry as possible.
–John Podhoretz
Which is a DAMNED good start.
4 Palin here 2.
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Excellent analysis of why we need the Sarah’Cuda to run and win!
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Rocket man
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Wow Michelle Bachmann apparently wasn’t incapacitated today because she just won the Iowa Straw Poll! I bet Marcus is out shopping for an inaugural gown.
Bachmann beat Ron Paul, with is going some.
Paul has a very formidable ground game.
Rick Perry got 718 write-in votes without showing up at all.
On July 30, in a Sunday morning television interview, Sen. William Fulbright said: “I don’t understand why the East Germans don’t close their border because I think they have a right to close it.” He was wrong regarding the four powers’ rights, and five days later he apologized for giving “an unfortunate and erroneous impression.” But Kennedy, who did not dispute Fulbright’s mistake, evidently welcomed it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jfks-berlin-blunder/2011/08/12/gIQAGOcxBJ_print.html
Some of the idiot Collectivists can learn A LOT from that piece.
Not that they will…
Eric, Palin running as an Independent would give the election to Obama. The only way she would have a chance would be if she pulled support away from both party’s candidates. “Cold day in Hell” comes to mind. So does Ross Perot.
Sarah Palin is not going to run for President in 2012. She is done. Michele Bachmann won the Iowa Straw Poll tonight. Michele will not get the nominee in 2012. She has migraine headache all the time and has missed about 40% in the House of Rep. vote. Thing are not looking good for Romney, Pawlenty, and other candidates now because of they are not making enough money and their campaign are poor. They don’t a good campaign advisers. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is running for President. Perry will get the nominee on the Republican Party ticket and he is going to beat Obama in 2012.
14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President
“Supporters of Texas Governor Rick Perry are not going to like this article at all. Right now, Republicans all over the United States are touting Rick Perry as the “Republican messiah” that is going to come charging in to save America from the presidency of Barack Obama. Many believe that if Rick Perry enters the race, he will instantly become the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Perry certainly looks the part and he knows how to give a good speech, but when ordinary Americans all over the country take a hard look at his record, they may not like what they see. The truth is that Rick Perry is a big-time globalist, he has raised taxes and fees in Texas numerous times, he has massively increased the size of government spending and government debt in Texas, he has been trying to ram the Trans-Texas Corridor down the throats of the Texas people and he tried to force young women all over Texas to be injected with the Gardasil vaccine.
No, Rick Perry is not going to save America. In fact, he would likely be very, very similar to both Bush and Obama in a lot of ways”
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/14-reasons-why-rick-perry-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president
Old…and distorted…news, Jack.
The idea that Palin will either be a VP candidate again or run as an independent is absurd. Get real, people.
The GOP needs Sarah Palin to run. There are a lot of Palinistas out here and if she does not run, their enthusiasm will not transfer to another candidate. It will evaporate and be lost. If another candidate can beat her, some of that enthusiasm will transfer. I do not think any of the other candidates can beat her, but if one of them can, he or she will have proven themselves and get my respect and admiration. Being able to beat Sarah Palin would give the eventual nominee credibility that he or she simply will not have if Palin is not in the race.
But again, when she gets in the race, I do not see any of the others being able to beat her.
I agree that Sarah Palin has the two qualities that Mr. Riehl mentions. I’d add that she has charisma, which no Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan has. I’ll vote for whoever the Republican party nominates, as long as it’s not Ron Paul, because whoever gets the nomination (except Ron Paul) will be better than Barack Obama or anybody else the Democrats are likely to nominate. Only Sarah Palin, however, is a candidate for whom I truly want to vote.
I hope and believe that she’s too smart to run as an independent; to do so would be to hand the presidency to the Democrats.
I agree 100%. She is currently the best person to speak out for conservative policies and she is by far the one with the most star power. I didn’t realize I was a conservative until Sarah came on the scene.
In addition, she has probably accomplished more than most of the other candidates when it comes to actually conservative policies.
What amazes me is that the PDS people keep saying that Palin is done and is irrelevant. Maybe they miss that she attracts crowds wherever she goes. Of course, they were the same ones that said that when the emails came out she was done because they would prove how horrible she is. Meanwhile all the emails proved that the people that said that she left her office at three in the afternoon were a bunch of liars since the time depicted on a lot of the emails showed that she was working on weekends at 6:00 am.
She is the only one that put a stop to the corruption going on in Alaska and was not afraid to step on the oil companies’ toes. If she was a Democrat, the progressives, liberals, etc. would be all over her touting her accomplishments but since she is a conservative woman they cannot do that.
Palin should get in, just to see heads explode on the left. The f-ing media would loose it. Run,run,run. To see all the barfo’s in shock and then awe, would be worth it. Ofungus is done.
Palin is playing it smart. She is waiting for Perry to be “vetted” by the media and for T-Paw (and others) to drop out. She will announce her candidacy soon, and the media frenzy will be bolstered by “the Undefeated”
on pay-per-view and at Walmart. Bachmann’s support will slip away and Romney will be irrelevant.
Cogent isn’t exactly how I would describe Sarah Palin and her word salads…
Who cares…???
Yes, she should get into the race and then quit like she always does.
Saying she “quit” is like saying Patton got our troops killed.
Saying she quit like she always does is a flat lie.
TX mom, you and your son need to forget about what muslims might want. Because what they want is a muslim country with sharia law. And you being the adult, you need to educate yourself and teach your son. I find it disgusting that someone would NOT vote for Palin because she is a woman and muslims hate women. We have seen how well shrillary has done in changing muslim “minds”, right? When are people going to learn you can’t “change” a muslims mind? They are inbred, brain dead, barbaric, misogynistic pedophiles who base there entire life and culture on a evil book dictated by satan.
No worries, Sarah will be in it to win it, and along the way the Tea Party will take a giant step closer to taking over the GOP. Rubio, Senate Leader 2015.
Great article! Palin brings more energy and excitement than all the other candidates put together! She’s a real conservative and not a RINO like Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich. Her record is impeccable as Governor and we all know she has been scrutinized like no one else ever (think emails being read with a fine tooth comb). Liberals have attacked her on everything she’s said and done. Members of her own party have attacked her and talked down to her. Yet she has not only continued to keep going, she keeps gaining more and more ground and more attention from everyday Americans because they like her! They like what she stands for and they are tired of Politics as usual! The greatness of America, Remembering our Constitution, Restoring Honor, Common sense thinking and remembering what made us a great nation in the first place is what Palin is about. She connects with the average American living on Mainstreet unlike anyone else running for President, unlike anyone else in politics. Washington D.C. is broke and electing another Rino like Perry or Romney will not fix what is wrong, but will just be more business as usual, Aren’t we all so sick of that we can’t take anymore of it?
I’ve watched and listened from a distance, never personally met Sarah Palin although I’d be happy to shake her hand and give her a hug. She has motivated me to become more informed, more aware and hopefully a better voter as our country trys to dig out of a disaster. Please people, give this woman a chance to right our ship. We are in really big trouble both financially and personally. Our values are being tested every day. What has happened to the greatest country in the world. We’ve lost our way. This can change if we elect the right person. I believe in my heart and soul that Sarah Palin is so very sincere and means what she says, and has the experience after turning Alaska around fiscally and financially. Please people, give this real patriot with a big heart and soul the respect and honor she so deserves. She is strong, she is capable, she has the drive, the youth, the energy — all needed qualities to run our country and she also has the knowledge of where to go and how to get things accomplished. Please, if Sarah Palin decides to run — please, please support. You will not be disappointed.