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It’s 4pm. Nope. Sarah Palin Does Not Appear to be Running

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 30th, 2011 at 04:00 PM  | 

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At least not today. Or this year it seems.

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  • tailfins1959

    4 O’Clock and all’s well!

  • http://wadingacross.wordpress.com logus

    Sarah Palin was the flavor of 2010.

    Maybe she’ll be the flavor of 2016 or 2020, and maybe by then she’ll learn that if you play games too long, you burn your supporters and yourself.

  • freentn

    that is all we know at this date in time.

  • throwback59

    Sarah blew it when she stepped down as gov.

  • rrpjr

    There are many kinds of cults, and the charge of cultism cuts both ways. This preoccupation — this near monomania with the timetable of a candidate along with the sneering contempt for her supporters — has as much claim on cultism as anything I’ve seen.

    The cultism becomes clearer when one steps back and ask, “who cares when she announces”?

  • freentn

    She can now make or break any Republican Candidate! and she can ruin the Republican Party by running as an Independent. In Short, Palin is a force to be reckoned with.

    Btw, Tokyo rove sounds VERY NERVOUS on Hannity now.

  • sisquinanamook

    These hourly posts are utterly asinine and juvenile. My 4 year old sounds more adult than this. What are you going to do next, flick a booger at her? Maybe start whining, “She’s breathing my air?” You are seriously degrading the reputation of your own web site with these shenanigans, and that’s from the perspective of someone who DOESN’T think she should run.

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    Death panels, crony capitalism, any salty language directed toward Obama.

    And they’ll take the bait in the name of wooing “independents and moderates.”

  • freentn

    he doesn’t know who to pick. Sarah is the Mama Gorilla in the room now. Whoever she picks will win the nomination or she can run as an indie and ruin the Republican Party’s chances of winning the White House.

  • http://wadingacross.wordpress.com logus

    But I just cannot see her running as an independent.

    I like the idea of a third party, I’ve voted for third parties before, but it’s just a known thing that in most situations, a third party candidate has zero chances and quite often will do nothing more than spoil one or both primary parties.

    I just cannot see Palin running as a third party candidate. I don’t think she’s willing to take the chance.

    As much as I hate to say it, this election is about making sure Obama loses… and sadly, that means having to vote Republican.

    Yuck. Now I have to go wash my hands.

  • freentn

    .

  • Bill S

    If the reputation is so dramatically damaged, perhaps you should spend your time on something else.

  • lottoj

    ‘but she said’, ‘but she said’, ‘but she said’

    I’d really rather Palin not run given the amount of PDS in particular on this site. She doesn’t bring anything new to the table that we don’t already have in the current set of candidates and we have too many people running as it is. The only redeeming value of a Palin run at this point is watching heads explode.

  • freentn

    to get an 8 Figure TV Contract then a losing 3rd Party Campaign is a WINNER for Palin.

  • luvnthebigsites

    OK, questions for yourself: If you had popular conservative blog would you spam your own threads hourly over a non-candidacy/candidacy? ( No, I probably wouldn’t either- even if i had an axe to grind) Would you goad or be-little the lost-souls who show up at the wrong place at the wrong time to defend there non-candidates’-non candidacy? No, I wouldn’t either.

    Do you think this is all Funny?

    I think its Hilarious!.CLASSIC! Run it all the way to Midnight Erick, Your “all in” any way.

    P.S. (Just a side note, Say Palin does drop a Nuke on social media and indeed enters the horse race naming Erickson personally as a deciding factor?) I don’t know about you all… But that’s one big plate of crow that’s gonna be hard to stomach later… ;)

  • Bill S

    .

  • sisquinanamook

    Of course, because if someone you like does something that completely demeans themself, the only rational thing to do is drop them like a hot rock and pretend you never knew them. Letting them know their behavior might warrant a little introspection is absolutely NOT the way respond, right? I’ll pass that one on to my 4 year old too.

  • http://wadingacross.wordpress.com logus

    That said, she’s made specific statements, which Erick has clearly pointed out.

    Furthermore, stepping back, she’s got a small window in which to jump in. Yeah, she might be able to wait a little longer, but if she does so, it could well be to the detriment of her own campaign.

    I don’t know that I’ve heard any talk about funding and more importantly a campaign network. If she has no campaign network right now, it’s going to take her a little time to get coordinated.

    If she doesn’t jump in today, or worse, waits a few more weeks, she’s going to have to do better than Perry did following his entry with Ames. And Perry already had a warchest and more importantly a team. Or look at Pawlenty who effectively began campaigning as soon as Obama took office and continued to spin his wheels for two years. Two years of time up in smoke.

    This isn’t anti-cultism cultism, it’s common sense. It’s saying put up or shut up. If she puts up, fine; we move on from there. All she’s doing is toying with everyone, and that’s rather annoying, period. It does not garner respect.

  • florajo

    (just kidding, well, sort of)

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    Most will cave into it.

  • gekster

    There are a bunch of us, both for and against, that are acting just as childish.
    It’s a group bonding thing.

  • http://wadingacross.wordpress.com logus

    and more importantly, I can’t see her being that narcissistic to the detriment of the country.

    Obama is the narcissist, not Palin – even if she is certainly enjoying being in the spotlight and stringing the media and politicians along.

  • http://www.rightproadvisors.com erinmist

    After this petulant child act, and self-spamming exercise, I can easily see him making the case that this was his plan all along, to goad her into running.

    Erick — we’re all asking the same question: what are you doing, and WHY?

  • spim

    sorry … can’t really help myself

    and I don’t mean to compare Spears to Palin … but rather only _some_ of the supporters

    but really …. this stringing along her supporters and would-be backers does strike me as odd

    keep at it Erick – I’m laughing with you!

  • Bill S

    “What are you, 4?” is about what I’d expect from maybe a high-schooler. So you might give up the high-and-mighty routine. I really doubt that your comment is gonna have a profound impact on how we do business here…

  • powertothepeople

    so do not include me or many of the other non moronic people in your idiotic response.

    OK?

  • Bill S

    “all” of the C4P club. Certainly isn’t the “global all”…

  • westcoastpatriette

    If you can’t take a joke about your favorite candidate…

  • sisquinanamook

    My post was directed at EE, not the commentators in this thread. Somehow I doubt he consulted you when he began this series of posts. And since you sound even more like a 4 year old than these posts do, I am not replying to you anymore. You sir, have been dismissed. I do love me some “high and mighty”.

  • luvnthebigsites

    You think Palin cant take a few arrows from EE after the years of bombs from the old media? If follow the new media and have read all the links and Ericks argument, you would understand that he has every right to hold her accountable to her words. Just be glad he is being nice about it. This is all in fun, 50 satire post’s are meaningless when all it takes is one “serious” post to do real damage… keep that in mind.

  • Aaron Gardner

    He respects the contributing editors that way.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Pretty slimy for some guy writing anonymously on the Internet to accuse Karl Rove of treason.

  • waxmanlaw

    nt

  • rrpjr

    So it’s common-sense. But who is hurt by her failure to launch at some so-called defined moment except her? Why this abiding “concern” bordering on obsession? Why the strange insistence to conform to a strict timetable (whether she said itor not)? Why the obvious contempt for her decision-making process — which after all involves radical upheavals to her family and far more of the unholy hate and slander she’s already experienced?

    So she enters late. Maybe she loses as a result. Who cares other than her supporters?

    Or does that explain the fixation of concern? You’re rooting for her?

    It’s fair and typical to critique candidates for their actions and inactions, but, really, how does it matter so personally and enough to invite weird and stalker-like hourly internet updates?

    Sorry, but this is another form of cultism.

  • Bill S

    And I’ve dismissed you also, to the pile.

  • acat

    if that nominee isn’t Waffles Romney.

    Mew

  • http://www.rightproadvisors.com erinmist

    Immediately to the ad hominem. Lovely. Keep it right up, folks. Just keep eating our own.

    So in the aftermath of 2008, right after Obama won, and McCain disappointed (as we knew he would), you were not among the conservatives that looked to Palin to carry the banner into 2012? Of course you were — we all were. Or rather – the vast majority of us were (maybe you were already enlightened enough to have other plans).

    And if you’d bother to read the number of people questioning Erick’s intent around this, you’d see it’s sizeable. Does “WE” include every member of Redstate — no. And clearly it does not include you.

    But in this case a clear majority are looking at this and asking how this serves the cause — especially when you describe such questions as “moronic” and “idiotic”

    I gave up on Palin as a viable candidate in late 2009. She was damaged beyond repair, I felt. But as a spokesperson, and messenger, she was still effective. You, on the other hand, don’t get that message — that Obama must go. You’d much rather go after your fellow Republicans than add anything constructive to the conversation, a construction that Erick has still to articulate.

  • freentn

    Get real! If Palin is offered a Multi-Million Dollar TV Contract if she runs as a 3rd Party Candidate, she will take it, wouldn’t you?

  • http://www.rightproadvisors.com erinmist

    I support Herman Cain, and gave Palin the brush in 2009. Way too damaged a candidate to be viable. But how does bashing Palin get Perry/Romney/Cain/Gingrich et al elected in 2012?

    Oh…that’s right. It doesn’t.

    Apparently you think it’s all fun, all good. Let’s just trash each other and tick off supporters (the Palinistas you’re “warning” about) so they don’t donate to the nominee and maybe stay home 13 months from now.

    Freakin’ hilarious…

    I suppose we’ll be making jokes about Perry or Cain next…

  • Scope

    predicted that Palin was going to announce in Iowa, because her schedule there indicated it. I think she did the one speech, and maybe did one other event and then hightailed it back to AK.

  • freentn

    rove doesn’t have a clue about what Palin is going to do.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Cut the treason insinuations.

  • acat

    Didn’t Sarah from Alaska change it to Sarah from Arizona last year?

    Mew

  • chihank

    Rove and Fox were promoting Palin’s Tea Party event for ratings. I think Fox is partially responsible for allowing Palin to do what she was doing for ratings. If Newt or Santorum did the things that Palin did, Fox would have dismissed her long ago. Back in May, Fox gave Huckabee an ultimatium. But none to Palin.

  • http://www.rightproadvisors.com erinmist

    As we’ve dismissed you.

    Given the arguments and vitriol this “theme of the day” or running “joke” as it’s now being called (like Governor Perdue after her recent “joke”– oops!), I’m really glad shining lights and the enlightened were consulted and said “yeah, let’s do this!”

    Brilliant. You sound annoyed, I’m annoyed, Palin’s folks are annoyed, and Palin and EE could care less, as neither needs the other to feed their egos and “needs”. We’re all dismissing one another’s comments out of hand, and generally creating ill will.

    Wonderful unifying GOP strategy here. Truly.

    Thanks Erick!! GREAT JOB!

  • Bill S

    If you don’t like it, go find something else to do. Angry Birds is popular.

  • freentn

    is going to do.

  • Scope

    but on many many sites the Palin supporters have been out their bashing and trashing every candidate, and everyone who doesn’t support Palin. They’ve set their goal at making sure no Palin supporter abandons her while she takes her time to decide. How exactly does that help the nomination process? It doesn’t, it hurts any candidate that eventually wins the nomination. Palin has been a divider not the uniter she promised she would be. What happened to her statement that if a good conservative runs, she wouldn’t run. Are there no good conservatives in the race that meet her approval?

  • Bill S

    Not one. You’d think at least one of these folks would have the guts to post something that’s a bit less transient than a comment.

    C’mon people. Get with it. I’ll even recommend it if you post one. Stop your yammering in the comment threads and put up something more substantive. If you don’t like Erick’s posts, then POST SOMETHING BETTER.

  • powertothepeople

    self pious pity cry I have seen in quite awhile. Hope you feel all self righteous and better now that you have gotten the silliness out of your system.

    And hate to tell you, there is no where near a majority on this site who side with you nor are anywhere near a majority of this site asking how EE’s posts serve the cause. I think you may have been confused as to the address you typed in right before you hit enter. Just because an influx of moronic shriners have decided to post does not mean there is a majority consensus.

    Now, back to people not in the need of a self pat on the back and tons of tissues.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Can’t you see the difference between bashing and joking or teasing the truth? Why do you have to make it into a put down? If Palin wants to play in the big league, she has to pay for things she says, okay?

    No big deal.

  • gekster

    ….

  • azaeroprof

    I’ve been one of the better-treated Palin fans here for a while now, and I’m sure as hell not going to post anything pro-Palin anymore. I doubt after today you’ll have more than one or two Palin fans bothering to visit. And I guess that appears to be the plan. If that’s what you guys want, then fine, you’ve got your wish.

    Erick’s starting to seriously make Romney look like the “adult in the room”, and God help me, I can’t believe I just said that.

  • freentn

    ?

  • funwithknives

    and we in The Great Lakes State think it is a howler of an idea. A Cheap Thrill, as it were;
    “Cheap thrills, knockin’ on my door,
    Cheap thrills, goin’ ta get me some-more.
    Cheap thrills, all day and the night,
    Cheap thrills,gonna give you a fright.”
    {Paraphrased from Iggy Pop, song title/album unknown}
    Can’t we all just lighten up a little? Kudos to EE signed: FWK

  • Bill S

    You aren’t nuts like most of them.

  • azaeroprof

    Dude.

  • Jack_Savage

    All the thousands of Palin fans I saw in Raleigh at her rally in 2008 were COMPLETELY nuts. I mean, some of them even subjected their children to the spectacle. I was very disturbed back then, and am glad they are being exposed for the enthusiastic, loyal people that they are.

    Yep, Sarah Palin deserves this. Yes she does. And all her nutcase Palinbot followers as well. Most of them are new to politics, having been inspired by Palin and all, and they need to learn that mockery by your own side is part of the game. They really need to toughen up, those idiots. I mean, us idiots…

  • azaeroprof

    I mean, we sure wouldn’t want to nominate someone who has a rabid following, right? A few of them might be nuts. So let’s make sure we nominate someone that nobody gets too excited about.

    Oh wait….we’ve done that already. Many times.

    ;)

  • lottoj

    the Echo Chamber rule is still in effect.

    You guys are almost as bad as Krugman with his 9/11 column and turning off the comments.

  • powertothepeople

    you make sense, but this comment did not.

    There are huge holes in your response such as:

    A lot more are not excited by Palin.

    The same thing you said about Palin could be applied to Ron Paul and most really do not want him elected.

    In fact, name just about any candidate in this race, and I could show you rabid fans with nuts thrown in. Not a good enough reason for the rest of us to jump on board.

    Every candidate remaining has fans and excited supporters. The only difference is that Palins supporters are becoming much more fanatical and the normal supporters of her are moving away from her. She is quickly becoming the new Ron Paul.

  • azaeroprof

    I wasn’t really trying to be logical, just sarcastic.

    I certainly wouldn’t expect anyone to get behind a candidate because they have some rabid fans. But to win, we do need to nominate someone who gets people excited enough to go to war for them. By definition, this will mean some of them will be kooks. It’s the nature of the beast.

    I may be a Palin fan, but I’m really a kook when it comes to Reagan, as most of us are here as well. If I started posting snide anti-Reagan posts every hour on the hour, you’d probably see a response that would make the Palin response today look pretty tame. :)

  • acat

    back in May, Palin told Fox she wasn’t running, no way, no how, but that she was going to play it for ratings.

    Mew

  • powertothepeople

    but I doubt there is a handful of ardent Reagan supporters that would even come close to acting like the hundreds of thousands of Ron Paul like Palin supporters. There are many on this side that become just as extreme as the pro Palin fans, but as a general rule, anything we say that is anything other than Pro Palin is attacked in the same way stating Obama is an awesome president would be.

    If the majority of pro Palin fans responded as you have the last 2 years, there would be less issues and less desire by non Palanista websites to rid themselves of the new cult.

  • acat

    Your Krugman example fails on that alone.

    Got anything better?

    Mew

  • http://wadingacross.wordpress.com logus

    Actually I can’t answer for Mrs. Palin, only take a guess based upon what she has said on life and politics.

    However, for me and my family, sure, money is nice, you can get things with it, but it’s not that important. Money doesn’t drive my family. Yes, my family comes before my country, but my faith and principles come before them, and we’re not materialists.

    To that end, I wouldn’t potentially throw my country under the bus for money.

    I wouldn’t say that all politicians are narcissists. I would however say that all of them are very sure about themselves.

  • runner12

    and not that big of a deal. I find it kind of funny actually. Believe me, if Palin does not announce tonight this will be one of the kindest jabs taken at her from our side.

    You have to make a joke out of it or assume the worst in that this has all been intentional, and not in a good way. I prefer to treat it lightly and move on.

    I would also kindly remind those who are taking their ball and going home because someone dared to criticize their candidate to reassess their decision.
    This kind of attitude will not aid us in defeating Obama.

    Some of the candidates I am leaning towards have been criticized on RS and at times the critique was valid. Yet I am not allowing that to anger me at those who hold a different opinion than me.

    We need to lighten up and realize that no candidate is perfect. There is only one perfect Being and no candidate who will ever run for President will equal Him.