Yes She Does! Looks Like Palin’s Campaign For President Has Kicked Into Gear

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 9:36 am, July 12th, 2010

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The last time I recall so much attention and speculation being showered on a potential presidential candidate more than two years before the election was in 2006 when the media started clamoring about a possible run by then Senator Barack Obama. I’m far from convinced the same fate awaits Sarah Palin, but talk of her running for President has reached a new pitch these last few days mostly due to her newly released ‘Mama Grizzlies‘ ad, which surprisingly impressed a whole lot of people (notwithstanding Rachel Maddow). What will likely also impress (or alternately frighten, depending) is today’s Politico story about Sarah Palin’s political action committee SarahPac which has kicked into hard drive and is doing things that people serious about running a campaign do: namely raise money, makes lists, hire consultants.

A new financial report filed Sunday evening showed Sarah Palin’s political action committee has taken its fundraising to a higher level – and suggests that she has begun building a more sophisticated political operation in place of a bare-bones organization powered mostly by her rock star status and scrappy on-line presence… It also showed continued payments for that speechwriting as well as foreign and domestic policy consulting, and its first ever payments to a scheduler.

In short, for the first time since the 2008 campaign when she was the vice-presidential running mate to GOP presidential candidate John McCain, Palin is supported by a political operation befitting someone considering a presidential run.

In short I think that’s called putting your money where your mouth is.

Meanwhile, Palin was, not surprisingly, a hot topic on the Sunday shows. Chris Matthews who appears to be getting a continual thrill up his leg over the idea of Palin running for office remarked on his show that after watching the Mama Grizzlies ad it was clear Palin was “running as a mama” before quickly correcting himself and saying as a Grizzly Mama. On This Week George Will noted that “She’s trying to get — flatter people by telling them — they may be grandmothers — but telling them they’re grizzly bears, and it makes them feel good. On the vapidness meter, that ranks nowhere near, “We are the ones we have been waiting for,” which was Obama’s way of flattering the self-esteem of his supporters.” Watch both clips below.

barack obama, Chris Matthews, Election 2012, George Will, Mama Grizzlies, Sarah Palin, This Week

BR

I dont think that she would be a good president. But I KNOW that Obama ISNT a good president.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

Pretty, popular, persuasive Gov. Sarah Palin has the plan to put us on the path to peace, prosperity, and unparalleled power. She will be a great President of these United States.
NORBIT

As the President’s poll numbers continue to Free-Fall, it’s putting Democrats in a real quandry for 2012.

Will the Dems be calling any white challenger to Obama a Racist – like they did to America’s First Black President when he campaigned for his wife?

LOL!!
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Word for the day: IMPLODE!!

LOL!!
DukeCO

Lars Svensen said:
Pretty, popular, persuasive Gov. Sarah Palin has the plan to put us on the path to peace, prosperity, and unparalleled power. She will be a great President of these United States.

I find it very amusing that her supporters insist on listing “pretty” as one of her qualifications.
Jackie_Treehorn

Thank you baby jeebus for this day…..
yweston

Except she doesn’t have chance. Can’t get independents to swing her way. Too polarizing. Too many disastrous interviews. Including the latest Fox “spoon feed” that O’Reilly just stumbled through. She’s too afraid of the mainstream media. Joy Behar could eat her alive. Too many scandals, too many stupid remarks, too violent, to clueless on foreign and national affairs, too uneducated.
Moderate

Palin and Hillary do an excellent job of scaring the hell out of the Liberals. Will we ever see a female president?
NORBIT

Sorry for being off-topic, but I have the TV on, and had to make sure I’m understanding this correctly:

The Democrats definition of FAMILY VALUES is to ban Happy Meals, but pass out free condoms to kindergarteners?

Is that about right? (Actually, I’d say that’s about LEFT!!!! – lol!)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Noland/1343446359 Dave Noland

NORBIT said:
As the President’s poll numbers continue to Free-Fall, it’s putting Democrats in a real quandry for 2012.

Will the Dems be calling any white challenger to Obama a Racist – like they did to America’s First Black President when he campaigned for his wife?

LOL!!
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Word for the day: IMPLODE!!

LOL!!

Norbit face. The right leaning poll Rassmussen has Obama at 49%. that is where it was 6 months ago. Every time I read or hear one of you right wing idiots talk about the POTUS polls dropping I wonder if maybe it’s not your IQ. The fact is he has a solid base of about 45-50% that approve and it will be very hard for them to drop any further than that. Get a new talking point.
TfT

I’m going to bet that Obama doesn’t run for a second term; he is way too divisive and he won’t win. Being the super narcissist he is, he won’t be able to face the loss.

All the speculation about Palin is humorous. Matthews is on record saying that the media will work to destroy Palin, as if they haven’t tried that already, and Palin is still standing.

The speculation is humorous, but it sure keeps her as a major news maker, which of course she is.

I loved Will’s comment….spot on.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Gessford/657775682 Susan Gessford

So ‘pretty’ Palin has 2 million Facebook fans. Oh, boy…out of three hundred million Americans, that is not an impressive number of would-be voters. If the woman ever had a kind word to say about anyone or anything, I might think she is human. As it is, she is like the robot attack dog for the RNC. She has no ideas for peace, only more war, which she thinks is just a dandy way to be a Christian. She has no plans for stopping the oil spill, no economic vision beyond “less regulation and less taxes,” which ought to be great for the bankers and the oil companies, as usual. She has never given a speech about education….and she supports a woman who plans to end the Dept. of Education entirely.
She may run, but she will not survive the litmus test of the debates with her fellow Republicans. If McCain’s expert team could not get her ready for Joe Biden, who in heck will get her ready to face off against far more formidable opponents, who will not accept her non-answers, her rambling rhetoric, and her beauty pageant tactics, her high school debate team? Also, should h*ll freeze over and Democrats be stopped from voting in 2010, whatever would Ms. Experience do when hubby Todd was denied access to state emails and Cabinet meetings? And how would she govern day after day when all the governing she did in Alaska was in 45 day part time legislative sessions? Those who see her as a chief executive have not been watching what she does. She flits from city to city, never making a decision beyond which tight skirt to choose, and which smarmy speech to recite, and where to cash her checks. She is a celebrity, not a lawmaker, and certainly not a CEO of anything except the Palin brand.
NORBIT

“You Betcha”” & “Mama Grizzlies” have become part of the American lexicon – courtesy of Sarah & the Tea-Party Movement.

…and on the Democrat side, we have king samir shabazz: “I hate white people. All of them. Every last iota of a cracker … I hate him. You want freedom? You gonna have to kill some crackers. You gonna have to kill some of they (sic) babies.”
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REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER – A vote for ANY Democrat is a vote for the Obama Junta!!!
Moderate

“It’s getting harder and harder for most Americans, looking honestly at the state of the nation, to see the glass as half full. And that’s why the public opinion polls contain nothing but bad news for Barack Obama and the Democrats.”

Even the NYT is losing faith. When you lose the NYT you start to lose the liberals.
yweston

In case the ‘Righties” haven’t noticed Palin can’t get beyond 30% approval rating anywhere except the Republican Rassmussen Poll.
I know 90 year old Grandmothers who think she’s an idiot. And they’re Republicans who refused to vote for her. But if you think Old mamma grizzely is so “spectacular”. TheN make her your candidate. Good Luck with THAT ONE.
yweston

@Susan Gessford
Pay-lin doesn’t have 2 million Face Book fans. Half the people who fanned her did so to criticize, debate and laugh at her.
If you’re NOT on the site “drooling” over her they ban you within hours. Yet they continue to include you in her “fantasy’” 2 million supporters. I know plenty of “folks” who are banned from her site. And I’m sure there are thousands and thousands that I know nothing about.
She can’t even get a donation from AK for her SarahPac scam. She got one out of 529. And the 529 list had the same donors contributing over and over. There were really only a couple hundred different people contributing. But AK “ain’t having none of her B.S.”
yweston

@Norbit
Take a laxative honey. You’re little constipated.
BatBoy

Do you remember when I said it makes my day when a lefty ruins his by just the thought of Sarah Palin + others…

Just read…
yweston
Susan Gessfords 300+ words
Dave Noland
Jacky Treehorn
DukeCO above… Oh it is still early…the old lefty regulars will be showing up today writing their trash.

The best part is Sarah had not had to say a thing….
But Chris Mathews gets all worked up…KO will be later…CNN is frothing at the bit…Morning Joe was crying in their Coffee this morning, tonight it will be NBC, CBS, ABC, Public TV, …just hand wringing at the thought Sarah Palin would run for President.

Glynnis see what you have done to your fellow lib’s???? :>) :>) :>)

IT JUST DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ImNotBlue

Dave Noland says:
July 12, 2010 at 10:54 am

The right leaning poll Rassmussen has Obama at 49%. that is where it was 6 months ago. Every time I read or hear one of you right wing idiots talk about the POTUS polls dropping I wonder if maybe it’s not your IQ. The fact is he has a solid base of about 45-50% that approve and it will be very hard for them to drop any further than that. Get a new talking point.

Dave… I already proved you wrong on this:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

Please try again.
Iris

sorry BB, just the thought of her running makes my day, please support her, send her money, get petitions, make her run RW’ers, Puleeze.
AnotherAlaskan

Every time she refers to herself as a Mama Grizzly, I laugh. Because of her wildlife policies and political appointments in Alaska, it’s legal to shoot cubs and female bears with cubs in places where the hunting lobby thinks there should be moose and caribou for people to kill. Near Anchorage, “hunters” have killed more than a thousand black bears in the past two years, including cubs and mothers. Most of these great sportsmen shoot them over bait like dog food and stale doughnuts; some bears are caught in snares and then killed.

That’s her idea of what more people should be doing to more mama bears.

Why would only one Alaskan donate money to her PAC? When Alaskans were polled in February, only 53 percent thought she should pursue political office, and only 17 percent of those people thought it should be the presidency.

Get a clue, America.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/02/should-palin-run-for-president-her-former-constituents-divided/1
Averreauxii

Lars Svensen said:
Pretty, popular, persuasive Gov. Sarah Palin has the plan to put us on the path to peace, prosperity, and unparalleled power. She will be a great President of these United States.

It’s difficult to read that with a straight face!

Popular? Latest Wallstreet Journal/NBC News poll for the quitting governor. 29% approval/43% disapproval. Yeah. Really popular!

Persuasive? Did you mean clueless? When was her last introspective interview by a non-slobbering FNC journalist? You do recall she quit her job as Governor right ? Governor of a state smaller (demographically) than most major US cities? Yet, you would be SO happy with her leading a nation of 300 million people? Most powerful country in the world? Wow….teatard!

Yeah, you also forget that according to ALL the polls where she’s pitted against Obama, she’s LOSING in a BAD year for Obama? Do you think the current state of the country will be the same in 2 years? Trust me, liberals and Democrats WANT her to run. You think 2008 was bad, this would be a holocaust.

BTW, Obama’s latest (TODAY) approval numbers are 47% Gallup & 49% Rasmussen. Yeah….those have been “free falling” from his numbers 6-months ago that were 50% Gallup & 47% Rasmussen. Yeah…..what a BIG fall!
Founders_were_Liberal

So, Palin spends TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS on consultants. either their consultations went ignored or Palin has refused to listen. Now that is the way to operate Sarah babe. This woman is an IDIOT.
ImNotBlue

Averreauxii says:
July 12, 2010 at 12:54 pm

BTW, Obama’s latest (TODAY) approval numbers are 47% Gallup & 49% Rasmussen. Yeah….those have been “free falling” from his numbers 6-months ago that were 50% Gallup & 47% Rasmussen. Yeah…..what a BIG fall!

You’re the second person today to make that same claim. Can you tell us which website told you to say that? I’m curious… since obviously it’s today’s talking point.
The_Reasonable_Lib

HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!
BatBoy

It is the Presidential Approval Index that is looked at….The President has been on a steady slide down for a little over a year now….

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
ChuckfromTacoma

I, for one, would really like to see Palin replace Michael Steele as head of the RNC. She would do a great job of rallying the troops as well as drive the libs nuts. I really like Steele, but he has gotten stale.
If Sarah can do a great job as head of the RNC, it will do a great deal to improve her cred as a leader.
writer

Since the left hates her with so much passion, Sarah can’t be all that bad.
Jackie_Treehorn

BatBoy said:
Do you remember when I said it makes my day when a lefty ruins his by just the thought of Sarah Palin + others…

Just read…
yweston
Susan Gessfords 300+ words
Dave Noland
Jacky Treehorn
DukeCO above… Oh it is still early…the old lefty regulars will be showing up today writing their trash.

The best part is Sarah had not had to say a thing….
But Chris Mathews gets all worked up…KO will be later…CNN is frothing at the bit…Morning Joe was crying in their Coffee this morning, tonight it will be NBC, CBS, ABC, Public TV, …just hand wringing at the thought Sarah Palin would run for President.

Glynnis see what you have done to your fellow lib’s???? :>) :>) :>)

IT JUST DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ruins my day? Hell the possibility of her running coming to light is a freaking turn on!
roaddancr

Actually I and my dead relatives and my dog would vote for her. Also I would stand in front of voting places with a nightstick to make sure those not voting for her doesn’t enter. Can easily be done seeing as nothing happens to you if you do.
Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

Just for pure comedic relief, I hope she runs.
BatBoy

Jackie_Treehorn

At least we are having fun watch you lefties froth at the mouth.

You put so much effort into telling us who you hate!
writer

roaddancr, I agree. If Palin runs, we can always have the panthers show up and club people into submission.
Nachi

Yup, all you real Murcuhns. She is certainly something of which to be proud. A Repunk intellectual dream come true. Duh.
Averreauxii

ImNotBlue said:
Averreauxii says:
July 12, 2010 at 12:54 pm

BTW, Obama’s latest (TODAY) approval numbers are 47% Gallup & 49% Rasmussen. Yeah….those have been “free falling” from his numbers 6-months ago that were 50% Gallup & 47% Rasmussen. Yeah…..what a BIG fall!

You’re the second person today to make that same claim. Can you tell us which website told you to say that? I’m curious… since obviously it’s today’s talking point.

Look at the tracking polls.
http://www.gallup.com
http://www.rasmussenreports.com

It’s not a talking point when you can VERIFY what I’m saying from the source. Conservatives have been harping about the precipitous DROP of Obama’s poll numbers, but that is not the case in reality. They have gone down….yes, but VERY gradually. Gallup even said that it’s NORMAL (according to their trends) for the presidential tracking poll to fall an average of 5 points in the POTUS’s 2nd year.

I have just given you numbers from Jan 2010 (beginning) and July 2010 (today) and there’s no variance of more than 3 points. That is not a BIG drop in 7 months! Conservatives hype when the polls go down but they are silent when they rebound and go back up. To the casual unobservant viewer, you get a skewed sense of his polling numbers. 44-45% is where he should be by the end of the year.

BatBoy said:
It is the Presidential Approval Index that is looked at….The President has been on a steady slide down for a little over a year now….

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

WTF is talking about the index? What everyone looks at ijs the OVERALL Approval/Disapproval number. Here’s a gem from your own link.

“Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. Our month-by-month review of the president’s numbers shows another perspective on how STABLE HIS APPROVAL RATINGS HAVE REMAINED. ”

Exactly my point!
RTB

“Joy behar would eat her alive” LMAO
Since when is joy behar a credibe interviewer/journalist/anything? She aint no barbara walters, and aint worthy of an interview of that magnitude with a palin or others, left or right. Joy behar, jesus, what is the world coming to when people think a bitter, bias, jackass is a legit reporter or individual…
i hope she doesnt run, she is not ready, and most polls have her 2nd or 3rd behind romney, and losing to obama 1 on 1 anyhow…..barrack sure as hell doesnt know what he is doing and needs to get out, but not replacing him with palin, even i know that.
The real Royal Gnome

DukeCO said:
I find it very amusing that her supporters insist on listing “pretty” as one of her qualifications.

Lars Svensen is Karl Spensens fictional father . In other words a troll .
Rufus0U812

I lean to the right, but I cannot vote for Sara Palin…I hope she does not run.
ImNotBlue

Averreauxii says:
July 12, 2010 at 3:13 pm

Look at the tracking polls.
http://www.gallup.com
http://www.rasmussenreports.com

Use Real Clear Politics… it’s easier, as they include the major polling companies together to get an average.

It’s not a talking point when you can VERIFY what I’m saying from the source.

A “talking point” is simply the topic people will speak about when trying to steer a topic. I didn’t say there weren’t sources, only that this has been mentioned a few times today (out of the blue, off topic for the thread, and by various people), which suggests a coordinated campaign. Somewhere on the blue blogs, someone wrote about this, and the talking point formed, which is why we’re seeing people repeat it in place of actual comments about the thread topic.

So I’ll ask again… why is the left talking about this now? Where did the talking point come from?

Conservatives have been harping about the precipitous DROP of Obama’s poll numbers, but that is not the case in reality. They have gone down….yes, but VERY gradually. Gallup even said that it’s NORMAL (according to their trends) for the presidential tracking poll to fall an average of 5 points in the POTUS’s 2nd year.

As I have said, his approval numbers have gone down… and that’s normal. But his disapproval numbers have gone up. His average has stayed pretty similar… but the number of dislikes has gone up, while likes has gone down. The result is a steady average, but less popularity… not a good thing.

I have just given you numbers from Jan 2010 (beginning) and July 2010 (today) and there’s no variance of more than 3 points. That is not a BIG drop in 7 months!

And while his popularity average remains in slow decline, his policies and positions continue to lack support, and fall in the polls. It’s only a matter of time before his actions catch up to his personality.

Conservatives hype when the polls go down but they are silent when they rebound and go back up.

Um… they haven’t gone up.

To the casual unobservant viewer, you get a skewed sense of his polling numbers. 44-45% is where he should be by the end of the year.

The issues are going to play a larger role in this… and the people are not on his side. His charisma can only carry him so far.
yweston

@BTR:
You said” “Joy behar would eat her alive” LMAO
Since when is joy behar a credibe interviewer/journalist/anything? She aint no barbara walters, and aint worthy of an interview of that magnitude with a palin or others, left or right. Joy behar, jesus, what is the world coming to when people think a bitter, bias, jackass is a legit reporter or individual…

… Why aren’t you laughing. Pay-lin is still too afraid and st00pid to “interview with Joy”. She’s ONLY good for Oprah, Faux Entertainment and Late Night Comedy strips. Oops, I forgot. Drum Roll….Saturday Night Live. Joy would eat the “illiterate” witch alive. And you’re still spinning. “Spin Baby Spin”.