Sarah Palin's Earthquake
The day after Palin announced that she wouldn't be running for president, she called in to the Bob and Mark radio show to answer questions about her decision. When asked what kind of metaphorical earthquake would be required for her to run, she said "it would have to be at least a 10.3..." With that, a movement (otherwise known as a Facebook page) sprung up among Palin supporters called "Sarah Palin's Earthquake."
This is an attempt to round up all of the Sarah Palin supporters to see if we can create the "Earthquake" that she said it would take to get her to reconsider running for President. If nothing else, it will show her we will support her and have her back.
As of this writing, the page has 3,200 members. Are they delusional? Will there be enough of them to alter the nomination process by dividing the conservative vote? Why won't they just go away?
I ask for your answers. I have my own, for, alas, I am one of them.
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Mar '11
Re: Sarah Palin's Earthquake
Gus: Can I add to your list of questions?
What, exactly, will happen to SarahPAC and the money collected there?
Aug '11
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Yes, they're delusional. Sarah Palin knows full well that she can't win and that if she tried and failed, her bankability would plunge to zero.
Mar '11
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Crow's Nest: Gus: Can I add to your list of questions?
What, exactly, will happen to SarahPAC and the money collected there? · Oct 8 at 11:40am
Well, SarahPAC wasn't a campaign PAC for Palin, so I assume it will focus on promoting conservative Senate, House, and Gubernatorial candidates. I believe she said as much.
Mar '11
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Gus: that may be so, but I'll wager that most of the people who contributed to SarahPAC didn't think they were buying to the Palin Seal of Approval Bank for Candidates Sarah Likes as opposed to Palin herself.
Mar '11
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Oh Tom, "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" were excellent and inspirational, but then the drinking got the best of you...
Aug '11
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Gus Marvinson
Oh Tom, "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" were excellent and inspirational, but then the drinking got the best of you... · Oct 8 at 11:48am
Don't ask questions if you're not prepared for an uncongenial answer.
Dec '10
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Tom Paine
Gus Marvinson
Oh Tom, "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" were excellent and inspirational, but then the drinking got the best of you... · Oct 8 at 11:48am
Don't ask questions if you're not prepared for an uncongenial answer. · Oct 8 at 12:10pm
Why on Earth not? Do you mean that simply asking you a question is giving you license to be rude? Why?
Aug '11
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Starve the Beast
Tom Paine
Gus Marvinson
Oh Tom, "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" were excellent and inspirational, but then the drinking got the best of you... · Oct 8 at 11:48am
Don't ask questions if you're not prepared for an uncongenial answer. · Oct 8 at 12:10pm
Why on Earth not? Do you mean that simply asking you a question is giving you license to be rude? Why? · Oct 8 at 12:53pm
I wasn't rude, I simply answered your specific question in the affirmative.
You asked a closed-ended question, which can be answered in one of two ways - yes or no. I answered "yes". Not my problem that you don't like my choice.
Edited on October 8, 2011 at 9:59pmMar '11
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Tom, I don't mind uncongenial answers, in fact history shows that most Ricochet members who bother post do not share my support for Palin. Affirmation isn't what I'm after. Honest answers to the questions I posed will suffice. By the way, my initial response to you was meant as a bit of humor. Sorry you didn't see it that way.
Dec '10
Re: Sarah Palin's Earthquake
Two events made it impossible for Palin to run: Perry's entry into the race (with his initial burst of momentum), and, once Perry revealed himself to be eminently beatable, the refusal of Christie to run (which would have helped defeat Romney). Right now it is simply too late to get into the race with any assurance of becoming the anti-Romney consensus candidate, and Romney has the "moderate" space all to himself (Huntsman being a non-entity).
Oct '10
Re: Sarah Palin's Earthquake
Palin has my support whatever her decision is. My confidence in her wisdom extends to her deciding that the presidency isn't a wise move... at the moment.
Also, Cain is proving to be a surprisingly popular conservative personality. Will he make it? Don't know, but without Palin on the ballot, Cain (not the Mc version) is my choice.
As for the Romney/Perry/others establishment GOP hacks... if I hold my nose for one more election I will be clinically dead, so for the sake of my wife's future, I will not take the risk.
Aug '11
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I tend to agree that the time for Palin to get into the race was prior to Rick Perry. Though I am also glad she decided not to. I think she does her best work exactly where she is: a conservative gadfly, eternally buzzing around the heads of the establishment.
Very well put.
Edited on October 9, 2011 at 1:28amApr '11
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Gus got it in one:
We’re not retreating, we’re reloading!
. . . .let’s not forget that we have all been called to “fight like a girl” in an effort to restore our country. It’s a call to stand with Governor Palin and to continue fighting for the conservative values of smaller government, free markets, life, and family . . . [and to] join Governor Palin in the fight to secure many victories for commonsense constitutional conservatives at all levels of government.
Need inspiration? How about viewing SarahPAC’s newly released video “Restoring America Together” here: http://youtu.be/yD9KNzgAwzI
--from an e-mail, "Are You Ready to Rumble?", Thursday, Oct 6 11:12 PM
I found the video strangely moving (why are those two words so often linked?), though there is not a hint of a policy in it. If SP can keep a chunk of the electorate focused and committed, it is all to the good.
May '10
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This is standard Kenneth discussion style. Ignore it, Gus.
By the way, I do agree with John Ziegler about this, at this point. Sarah needs to go do some homework.
Mar '11
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I was a fan of Mrs Palin, but now that she has decided not to run, I respect that.
Kinda like Mr Ryan, though strangely I am a little less sympathetic to him, because he was so well qualified, but lacked the spark.
Dec '10
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DrewInWisconsin, Perry's entry was a problem for Palin on several levels: he's her friend, he's nominally a "Common-Sense Conservative" of the type she said she wanted in the race, and he's go ten years' experience as governor to her two and a half. But when he started floundering, that gave her an opening. If Christie had entered the race, that would have done several things for Palin: Christie only has two and a half years' experience, so people touting him as fully qualified would implicitly be endorsing Palin's qualifications. Moreover, Christie would have severely weakened Romney and allowed Palin to focus her pitch to the voters on why they should select her as the anti-Romney (or, as it might have happened, the anti-Christie). Without Christie in the race to help take down Romney, Palin has probably concluded that it may be too difficult to overcome Romney at this point. (I'd have loved for her to run, and I hope Cain has the juice to take on Romney if Perry cannot.)
May '10
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It's fairly obvious that social media promotes and encourages political fantasies.
Oct '10
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Herman Cain will overtake Sarah Palin as the standard bearer of the Tea Party movement.
Apr '11
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Enough already. What will it take for some people to realize that Palin is not a viable national candidate?
It's past time for Palin fanatics to look deep down and ask:
Do my allegiances lie with a cult of personality or the actual success of conservative values?
I'm sorry, but there is currently no in between. The political reality is not in any way favorable to Palin on a national ticket. Perhaps that will change someday, but right now it is not going to happen.
Oct '10
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Two points:
1. I have been a Palin supporter. I am slightly disappointed that she decided to not run but if she can help cause everyday conservative values, along with honesty in Washington, to be focal points then she will be doing good work. She can have a profound effect on the GOP candidates, and in a good way.
2. Her positions and Cain's positions are nearly alike. If Cain can stay near the top of the heap he can win. His weakness is lack of D.C. experience. He can address that effectively by choosing a running mate who has it. Santorum and Gingrich come to mind. He can win if he does that and Sarah throws her support to him.
I don't care a whit that she's not in the race. I will continue to support her.