Sarah Palin: I’d vote for Gingrich “to keep things going”
Sarah Palin gave a qualifying endorsement of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Tuesday, a week after her husband also endorsed him.
In an interview with Fox television host Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Palin said that if she were a South Carolina voter she would cast her ballot for the former Speaker of the House in Saturday’s primary.
“If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep things going, I’d vote for Newt,” she said. Using a quote from the bible she said she wanted the race to continue because, “iron sharpens iron, steel sharpens steel.”
Rivals have been unable to dent Mitt Romney’s status as the frontrunner of the Republican race for the party nomination. Gingrich is one of several candidates who have risen up as a more conservative alternative, and challenger, to Romney.
While not a ringing endorsement, this is the closest Palin has gotten to formally siding with any candidate. Palin, a popular Tea Party conservative, started her own political action committee and toured the country giving speeches and raising money before announcing in October that she would not run for the nomination.
Her PAC website includes a list of “Palin Picks,” but no presidential candidates are listed.
Maybe a Christmas card from a “President Gingrich” could feature Newt with his 3 wives. How would that sit with Ms. Palin?
Sarah Palin says “first dude went rogue” with Gingrich endorsement
When Todd Palin announced on Monday that he was backing Newt Gingrich for president, some speculated he was acting as a proxy for his wife. Not so, said Sarah Palin on FOX last night.
“First dude went rogue,” Sarah Palin told FOX Business Network’s Eric Bolling when asked whether her husband had consulted her before making the endorsement. “And I respect him for doing that.”
“Todd is all about hard hats and steel-toed boots and getting people to work,” she said. “Todd obviously believing that Newt Gingrich represents more of that connectivity to the working class and to what it’s going to incentivize the private sector to create jobs for the skilled workforce.”
Palin also spoke to Romney’s “firing” comment, saying that “in this era of huge joblessness in our country,” his remark showed “some tone deafness.”
“That statement, I think, really negatively affected a lot of people who feel downtrodden, can’t find and a job, and don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel,” she said.
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A Palin goes for Gingrich
Newt Gingrich may have been hoping for a Palin endorsement, but the one he announced Monday was probably not the one he was expecting.
The aspiring Republican presidential nominee said he received a call from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s husband saying he would endorse him for president.
“Honored to be endorsed by Todd Palin.” Gingrich tweeted, though he did not mention anything about the more powerful Palin and if she had chosen whom to support in the 2012 campaign.
Gingrich’s campaign released a short press release later in the day quoting Todd Palin — a former snow machine champion who was introduced throughout the 2008 campaign by his wife as the “First Dude” of Alaska — calling Gingrich a “true leader.”
Palin even drew comparisons of the 68-year-old former speaker of the House with his 47-year-old wife who was the first Republican woman to run for vice president.
“Just like Sarah, Newt has faced many successes and challenges,” Palin said in the statement released by Gingrich’s campaign. “Despite his consultants leaving him last summer, Newt is still standing because of his ideas and his success in the debates — not by spending millions of dollars in campaign ads.”
Just like his Grifter wife, Todd Palin doesn’t actually care about Gingrich or the GOP nomination. He only cares about how he can USE the issue for his own benefit. Todd has recently tried to get the Discovery channel to produce another BOGUS “reality” show, this time about Todd’s participation in the Iron Dog snowmobile race. Discovery turned him down flat. Fox “news” is likely to not renew Sarah’s contract, primarily because of the incredibly shoddy way she handled her Presidential run prospects. Sarah has been like a stripper teasing the audience , and for the same reasons. She wants to fleece as much money as possible off the rubes who blindly follow her. The legacy of the Tea Party and it’s poster girl Palin, and the Right Wing extremists like Rush Limbaugh and the Koch brothers is the total destruction of the GOP’s leadership
from Political Theater:
Palin supporters air “Run, Sarah, Run!” ad in Iowa
The organization Conservatives4Palin is running an ad in Sioux City, Iowa, this week urging Sarah Palin to reconsider running for president in 2012.
The video features Palin speaking about the need to "confront the crony capitalism of our permanent political class" -- which she says results in "socialism for the very rich and the very poor" but "a brutal form of capitalism for the rest of us" -- and enumerating her qualifications as a corruption fighter. It wraps with an appeal: "Run, Sarah, Run!"
Here is it, via PalinTV (h/t Richard Hétu):
Pure capitalism is brutal but efficient. This law of the jungle, however, runs afoul of the most basic conservative principle, the survival of the country.
In a free society regulations are needed to protect the people from the all consuming capitalists. As we have witnessed over the last decade the corporate influence on legislation has torn down the walls of protection for the average American allowing the barbarians to lower our incomes and sack our retirement accounts.
The so called conservatives have put the union at risk.
Palin’s 2012 plan: help others defeat Obama
“I apologize to those whom are disappointed in this decision… But I believe that they, when they take a step back, will understand why the decision was made and understand that really you don’t need a title to make a difference in this country,” Sarah Palin said on Fox New after closing the door to a 2012 presidential campaign.
The former Alaska governor, and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, ended months and months of speculation on Wednesday by announcing her decision not to throw her hat into the ring.
While she isn’t hitting the trail as a White House candidate, Palin clearly intends to remain a player on the political stage.
“In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the president, re-taking the Senate and maintaining the House,” she said in a statement posted on Facebook. She also says she’ll continue “driving the discussion for freedom and free market.”
Some Highlights from Palin’s flirtation with 2012 presidential race:
September 3, 2011 – Palin wows Tea Party of America rally in Indianola, Iowa, with what sounds like a campaign stump speech. It was widely anticipated that she’d use the speech to announce her candidacy. Two days later, she gave a speech at a Tea Party Express Rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.
August 12, 2011 – Palin makes a surprise stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines — scheduled neatly between a debate between declared Republican contenders and the Ames straw poll. It was her second high-profile trip of the summer to Iowa.
They won’t be happy until we get like this country:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/0 7/us-korea-north-food-idUSTRE7956DU20111 007
No environmental regs, no banking regs, no labor unions, everybody working for 1$ a year… and now, nobody eating.
Hey, wavering Republicans – file by Halloween, or turn into a pumpkin
A January 31 Florida primary would offer a big treat for anyone tired of the ‘will she/won’t he’ speculation about possible new entries to the Republican presidential field — a hard deadline, on Halloween.
Florida officials say the state is expected to move up its primary to the January date, which means that candidates have until Oct. 31 — Halloween — to file paperwork to get their names on the ballot in the vote-rich state.
Florida is the fourth-most populous state, with more than 18 million people, and it is by far the largest of the “swing states” not strongly aligned with either political party, where U.S. elections are typically decided.
If the state holds its primary early, it could actually push the deadline even closer for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and any of the other politicians who have said they are considering a run or those whose admirers wish they would run. Are you listening, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and current Mayor Michael Bloomberg?
The Republican Party has authorized four states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — to hold early contests to choose the nominee to oppose President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election bid. Those states had planned to hold their contests in February, but would almost certainly move up their primary elections and caucuses ahead of Florida.
That would put some other holidays on the Republican candidates’ minds — Christmas, Hannukah and New Year’s — because a shift in the primary calendar would force them to be out campaigning hard during December.
Photo credit: REUTERS/Rick Wilking (Carved pumpkins on a truck in in Boulder, Colo. Oct 31, 2007 )
Palin asks whether ‘title’ worth joining 2012 race
Sarah Palin says the biggest thing she’s thinking about as she decides whether or not to run for president is whether a title would be a shackle and stifle her message.
“Through my process of decision-making with my family and my close friends as to whether I should throw my name in the hat for the GOP nomination for 2012 – Is a title worth it? Does a title shackle a person?” Palin said Tuesday night on the Fox News show “On the Record.”
“Someone like me who’s a maverick? I do go rogue and I call it like I see it and I don’t mind stirring it up in order to get people to think and debate aggressively to find solutions to the problems that our country is facing,” Palin continued.
“Somebody like me, is a title and a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there and out of a box, not allowing handlers to shape me and to force my message to be what’s going on, or what contributors or political pundits want it to be?” Palin said.
“Does a title take away my freedom to call it like I see it and to affect positive change that we need in this country?” Palin said, explaining: “That’s the biggest contemplation piece in my process.”
“You don’t need a title to make a difference,” she said in what could be a major clue about which way she’s leaning.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee has said she would decide by the end of September whether to join the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
No one votes a QUITTER into the office of president.
Perry still leads Republican pack – CNN/ORC poll
Rick Perry is still the front-runner in the field of 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls, according to a new CNN/ORC International Poll released on Monday.
The Texas governor’s latest debate performance — rated shaky by some political analysts — apparently did not disappoint actual potential voters who support him.
Perry leads his nearest opponent, Mitt Romney 28 percent to 21 percent among Republican voters, according to the poll taken over the weekend — after last Thursday’s Republican debate in Orlando, Florida.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has 10 percent support. The other declared Republican candidates trail far behind in the single digits.
That’s with Sarah Palin in the lineup.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee has hinted about it but has not decided whether to join the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. When she’s not presented to the poll respondents as an option — Perry gets 30 percent backing; Romney 22 percent and Gingrich 11 percent.
In a head-to-head race between President Barack Obama and Romney, the poll shows voters almost equally divided. Forty-nine percent of all respondents said they’d be more likely to vote for Obama — the Democrat — while 48 percent said Romney would be their choice.
Proof positive Americans need to spend less time watching/listening/reading partisan ‘news’ and ‘information’ sources and more time researching facts.
Based on his performance (so far) and the tax bills he’s signed into law, the perpetuated war efforts/spending, and even the healthcare legislation, Obama is the best Republican money can buy.
And yet, wingnuts and yahoos still think he’s a liberal. Amazing.
And so, wingnuts and yahoos get duped into believing a guy like Rick Perry would make a swell president. Go figure.
Only in America.
2012 candidates woo voters on Labor Day
Labor Day is no day off for President Barack Obama and the Republicans who want his job. The holiday to pay tribute to American workers traditionally marks the start of the general election campaign. And although 15 months remain before the 2012 election, you’ll find the 2012 White House hopefuls on the road Monday hoping to score points with voters.
Democrat Obama travels to Detroit on Labor Day to talk about how to create jobs and strengthen the economy, the White House said. With U.S. unemployment steady at 9.1 percent, Reuters’ Jeff Mason writes Obama’s on the spot to boost hiring and economic growth as he campaigns for a second term in the White House.
Obama also spoke in Detroit on Labor Day 2008 as his general election race heated up against Republican presidential rival Senator John McCain.
McCain’s vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, is not a declared candidate, but the whole world is waiting to find out whether she’ll join the the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
The former Alaska governor is the headliner at a Tea Party Express rally in Manchester, New Hampshire on Monday. Will she use her Labor Day speech to end the suspense over her intentions? Palin has indicated she’ll make a decision sometime this month. ABC News analyst Rick Klein poses the question: when Palin’s decision finally comes will she still be relevant?
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was greeted by a small group of Tea Party protesters at a pre-Labor day rally Sunday in Concord, New Hampshire. There was a bit of an intraparty battle over whether Romney should be invited to speak at all. Some Tea party activists who do not want him to win the Republican presidential nomination have launched an “anyone-but-Romney campaign,” The Washington Post reports. That includes the protest in New Hampshire, home of the first-in-the-nation-primary election.
Republican front-runner Rick Perry, favored by many Tea Party supporters, is concentrating his Labor Day efforts in South Carolina, another early and important primary state. The Texas governor has a town hall meeting in the morning before joining fellow Republican contenders at Senator Jim DeMint’s Palmetto Freedom Forum.
Well, “Sensibility,” if you look at the decline of the middle class in America, it parallels the decline of unions. If you think that’s success, it is you who is on the wrong side of history.
Yes, but when conservatives like Bush were president, no one posted bipartisan maps showing everyone else’s gaffes as well. The concern to show how ubiquitous such gaffes really is only seen when the Current Occupant comes under scrutiny for gaffes once thought only do-able by the previous moron.
In short, when Bush does it: snicker snicker idiot.
When Obama does it: Oh it can happen to anybody.
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