(Delusional) Palin Putting Out Presidential Feelers in Iowa

[hlthe2b]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/20/exclusive_palin_putting_out_presidential_feelers_in_iowa_108601.html

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has tasked her aides with quietly gauging her level of support for a potential presidential campaign by making inquiries to a select pool of likely allies and grassroots activists in Iowa, RealClearPolitics has learned.

Key Republican officials and operatives in the nation's first voting state had begun to assume that Palin would not run for president in 2012 since most of them have not heard a word from her or from her small circle of aides, even as other likely candidates have begun jockeying more forcefully behind the scenes. But a Palin adviser confirmed that although the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee's footprint has not been as heavy as that of other possible candidates, her political action committee has indeed been taking discreet steps in Iowa that would help her build a credible campaign here if she decided to launch one.

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ahh, the delusion continues.....

Commenting on this story (Gryphen at ImmoralMinority.com): After having been connected to an attempted assassination in Tucson, with poll numbers now at an all time low, and with a spanking new sex scandal involving her husband currently picking up steam on the internet, one has to question the sanity of a person who would seriously contemplate the idea of launching a campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination at this time.

Indeed....

[chelsea0011]

1. What has not made any sense to me, and Chris Matthews has brought this up,

is the idea that the first three conservative primaries of Iowa, N.H., and S.C. could propel Sarah to the nomination. Why? Everyone else in the race would know that she would be a catastrophic fail in the following primaries. So, why do these pundits think other candidates would withdraw after the first three?

[trotsky]

5. Yeah that's ridiculous.

A candidate could get 100% of the vote in all three of those primaries and not even make a dent in the number needed to clinch the nomination. I guess they are all going with "momentum" notion. Which I just don't see. Of course I don't see Palin getting more than 10-20% of the vote in any primary anyway, so who knows.

[delightfulstar]

2. She doesn't get it.

Apparently, she didn't see that the Iowa Repukes seem to have a thing for Huckabee, not her...


Public Policy Polling (D)
1/7-9/11; 494 "likely Republican primary voters," 4.4% margin of error
Mode: Automated phone
PPP release
Iowa

2012 Republican Caucus First Choice

30% Huckabee
18% Romney
15% Palin
13% Gingrich
6% Paul
4% Pawlenty
3% Thune
1% Daniels

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/ia2012-caucus-30-huckabee_n_807338.html

This, of course, doesn't reflect her series of snafus after the Tucson shootings, so I would expect that she has dropped down from that 15%.

[Crankie Avalon]

3. Why not? If Pat Paulsen could run for president....n/t

[Chimichurri]

4. Run, Sarah, Run! And wear that Republican/Tea Party badge

proudly.

I really hope she does.

[MineralMan]

6. More Like Presidential Tentacles.

Ick!