Oct 29, 2011 7:52pm

Sarah Palin Supporters Meet Online to Discuss Life After Her Decision

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Sarah Palin’s most passionate supporters held an online forum today to assess what they should do going forward, now that the former Alaska governor has announced she won’t enter the GOP 2012 field.

Participants of the forum, called Grizzlyfest, came together for three hours to praise Palin, plot how they will continue their grassroots political organizing in 2012, and how they will choose 2012 candidates after Palin stunned the group last month when she announced she would not seek the GOP nomination. The running theme of the event was that despite their chosen candidate’s decision, they will stay active in conservative politics.

Josh Painter, who runs the blog Texans for Sarah Palin, acknowledged that many supporters he knew were still “coming out of shock” at Palin’s decision, but that Grizzlyfest was an “excellent opportunity” to assess “where we are and where we are going.”

The forum at times sounded like a support group aimed at re-energizing the group who had devoted so much time to supporting Palin — some even moving to early states to campaign for the non-candidate — convinced she would run for president.

Palin did not participate in the event, but her brother, Chuck Heath Jr., called into the forum.

Panelist Nicole Coulter, an editor at the pro-Palin site Conservatives4Palin, asked the question that kept popping up on the event’s chat page where listeners could ask questions of the panelists: Can you convince Palin to change her mind?

“I can’t convince Sarah of anything,” Heath said. “But I will definitely work on her. I understand the reason that she had for not running, but I look at the other choices and it was painful for me, too. Honestly not because she’s my sister, but I honestly thought she was the best candidate out there. I’ll keep working on her.”

He said Palin’s early days in beauty pageants, which he said she did to get a college scholarship, “gave her a bit of confidence” and that “kind of snowballed into what happened now.”

Heath also announced that he’s working on a book with his father Chuck Heath about their family’s “Alaska experiences going back to our grandparents and even before then. It will give everybody a really good look at the influences that made Sarah who she is today.”

Some supporters said they would look to whom Palin endorses in the 2012 races — including Senate and congressional elections — but they wouldn’t blindly follow her decisions.

Conservative columnist Jedidiah Bila said she was “interested in what she’s (Palin)  going to do” and she’s “interested in who she’s (Palin) going to support,” but she would make her own decisions on who to vote for. Several panelists agreed saying they would look for candidates with similar values and policy positions as Palin.

Grizzlyfest panelists included conservative radio host Tammy Bruce and Steve Bannon, who made the pro-Palin film “The Undefeated.” Other speakers on the panels were supporters who run the pro-Palin grassroots group “Organize4Palin” and blog on the site “Conservatives4Palin.” All the panelists discussed what they called the next step in the “Restoration,” taken from a theme Palin consistently talks about: “Restoring America.”

Palin aide Rebecca Mansour, who started the website Conservatives4Palin where many of the panelists also contribute, also called into the event. She told the panelists and listeners not to be “discouraged” by Palin’s decision, adding that her supporters will “hold anyone who runs against Obama accountable” and pledged to “take back the Senate” in 2012. Mansour urged the group to “stay energized” despite the change in focus.

The group never named specific candidates whom they may rally around, but the terms “crony capitalism” and “permanent political class” — favorite terms of Palin’s — were repeated over and over again making it clear that Palin supporters won’t naturally jump to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has had to fight back against criticism that he gave out prize positions and other advantages to campaign donors throughout his tenure.

Perry was only mentioned once, when Zahnd, who runs the Illinois chapter of Organize4Palin, referred to him and President Obama when talking about politicians she sees as fitting the “crony capitalism” mold.

Bannon urged the group not to dismantle despite not having the clear goal they had before saying, “It behooves everyone to stay together” adding that he thinks Palin would “support this 100 percent.”

Peter Singleton, one of two Palin supporters who relocated to Iowa to campaign for Palin for almost a year before Palin announced her decision, was also one of  the panelists. He said he hasn’t left the Hawkeye state despite Palin’s decision and will continue to split his time between there and his home in California. Singleton said he believes Palin will be the “leader of the restoration movement, but she won’t lead us alone.”

Despite pledges to remain active and continue their work on behalf of other conservative candidates, there were no concrete decisions on candidates to support or politicians the group would coalesce behind in 2012. The goal of Grizzlyfest was to try to re-energize a group deeply disappointed by Palin’s decision. The one thing that was clear by the end, that real disappointment remains despite a willingness to try and stay as a cohesive group without a leader.

*Update* Originally this post stated that Whitney Zahnd interviewed Chuck Heath. The post has been corrected because Nicole Coulter actually asked Heath the question. 

User Comments

While I’d give just about anything to see Palin run, she is the only person who knows what the right choice is. It’s her decision and I respect it. Now, excuse me while I go sulk.

Posted by: creeper | October 29, 2011, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

the very fact that these people were “stunned” by her announcement that she is not going to run shows that they have at best, a tenuous grasp on reality. let us pay no more attention to them, lest we encourage their delusions.

Posted by: justsane | October 29, 2011, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

I witnessed the online summit today and I can tell you that Palin power is still running unabated throughout the Conservative movement.

The passion and energy that Sarah Palin hath wrought is bubbling just waiting to burst upon the election cycle.

Most Palinistas and hard core supporters have gone to ground and have not fixated on a replacement candidate.

In that same vein, most Tea Partiers, tired of being called racist and facist have taken to being underground and working behind the scenes at call centers and other get out the vote efforts and only need to make their secret ballot count, and that is all good.

The longer the main stream media plays up the occupy movement and does not denounce ANY of their 1000′s of arrests, their marxist supporters, their racist supporters, their radical anarchist suporters, their actual crimes, then the more furious the actual public and tea partiers become.

Main Stream Make Believe Media, the more you try to energize Obama’s base, the more you hide the truth, the more you are energizing the actual electorate ! Mark these words.

Posted by: Tom, Canton Ohio | October 29, 2011, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

She lacks real leadership ability, she quit as Alaska’s governor when things a little rough. How could anyone seriously vote for her?

Posted by: No Leadership Ability | October 29, 2011, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

change her mind?
Does she have any?
These people are just Crazy Idiots.

Posted by: Linda,Fl | October 29, 2011, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm

Sarah, please run, I beg you.

Posted by: Jim Bob jr. | October 29, 2011, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

My question would be how it was they didn’t catch on she’s ONLY about money and never intended to run. These people can’t be too bright.

Posted by: Secondlook | October 29, 2011, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

R these people high? Did they really think that she was going to ever run? She took the money and ran; am I jealous, no; I make more than she does, and I gladly will agree to have a tax hike on my money to pay for Bush’s wars and ill advised tax cut. Wake up people; sister sarah is the cult of personality, and you have been had. I quote the last poster, “I beg you….” this is really pathetic, and I am not begging anyone to run; have some self respect…. the people in Wasila don’t even want her back; she will be moving to hollywood soon…….. I don’t really think that she is well read enough to get through an issue of field and stream.

Posted by: lesman | October 29, 2011, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

America, Your Sarah Palin led the good fight for 2 years. Her ‘death panels’ set the Obama agenda in a tail spin for over a year and caused his poll numbers to drop to where he still has not recovered. She played a major part in the GOP getting control of the House even though they tried to pretend it never happen. Now that Sarah Palin will not be in the race, Obama will easily win reelection because the GOP will not go after the root of how both parties are ripping off the American people.

These seven idiots the GOP have running for POTUS are part of the problem and won’t address the real problems. The real problem are the lobbyists and the special interest groups.

Sarah Palin understands this because she fought Big Oil, crony capitalism, and the permanent political class as the mayor and governor of Alaska. She beat Big Oil and she put crooks in jail.

Neither the DNC or the RNC parties want her anywhere near the WH because it will be the end of business as usual.

Ask yourself America? Why would your corrupt MSM, your liberals, and even some in her own party invest over 3 years of their time attacking this one little woman and mother of five with some of the most vicious smears and lies to behold? And yes from a far almost all the trash thrown out there are lies about this one woman.

Once in a lifetime one is sent to serve with a true servant’s heart in order to start the process of restoring all that is good and right.

Will God continue to shed his grace on thee America?

I will leave you with Sarah Palin’s own words:

“America, we will always endure. We will always come through. We will never give up. We shall endure because we live by that moral strength that we call grace. Because though we’ve often skirted a precipice, a Providential Hand has always guided us to a better future. So, let us seek that Hand once more. Our Ronald Reagan said, “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, we will be a nation gone under.” Yes, He shed his grace on thee, America! We will not squander what we have been given! We will fight for freedom. We will fight for America. We are at the tipping point. United we must stand. And we shall nobly save, not meanly lose, this last best hope on earth.
So, God bless you, Iowa! God bless the United States of America!”

Posted by: ShedTheeGrace | October 29, 2011, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm

She had already become a laughing-stock to a majority of people and she’s probably smart enough to know that she has no chance of winning without doing a lot studying so she actually understands the issue -something she doesn’t have the discipline to accomplish. She’s also smart enough to know that if she says the “right” things, she’ll remain the highly-paid pied-piper leading along those who hear what they want to hear. So staying away from candidacy allows her to have her cake and eat it too.

Posted by: The_Mick | October 29, 2011, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

I’ve been a Republican all my adult life. I will never forgive John McCain for unleashing this silliness on national politics. One lesson has been learned however. Never ever underestimate the power of the People Magazine crowd. These folks should do something reasonable and get behind Mitt Romney for 2012. I expect they eventually will. It just scares the bejesus out of me that these people are serious about Sarah Palin!

Posted by: Irv, Phoenix | October 29, 2011, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

Gov Palin has proven her leadership skills. She has proven her fiscal conservatism, bi-partisanship governing, and her ability to mobilize millions of voters simply by the power of her message. Her record is second to none. Perhaps the jim-boobs still infesting internet stories that mention her name, might find a larger audience for their witty negativisms were they to address them to a gathering of former Obama supporters. Sorry. Meant to say jim-bobs.
It is the Governor’s message, not her image, that we support so strongly. The Dems and GOP elite may wish they had not conspired to drive her out. Now they are going to have to deal with us.

Posted by: Annie | October 29, 2011, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

Further proof the GOP Tea Party are ALL brain dead! Please please please bring on stage another dozen quacks (beginning with with this witch)!

Posted by: Guinness | October 29, 2011, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

I think she should run and win the Presidency.
Then after completely wrecking the US economy and the Constitution, we
can start all over again and build something worthwhile from scratch.

Posted by: John | October 29, 2011, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

This woman has no business in the political arena. She does not have business giving speeches to christian women, korea or anyone. I have read the lastes books by Joe McGinnis, Frank Bailey and Levi Johnston. If even a couple of pages are true….she should be ban completely. I myself believe all of it. Ever since the desparate gop strategist exposed America to this loon…..I was leary. She is a sociopath, opportunist, lying, fake.

Posted by: BLM | October 29, 2011, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

I’ve taken a while to listen to libs throw negative jabs at her and soon to be written off (by me) TV personalities and more express their dislike for Sarah Palin, and for the life of me I cannot see what’s not to like about her. I think that for whatever reason she would only be a media piniata if she were elected and could be far more effective in a role that puts her in a more representative type role. Whether as a conservative TV or radio host or representing conservative women somehow I think she can make her mark in much more effective ways in the near term. Sadly, the media has disrespected the office of the POTUS.

Posted by: Rick Ross | October 29, 2011, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

First of all it’s about the money and attention, she knows she can make more money and gain more attention without being President. Second, she doesn’t have the brains to run this country, she couldn’t see russia from the White House and she need to see the bridge to nowhere project through. Third, she has to protect the momma’s grizzlies.

Posted by: Thomas | October 29, 2011, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm

Palin is a joke. An uninformed, anti-intellecutal incurious grifter. These people are “shocked” that Palin didn’t run? I’m shocked that they thought she would, although if the presidential election were to be decided by some sort of Farcebook (griftville???) game I’m sure she’d do well. I blame McCain for foisting this ridiculous dullard on the country. I’m sure he wishes he would’ve vetted her better. She was a disaster for him (as well as Alaska and Wasilla).

Posted by: Smirnonn | October 29, 2011, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

What mind? She quit again. Send her a basketball player.

Posted by: kors | October 29, 2011, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

Let sleeping dogs lie! She and the Tea Party are yesterday’s news. A small group on their way to nowhere.

Posted by: dsg3848 | October 29, 2011, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

Please…..NO! Don’t change your mind…. The thought of a Palin candidacy is nothing more than a joke. What we need is a true presidential candidate who actually has a chance of putting up a respectable and honorable run for office. Sarah Palin is not actually someone who has a chance of becoming president. She should focus on taking care of her family that she has completely disrupted in the past few years.

Posted by: Mary | October 29, 2011, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm

This has got to be Palin herself and/or her tea party minions making these titles and posts to support her and play a game to try to make people believe someone could actually support Palin! I can’t / don’t want to believe there is any American this ignorant and just that dumb to want Palin in politics or a hopeful for President of our amazing Country! Palin…. You are a joke and embarrassment to politics and all intelligent America women. Just be happy you’re wealthy and stay home!

Posted by: 4cause | October 30, 2011, 12:28 am 12:28 am

Good heavens. There are actually people like Lesman out there, almost completely ignorant of history and current events. Her leadership skills?!? She has neither the skills nor the knowledge nor the brains to teach high school. How could she run the country?!? I don’t know if the media attacked and smeared her, either: we needed to have the MSM show the American people that Bachmann and Palin are dimwits with pretty faces, which they did, sometimes. Nominating Palin for VP is a form of sexism: she has almost zero intellect, so what she offers is an image, a pretty face, but an incompetent leader. There are many, many women Republican leaders out there that are FAR more talented than Palin and Bachmann. BLM said “and for the life of me I cannot see what’s not to like about her”…. I don’t know if I dislike her, but I think her intellect would be strained by the task of baking brownies. How does one dislike an airhead? She has the intellectual range and emotional depth of a Hostess Twinkie.

Posted by: John | October 30, 2011, 12:43 am 12:43 am

Sarah Palin is not qualified to for public office. She can’t think on her feet. She makes dumb statements all the time. (Pssst….Sarah, Paul Revere didn’t set out to warn the British.) She QUIT the only reasonably high office she ever held mid-term (and please spare us the nonesense that she was inundated with frivolous law suits). She speak in bumper stickers and tired rhetoric that she has to read off her hand. Please…the Sarah Palin era is over. She will never, ever run for high office again. Can we move on please?

Posted by: Martin Kendrick | October 30, 2011, 1:14 am 1:14 am

Palin would quit halfway in……The palins are nothing more than bad reality TV! Leave them to promote their trash!

Posted by: Ragman | October 30, 2011, 1:38 am 1:38 am

sarah palin and michelle bachmann do NOT represent the republican party. they are a disaster in terms if winning elections on a national level. religious right wing nuts do not get votes. if we’re to defeat obama we have to get serious and support someone with a huge business background who can appeal to independents. sarah, stay in alaska please

Posted by: kitty hogan | October 30, 2011, 2:03 am 2:03 am

Remember when a legislative investigation found Sarah guilty of an ethics violation? She immediately responded with a virtual wave of the hand and said “Well, you know, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.” Her Jedi Mind Trick worked so well that some of the weak-minded are still singing her praises to this day. Too bad she uses her powers for the dark side of the Force.

Posted by: George Lucas | October 30, 2011, 2:25 am 2:25 am

It is disheartening to see that some of those responsible for dishonoring the presidency of the United States in 2008, continue to remain unaware of the scope of their ignorance and what their language reveals. Austria (and much of the world) suffered greatly at the hands of such people not so long ago..

Posted by: Annie | October 30, 2011, 2:49 am 2:49 am

Palin couldn’t handle being Governor of Alaska, a state with a mere 500,000 people. And she wants to be Commander in Chief? She has ethics violations back in Alaska. She doesn’t understand history either.

She is smart enough to know she is too dumb to be President. I’ll give her credit for that. McCain picked her because of her gender and to make himself look smarter. If you like Obama, push for Sarah to get in.

Posted by: sagebrush | October 30, 2011, 2:58 am 2:58 am

I used to visit C4P daily for the laughs. Since Sarah quit on her acoloytes (again), I’ve stopped looking regularly because now they’re all just very, very sad. And by “sad,” I mean “pathetic.” All eight of them.

BTW, to the commenter who was repeating the myth (lie) that Sarah put crooks in jail: No, she did not. Your federal government–the FBI, the IRS, and the DOJ–ran the sting operation that caught and prosecuted the corrupt legislators who took oil money for votes. She wasn’t even the governor then.

The Sarah you’re begging to save you never, ever existed. The Sarah who wanted your money and your worship? She’s doing GREAT.

Keep up the prayer vigils! Maybe God will change His mind and let her run.

Posted by: AnotherAlaskan | October 30, 2011, 4:13 am 4:13 am

POSTED BY: ANNIE | OCTOBER 30, 2011, 2:49 AM

Yes, the scope of Sarah Palin’s ignorance is revealed by her language. She mangles the pronunciation of English words:

PUN-dint = Pundit
NOO-kyoo-ler = Nuclear
VURB-ij = Verbiage
HEE-nee-us = Heinous
re-FEW-dee-ate = Repudiate

She repeatedly uses the word “progress” as a transitive verb:

“…take that in order to progress the message.”
“…we were the true change that would progress this nation.”
“…all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation.”
“…move forward together, start progressing America.”
“…work in bipartisan manners in order to progress this nation.”

She strings words and phrases together into nonsensensical mish-mash:

“And I speak for other Republicans, other Republican governors also, they being willing also to, again, seize this opportunity that we have to progress this nation together, a united front.”

“Any of the chants of ‘Sarah’ or anything that would look like maybe anything was Sarah-centric, is, on my part, I know that it is not me personally, that the cheers were for. It’s for, ‘Cool, we’ve got a woman on the ticket, we’ve got this manifestation of progress and change in America.’… But not me, personally, were those cheers for, but it was just for the representation of a woman on the ticket, a mom, somebody who loves this country so much, somebody very, very committed to policies that, I believe, will progress this country in the right direction.”

It’s miraculous that it took only 6 years and 5 colleges for her to earn that communications degree.

Posted by: WWW | October 30, 2011, 4:14 am 4:14 am

Sarah Palin has been in executive level politics for many years.
In Alaska, Sarah’s top priorities included fiscal restraint, limiting the size of government, resource development, education, equitable oil valuation as well as transportation and infrastructure development. Sarah Palin fought for ethics reform and transparency in government.

Sarah Palin has a long record of achievement and experience in public office.Prior her election as Governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council and two terms as the mayor of Wasilla. During her tenure, she reduced property tax levels while increasing services and made Wasilla a business-friendly environment, drawing in new industry.

Under her leadership as Governor, Alaska invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding and protected Alaska’s natural resources. She created Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office to provide oversight and maintenance of oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure and the Climate Change Subcabinet to prepare a climate change strategy for Alaska.

During Governor Palin’s first year in office, three of her administrations major proposed pieces of legislation passed—an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws, a competitive process to construct a natural gas pipeline and a restructuring of Alaska’s oil valuation formula.

Sarah Palin’s “business experience” comes with the negotiations and dealings she has had with one of the most powerful industries in the world: the energy industry.
At the end of the day, Sarah Palin negotiated billion dollar deals with one of the toughest industries in the world.

Sarah Palin is past chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency that promotes the conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment.

She also served as chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee, which was charged with pursuing legislation to ensure state needs are considered as federal policy is formulated in the areas of agriculture, energy, environmental protection and natural resource management.

In Alaska she did take on the old-boy network — the oil companies and her own party — and won.
Sarah Palin succeeded to a remarkable extent in settling,what had seemed insoluble problems, in the process putting Alaska on a trajectory to financial well-being.
On the big issues she left the state in better shape than most people, herself included, seem to realize or want to credit her for.
Sarah Palin’s achievement was to pull Alaska out of a dire, corrupt,enduring systemic crisis and return it to fiscal health and prosperity when many people believed that such a thing was impossible.

Upon her return to Alaska to resume her duties as Governor, Palin was plagued with one trumped up ethics charge after another which cost her staff dearly.
Sarah Palin resigned to get the countless attacks against her out of the governor’s office, and the money they cost the state, away from the burden of taxpayers; her entire administration was paralyzed by those frivolous complaints.
The frivolous ethics suits in effect crippled the ability of the executive branch to function properly.
She saw that if she stayed on as Governor it would continue to cost the state millions of dollars in wasted time and resources to defend against false and maliciously ethics complaints and doom it to gridlock.

By the way, she had fulfilled all the campaign promises she made, i.e., ethics reform, budget cutting, earmark cutting, getting the natural gas pipeline off high center through an open, transparent, and competitive process!

Sarah Palin promised to keep the frivolous anti-Palin law suits away from the Alaskan people and to be more effective on the stump ( supporting candidates , fundraising, etc)
Sarah Palin was truthful on both accounts!
She and the Tea Party were the catalysts for the takeover of the House , twice as many Governships and lopsided Gop Statehouses.

Posted by: Tantot | October 30, 2011, 5:48 am 5:48 am

Palin supporters = some very sick puppies

Posted by: Bob Ramos | October 30, 2011, 5:55 am 5:55 am

Get over it. Palin were playing anyone who would listen for fools. She was just in it for the money and attention. She had no interest in running. That would require her to actually work and follow through with something. Well, I guess she could quite again when the going got rough or someone asked her a tough question that would make her think.

Posted by: Dave | October 30, 2011, 6:14 am 6:14 am

They think that the women who can’t do anything without 2 Blackberries tried to call them but the poor phone service stopped her.The stupid is strong with these loons.

Posted by: Mommom | October 30, 2011, 6:48 am 6:48 am

From the moment Sarah Palin resigned the governorship of Alaska she has repeatedly offered serious policy statements on issues such as health care, the Federal Reserve’s money printing in funding our federal deficit, Crony Capitalism, energy independence, etc)
No other national Republican leader has done so as consistently, effectively, and as well.

Sarah Palin has been vetted, especially in the past 3 years like no one else; she’s probably the cleanest politician out there.
After poring over thousands of emails (24,000+ pages of emails) from Sarah Palin’s term as governor, the mainstream media has been forced to concede that Palin was a conscientious, transparent, and effective public servant.

The media and the REP establishment have done everything they can to vilify Sarah Palin and her family but despite a massive effort to destroy Sarah Palin, she is still on her feet and making a difference in the political world.

By the way, notice that almost none of the critique are truly about Sarah Palin’s policies; her political opponents concentrate on personal attacks (gossip ,smears, misinformation,etc ) that they hope will stick in the minds of those who are easily swayed by their incessant hate propaganda.

Posted by: John | October 30, 2011, 7:34 am 7:34 am

Palin is a fraud and a sleaze. She is more interested in making money than in serving her country. She pretends to be a “patriot” to foster her brand and keep ripping off those stupid enough to believe in her. She duped her followers into believing that she was going to run. She asked them for donations to SarahPac and let many to spend their time, efforts and hopes “organizing for Palin.” Yet she knew that she was not going to run. Those who still are in Palin’s cult are fanatics who do not tolerate any criticism of Palin. Any questioning of Palin posted in their website (C4P) is immediately removed by the censors (who claim to be freedom loving).

Posted by: Love dogs | October 30, 2011, 7:35 am 7:35 am

There are only 2 people that can beat obama — hillary clinton and sarah palin.
Neither are or will be running.
no other republican can stop obama from getting at least 290 electoral votes
the republicans only hope is to retain the house and retake the senate

Posted by: ss26mar | October 30, 2011, 7:40 am 7:40 am

ss26mar wrote “There are only 2 people that can beat obama — hillary clinton and sarah palin.”
++++++++++++++++++

The polls didn’t back that up.
Obama 58% Palin 37% -CNN 9/25
Obama 49% Palin 44% -Marist 9/14
Obama 53% Palin 41% -ABC/WaPo 9/1
Obama 51% Palin 37% -Quinnepiac 8/27
Obama 56% Palin 35% -Fox 6/7
Obama 57% Palin 34% -Reuters 6/6

Posted by: Numeros | October 30, 2011, 8:24 am 8:24 am

Glen Rice wants her to run.

Posted by: Atilathehun101 | October 30, 2011, 9:48 am 9:48 am

Sarah Palin has been fighting crony corporate capitalism and the corrupt permanent political class all her life.

Republicans will get control of the WH and Congress but will fail the American people because both parties are corrupted.

The only decent one out of the bunch is home in Wasilla enjoying the out doors and her family after three years of fighting the good fight.

Enjoy your time in the wilderness you magnificent warrior from the Last Frontier. You will be called upon again!

Posted by: Help | October 30, 2011, 10:38 am 10:38 am

This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Sarah Palin. You’re my only hope.

Posted by: Princess Leia | October 30, 2011, 10:58 am 10:58 am

Mitt Romney is the worst possible choice! Might as well elect Obummer again, he is only Obama light! Can’t speak without stuttering, flip flops even to this day!!! Lies, lies lies. No wonder the ‘establishment is behind that mess, and no, I am not against Mormons, I like most of them except Romney and Reid who are out to destroy this country!! Wake up!!!!!

Cain is a great choice and so is Newt Gingrich. Hopefully one of these true conservatives will win!!!

Posted by: OnlySarahPalin | October 30, 2011, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

Isn’t the selection bad enough….what does that say about the republican party as a whole? It is in shambles since it let the tea party in and their polls have never been so low. 9% I know I am a former republican. I think if the few good ones would have a backbone to stand up and fight for the middle class instead of the upper 1%…maybe they could get a decent candidate. Palin is another radical and will not solidify the party. Unfortunately the rep. are ignoring the one person with brains and who makes sense and that is Huntsman. Of course, like Romney he is a Mormon so that is lights out for him but if you really want a creditable candidate…he is the one. The rest of the field are has beens or fluff. No common sense. Besides…Sarah likes making money and does not like to work….she abandoned her governorship when it got too hard so what would she do when things get tough as they do in the presidency? Besides, her voice grates on my nerves and she cannot take criticism.

Posted by: Talmag | October 30, 2011, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

What I love is that the brother is going to work on getting her to run, oh and by the way he is releasing a book.

Thats awesome

Posted by: bobbie | October 30, 2011, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

Watch “The Undefeated” if you want to understand what We The People are up against to restore this country to greatness. It is all about us fighting against big government and crony capitalistic corruption.
Sarah Palin represents We The People and we are the majority.
We will take congress back into our own hands, no matter who wins POTUS.

We know that the GOP and the Dem elite want to keep their gravytrain alive and well with an
election that puts BHO, or a squishy RINO in as POTUS.
It will set them all back when good conservatives are elected to all positions of government from dog catcher at the local level all the way to the federal level in every state in the Republic of the U.S.A.
After we take back congress, we will push for impeachment of BHO if he is re-elected. If a squishy RINO is elected as POTUS, we will not let him/her continue down the road of crony capitalism. We will call for the repeal of Obamacare and all other legislative laws and regulations that are strangling small businesses.
We will push for energy independence for the economic security of our nation.

Big government and big business being in bed with each other will cease when we root out all corrupt crony capitalistic bedfellows and expose them for what they have done and intend to do to keep WE THE PEOPLE as nothing more than tax slaves.

There is corrupt crony capitalism at every level of government. This will stop only when WE THE PEOPLE stand up and say, “Enough,” at the ballot box in 2012.
2010 was a wake up call to the permanent political class of elitists in both parties. They fear WE THE PEOPLE more than anything else in the coming 2012 elections and will do whatever it takes to stop us.
Yes, this includes riots in the streets, as OWS turns violent next year, to have martial law declared to do away with our constitution and POTUS replaced with a dictatorship so that we have no elections in 2012. Then our permant political class of elitists will be in power FOREVER and WE THE PEOPLE will be nothing more than permant tax slaves while they continue to live lavish lifestyles on our money.
The above scenario will become reality unless WE THE PEOPLE stand up with the truth of what corrupt crony capitalism is and expose it when we see it. WE THE PEOPLE can count on the MSM not doing it’s job, so we will have to do it. This can happen when WE THE PEOPLE stay informed through other sources and get involved with what goes on in government at our local levels. It will take much to overturn the corruption that has permeated our local, state, and federal elected positions, but WE THE PEOPLE are up to the task because we are awake and march united. United we stand!

Posted by: IwjwI | October 30, 2011, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

GO AWAY ms. payme and take your political obstructionist with you. You do not speak for christians, women, alaska,America, Americans, the handicap kids, teen pregnancy, motherhood, womanhood, marriage, health, hunters, fishing, government, ethics, or the republicans. You and your family are small town bullies. Besides being looney, self serving, self centered and a fraud. Go to your home in alaska and try to repent, take care of your children, husband, and your parents. They all need help along with you. Quit running around the country with your hand out.

Posted by: BLM | October 30, 2011, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm

Sure, Chuck Heath Jr. is going to write a book about the Palin Mafia. Wanna bet there’s about as much reality in that book as there was for “Going Rogue”?

Maybe SarahPAC will buy 100,00 0 copies like they did “Going Rogue” to boost its status on the NYT bestsellers list, then turn around and “give” it to the Palinista morons for a mere $100 donation to SarahPAC.

The morons fell for that TWICE with Sarah’s books-written-by-someone-else; no doubt they’ll be lemmings about Heath’s book — if it ever sees the light of day.

I’ll bet SarahPAC actually asks you Palinistas for a donation/pre-order of the book. Let us know if you ever get anything in return. Some of you are still waiting for your $100 copy of “going Rogue”.

Posted by: KarenJ | October 30, 2011, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

So why didn’t Palin herself join in? hmmm??

I cannot understand how people can hate progressives and Obama so much that they cling to this pale imitation of a politician and mount her on a plaque as if she were Goddess of Right. They have all her talking points down pat, and use them over and over again. Sorry, guys, they still are either lies or nonsense (or both.) Palin is never running for President. She is a coward, and now that she’s very wealthy, she needn’t bother about which wig to wear, or which stiletttos to pull out. She doesn’t need you any more, and we all know how she treats the people she is done with.

Posted by: QUITTER-PALOOZA | October 30, 2011, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

WoW – these “people” are truly pathetic. I guess the first sign that you’re part of a cult is that you have no clue that you’re part of a cult.

One poor cultist is so distraught over her not running that he is looking to move to Wasilla. dragging his poor wife up to the holy land of palin.

He said that if the world comes to an end, as it surely will now, he at least wants to be near his Dear One. No, not his wife.

This is a fascinating phenomenon. Very similar mindsets as those that followed Koresh, Jones and Manson.

Posted by: Sarah Gump | October 30, 2011, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

It’s interesting. We see liberals still proclaiming Sarah is just in all of this for the money, and yet, she turned down a lot of money making deals in what everyone, including her immediate family thought was a run for President.

By not running she’s probably hurt her earning ability not helped it.

The fact is, all of the other candidates are pathetic and Obama and the democrats must be defeated or the nation as we know it will cease to exist.

Sarah can whip Obama like a rented mule.

Hopefully she realizes this, and reconsiders!

Posted by: Blackwater | October 30, 2011, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

Sarah Palin 2012. She will win.

Posted by: Lewis | October 30, 2011, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

This story makes as much sense as the one going around about Levi and Bristol getting engaged. Some families just want to get media attention and see how many idiots will blindly elect them as their leader. And Sarah’s Old Man wants to hire a ghost writer and write about how his daughter entered hundreds of beauty contests and never won–because she couldn’t get a college scholarship based on her intelligence? Everyone in Sarah’s class in Wasilla has written that she was only a mediocre student, that she was always conniving about how to get even with someone because she had no friends; that she was jealous because none of the boys paid any attention to her and the teachers never called on her for answers, even though she waved her hand wildly pretending that she knew the answers. She wasn’t likeable then–and she turned into an even more divisiive, whiny person as an adult. Even the political evaluations she gives for FOX are a joke–she has to be given all the questions in advance and then Greta gives her the correct answers when she comes up wrong. It has to be embarrassing for Greta to be the only one willing to try to make her look good, only because greta’s husband works for Sarah. Didn’t these fans realize how foolish she was when she talked to the people of South Korea about solving the world’s economic problems? She got Wasilla into financial problems; the decisions she made as Governor have been repealed because they were so wreckless so she thinks she can advise other countries because she has a degree in communications and flunked out of five colleges. She is the Leaders of the Losers.

Posted by: Loretta | October 30, 2011, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

“… the question that kept popping up on the event’s chat page where listeners could ask questions of the panelists: Can you convince Palin to change her mind?”

Nice thought, but realistically, doctors can’t perform brain transplants yet.

Posted by: Aarom Ververs | October 31, 2011, 8:45 am 8:45 am

SHE DOESN’T WANT THE JOB! She’s older and wiser now. She’s been around enough to know that she doesn’t have what it takes. No shame in that. Let her be who she is. She’s good at promoting herself in the media. She just wants to stick with what she does best, make some really good bucks, and retire in Palm Springs (not Alaska).

Posted by: sameagain | October 31, 2011, 9:06 am 9:06 am

please don’t please don’t……………

Posted by: slprcg | October 31, 2011, 9:12 am 9:12 am

I’m glad she’s not running and it has nothing to do with her. It’s her annoying, half-witted fans that were swarming all over the internet like a flock of parrots repeating her every talking point and jingoism. She probably took one look at her supporters and that’s all it took to convince her to throw in the towel.

Posted by: Oliver28 | October 31, 2011, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

Gee! we miss her ”gotcha” gaffes. Miss Palin, please come back and entertain us. Besides Limbaugh, we need another court jester.

Posted by: Marat | October 31, 2011, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

Thankfully with each passing day she renders herself more and more irrelevant in America today. She made her millions and will now hopefully fade away into the long Alaska night…………….

Posted by: Searambler | November 1, 2011, 9:50 am 9:50 am

To all Sarah supporters: We all understand why she said she wouldn’t run, and we all respect her for it.
To all the detractors out there: It is a basic if human nature to hold contempt for things we don’t understand. Herbert James once said’ “If the doors to perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man infinite. For he has closed himself up so much he can see only through the chinks of his cave”….
There are too many narrow minded folks out there!

Posted by: Fred Fouche' | November 7, 2011, 11:56 am 11:56 am

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