Thank you, Sarah, for making the right decision.
After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.
In general, I have no problem with Sarah Palin. Hell, I’d take her experience over Obama’s any day. I remember watching her give her speech and the 2008 Republican National Convention and being 100% convinced we would win.
Hey, things change. And there is a reality to face, and that she is as divisive a political figure as Barack Obama. Even within the Republican Party she’s a poison pill. Canonized and demonized by various factions that are equal in their convictions that is the right person to lead the party, and the wrong person.
I consider myself part of the latter camp. In the past few years since the election, I have not been convinced by her efforts that she has elevated herself past the level of a pundit, because that’s what she sounds like to me… a pundit, not presidential caliber. Like Obama, who sounds like a pundit when scripted and a fifth grader when off the cuff, Sarah just doesn’t fit bill for me anymore. I accept the fact that as a Republican who wants to see this country back on track that I have to be happy with the filed we got, and you know what, I trust any of the Republican candidates to do a better job than we’ve seen done the past three years, and I will do everything I can to help that candidate win.
But for now, I thank Sarah Palin again, for stepping aside, and realizing that this was not her time.
Blogs For Victory 
It would have been fun to watch the fire storm and libtard meltdown.
Damn there goes my investment in duct tape.
Cain or Perry?
Perry’s been in politics his whole life. I think what we need now is someone who looks at things through a different prism. There’s really only one person in the GOP field who fits that bill: Herman Cain.
That said, if we could play with around with genetics, my ideal candidate would be a cross of Cain, Palin and Gingrich.
I’m also glad that Sarah’s not running, for most of the same reasons that Matt outlined.
Looks like we can hope for a Cain/Gingrich ticket, that would be a fun debate season to watch. Cain could get up there and insist on 4 or 5 vice presidential debates and poor Biden would be relegated to whipping boy.
I can see her not running for POTUS but that does not rule out an appointed position. At this point I would prefer Cain and then let him make some appointments putting great people in the tough positions. John Bolton, Palin, hell–even Ron Paul, etc. plus we need to hold control over as many governorships so if the chance to get a Constitutional amendment ever gets into play it isn’t too far to the top of the hill.
This makes the progressive wing of the rethug party very happy. Looks like we are stuck with McCain 2.0. You’ll get the same results too.
FORE!! more years. 😦
Is anyone surprised? Nowadays, Sarah Palin is all about Sarah Palin. She’s might be right on the issues but she’s more comfortable taking shots from the sidelines.
Cain is okay, but Governor HPV is more questions than answers. Ron Paul 2012!
Ron Paul is a certified nutcase. A wack job first class. If he wasn’t a politician he would be the unfunniest circus clown ever. He should be locked up in a padded room with rosie o’dumbell, joy blowhard, and a insane, hungry cannibal to be named later.
That or the Oval office. Screw it. I am on the fringe anyway. Won’t matter if I go a bit farther out.
Ron Paul for president.
A cannibal was walking through the jungle
and came upon a restaurant operated by a
fellow cannibal.
Feeling somewhat hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu….
+ Tourist: $8.00
+ Broiled Missionary: $10.00
+ Fried Explorer: $12.50
+ Baked Democrat or Grilled Republican: $100.00
The cannibal called the waiter over and asked,
“Why such a high price for the Politicians?”
The cook replied, “Have you ever tried to clean one?
They’re so full of shit, it takes all morning.”
@dbschmidt
Nice joke. Reminds me of the joke about a guy who walks into a laboratory with preserved brains.
On the list:
Lawyer Brains: $500 dollars/pound
Doctor Brains: $1000 dollars/pound
Politician Brains: $100,000 dollars/pound
The guy in astonishment asks the owner, “How on earth can politician brains cost $100,000 per pound?”
Owner replies ” Do YOU KNOW how many politicians it takes to come up with one pound of brains?”
🙂
baldork
Sarah Palin is all about Sarah Palin
spoken like a DNC drone.
baldork
jr college “teacher” brains = 0.00
why?
THERE are NONE!
Neoconehead
Funny thing is that the DNC drones correctly predicted that Palin wouldn’t run precisely because she’s all about herself nowadays.
I don’t work at a juco so you might be correct about the brains. It was also one of Bush’s initiatives to push more community college enrollment which show’s his amount of brains.
baldork
W = graduate YALE,
MBA Harvard
Jet fighter PILOT
Officer Captain
and YOU baldork?
talk about a dummy.
“Comfortable taking shots from the sidelines”
Look like Baldorf finally got a mirror.
i love sarah but i agree with matt here. i’ve always said that she would be a fantastic president, but the country doesn’t need yet another president that is that polarizing. although, i’d love to see the libs heads collectively explode if she got elected…but now is not her time.
first choice: CAIN/SANTORUM 2012
second choice: ABO 2012
GTFO 2012!!!!!!!!!
Now will ever be the time. If you republicans haven’t figured that out by now, something is wrong. Republicans will settle for some trifling little tax cut and be happy with it. Meanwhile back in D.C. progressivism marches on unhindered barely opposed in words only by the republican party.
Now is not the time, this is not the hill to die on, it won’t get past the senate, it won’t get past the president, the litany of excuses employed by the republicans is getting tiresome.
Romney will probably even win. He will break your heart the first opportunity he gets. Getting reelected is more important than ever fixing this we are in.
yur mine is toasted because of all the LSD u did in the 60s stooge…your imagination isnt even that sharp…
musucktobeastooge
js
GMB is one of us, a good guy.
He has a very good point, though right now we do not have the warrior we need running……so what do we do?
how do we change this?
GMB
lets pray it isnt romney,
at this point it appears it will be Cain or Perry.
sooner or later we will have to stand by and not vote or decide on one of the two less evils (again).
As much as I have bit*hed about Cain over all I like him.
If he picks Rubio or West as a VP that would cement him as having a true heir apparent/TEA partier in a high position.
That would be a ticket I could support though not my perfect candidate.
Overall, I like Herman Cain too. Maybe secretary of treasury but I dont see him as qualified to lead the country anymore. His willingness to deal the race card hurt him a lot.
At this point for me it looks like Ron Paul . Yes I know how wrong he is on foriegn policy but it’s looking looking like he is the only one who has the ability to break the back of the establishment.
It is my thought that the defeatist attitude of the republican party will never end until they suffer a catastrophic defeat. The republicans keep finding excuses why they can not roll back one little item of progressivism. They could have all 535 members of Congress and the Presidency and would still find a reason to do nothing.
Not the hill to die on!!!! Yeah !!!
As much as I would like to, it is too difficult for me to take seriously anyone who thinks Ron Paul should be president. Listen to what you said, Herman Cain, Secretary of Treasury?
The only logical place in government for Ron Paul is on the Supreme Court, his ONLY saving quality is that he knows the constitution. Everything else about what he has done screams out get him away from making policy or running anything. His ONLY quality is being able to judge what is constitutional and blabbing off about it.
For all his faults, Herman Cain screams out, “Put me in charge of any failing business and I can fix it.” He is meant to be a CEO, or President It is not his place to be put in a position as a dept. head to be stepped on and ordered about by a gadfly such as Paul.
If Herman Cain cannot contol his mouth how is he going to control the White House? Hermain Cain has a lot of great qualities. Will those qualities be enough to buck the establishment repubs like boener and mcconnell? I don’t think so.
Your remark about Ron Paul putting Herman Cain “in his place” was just pathetic. Something straight out of the progresive playbook. Good work.
Ron Paul is a medical doctor for Pete’s sake. He has actual skills. That’s scary to the status quo GOP.
Why is that scary barstool? Do you buy into the cartoonish liberal construct of what republicans are?
baldork
so is scream dean
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..BAM! (head and potus run exploding)
see a liberal education does not mean the person is not a complete idiot, just one with a degree….like you.
Im sure wright is as “educated” as Ochimpy but neither is fit to be a shoe shine boy.
Rolling back progressivism will take a lot more than one candidate, one term, and one person in the executive branch. It will require a concerted effort, lasting a decade or more, with majorities in Congress, and we have to start somewhere. To think that one person can get it done, and to forsake those who you deem unqualified, is really naive.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the socialist liberals would take a lessen from Jobs and try and emulate his success, rather than Stalin’s?
Stalin had power of life and death, the libs are love with that, and use said power for death and evil.
Naive yes. I agree. It is not the right time to start. We shouldn’t die on this hill. Tommorrow will be the day to start. You know what they say about tommorrow?
GMB
You know what they say about tommorrow?
FRiiiiiiiiiiday, & beer at the Bees with my buds.