They didn't get it.
These are the Palin die-hards — the supporters who remain convinced she will run, no matter the mounting conventional wisdom that she won’t.
They came on planes, in cars, on chartered buses. They wore “Palin 2012” T-shirts and buttons and hung a banner on a riser reading, “Run, Sarah … RUN!!! For Cubs, Country & Constitution.” They waited out an intense Midwestern summer storm that drenched the field, a little south of Des Moines, where Palin’s name had been mowed into the grass behind the stage.
Many say they haven’t even considered supporting another candidate, and will wait as long as Palin takes to make up her mind. Without her to vote for, some said they’d sit out the primary. Others refused to even consider the question.
But instead of a declaration, the Palin supporters at the Tea Party of America event got an intensely political speech from the former Alaska governor that scorched President Obama and the “permanent political class” of both parties.
In what could be seen subtly contrasting herself against the announced candidates in the Republican field — especially Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann, who are both mounting their campaigns on appeals to the same kinds of voters with whom Palin resonates most — she slung an attack at the Republican candidates who “raise mammoth amounts of cash.”
“We need to ask them, too: What, if anything, do their donors expect in return for their investments?” She noted gleefully, “I don’t play that game, either, of hiring expert political advisers just so they’ll say something good about me on TV.”
The former Alaska governor presented a very candidate-like five-point economic plan based on expanding domestic energy production and eliminating corporate taxes altogether, along with corporate welfare. She said it wasn’t enough merely to reject Obama — “The real challenge is who and what will replace him.” The air filled with “Run, Sarah, run!” chants.
She cast herself as the strongest defender of the tea party wing of the Republican Party. Pointing out that Saturday was the third anniversary of her speech to the GOP convention that nominated her as its vice presidential candidate, Palin even took a veiled shot at her 2008 running mate, John McCain, in picking up a term he used to describe the tea party: “They called us … hobbits? Couldn’t understand that one.”
But the answer to whether she’ll end the suspense and get into the 2012 presidential race did not come. In fact, she could be seen signaling toward an involvement that doesn’t involve seeking office, telling the crowd, “Real hope comes from you. Real hope comes from realizing you can make a difference, and you don’t need a title to make a difference.”
The window for a Palin candidacy is narrowing quickly. A recent Fox News poll found just 25 percent of Republican voters nationally wanted Palin to get into the race — and 71 percent said they did not. In a different poll last week, 41 percent of Republicans said there was “no chance” they would vote for her. Though she’d come into the race with name recognition and a following that none of the other candidates could match, she’d also be far behind in fundraising and most of the traditional ingredients necessary to run for president.
I do not care what poll is pulled out of who's ass about her being unelectable. You
look at the number of people who show up to hear her and then tell us she is so
unpopular, she will not run for President but will be tapped for the VP slot and
when that happens you will hear libs heads exploding across the land.
Posted at Politico
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