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UPDATED With The Video: ‘Sarah Palin Reconsider’ Ad In Iowa: Windmill Jousting, Doolittle Raid, Both?

Posted on | November 25, 2011 | 102 Comments

by Smitty

via Surber, here is the ad:

He says:

My take on it is simple: If she is on the ballot in the West Virginia primary in May, I shall vote for her. She is my first choice.

I’m even simpler: I’ll write the lady in, if possible. A lot of people, like Teach in the comments, are miffed that she took so long to bow out quietly. Maybe that’s her final word. Even if it is, the dangling threat of her lives rent-free in the mind of the Left. Let’s keep the mind-frak going, and fight for the Constitutional restoration we need, ye patriots.


Previously:
Via GinTheGin on Twitter, Conservatives4Palin reports:

Your contributions have made it possible for us to run the Palin reconsider television ad next week in the Sioux City, Iowa market. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make it possible.
You’ll be able to see the ad that will be shown on televisions on KCAU-TV across the Sioux City, Iowa market on this blog and on youtube when it goes up next week. If you have any ideas on how to get this story more attention, let us know and feel free to push it yourself to people who may be interested. The target date for this ad going up is now November 29th as the Thanksgiving holidays pushed our initial target date of November 28th back. At the very latest, we expect to get it up on the Sioux City market on the 30th.
What we do next after the television ad goes up is a more difficult question. If this ad is able to build some momentum for the Governor, the best way to keep that momentum going may be to commission a national GOP primary poll that includes the Governor as one of the options. We’ll see if it’s possible given our resources. We’re open to other ideas but the greatest challenge may be that time is running short for her to reconsider.

Sarah is now a fortnight past the magic Reagan date (13 November) for declaring candidacy. Sure, I’ll write her in during the primary, and support whoever wins. Yeah, it would be 47 kinds of swell if this advertising campaign proved more of a Doolittle Raid on our Ruling Class Overlords than an exercise in tilting at windmills.

However, the tsunami of hormones that would be unleashed if Sarah were to enter the race is non-trivial. I really don’t want to consider her at the top of the ticket for more than about a one minute thought experiment. And that is merely to wonder if the the head ‘splosions on the left would reach critical mass, so that the rest of the Left could join Thomas Friedman in singing the China Syndrome Blues. Walking back the hyperbole, one could envision the winner of the GOP primary, especially in the case of Newt, trying to offer her the VP slot, to polish the résumé for a 2020 run. Because, whoever is going to be on the GOP ticket, the Tea Parties have got to ensure some continuity. Recovering from the Progressive hangover is going to be neither quick nor painless.

Besides: is there really better blog fodder than Sarah Palin news?

Update: now a Memeorandum thread, and via the Des Moines Register:

The ad is set to air beginning on Nov. 30.
Palin, a conservative superstar and media phenomenon following the 2008 campaign, flirted with a presidential bid for months, but announced she would not run in a letter to supporters in early October.
The ad buy was announced this afternoon in a blog post on the Conservatives4Palin website. It is possible due to continued contributions to the organization, which is unaffiliated with Palin and her political operations.
The group acknowledged that convincing Palin to run now is a long shot.

Theory: this is a little shot o’er the bow for the Dems, in case they hoist the Hillary flag.

That’s one way to get the first female president: both parties nominate a lady.

Comments

102 Responses to “UPDATED With The Video: ‘Sarah Palin Reconsider’ Ad In Iowa: Windmill Jousting, Doolittle Raid, Both?”

  1. Rich Vail
    November 26th, 2011 @ 1:56 pm

    Smitty, I agree, I’ll write her in.  Of course, living as I do in Blue/Blue Maryland there’s fat chance my vote will actually count for something. A GOP candidate hasn’t taken Maryland since Reagan did in ’84…probably won’t happen again in my lifetime.

    Rich Vail
    Pikesville, Maryland
    The Vail Spot dot Blogspot dot Com

  2. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 1:59 pm

    No, what you mean by political grooming sounds like a Manchurian Candidate handled by the Republican party. No thanks.

    Palin has been groomed through 2 successful terms as the executive of her town, with a couple of terms on the town council before that.

    She’s been groomed with a year as the head of the AOGCC, one of the most important governing bodies in Alaska.

    And then 3 more years as the CEO of Alaska, one of the strongest governorships by Constitution in the 50 states.

    She was groomed in national campaigns – mostly learning what NOT to do by the most inept national campaign I’ve seen in my lifetime – in 2008.

    She has been groomed on national and international issues for the last 3 years, traveling the country, giving speeches that outlined her foreign policy, economic policy, international policy, with invited speeches and Q & As in Hong Kong, South Korea, India, and visits to Israel, Kuwait, Germany, and elsewhere.

    I MUCH prefer that kind of grooming than sitting at the feet of Karl Rove or Roger Ailes. Ick and double ick.

  3. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:01 pm

    KarenJ, please quit lying.

    She has been fighting the Obama regime for 3 years.

    It’s you who have your head under your arm if you say she’s been on the sidelines.

    She was instrumental in the 2010 elections.

    She has set the conversation with crony capitalism and death panels before that.

    Your lying is most unbecoming.

  4. Rich Vail
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:01 pm

    How about the woman is a far better advocate, outside of the political  arena, than within it.  After all, just to get Liberals to have literal coniption fits, just mention her name…I’m just saying…

    More importantly, perhaps you should actually read the Alaska Constitution…anyone accused of misfeasance in office must pay for their own defense (most states will cover the cost).  After spending $500,000.00 of her own money on baseless, politically motivated attacks she bailed.  Dozens off complaints were filed by fewer than 5 people in an attempt at bankrupting Mrs. Palin…that’s fair right?…

    You want conflict of interest, how about Mrs. Pelosi’s millions made while she held up legislation until she and her husband could buy stock in Visa…crickets…

    Rich Vail
    Pikesville, Maryland
    The Vail Spot dot Blogspot dot Com

  5. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:03 pm

    Palin and 310 million other Americans have avoided the 14 GOP debates so far.

    Read this slowly:

    Presidential campaigns are toooo looooong.

    No debates should be held until the year of the election.

    No primary voting should be done until February or March at least.

    FCOL, it’s a 4-year job.

    It’s an Absolute Waste to spend 2 years and millions of dollars for a 4-year job.

  6. Dave
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:03 pm

    I’m curious as to how one can quit a race that they’re not even in. As I said above, I was sorely disappointed when she didn’t run, but I think a lot of this post is the projection I mentioned above.  You’re crushed Palin didn’t run. So am I. But Palin has no obligation to run just because we want her to.

  7. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:05 pm

    And yet it’s their money to spend.

    If they think it’s well-spent, then it is.

    It matters not one whit to you how other people spend their money.

    Not in a free America.

  8. Finrod Felagund
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:08 pm

    Funny how doofuses like this like to lecture us about putting ‘forward policies which unite the country’, when his kind have been busy shoving ObamaCare and any other crap they can think of down our throats and telling us that They Know Better So Shut Up And Take It.

    No more.
     

  9. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:09 pm

    Cool. I can dig up some McCain/Palin merchandise ad, get a black Sharpie and blot out the “Mc.”

  10. smitty
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:26 pm

    Presidential campaigns are toooo looooong.

    I think the election of BHO belies that point.

  11. ombdz
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:32 pm

    I don’t beleive that.  I don’t think she would have won the nomination – unless head to head polls against Obama changed a lot from where they were.

    And of course it’s their money to spend – just making the point that the Palin ship has sailed no matter how much they want to spend on ads in Iowa.

  12. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 2:33 pm

    After looking up belies, I must say I disagree.

    Obama’s campaign proves my point that 2-year campaigns are too long.

    1. They waste too much time and money.

    2. Especially for those that are currently in office – who should be doing their jobs and not running for their next one. Kudos to Bob Dole, the ONLY candidate in recent memory who resigned to run for president.

    3. Obama shows that some folks – and I doubt he’s alone – get into a rhythm of campaigning – and don’t ever stop. They NEVER govern. They ALWAYS campaign.

    So.

    I repeat: Public campaigns should get underway only in the calendar year in which the election is held. I’m not naive enough to think some behind-the-scenes planning may occur before the calendar year.

    But no announcements, debates, campaigning, etc.

    IMO.

  13. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:21 pm

    Palin/West will rock this country-it would be a landslide for the ages.

    I will stop my life and work my ass off for her

  14. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:27 pm

    And who wouldn’t be angry with not only the destruction of the last vestiges of our Constitution but with thin gruel of candidates we’re contemplating????

    Yes Cain and Bachmann are solid conservatives but and I’d vote for them in a heartbeat but they have no where near the kind of experience that Sarah has-both in government and in dealing with the left dominated media.

    Hell, I’ll vote for Romney but I am sick to death of over 20 years of “hold my nose” voting

  15. Bob Belvedere
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:31 pm

    Man…you’ve bought into two of The Big Lies.  Want to try for three, dearie?

  16. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:32 pm

    Dude, were we separated at birth?

  17. Bob Belvedere
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:34 pm

    There’s no reason she can’t jump in late.

    Who says [especially in these topsy-turvey times] that Mrs. Palin has to play what has become the traditional Primary game?  Actually, breaking the rules is her M.O..

    Breakin’ the law
    Breakin’ the law…

  18. Bob Belvedere
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:36 pm

    More likely, this broad has her head up her arse.

  19. Garym
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:43 pm

    Thats what this thread is missing, some Judas Priest!!!

  20. Serfer1962
    November 26th, 2011 @ 3:57 pm

    Your logic is unwhemling, how can there be any doubt she was running? If she wasn’t running why  make a non-run announcement at the last minute? Why not clear the field months ago?
    As to the AK Constitution, I already said her quitting the Gov was logical so can it.
    Palin entered the National scene and played us. The bus tour, the rallies…all  just a game. We need a conservative, she was it and decidied to knit while the country is in straights. Now that buffoon The Donald threatens to create a third party.
    Evil wins when good people remain silent

  21. Guest
    November 26th, 2011 @ 4:12 pm

    So when the Democratic Party tells you what to do with your body without your consent, THAT’s okay with you? Do you somehow think that socialized medicine ISN’T ‘inserting government into the medical decisions of women’?
    Oh wait: After 2012, the Republicans will be making the rules for Obamacare.
    Hehehe…..

  22. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 6:47 pm

    No, lynching isn’t required; a bullet works equally well.

    Mr. Knauer, the Democrat Party has been promoting slavery in this country since its’ founding; replacing plantation with collective doesn’t change that fundamental fact. I will not be a slave; I am a free man, and all you can do to me is kill me.

  23. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 6:50 pm

    hrh40, a snake has to bite, and a leftist lie; it’s what they are.

  24. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 6:53 pm

    hrh40, the ruling class isn’t looking for a 2 or 4 or 6 year job; they’re looking for an initial entry into a lifetime career of trading favors and making deals. The only way to reverse that is to cut back the government reach into our lives so it has less favors to allocate.

  25. William_Teach
    November 26th, 2011 @ 7:11 pm

    It’s an interesting theory, Snotty, but, at this point, there’s nobway she runs. She had her chance, and she could hav3 shown she was serious and informed and ready, but she took her little game with the media too far.

    I guess you can tell I’ve jump way off her bandwagon, and I was a big supporter way back in early 2008.

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  27. ThePaganTemple
    November 26th, 2011 @ 8:02 pm

    The problem is I’m afraid its too late for her to qualify in some states. She’s probably missed quite a few deadlines.

  28. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 8:06 pm

    Don’t be a rube. Palin was told by the American Crossroads Mafia that while she might win the nomination, she would be Goldwatered, like Barry was in 1964. Her bundlers would be blackballed and whole state party organizations would be firewalled from her. 

    The Establishment was quite willing to do anything to prevent the Reagan Wing from taking power in the GOP again. The biggest lie in the world is the one peddled by George Will and Karl Rove, that there is no more Establishment in the GOP anymore. There is, and they insist on Romney.

    Palin decided to let them have their Viking Funeral. She’ll be left to pick up the pieces after Obama annihilates Mittens. 2012 is a fixed game. It always was.

  29. ThePaganTemple
    November 26th, 2011 @ 8:13 pm

    Come up for air for a minute dude. She went on a national bus tour in part to promote a film, and in part to promote conservative ideals. How did she play you or anybody else? She said she was thinking about it. She thought about it. She decided against it, end of story. You’re wrapping up too much of yourself inside her. Some things are just bigger than any one person, including her. What do you want her to do, go against her gut and run just for you? You don’t know all the reasoning that went into her decision, so stop moaning like a little girl that lost her favorite teddy bear. Be a fucking man.

  30. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 8:20 pm

    Meh. Palin got smoked by a smarter Establishment. This is actually her first time around the block in a Presidential. She had a really small staff and a small PAC. Had she been more experienced, she would have known that she couldn’t reinvent the wheel. Romney and Gingrich were, which was why they got in earlier and beat her to the money punch.

    Palin’s staff is less than ten people. They’re still with her, by the way, which tells you that she creates a very, very loyal atmosphere (contrary to what the paid MMFA troll, Karen, has tried to imply both here and on Twitter) around her. However, Palin made some really serious mistakes, the chief one of which was to keep her eye fixated on Rick Perry while Mitt was busy moving Florida forward. Once Romney got Florida moved up, Palin’s goose was cooked. She literally had no time to campaign.

    Had Palin got in back in June, even in an informal way like Romney, she could have fundraised (big time) and she would have been competitive all the way through. But she f**ked up, which isn’t surprising in neophyte national candidates. The longer she delayed, the more time the Establishment had to organize against her. Once she got into September, the odds against her running became larger and larger.
    And it was mostly her fault. Neophyte national candidates by and large do dumb things. Very few are like Obama, who had the backing of the bankster community (just about every economic war criminal on the planet backed Obama in 2008), the political class,  and the news media.

    But I’d much rather be Palin and lose my first time out. She at least didn’t sell her soul to Wall Street and George Soros to gain power. History will be much kinder to her than it will be to Obama.

  31. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 8:24 pm

    KarenJ has been at this for some two years, if you look at Twitter. She’s either a Palin-obsessive, or a paid MMFA “Fellow”.

    I’m beginning to suspect the latter. Even with that many commentaries at the Pig Palace, there’s got to be money changing hands somewhere.

    BTW, Palingates got its origins at a web server in Germany and has stayed at a European base. Why, nobody knows for sure.

  32. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 8:27 pm

    hrh40: Lying is part of Karen’s arsenal. It’s what the Left does.

    Telling them that they lie is akin to tilting at the windmill.

    One of the more astonishing things I found out about Karen today is that she has over 4300 comments at Palingates.

    That’s a lot of hate for one person to build up over the years.

  33. Anonymous
    November 26th, 2011 @ 8:31 pm

    Excuse the f**k out of me, miss 4300 comments at Palingates?

    If it weren’t for Sarah Louise Heath Palin, you would have no pathetic f**king life, you deeply pathetic MMFA paid flunky you!

    You’re like the SS troops at the end of Downfall who committed suicide when they found out that the Fuhrer had put a 9mm up his mouth and pulled the trigger.

    You have no life without Sarah Palin. None.

    But you need one. Malia Litman and the Gryphen need one, too.

    Oh wait, Robert Stacy McCain kicked Gryphen’s ass. Let’s not mention him around these parts.

  34. Cube
    November 27th, 2011 @ 12:19 am

    >didn’t sell her soul to … gain power.

    Had she gotten in early and done all the big-league fund-raising that long campaigns require, that’s exactly what would have happened.  Nobody writes checks with lots of zeros out of the goodness of their heart – they expect to get something in return.  In other words, they own you.  And then you have to play the game their way.  Sarah has never been willing to do that.

    And I don’t agree that she made any serious mistakes during the time of testing the waters.  She and we saw a deeply divided electorate during that time, that can’t seem to make up its mind what it really wants.  Despite three years of recession, the country as a whole still hasn’t decided that they’ve had enough of socialism and this was reflected in the less than enthusiastic response from the general public to her various trial balloons during that time.  She has a very loyal and dedicated group of supporters but they are nowhere near the majority required to win national elections.  More’s the pity.

  35. Dave
    November 27th, 2011 @ 3:46 am

    Herman Cain’s campaign, and his still significant presence in the polls, puts paid to your argument here. He’s got less of an origination than Palin had/has. She could have jumped in October, instead of declining, and gotten both the Cain and the Gingrich bounces. Establishment, Establishment, Establishment, yadda, yadda, yadda, fuck the establishment. Yes, they still have power, and influence, and experience. And yes, they are still a force to be reckoned with, but the whole reality of a “not-Romney” electorate, still hanging on to candidates who are marginal as conservatives or campaigners at best and by the way make up the majority of conservative voters today shows that there was a wave she could have grabbed. She chose not to. I dunno why, but there it is. I wish she had. I suspect we’ll be worse off as a country because she didn’t, but to say the “establishment” beat her is just…not in touch with reality.

  36. Dave
    November 27th, 2011 @ 3:50 am

    Ditto.

  37. Anonymous
    November 27th, 2011 @ 6:28 am

    Herman Cain’s campaign is a joke. It’s not a serious argument against what I wrote.

    I know one of the reasons why she didn’t get in. You don’t. Trust me on this.

    The Establishment still controls vast resources of money across the length and breadth of party organizations in this country and in the news media. They remain the gatekeepers for much of the GOP. Try to get that. Reagan beat them once. They don’t want that to happen again.

  38. Anonymous
    November 27th, 2011 @ 6:35 am

    I love Palin as a candidate and as a principled conservative.

    However, she was just another candidate who got in and thought she could reinvent the wheel in regards to how you do this thing.

    Running for President is NOT like running for Governor of Alaska. You have to get in reasonably early and fundraise. Like it or not. You have to build a nationwide organization that can operate across a vast continental landmass. Like it or not. By the way, that WASN’T O4P.

    Palin thought she could do things differently because of her name rec and got her ass handed to her by very talented people who had been around the block a few times and knew who to talk to to move state primary dates around. She made rookie mistakes that hopefully she won’t make again.

    She’s not in the race and Romney is. That’s all I need to know. Palin got her bell rung and is too embarrassed to admit that she got smoked by the Establishment. Hopefully she’ll learn from this.

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  40. dow daytrader
    November 27th, 2011 @ 8:39 am

    My God, what a  pathetic commercial!  No professionalism!  Amateurs can’t compete, the Axelrod scandal machine will chew these munchkins to bits in 90 seconds…

    Get Professionals to do a professional job!   

  41. The Underground Conservative
    November 27th, 2011 @ 11:49 am

    Problem is, after four more years of Teh Won, there won’t be any pieces to pick up.

    The American Crossroads Mafia and the rest of the Cocktail Party GOP made a bad gamble that a 2nd Obama term will be the 2nd Clinton term 2.0 as long as Republicans control the Senate.

    That group worked overtime starting from inside the McCain campaign in 2008 to destroy Palin. They planted the urban legends about her not knowing Africa was a continent, about the diva wardrobe requests, knowing they were false but that the state-run media would run with them. They never responded to the SNL smear which planted forever in the minds of voters that Palin actually said she could see Russia from her house.

    Then you get the likes of Will, Kristol and Krauthammer saying she needed to read and educate herself in order to be taken seriously as a candidate. What? As opposed to Mr. 57 States? A teleprompter-dependant idiot who thinks Lincoln built an intercontinental railroad?

    George Will predicted in 1980 that Carter would be Reagan three days before the election, and Krauthammer cast his lot with Walter Mondull in 1984. How’d that turn out again?

    The Cocktail Party GOP is in the same class as the 1919 Black Sox, who threw the World Series, except these bastards threw easily the most winnable election since 1980 and arguably the most critical election in U.S. history in order to avoid running against a (half) black man.

  42. Anonymous
    November 27th, 2011 @ 1:59 pm

    That 3 1/2 year old has a Mommy and Daddy and older sibs and Grandmas and Grandpa, uncles and aunts… even a nephew who all work as a team to ensure his success.  …and they all love him dearly and obviously…  He has been blessed with the greatest daily help possible.

  43. Anonymous
    November 27th, 2011 @ 3:12 pm

    Yeah, I know.   Sarah’s “specialists” are Ivy Frye, Heather Bruce, Molly McCann, Kristan Cole and the elderly Sally Heath.  

    http://bit.ly/sxuSxy

    That’s why Trig’s eyes are still crossed (they don’t put his glasses on and make sure they stay on), and he doesn’t wear his hearing aids, and he still cannot speak, according to Sarah Palin herself recently.

    http://bit.ly/stDmnZ

    That’s pretty pathetic “specialist” care.  Worse when you consider his “mother” is too busy to oversee his care herself.  Do you EVER see Sarah holding Trig when it’s not a political photo op?

    http://bit.ly/tYQqJr

  44. Anonymous
    November 28th, 2011 @ 12:20 am

    Shit commercial done by amateur shitheads worshipping @ the altar of quitter spice. Face it gop rubes u got played like the naive shit kicking kkkhristian dumdamentalists u are. As you go to vote for the rombot 2008 next november think–how big is Obamas landslide going to be? I would say along the lines of  lbj vs. goldwater. You guys enjoy the wilderness right?

  45. Kathleen
    November 29th, 2011 @ 1:35 am

    Didn’t know you were a licensed specialist or doctor for special needs children that you are qualified enough to speak on these matters.  The only thing I know so far about you is that you comment a little too frequently on the hate site Palingates.  I really do not understand such supreme hatred that lends itself to such an obsession as you have to go into such minutae about Sarah Palin and her children.  I seriously doubt you have her or her children’s well-being in mind.

  46. Kathleen
    November 29th, 2011 @ 1:41 am

    Wow, that was coherant…..not.

    And BTW, that’s not even the official C4P reconsider ad. 

    Fail all the way, getabibleandgun.  And maybe you should get a bible.  I think you need to read what’s written in it.

  47. Kathleen
    November 29th, 2011 @ 1:42 am

    As I said to the incoherant ranter below, that’s not the official C4P reconsider ad. 

    Maybe you need a professional commenter to write your comments, since you don’t bother looking into facts for yourself.

  48. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 1:47 am

    First off dum dums, its COHERENT not coherant. Do they have spellcheck in inbredsville? I have a bible –for cheap toilet paper.

  49. Kathleen
    November 29th, 2011 @ 2:16 am

    Wow!  Top marks for such clever insults! 

    Seriously, why does it make you feel better to act like this?  Did some Christian at some point in time let you down, so that now all Christians are to blame?  I have to wonder sometimes at the reasoning behind attitudes like yours.

    I guess maybe you need someone to pray for you more than you need snide replies.

  50. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 2:20 am

    Pray all u want to your mythical sky god. Hey its your time on earth to waste. Im so glad christianity is dying it is a useless religion that attracts morons.